weiss got the gig as delaware u.s.ney during the trump years because his nomination was green lit by the two biden allied delaware senators and he dutifully did nothing on this case for a couple of years which is why she they kept him when joe biden took office and why it was very convenient for them to be able to wave around he was a trouble pointy while he continued to sit around as the statute of limitations a chewed up his case. they did not even want to do a sweetheart deal. they try to get a root of this case was nothing, and it was only because of the whistle-blowers who came forward and to the that brought this matter they had to go to court and try at least to get something passed a federal judge, but it was so absurd it crumbled on the basis of just a few basic questions. >> john: this woman is introducing the president so we expect we will have to go to him momentarily but kerri, two things this gives donald trump very first if donald trump brings up a convicted felon in the june 27th debate it would give do

you heard david weiss actually. thank the attorney general, merrick garland for giving him every his team, everything they needed there was no ranting about a corrupt judge from the bidens. there was no talk about it being a witch hunt or rigged or weaponized justice it's department. there was apparently no interference at all, quite the opposite. >> i wonder. sure. my goal, what you think as we await ultimately another piece of it? this, which will be what might a sentence look like? a lot of legal observers think there is not going to be jail time even though when you look at the law, there could be jail time merited here. i wonder how you think republicans are going to respond if hunter biden does not as expected, get jail time. >> i mean, if they are authentically conservative, they would agree that he should not get any jail time here. we'd be transparent for our audits. i own a firearms company. i've spent a lot of times in a fire, a lot of years in a firearm space and community. i was a competitive shooter fo

david weiss. >> i'm david weiss. i'm special counsel.lier 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 firearm while a user or addict. there have been two overarching themes emphasized by the prosecution during trial. this defendant's illegal choices and the rule of law. first, while there has been much testimony about the defendant's abuse of drugs and alcohol, ultimately this case was not just about addiction. a disease that haunts families across the united states, incluing hunter biden's family. this case was about the illegal choices the defendant made while in the throes of addiction. his choice to lie on a government form when he bought a gun. and the choice to then possess that gun. it was these choices and the combination of guns and drugs, that made his conduct dangerous. second, no one in this country is above the law. everyone must be accountable for their actions, even this defendant. however, hunter bide

my name is david weiss, i am 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 firearm while a user or addict. they have been two overarching themes during trial. this defendant's illegal choices and the rule of law. first, while there has been much testimony about the defendant's abuse of drugs and alcohol, ultimately this case wasn't not just about addiction. a disease that haunts families across the united states including hunter biden's family. this case was about the illegal choice the defendant may dwell in the throes of addiction, his choice to lie on a government form, when he bought a gun and the choice to then possess that gun. it was these choices and the combination of jute guns and drugs that made his conduct dangerous. second, no one in this country is above the law. everyone must be accountable for their actions, even this defendant. hunter biden should be no more accountable

and i think that when david weiss come out, he's going to have to come down hard.oing to have to say what he should have said when that plea deal went down. when they tried to pull the wool over his eyes, and admit we have no president for giving everyone immunity for the rest of their lives. they have to be very straightforward, and they need to accept the fact that it was the justice department entered by an administration that asked for five additional years of these kind of cases. especially when you like on a drug form. >> kayleigh: it was hunter's voice that said that my superpower was finding drugs anytime, anywhere, in 2015. >> 13 minutes from now, david weiss will take the microphone. we will take you to it. more "outnumbered" in just a moment. for preserve your body with 70 minerals like me and my wife have. body you can order immuno 150 online or call 888-316-2224. that's 888-316-2224. speak to the the trump campaign has just release of statement, s a distraction from the real crimes at the biter family which is raking in tens of millions of dollars from

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okay, back in 2018 under david weiss, the u.s. attorney trump appointed in delaware, the fbi probed hunter biden. there were subpoenas, but there were no charges and remember, trump grew angry that his justice department had not publicized the investigation into his opponents son during the 2020 election. after trump lost the election, republicans insisted president biden would obstruct justice to keep his son free and they called for a special counsel to investigate. when a new president comes and it is his right to replace any u.s. attorney they want. they usually do. biden replaced all of trump's appointees except for two. who bill barr had test to investigate the russia probe. and david weiss, who was investigating his own son. that is because the new president, at the pains of a possible criminal conviction of his surviving son in recovery, wanted no appearance of impropriety or interference and infect biden's attorney general merrick garland went a step further and appointed weiss as special counsel to make sure his work on

it's unlike likely, because he doesn't have any prior offenses, and david weiss is the same david weiss that's charging hunter in california on those tax crimes. that's set to go to trial on september 5th, but that could always potentially end in some plea agreement. so hunter does not have to go through this two months before the election, but that's only if both sides want to do a plea deal. the special counsel has to want to do it too. elizabeth: you're right. that trial could come five days before the second debate with trump and bind. david spunt, you're terrific. >>> let's welcome former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. tom, your reaction to this news. analysts are ballparking the impact of this election the which parties for the u.s. economy of this verdict. can hunter go to prison? >> absolutely, liz. i think prison is actually likely right now. technically, he he faces many years in prison. as a practical matter, it's unlikely he's going to get a long prison term. this judge might sentence him to, say, a year of incarceration. she could sentence him to just probati

david weiss had to veer around him when you can tell from his body language that david weiss is extremelyrtable about the position he is in. he is being a delaware insiders since 1986, he's been at the u.s. attorney's office. he knows that the biden's ruled delaware, that joe biden is basically the emperor of it is very small audit state, very wealthy state because of the corporations in america basically pretty much headquarter there. but it is a town of 70,000 people and is one of the jury said today, it is a small town. everybody knows the biden's. and it's unmistakable that joe biden's in town, it's unmistakable when you see dr jill biden, the first lady sitting in the front row today, very conspicuous in a bright purple pantsuit, she turned around, full phase to look out of the jurors when they came in and sat in the back of the courtroom. it's just secret service all around the first family, there were about five over them in the front row along with kevin morris. and secret service vehicles, the chevys outside, a chevy suburban's outside, flashing lights. people were stopping comma

david weiss had to veer around him and you could telld to from his body language that david weiss is extremely uncomfortablavide about thetion position he's in. he's been, you know, a delaware insider since 1986. he's been at the us attorney'sir . he knows that the bidens ruled and delaware, that joe biden is basically the emperor of this very small, odd state, very wealthy state, because all thect corporations in america pretty much headquartered thereeric. but it's a town of 70,000 people. ,000and as one of the jurorsy said today, it's a small town. everybody, the bidens. and it's it's, you know, unmistakable that joe biden's i' in town. it's unmistakable when you see dr. jill biden, the first lady, sitting in the front rowe toda, very conspicuous in a bright purple. she turned around full face to look at the jurors when i they came in and sat in thein back of the courtroom. it's just secret service the all the first family. there were about five of them weree over with theong sugar brother, kevin morris. and a secret service vehicles. the chevy's outside the chevy suburbans, outsi

weiss, has a degree from, of l places, columbia. dr. weiss and mr. continetti will converse for about 20 minutes. then we'll turn to audiencece questions. afterwards, i hope you'll join us for light rconversation in the adjoining gallery. but now, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming dr. ruth weiss. to the u.s. thank you. shall i put this down bit. thank you very very much. this is the place to and among people i read and and and just i. i'm just overwhelmed by what you tell, what you say because, in fact, i've been thinking about and writing about these ideas for years and one does not want to have them come to life in the way that they have done recently. so t warm up an audience with a joke. so why don't i try one? this one from the first world war. the mayor of a french town. directs his round up all the -- and all the bicyclists says, why the bicyclists. you're not but if it didn't. if it didn't bring down the house, i'm sure that it's not just my telling, although i'm not a comedian by nature. but you're not yet in the spirit of ou

this is not proof - he said in his closing statement, prosecutor leo weiss. this is not proof, he saide is above the law. a special counsel accuses the president's son of making false statements during a federal background check. in the questionnaire , he answered affirmatively to the question that he was not a drug addict. at the time of the gun permit application, prosecutors used data from hunter's laptop and interviewed 10 witnesses, many of whom spoke about hunter biden's frequent drug use. every 20 minutes. this evidence is stated that hunter smoked craig and almost dated him around the same time, it is immediate, it is exhaustive and it is disgusting, leo weiss told the jury, and it was absolutely necessary, he added. but lawyer abi lowel said investigators were placing too much emphasis on his four-year history of drug addiction and added that no one actually saw hunter using or purchasing drugs. during the period when he acquired weapons. the jury was given the day off before reaching its decision in the hunter biden case. today's discussions did not end with a verdict. tomorr

the attorney general doesn't intrude. >> when did you appoint special counsel david weiss?'s >> it is a matter of public record. >> isn't it correct it was after whistleblowers like mr. shapely expose numerous instances of wrongdoing including allowing the statute of limitations to expire x >> this has nothing to do with anything any whistleblower said. >> the statute of limitations was allowed to expire before your appointment. >> some likely expired before he was appointed as attorney general and i don't know the facts. there is no connection to each other. >> so your claim that it -- you can't comment on it because mr. weiss is investigating has nothing to do with this but actually the fact that those statutes of limitations expired before you were appointed and before he was appointed? correct? >> i am not following the question. >> no question between whatever happened with the statute of limitations. >> i don't know about. >> did he received directions from your office regarding the details of the plea deal for hunter biden? >> when i was nominated to be the attorney g

that's just weiss reminding listeners that the national and international audience he knew he had int moment, that garland was not involved in his bringing this case. of course that stands in stark contrast to some of the claims that we've seen on the right that garland was somehow trying to work with weiss to distract the public from the other alleged biden crime family crimes, this is very much weiss himself saying i got this. this is my decision, there was not involvement from people who are political appointees of the biden administration. going into september into this tax trial in california, there's no question that it's even much more legally risky for hunter than this gun case was, and those jurors comments without a doubt will really concern biden's legal team. what those jurors made clear is that they were really, really sympathetic to hunter biden. they're from his home state. they found him to be sympathetic. they worried about his drug addiction. they didn't even think he should go to prison and they still convicted him unanimously. california's going to be different. i

weiss s app trump and i promised i would. majority of the republican members of the senate asked me to appoint him special counsel and ultimately i did appoint him and i promised not to intrude and i stuck with my promise. >> on may 23 of this year were you in attendance of the state dinner for the president of kenya? >> yes. >> did hunter biden attend? >> from newspaper reports, yes. >> did you interact with him? >> i have never spoken with >> i yield my time. >> does the department of justice retaliate against whistleblowers? >> that would be a violation of statute. >> the inspector general seems to think you are. >> i got this memo dated with a notification of concern regarding the department of justice complianlower protectio employees and security clearance. >> i have read the memo and i think it is a good memo and it doesn't say we have been retaliated against anybody but it does say there has to be additional protections. >> is it pure coincidence that man security clearance came about today and they called this a theo

. >> that's 29 year old pat weiss, nicholas's donor and best friend since elementary school. weiss says when he got a text about donating, he didn't hesitate to sign up. >> we've always said to each other that we're ride or die friends, and you know that that we're always kind of with each other for life. but, you know, actually having such a bona fide example where we've got each other's back, like it, it just it meant the world to me. >> they not only have each other's back, now one has the other's kidney. yeah by the way, northwestern is now looking to establish a new program for patients who also need a kidney transplant without general anesthesia, because there are a lot of patients who actually can't have that kind of anesthesia. >> we've reported on a couple of these medical breakthroughs over the last year or so. it's all happening so fast. and this is good. it's a good thing. >> but can you imagine that moment when they were like, okay, nicholas, we're going to make the first incision? >> i can't imagine it because i had three c-sections. >> what's that moment like?

the jury is still out on weiss.e still don't know what is the possible reason you would allow major felony crimes to expire on a statute of limitations that you had the ability to extend. had you an agreement on the table to extend. he hasn't explained that to his own team let alone to the public. so there is a lot of questions that will remain. but his office, i have got hand it to weiss, did an outstanding job in this case. those prosecutors were on their game. this was tight and disciplined. and they demolished the defenses raised by abbe lowell for his client. he made a series of offerings to the jury of things that they would establish and the prosecutors blew them out of the water. >> john: once they made a decision to prosecute, they really brought it. >> they did. >> john: hunter biden after the plea deal fell apart could have pleaded guilty again and a new plea deal he said i want a jury trial. is this a case be careful what you wish for because you might get it? >> it certainly is these defenses were so im

some democrats have accused mr weiss of playing politics by aggressively prosecuting the case.utor, explains, ——as faith gay, a former federal prosecutor, explains, the prosecution is relatively unusual. this probably 300 or 400 cases like this prosecuted a year and most resolved by plea deals that do not involve incarceration. it is fairly ready to take one of these cases to trial without an underlying incidence of violence, using the gun that was unlawfully obtained. having said that, this is a very serious crime. the only way to sort of control the traffic of anger is for people to be truthful when they deal with the federal arms dealer and on the federal arms dealer and on the federal arms dealer and on the federalforms the federal arms dealer and on the federal forms clearing them to possess the gun. so it is certainly a crime from a policy perspective that should be prosecuted but the tendency of the department ofjustice is to prosecute when it has been an underlying incidence of violence associated in the legal gun. for more let's go to delaware to our correspondent carl

it a crime before so it's unlikely you'll see anything close to that and want to point out, david weissis still prosecuting hunter on tax charges, felony tax charges in los angeles. is expected to go to trial on september 5th but it's always possible there could be some sort of plea deal worked out if hunter's teams watch -- and david weiss is okay with that to make sure that they don't have to go through a trial does two months before his dad is getting reelected potentially if he wins. macniel? >> martha: >> neil: if he wins. david spunt thank you very much -- when he was addressing -- it never came up, it's quite a lot of folks, wondering if it surprised my next guest paul ryan 54 speaker of the house so from 315 to 2019. he joins us right now. mr speaker, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> the. >> neil: there was a really -- little surprising wasn't it not even mention -- >> i don't think so. he just wanted to make sure it was not meddling with the justice department partition of her son. like anybody who's filled out these forms is pretty obvious it's as if you lie you're comm

special counsel david weiss, who oversaw the prosecution, saying this is not a case about hunter's struggles with crack, but his decision to break the law. >>'s choice to lie on a government form when he bought a gun and then to possess that gun. it was these choices and the combination of guns and drugs that made his conduct dangerous. >> reporter: inside the courtroom, the president's 54- year-old son did not react as the verdict was read. he left the courthouse holding the hand of the first lady, later releasing a statement saying i am more grateful today for the love and support i experienced this last week from melissa, my family, my friends, and my community then i am disappointed about the outcome. the verdict comes after four days of testimony from people who are or were once close to hunter biden. many testifying about his drug use around the time he filled out the background check saying he was not a drug user. his ex-girlfriend testified she witnessed hunter smoking crack every 20 minutes or so. the prosecution also using clips from hunter's own book. >> i have no plans beyond the

we should point out that david weiss and the prosecution team.sounds like they are loaded forebear. >> brian: by the way, is this a race? because joe biden is winning. is this a race? >> steve: brian, you always let the boss win whether it's golf or biking. today dr. flown fauci is set to is testify it in front of the house lawmakers who are pushing him to hand over his private email and his phone records as he and his top associates face new accusations over a covid cover-up. >> brian: fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel is here. we already see the democrats are going to make this political because they are going to have a precommittee presser at 8:45. what do you expect to hear today? >> first of all, it's not political. it's medical because brad wenstrup, who is the chairman of this subcommittee, looking into coronavirus, his goal is to figure out a way that we can be prepared for the next pandemic. >> brian: right, dr. is separated from him. >> wenstrup brought lieu would he see in. we still don't know where covid came from. big deba

david weiss, he kept him on. he didn't have to do that. there were other moments where he has i had to keep him in the job. we do not know what will happen in the outcome of this case. as you just mentioned, alvin bragg, he does not work for joe biden. does not work for the department -- it does not work that way. he does not direct them. >> even people in the justice department work at some remove, orders from the president. i was fired by former president trump in part because i refuse to speak to him in march 2017 because it is inappropriate for a sitting united states attorney who has jurisdiction over his company, his foundation and other things, to talk to him without communicated with by the attorney general of the u.s. there's independence of the justice department which is triple or quadruple or infinite when talking about a local prosecutor who is elected by the people of manhattan. not appointed by the president of the united states. >> it's important for people to know and understand. if doj officials, in the street, i would mo

the man running the prosecution against hunter biden, david weiss, is a trump administration holdover and he was held over specifically in that role even though the president would be well within his rights to not hold him over, he was held over by merrick garland. new president and new u.s. attorney. he was held over by the fact he is a trump appointee because he had overseen this case. do you know how long this guy was overseeing the hunter biden case? five years. okay? replacing him might have appeared to be political impropriety on the biden administration so david weiss state. hunter biden has been targeted by conspiracy theories for the better part of a decade and endless hearings and the like, is now being prosecuted by the department of justice in the person of david weiss for incredibly arcane alleged defense. the allegation is that when hunter biden purchased a handgun in 2018, he lied on the federal form when he said he had not abused drugs. he possessed the handgun for, wait for it, 11 days. he lied on the form about drug use and had the handgun for 11 days and he now face

but let me start with you because we did hear from the special counsel, david weiss today, someone we have not heard from very often in this case, he came out and spoke after the guilty verdict no one in this country is above the law everyone must be accountable for their actions. even this defendant however hunter biden, should be no more accountable than any other citizen convicted of this same conduct obviously, andrew mccabe, a hunter biden's legal team has made clear they're going to challenge this, but this is not the end of the legal exposure. >> legal troubles front or biden. he's got another case pending this november or this fall yeah katelyn, he's not out of the woods by a long shot. >> the case that he has coming up in september on the tax charges very serious case, and it's one that on its own brings the threat of much more extensive potential jail time. now, of course, they'll go into that case, having already been convicted of another felony, so he's no longer considered a first-time offender in the resolution of the tax case, which could make his penalties if he's conv

was the laptop validated by weiss bringing it up in court, number one.bery hi two, i look at the jy and their comments about addictiothn, which, by the way, i kind of share. i've seen addiction in my life.a most americans have. it's a horrific thing. if hunter gets better, i'dr actually you know, i'd be glad for hir idm. t i know you don't want that in anybody's life. if you have a heart and soulnyb however, that's not the issue in the case refers to the law. >> what's your take? >> you >> look, you're spot on about that. as derrick hines said, the prosecutor in his opening statement. addictioe prosecutn is not a chu but buying a gun illegally is a choice. and lyinying illegallyg is a ch. and both of those things, he is alleging that hunter biden did. >> and look, when you mention the laptop, really it wasday a momentous occasion in the whole saga of the laptop tha that the "new york post" has beenw york living for the last three years and eight months since we first broke the storyte from the laptop showing that joe biden was involved in his family's in

keep in mind the doj prosecutord tasked with investigating hunter david weiss w, he letimio the statute of limitations run out on the most serious allegation hes, which could have connected hunter's business to thconnectee big guy himself. sadly, the doj is not looking out for you. their primary concern seems to revolve around protecting weak democrats from scrutiny, helping to elect joe biden while waging lawfare against donald trump. and needless to say, massive reform and accountability massym is needed in washington and in the swamp. and by the way, starting in september, early voting begins in 146 days. it's election day. only you 146s can fix it. here with reaction, fox news contributor jonathan turlean tuh we got over the case. to me, the evidence was overwhelming incontrovertible. what about this real big storyhs to me, which is now we that they've known from the beginning that the laptop begias rea. >> all these people lied. the 50 t one intel agents. you know what i guess at the direction of wink and tony blinken, you know, out there, they knew nothing about the laptop. t hu t

that's 29 year old pat weiss, nicholas's donor and best friend since elementary school.ss says when he got a text about donating, he didn't hesitate to sign up. >> we've always said to each other that we're ride or die friends, and you know that we're always kind of with each other for life. but, you know, actually having such a bona fide example where we've got each other's back. like it. yeah. it just it meant the world to me. wow >> what an incredible story. and now northwestern is looking to establish a new program for patients who also need a kidney transplant without general anesthesia. pretty incredible story coming up here from a 14 year old who survived a shark attack off north carolina. >> also ahead, the party still underway in south florida after the florida panthers n the the florida panthers n the stanley a perfect day for a family outing! shingles doesn't care. but shingrix protects. only shingrix is proven over 90% effective. shingrix is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for thos

weiss saying he'll rely on hunter's laptop, writing the laptop is real. it will be introduced as a trial exhibit and contains significant evidence of the defendant's guilt. prosecutors also expected to call hallie dating when the han discovered. shy' she was the widow of his brother beau. >>> anthony fauci was grilled on the hill. he was asked whether the six-foot distancing rule was arbitrary after the testimony that the measure just sort of appeared. >> do you think that a rule that sort of just appeared is substantial justification for the regulations that we saw based on that six-foot rule? >> when saying it just appeared, it came from the cdc. >> and you didn't feel an obligation as the lead scientist at the nih to challenge that? >> i've challenged the cdc multiple times. >> fauci also denied withholding data supportive of the theory that the coronavirus leaked from a research lab in wuhan, china. >>> atlanta's water woes are dragging into a fifth day. two massive water main breaks over the weekend left residents cut off and without clean drinking w

i mean this story we heard right there from david weiss would be that it had all the sordid details. a tab boy would love um, but this would not be a new story if hunter bite and we're not the son of the us president. but he is the president's side. talk to me about the importance of what happened in court today or well, of course. so as you pointed out, this is historical. this is the 1st time that a sitting president child has been convicted of a crime. but as you rightly also say, we're talking about the president's son and not the president himself. so why is this important? it's important because of the very specific political and do this whole situation that this is all happening and so parallel to hunter biden's legal troubles. you also have jo barton's chief political arrival, donald trump, having his own days and court for various offences. and he has accused joe biden of webinar using the justice system against him. now, after today, however, we've learned that this is the same, just the system that would convict though biden's own son hunter biden. as such, it's become muc

speaking after the conviction, special counselor, david weiss, who brought the case explained why 100 biden had been convicted while there has been much testimony about the defendants abuse of drugs and alcohol. ultimately, this case was not just about addiction, a disease that hans families across the united states, including 100 biden's family. this case was about the legal choices defendant made while in the throes of addiction. his choice to lie on a government form. when he bought a gun and the choice to den possess that gun, it was these choices and the combination of guns and drugs that made his conduct dangerous. but he w janelle stuart alone is covering this story forrest, janelle, good to see. i mean this story we heard right there from david weiss would be that it had all the sordid details. let's have way would love um, but this would not be a new story if hunter bite and we're not the son of the us president. but he is the president's side. talk to me about the importance of what happened in court today as well, of course. so as you pointed out, this is historical. this i

special prosecutor david weiss then charging him for both tax and gun crimes to which hunter biden has pleaded not guilty. weiss saying he'll rely on hunter's laptop, writing the defendant's laptop is real, it will be introduced as a trial exhibit, and it contains significant evidence of the defendant's guilt. prosecutors also expected to call hallie biden who hunter was dating when the handgun was discovered. she's the widow of his brother beau. >> we understand this trial is not expected to last long. >> reporter: that's right, lester. we expect this trial to last about a week or maybe a little bit longer with opening statements set to begin tomorrow morning. we don't know yet if hunter biden will testify in this case, but if convicted he is facing jail time. >> ryan nobles, thank you. >>> also tonight former president trump slamming his sentencing date set by a judge for just days before the republican convention as the biden campaign accused him of calling for violence if he's sentenced to jail. here's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: tonight former president trump is blasting his sent

if wise was confirmed -- weiss was confirmed as the u.s.y of contract, so he's probably -- connecticut, so he's probably in a different category. but mukasey and meese are serious or legal thinkers, and their objections could be well taken here. elizabeth: okay. andrew mccarthy, thank you for this, cleaning up everything we say on camera. good to see you. >> sure. elizabeth: still the ahead, wall street pro carol roth and americans for tax reform grover norquist. president biden overseas in france, polls back home he's still the underwater on the economy. he's polling at record lows not seen in modern u.s. history. we got more on that. plus, new york times' opinion columnist paul paul krugman again get roasted for another out of touch column claiming that bind should, quote, downplay -- biden should, quote, downplay his success? let's hear from dagen and sean what they've got coming up on "the bottom line." sean: well, hello, e-mac. as a joe biden tries to lock up his chief political opponent, he's going over to europe to give a speech on t

>> right and i'm not going to speak for why david weiss is bringing this particular case, but you see democrats bending over backwards to respect the rule of law. >> it is so wild. do people know there is this enormous study of contrast happening and do they care? >> right and there is no banana republic on earth where the president's beloved son is prosecuted by his justice department unless he is ordering it. >>> coming up, just what happens when the republican front-runner recently convicted on 34 counts meets with his new probation officer. a whole new world donald trump is about to enter next. next. and that doesn't work when you're writing a mystery and i knew i needed to do something so i started taking prevagen. i realized that i was much more clear, much sharper. i was remembering the details that i was supposed to. prevagen keeps my brain working right. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. when we say it'll be on time, they expect it to be on time. turn shipping to your advantage. keep those expectations with reliable ground shipping. thanks brandon. with u

hunter biden's addiction struggles are well-known, but special prosecutor david weiss rejecting the ideat the case was just about addiction, saying the case was really about the illegal choices hunter biden made, after releasing a statement in which he once more vowed to accept the verdict, president biden flying to delaware where he was greeted by his son hunter on the tarmac. ryan nobles is in delaware tonight with the latest. >> reporter: tonight, president biden arriving in delaware, hugging his son on the tarmac after hunter biden became the first child of a sitting president found guilty in a criminal trial. >> no one in this country is above the law. >> reporter: it took just three hours of deliberations for 12 jurors to unanimously determine that hunter biden was guilty of three felony counts for lying about his drug use on a federal background check in order to buy a gun. special counsel david weiss who oversaw the prosecution saying this was not a case about hunter's struggles with crack, but his decision to break the law. >> his choice to lie on a government form when he bough

back in 2018 us attorney david weiss, who was appointed by the biden justice department to prosecute the case. mary said it goes to show that no one is above the law. no one in this country is above the law. every one must be accountable for their actions. even this defend. however, hunter, by them should be no more accountable than any other citizen convicted of this same conduct. the trial included photos and text messages documenting biden's addiction to crack cocaine, as well as excerpts from his memoir and testimony from his ex wife and daughter who hugged her father after taking the stand. first lady joe biden, his step mother and other family members showed their support by filling the court room during the trial and a statement after the verdict. hunter biden said, i am more grateful today for the love and support i experienced this last week than i am disappointed by the outcome present. and joe biden did not mention his son's case when speaking of an event for victims of gun violence, but said in a statement he loves his son, and quote, will accept the outcome of this case

let me ask you about the special prosecutor, david weiss.y who signed off on a sketchy plea deal to being the attack dog for the prosecution. listen to what he said yesterday. >> no one in this country is above the law. everyone must be accountable for their actions, even this defendant. as you know, we have additional trials and investigative work to be done so i will not entertain questions at this time. our work continues. >> john: the consensus seems to be his prosecutorial team did a very good job in judge noreika's court but what do you think of weiss himself and how he has handled this case? >> i do agree with you that the prosecutors who tried the case did a very good job. i also think david weiss is the best defense lawyer hunter biden has ever had, and because he delayed the way he delayed, not only are some of the most serious charges no longer prosecutable in the tax case, but everything has been pushed so close to the election that in the end, hunter is not going to see the inside of a federal prison no matter what happens in th

take a listen to david weiss. >> no one in this country is above the law.ne must be accountable for their actions. even this defendant. however, hunter biden should be no more accountable than any other citizen >> reporter: we also have a written statement from hunter biden himself who said he's more grateful for the love and support i experienced this last week from his wife, melissa, my family, friends, and community than i am disappointed by the outcome. he added recovery is possible by the grace of god and i am blessed to experience that gift one day at a time. in terms of what comes next, it's sentencing. that will take place two to three months from now. the judge will set a date. meantime, there will be an investigation, confidential report written, and that will include an interview with hunter biden, assessment of his offenses and him as a person. then the judge will make a decision. the guidelines in this case we believe call for around a year in prison but the judge is free to go below that and take into account this kind of case is rarely brough