straight from the source tonight. please be seated. the 12 new yorkers decide the fate of a former president of the united states. now criminal defendant, a roller coaster day in court ends with a jury of his peers now picked in the case of the people of the state of new york vs donald j. trump. what we ve learned tonight with opening statements as soon as monday also, why prosecutors or refusing to tell the defense who their first witness these are the judge appearing to agree that the former president s simply can t be trusted for certain to contain himself. and the kennedys versus a kennedy six of rf okay. juniors, old siblings, very publicly snubbed their brother and endorsed joe biden for reelection. my source tonight is rfk junior sister, kerry kennedy. is it a family feud? or just plain politics? i m john king and for kaitlan collins, this is the source a
climate change. this is new car business blue carbon yes, need to protect nature will do the rest corbin plus cnn filled sunday at nine we re, heading for opening statements in donald trump s criminal trial as soon as monday. and because of that, something very interesting happened right near the end of court today. the defense asked prosecutors to share their list of the first witnesses and the district attorney s office refused, which is their right. and they cited as the reason the defendant trump and his previous attacks on the witnesses, he he s gone after, among others, michael cohen and stormy daniels. trump s team tried to assure the judge that the former president would keep quiet about the witnesses, but the judge wasn t buying it, telling trump s lawyer, quote, i don t think you can make
to get them off the jury. i call merchant coward surprise to you. would you have done that? would you have stet stood up and said, wait, number one, even tell the truth. number two taking it out political science, most of them are republican apparently 30 years ago. what s that s the issue. the issue is the dishonest do not being candid. i mean, that s not something you forget to disclose. so believe me, this is not over both sides and particularly the defense are going to continue to look into these jurors backgrounds to see if there s anything else that they forgot to disclose and don t overlook the alternate we re going into the ultimate it s tomorrow. i predict not all of these jurors are going to make it through several week trial. the alternate are going to be absolutely critical here. so tastes hasn t started yet, but from the, from day one and 11, pretrial stuff, you re making notes. if you re the defense team in case donald trump is convicted, what might we appeal first, i
rough start but then rapid progress on day three, rough because two jurors previously seated in donald trump s historic hush money trial were stunningly dismissed. a new york criminal court quickly though, made up for lost time, not only filling those two law seats but also picking five more jurors to round out the full panel of 12, seven menn, and five women. one also nurture, also selected before the court wrapped for the day the search goes on for more jurors tomorrow. we don t know all the specifics about why those two jurors were excused. one, though, did raise concerns that part of her identity was being shared publicly prosecutors race concerned about the other juror, the judge did not make public the ultimate reason for letting him go. what we do know is that trump made it through the whole process today without getting scolded by the judge like he did on tuesday for monitoring allowed and potentially intimidating some of those jurors he was said to be in gross with the process
remember, the only discretion that we got from the judge was used common sense at certain points. so people s versions of common sense are very different when it comes to what you do in terms of the media. so you should expect these right-wing or me social media followers to be pushing this forward to that point. excellent art of the segway. we talked about juror number 11 with the attorneys earlier. she had bedded. that s like trump s persona. teddy seems very selfish, very self-serving knowing trump as well as you do, how hardest him for him to sit there and listen to that from a job? for and he s from florida and aly moved to florida, but from a fellow new yorker. well, just remember that donald trump has not been a room with someone who s going to say no to him more insult him for decades now, he purposely surrounds himself by people with people who are even the people who now say that when he was in the administration, that they tried to stop them from doing things many of those