in jury selection in the question and the answers today, he was he was slipping through papers on the desk keep. but then when his lawyer for started questioning the jurors and asking about their views of donald trump. he was very engaged. again, he had turned his chair again. he was craning his neck. he was looking to the look at the jurors as they were speaking and giving their opinions of him. there we re not as many people today in the jury box for the alternatives that had as strong of opinions as we heard in the prior days of the questioning, but they did challenge a few on their social media post going back several years but a lot of the jurors in the wells said that they either had neutral views of him or they didn t essentially didn t have any real strong views. and so this alternate process actually went pretty quickly once they got to the point where they had gone through all of the vor, deer and all of the questioning of 20 two jurors that were in the box, but he was defini
empaneled jury history has been made. the first ever former president to face criminal trial. it is moving ahead. we now have an eye toward me. monday where the judge is expecting to begin opening arguments. now, as that was happening, we were talking about that news. laura was talking about that news. that is when this person appear to set themselves on fire just outside the courthouse, will of course, continue to monitor that news and bring you the latest details as we get them. but we do want to focus on what was happening in cord we have with us cnn legal correspondent chiefly will correspondent paul read, also cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers, apollo. first to you, we are anticipating the sandoval hearing this afternoon and effectively, this is going to detail what aspects of donald trump s legal history could be entered into this case? yeah, this could be pretty fiery given the circumstances. here are the increasing tensions between prosecut
president trump and his criminal history. and what if he takes the stand, he can be asked about cnn s laura coates is outside the new york courthouse okay. laura, we now look ahead to this afternoon& for monday when we re we re expecting opening arguments i mean, history is being made as you know, this is a former president united states on trial criminally about 15 floors above us right here outside of a manhattan courtroom there are 18 jurors who will be impacted, and panel that includes six alternates. and of course, the 12 jurors who were already 2nd to be the ones to deliberate now, those alternative would be very important still, because those alternatives will likely or might be high opportunity to actually deliberate in full. i want to get now to kara scannell, who has been in and out of the courtroom all day today on this wealth frankly, a surreal de, but one of the surreal aspects of this includes an american president on trial, and he has been closely watching all the ta
i think it absolutely does. it is not normal for jurors to get emotional sometimes prospective jurors get annoyed, right? that they re going to have to sit and not go to work or do whatever they normally do. but i think it s just shows the pressure that they will be under the safety concerns they may have. the fact that for the rest of their lives, they will be public persona s at least even if people don t know their names, right, they will have participated in a historic event and then not to mention the pressure of deciding the first criminal case ever against a former president. so i think that it s not surprising that people are concerned about serving emotional about concerns are conserving anxious about serving, and all of those things. and i think we may continue to see that i m afraid we haven t seen the last of a juror saying, i m not sure i can do this that may happen even after the trial starts, which is why it s a good thing that the judge and panel six alternates jenn
threatening to oust him what would you like to see in that regard i think there just needs to be repercussions we cannot have or allow this conference and especially in a committee like rules where historically they tell us that the rules committee does what the what the conference asieh and especially what the speaker asked. that s not happening and our conference is it are the ones that s losing. so we need to make sure that we, that there are repercussions for those who detract from the best wishes and the thoughts and the concerns of our conference i think that s fair. yeah. congressman anthony d esposito, we really do appreciate your time. thanks so much thank you much more to come on. our breaking news today. a full jury seated in the historic criminal hush wanting trial, donald trump, we re going to talk about the political fallout of that. that s this is a travel show visit my fans you can t buy that kind of propaganda