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and donald trump s lawyers can get into that if if that were to come up but the thing that all of those three categories of evidence that ali described having common is they all concern his honesty, his truthfulness is reliability, right? the defamation is about him lying about e. jean carroll, the civil fraud case is about him lying about his financial assets, the frivolous hillary clinton lawsuit is about him being reckless with regard to the truth all of those things, i do think would bear on a defendant s credibility if they took the stand, if he takes the stand, do you think the judge will allow all that to come up? i think most, if not all, real, very interesting. kristen, or why do you think trump is so insistent on testifying, taking the stand, even though his lawyers probably you re telling him don t do it. i m not sure that he s as its early so insistent on taking the stand. i think he s so insistent on saying that he might take the stand. donald trump wants to contro
and provide a lot of entertainment. the question i have in the last minute or so we have is how this trial and its verdict could impact the slate of other trials that have yet to have dates set but certainly could happen in this calendar year. so one interesting thing that is going to come up, should donald trump testify, which seems unlikely unless he is going to go forward and cause chaos, but, you know, assuming if he were, the prosecutors have made a motion that various other lawsuits, verdicts in other lawsuits, should come up. he can be cross-examined about these other lawsuits, other liabilities. e. jean carroll, the civil fraud case, all of those will come back, and he will be forced to reckon with those if he testifies. as to the other lawsuits going forward, certainly any sentence
juror selection process. it is a plain violation of the gag order. he s not allowed to make or direct others to make statements about jurors or prospective jurors under the order. isn t that part and parcel to them being delayed to get to the trial? as long as we re talking about the juror stuff, we re not talking about the actual case, right? right. i don t expect there to be a lot of back and forth on this. it ll be one of the first items taken up by the court, but there s going to be due process. you re going to have both sides have to brief this, but i do think that the judge is going to tell him to knock it off. i do think the judge will also tell him, take down the post while this is briefed, so he can issue a decision. and i expect you ll see sanctions. the other thing you ve been saying, too, is the judge and prosecutors are openly talking about jail in this case, but if convicted, that are the chances the former president is actually
process gets under way in a new york city courtroom. court was off today, so today s session picks up after seven jurors were seated tuesday. five more jurors and six alternates must now be chosen. ahead of today s session, donald trump went on a tirade about jury selection yesterday, seemingly misunderstanding the rules for dismissing or striking potential candidates. trump writing, quote, i thought strikes were supposed to be unlimited when we were picking our jury? i was then told we only had ten, not nearly enough when we were purposely given the second worst venue in the country. under new york law, each side has an unlimited number for strikes for cause, but the judge presiding over the case, juan merchan, can decide whether or not the cause is worthy of a strike. because trump is charged with a class e felony, a lower level felony, he and prosecutors are entitled to ten preemptory challenges each for potential jurors they can dismiss. joining us to break it on down further is fo