trial testimony or has a family emergency or or something goes wrong in their personal life and they need to step off the case. they will go to the judge and ask permission. hopefully that never happens. but the alternative it s are sitting next to the jury while the trial is underway, they are hearing the same evidence that the sworn in jury panel is hearing, and they will be immediately available. well, two step in if needed i m glad you mentioned the process that we witnessed or at least read about it, turns a jury selection and evan alluded to this too, as well, jeremy, where in one case, in particular prospective alternate after or talking in started to cry. she asked to be dismissed after she said, quote, this is so much more stressful in her words than i thought these jurors without question, i could be under a ton of pressure and i think this morning we saw the emotion come
stylish, easiest pants around, dry news skechers, slip in pants, just slip in an experienced skechers, innovative comfort technology fabrics, sketch there s slip in pants no a live look inside the courthouse were a key hearing in the hush money case have been underway, judge, for sean just announcing sandoval hearing is complete. he will reserve his judgment for right now, but should have an answer. sure on monday, stacy schneider and jeremy saland are backed up right now. both defense attorney former prosecutor, in jeremy s case, stacy, back to you on the issue of the gag order because i am someone flomax, again, not a lawyer by someone having a gag order posting regularly on social media in a way that doesn t seem to imply, feels that constraint. but he did post earlier today, judge, for sean is railroading me in quotes. the he has gagged in quotes me so that i cannot talk about the most important topics, including his totally disqualifying conflict of interest and taking away my
there s two different types or we ll call it two different types of contempt or are violations of that gag order? one would be, for example, if it was in front of the judge and he could summarily say you have violated my the conditions of whatever i set forth and i can make a decision now. and then the 2nd, we re seeing here is it s not in his presence. and then we have that hearing and donald trump has a right to protect himself and respond to them and it has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. it can be a civil or it could be a criminal. here it would likely be criminal because it would be to punish him for his actions as opposed to making someone hold, for example, up to $1,000, up to 30 days in jail. i think the judge is delaying it, not because he doesn t think it s important, but i think because there s other practical things that we get bogged down with, you must be saying to himself, we re not going to move this case forward and you have to get this moving. otherwise, we re
courtroom. cnn s having perez and john miller join me now, evan own start with you because said last block that the sandoval hearing was over. there is still a back-and-forth. there s also a very intense back-and-forth during that sandoval hearing. what s happening? well, one of the things that s going on is that the trump team is trying to argue to try to exclude certain things and try to essentially re-litigate certain things that the judge has already decided and he s responding quite sharply. he s saying you re not go i don t want you to relitigate things decisions that i ve already made fruit, for instance, they wanted to there s a discussion right now about the access hollywood tape with judge had said you cannot play that tape, but you can make reference to it. and so the trump team is trying to have another go at that discussion. and so that s one of many things that upended the trump team wants to try to bring up again, and the judge is having none of this. he seems quite qu
now, trump s lawyers tried to once again to get the prosecutors to tell them who the first witness will be, that they ll call in the case the most prosecutor said they would do is tell them on sunday, and the prosecutor said, if former president in tweets or makes any comments about that witness, it will be the last time they give them a heads-up. wolf. all right. kara scannell in new york for us. thank you. other action in the trump courtroom today? arguments over whether prosecutors can bring up donald trump, his past legal issues if he chooses to testify. i want to bring in our senior legal analyst, elie honig, for a closer look. ellie walk us through the so-called sandoval hearing. well, we ll think of a sandoval motion as a warning shot. this is the way that prosecutors here in new york advise any criminal defendant in any case here in new york. if you take the stand, of course, we will cross-examine you about the actual charges, but we re also going to cross-examine you about