anderson having been in the courthouse, i mean, the vast number of jurors who were screened this one of the most elaborate processes i ve seen donald trump never saw at trial delay that he didn t like. there is absolutely no basis in new york. lai has has been affirmed by the judge and reaffirmed by the appellate courts. for this case to be moved, delayed, or slow down in any way so i think it can be a fair trial and it is a good thing. that we are moving with reasonable expedition in one of these criminal cases. and if i may add the judge has described the case and the prosecutor will argue that the case is one of election interference. the judge explain that to the jury the center fundamental pattern
judge jones, do you think would make sense to me for the protection of the jurors to somehow sequester them. well yeah two things the logistics of sequestering a jury as my co panelist, no are really daunting and the expense is high i and jurors don t like it necessarily. i agree. the defense attorneys typically don t like it either, but i ll tell you what at the end of a trial de i would typically say to juries, don t read anything about this case, don t research it, don t get on the internet, don t do your own. looking into the details and you know, i always thought there s a certain number of jurors that would go home and they jump right on google and check the case out. so it is perilous that it knows, no matter what admonitions you give, unless the juror gets on social media there s really no way to check whether they ve done some kind of sidebar research on the
do what we ve seen him do quite a lot of which is little bit for the prosecution, little bit for the defense. and then that ll inform donald trump s decision whether he s going to testify. i am still a solid absolutely not. but this may further that decision. joe jones, do you see anything wrong with the speed or the proceedings so far no, i don t see anything wrong at all. anderson and as i said, last evening, i think any responsible judge is going to try to move this case forward. you have to be concerned about the jurors time and the outside noise that s taking place. i commend judge merchan for getting the jury picked this week. i don t see that that creates a problem at all. perception may be that it s going too fast. this is typical of a trial. when, you know, you re gonna be seated for maybe a month or month-and-a-half. you need to get busy. i mean, you re taking time out of people s lives and it only makes sense to get started jill, we heard about potential jurors crying,
just had another hearing and the droughts jackson minouche is long before a lot of people thought the judge wants but if you go as fast as possible reasons for my reasons are what he says it now appears all systems are go the trial will begin monday. we re now from cnn s kara scannell. so what happened in today s proceedings? really engaged again, creating his neck to look at the jurors when his lawyers here s we re asking them their opinion of the former president. we were still inside the courthouse when we started to get word that the man outside had set himself on fire. now the judge, him left the bench. trump was still in the courtroom standing. we saw a secret service agent walked over him to talk to him that this was just moments after those final five alternate it s worth selected and told to return monday for opening statements we have our full
came in of 96 jurors stepping away because they felt they couldn t meet that standard 20 jurors excused over 24 peremptory challenges, challenges for cause i have every confidence that this jury and this judge can be fair and that donald trump will will be judged on the evidence and on the law, which is how it should be. david, the former president. he s complained that the trial is keep him off the campaign trail that he s forced to sit in a cold courtroom all day, laid today, though he complained the trial was moving too fast does it doesn t need to pick a lane on when it comes to complaints because now it sounds like he wants it to go slower well, i have not talked to the former president about this. i believe he probably wished it had more time to pick a jury that was probably different, right? he probably didn t like the like the jurors that were seated and they probably ran out of peremptory strikes as normal i wasn t in the courtroom like normal is, but i m sure they ran out