The pressure make the trump hurry crack. Thats tonight on news nine good evening. Im abby phillip in new york week one of Donald Trumps historic trial is now etched in the history books, and it ends with a full jury box. When to starts with Opening Statements and we lead into it with a defining question. Can the men and women whove been selected to decide the former president s fate with Stand The Trump High waves that will swallow their entire existence. For the next six to eight weeks the jurors come from all parts of the city, west harlem, hells kitchen, chelsea, upper west and upper east sides. Some work in sales, others in finance. Others are lawyers. And they all say that they can be fair despite what theyve read or said about donald trump in the past, that juror number 11 quipped at one point i dont like some of my coworkers, but i dont try to sabotage their work. Fair enough. And from the minute the judge gambled in on thursday morning to the minute the court adjourned today re
the jury selection. pardon me? could be part of the deliberation where they will make that decision with the rest of that body. to decide the guilt or innocence of the former president. so they play a critical role just as much as all the other jurors of the 12 that were seated. fascinating jeremy standby for us. i want to now bring in seeing an anchor and chief legal analyst, laura coates, also with a senior editor for above the law job, patrice, to break all of this down, joe, we went through just really the today was a really emotional de in that courthouse because i guess things were getting very, very real for some of these jurors standardly is it typical to see that kind of emotion as people go into a case like this, you don t know. and i think that s that s still roiling. i think in a lot of jurors minds, but i think a lot of juries don t vocalize it as much in a lot of ways. i think this was the gravity of it being a former president and being historic is bringing that out. a