For talking about the eclipse with us. Thank you all for for joining us tonight. Seen a news night with abby phillip starts right now why donald trump is nothing like Nelson Mandela. Thats tonight on these lines good evening. Im abby phillip in new york tonight donald trump comparison that crumbles when confronted with common sense the former president believes he is being persecuted by prosecutors. And for that reason, hes claiming that there are similarities between Nelson Mandelas plight and his own. Trump wrote this on truth, social if this partisan hack wants to put me in the clink for speaking, the open and obvious truth. I will gladly become a modernday Nelson Mandela. Well, for starters, im really not sure anyone has asked that of him, but you might also recall that this is not the first time that trump has made this very comparison. They hound them and they scare them and theyve, but we dont get scared. We dont get scared. Ill tell you what i dont mind being. Nelson mandela, because im doing it for a reason. Trump wants to lay claim to mandelas mantle without actually understanding who mandela was or the reasons why mandela suffered lets start with just the circumstances as they are today. Trump is not a prisoner unless you consider maralago or bedminster or Seven Springs or trump tower, or a pen suite very, very expensive luxury cells mandela spent 27 years in Robben Island alone in an eight by eight cell, he referred to his incarceration as unpleasant, which is a Masterclass In Understatement life there left mandelas eyes damaged. Its why he wore sunglasses and photographers were warned against using Flash Photography around him mandela lived nearly three decades. Theyre serving time for high treason. All for protesting the racist apartheid system. Meanwhile, trump hes facing 88 counts and four separate jurisdictions for trying to steal a president ial election or for trying to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels mandela was released in 1990 and he won the presidency in 1994 he was freed and he freed his nation from Institutionaliz Ed racism meanwhile, donald trump wants to win the white house by stoking Racial Division we are poisoning the blood of our country thats what theyve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Mandela dedicated his life not just to liberation, but also to equality. He closed his trial by reciting this from memory i have fought against white domination. I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony. One and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve. But if need be, its an ideal for which i am prepared to die now that passage is the core of mandelas legacy as a bridge builder, it is that very thing, that slice of mandelas political persona that stuck most with former president barack obama there are too many liters solidarity with money but do not tolerate those who dont tolerate dissent listen again. Here to donald trump in his own words do you regret not locking her up . And if youre president again will you lock people up . The answers you have no choice because theyre doing a test the point here is, if you look at the crimes, the punishments, the motives, the promises, on how they will treat their persecutors real and perceived. Mandela and trump theyre really is no comparison for more on this. I want to bring in the host of the podcast the right time with romani jones, also with us is cnn political commentator, s. E. Cupp se mandela again. Why, why does he do these things . He does it because he can, hes conditioned is base two believe it, how many compares himself to jesus . Two and you would have think that thought that a very evangelical base would have been appalled and offended by that. But hes conditioned them over the past a state years to actually see that as the case. And trump as victim, as persecuted is a narrative that he has drummed four years and 91 plus indictments. Its all proof to him and his base that they are after him. But this started very simply with him saying and like 2015, 2016, theres a deepstate and theyre coming after us, then it was the media than it was the democrats, than it was the generals, than it was the intelligence community. Anyone who dared look sideways at trump was then corrupt and coming for him he did that all for moments like this. Yeah. So that he can be a victim and equate himself with one of the greatest civil rights leaders this world has ever known. Its absurd, but they by it the jesus part of what hes talking about, it, it does raise the prospect that trump is actually play into a desire among Evangelical Christians to align donald trump with their faith yeah, i want to be careful the Associative Battle Trump Player four dimensional the chest because i think the reason hes talking about Nelson Mandelas because hes actually heard of them, like, i think, like when hes trying to think in his mind like man, who was now for a long time, like this young third trial keeps going. Hell start using him like normally when people do things like this, you ask yourself the question, who is, who does he think he is, who to donald trump thing he is. And in this case, the question is, who exactly does he think Nelson Mandela is . Because i think the most fascinating part of this is imagine a Ronald Reagan spinning around in his grave at the thought that a republican how monday for president would think that comparing himself to Nelson Mandela of all people who Reagan All The Way till the end told us was a very, very scary man would be the person that trump would associate themselves with. He just cant think of anybody else that went to jail for a bad reason that dislike registers with people anymore . I mean, i guess he has a point that i mean, he clearly doesnt know as we just outlined what Nelson Mandela is all about, but is this its not, i mean, its certainly not four dimensional chess, but is this just trump, just reaching for the closest analog as opposed to him trying to actually do something and politically, why dont think its right . Well, i mean, yes, hes trying to do something politically which is appealed to a base and keep them with him. But not be for dimensional chess, but its not checkers either. I think he picked someone that a generation remembers and its a specific generation, its not the generations coming up. Its the generation thats largely voting for him and still, standing by him. And so i think i think you picked him for a reason and i think he really does align himself with this idea of being politically persecuted for doing the right thing. He is convinced himself and his base that it was the right thing to overturn a democratic election, that it was the right thing to pay off Stormy Daniels it was the right thing to defraud new york city. I mean, he really has flipped all of this on its head. And the crazy part is they believe him now, they believe it, or that if its even if its not the right thing, that it doesnt matter that its the point that the other side is so bad that this is all justified. I want to raise something thats a little left field, but its related. This is has to do with robert f. Kennedy jr. There is a person who calls themselves the director of his new york operation basically saying that her number one priority is to keep biden from winning. This is somebody who works for robert f. Kennedy. The quote is, the only way that trump can even have the remote possibility of taking new york is if bobby is on the ballot if its trump vs biden. Biden wins. Biden wins six days, seven days a week with bobby in the mix. Anything can happen i mean, talk about just putting it all out there, saying the quiet part out loud. Is this just a play to help trump . Yeah, were gonna feel like we generally know that the third party people know theyre not going to win right . With the exception of maybe ras row in our lifetime, thats the only time somebody that you really had a realistic possibility. Theres other person could do it, but normally they at least try to masquerade as though theres some larger cause that they are trying to offer thats not even the game that they seem to be playing here with this one and that i find it to be very stunning, right . Hes basically kanye west work, kanye west was in 2020 where you basically figured out they think eight min if we can just chip away a little bit at the margins, we might be able to get something done as the whole purpose of the reason given kinase ran a little but no, its giving, its giving is going to too much credits if the people that were funding get seemed to obviously believed that that was the case, right kennedy is operating though, go into at against a bigger base of people that he seems to be trying to appeal to a certain brand of wacko that i think rides along with what it is that hes doing. Ive just never seeing them tell the world outfront and give the game away like that. Do you really think that they believe that this will actually hurt by them because rfk junior is running around mimicking trump . Yes, because you please stop pretending that he is going to be a biden spoiler. I mean, i hear this from the democrats. I hear this all the time. It is absurd and insane. He is parenting trump talking points. He calls elections not one, but two of them stolen. He is making a play for trump voters with his conspiracy theories. And as vp pick, i mean, all of this is for trump voters. And if your goal is to hurt joe biden, you dont do it by splitting his votes. You do it by splitting the other guys. So this narrative that he is trying to get democratic votes with his name. Absolutely could not be more nakedly after trump. They just not understand his appeal. Im just trying to meaning this person, rita palma, the head of his new york operation. I mean, just she just not understand their rfk junior vote i think she does. I think she does understand it. I think she understands that they are taking from trump. They want the rightwing Conspiracy Theory loving all the elections were stolen. They want this crowd. He has said, democrats didnt, dont get you anymore. Theyve left you behind he doesnt want those voters. He doesnt talk like a man trying to get democrats. Young, disaffected with joe biden. He is more proisrael than Anyone Running ever on the left ever. And that is a huge wedge issue, issue for democrats. Now, theres nothing about rfk that is appealing to the farleft or the moderate left . Long trump stays quiet about him. Once that starts to materialize, bromonium se, thank you very much and stick with us. Well see you later in the show and just in tonight, we are now learning what questions potential jurors will be asked at trumps Hush Money Trial that starts next week. Now, everything from where they get their news to whether or not they have any links to fringe groups. So just listen to some of these examples. Have you ever considered yourself a supporter of q and on proud boys, oath keepers, three percenters, mugler boys, or antigua another question. Do you have feelings about how mr. Trump is being treated in this case . Have you ever attended a rally or Campaign Event for donald trump . Do you currently follow any antitrump group on social media now this comes as an Appeals Court judge just rejected trumps lastminute latest appeal to to change the venue of this trial. Joining me now to discuss all of this is cnn legal analyst, karen friedman, agnifilo, and shes also the former chief assistant District Attorney for the manhattan District Attorneys office. Karen, when you look at some of these questions at the potential jurors are going to be asked. I mean, what do you see . There about what both sides are trying to accomplish with these jury questions. So its clear that both sides submitted questions to the judge saying, can you please ask these questions so its not clear what im looking for, what the other side is looking for, which is very common in Jury Selection, theres certain types of questions that you want to know the answer to be you dont necessarily want the jury to hear that youre asking that so that they dont try to game the system exactly exactly. So theyre just trying to, this is all in an effort to get a fair and impartial jury for this case, for this particular case, this set of facts, this particular defendant. And so theyre all trying to see are there any feelings that you have or thoughts that you have that would cause you to not be able to be fair in this case to both sides obviously, the Biggest Issue and all of these cases is going to be finding the oneperson or whatever its gonna be more than one per person who does not know a lot about this case has not heard a lot about this case, does not have any feelings about it. I mean, how difficult is that going to be . Well, look, everybody comes to every jury trial with certain feelings and certain views and thoughts about issues, et cetera. Nobodys pro crime. But yet you still find people who are, can be fair and impartial and listen to the evidence. And thats what youre looking for. People who dont have an ax to grind or who arent trying to do some other agenda other than evaluate the evidence because the people the prosecution here has to prove their case Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and they have to be able to listen to it even though they might have feelings and opinions about things. So one of the interesting things is that the judge says that he would dismiss a juror who said they cant serve on the trial without really pressing them any further. He wants to expedite this process because hes seen how difficult the Jury Selection can be and howimeintensive it can be. He defse actually wantem to be questioned. I this going to be something that gets that holds up this process . Well, its not going to because what the judge did was he made it so that it will go faster. The defendant in every case in new york has the right to be present for all sidebar for all sidebar conferences. Thats under a case called antimarket. And so in order to have a jury express their private feelings or their private opinions, you dont want them to say it out loud because it contained the rest of the jurors who are sitting there would. Require not only all the lawyers to come up to the bench, it would also require donald trump, his secret service agent. And it was just cause such an issue, it could grind this to a halt. The judge said, lets just streamline it. Anyone who has any of those issues will just excuse them. So that we dont have to go through that if they if they have some issue here. So thats what he decided to do. Well, were a week out. D yoactuly expect us to see this trial srt next monday yes. But i do think trump has a few his staard icks up his sleevehat hs been pulling out in every case and theres still a few mo ves that i think he hasn ite taken advaage of. For example, he could go to the Supreme Urand asked them to stay the case tedays after this case is supposed to start their hearing. The president ial leging president ial immunity whats the rush . Stop the case, foa few weekwhile we hear that case, its already on an exdited hedule. So i think that mig be coming and this morning and trumps statement regarding abortions, he named the Supreme Court justices individually, but just felt like a message that he was talking to them and just feels like hes going to be going to the Supreme Court. Yeah. Thats seems to be the move that they resort to maybe hoping that the court will just step in. And one of these cases and give them a little bit of a hail mary hail mary, saving grace here. Karen friedman, agnifilo. Thank you very much for all of the legal insights on all of this busy couple of weeks ahead for you and the rest of us here. And i had for us on this show many conservatives are livid with donald trump after he revealed his stance on abortion. Ill speak with age Pro Life Leader on that issue. 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