Quote, youre losing all credibility with the court, but making no decision on the matter. Matter. Then testimony continued from david pecker, who took jurors deeper into the world of catch and kill, detailing how his National Enquirer or sought out stories that might damage the Trump Campaign in order to catch them and then bury them. Afterwards, the cameras rolling, viewers watching the former president spoke out about not being allowed. He believes two speak out you have a gag order which to me as a totally i got situation im not allowed to talk, but people are allowed to talk about me so they can talk about me, they can say whatever they want, they can live but im not allowed to see that the sit tat look at my conflicted, judge. Its i dont think anybody interested in well, nor has anyone seen what might happen if hes jail for violating that order, which to be fair does not yet appear to be on the table. It seems unlikely that said theres Breaking News on discussions underway on how
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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 weve 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 cant 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 . Im john king and for kaitlan collins, this is the source a rough start but then rapid progress on day three, rough because two jurors previously seated in Donald Trumps historic Hush Mo
Troubles are actually helping his campaign time, of course will tell us about that first. donald j. trump has to get through the trial, allowed to take apart on day three. we also just heard for the first time from one of those two jurors dismissed today after being sworn in, will tell you, i prosecutors won t be sharing. their list or first witnesses with the trump team with the blessing so far, at least of the judge. but first, let s get right to some of our best legal sources are cnn anchor, chief legal analyst laura coates, cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, joey jackson attorney were not it ll still beale and veteran new york trial attorney arthur aye. dala laura, let s begin with you. first big picture, then we ll get into some of the specific what stands out to you about the jury. we now have 2127 men, five women, plus the one alternate more to come. but what stands out to you about this juror? the breadth of what their experiences are. some don t have social media
Doctorate degree, says she reads the new york times usa today, and cnn. if you re the defense team from, what i just went through and what their hearing is there asked these questions in court which reminded tonight. so big picture what i do not like are the attorneys on the jury, period generally speaking, we excuse attorneys right away yeah. it is not going lawyers right away. it used to be the law and fact that lorries clinton serve. and the reason i don t like that is because part of i think the argument here is what we call as laura is jury nullification. what does that mean in english? this is a system that s run a muck. we shouldn t be here. what are we doing? this is the weaponization of the prosecution. i don t think that that s falls really well on attorney he s i think us lawyers. right? i think we are trained to evaluate facts to look at issues, and i just don t like right. we have varying opinions about that, but i m concerned about that. come in, arthur, but i want