Before finishing his direct questioning of Hallie Biden, prosecutor Leo Wise had two text messages to introduce. One was from Hallie to Hunter Biden, that said “I just went into library and sitting next to Hunter was your brown leather pouch with a stem in it." Hunter in this case is a reference to her son's name and "stem" is a word for drug paraphernalia.

She testified that Hunter Biden had multiple brown leather pouches over this time period.

Wise also introduced a final text from Hunter Biden to Hallie Biden on Jan. 28, 2019, where he brings back up her decision to throw the gun away, suggesting her move could have caused someone to shoot their sibling’s head off. 

Before the break, prosecutors asked Hallie Biden if Hunter Biden found out himself that the gun was missing or if she told him.

“I did not tell him,” Hallie said. “I was just going to pretend like it wasn’t me.”

After she texted him “call me” with several exclamation points, she said that they did, in fact, speak on the phone, and that all she could remember was that “he was angry with me.”

Hallie Biden testified about two of the most important messages to the government’s case, an Oct. 13 text about waiting for a “dealer named Mookie” in Wilmington, and another on Oct. 14 in which Hunter Biden wrote, “I was sleeping on a car smoking crack."

These texts are the government’s clearest pieces of evidence that Hunter Biden was using drugs in October.

What did Hallie understand that Hunter Biden was buying? Wise asked, referring to the Oct. 13 text about the dealer. 

Hunter Biden has been watching Hallie Biden's testimony very carefully, perching his head on his right fist.

During one of the earlier sidebars with gun store employee Gordon Cleveland, Hunter wrote a note and left it on the podium for his lawyer Abbe Lowell to read.

Prosecutors displayed text messages between Hallie and Hunter Biden in which he used the old number of his ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle.

“You ok? Where are you, truthfully,” Hallie Biden texted him on Oct. 13, 2018, before she found the gun.

It's notable because one of the ways the defense has attempted to preemptively undercut Hallie's testimony is by suggesting the president’s son would lie to her when he didn’t want to see her; this exchange implies Hallie Biden was aware that Hunter Biden would sometimes lie to her.

Hallie Biden said that after leaving the store, she went home and was uncertain as to whether Hunter Biden was there at the time she left, but she seemed to recall that he was not there when she got back.

“I remember him telling me to go back and file a police report,” she said.

She said at some point he found out she had thrown the gun away and he told her, “First, go look for it." But, she said, "when I went to go look for it, I couldn’t find it." Hunter Biden told her to file the police report because the gun was in his name.

Prosecutor Leo Wise introduced the leather pouch into evidence and displayed it for the jury. He also introduced surveillance camera video of Hallie Biden throwing away the gun at the grocery store up the street from her house. 

She said she couldn’t remember exactly what she did after throwing away the bag with the gun inside. “I was just so flustered from the whole thing,” she testified. “I realize it was a stupid idea now, but I was just panicking.”

Wise then displayed a surveillance video of her entering the grocery store. In the video, she stands by the fridge closest to the store’s entrance for about a minute. She did not appear to buy anything. 

Hallie Biden testified about finding Hunter Biden’s gun in his car and throwing it away in a trash can outside a grocery store. 

Hallie says that when she found the gun and ammo, she “panicked” and “wanted to get rid of them.”  “I didn’t want him to hurt himself or my kids to find it and hurt themselves,” she said. She said she considered hiding the gun but didn’t because she thought one of her kids might find it in the house. 

"I was afraid to, kind of, touch it,” she said, as to why she placed the gun and ammo inside Hunter’s leather pouch. Initially, she had tried to put the gun in a shopping bag, but it didn’t quite fit and a part was sticking out. She then looked around the car for something else to put the gun in, found the leather pouch, put the gun and ammo in there and then placed the pouch back inside the shopping bag. 

Wise introduced the pouch into evidence and displayed it for the jury. He also introduced surveillance camera video of Hallie throwing away the gun at the grocery store up the street from her house. 

Hallie said she couldn’t remember exactly what she did after throwing away the bag with the gun inside. “I was just so flustered from the whole thing,” she testified. “I realize it was a stupid idea now, but I was just panicking.”

Prosecutors are asking Hallie Biden to walk through Oct. 23, 2018 — the day she found the gun in Hunter’s truck.

She said he arrived at her house on the morning of Oct. 23. “I didn’t know where he was and I’d been trying to reach him for weeks,” she said. “He was tired, exhausted, looked like he hadn’t slept,” she said of Hunter’s condition that morning.

Hallie says he quickly went to bed when he arrived at her house. At that point, Hallie testified, she went to clean up his car. “Hoping we could help him start anew and deal with stuff,” she said of her motive to search the car.

In the car, Hallie testified she found “trash, clothes, some remnants of crack,” and “paraphernalia.” Wise then asked if that was it. “Oh, and the gun, obviously,” Hallie said.