Straight from the source denied. That was fast seven jurors have been chosen in all trumps first criminal trial on day two, a sharp warning to the former president from the judge. Dont even think about intimidating potential jurors after the judge Saw Trump Muttering and gesturing in close proximity to a potential juror, and what is it like to be in that jury pool . But the former president turned defendant . Watching your every move as you are being considered to decide his fate. My source tonight will tell us all about it. Im sarah sidner in for Kaitlan Collins tonight. And this is the source an immigrant from ireland and Oncology Nurse corporate lawyer, a grandfather from puerto rico, a young english teacher, a recent college grad and civil litigator seven strangers who have at least two things now in common, they all live in new york city, borough of manhattan. And theyre all seated on the jury. That will decide if donald trump should be a convicted felon. Thats more than half of the jurors they need for a jury of 12 plus about six alternates. They are yet to be chosen and make no mistake. This judge is wasted, no time moving things along yet. Another thing that has donald trump really unhappy were going to continue our fight against this, judge. We think hes totally conflicted jack with the New York State system. Its time to watch by the whole world. And so we, we think we have a very inflicted you shouldnt be on the case and hes rushing this trial different day, same false accusations about the judge outside of court from donald trump. Now, inside the court, there were clashes over the social media posts of potential jurors that trump team alleging bias against the defendant. Some new yorkers were immediately dismissed for their past post another question intensely about a video she posted after the 2020 election was called for joe biden that elicited a response from trump, who apparently muttered something about it and visibly reacted, gesturing that earn ten and admonishment from the judge who told trumps lawyer that he walked dont have any jurors intimidated in the courtroom. Now, inside court, the former president was said to be watching a potential jurors very intently sizing up the jury pool. And after core today, this is what he said feel about the seven jurors that were selected ill let you know what about two months our next source tonight was inside that courtroom care magee spent two days is a potential juror. Just a few feet from donald trump until she was dismissed. Kara, thank you so much for being here. First of all, how did they identify you in the court . What did they give you when you first walked in so this was part of the initial jury summons that i got in the mail. They took were off the rest of it. Theyre like farm that we filled out and they left us these to identify ourselves with when we got into court. So they blacked out our names to be anonymous, and then they identified as by these letters okay. So youve got theyre calling you bye, bye be whatever it is e3, 70 its going to be three, instead of your full name because youre supposed to be anonymous. So that you dont face threats from the public or otherwise, at what point did you realize that you were walking into what is a historic case against a former president , the very first criminal trial of a former us president so i had known that this was around the time that they were selecting the trump jurors because when i got the jury summons, i texted my mom. I have dirty jury duty on tax day. Thats funny. And she said, oh, i think thats when theyre picking the trump jurors. So i knew that it was a possibility there was a line around the block of jurors when i got there. But of course its, you know, its manhattan, theres always million things going on. So i was like i might be in a trial down the hall. We were put into a Jury Holding Room that was full of people there were i want to say 200 of us in there and just from that number of people, i was like, this might be trump. There are so many, but it wasnt until the first group of us were actually brought into the courtroom and i saw him that i was sure. Can you give me a sense of what it was like . What did it feel like being in that room before you went into court and then walking into court . Sure so in in the room before before we were brought into court, and this was the sense the whole day, people were really not talking to each other as much as i expected. There seemed to be a sense of none. Of us really knew what the protocols were in the situation, whether we were allowed to say, hey, do you think were on the trump trial . There was it seemed like there was maybe a worry that if we spoke to anyone, we would be dismissed for knowing too much about it or something were their nerves and it was an uneasy with this sort of quiet uneasiness, like not knowing exactly how to handle. Definitely, i think we were also not really sure when any of the action would start. I think because there were so many of us we were expecting to maybe just sit in the holding room for a week and then be told that the jury was picked and we would go home. Wow. Okay. So what did you observe . Youre in there. Youre few feet away from former President Donald Trump what did you observe about his demeanor . Sure so walking in is theres this you walk in and you see him and you realize youre on the trump trial and at the same time, to kind of very contrasting feelings hit you. One, where you get the sense of how historic this is as you were saying and how you are now a piece of history, even if you dismissed, you are here, you experienced this moment that is unlike Anything Else that has happened before so its this huge gravitas. And at the same time, you see him in person, which i had never seen him in person. Of course and you realize hes just a dude and then you go and sit in the jury box and youre 30 feet away from him and hes just looking at everyone as they answer questions about him what does it feel like youre sitting there and the former president is looking at you, you know, some of the rhetoric that has been used by him or hes gone after the judge and the tonys did you know about him and some of his his personality and antics before you walked into court. So his his personality on the specific case no. But about him and his public persona . Yes and i think thats one really unique thing about this case, is that as an american as you know, most people in the world who have seen any form of news you cant really go into it without prior opinions even if youre not invested, its just we have heard so much about him and seeing so much of him in the media that we all have an impression of him already walking in so being across from someone who has been just so present in everyones atmosphere for so long. And then having that person watch, you answer questions about them is surreal. Thrilled, nerve wrecking, or did you feel like this is really odd, but it wasnt scary both. Eye when we, when we first were brought into the courtroom they the judge went through his description of what it means to be a good juror and what it means to be fair and impartial and stick to this case and the evidence regarding this case. And not allow your prior impressions of this person to influence your decision and then he asked for people to raise their hands if they thought they thought that they for any reason would not be able to be impartial and a good number of people raise their hands and were dismissed at that point. So dismissed sorry. Why were you dismissed . So i got up to the jury box and it didnt seem to go back to your earlier question. It seemed like once you were in the jury box, you had made an agreement with the judge and i guess with the legal system overall, that if they thought, you were the best person to be sitting in this seat on the jury that you were going to do the best you could to uphold with the Legal Process is supposed to be and give whoever might be sitting in the defendants chair the right To A Fair Trial so while on the one hand, it was a little nervewracking to sit right across from someone whose fate you would have a hand in deciding on the other hand, it was a sense of through living in this country and having the right To A Fair Trial. Myself, if i ever needed it or if someone i know and care about ever needed it it is i have accepted my duty to uphold that. You felt like you can be a fair and impartial juror, but ultimately or dismissed. Why do you think you were dismissed . Correct so i thought about it a lot overnight because i didnt i wasnt i didnt answer the questionnaire yesterday. They didnt get to me at i slept on it and i was thinking, you know, given my prior exposure to media on trump, would i be able to be fair and impartial and i because the right To A Fair Trial is so important to me. I decided that yes, i could consider simply the evidence presented in this case as the judge told us, two and simply decide whether i thought that given the evidence was this person who happens to be donald trump guilty of this particular crime. That he was accused of. Your show my youd be the perfect job what happened . Well, i was really hoping to get on the case and then yesterday at some point when we the jurors were beginning to be interviewed the judge mentioned that the case would go at least six weeks, and now people are saying probably a good deal longer its nine in the morning to about five in the evening every day i went through, answered all of the jury questions out loud. But the final question on the Jury Questionnaire was something along the lines of i dont remember the exact wording, but it was is there anything that this questioner has not asked that you think might impact your ability to be a good juror . If so please share it with us or something, and i said, due to the nature of my job, its its difficult for me to do mjob fully. Onlin urs that would have for pm this long and i was excused after that. That was the last question, so i dont know if pryor questions also you think that that was probably at because it would affect your financially and make this really almost impossible for your life. I would i would assume that that was why yeah. Well, its really fascinating that you got sit there and it was historic, whether youre on the jury or not, as you said it, so care, maggie. Thank you so much. Of course. She had a all right. I want to bring in a pair of our best legal sources, temidayo agangawilliams is a former Senior Investigative counsel for the january 6 committee. And Jennifer Rodgers is a former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analysts. Thank you both for being here i just have to think here, muggy again for coming in and sort of explaining what that was like because she said it was scary, it was nerve wracking. But you want it to be on the jury. It just didnt work out for her life today. I want to start with you. There are seven people that are on this jury. Many legal analysts said, this is going to take weeks to get this jury. The judge is now saying he believes that potentially monday, theyll have the entire jury seated. What does this paste tell you i think it tells you their jugular chinas fully in control of his courtroom. And thats what weve seen. He is move this process along efficiently. And i think it bows well that this entire trial is going to be run quite well by the judge. We saw today that the time when the former president , a onepoint set, its speaking and gesturing and the judge did what any judge does, which is to reprimanded defendants, saying you cannot do that so i think if he continues with what hes weve seen thus far this is going to be a quick case and hes not going to allow either the government ordered the fence or the former president to really run this off the train tracks. So i think its a good sign. Okay. I want to talk about these jersey. They are supposed to be anonymous. And that is because of the huge pretrial publicity. And because of potential threats that weve seen, other cases. So lets talk about what we do know about them now that they have gone through this process, there are of course seven jurors, and here are some of the details that we heard out of court. Juror one will be the foreperson. Hes a man from ireland who works in sales. He gets his news from the New York Times daily mail, fox, and msnbc juror number two is a native new yorker who works as an Oncology Nurse and is a New York Times reader and cnn water two or three is a corporate lawyer from oregon, juror four is an older puerto rican man who owns an it business who says, trump makes things interesting and youre five is a young black man, woman whos a Charter School english teacher, unmarried with no children. Juror six a Young Software engineer who lives with three roommates in Lower Manhattan and juror seven, a civil litigator who says he has political views of the Trump Presidency these jurors are supposed to be, of course anonymous. And you hear all of these details and im wondering to you, jennifer, if it reveals who they are, because if you happen to be this, It Businessman or the africanamerican teacher at a Charter School, the people that work around, you could probably figure this out pretty quickly if youre gonna be out for six weeks. Yeah. And it started bubbling up on formerly twitter x earlier about all these details that were coming out and so the social media posts that the defense are bringing in and reading outline, these people might be able to be identified which of course goes against the whole purpose of the anonymous juries. So i really do hope the judge martian does whatever he needs to do to try to make sure that these people stay anonymous. But its an interesting jury as a heavily professional jury. So thats so far is very interesting. Trusting usually you see a lot more kind of lowerlevel government employees. So ive come to interested in that aspect of it. Looking forward to seeing who the other five are for sure. So as ty go through this, Ch Prosecutor and the trumps legal team, th dense team, has ten strikes, ten people they can say for reon aall or for whatever reasonwe dt want this peon on the jury. Ve Each Ady Usesix to med. Whato you think is the a the bett jury or is th dstin thiseem like this could go either way so r . Yeah. I think its never clear. This is always picking an art and everyone has ev a jury. If you get theesult, the verdict you want, then all of a sudn you lo back and say, i really know how to pick a jury. And if it goes the other way than at the jurys faults. So i think its really hard to tell at this point, but i do think its interesting with the professional jury here because its a somewhat of a technical case. Its not a case where we simply say, did they commit but a murder, did they rob the bank . Yes or no . Its a case where youre talking about documents, youre talking about, youve you prove a Business Fraud and then youve referenced a separate crime. So i think its possible that a professional Background Jury here, could it be a positive for the prosecution because youre going to have lawyers on the jury. You could perhaps explain the statutes. So do you think that if there was some reading the tea leaves, i might point to that, but otherwise, its really, really hard to tell because another dynamic is had they interact with each other because its a Group Dynamic situation. Theyre gonna go back there and theyre gonna be talking, deliberating. Theyre going to be setting up alliances, are going to be supporting each other undercutting each other. So a lot of it is not just whos on the jury but how they interact with each other. I do wanna ask you about you mentioned the social media posts and in every case that ive seen, including the january 6 cases in federal court, they went through the social media of each and every person thoroughly to see if there was any bias, there can you just describe how this works . And is this the new . The way to suss out whether someone can actually be fair and partial. Well, certainly when you have someone like donald trump who everyone will posted about on social media, right . So yeah, i was not at all surprised to hear that when it was time for the four cause challenges, they came in with reams of paper saying, weve gone through all the social media feeds that are public of all of these people. And we want to complain about this guy and that woman and so on, because we think theyre biased even though they didnt admit to be biased. So i do think thats a new way theyre doing these things sometimes judge marsha and said, okay, yes, that post i think does evidenced enough of a bias for me to dismiss the prospective juror. Other times he said, no, thats not enough. So i think he actually did a really good job of kind of toing the right line there and being fair to both sides. But yeah, that is absolutely the new normal everyone. Do you want to be on a juror . Be careful what you post on social media. It is really interesting. People forget, they can look back years and they did. I want to talk about one of the things that we heard in court about social media to you temidayo trumps attorney, todd blanche grilled some of the potential jurors pressing them on their old social media posts, and blanche pressed one juror on a post calling trumps travel ban unlawful, which prompted this reaction from judge merchan. He said, if it ended there, i wouldnt really have a problem with it. Then the post continued whos this get him out and lock him up and rashawn struck the juror for cause, but not before saying that everyone knows trump could potentially be locked up if hes convicted in this case. This is his first criminal trial. What do you make of how the judge dealt with that particular case . And is it a sigma hello to everybody else about what could happen to them . Well, i think what i think he was fair. I mean, i think what we saw in both with what jen mentioned is that hes not looking to strike jurors, just having opinions is looking to strike them if they cant be fair. And i think thats a good sign going forward. Yeah. Even if they say they can be fair, if they look back on their social media and they see some of these things, theres going to be a problem.