Straight from the source tonight. Please be seated. The 12 new yorkers decide the fate of a former president of the United States. Now criminal defendant, a Roller Coaster day in court ends with a jury of his peers now picked in the case of the people of the state of new york vs donald j. Trump. What weve learned tonight with Opening Statements as soon as monday also, why prosecutors or refusing to tell the defense who their first witness these are the judge appearing to agree that the former president s simply cant be trusted for certain to contain himself. And the kennedys versus a kennedy six of rf okay. Juniors, old siblings, very publicly snubbed their brother and endorsed joe biden for reelection. My source tonight is rfk junior sister, kerry kennedy. Is it a family feud . Or just plain politics . Im john king and for kaitlan collins, this is the source a rough start but then rapid progress on day three, rough because two jurors previously seated in Donald Trumps historic Hush Mo
as much as they formed an opinion about trump they likely have one about stormy daniels, the likely have one about michael cohen. in fact, one says he follows him on twitter and he s on the case. oh, sorry. x. x. so this is first a legal question, but it s also a political question. it s a question about how judge are sean is proceeding quick briefly. all right. we ve got through various selection. they tell what the hiccups today says. we want to start as early as monday. it says he won t give them tuesday off the trump team wanted that passover is monday night into 2s into tuesday. he said no we re going to proceed. so from is that his style from a legal standpoint, number one and number two, does this factor into it all that trump doesn t want to be here, but now he is. and now that he is in a new york courtroom, there approaches. let this go on as long as we possibly can, because once it s done, there are other trials and so he s trying, to trying to delay everything. this one he
in the jury box as they gave their answers when he left the courtroom, an attempt to sway a different jury voters all day on a trial that really is a very unfair child stories from legal experts is wall street journal editorial. but all of these are stewards legal action sitting have this is not a case spread across the rubicon indicting trump on that says the lopping out foreign age and trump s indictment the whole world is watching. this helps he brought props today, an arm full of papers, articles, he claims back up his arguments that the cases week or worse that actually went on and on and on for a couple of minutes. he complained. yes, he complained about the temperature in the courtroom and also about the trial taking him off the campaign trail but according to him, all his legal
coach of the kids baseball team and you didn t put an axon and so she doesn t like he would be off the jury. that s that annoys me. that bothers me. and that s not cool and i can see the jury consultant person, but it s not any other case. you re not going to find 12 people who don t know about. you like to say that? i really don t have but opinion. there s people who don t know social media is people don t follow the news. you got a woman hears is i don t like the guy more people left. well, i might not my cup of tea but you heard the judge and cases, you know, that judges will try to rehabilitate in a sense, the jury because they know they ve got a finite number of people who are going to perform hundreds of people for your correct. but the same token, if the judge has all right. knowing that can you put that aside? now, i agree. if i were defense council, that would not make me comfortable, but the judge essentially knowing what we ve had very little secret in jury selection. a
yeah, it s it s it s been made a problem and the press was pointed out as being a source of that issue. i now of course, cnn has gone to great lengths to ensure that we are able to both preserve the opportunity for the public to understand the case and know about it and balanced against the anonymity reasons. but there s also a thing called prior restraint i know the judge wants to be able to say you ve got to be very cautious about what you disclosed because i have a jury and a trial. we also one thing that you can t necessarily tell the press. you cannot publish something in advance. it s public knowledge information, but it s always been viewed as balancing test between what you can say in the public square and also preserving the right to a fair trial and that includes a jury who doesn t feel intimidated. the second juror who was sent home a santos by the judge after prosecutors raised concerns that he was not honest, did not disclose during the questioning process that 30, 70 th