So, if you could change the price, change the name its not a lock, i know a lock. So how can we undo the damage . We could all unsubscribe and switch to xfinity. Their connection is unreal. And we could all unexperience this whole session. Okay, thats uncalled for. I am William Alden smith, a United States senator investigating the cause of one of the greatest maritime disasters in history. The titanic. Your ship, sir. Theyll only be compensated if white star and its employees are found negligent. You did not respond, we are sinking. And our passengers and our crew are in danger. What agreement with the military . War, miss ricard, war. Rated pg good morning, it is saturday, april 13. You are watching velshi. We are 48 hours away from the start of what might be one of the most unprecedented event in american history. On monday, right here in new york, jury selection will begin in the first of Donald Trumps four criminal traces cases. Preparations are already underway across manhattan. The secret service, nypd, anne state Court Officers are working together to tighten security around the city. Activities will be closely monitored for the next several weeks around trump tower and 107th street where the trial will be held. If you did not already know, it is a landmark that has seen its share of highprofile cases. In 1990, a group of black and latino teenagers were wrongly convicted of a woman. Trump went as far as to take out fullpage ads in local papers calling for the conviction of the center part five. Including one that called for the return of the death penalty. 12 years after their convictions, the central park five were exonerated and released from prison. After the exoneration, donald trump would not apologize for being wrong and calling for their deaths. It is donald trump that will enter as an accused to terminal, it starts with jury selection. His team knows this and knows that it is a highstakes and crucial process. Last night, the judge denied his attempts to adjourn the case based on pretrial publicity. This is hilarious to me because of the irony. He uses his true social platform to fuel a circus like atmosphere and then wants to argue for a delay because of publicity that he contributed to in no small measure. You cannot make this up. Earlier in the week, his lawyers made an Emergency Appeal for A Change Of Venue based on a similar argument. Manhattan is biased against President Trump and they did not buy that one either and denied it as well. Opening statements might not happen for another week or two, the jury Selection Process will set the tone for the trial. A big part of cases being won and lost is jury selection. Do not sleep on it. Joining me as a super lawyer and criminal defense did attorney. Hey, my friend, lets get into it. Im taking the glasses off. I am a huge Charles Coleman fan and i will tell you one more thing, i love this taking them off to talk to lawyers, i trademarked it for us, we are going to make a nickel any one time trying to take their glasses off to talk to lawyers. Here i am, taking my glasses off. It is a thing. We think this will go monday, we are pretty sure this is going to happen. I want to talk about witnesses and credibility real quick. Michael cohen is the star witness for the prosecution. As we know. The biggest thing will be his credibility. He was on this weekend earlier this morning with our colleagues and this is what he had to say about the attempts to paint him as a liar. Lets take a listen and then get your thoughts. Newly i would appreciate if people would finish the sentence. My lie to congress. Donald trump likes to call it perjury. That is what the lie was. The number of times that i claimed to have spoken to donald about the failed trump tower project. I stated before the senate and the committee on intelligence, number three, the true answer was 10. I say that over and over again because i want people to understand. If you think that is the lie that is going to knock me out of the good graces of the jury, you would be wrong. Are you buying that . Do you think that ultimately he overcomes any credibility issues in a way that does not impact him . You have probably used him in your own cases as a prosecutor, i see him all the time. They have much worse Credibility Problems because often times they are murderers and they are brought in in shackles. Cooperating witnesses are people that have Credibility Problems baked in. The reason prosecutors use them is that they work. Are your standard closing to the jury is Something Like look, this is somebody with a lot of credibility issues and we did not choose this witness, the defendant chose to commit crimes with this witness. We wouldve liked someone more credible. This is who the defendant shows. Here is the other thing about michael cohen, he has Credibility Problems. They have the standard tools to help attack that in cross examination. The prosecution might be able to overcome his lack of credibility because a document says what a document says. The jury can take that for what it is worth. Of course, he has credibility issues. Just like every cooperating witness in the history of cooperating witnesses. This is an important one because of regardless of what he says out of his mouth, the documents say what they say, it is hard to refute. I spoke to mike colleagues in the last hour about jury selection and how important it is in respect to this case. We have never seen anything like this. If you are responsible for defending donald trump and you go into jury selection, give me, as best you can, the profile of the juror that you are trying to get in that box. I probably want a Staten Island juror. The Jury Questionnaire and the questions by the prosecution are really going to suss that out. It asks questions like if you have ever been a member of the proud boys. The judge said low, it is not fair to ask them who they voted for but we can figure out who they voted for by the questionnaire. Im a member of the proud boys . If i am, i voted for trump, i dont want to generalize. I believe that jury selection is astrology. It will lend itself to improper generalizations about people. There is no more diverse or more interesting Colorful Group of jurors than the manhattan jury. You get all kinds of folks in there. In a Perfect World what he wants is trump voters. You will not find that many in manhattan. I have always believed that you try and assess the juror from their presence, from their job and their demeanor, if they made eye contact with you or your client. I try and stay away from false science around race and gender. Education is a good indicator. It can be helpful. It is really the vibe that you get. That was your experience too with jury selection. I had a sense of the jurors that i wanted depending on the case i had. If i am defending donald trump, i will try and go off of vibes. Typical metrics do not work because this is not a typical case. Thank you for being here again. For the second hour of velshi. Coming up, mike johnson took a trip and handed his reputation over to the former president for his big lie. Todays meeting of the banned book Club Features an Award Winning book that has become a Rite Of Passage for many leaders. We will be back with more velshi. Tech vo we came toh service that fit her schedule. Woman you must be pascal. Tech nice to meet you. Tech vo we got right to work, with a replacement she could trust. We come to you for free schedule now for Free Mobile Service at safelite. Com. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. I love that my daughter still needs me. 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Joining me live from london is our international correspondent. Josh, israel is demanding a direct strike, how close is this situation to spiraling completely out of control and how soon can we actually get there . This is scary stuff. We are no longer talking about proxy fights between iran and israel. This is not hitting iranian interest in syria with rockets over the border. We are talking about a direct iranian strike inside israel with a swarm of missiles and drones. That is what Officials Say they are bracing for. If that happens, it will launch the retaliatory strike inside of iranian territory. You can see how this will quickly spiral into a war. There are questions about if that would drag the u. S. Into a. Interns of how soon, they think this could be imminent at any time now. This is a related concern. We already saw today an incident where iranians Natural Forces have seized a Container Ship in the strait that is owned by in iranian businessman. They dropped from a helicopter and boarded that ship and are now directing it towards the iran coast. We dont think this is the big strike we were bracing for, it is ramping up tensions in the region. I want to turn your attention to Breaking News in australia where we have six people who are dead in a Stabbing Spree in sydney, what do we know . This is a heartbreaking incident, a man entered this busy Shopping Mall in sydney, australia and started stabbing people. He stabbed about nine people and killed about six of them and a Single Police officer approached him and shot him when he tried to stab her and then performed cpr on the suspect until other police and rescuers were able to arrive. Among those who are in the hospital in serious or critical conditions are a nine week old baby. Police say they do not exactly know what the motive was yet. They do believe this is a man who is known to Law Enforcement previously, they say that right now they dont see any connection to terrorism. This is a scary incident for the people of sydney, australia. Thank you so much. Velshi is back after a quick break. Break. Front pricing. With usps ground advantage®. I am William Alden smith, a United States senator investigating the cause of one of the greatest maritime disasters in history. The titanic. Your ship, sir. Theyll only be compensated if white star and its employees are found negligent. You did not respond, we are sinking. And our passengers and our crew are in danger. What agreement with the military . War, miss ricard, war. Rated pg youve got xfinity wifi at home. Take it on the go with Xfinity Mobile. Customers now get exclusive access to wifi speed up to a gig in millions of locations. Plus, buy one unlimited line and get one free. Thats like getting two unlimited lines for Twenty Dollars a month each for a year. So, ditch the other guys and switch today. 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Trump endorsed his leadership and put his name on the line as being the latest person to endorse him. To undermine confidence in the electoral process, donald trump has been railing against noncitizen voting. Just to be clear, Noncitizens Voting in elections is not uncommon in the u. S. Trump is hoping that it will so doubt ahead of the election so that if he loses there is a lie to explain the loss and fuel the outrage that will keep his supporters behind him as he tries to deny another election outcome. The center for justice did an analysis of the election. There were only 30 instances of Noncitizens Voting. That is 0. 00 1 . The speaker got the sound bite he was shopping for in south florida. It is not an easy situation for any speaker. Hes doing a good job, about as good as you are going to do. Im sure that marjorie understands that. He is doing a good as job as he is going to do. That is not a Ringing Endorsement but mike johnson will take it nonetheless. This was a welcome into a turbulent week for the speaker. Earlier in the week there were 19 republicans that voted against johnson to kill the authorization of a Government Surveillance Law after trump voiced opposition on wednesday. The house was able to get it passed on saturday after making the law more favorable for trump if he is reelected. I am joined by our National Senior reporter on capitol hill. Julie, lets start with you, what does the phrase, hes doing as good of a job as you are going to do. What does that actually mean . Will that by mike johnson any greater degree of job security . That was his main goal in having the Press Conference. Im glad that you framed it up that way, charles. Even in the last couple of hours, i received an email from the campaign side, this was a way to try and keep his job for a couple more weeks or months, he has the motion to vacate the wretch. Yesterday saying that he is a friend. And was asked if it needs to be reformed, this is exactly what johnson went down there for. Trump acknowledging the tight margins that he has to work with one vote right now, he said that he is doing as good of a job as any speaker can be doing. Johnson coming back to washington next week, the fight is long from being over. Trump had posted against him in the beginning of the week. He has a bag big test in front of him. Now when you talk about this issue of Election Security and interference they had brought up there, perhaps this is the out that johnson is looking for pairing with aid to ukraine as a form of border security. Johnson saying that the house will vote on that measure in the coming weeks when it comes to that proposal they talked about with trump yesterday. It is messaging to put democrats in a tough spot months before the election. I want to read from a political magazine this week about anxieties over a second trump term. Why americas long time ally in asia is concerned about trump 2. 0. We are already living in a trump 1. 5 world. Despite multiple civil charges, he has exerted influence over current u. S. Policy having swept the nomination, he is calling the shots on capitol hill on issues ranging from the stall Ukraine Military aid package. How accurate do you think that is . Yesterdays events solidified this moment as a trump 1. 5 world. Yeah. Tomorrow he heads to new york for his first criminal trial. The first criminal trial of any president. This week on a couple issues he came out saying that it should be left up to the states and every republican lawmaker who has been more conservative on the issue came out to say, their previous stance was not realistic or he had someone go with trump to become the more moderate position and then you have pfizer. The first version of that bill had no chance of passing. Then you had Something Like this on the Immigration Bill that you mentioned. Trump had to say one word and you had his defenders on the hill before that bill even came out. Yeah. He has a lot of sway over congress. Yesterday, mike johnson got exactly what he needed. As big of a stamp of approval as he is going to get. I have been talking to a lot of allies over the past couple of days, there is concern about the dangers of another fight that could result in made democratic speaker. They do think that when it comes to a republican speaker, johnson is as good as its going to get. Julie, i want to talk about the nuanced changes and adjustments that donald trump has made in his pivots. He has pivoted slightly on ukraine aid and has pivoted on his position on abortion. At one point he was for the elimination of roe. He came out and said that he was in favor of exceptions when it comes to abortion in america. Are th