Hunter Biden gun trial live: Jury selected after Biden family 'acquaintance' dismissed and president's son gets sweet kiss from Jill

Thank you for following DailyMail.com's live daily politics blog, with updates from Hunter Biden's gun trial in Delaware and Dr. Anthony Fauci's testimony on Capitol Hill.

Catch up on what happened:

• Jill Biden supports stepson Hunter as jury is picked to decide his fate in trial centered on crack cocaine, a Colt Cobra Revolver, a 'lie' on a gun form and his exes
• How judge in Hunter Biden's gun trial DOUBLED sentence recommended by prosecutors in a very similar case
• Fauci's stunning admissions about the 'science' of social distancing, COVID origins the lab leak and his personal emails: The takeaways from his bombshell testimony in Congress
• Marjorie Taylor Greene hijacks Fauci hearing with claims of animal abuse and demanding doctor be thrown in jail: 'Ridiculous'

Jill Biden spent her 73rd birthday in a courtroom in a show of support for stepson Hunter as the jury that will decide his fate was seated.

Three times during breaks in jury selection the First Lady hugged Hunter and kissed him on the cheek as she spent hours sitting directly behind him in court. at one point Hunter joked to her: 'Happy Birthday. I got you to a special event.'

She sat on the public benches with Hunter's half-sister Ashley and his wife Melissa Cohen, who also put their arms around him during breaks in proceedings.

Speaker Mike Johnson swore in Rep. Vince Fong to replace Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday in a boost for House Republicans' razor-thin majority.

Fong, 45, beat out local sheriff Mike Boudreaux in a run-off race on May 22. His swearing-in brings the House breakdown to 218 Republicans and 213 Democrats, allowing for just two GOP defections on party-line legislation.

Fong will now serve in Congress for the next seven months and have the incumbent advantage in the November election.

The Bakersfield Assemblyman is a former top aide of McCarthy, who retired in December after being ousted from the speakership, a role he worked his entire career to achieve and held for nine months.

McCarthy was present on the floor for Fong's swearing-in and was applauded by most Republicans - except his Freedom Caucus detractors as Fong thanked him.

Dr. Anthony Fauci made several stunning admissions during testimony before Congress Monday as Republicans sought to pin blame on him for pandemic-era blunders.

The hearing was a culmination of a years-long effort to find the origins of COVID, identify missteps during the response to the pandemic and get closure on the policies that restricted normal American life at the time.

But answers to those questions were hard to come by in the 3.5 hour hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Lawmakers yelled at each other and Dr. Fauci and tempers flared as Congress revisited one of the darker periods in recent memory.

From Nikki Schwab, Senior Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mainly dodged questions about Hunter Biden's trial when pressed by reporters on Monday night.

When asked if it would impact the president's ability to do his job, she said:

Absolutely not. Obviously the president is the president of the United States and he always put the American people first and is capable of doing his job.

I will point you to the president's statement, I know many of you have seen the statement but I will just read what the president put out, what we put out, on behalf of the president today.

She was then asked if Biden followed the coverage, to which she said: 'I appreciate the question. And I know it's going to be asked a million different ways, I just don't have anything to share. All I have to share with all of you is what we shared this morning is the president's statement.'

On Monday night, the leaders of the G7 nations released a joint statement backing President Joe Biden's plan that he says will lead to a ceasefire in Gaza.

We, the Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), fully endorse and will stand behind the comprehensive deal outlined by President Biden that would lead to an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages, a significant and sustained increase in humanitarian assistance for distribution throughout Gaza, and an enduring end to the crisis, with Israel’s security interests and Gazan civilian safety assured.

We reaffirm our support for a credible pathway towards peace leading to a two State solution.

We call on Hamas to accept this deal, that Israel is ready to move forward with, and we urge countries with influence over Hamas to help ensure that it does so.

Hunter Biden left court hand-in-hand with wife Melissa Cohen after a jury was selected in his federal gun trial.

The president’s son looked into her eyes as they left the Delaware courthouse, and will return on Tuesday for opening statements.

Hunter, 54, sat through the day while potential jurors were hit with questions about the Biden family, drug addiction and gun rights.

The majority of candidates admitted they knew the family, and some went as far to say they were acquainted to the Bidens.

The Trump-appointed judge in Hunter Biden's gun case recently doubled the sentence of a man who pleaded guilty for a similar firearms infraction.

Defendant Zhi Dong was sentenced to one year in prison by Judge Maryellen Noreika after prosecutors recommended he only serve six months.

Dong used a Delaware license and a Delaware address to buy 29 guns and transported them with another individual to California.

Since Dong was a first-time offender, pleaded guilty and was a lawful gun owner, prosecutors recommended the six month punishment.

Dong, they said, was also not the 'brains of this operation.'

Noreika thought otherwise and gave him jail time for a full year.

President Joe Biden's impending executive order cracking down on illegal immigration is expected to set limitations on how many migrants can cross the southern border every day.

The long-awaited executive action could be announced as early as Tuesday.

Reports based on interviews with those familiar with plans for the new policies claim that the border will be shut down once crossings reach 4,000 per day over the course of a week.

This would represent the single most restrictive border policy implemented by Biden since he took office in January 2021 – and comes after three-and-a-half years of pressure from Republicans for the White House to take action to address surging illegal immigration.

The full 12-person jury has been seated in Hunter's gun trial. Opening arguments are expected to begin on Tuesday.

The pool does not include the Biden family 'acquaintance' - a former police officer who said he has also met Joe multiple times.

The jurors were sworn in at 4:20 p.m. ET.

The numbers of jury selected were: 3, 5, 16, 19, 20, 26, 31, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39 and the four alternates include: 50, 52, 53, 65.

It consists of seven men and five women.

Donald Trump's campaign announced on Monday a huge $ 141 million fundraising haul for May.

The total includes $53 million raised online in the 24 hours after the former president was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the hush money trial.

Trump Campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said:

We are moved by the outpouring of support for President Donald J. Trump. The American people saw right through Crooked Joe Biden’s rigged trial, and sent Biden and Democrats a powerful message – the REAL verdict will come on November 5th,

President Trump raised $141 million this month because Americans remember the roaring economy, secure border, and peace through strength at home and abroad under Donald J. Trump, and we will return to prosperity and success when he is re-elected in November.

The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden would not attend a 'peace summit' scheduled in Switzerland with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but would send Vice President Kamala Harris instead.

The news is a blow to Zelensky who has publicly been pressuring Biden to attend the summit, planned for June 15-16 at the luxury Bürgenstock hotel after the G-7 summit meetings for world leaders in Italy.

Biden has other plans, as he is scheduled to leave the G-7 summit and return to Los Angeles for an A-list fundraiser with former President Barack Obama, actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

President Biden spoke with the Emir of Qatar on Monday and told him Israel is ready to move forward with the ceasefire deal with Hamas.

The White House released a readout of the call saying:

President Biden spoke today with Amir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani of Qatar.  They confirmed that the comprehensive ceasefire and hostage release deal now on the table offers a concrete roadmap for ending the crisis in Gaza.  The President confirmed Israel’s readiness to move forward with the terms that have now been offered to Hamas. 

The President emphasized that this is the best possible opportunity for an agreement, and that Hamas’ ongoing refusal to release hostages would only prolong the conflict and deny relief to the people of Gaza.  The President confirmed that the United States, together with Egypt and Qatar, would work to ensure the full implementation of the entire agreement.  

He urged Amir Tamim to use all appropriate measures to secure Hamas’ acceptance of the deal and affirmed that Hamas is now the only obstacle to a complete ceasefire and relief for the people of Gaza.  The President thanked the Amir and his senior team for their tireless efforts to secure the release of all hostages held in Gaza and agreed to remain closely coordinated over the coming days. 

California Democrat Maxine Waters raised eyebrows on Sunday with claims about supporters of former President Donald Trump after he was found guilty by a New York jury in his 'hush money' trial.

Waters appeared on MSNBC with host Jonathan Capehart warning that the former president and supporters pose a dangerous threat to the country.

'I'm worried that he's so divisive and that he's talking about retribution, and they're talking about revenge and I think that that's dangerous. He's even mentioned civil war at one point, talked about there would be bloodshed,' Waters said.

Donald Trump gave an update on his son Barron's future plans after his youngest son graduated from high school last month.

The ex-president did not reveal where his son would be headed to college in the fall, but he suggested it could be 'different' after the protests on campuses across the country.

Trump's comments came in an interview with Fox & Friends over the weekend. It was his first sit down after being conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

'What about Barron? People are starting to focus on Barron recently,' said co-anchor Will Cain in the expansive interview.

'He's amazing actually in a certain way. You know, he's tall, good looking guy. He’s a very good student,' Trump responded.

The jury selection process also laid bare the impact of the opioid crisis in Wilmington, Delaware, with over a dozen potential jurors saying they had relatives with drug issues.

Numerous potential jurors also said they owned guns themselves and several had concealed carry permits.

Neither relatives with drug issues nor gun ownership proved to be automatic grounds for being excused as a potential juror.

Several were excused because they had medical issues, children to take care of, holidays booked, or strong beliefs about gun ownership and the Second Amendment.

From DailyMail.com's Nick Allen inside court

At least two of those dismissed knew the Bidens personally.

One said he used to play squash with Hunter’s late brother Beau, and his wife was good friends with Beau’s widow Hallie.

The squash player was dismissed from the jury pool.

Another potential juror told the court he used to work with Jill Biden.

From DailyMail.com's Nick Allen inside court

As the court broke for lunch Hunter Biden left his seat at the defense table and headed straight to Jill Biden in the public seating area.

The First Lady hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.

Earlier, as Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned potential jurors, Hunter sipped from a bottle of water and read through sheets of paper handed to him by his lawyer Abbe Lowell.

By the middle of the day the court had selected over 30 potential jurors and alternates who will later be whittled down even further.

Several jurors told the court they had heard a lot about the case already because Delaware is a ‘small place’.

Kevin McCarthy defended Maryland's GOP Senate candidate, Gov. Larry Hogan, after he called for Americans to respect the judicial process after the Trump conviction. He argued Hogan, a centrist, is the only Republican who could win in blue Maryland.

'If you want to win back the Senate, you want to be on offense, expand the playing field. If Larry Hogan was not running in Maryland, it wouldn't even be a contest. You want Democrats to have to spend money. I think people should take a deep breath, actually reread what Larry hogan said in the process. It wasn't an anti-Trump comment,' he said on Fox News on Monday

'He's proven he can win in that state, a two-term governor. He's a conservative in the process, and if you want to win the Senate, you've gotta be playing in all these things.'

It came after RNC co-chair Lara Trump said over the weekend that Hogan 'doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party.' Trump campaign advisor Chris LaCivita told Hogan on X he 'ended [his] campaign' with his comments.

Before the verdict was delivered, Hogan had written on X: 'Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process.'

Twelve out of the 34 people questioned so far in the pool have been excused.

In a lighter moment on a day of heavy political news, a child stole the limelight from a Republican congressman speaking on the House floor.

Tennessee Republican John Rose was delivering a speech when a child sat behind him started pulling faces to the camera.

There have been 25 potential jurors moved to the 'pool' so far in Hunter's case, but none have been seated.

15 were dismissed.

Jury selection kicked off at 9 a.m. ET, and it is now nearly 1:30 p.m. ET.

The protestor had a visible gun in a holster on the side of his hip as he paraded outside court with an anti-Biden sign.

From DailyMail.com's Nick Allen in Delaware court:

The president's son occasionally donned a pair of peach-colored reading glasses to look at documents.

He whispered frequently to his attorney Abe Lowell who at one point put his hand on the back of Hunter's neck and hugged him.

Potential jurors were brought in one by one and stood in a corner of the courtroom next to a microphone about 20ft from Hunter Biden.

As Judge Maryellen Noreika asked them questions few of them looked across the room in the defendant's direction.

From DailyMail.com's Nick Allen in Delaware court:

Hunter Biden looked teary-eyed as he was hugged by First Lady Jill Biden and his half-sister Ashley Biden during a mid-morning break in jury selection.

In turn the two women kissed Hunter on the cheek and embraced him after he stepped out of the well of the court and into the public seating area.

Jill and Ashley spent the morning sitting on the front row of the public benches directly behind Hunter at the defense table.

Ashley listened intently and occasionally leaned forward, taking notes with a red pencil and notebook.

The First Lady, dressed all in purple, showed little reaction or emotion.

That included when a former colleague of hers was called as a potential juror and appeared to look over several times in her direction.

In the cavernous wood-paneled courtroom Hunter Biden sat with his lawyer Abbe Lowell to his right.

Freshman Democrat Robert Garcia slammed Marjorie Taylor Greene for her 'ridiculous' attacks on Fauci.

He says this has been the most unruly conference in his 1.5 years in Congress.

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said at Monday's hearing that Fauci should be in prison.

She also claimed that his 'repulsive, evil science,' led to school children having to endure class with masks.

'We should be recommending you to be prosecuted ... for crimes against humanity,' the Georgia Republican continued.

Dr. Fauci said that he did not come up with the six-foot social distancing rule.

He claimed that guidance came from the CDC.

He also said that he disagreed that their position was rooted in established science.

President Joe Biden stopped to see Hallie Biden, the widow of the late Beau Biden and son Hunter's ex, on his way back to Washington D.C. last month, a week before the trial where she was expected to testify.

Biden spent about 15 minutes at her home in Wilmington, Delaware. His motorcade stopped there in route to the Delaware National Guard Station, where Biden would lift off on Marine One to return to the White House.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said the president didn't discuss the trial with Hallie Biden during the visit.

No,' he replied. 'He visited her because of the approaching 9th anniversary of Beau's passing.'

May 30th marked

the anniversary of Beau Biden's death from cancer.

First lady Jill Biden watched from the front of the courtroom as a prospective juror revealed he was her acquaintance.

The former police officer also said he met Joe Biden several times and had donated to the Republicans.

He said he was aware of two criminal cases against Donald Trump, which he described as ‘political’.

It’s unclear if he knew Jill Biden was in the court. He was allowed into the jury pool.

President Joe Biden has congratulated Mexico's president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum after her historic victory.

Sheinbaum, the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City, will become the country's first female president.

She will be working with Biden, and whoever wins in 2024, at a time when the border is one of the most dominant issues in the mind of US voters.

Biden said on Monday:

I congratulate Claudia Sheinbaum on her historic election as the first woman President of Mexico.  I look forward to working closely with President-elect Sheinbaum in the spirit of partnership and friendship that reflects the enduring bonds between our two countries.  I expressed our commitment to advancing the values and interests of both our nations to the benefit of our peoples.  I also congratulate the Mexican people for conducting a nationwide successful democratic electoral process involving races for more than 20,000 positions at the local, state, and federal levels.

Dr. Fauci appeared to get emotional when asked about the 'personal toll' his past role on the White House COVID Taskforce took on he and his family.

He slowed down, as did the hustle of reporters furious typing in the room, to touch on the threats his wife and three daughters have recieved.

'Myself, my three daughters, they have had credible death threats, leading to the arrests of different individuals.'

'Credible death threats meaning someone who clearly was on their way to killing.'

He said it has require his family to have 'Protective Services essentially all the time.'

'It's very troublesome to me,' he continued. 'It is even more troublesome because they involve my wife.'

A juror who admitted he had negative views of Hunter Biden was excused in the federal gun trial.

The man said he had seen a lot of news and social media posts that don't look kindly on the president's son.

An immigrant who told the court he doesn't have much familiarity with U.S. law and teaches classes at Delaware State University in the summer also said he would have difficulty.

He was also excused.

The pandemic patriarch Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before Congress Monday morning and submitted testimony that the research done in Wuhan using money from his agency did not constitute gain-of-function research because the pathogen they were engineering had not yet infected humans.

His bombshell admission came before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that has been seeking for over a year now to determine the origins of the pandemic that killed over a million Americans and millions more globally.

Fauci also sought to distance himself from his now-disgraced former top aide, Dr. David Morens, who conspired to cover-up emails from federal transparency laws.

The former NIAID Director also spoke about the threats made to his and his family's life because of his role as pandemic chief.

Palestinian health officials said Israeli strikes killed 11 people overnight into Monday, including a woman and three children, in central Gaza.

A strike on a home in the built-up Bureij refugee camp late Sunday killed four people, including the three children. A second strike early Monday killed seven people, including a woman, in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

The bombardments come days after U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel has offered Hamas a three-phase cease-fire and hostage release deal, declaring it was time to end the fighting in Gaza and that Hamas is 'no longer capable' of carrying out another large-scale attack on Israel.

A prospective juror qualified after admitting she once served Joe Biden's brother-in-law John 'Jack' Owens as a bartender.

She saw him in the hallway before proceedings began, and felt like she needed to inform the court.

Her best friend was in rehab three years ago and still attends Alcoholics Anonymous, but insisted it wouldn't impact her impartiality in the case.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was put on the spot after Republicans uncovered his top aide David Morens used personal email to conduct official business.

Fauci told Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., that he did not know about Morens’s emails and called his conduct 'unbecoming of a government official.'

I knew nothing about the Morens’s actions regarding EcoHealth.

Fauci went on to say Morens was not actually an adviser to him.

He also insisted that he never used personal email to conduct government business (contradicting what Morens said in emails).

From U.S. Politics Reporter Jon Michael Raasch on Capitol Hill:

Dr. Fauci arrived before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic coming in through a side door shortly after 10 a.m.

His entrance through a committee room helped him avoid the phalanx of press and people in hoping to catch a glimpse of the pandemic patriarch in the hallways.

Dawning a dark suit and tie, he raised his right hand, promised to tell the truth and sat back down.

The room is crowded with press, congressional aides, photographhers and a lucky view spectators - many of whom have notepads and laptops at the ready to document Fauci's testimony.

Dr. Fauci said that his organization, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), did not fund gain-of-function research, though he added a major caveat.

'The viruses studied under the NIAID-funded EHA sub-award to [Wuhan Institute of Virology] had never been shown to infect humans, much less to cause high transmissibility or significant morbidity and mortality in humans,' his prepared testimony stated.

It appeared he did not deliver them as they were submitted to the committee.

'Their study, therefore, could not and did not constitute GoF research,' it continued.

According to his testimony, since the pathogen being studied had not previously infected humans, therefore it was not gain-of-function.

Another potential juror was excused after saying she couldn’t be impartial.

She admitted that she heard about Hunter’s gun trial when ‘Biden was running for president’ and her opinion of the defendant’s father is ‘not a good one’.

Prospective jurors were asked about their views on gun rights and drug addiction during the screening process to get on the Hunter Biden jury.

The potential panel members were asked about if they had anyone in their family with a history of substance abuse issues and whether their schedule clashed with any key dates in the trial.

One candidate was stuck for cause because he said he could not be ‘impartial’.

‘I believe it’s a God-given right,’ he said about gun ownership.

A second juror qualified for the next phase of consideration, even though she admitted donating to Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign.

Dr. Fauci's prepared testimony says he did not 'to the best of his knowledge' conduct business using his personal email or phone.

His prepared remarks also claim that he did not know his top advisor - Dr. David Morens - used his personal email to avoid transparency laws.

Further, he denies knowing Morens's connection to EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak - whose organization was conducting coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) using millions in U.S. federal grant dollars.

Morens told the committee on May 22 that Daszak was his 'best friend' and that he, while still working as Fauci's advisor, edited EcoHealth documents and worked to restore funding to the group that was pulled by federal officials in the wake of the COVID outbreak.

Dr. Anthony Fauci walked into a Capitol Hill hearing room shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday morning ahead of a much anticipated hearing.

He sat before the panel of members on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic before its chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, began his opening remarks.

Republicans are expected to hold Fauci's feet to the flames on his understanding of how certain COVID-era rules, like six-foot social distancing and masking, came about, after his previous testimony revealed he did not have a firm grasp on the science backing those measures.

His testimony is expected to last several hours.

It's 10:00 a.m., and Dr. Fauci is in the hot seat. He is expected to be grilled over his handling of the COVID crisis years later.

His hearing comes after closed-door testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci was released.

He revealed he made up the six foot social distancing rule and other measures to 'protect' Americans from covid.

by Emily Goodin, Senior Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

The president issued a rare statement about his son Hunter as his gun trial kicks off in Delaware Monday.

I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. Hunter’s resilience in the face of adversity and the strength he has brought to his recovery are inspiring to us.

A lot of families have loved ones who have overcome addiction and know what we mean.

As the President, I don’t and won’t comment on pending federal cases, but as a Dad, I have boundless love for my son, confidence in him, and respect for his strength.

Our family has been through a lot together, and Jill and I are going to continue to be there for Hunter and our family with our love and support.

Peter Neal, Naomi Biden's husband and Jill's grandson-in-law, was also in court as part of Hunter's entourage on Monday morning.

Naomi wasn't by his side amid speculation she is pregnant.

Ashley Biden and Hunter's wife Melissa were also in court for the start of jury selection.

Hollywood lawyer and Hunter Biden's 'sugar brother', Kevin Morris, is with him in court today.

Morris is said to be 'tapped out' of cash after financially supporting Hunter's legal battles over the last four and a half years to the tune of $6 million.

Morris, 61, decided to step in after believing Hunter had little support, but he has since confirmed he is no longer going to continue to lend money to him to fight his battles.

The withdrawal of financial support for the president's son comes at the worst possible time for Hunter, 54, with two trials looming which could end up seeing him serve jail time.

Hunter Biden made sure his wife Melissa Cohen had a seat in the courtroom as he walked in.

Journalists have been barred from the main courtroom because of the number of potential jurors in the selection process.

Members of the media are not allowed electronic devices inside the court.

President Biden's former daughter-in-law is set to tie the knot, years after moving on from her husband Beau by infamously dating Hunter Biden.

Hallie Biden, 50, will walk down the aisle with Ohio financial broker John Hopkins Anning, 53, according to Page Six.

The nuptials could reportedly come as soon as this weekend, with a marriage license already emerging in Ohio's Hamilton County court records.

It comes five years after the end of her controversial fling with Hunter, and the 50-year-old is expected to be called as a witness in the president's son's upcoming trial on gun violations.

From Emily Goodin, Senior Political Reporter for DailyMail.com:

Jill Biden joined Hunter Biden in court on Monday to show her support for her stepson.

The first lady, wearing a purple pantsuit, was spotted walking into the courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware.

She and President Joe Biden changed their schedule to arrive in Wilmington on Sunday night instead of Monday as scheduled.

Monday is also Jill Biden’s birthday. She turns 73.

She has said numerous times she thinks Hunter Biden is innocent.

I think what they are doing to Hunter is cruel,' Jill Biden told MSNBC in November. 'I’m really proud of how Hunter has rebuilt his life after addiction. I love my son.'

Hunter Biden has arrived in court with his wife Melissa Cohen for jury selection in his historic gun trial.

The president’s son walked into the federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, without addressing the waiting media.

As he entered the building, he was embraced by two men who appeared to be part of his entourage.

A security guard asked if he had any computers or cables on him, to which he replied: ‘No’.

He placed his wallet on a table and then walked through a scanner.

The government said it has videos and photographs of Hunter Biden smoking crack or with drug paraphernalia as well as messages sent to purported street dealers arranging drug purchases.

The evidence was collected from Biden's iCloud account, laptop and phone messages, prosecutors have said.

The government said it may call Hunter Biden's ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, and other romantic partners to describe his addiction around the time of the gun purchase and possession.

Prosecutors said they plan to introduce excerpts from Biden's 2021 book, Beautiful Things, in which he described himself as a 'crack addict' with no plans beyond 'the moment-to-moment demands of the crack pipe.'

Releasing the audio recording of Joe Biden's bumbling interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur would make phony versions more believable, the Justice Department has claimed.

The White House is fighting a rearguard action to keep the tape secret after the president was described as an 'elderly man with a poor memory' by Hur during his investigation into the mishandling of classified documents.

A transcript revealed that the president forgot the year his son Beau died, when Trump was elected, and said 'I don't recall', 'I don't remember' and 'I have no goddamn idea' more than 100 times while cracking jokes and making car noises.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is preparing for a grilling on COVID today in Congress after damning testimony from an interview in January was revealed.

Republicans plan to grill him about COVID restrictions he put in place, that he admitted didn't do much to 'slow the spread' of the virus.

He also admitted that he 'made up' up the six-foot social distancing rule and other measures to 'protect' Americans.

Here are the other bombshell takeaways from his testimony as he gets set to face lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's live daily politics blog, with updates from Hunter Biden's gun trial in Delaware.

The president's scandal-plagued son will appear in court for jury selection, just days after Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan hush money case.

Hunter is accused of lying about his drug use when he purchased a gun and could face up to 25 years in federal prison if found guilty on all three charges.

Here is a rundown of all the evidence federal prosecutors plan to use.