Selection in trumps Hush Money Case has taken a dramatic turn. The lead starts right now the shocking actions that lead to, to jurors suddenly dismissed and unusual occurrence. What this might mean for Opening Statements which the judge had thought could start part as soon as monday plus namecalling and fresh threats, House Speaker johnson was physically cornered On The House Floor, pinned Against The Wall by hardright republican in is demanding that he keeps his hands off. The rule that as of right now allows just one member of congress to force a vote to remove him as speaker the house adjourn today before anybody could make a move will tell you all about it and arrests at Columbia University protests new york city, just one day after that schools president testified before congress about antisemitism on campus. Were going to go to columbia, live welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper and we start today in our lawn justice lead with a dramatic day in the courtroom during the third day o
threatened or intimidated, and the judge wants to prevent that at all costs and one of the things that he wouldn t be pointing to most assuredly it s through social media posting. as you can recall, wolf back on truth social just on wednesday, the former president quoted and attributed to fox news host jesse water here s the following statement in quotation marks, quote, they are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge in order to get on the trump jury unquote. now of course, there s no evidence to substantiate that particular claim. remember, the very next day, there was a juror who then said that she could no longer be impartial, did not want to be on the jury because she felt that some aspect of her anonymity had been compromised. now, these two might be tangentially related, but it s enough for a judge to have some pause over what is said. and this will be the key in part for that gag order motion hearing on tuesday or laura coates, stick around. there s more we ne
is the prospect for a witness or a juror to be threatened or intimidated, and the judge wants a bent that at all costs. and one of the things that he wouldn t be pointing to most assuredly, is through social media posting. as you can recall, wolf back on truth, social so just on wednesday, the former president quoted, attributed to fox news host jesse watters, the following statement in quotation marks, quote, they are catching undercover for liberal activists, lying to the judge in order to get on the trump jury unquote. now, of course, there s no evidence to substantiate that particular claim. remember, the very next day there was the juror who then said that she could no longer be in did not want to be on the jury because she felt that some aspect of her anonymity had been compromised. now these two might be tangent generally related, but it s enough for a judge to have some pause over what is said. and this will be the key in part for that gag order motion hearing on tuesday her la
after four days of jury selection in a trial like this, it seemed preposterous and it has to me since the beginning. well we re on track there, but where are we now? right? i think so. let me ask you, so trump s under a gag order in this case, he s prohibited from making or directing others to make public statements about any prospective juror or any juror in this criminal proceeding, among among other people, he s not allowed to talk about trump posted this quote from foxes jesse waters on truth, social last night, it s jesse water saying quote, there catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge in order to get on the trump jury unquote is that a violation? it s reprehensible and the judge is going to determine whether it s a violation of steps really close to that line, no specific jurors. those pick jurors much, but prospective jurors. and now, was it people who already been released? it wasn t people who were in the pool. now the question is, what does the judge d
tonight, a social media post from donald trump that s raising a lot of questions about whether he violated the gag order. it is hush money case. he s quoting fox host jesse watters saying this. they are catching undercover liberal activists line to the judge in order to get on the trump jury unquote. now, that s completely unsubstantiated in charge. you do realize but does it also violate the gag order? i want to bring in formal power prosecutor, renato mariotti, renato, so glad you re here. i mean, frankly this question has been looming for some time. will he violate the gag order? has way he s done so far violate the gag order. now, this is opposed to truth social. there s absolutely no evidence of the fact that there are somehow these leaper jurors. so that s been a question people have had. but the gag order prohibits trump from doing this. let s read it for everyone to see what it s actually on the table here it prohibits that him from making or directing others to make public