to put anything they have aside and focus on the evidence and the arguments and render a fair decision by starting out neutral. paul, what s your reaction to what s happening inside that courtroom? i mean, again, these are not people who at least initially are going to be on the jury. these are alternates, and what are the chances that an alternate would ever even statistically get into the jury room, the deliberation room? yeah, so part of that is how long the trial lasts. this is a six-week trial. that s how long it s expected to be. that s kind of long. it wouldn t be surprising if one of the regular jurors has some kind of emergency where she has to step down. that s why there are six alternates here. and the concerns that these people are expressing, they re not unusual in high profile cases. jurors often have strong opinions. chris, i ve never seen anything quite like the level of these concerns and the emotion here
on friday. the trial will go forward on monday, but there still got to be the sandoval hearings. part of it depends on how long that hearing takes. and as i ve mentioned before, there s six new folks on the jury, so over the weekend both sides will be poring over their social media, googling them, trying to find anything that might suggest some bias that was overlooked in the voir dire process. remember on thursday we started out with seven juror, and we ended up with only five of those who are now impanelled to serve. so i do think that the trial is the jury selection process went very quickly. the judge runs an efficient, orderly courtroom, so almost certainly the trial will start at some point early next week. all right, let me go back to yasmin vossoughian, and yasmin,
listen, there s a lot of intensity inside the courtroom, and now it seems like there s plenty of intensity outside the courtroom. reporter: there is.e there is. i just want to kind of give you an update, i know that we re following what s happening inside theth courtroom. i do want to give you an update out here, seeing chris, because i do think it s important. as you mentioned, as i talked about earlier, we have no idea if what just took place in front of me has any connection to what happened inside that courtroom over the last couple of days anv the ongoing hush money trial with the former president of the united states. but i wanthe to reiterate to fos what i just saw, which is an individual setting himself on fire just about 50 feet away from me. as we learned thatt a full jur had been impanelled in the hush money case involving a former president of the united states. he is currently moving, as security professionals and now new york fire department and nypd have allyo showed u
himself on fire, and i am looking at this now. we don t have cameras trained on this individual, but it is unbelievable to see, chris. my gosh. is it over in an area, yasmin where he has now collapsed. he is about he is about 50 feet away from me, chris. he has now collapse on the ground. we have security running to this man, trying to put h their coatn him to put the flames out. he has set himself on fire and is now shaking it seems as the fire is being put out by security personnel who have surrounded this individual. they have now put the fire out, chris, as this man is just lying there, it seems having lit himself on fire in this very moment, and i want to reiterate to folks that are watching this, we don t know if this has any connection to what just took place in the courtroom behind us with this jury now being
saying, quote, i have to be honest, i feel so nervous and anxious right now. i m sorry. i thought i could do this. i wouldn t want someone who feels this way to judge my case. i thought i could do this. she was in tears upon leaving the courtroom. another juror saying can i approach the bench to talk separately with the judge. i feel like through this line of questioning i m getting anxiety and self-doubt. this is the level of pressure and the focus with donald trump sitting 30 feet away from them that these potential jurors are facing. for those filling out this jury box, there s little reason to believe over the course of the next six, eight weeks of this trial that those individuals will be feeling that not only inside of the courtroom but as you noted, these are family members and friends and colleagues who are becoming aware that these individuals are playing such a critical role in the trial, not only of former president, but a presumptive republican nominee to be the next one as