the report clears him legally but could damage him, obviously, politically, which mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview with him as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. joining us now is kate bedingfield, who served as communications director in the biden white house, david axelrod who worked within vice president biden, and former trump communications director alyssa farah griffin, all three are now cnn political commentators. also with us jeffrey toobin. david axelrod, i will start with you. is that the press conference the president should have had? , look i understand the concept of why he had the press conference, because this thing was red hot. and it was out there, and he felt he needed to, and his people felt, he needed to respond to it. whether the response was adequate, or whether it creates more problems, i think, is another question. he did contradict elements of the special counsel s report. an
doc? about the stormy daniels hush money deal. todd blanche repeating the word lie or lying 35 times so far while questioning cohen. i m chris jansing, alongside my colleague andrea mitchell. constantly trying to pin the blame on someone else and he s being asked to answer for past statements where he celebrated the idea of seeing his former boss behind bars. i want to bring back our panel, vaughn hillyard, danny cevallos, catherine christian, and jeremy soland. okay, jeremy, i just got new statistics in, are you ready? are you sitting down? i am sitting. the total cohen time on the stand, 12 hours, 52 minutes. total cohen cross, 4 hours and 40 minutes. high point, low point so far that the jurors may take away from this? i think the low point, depending how you re defining this is the cross. i don t think the cross has hammered home what the defense wants to hammer home. the high point for the prosecution is he was contrite, yeah, he lied. again, may not want him t
jury selection about to resume. we ll see if the former president talks to reporters on his way in as he is known to do. it s thursday on a rainy day in new york. dana: cloudy, rainy. i m dana perino. bill: we had three good days this week. dana: it is good for people to watch the show. more potential jurors will go before the court. attorneys have picked seven so far. they need a total of 18. bill: finding impartial jurors might be easier said than done in deep blue manhattan as critics argue it is a case that s all about politics. this case is an a bomb nation. seven years after he pays hush money to try to come up with this case. bill: much adieu about nothing. to my liberal friends out there. all you are doing is showing that you are scared you can t beat him on the issues and the merits. dana: former federal prosecutor andrew is here. eric shawn is in downtown manhattan to give us the lay of the land this thursday morning. hi, eric. good morning dana and
major developments for you at this hour. any moment now president biden will be attending the campaign event in philadelphia as he wraps his three day blitz in pennsylvania. all of that is happening while his 2024 arrival is sitting in a manhattan courtroom. hello and welcome, everyone i m sandra smith in new york and jillian that s not the first day that has happened this week at have you. jillian: thank you, sandra, i m gillian turner in washington, john roberts is out today and this is america reports. as you mentioned to d3 of jury selection and former president trump s hush money trial is underway the number of jurors who have been selected now is down from 7 to 5 after two were excused. sandra: one was worried about being publicly identified the other was excused after prosecutors raise concerns that he had misrepresented his history during questioning. fox team coverage kicks off right now, jonathan turley is standing by. gillian: first we go to eric shawn outs
say that with the bromine caveat listen, he s he s just a blunt force trauma guy. he sees out he sees the absentees and i m sure he s looking at an universal absentee. he s just saying this is bad and i think everybody agrees universal absentee is bad. i come from california we have a very successful absentee program, but have also seen the flaws in universe apps and t. i mean, i ve gone to the post office where you see ballots in the trash because of voter has changed address. well, those ballots are being picked up by party officials on the republicans sayyed, and a democratic side, i can t see any place where that is good for our democracy brian and bennett, blunt force trauma politics. here we go. it s good to see you both. thank you very much. a new our of z to undo central starts now we are standing by for crucial emotional testimony in the federal gun case against hunter biden new executive action at the border, in effect as of now, what impact is it having on the bo