today on inside politics, a jury of the former president s peers. it is jury selection day in georgia. soon, whoever is picked will make a historic decision whether to charge donald trump with trying to sabotage the 2020 election results in georgia. and a deal for one ally, a diss from another. turkey relents and says yes to letting swede sboon the natun i alliance but ukraine with the big demand for respect and entering nato now and not later. plus, bad blood, donald trump said he has problems with iowa s governor. and another deep cut, we just learned that the front-runner will skip the headline event for iowa gop voters. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. and we start with grand jury selection in georgia. that panel is expected to consider charges against donald trump and his republican allies for trying to overturn the state s 2020 election. fulton county district attorney fani willis launched the investigation in 2021, shortly
it is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, a decision that dramatically reshapes the future of presidential power in this country. the supreme court ruling donald trump is partially shielded from prosecution in the january 6th case. the historic opinion by chief justice john roberts. plus, the scathing dissent from sonia sotomayor, calling the decision a loaded gun that basically makes the president a king. plus, what this all means for special counsel jack smith and when now might this case finally go to trial. our legal experts are standing by. we re also getting new reaction from the trump and biden campaigns. how will today s decision impact an already tumultuous presidential race. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. let s get right to nbc news legal correspondent lisa rubin. give us the big picture, what this means for presidential power and equal responsibility under the law? chris, t
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some of this closest allies in their efforts to overturn the election results here in georgia. and that grand jury will ultimately decide whether or not to bring indictment against the former president and some of his republican allies. we have a reporter inside, marshal cohen who tells us this jury pool is 96 from fulton county, many of you know is heavily democratic. 73% of voters here voted for joe biden in the 2020 election. i mentioned two grand juries will be selected today. they will consist of 26 jurors each. 16 for quorum, 12 of them will have to be in agreement for an indictment to be leveled, judge bernie who is presiding over the grand jury also presides over this section of the grand juries. he s going over to make sure if they have scheduling and hardships and some of those valid excuses that he says will be allowing some of jurors not to serve, include being 70 years
mueller s prosecutor andrew wiseman has argued that know he has accepted responsibility, he has lied, also emphasizing that even though manafort argued he was not the leader of the conspiracy, that in fact he was. so you re hearing from both defense and prosecutors in this case. just to paint a picture of what s going on inside, paul manafort arrived no ed today in wheelchair. he was wearing a suit unlike last week when we saw him in prison scrubs. our reporter inside said he looks thinner and he looks gray. much different view from many folks who have not seen paul manafort publicly. he wears these nice suits, was always clean cut, wore nice ties. he is wearing a suit today and a purple tie. but she did notice how thin he looked and how gray his hair was. so we re getting some color.