host: how does that connect to hunter biden? ca we have to expect a nt based on capitalism and money. this indicates to the public that we do have an illegitimate type of political situation going where neither candidate, abided nor trump can shoot straight. we have become very corrupt. we always have been according to people like gore vidal who i suggest people looking to for inspiration. host: the wall street journal adding that hunter biden's team has argued the case was only brought because joe biden was president, noting the justice department does not typically prosecute gun cases like this one without underlying crime. found guilty of falsely claiming to be drug-free, lying to a gun dealer, and illegally possession the done. -- illegally possessing the gun. we showed you the counts eaier. the counts hunter biden received and was found guilty on. you can text us your thoughts. you c1an always post on our social media site at facebook.com/c-span. jason in fairfax, virginia, democrats line. hello? jason in fairfax is gone. l

what we have seen in polling is that voters have seen hunter's issues as hunter's issues.is attempt by republicans to tie what hunter biden -- his foreign business dealings, this case, to president biden. they have been unable to do that. they have admitted that. especially convincing voters of that. it's unlikely to blow back on president biden. that's exactly how folks in the white house feel, folks in the biden campaign and biden world feel at this moment. this is a volatile election. anything can change a couple of voters' minds. with that said, most voters' minds in this election, in this world we live in, are made up. it's hard to find voters who don't already have a feeling about joe biden, despite his son, and donald trump, despite his own convictions. those kinds of things may happen on the edges, but it's not -- it doesn't seem like it's going to have a huge swath of changes to this election. >> i wonder if it could give joe biden a boost of people feeling some kind of empathy related to his situation. we have talked about how so many families experience the impa

statement from hunter biden. it says "i am more grateful today for the love and support i experienced this last week from melissa, my family, my friends, and my community than i am disappointed about the outcome. recovery is possible by the grace of god and i am blessed to experience that gift one day at a time." according to president biden it appears hunter biden will likely be appealing this. we don't know the next steps we know he is facing trial for tax evasion it remains to be seen out will continue to go on, maybe they will ask special counsel weiss if he wants to cut a deal or go to trial as we wait for special counsel david weiss at the bottom right of your screen who had a big legal victory today. in wilmington, delaware. the sender and john? >> sandra: as you said that we got a five minute warning, david weiss' remarks, statement following the hunter biden verdict so any moment now we will be hearing directly from weiss. david, thank you. john? >> john: president biden to speak at a an annual gun safet

you can see there that there's -- looks like hunter biden. >> reporter: we believe that's hunter biden, hunter biden is now arriving to the courtroom -- to the courthouse. clearly that's one of the requirements, right, jeff? so meanwhile, jeff, if you could, talk to us about these three counts. >> joe, false statements on a firearms purchase is a criminal violation, obviously. but i have to tell you, josÉ, these kinds of cases are not frequently brought, and sometimes they're put together with an armed robbery as well and if you are found guilty of them, i think it would be unlikely that he would receive jail time. most of the time, just like the diversion he plead guilty to, most of the time judges put defendants in a rehab center and try to rectify the underlying problem. unless something political comes in here, and i don't think it has, i think the judge has run a fair trial, generally biden, as a defendant, if convicted, would not get jail time. >> so either -- and these are all -- we are looking at the three counts, right? maximum prison sentence on one, ten years, and the third

and i think hunter biden does have a decent challenge here. mr. michael and i have talked about this in the context of a general skepticism that you find in the court about gun possession laws. and this is one that it's much harder to make a case that the individual with a non-violent drug conviction or non-violent drug history poses a threat to society in the same way that domestic violence does so. >> our own article, cnn's article on this said, it's unlikely that this court will clear up the quagmire and confusion about gun possession in the country because there's all these different laws and different prohibitions that we have. >> but this one's on the table and i would be certain that hunter biden and his team would make the appeal on the basis of saying that the law itself should be struck down. >> listen in the afternoon my name is david weiss. >> i'm special counsel earlier today, hunter biden was convicted of two counts of lying on a form submitted to a federal firearms dealer about his addiction or use of crack cocaine and possessing a

so we jury has decided that hunter biden is guilty. hunter biden admitted what he did. clearly guilty and injury came to the right lucian. but you have a department of justice that year ago tried to make this go away with a sweetheart plea deal for hunter biden and it took a judge to say no, you are not going to do that. let's contrast that to a case where we of charge from a misdemeanor to a felony what is almost always a misdemeanor case, and then you have a judge that when sentí the instructions to the jury said you don't have to be in the individual charge that this man is guilty of. just choose guilty of any of the 34 counts and i will call unanimous. you have a judge that has contributeit is so partisan andf that, the person that argued the case came from letitia james' office in new york,the number te department of justice and then goes back to the district attorney's office, just a very unusual how all of the happens by coincidence to go and get donald trump. and by the way, i think the judge in this case, i think he conducted that case in such an absurd way tha

through all this, he says hunter -- through all that hunter has been through in his recovery, includings trial, he has felt grateful for and blessed by the love and support of his family. that echoes what the president said. it echoes what we saw in the first lady, what we saw in family members and friends who showed up day after day in court. usually, we expect an appeal. are there strong grounds for an appeal that you see at all, andrew, in this case? >> quickly, i want to look at something that david weiss said that i took note of. he said, i'm not taking questions because of two things -- he said, there is another trial. and he said, and investigation. that issue of whether there was a spending investigation, is part of what scuttled the plea deal a year ago. there was a kerfuffle where the defense said they thought they were buying complete peace if they pled guilty to resolve everything. and david weiss' office said, no, there's still an ongoing investigation. his language was interesting because it didn't preclude that ongoing investigation. and we heard republicans talk about a

hunter biden is now in reality. he now has to face the music like every other american because the biden family, the proximity of the case where it was located did not protect him, did not save him. he will have to face the music. it is good for justice. i'm a big opponent, supporter of legal rule of law. that's what happened today, harris. >> harris: andrew, if you can talk to me about what happens next with hunter biden just today? so what does his life look like? are they going through strategy for appeal? what happens >> this is the tip of the iceberg for him. he will sit down with his attorneys. they will talk about what happens next. i think they change their focus almost immediately to that september tax trial. that is going to be the next big ticket for him. that is going to be so much bigger than this. remember, we were talking about october of 2018 in this trial and how much they were able to bring in. now we'll be talking about years and years in the mid 2,000 and teens all that was going on. the family i

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hunter biden is 54 years old. he was in business, and businesses with foreign countries that have been assented the biden family. many of those family members are sitting in that courtroom, and they are showing what i will say is a show of strength, that unity. some might interpret it as a show of force or intimidation but as i said as the first day on jurors' election i didn't understand why the first lady was there during jury selection. i have seen this for many years, but during jurors selection, that is a message. i have my secret service here, we are a unified front. and the bottom line is those prosecutors have been been sown in various. they say you know what we are knocking to take this on the chin this time we are going right for it within a tell the jury that is not evidence and let the jury understand that even though there is a show of unity, in essence, that is not evidence obviously and is also a dysfunctional family. this is a family where the women involved, they have so much that was visited upon

>> well it's more problems for hunter biden.er biden did in the deposition is he clearly lied and why did he lie? he lied to protect joe biden. but the fact that he lied under oath is clearly perjury. this will be used to determine his sentencing. so not only do you have the gun trial where he clearly lied on a gun application, the jury's all right through that, now he's got his tax evasion charges where we know he did not pay his taxes, we know to this day he hasn't paid his taxes, his taxes were paid years later by major democrat donor prior to the presidential election to help alleviate a problem joe biden had in the presidential election against trump. so what we've done with the criminal referrals as you know is the first step. it's just the beginning, but it's a major problem for hunter biden and it's going to be taken into account when it comes time for his sentencing. >> jesse: how do you feel as an investigator who cracked this case wide open with a laptop, followed every lead as far as you could, ran into some roadbloc

hunter. there was more talk about hunter naomi everybody felt really bad for naomi that i think that's one of the one things that most of the jurors felt sorry for. what was naomi testifying against their father or the defense putting her on the sand. i think that was i think that was a bad mistake for them to put her on the same it sounds and paul, i think you have a question also for gd tag yeah. what do you think of this case overall? i mean, do you think that this was a legitimate use of taxpayer there are resources to bring this case yes, i do believe it what once they found out that, you know, hundred baltic a gun and did he did he buy it legally was he an attic? was he addicted to crack when he purchased it? and that was the biggest factor in this whole case. and that's what the whole case was about and so all 12 jurors did agree that yes. he knowingly and bought a gun when he was an attic or she was addicted to drugs well, juror ten, we thank you for your service. thank you for sharin

hunter biden, of course, was in the room and listening.oic, his reaction and once the jury left the room, he thanked his defense team, his lawyers and then he hugged his wife melissa. they were joined by jill biden, the first lady of the u.s. and off they went. it was a billionth surprising for many people how quickly the jury reached its verdict. just three hours. one how re monday, two hours of deliberation today. it was an historic verdict. the first time that the child of a sitting president has been convicted of a crime in federal court. >> karl, thank you very much for bringing us up to date on the latest from the courtroom. richard painter is the former chief white house ethics lawyer in the george w. bush administration. now law professor at the university of minnesota. welcome to "the context," mr. painter. looking at the charges, what are the possible penalties that hunter biden could face when it comes to sentencing? >> this is probably a case that will end in probation. we've yet to see what the judge will do. this is a serious

you were lied to by hunter biden himself. you were lied to by his father, your president, joe biden. you were lied to bliy nbc. fake news, cnn, npr. well, let's just say prettyb th much everybody in the media mob, the list is far too long to mention l. you were lied to by america's 51 former intel so-called experts, the ones that signey d off on a letter insinuating that the laptop was most likelst all the earmarks of russian disinformation. meanwhile, notrks single one of them ever did anything to investigate that claim,f examined the contents of the laptop. t you were lied to by clapper,bren you lied to by brennanna. nt you were lied to by your own government. what do they all have in common? they all wanted joe biden to win by any means necessary. and it's worse than a rep that according to a report, john solomon, the fbori, the doj knew that the laptop was reawl since before the 2020 election. but instead of doing the right, honorable and honest thing and telling the american people the truth, the federal amer there was o

biden had hunter biden is not running for president. the other guy is the nominee of the republican party so it is just ridiculous to have some kind of equivalency in the coverage or in the effect it has on voters. and as i said, most people have enough sense to judge the candidates on the basis of what they've done, not what their children have done laurie, i'm curious to hear how you think this natalie effects the electorate, but joe biden, personally, the fact that his son is now a convicted felon. well, first of all, i do think it will affect you, biden personally more than it's kind of effect the electorate i think biden is very close to hunter biden. this has been an issue they've been dealing with in the aftermath of beau's death, his other son and 2015, the family has tried interventions it has been difficult and joe biden may be president of the united states as he says, but he's also a father who's tried to intervene to save his son's life. and this was a matter of life and death, as you saw, he purchased a gun to do what with

hunter biden had that gun for 11 days. his candor about his battle with addiction used against him in court. after the verdict today, hunter biden seen leaving the courthouse holding his wife's hand and holding the first lady's hand, as well. jill biden was there every day but one as her son was on trial. tonight here, we take you inside the jury room. two jurors, and what they revealed to abc news. that the jury at first was split right down the middle on whether to convict. so, what changed overnight, deliberating two hours this morning and then convicting on all counts. tonight, president biden issuing a statement, saying, "i am the president, but also a dad. jill and i love our son and we are so proud of the man he is today." adding that so many families who have had loved ones battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing the person you love coming on the other side. so, tonight here, what does hunter biden now face at sentencing? dan abrams is standing by. andterry moran interviewing those two jurors and wh

hunter biden was convicted of a weapons offense. most republicans spoke. in the election process, but i'm not sure how much the voters will really care about these accusations, instead, accusations of non-payment of taxes, and this is another one... we talk about the political problems that this verdict may have, with the correspondent of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, oleksiy kovalenko , contacting us from washington, congratulations, this is the first time in american history that the son of sitting president found guilty of a criminal offense, i wonder what the reaction of american society was to this? congratulations, yes, this is, in fact, this is the first time ever in history that the son of a sitting american president has been convicted of such a significant crime, criminal liability, we do not have any final verdict yet, and the deadline for that verdict is still october 9th, we've already heard from guntar biden's lawyers that they will most likely try to challenge this court decision, but talk about a spe

. >>> tonight, hunter biden is guilty in the federal gun case. what is next for the president's son as he awaits sentencing? >>> my exclusive interview with trump's former national security advisor. why he thinks we are not taking the former presidents threats seriously enough. >>> why congress is being lost. the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. >>> good evening once again, we are now 147 days away from the election. today the president's son hunter was convicted on all counts in the federal gun trial. the jury deliberated for three hours. biden excepts the outcome of the case and will always be there for his son. >> reporter: tonight, president biden arriving in delaware, hugging his son on the tarmac after hunter biden became the first child of a sitting resident found guilty in a criminal trial. it took three hours of deliberations for 12 jurors to determine that hunter biden was guilty of three felony counts, from lying about his drug use in order to purchase a gun. the prosecution saying this was not a case about his struggles

book media is reporting me, dr. hunter, book capitals, investments hunter, roof capitals, investments must never drive hunter book media as reporting. there's another important note in the companies as to principles. it's about what are called inside of sources. hunter book investigators cannot use them because they've hunted with capital made any trades based on that information. it would be inside of trading, and that is a need. so inside of training, it's basically when you trade on material non public information, when there's some kind of an insight in the company who knows the secret information and they trades on that information. and that is illegal because it means that the market isn't bad. people look rating on information, then i'll everyone has what tons of work do is they very careful to only use all of the vast amounts of public information that are out there in the world and aggregate the information and put a story together. you can use open source techniques just like borgia, scott writers, the journalists who work there are skilled in, you know, data mining, scrubbi

in hunter. and i can tell you from the campaign in 2020 that moments where joe biden defended his son from attacks by donald trump about his addiction and things that he had done while he was under the influence. >> joe biden would look at the cameron's. >> i love my son and everybody in this country can relate to having somebody in their family that they love struggling with addiction. and the challenge that that puts your family through. and i'll tell you those were the things that people remembered from the debates in 2020 were joe bye that was it was joe biden making that argument so the idea and then add onto that the point that was just made earlier that this really undermines the argument that trump's been making about joe biden weaponizing the justice system. so, i think the politics of this are not going to be as beneficial to trump and republicans. and maybe that's why the trump campaign struggling to get a statement because we're not quite sure what to say. >> what do you think all ri

yesterday she confirmed that hunter's infamous laptop did belong to hunter.lready know but remember the whole thing with the laptop was not real and blah blah blah. now it's evidence in the case. prosecutors also used information from that actual laptop that belonged to hunter biden as evidence. remember, that's the same laptop again that biden even said this about in 2020. >> president biden: there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he is accusing me of is a russian plan. they have said that this has all the -- five formers heads of the c.i.a., both parties saying what he is saying is a bunch of garbage. nobody believes it except his and his good friend rudy giuliani. >> harris: malarkey runs in the fa family. like father, like son. senior national correspondent rich edson is at the courthouse in wilmington, delaware. >> good morning, harris. the hunter biden lead defense attorney abbe lowell is trying to infuse some doubt into the prosecution's claim that hunter biden was using drugs when he bought that gun back in 2018. cross exam

hunter biden guilty on all three counts. for illegally purchasing and possessing a gun while using drugs. inside the courtroom, the moment the verdict was read. and tonight, we take you inside the jury room, we'll hear from two jurors, revealing that jury was split down the middle, 6-6 at first, on whether to convict. deliberating for just three hours. president biden on his son tonight. what the president is saying. terry moran standing by at the courthouse. dan abrams here on what hunter biden could now face at sentencing. >>> tonight, from new york city to philadelphia to los angeles, eight migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally detained with suspected ties to isis. what we're learning. >>> that dramatic scene. the rush hour chase through atlanta, crossing through two counties. police chasing a hijacked bus. >>> the secret recordings of supreme court justices. justice samuel alito and chief justice john roberts, as well as the recording of justice alito's wife. what the audio reveals tonight, and the woman who recor

i saw hunter's wife and i did look over and see hunter. but yes, i was aware. but like i told some reporters earlier, when you go in there and you see that, then you've got to separate it. you've got to start listening to all the evidence and you've got to focus. you don't focus on who's in the courtroom. you've got to focus on listening to the defense and the prosecution. making a rash decision. so, you had to pay a lot of attention. >> you're asked as a juror to put your preconceptions and politics at the door. certainly in cases like this one. just as the jury in new york was asked to put their politics at the door for former president trump's trial. were you able to do that? >> absolutely. yes. i told reporters today that when hunter was on trial, we said five days. of his trial. and then we went into, we were given the case yesterday. and today. and the whole time, and i told other reporters this, there was only one time during the whole trial that i ever even thought of president joe biden. and that hunter was the sitting president. there was one time whe

and hunter biden specifically.upporters here, you know, encouraging hunter biden as he comes in every day and at the same time, there isn't a large group of people out here, also protesting. it's basically the same two or three protesters who have been here every day, kind of yelling out the same similar message. but there doesn't appear to be an overwhelming ground swell of anger either or support on either side of this case. >> all right. sarah, do we expect to hear from the special council? any press conferences that have been scheduled that you're aware of? >> reporter: i was with both prosecutors as they walked out of the courtroom. they said they had no comment and that we would hear shortly if they plan to do a press conference. it seemed like that decision had not yet been made. if we have a press conference, we should expect it will be very short because the parties have indicated the defense has indicated they plan to appeal this case, so i think any comments will be relatively short, relatively straightf

and you've also heard from a very close confidant of hunter biden, hunter biden. >> yeah.riend 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,

prosecutors signaled they may call hunter's ex-wife and beau biden's widow in a relationship with hunter. she discovered the gun and threw it in a trash can. one juror was dismissed. we don't know the reason why and don't know if the juror was part of the 12 or the four alternates that have also been selected for this jury. harris. >> harris: all right, rich, thank you very much. matt whitaker former acting attorney general and legal surrogate to former president donald trump. great to see you. i want to start with what we've seen. we don't know why one juror was dismissed. sometimes it can be for a personal reason. we won't try to read the tea leaves. half are gun owners. what else do you know that you think is important. >> i think it's very interesting that a couple of these jurors also had substance abuse family members. that will obviously help them understand what may have been going on. remember, as someone who tried cases as a prosecutor and defense lawyers one of the things you tell the jury is they don't check their reason and common sense at the door. so, harris, they can brin

i expect that hunter biden and abby lowell will make a bid for a lower sentence in part by saying hunterdoes accept responsibility. that he was a different person in 2018 than the man he has become today. they will also aggressively work to compile letters of support from people in the community. not only his close friends and family, but other people whose lives he has touched. for example, the galleryist who shows hunter's work now can testify to his talent and the fact he's turned his life around. if i'm lowell, i'm thinking about that presentation to the judge starting now. >> what kind of timeline are we looking at for an appeal and is it likely to just overlap with these tax charges that he's facing another case? >> you know, it's hard to say what timeline any federal court of appeals will be on in terms of an appeal when that briefing will be had. i think it's unlikely we would see a decision prior to the election let alone maybe even an oral argument. in all likelihood, he'll be sentenced on this jury verdict first then in september, assuming he doesn't plead out before then, wil

hunter is not running for anything.re of business and will have another casey will have to deal with, just as donald trump is taking care of his business and will have three or four other cases to deal with. from the president's perspective it is smart politics to call the thing what it is. why would you run away from that? honestly he is a convicted felon. we watched our friends on this network countdown each count, one through 34. i think for the biden team it is an opportunity for them to lean into the politics and this is a political campaign. what candidate in the country, in the world for that matter, would not use this kind of weakness that is self-imposed by his opponent? remember this is all because of what donald trump did. joe biden was not in that hotel room with stormy daniels. donald trump was. the reality of it is, that is the reality. that's the truth. those are the facts and why not talk about it when the moment presents itself? judging when and exactly how each time may be a matter of some decision, bu

hunter was incredibly strong and gracious. look at how good hunter looks today. sober, going on for years, it is remarkable how far he's come and he will be a powerful force story of redemption hope for attics and their families that love conquers all. now, hunter biden could face up to 25 years in prison and a fine of up to $750,000. in a moment, we're going to hear from one of the jurors about the discussions that took place inside that jury room and those few hours of debating, as the 12 men and women deliberated it truly is incredible when you take a step back here, you've got the president's done. just found guilty, criminally, less than two weeks after former president trump was found guilty and is now a convicted felon, both are now awaiting sentencing and yet the reactions from biden and trump could not be more different just hours after his son was found guilty, president biden spoke to the nation's largest gun control groups. so he's actually out of gun control group. he did not mention his sons conviction. he did not talk about a corrupt judge or rigge

caller: they're talking about hunter biden and al hunter biden has nothing to do with running for the him. i like talking about the president interrupting the border build -- it would help eliminate illegal immigrants -- [indiscernible] host: that is ronald in ohio on immigration and border issues. anything you are watching this week? guest: one thing i am watching for all reports president biden could rollout an executive order on immigration that would clamp down asylum as soon as this week. this has rumored to be in the pipeline for quite some time -- part of what we see is the biden's administration's pivot to the center. guest: -- host: we mentioned the merrick garland hero tomorrow. the federal government hearing, jim jordan and the judiciary committee want to galvan bright to -- anthony found she expected to be back on capital today. guest: this is the kind of hearing that is unlikely to yield a lot in theit is somethil see a lot of the partisan out as republicans try to figure out ways to attack dr. fauci for his handling of the pandemic and quite a few members of congress are

it's called hunter biden. apparently everyone is supposed to have a gun including people who are walking into a mental institution in texas, everyone in america including children and teachers must have guns, but the exception is hunter biden. he's the only one who they hate when he has guns. >> well, i was waiting for the second amendment rallies outside of the hunter biden trial, joy. i was looking around, where is the nra sponsored rallies? what's going on there? i know a little bit about these cases as you know, and i think with the tax case, i think it's going to be a little difficult, more complex than the gun case, to be honest. but i do think there's going to be an appeal on the gun case. we know what's in the data. i think abbe lowell is pretty good at what he does. i think it's going to happen. i think when you look at tom cotton f i could end with this, i don't know if they're passing out glue capsules in the republican conference meetings but when jared identified the hypocrisy, i think that's what

almost the entire biden family came out today to support hunter.n is the president's brother and sister. president biden himself was not there, the media and democrats believe that he did everything right. the us president has withdrawn himself from this process. his position is clear, consistent and honest. he doesn't want to interfere with justice. imagine yourself in his place, at least for a millisecond. in the shoes of a parent whose child is going through what he is going through. it's complicated. it's not easy and it's painful. i'm glad that when the president was asked about this. drug addicts on the day of acquiring a weapon, as a rule, they easily do this in other cases, but this is a businessman, this is his personal theft, and the jury is friendly to him, and as we said during the trial in the trump case, one juror may be enough, and we remember how it was during jury selection, each juror said: yes , i know at least one person who is addicted to drugs or alcohol, so they can sympathize with him. before us are the most shameless and im

hunter biden does face a maximum of 25 years in prison.ikely he will serve any quite a time like that. it could be probation or fines. there could be an appeal here. many legal experts say hunter biden might actually have a stronger case on appeal than he did during his actual trial. and his legal troubles are not over yet. he faces a separate felony charges in california. he is accused of tax evasion there for not paying more than $1 million in taxes. he has pleaded not guilty to that. that trial expected to beginning september -- to begin in september. caitriona: karl, thank you for that. for more on today's events, i am joined by the federal federal -- former federal u.s. prosecutor face gaye. thank you for being with us. there has been discussion about people receiving equal treatment, no matter who they are. how common is it that the department of justice would take a case of this nature, prosecuting an individual for gun ownership while they are addicted to drugs. >> there are probably 300 or 400 cases like this prosecuted in a year.

hunter biden's ex-wife kathleen buel said during wednesday's testimony she discovered hunter biden wass in his car. she said from 2015 lend cars to daughters wanted to make sure they weren't driving with the drugs. what about this trial? bring in our panel fox news chief political analyst brit hume. morgan ortagus host of the morgan ataking gus show. and axios political reporter stef kight. what about that soundbite, brit, about the political implications of this trial as we look at it now? sound like the defense had a bad day today. if there may be a conviction as well there may be, i don't think it politically is going to be that serious of problem for this reason. countless american families have had wayward kids and you know the story of joe biden and his family. when he was in the senate, he used to take the train home from washington to delaware virtually every night to be with those boys when they were growing up. and so i think people will look upon this with some sympathy. now, obviously, it's embarrassing and painful for young hunter biden and for his family. but politically,

president also saying in his statement how proud he is of where hunter is today and who hunter is todaytalking about his resilience, his strength, all of that, how he's faced adversity and come through the other side. michael zeldin, the judge has already given prosecutors the green light to use portions of hunter biden's memoir. what difficulties could this pose for the defense when prosecutors can use hunter biden's own words against him? >> we saw that in the trump trial, did we not? they are going to use this book to say this admission, if you will, in the book as to his use of drugs during the time that he made the purchase is essentially direct evidence out of the mouth of hunter biden that he was drug addicted during this time and that he purchased a gun. now, it's relevant, but i don't know that it's dispositive of the case because in this case there were two forms that were filled out, one which was signed by hunter biden. and it seemed as if the trump -- the gun dealer then filled in a form, and there's a question about who checked the box as to whether he was a drug user at t

now the story employee that sold hunter the handgun in 2018 here in wilmington, delaware, so that hunterore looking for a gun, contradicting what hunters attorneys at earlier this week claiming he was at nearby cell phone store and casually walked into the gun store and felt some pressure to buy the gun? gordon mcclelland, also testified, he's a hunter biden check know on the box on the federal gone form which is really the center of this entire case. >> jesse: so you were in the courtroom, and hunter is in the same room has his wife, his ex-wife, his ex-girlfriend and his mom and his sister. how awkward was that? >> yeah, it was definitely a unique situation, ashley wyden was not a very, at his sister but she has been there the past couple of days. notably the first lady has been there every single day, is at about 10 feet behind her on a diagonal second to the side of her face as she was watching and she seemed a sad and troubled, she was still what, she is watching her -- his current wife also did the same, not reacting, kind of being commuted as some of these images are being shown o

. >> wears a hunter -- wear is hunter? >> new hoax alert. >> jesse: ladies and gentlemen we have another hoax. caught off the press from the biden campaign, donald trump confirms plans to jail opponents biden's now accusing donald trump of doing exactly what he did. naturally the campaign coordinated the hoax with the media. we woke up this mourning to headlines like these. the new york times trump vows to prosecute rivals, put rule of law on the ballot. trump vows legal revenge against enemies. trump wants retribution. that's dangerous, unlawful and un-american. the guy who got a thrill up his leg is now getting a chill. >> donald trump, who wants to put them before firing squads basically. he wants to put them all in jail. he's unbelievable what he talks about his opponents. i'm telling you trump could end up rolling the score. i got the congress, about the supreme court. i own it all, i am a dictator. >> jesse: firing squads? when did trump say firing squads? he didn't. this is what sparked their hoax. watch. >> focus o

i promise you we're going to say hunter who?because it's not the only case that hunter is facing obviously. before you respond, bbasil, let me play some of what we are hearing from democrats. >> apparently when a republican is convicted, it's weaponization, but when a democracy is convicted the the president's son no less, that's justice? the divide here is stunning, and it's a great reminder that one political party remains committed to the rule of law and the other doesn't. >> basil, what do you see as the impact perhaps on the 2024 election? >> you know, i don't know that it has any significant impact on the election. democrats will go to support joe biden and continue to support joe biden. i think actually independents have found a way and will find a way to separate what the president -- you know, the president and his governing -- his ability to govern in the united states versus what his son has done, which the president himself has created that clear line. so i do think independents will kind of bring those two things to

president biden is hugging hunter in delaware after the verdict and he defended his son saint hunter did nothing wrong, watch spivak you don't think the story from the fall about your son hunter was -- >> yes, yes, yes, god love them you're a one horse pony, the justice department will be totally on its own making judgments about how they should proceed. >> to think hunter did nothing wrong. >> i'm confident. [screams] could hunter biden commit a crime. >> have you spoken to your son. maria: he's one of the jurors that had to say about the verdict. >> if he was like anybody else, nobody is above the law doesn't matter who you are and all the things that we know. maria: the first son is also facing another federal trial slated for september of failing to pay more than a million dollars in taxes, all of this this morning, we are reacting. >> my reaction, to be a fly on the wall when joe biden flew to delaware, that family meeting must've been with a lot of important information and i think that's why there together because the text messages between joe and hunter i imagine would be dam

i'm jake tapper hunter biden is now a convicted felon. it took a delaware where jury less than three hours to find the president's son guilty. guilty. guilty on all three felony gun charges, deciding he violated laws meant to prevent those who use and are addicted to illegal drugs from owning firearms. multiple jurors spoke to cnn in the moments after they left cord, including juror number ten who told cnn to the jury, had been evenly split last night when they wrapped for the de with six guilty, six not guilty, but this morning jurors went count by count and unanimously decided hunter biden was in fact guilty on all three counts. juror number of ten went on to tell cnn he does not think politics played a role in any jurors decision to convict no politics came in to play in politics was not even spoken about the first family was not even spoken about. it was all it was all about hunter two jurors also told cnn that the emotional testimony would stick with him for a long time, including one saying that the testimony of hunters daughter nao

prosecutors have hunter biden cornered at this point. only addicted to drugs for many months ahead of this with eyewitnesses seeing that. the issue of whether he is being put -- using drugs right around the time of purchasing the gun, they've got him on that. >> harris: the "new york post" sums it up this way. hallie biden's testimony burned by biden. inside miranda devine as an oped the tragic tale exposes the rotten core of the biden family. she writes no doubt the family dynamics in the courtroom were evident to hallie from the minute she walked by the president's portrait. a reminder of the power of her former father-in-law who had paid her a curious late night visit 12 days earlier. end quote. lucas tomlinson is in wilmington, delaware. lucas. >> getting pretty busy at the courthouse for day five of the hunter biden trial. the president's son, the prosecution has rested its case. the defense has just started. they began with asking for an acquittal which is fairly standard. family members that just arrived a few minutes ago is gaini

they have come in on hunter biden. but no hunter biden close to california as a convicted felon.ome of us said he shouldn't of pled guilty before this trial, now it's overwhelmingly clear that he needs to plead guilty before the california trial. >> sandra: we know what we are about to hear here, judge, if i cannot be put on the political hat as you keep on the legal head as well but this is going to be a moment where the president is going to tout his policies on guns as he is working. they will talk about drops in certain crime rates thanks to certain fbi data. the campaign season on this as well w what the spokesperson sad in a new memo that was sent out today that while biden signed major gun safety legislation two years ago trump has repeatedly come to the nra instead of protecting kids. he then said fighting gun violence is on the ballot this november and we are campaigning on this issue. i will note as i hand the question off to you, judge, that he is speaking on gun laws in the wake of his son's guilty verdict after breaking gun laws to you. >> it is -- go look, these are

but if this is the only child that hunter!ll only prove that biden's the orgy as we have been telling you is politicized and weaponize. the judge instructed the jury to ignore hunter's prior to the first family but let's be clear that it's because of those ties that hunter now is only facing gun charges in the biden friendly menu of delaware. he is not getting the normal drug treatment like trump got in new york with the valuation of mar-a-lago at a mere $18 million in a case that involves valuations. the judge in a civil trial was more guilty of valuations fraud then anything the accused donald trump of. and, of course, we have the case of alvin bragg, misdemeanor statute of limitations expired charge to a felony population parameter don't even tell trump what you're charging him with. you know, more impotently about that biden -- bidens, whited foreign oligarchs, whether they pay hunter biden millions of millions of dollars according to the johnson grass lease in that report? what service was he capable of providing if he wa

process continues to hunter's everything: hunter the media cli to despise a white, privileged, sexist, spoiled brad who barkb don't you know who my daddy is?s but he's a democrat. the >> so the media circles the wagons. the media ha cis more sympathy for a a crack addict who dumped a gun by a school than for gun a president who just wants to make america great again. >> moments t again. ago, hunter and joee we were seen hugging on the tarmac in delawar oe, where they'll be spending the night together. i'm sure this father's dayttle a weekend is going to be a little awkward. biden wishedwk he could have ben there sooner, but in an act i of poetic injustice, he had gun to attend a gun control event just hours before the verdict. >> there's never been a timeayso that says you can own anythinguo you want. never. you couldn't own a cannon during the civilt own war. think about it. how much you hear this phrase, o the blood of liberty. a wash it down. give me a break. if they want to think, to take on government, if we get out of line, which they're talkingte about, well, guess what? they n

hunter did.ience i went to and embarrassed and ashamed and regret that period of my life. when hunter biden smoked crack it could leave him agitated or high strong and other times functioning as well. end quote. >> joe biden called hunter the smartest man he knows and getting his dead brother's widow hooked on crack cocaine right in this time frame. so we have to understand what it is that hunter biden is truly up to at this point in his life. how dangerous it was for him to buy a firearm. we talk about firearm rights. we talk about firearm controls that go on in this country. joe biden was key behind the bill that actually had -- made it illegal to purchase a gun while addicted to drugs. when you look at what hunter biden is doing in the time frame we see how big a deal that is. the defense looking merely at the idea of whether on the date of the purchase hunter biden intended in his own mind to lie on that form. was he really thinking that he was an addict or using drugs or can they create some