out for the world premiere of pixar's inside out two last night in hollywood. the movie hits theaters on friday. disney is the parent company of pixar and abc. >> seven something i like last night was that amy poehler on the red carpet said that the movies give parents and kids a language to talk about their feelings, and i think that that is really true. like my teenage nephew and niece, they said the same thing. i'm like that. yeah, okay. can i touch you with the feelings today? >> george: good morning america. hunter biden's fate in the hands of a jury. deliberations under way in the federal gun trial of the president's son as the prosecutors laid out a very

personal case against him. dan abrams here with what to expect. >> george: dramatic footage. israeli hostages rescued in gaza. new details from the operation and boost for a cease fire deal. >> rebecca: supreme court under scrutiny. new secretly made recordings of justice alito and roberts. >> george: former president trump one step closer to sentencing. what we know about his meeting with probation officials and the latest fallout from his criminal conviction. sandy hook survivors. i sat down with some of the students nearly 12 years later, as they prepare to graduate high school. does it make you feel people let you down? >> i thought it would shock people and wake everybody up. it just keeps happening over and over again. >> george: what they remember from that day, how they're still fighting for change. if there's one thing you want people to know about this

experience and what it's meant to you, what is it? and their plans for the future. >> michael: new hope for alzheimer's patients? an fda panel voting for a new drug. how it works and what comes next? >> rebecca: hey, siri. apple's game changing announcement, weaving artificial intelligence into its billions of devices, able to do everything from writing e-mails to solving math problems. >> michael: take a little time to enjoy ryan reynolds? >> hi. by the way, this is way less stressful than up there. >> michael: but you know who was stressed out? stressed out. uconn fan, back to back championship fan coach hurley turned down a $70 million offer to lead the lakers to stay in school. there's no place like home. >> announcer: live in times square, this is good morning america. >> michael: good morning america. your reaction was mine, george. he turned it down?

guess he wanted to stay at uconn. their fans are happy about that. >> george: we have a lot to get to including the tsa. they reported one of the busiest days ever on a sunday in june. we'll tell you ho get through customs faster this summer. >> rebecca: plus an abc news exclusive. the proposed sweeping change that could improve credit scores for millions of americans. >> michael: we begin with the latest on the trial of hunter biden on federal gun charges. the case is now in the hands of the jury after closing arguments. our senior national correspondent terry moran is at the courthouse in wilmington, delaware. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, michael. jurors deliberated for just about an hour yesterday before going home. six men and six women from delaware, the state joe biden represented for decades, who now must render judgment on his son. this morning the jury on hunter biden's trial on gun charges is set to deliberate. in their hands lies the fate of the president's only surviving son after prosecutors laid bare some of the biden family's

darkest moments portraying hunter bide a crack addict. they relied not just on his own words. >> i used my super power finding crack any time anywhere. >> reporter: also testimony from ex-wives and girlfriends showing testimony and even photos of hunter with drug paraphernalia. it was an emotional day in court monday. roughly two dozen family members and friends showed up to support hunter biden including first lady jill biden once again in the front row. but in closing arguments the prosecution gestured towards those supporters and told the jury all of this is not evidence. you may recognize some of them from the news or from the community. none of that matters. adding no one is above the law. instead the prosecutor said hunter biden knew that he was using drugs when he claimed to be drug-free on this federal background check form when he bought a colt .38 revolver in

2018. but his defense attorney told jurors the prosecution failed to prove hunter was actively using drugs at the time of the purchase. there was no actual witness to hunter using drugs on the crucial days, he said. lowell appealed to the six men and six women of the jury on a personal level telling them we have had hunter life in our hands now we have to give it to you. several jurors had family who suffered from drugs. one juror whose sister was addicted to drugs and committed credit card fraud. also on the jury a man whose father died by gun violence. another man who owns guns and said i believe the second amendment is very important. and a woman whose best friend died from a drug overdose. these jurors touched so many of them, by the issues this trial raised. george? >> george: okay, terry. thanks. let's bring in dan abrams. pretty straight forward case legally but that emotion is the x factor. >> it's a pretty good case. the defense has provided a possible answer, if you want to

find not guilty which is this idea the prosecution has a burden to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. and the defense is essentially saying, are you sure it was knowingly? did he know that he was a drug addict at that moment on that day when they say he was getting treatment, etc. it's unclear, the defense says, as to whether he was a drug user on the day of the incident. >> george: how about the fact that these cases are almost never prosecuted? is that relevant to the jury? >> no. shouldn't be. sort of thing where jurors may, in the jury room bring something like that, but it's not supposed to be part of the jury deliberations. it certainly won't be part of the jury instruction. >> george: how much of a difference does it make that hunter biden is the son of the president? >> that's the real x factor. that's the one where, are people going to start bringing it up, discussing whether he wouldn't have been prosecuted? would he have been prosecuted? will they talk about the trump

trial? not something they are supposed to do. but once jurors get back there in the deliberation room they are allowed to do what they want. jury nullification is something we talked about possibility in the trump trial. certainly a possibility here. where the jurors say, one, two or more say, i just don't like this case. it didn't happen in the trump case. we'll see if it happens here. >> george: dan abrams, thank you very much. turning now to the supreme court in the spotlight after secret recordings of chief justice roberts and alito were released. pierre thomas has the story. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: george, good morning. today supreme court justice samuel alito and chief justice john roberts are in the spotlight after one woman secretly recorded them at a black tie event. she seeked out the justices at the annual gala in an apparent attempt to engage them in a culture wars debate. in an apparent attempt to engame

them in a culture wars debate. at one point the liberal filmmaker starts a conversation with justice alito, a well known conservative on the court. she posted what appears to be edited audio on x. abc news has not authentic ated the audio and we are not airing it here. one exchange windsor poses a leading question to alito suggesting there can be no compromise between the left and right. alito appearing to agree saying there are fundamental differences that are, quote, difficult to resolve. windsor kept pushing alito saying, quote, people in this country who believe in god have got to keep fighting for that, to return our country to a place of godliness. alito said, i agree with you. i agree with you. george? >> george: very different responses from chief justice roberts? >> reporter: she also approaches roberts, moderate conservative suggesting america is a christian nation. roberts pushes back, yeah, i don't know that we live in a christian nation. i know a lot of jewish and muslim friends who would say maybe not.

it's not our job to do that. it's our job to decide the cases as best we can. this morning there are serious questions about windsor's tactics of lying and misleading the justices. we sought comment from them but have not heard become. >> george: thank you very much. michael? >> michael: now the four person professors from a college in iowa who are recovering after being stabbed in china. maggie rulli is tracking the latest for us. good morning, maggie. >> reporter: hey, michael, good morning. police have just announced they've arrested a 5-year-old man accused of stabbing four americans in broad daylight. now, all four victims were teachers at cornell college in iowa. they were in china on an exchange program at a local university when they were walking in a park in the middle of the day in the city in northeastern china. we do have video from the park shows multiple bodies lying on the ground bleeding. chinese officials have confirmed none of these injuries are life threatening. cornell has said they're in touch with all of the victims.

the college has also said there were no students that took part on this trip and in a statement the state department has said they are monitoring the situation. rebecca? >> rebecca: we're thinking about all of those people, their families and that community at cornell. thank you so much, maggie. we turn to the war in gaza and dramatic video of the rescue operation that freed four israeli hostages and left many palestinians dead and wounded. foreign correspondent tom soufi burridge is in tel aviv. secretary blinken spoke earlier this morning from tel aviv. >> reporter: that's right. crucially blinking saying the israeli prime minister has explicitly accepted a cease fire aimed at bringing an end to the war as we learn more about saturday's hostage rescue. this morning video showing the fierce fight facing israeli special forces as they stormed an apartment to save three male hostages held by hamas.

the troops shouting hebrew hebrew as they burst through the door. a 41-year-old face down on a bed, holding up his hands. israeli swat team yelling name name as the other two revealed their terrified faces. ahmed gentri, andre kozlov, 27. hostages finally able to escape, running for their lives amid intense gun fire. israeli special forces went under cover disguised as palestinian refugees looking for a place to live in the area the hostages were held lying in wait before they were given the go command on saturday morning. during the rescue mission the idf said it launched air strikes after its troops came under fire. the human toll staggering. the hamas run gaza health ministry saying 270 killed and 700 injured. israel rejecting that saying about 100 killed.

>> i did see the blood. i see people who cry from pain. we have hearts. we are human beings. >> reporter: this morning the four rescued israeli hostages out of the hospital. ahmed's family savoring each hug, each kiss. his mum telling us the families of the other hostages still held in gaza must be reunited with their loved ones, too. >> that's my dream for them. i got my miracle. i want a miracle for them. >> reporter: guys, the white house not comment on reports the u.s. could negotiate directly with hamas to try and free the remaining eight americans being held in gaza. israeli government saying it welcomes all efforts to free the hostages. george? >> george: tom, thanks. latest now on donald trump. he was interviewed by new york probation officials who will prepare a sentencing report for the judge after trump's felony conviction. aaron katersky is at the trump tower with details.

good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, george. this interview represented the next step for donald trump as a convicted criminal before he's sentenced one month from today. we're told the remote interview lasted just under half hour, was cordial and covered the same basic questions any convicted defendant would be asked to help the judge determine how trump should be sentenced for falsifying business records to cover up a scheme to defraud the 2016 election. the judge already knows plenty about trump, who has attacked him repeatedly. in sentencing the judge has full discretion to consider trump's character. he faces anything from community service to prison. the report is meant to provide the judge a full picture of trump's legal, financial and personal histories. probation officials must also inform the judge how trump described his crime, whether he expressed any remorse for it and any statement he wanted to make about why he did it. george, for trump, there are other consequences of

conviction. nypd has suspended gun permit. new jersey officials are now reviewing liquor licenses trump holds at three of his golf courses. george? >> george: aaron, thank you very much. rebecca. >> rebecca: george, thank you. we turn to the apartment fire in miami that forced dozens of residents to flee for their lives. officials say a suspect who shot a person at the scene is now in custody and suspected of starting the fire. victor oquendo is on the scene in miami. good morning, victor. >> reporter: good morning, rebecca. there is the building behind us. it has been 24 hours and firefighters are still on the scene. the suspect is 73 years old, now charged with arson and attempted murder. this morning there's still no motive. this raging inferno ripping through this apartment building near downtown miami monday. >> we got flames and smoke showing from the third floor window.

>> reporter: firefighters racing to the scene, going floor by floor, finding mostly elderly residents. rescuing some right from their balconies, helping them down ladders. >> that's all i could think of the entire time was trying to get out. me, my mom, my step dad. the four of us and my cat just trying to get out. >> reporter: plumes of smoke across the miami skyline. this was an historic level 3 fire. this morning miami police confirming to our affiliate wplg that juan francisco figuora is the suspect in custody, the man they believe shot a firefighter. first responders finding the gun shot victim upon arrival rushing him to the hospital in critical condition. the victim 30-year-old vidaire didot. thankfully everyone inside that building, all 43 people, now accounted for. one resident transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation.

three firefighters required treatment, too. they have since been discharged. >> i want to thank the brave men and women of our fire department. i want to thank the brave men and women of our police department. >> reporter: the gun shot victim's family spoke with wplg saying they have gone through surgery and removed that bullet. the building's management company, the red cross, and city officials have all been working to help those displaced residents. michael? >> michael: hopefully, they can get all the help they need. thank you so much for that, victor. now the new potential hope for alzheimer's patients. a new treatment could soon be on the way after it got a green light from an fda advisory panel. erielle reshef is here with details. >> reporter: good morning, michael. fda advisory board voting unanimously 11-0 in favor of the new alzheimer's drug. now the agency will make a final decision whether to officially approve that drug. generally the fda tends to follow the guidance of its panel of experts, but not always. if this medication is approved,

it will be the second drug on the market here in the u.s. that can slow the progression of alzheimer's in early stage patients. neither of these two drugs though can cure or reverse the disease. both come with potentially serious side effects including risk of brain bleed. there's still no timeline for a firm decision here, but this is just one more tool in the fight to slow down a disease that afflicts roughly 7 million americans and their families, guys. definitely reason to hope. >> rebecca: so many people and such needed hope, erielle. >> michael: absolutely. thank you very much. coming up inside coach dan hurley's decision to stay with the huskies, turning down the lakers and $70 million. >> george: apple's announcement. now it's bringing ai to its devices. >> rebecca: the announcement about your credit report that could help millions of americans get better rates on their mortgages. but first let's go to ginger. hey, ginge. >> ginger: i was just telling you about your grandparents in naples and how they are about to get doused with rain. south florida has been in a severe drought.

it is welcome in some ways. they're about to break this heat record. it all starts this morning. naples, see how it's looking stormy. we're about to tap into this deep tropical moisture from the caribbean. it is going to pour, especially into southwest florida. we've got watches up from west palm through ft. lauderdale, miami, into the keys. it's really that southwest side where, yes, they've been in extreme or severe drought. where you could see 15 to 20 inches of rainfall in just the next couple of days. most of that falls between wednesday and friday. i mentioned the record heat. much of florida had their hottest may on record. in the last 30 days all of the cities highlighted record warmth for the last 30 days. speaking of excessive heat, we've now extended these watches in the west. this new ridge that's building in brings el paso up through new mexico all back up to shasta county, northern california there into the excessive heat. next couple days. then by the end of the week it slides east.

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fresh off two consecutive ncaa titles the men's head basketball coach for the university of connecticut rejecting the offer to become the head coach of the los angeles lakers, despite being the top choice to fill their vacancy. >> it's understandable the allure of winning a third straight national championship, doing something that no college coach has done in decades. >> reporter: espn reporting the lakers offered hurley a sick year, $70 million deal to jump to the pros, one of the highest paid coaches in the nba, tasked with leading lebron james, anthony davis. hurley signed a long term multimillion dollar contract extension with uconn last year, and reportedly may be getting a raise again to stay put. uconn fans exhaling. >> he's staying. >> we all wanted to believe he would never leave but i think everyone was a little nervous. >> he nails the three! >> reporter: for the uconn team, after the news broke, it was back to work.

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academics, going to be a headache for teachers, for new administrators. >> reporter: and siri is more in tune to you than ever. >> when you talk to siri, it is more deeply integrated into the system experience with this elegant glowing light that wraps around the edge of your screen. >> reporter: apple announcing its partnership with open ai allowing users to do searches on apple, accessing chat gpt. the ceo sam altman saying the partnership is making it easier for people to benefit from what ai can offer. apple's head of software engineering said apple intelligence will use but not collect your data. so okay what does that all mean? when you ask siri a question, if it requires more processing power, siri will ask, do you want me to use chat gpt to do that? whether it is a photo, a question or document, siri then gives you the answer on your phone.

it doesn't send you to an external site or anything. apple says that none of what you shared will be saved. >> rebecca: that's what they are saying is so game changing about this. it sounds like sci-fi for a lot of people. it will be hard to understand this until it actually is part of phones which is still not going to happen until later this year. if siri can deliver on all these things you just laid out, janai, it is a game changer. they showed in the presentation, to be able to say, hey, i want to send this picture from the picnic yesterday to my mom. just say that to siri instead of having to search for it. or fill out a pdf. they showed filling out a pdf from information from your phone. >> from your license. >> rebecca: very big change. it's like having a personal assistant in your pocket, which i get not everyone's comfortable with yet. >> it can sound scary. you talked to sam altman about that. we said are you personally afraid of this? he said if i said no, maybe you shouldn't trust me. there are benefits to, hey, what was that thing my husband sent

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>> george: back with a proposal that could help boost credit scores by removing one category of debt from the equation. good morning, elizabeth. >> good morning, skwrorpbg. two out of every five americans have medical debt often totalling thousands of dollars. those unpaid bills can take a big toll on your credit score which can affect your ability to buy a car, home, even get a job. now in an abc news exclusive, we have learned the biden administration is announing sweeping changes that could erase that debt entirely. this morning the consumer financial protection bureau is proposing a major change for millions of americans stifled by medical debt. >> this is going to be an enormous relief to so many people battling bills when it comes to hospital visits. >> reporter: the federal agency tells abc news in an exclusive it's new regulation would ban unpaid medical bills from most americans' credit reports and could boost the typical borrower's credit score by 20 points.

>> our research shows that medical bills on your credit report aren't even predictive of whether you'll repay another type of loan. >> reporter: equifax, transunion and ebbing peerian took steps to remove the debt from credit reports but 15 million borrows with $49 billion worth of bills still report in the credit system. those bills would no longer be taken into account, a game changer for borrowers like 33-year-old lexi. >> i have about $2600 in medical debt. >> reporter: she said she's been denied car loans because her credit score took a hit from medical debt. >> it feels a bit of like a shackle, an additional shackle to have medical debt on my credit report. >> reporter: the rule would mean 22,000 more americans can get approved safely for mortgages. the credit and collection industry group said the proposed changes would go too far and

risk negatively affecting the cash flow of the health care community. isn't there a risk this will disincentivize people from paying their medical bills at all? >> no. in fact, we have found that one of the key issues when it comes to medical bills is those bills are not accurate when they show up on people's credit reports. >> reporter: this rule will be unveiled later today by kamala harris as part of the broader push to try to lower cost for consumers. lit go through a public comment period before taking effect next year. if you have faced inaccurate credit reporting due to medical debt you can always dispute the claims by going to consumer finance.gov. >> michael: definitely can help a lot of people. >> the average amount of debt people have, $2,500. to not have that on their report is a big difference. >> michael: thank you elizabeth, as aays. coming up next, it is our play of the day. stay right there. we'll be right back. ight back. stay right there

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my mom is here visiting her grand kids. [ applause ] yep. yesterday she said it's my dream to go to "the view." so we made a call. i told them i'm blake's husband. that got us a little farther. here we are. >> michael: there they were. ryan's mom tammy said she's a big fan and that she was recording that episode back home in vancouver. ryan also joked, i think my mom might have thought she was going to be on "the view" maybe. i'm not sure. we're glad they made it to the show. lot of fun. coming up michael symon, my guy, is here with his secret to fried chicken and barbecued ribs. we're gonna eat good here this morning. we'll be right back. .

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polling average. you can see it's a dead heat. trump up by about a point. that's a slightly smaller lead than he held before the guilty verdict. that's where the race has been for a long time. now for the first time check out the 538 forecast. they simulated hundreds of possible outcomes. it's even possible that there's a land slide, although that's not likely. as of this morning 538 sees a 53 in 100 chance of a biden victory. basically a coin flip. forecast is different than a polling average because it takes into account other factors and tries to account how much the race can change between now and november. how is it so close? check out the seven biggest battleground states. president biden a small lead in the upper midwest state, so called blue wall. trump a narrow advantage in several of the sun belt battleground states. this is simulation where if the election were to land on turnout and vote choice just like it did in 2020. say youth turnout drops by about

ten points and third party candidates getting more support you see the landscape shift, a very real possibility. trump then favored to win. another scenario, if you see a shift in black and latino voters, ten points more to trump. something the biden team is worried about. you get a map that looks like this, trump winning by an even bigger margin. one more note. third party candidates. 538 forecast see nos realistic chance that no third party candidate could win but they could matter. two in three chance that bobby kennedy and others will get more votes between the difference between trump and biden. that's a potential for someone to play spoiler though it is not clear in which direction. >> george: go back a few screens where you had the polling average in battleground states. that one right there. in that outcome it's 269-269 tie with nebraska one congressional district deciding. >> that's right. favored for biden. that would be the decider at

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ages of 6 and 7, and six educators. this headline from the hartford current right here says it all our hearts are broken speaking for so many americans today. i know this must be so hard to talk about, but let's talk about what you do remember about that day. ella, grace, lilly were together in the same classroom that morning. matt and henry and another, emma, in a third. >> we hid in the cubby and our teacher read some stories to us like the nutcracker. before we went to hide into the cubbies, the loud speaker went on. this was probably the most traumatizing part of the whole thing. 'cause we heard our principal and she told us, like, kid, go hide into your safe spots and then we heard a popping sound and then the phone kind of went off. >> george: you actually heard the gun shots?

>> i knew it had to have been bad because our teachers were super concerned with keeping their voices down. definitely a weird situation between knowing something was wrong was not knowing how bad it was. >> george: you were in the classroom with the shooter? >> yeah. we were reading a book in the front of the classroom before it happened. i remember a couple days before they were doing construction on the roof. so when the popping sound started happening we thought it was just more construction on the roof, don't worry. but i remember being at the front of the classroom and he came in and stood right next to me. i watched all my friends drop and one of the victims did not make it. he told me and a couple other people to run and we did. we ran out of the classroom, out of the school. on the way we saw bodies in the hallways and doors blown off hinges. we just ran and ran out of the school out into the parking lot. >> george: how haunting he told you to run.

i think it was you, you have the famous photo. >> i was a famous picture of me and my sister. i'm standing there crying, covering my face. i can't remember exactly what's going on obviously in that picture. just a snap shot. once we finally got out of the school. i didn't know what happened at the time. i didn't understand the gravity of the whole thing. i knew if my mom was crying, my mom was so scared that something horrible had happened. i never saw her like that before. i haven't since. i hope i never do. >> george: gma actually spoke to you on the day after the shooting. >> we heard this racket at our classroom. we were like all scared. then we heard them say go in your cubbies. >> george: what do you remember about that? >> i think i try not to remember too much just 'cause there was

so much going on. i do remember though after the interview i got an american girl doll as a present. that i still have actually. >> george: does it help to talk about it? >> i think in some ways it does especially for me personally. when i get to talk to these five other people, it's comforting in a way because you have this connection that's never going to go away. but it's still even over ten years later, just so difficult to try and dig up those memories 'cause of how traumatic and painful it is. >> george: how do you think about the classmates you lost? >> i just try and remember them every day. i have my friend's name tattooed on my shoulder so he stays with me every day. >> george: these young people say they will continue to advocate for gun violence prevention as future therapist, lawyers and politicians.

>> how are you guys doing? >> great. >> george: they even made a visit to the vice president's office for national gun violence prevention day as part of the junior new town action alliance. >> we went to d.c. to the national vigil in december and i think when i went there, it was very eye opening to me. we sat down with senators, representatives and their staffers. looksism, sexism. has to be now reporting david muir. >> good morning. we're coming on the air because there is breaking news at this hour. a guilty verdict in hunter biden's federal gun trial in wilmington, delaware. the president's son facing three felony counts accused of lying on a federal form about drug use when he bought a gun in 2018, saying he was not a drug user and prosecutors arguing he illegally had that gun for 11 days. after deliberating for about an hour

on the first day, about two hours today, they have found him guilty on all three charges count one making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm. guilty of count two making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federal licensed firearms dealer and guilty on count three. possessing a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user or addicted to a controlled substance. so again, the breaking news at this hour. hunter biden found guilty on all three felony charges. let's get riside the courthouse. terry in delaware. >> hunter that's right. david you've got it. all three counts. guilty as charged. about three hours of deliberation. one hour yesterday, two hours today. the jurors got to work and they came through with this verdict. each of these counts required the required the jurors to take into account what hunter's defense was here, which was basically that while he had abused drugs, as he confessed in his memoir, beautiful things as the jurors heard plenty of evidence about at that time, hunter biden said

he he didn't testify, but his lawyer presented evidence that he did not feel that he was actually abusing drugs at that time and therefore was not guilty of these crimes. the jurors rejected that guilty on all three counts. hunter biden arrived in court just before the jury was brought in and read the verdict. >> terry, let me ask you about the show of support in the front rows of that courtroom. as we know, the first lady, jill biden, there supporting her son every day but one in this trial, multiple members of the family and friends close to hunter biden all there. we know in the closing arguments, the prosecution well aware of that image right there in front of the jurors, saying of family members, the first lady, the friends who had gathered, essentially, that does not matter here. that's they said, david. >> none of that maers. pointing at the biden family, at the first lady who was here almost every day, took a whirlwind trip to france to join

the president for the d-day commemorations and came right back to be with her son and yet it was partly part of the closing argument of prosecutors there, prosecutors saying no one is above the law, no matter what their name is, no matter who is in court. >> and terry, the defense hunter biden's defense team had tried to argue in closing arguments that the prosecution, while they had ample evidence that hunter biden was a drug user, that the window of time directly surrounding the purchase of the gun, the defense had argued the prosecution had not made the case that he was using drugs in that, you know, that window of time, that very small window of time. but apparently the jury didn't buy that. they didn't buy it. >> and in part, david, because of the law that the judge read to them, the judge, as is customary, as is part of the process, reads the jurors, the law that they will apply to the facts that they heard in this case. and part of that law was

that drug use, for the purpose of this law, did not have to occur on the day that hunter biden bought the weapon and checked that federal form, that it could be evidence of a pattern of drug abuse or drug addiction around that. and that certainly was clear in this case. so the defense was fighting an uphill battle, not only really against the facts, but against the law. as the judge gave it to the jurors here. now, i should say that in court, the defense, as is customary right after the conviction was announced, renewed an appeal for an acquittal from the judge that in order to preserve an appeal and gave notice essentially that they will appeal this case. >> so what happens now, terry, legally to hunter biden sentencing next. >> and these are very serious federal crimes. these are crimes that carry very heavy prison sentences ten years each for the false statement and five years for the illegal possession of the weapon. now, that is highly unlikely to be applied to hunter

biden. anything like that in this case. experts tell us that for a first offender like him, someone who did not use the gun at all, he just kind of bought it and stuck it in his car. there's no evidence that he was going to use it in any kind of a crime. it would be highly unlikely for hunter biden to see prison time, but these are, as i say, very serious charges. and it may well be that prosecutors and given what what others might face. >> terry moran on the breaking news here. terry, stick with us. we reporting abc news live coverage here. guilty on all three counts for hunter biden, president biden's son. let's bring in our chief legal analyst. abrams. dan, what do you make of this guilty verdict? and you heard terry lay out the framework there, the potential sentencing that he could face, though unlikely that he would get 25 years behind bars here. is it not? >> yeah. this is not this is not a surprising verdict, david, because as a technical matter, the defense had an uphill battle

here right trial, it was immediately clear that the defense was going to be in trouble based on the technical crime that we're talking about here. but i think terry's right, that it's still very unlikely that he would serve any prison time. now, remember, there was initially a plea deal that covered not just tax crimes, which they're going to deal with later at a later date, but this crime and on this one, the prosecutors, as part of this deal, had agreed not to even prosecute it, meaning not a plea deal, not a not an agreement that he's conceding to guilt, but an agreement by the prosecutors not to even pursue this case. that's how sort of, marginalized this case had initially been. but once that plea deal fell through, the prosecutors threw the book at hunter biden and while it's true that that under these facts with one one gun not used in a crime,

someone who's not have a criminal record, no other crimes committed, there's never been a case where someone has been prosecuted just for this particular crime. with those set of facts. but when a plea deal falls through, it is not unusual that the prosecutors then throw the book at the defendant. and that's exactly what happened here. >> and, dan, just again, for our audience, what do you gather? the sentence could look like here. >> i think it's likely that he will not be serving time for of discretion here as as a practical matter because it is the only crime, meaning there weren't other crimes committed with it. typically this kind of crime of lying on a federal form is thrown in with other crimes, right? where a gun is used in a crime, they say, oh, well, there

was also falsification made on the federal form to get the gun. we're going to enhance the sentence as a result of that here where you've got an isolated crime. just this with nothing else. it would be very surprising, i think, if hunter biden were to serve time. but, you know, david, one other interesting question you had asked president biden in your interview with him whether he would pardon his son and his answer was was no. he'd respect the verdict, etc. remember, there's also the possibility of commuting the sentence. so if there is a sentence that comes down, even if he's not officially pardoned, there's also the possibility of commuting the sentence at some point down the road. >> and again, just to dan alluding to this interview i did with president biden in normandy just a couple of days ago, dan, thank you. stick with us here. but just to bring you up to speed at home, if you didn't catch the interview, one of the things i did ask of the president, as dan mentioned, was have you ruled out a pardon for your son if convicted? he said yes. i also asked him if he

would respect the verdict, no matter what the finding was, from the jury and president biden telling me yes, he would respect the outcome of this case. i want to bring in olivia rubin, our investigative reporter. she was inside the courtroom for much of this case. she was in the courtroom as the verdict was read. olivia, can you describe what you saw? >> well, the verdict did appear initially, david, to potentially catch hunter biden by surprise when they announced the very first guilty, the first of three, he had absolutely no reaction on his face. he did not even move. but by the time they announced the second and third guilty verdict, hunter appeared to accept the verdict. he was nodding his head along as it was read out, appearing to, you know, acknowledge that he had just been found guilty. nodding along as they were reading it out. and then it sort of turned into a bit of an acceptance, potentially from hunter, who turned and patted his lead attorney, abbe lowell, on the back. he turned around and immediately shook the hands of his paralegals. and then, once the court was ultimately dismissed, it was a very brief reading of that verdict. he went

around and hugged his legal team, and then he immediately went behind that barrier to grab ahold of his wife and hug his wife, which david, i will say was one of the most striking aspects of this trial was sort of the biden family dynamic. the first lady, joe biden, was here nearly every single day. his sister ashley, his aunt and uncle, the brother and sister of president joe biden, valerie and jimmy in the court had been in the courtroom as well. jimmy was in the courtroom, but actually quite and again, strikingly, this was one of the times where we saw the least amount of bidens in the courtroom just jimmy biden and his wife were in there. it appeared that potentially, valerie biden was late and potentially missed the reading of the verdict. they sealed off that courtroom, and only after the verdict had been read did she rush down the aisle and go to greet hunter's wife, melissa. so some very striking dynamics in there. but again, hunter sort of nodding along with that verdict. >> olivia, we're looking at pictures right now of first lady jill biden. as you point out,

she was there for the trial every day. but one she was not in the courtroom for the verdict . >> she was not in the courtroom for the verdict. and i can tell you, david, as i sprinted out of the courtroom to come down to you as it was after wrapped up there, she was heading in just as i was heading out. she was rushing through that lobby, appearing. you know, we don't know if they intended for her to not be here for valerie, but it certainly does appear as if it's possible that they missed the reading of the verdict. it happened quite quickly from when it came down just after 11. her clerk, the judge's clerk, came into the courtroom to say that the verdict had been reached and just moments later it was being read, and you could kind of almost sort of sense what that verdict was going to be initially, when they walked the jury in. again, something we have talked about before the jury not looking at hunter biden, one of the jurors actually took his seat smiling, which was quite striking to see him smiling right before that verdict was read. but again, jill biden not in the courtroom. uh. and again, the least amount of bidens, essentially, that we

have seen in the courtroom for the reading of the verdict, the first lady not there for the verdict, though there just about every other day of this trial to show her support. >> olivia, thank you for the color inside the courtroom. i want to bring in our chief washington correspondent, jonathan karl. john some shock from hunter biden's legal team here. and you've also heard from a very close confidant of hunter biden, hunter biden. >> yeah. the one word response i got from a very close friend of hunter biden's is stunned, absolutely stunned. i had spoken uh- to uh- hunter biden's some people in his inner the ho circle in the hours leading up to this, they were confident that he would either be acquitted or there would be a hung jury. they did. they thought that abbe lowell, hunter biden's attorney, had made the case, had created reasonable doubt about whether or not he intentionally lied on that form, had met, had pointed out that there had been no direct testimony that hunter biden was using drugs in the

immediate days leading up to that gun purchase, or for the 11 days that he owned the gun. they thought that this was going to result in acquittal. and i have to tell you, david, this is a trial. although, president biden was never in that courtroom, as you've pointed out, virtually every other member of the biden family was there. and president biden, was clearly paying very close attention to this, he is in credibly close to his son. they speak virtually every day, and as we know, president biden had said not long ago when asked about all of this, all of the legal troubles swirling around hunter that his son had done nothing wrong. so while you had asked him and he said that he would respect this jury verdict entirely, that he would not pardon his son, i am sure there are some interesting conversations happening right now inside the biden family and

at the white house, this is a clear blow to president biden and one that is not simply a political or legal blow, but a deeply personal one. and you should also consider that last summer, a hunter biden believed, his entire legal team, the president, they all believed that he was on the verge of a of a plea agreement that would result in absolute immunity, that that all of the legal troubles were behind him. now, you see, he is going to face sentencing on these very serious charges and an entirely new trial on the tax charges in september, a huge, huge blow to the biden family. >> and in addition to what hunter biden now faces, potentially with with the sentencing now, that will come next. john, you alluded to this point and in interviewing president biden, he said he would respect the outcome. and regardless of what you think about the president politically,

we know we're in very polarized times in this country. what we do know is the president is very close to his son. he talks about this connection, that he is his lone surviving son, talking to him just about every day. and john, there's no question that this will deeply affect this president in the middle of this campaign for a second term. >> yeah, absolutely. you know, you know, how deeply, hurt president biden was when he lost his son beau, who died of brain cancer, something that president biden has said, to, to people close to him when talking about hunter is i'll be if i'm going to lose another one. he's deeply concerned about his son, hunter, who went through that, that terrible, drug addiction that that, by the way, i mean, i've read i've read that memoir. i've read every page of hunter biden's memoir. it is a it is a very stark portrayal of, of his own descent into crack

addiction. it really it doesn't. there's no whitewashing. he talks about his incredibly irresponsible, reckless behavior. and here's a live picture. yes a live picture of hunter biden coming out of the, of the courtroom right now. a no doubt a stunned hunter biden. >> live pictures here in delaware. you can see the wilmington courthouse, hunter biden leaving court, the first lady, jill biden, it appeared that she was there among the group of people there for that moment. if i'm not mistaken, john karl talking about the deeply, you know, personal connection the bidens have with their son, given the fact that they lost beau biden some years back to brain cancer, jon karl also reporting a shock from a close family friend. intimately following this case. and as we knew for several days in that courtroom, the first lady, in the courtroom to support her son

, along with his wife, his daughter, friends of the biden family moments ago. this is hunter biden leaving court. and as terry moran reported earlier, next up will come the sentencing. now he faces, given the seriousness of these crimes, up to 25 years behind bars, dan abrams, our chief legal analyst, telling us that is highly unlikely, though, given the fact that he's a first time offender here. this is a first time conviction, and given that nothing was done with the actual gun as far as a crime is concerned, other than the jury finding him guilty of lying about drug use when he purchased the gun, he said all of those factors might contribute to an outcome here where he would serve no time or much smaller amount than what would be allowed in sentencing. i want to bring in our chief justice correspondent, pierre thomas. pierre covers, obviously, the justice department, the attorney general, at arm's length from this case. but he did allow the

us attorney who brought these charges, the us attorney who was, put in that role during the trump years, merrick garland going out of his way, if you will, to try to demonstrate to the american people that this is not the biden administration, this is the justice department. there is a separation here. and he allowed this case to move forward once the plea deal fell apart. and for the case to be prosecuted. >> david, this is an extraordinary moment in the sense of the justice department. they prosecuted the president's son. and as you pointed out, the attorney general allowed a us attorney appointed by former president trump to pursue the case made him special counsel, and they did not micromanage the case. but they knew full well the implications of what was going on. this is one of the most stressful things that a justice department could do. again, we're talking about the son of the president of the united states who's now facing these felony convictions. and, david, i must tell you, as part

of the team that helped break the story about the initial deal that fell apart, there was a lot of back and forth about whether hunter biden was getting a sweetheart deal from doj, and doj was very sensitive to that notion. but they won't say it out loud. but i think part of what is going on here is doj officials will hopefully see this as a sign that the public will see this as a sign anyway, that doj follows the facts and the law without regard to who is subject to those facts and the law and again, i cannot emphasize to you, this doj has been under probably more pressure than any doj in modern history. they were investigating the former president who's running for president. they launched and oversaw an investigation involving president biden himself. and then his third investigation involving president biden's son. again, doj, knowing that they're going to face criticism in this case from the left, there will

be some people that said that this was a case that they would not normally bring without any kind of other significant crime attached to it. but doj allowed, again, the special counsel to pursue the case in a way that he wanted to. and now a conviction of the president's son guilty on all three federal counts. >> pierre thomas, our chief justice correspondent. pierre, thank you. let's get right over to rachel scott. she's live at the white house, rachel, folks are going to be watching very closely any kind of reaction from the white house, the biden administration, and, of course, president biden himself. and obviously, rachel, these cases are vastly different. the case we witnessed a couple of weeks back with the former president, donald trump, his guilty verdict now, today, president biden's son, hunter biden, with a guilty verdict in this case. again, cases completely different. but one thing politically people will be looking at is the reaction on we know after the trump verdict, a lot of rhetoric about a rigged system, you know, up against the former president. those are the words being used by the campaign, the former

president himself. and just a couple of days ago, on the other hand, former the current president, president biden telling me in normandy that he would respect the outcome and that, yes, he had ruled out a pardon. now, whether or not that continues moving forward after this verdict, he is hunter biden's father, as we all know. but will they continue to try to paint a real contrast here, when it comes to respect for the justice system as a whole? >> and, david, this verdict certainly flies in the face of everything that the former president has been pushing, trying to undermine the legal and the justice system. when we know president biden has come out very strongly against that. and it was notable that he told you just days ago that he would respect the outcome of this verdict. regardless of what happens. we know that is something that the former president has not done. after he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records, and that hush money trial there in manhattan, we know he has tried to undermine the justice system entirely. the white house so far, david, as of now has not

commented. but we know that they are watching this and following it very closely. just that image of the first lady walking out of that courtroom hand in hand with hunter biden, just underscores how close this family is. and the president has not really commented much on this federal investigation. he says that he would not do that. but he did make clear to you that he has completely ruled out the possibility of pardoning his son. in a statement, the white house and the president said that they have boundless support and love for their son, hunter biden. we know that the president has talked about how he's been on the straight and narrow, how he's so proud of his son hunter, and just the first lady making really going through extraordinary efforts to be there to show support for hunter biden. we know that she traveled to france only to turn right back around to attend the trial. the day that naomi biden, the granddaughter, was testifying in this case and then flew right back to paris. but so far, david, as of now, the president is here at the white house. but no word yet from the president yet. >> rachel scott live at the white house. rachel. thank you. let's get back to terry moran outside that courthouse in

wilmington, delaware. terry. an extraordinary scene to watch the first lady leave that courthouse holding her son's hand. >> it really was david. and it reminds us that for all of the major implications of the first conviction of the child of a president, this is this trial inside the courtroom, like virtually every criminal trial was a personal story, a personal tragedy, a family tragedy, the guilty verdicts that the jury has handed down on hunter biden were verdicts not just on his conduct under law, but on his collapse into drug addiction and the consequences of it. so many american families understand that now the first family has gone through it as well. the political consequence of it may be tempered by the fact that this is a scourge that has touched so many american families, even the president's. >> you bring up a good point, terry, because addiction has affected so many families in this country in one way or another. and unfortunately, i think what the hunter biden defense team has learned and the biden family has learned here,

is that that's not what was on trial today, the issue of addiction, because i think that's on that level. many americans can relate to the tragedy within this family. >> so that's a great point. and the jurors to several of the jurors in voir dire, when they were questioning the potential jurors, they talked about the experience of addiction in their own family. at one point, hunter biden kind of nodded as one of the prospective jurors who ended up on the jury talked about how the consequences of addiction for one of her friends was she died from a drug overdose, and you could almost sense in the way he sat there that they'll understand ed. but there's a flip side to it. people do understand that the terrible consequences of addiction, the consequences under law as well. and the jurors here were sworn to do their duty under under law, applied the law to the tragic facts in this case, as so many jurors do across the country in cases like this. and hunter biden is now a convicted felon. >> we know both sides, terry,

helping to select that jury. and i just want to read for the viewers at home watching our breaking coverage here. hunter biden found guilty on all three felony counts, gun related charges for lying about when he bought that firearm, about his illegal drug use. terry, i want to bring you back in on this point because a couple of the jurors, this just gives a background on some of the jurors. and you mentioned this a moment ago, but just here's a little greater detail. one of the jurors, a woman whose sister was convicted about ten years ago of credit card fraud and drug charges in delaware, the law catching up with her sister, one male jurors father had been killed in a crime involving a gun. his brother went to jail for possession of a narcotic. another woman on the panel had a husband who was a gun owner and was formerly in law enforcement, so several members of that jury deeply connected on a number of issues here. and on the one hand, as you point out, hunter biden and his team were hoping they they might have some, you know, i guess empathy or

compassion, if you will, given their own life experience. but on the other hand, they've all been intimately involved and have watched the law at work within their own families. >> absolutely. and that actually may have have worked against hunter biden. anyone and virtually every american family has been touched in one form or another by addiction. people who have they understand that addicts are liars, that they may not have been before the drug addiction, but that that's part of the craving, that they'll do anything. they'll lie, they'll they'll commit crimes, they'll do anything. and that may have harmed hunter biden in this case, the sense that people have an experience of the wreckage that addiction causes in the character of people. this is a reckoning, really, for that passage of his life. and yet sitting in there, i must say, listening to his own voice, reading his memoir. yeah, this is from the dark years of his life, but it sounds as if he's gotten his life straight. and

that regard of what the law has to say about his conduct is all that his family and those who love him could wish for. terry moran, stay with us here. >> we're coming up on 15 minutes before noon in the east. for many of you here in the east, your local news is coming up here at noon, and we'll go to your local news when it comes on. we are standing by for potential comment from the prosecution. if that happens in the next ten, 15 minutes or so, we'll bring that to you live. in the meantime, i want to bring back our chief legal analyst, dan abrams. and for viewers who are joining us in progress here for our live coverage, just bring us up to speed on what you think potentially hunter biden could face here. >> so potentially, theoretically , he could be facing up to 25 years in prison. these are felony charges. unlike the tax charges that he's going to be facing in september, which are misdemeanors. this is a these are felonies. >> so you're talking about the possibility of serious prison time. but because these were

felonies that were committed not in the context of another crime, the fact that he is a first time offender, the fact that the gun that he was lying for was not used in a crime. all of those things will work in his favor such that i think most would be surprised if he were to get prison time for this, but remember, there's something else to keep in mind here with this tax case looming in september, if he is convicted in that case, this conviction could be used against him in the context of sentencing in that case. so let's even assume for a moment he gets no prison time in connection with this case. then he's convicted in the tax case. at that point, he's a convicted felon. and as a result, that could end up enhancing any possible sentence in connection with the tax crime. so there's a lot to still wait and see what

happens here. as you and i were talking about earlier, remember the president ultimately has the final say on federal crimes. this is a doj prosecutor. as a result, the president could decide to step in in some way, shape or form after the election if he were to so choose. that's another thing to keep in mind when thinking about the reality of hunter biden ever going to prison. >> quick follow up for you, dan, because you make this point that these felonies did not happen in the context of another crime. and that brings up another important question in this case, which is how often have you seen, if at all, you know, a prosecution when it's not in the context of another crime? >> right. so there have been other cases where this crime has been charged alone, but there's never been i haven't been able to find another case where you've had this set of facts,

where this crime has been prosecuted, meaning that there was just one gun, that it was not used in another crime, that the person had no criminal record and there were no other crimes committed in general under those sets of facts. i don't think there's been another federal prosecution, which is why, as we talked about earlier, initially, the prosecutors seemed willing to agree not to prosecute this case. but when that plea deal fell through, the book got thrown at hunter biden. the tax charges were all filed. this felony gun charge was filed . and there's a very different question of is there a technical violation of the law versus is this the kind of case that's typically charged and that is not the technical question is not the one that helps. hunter

buy it and take us, if you will, into the thought process behind. >> once the plea deal fell apart , not, you know, offering a guilty plea here for perhaps a lesser sentence. this was somewhat of a legal gamble in proceeding with the case going straight to trial and not offering a guilty plea. you know, months back with this plea, deal fell apart. >> yeah. i mean, look, i think that they believe they had a, you know, an arguable defense, as you heard, john, carl and some of the others talking about earlier members of hunter biden's team were hoping for an acquittal or a hung jury. they thought they had a real shot at that. and if you think that, then you probably don't want to make a deal to just plead guilty . but i think in the context of this sort of case, that it still will remain unlikely that he'll get prison time, and that

typical sort of acceptance of responsibility that would, would help so much may not be as significant. and by the way, i think that may be the same equation that applies in donald trump's hush money case, where typically you would say someone needs to accept responsibility for what they did. and yet i think in that case, and in this case, you're going to see a judge in two separate cases, one federal, a one state, that will simply decide the sentence based on the very specifics of this case, the crime that was committed and the context of everything surrounding it. when it comes to judges and sentences, you can't ignore that there is no metric, right? there is no statistics to use where the judge will literally just sort of evaluate this and that, and then they'll go through the

process of saying, here are the mitigating factors, here are the aggravating factors. but in the end it ends up being a judgment call for the judge. >> dan abrams with us here. dan stick with us as we continue our live coverage here. hunter biden, the president's son. this is the first time and we've witnessed a lot of history together here from this news desk. and this is yet another case of that first time a president's son found guilty. three felonyounts, as you've heard dan abrams report here, terry moran as well. next up will be the sentencing, though dan believes, given the circumstances of this case, he will not get anywhere close to the 25 years behind bars he could potentially face here. though entirely up to the judge in this case, of course, we are in the middle of a presidential campaign. president biden, seeking a second term. former president donald trump hoping to return to the white house. i want to bring in john, carl and john regardless again, of what people think about either of these two men in this race for president. we are aware of the political arguments in this

country. you heard dan abrams there talk about just from a legal standpoint, how rare this kind of prosecution is, given the facts of this case. and now you have a guilty verdict on all three counts, knowing that and knowing that the argument on the other side against president biden was that, you know, the system was rigged against donald trump, even though it was a new york case, not a federal case. we know the facts here, but but it would be very hard for that same argument to be applied to this case involving the president's son, given the fact that there are guilty verdicts here. now on three felony counts. and given what the president told me just days ago, that he would respect the outcome, even in a case involving his son. >> i mean, it really blows up the argument that the justice system here is rigged, dan abrams essentially made the case that, that hunter biden would be unlikely to be prosecuted at all in this if his last name were smith, he you could make the

case that he was prosecuted here, because he was a biden and there was so much pressure on, on, on this special counsel to pursue a case and to show that there is no favoritism whatsoever here. it's extraordinary to think about how this case came to be. the investigation ultimately began in, under president trump in the , you know, during the trump administration and president biden becomes president, he allows he appoints merrick garland as the attorney general. and merrick garland allows this investigation to go forward with absolutely no interference. obviously, coming from the white house, this investigation goes forward despite the fact that the president of the united states himself said on the record, my son did nothing wrong , and yet that president did nothing to interfere, with the justice department. his attorney

general did nothing to interfere with this investigation. in fact , elevated it to a special counsel. and here you have the president's son. now convicted of three very serious, felonies and facing the very real possibility of jail time and again, no interference coming from either, president biden's attorney general or from the white house really gets right to this point. the you hear over and over again, from, from the trump campaign, from donald trump himself, from republicans, that the system is rigged, that the system is rigged in such a way as to go after donald trump. well, here you have. yes, donald trump was convicted in a in a local court in new york. here you have a federal prosecution of the president and son, and a pretty extraordinary one at that. john i know that you track interviews, transcripts right along with me during this

political campaign. >> and i did take note of an interaction donald trump had in recent days with an interviewer where he talked about addiction and talked about how he has witnessed it himself within his own, you know, friends, family, his lifetime, not from a personal perspective, but witnessed it around him and acknowledged the pain that comes with addiction for so many families. >> yeah. i mean, president president trump's own own brother, fred trump jr, battled alcoholism throughout his life and died early as a result. i mean, i've i've saw donald trump in the 2016 campaign, a uh, some real compassion towards a man who got up and talked about how his son had died from from an overdose. i mean, this is an issue, uh, that it affects, uh, so many families across the country, virtually everybody in this country either

has a family member or an acquaintance or knows somebody who has struggled with addiction . and as we talked about earlier, hunter biden, uh, spoke with great candor. uh, it has spoken with great candor about his, uh, battle with crack addiction, a battle that went through the, uh, you know, various, uh, uh, attempts at rehab, a battle that very nearly cost him his life on several occasions. he's written about it all in kind of searing detail in a book that came out, by the way, just after, uh, president joe biden was sworn in as president of the united states this is an issue that affects virtually everybody in this country. yeah. and the irony here, john, is that that great candor you speak of those very words as terry moran has reported every night here on world news tonight, were used against him to make this case in court. >> the jury listening and convicting him. john, thank you. guilty on all three felony counts. let's take it back to the white house. uh, rachel scott, live at the white house.

and rachel, of course, all eyes, uh, you know, no one is, uh, forgetting that hunter biden's the one directly affected by this sentencing comes next for him. but all eyes will be on both. president biden and on donald trump as to how they're going to handle this piece of news. uh, they'll certainly be pressed on this today and in the days ahead, uh, what their messaging will be. president biden telling me in normandy in recent days, he'll respect the outcome of this trial. he'll respect to the jury no matter what their verdict would be, was the question. he said, yes. and of course, guilty on all three felony counts. i did ask the president, would you ever pardon your son, hunter biden? have you ruled out a pardon? and he said, yes. so what he says moving forward is a big question mark on the campaign trail, how he couches this whole, um, very deeply, you know, personal issue within the biden family. uh, but on a very public stage now with him running for reelection. and, of course, how donald trump handles this as well as you

heard, john, uh, say just moments ago, donald trump has talked about addiction. um and the effects he witnessed first hand within his own family, how he handles, uh, this major development on the campaign trail as well, to open ended questions at this hour? >> uh, absolutely, david, and look, on the surface of this, these are two entirely different cases between hunter biden and former president donald trump. but on the basis and that very question of just respect for the legal system, of course, we've heard president, former president donald trump undermine the legal system. david, we are justrillioneceived a statement now from president biden. this is just coming in. i want to read to you what it says the president has said in a new statement, as i said last week, i'm the president. but i'm also a dad. jill, and i love our son and we are so proud of the man he is today. so many families who have loved ones who have battled addiction, understand the feeling of pride, seeing someone you love come out on the other side and be so strong and resilient and recovery as i also said last week, i will accept the outcome of this case and

will continue to respect the judicial process as hunter considers an appeal. jill and i will always be there for hunter and the rest of our family with our love and support. nothing will ever change that. david. this is a new statement from the president reacting to this verdict. just moments ago, this just came out and again, you're already seeing it here. just the sharp contrast between the president and his rival in this election, former president donald trump, who has accused the president of weaponizing the judicial system, the president making it clear today he will were absolutely respect the outcome in the verdict in this case, david, breaking news coverage here on abc news right now of hunter biden. >> the president's son rachel. thank you. they're live at the white house. the president's son found guilty on all three felo charges by a jury in wilmington, delaware, as rachel just reported. uh the breaking headline right now coming in from the white house, the statement from president biden himself saying, i'm the president by. but i am also a

dad. he talked about being proud of his son, having come out on the other side of addiction. he talked about the fact that families across this country can understand that anyone who's been touched by addiction, the president referencing in a way what he told me last week during that interview in normandy, saying, but we will, uh, respect the outcome of the judicial process. yes, he will respect the verdict from that jury in appeal is now ahead for many of you. your local news is coming up next. i'll see you for world news tonight. good day. >> this has been a special report from abc news from abc news >> announcer: it's "live with kelly and mark!" ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] today, from the series "the gentlemen," theo james!