do what we ve seen him do quite a lot of which is little bit for the prosecution, little bit for the defense. and then that ll inform donald trump s decision whether he s going to testify. i am still a solid absolutely not. but this may further that decision. joe jones, do you see anything wrong with the speed or the proceedings so far no, i don t see anything wrong at all. anderson and as i said, last evening, i think any responsible judge is going to try to move this case forward. you have to be concerned about the jurors time and the outside noise that s taking place. i commend judge merchan for getting the jury picked this week. i don t see that that creates a problem at all. perception may be that it s going too fast. this is typical of a trial. when, you know, you re gonna be seated for maybe a month or month-and-a-half. you need to get busy. i mean, you re taking time out of people s lives and it only makes sense to get started jill, we heard about potential jurors crying,
that you re seeing at the moment. now, we understand there is an investigation in team on the scene. there has been material losses that have been injuries, at least three injured were hearing at this point, it s not clear though whether this was an act accidental, whether this was an attack. we don t know that at this point, but the very fact that we have had denials already just goes to show the tensions in this region at the moment, anderson, israel doesn t often offer these denials for for, for, for this kind of incident. but the fact that an israeli official has felt that they have to say that israel was not involved in this just goes to show the tensions of the moment. of course, it just comes hours after israel didn t carry out that retaliatory strike against an army base in iran as well. the us also saying that they don t have any involvement. there us troops in iraq at this point, part of this multinational mission to try and beat to
procedural votes, which historically have always been done along party lines. and so that is nude and sparked some new calls to oust johnson from the speakership today, a third republicans that s paul gosar of arizona, announced that he was officially signing on the motion to vacate the speakership now, for his part, speaker mike johnson has been defiant. he said he s not worried about losing his job, especially if it means doing the right thing, but just given the mouth and given the margins it s likely that johnson is going to me to rely on democrats to help bail him out if this motion to vacate does come to the floor. and what did the democratic sen. because congressman ro khanna was on scene and the other night said, even though he disagrees with speaker johnson so many issued. he d seriously consider voting to defeat the motion to vacate yes. so democratic leaders have not yet committed to bailing out johnson, but behind the scenes, anderson, i can tell there is a lot of inter
defamed carroll when will the judge actually decide if prosecutors can ask the former president about his past legal cases so judge number sean said that he would rule on this on monday, likely before opening statements get underway, know trump s lawyer also tried, again to try to learn who the prosecution s first witnesses who they expect to call after openings. prosecutor said that he would give them the name on sunday, but if it showed up on social media, it would be the last time anderson curves no, thanks. joining us now is johnny jones the third former chief judge for the us middle district court of pennsylvania. with me here is john miller, former new york deputy police commissioner for intelligence and counter terrorism, cnn senior legal analyst elie honig, and jury consultant jill huntley, taylor. so first of all, we re waiting on the judge to rule about what they can asked him about how much they can ask about past cases. when do you think that s going to happen and how likel
case. and that is a problem. and you could have juror show up and admit that they did it. that s why you have alternatives. but it is a tough aspect to a trial when there s a long weekend, gelatin. does that add i mean, if a juror is sequestered, i assume that would add to the stress of it there away from their families so there are different kinds of stress, right? you re taking away some stress and you re adding a different one. and it also suggests that some jurors may not be able to be sequestered. some of the jurors who already seated. they might have an issue with being away from their family. in a greater way than they currently are. so i would be concerned that some of them would would we have to go judge jones, the former president said again today that he intends to testify. do you think that could change once the judge actually rules and which of his past legal run-ins can be introduced as evidenced are or do you think him just talking that no defense attorney would allow