possibly more jurors having to be dismissed for one reason or another. andrew mccabe, but which sayyed, do you think is more excited about this jury? i m sure they re both terrified lawyer there s tend to be a nervous lot and i m sure they re both looking at potential problems in that pool and they re also looking at folks who they think it will be beneficial to their sayyed. i totally agree with paul. i think the judge is of course, right on the law here in terms of leaving juror 11 on as one on the jury but he may have planted an issue that will come back to haunt this trial days and days later after any potential conviction. if there is one, it would seem to have been the more kind of err on the side of caution move to exclude her based on those statements but of course, she passed the threshold of being able to say that she judge, the case fairly. so why the judge just save himself a headache and just just her. that s the
come from all walks of life and they are being presented with an unbelievable task ahead of them about adjudicating guilt or innocence i think former president no other american has ever been asked to do that and be put in that position to do it and so it s this unbelievably compelling moment. you call the whole system the great equalizer. and undoubtedly true, but it s also this, this typical mundane civic duty is now being put upon these manhattan nights in ways. nobody ever could have envisioned. that s why we keep saying this is historic. the first time in american history the former president united states, has faced a criminal trial. all right, guys, everybody. thank you very, very much. just ahead we ll have more on the breaking news with 12 jurors and one alternate now seated in donald trump s it s criminal trial will speak with a woman known for picking what s called the perfect jury. and why prosecutors are saying trump violated the gag order again.
just not my cup of tea close quote so why did this judge still a lot of this juror to be seated? why do you think so well i think this just number one, we re getting exasperated with the whole process. as long as it was taking because he s already told the trial teams that money is going to be opening statements and he thought he d lost two jurors today based on one was based on some feedback about a harassed for one of the jurors and the other list based on the fear factor. and i think that wolff, the fear factor is the biggest concern was the biggest concern. and selecting this jury so this judge, based on some of the transcripts that i have, c, says, i look into the person s eyes and i believe what they say. so i suspect that some of that was occurring
minds of violated the gag order seven more times they d already identified what they said were for violations. so that brings it up to what they think is 11 violations of the gag order and the two of the examples that they mentioned today was trump linking to a new york post article that referred to michael cohen, a key witness in this case as a serial perjurer what part? what did this gag order says that the former president can t make any comments about any witnesses in this case. trump s lawyers pushed back saying that michael cohen is not like any witness. he has repeatedly made comments about trump, including leading up to this trial. the prosecution also raised another post that trump put up last night, and that was quoting a fox news host in which he says that they re using undercover liberal activists or lying to the are lying to the judge to try to get on the jury. that is a concern as well by prosecution because another part of this gag order says that trump cannot make any c
seeing the seeding of 12 of his fellow citizens who will pass judgment on him. that s just the first mile marker in this process that is likely to be uncomfortable. the whole i thought it was interesting polo that trump s attorney asked for the names of the first few witnesses that will be called. assuming that the trial actually starts on monday. but the prosecutors refused to give trump trump s lawyers the names of these witnesses because trump was start reporting about them on a social media site. yeah. and the judge agreed they did. they aren t entitled to this information and this is the legal consequences of these political attacks. so most of the violations of trump s gag order are made in furtherance of his political agenda, but that can have real legal repercussions. i m sure his lawyers would very much like to know who the first couple of witnesses are going to be. but because of the conduct of their client, they will not have access to that it s a little bit it stands in