judge out of the presence of the jury, that that was the advice that they gave& the client to reject it in favor of testifying in his own defense. yeah, that would be the reason they do that is because they re trying to protect themselves from any subsequent claim later on that the lawyers provided ineffective assistance of counsel. yeah, that s a good point. let me get your thoughts while i have you, robert, i m there now fully empaneled jury and the six alternates. is this a jury you would have agreed to seat if you were representing trump? i think there were appropriate objections made. you went over them with judge scheindlin about some i think questionable calls about whether or not certain jurors should have been excused for cause. the defense has made a record of that in the event of a conviction, i m sure those issues will be ones that we ll return on appeal. and that may or may not warrant a new trial if an appellate court decides that even in the event of a conviction,
reid, euro or chief legal affairs correspondent. i m anxious for your thoughts. give us your analysis of what the trump team is trying to keep out of this trial and y well, it s interesting. trump has so many legal issues everything, allegations of mishandling classified materials to allegations of fraud, to sex abuse. and here the argument is really focused on his civil matters. and i think it s going to be difficult for the defense attorneys to keep out a lot of this conduct because there s so much overlap with the case itself. their strongest argument seems to be look, there s a different standard preponderance of the evidence that is much lower than a criminal court. it could confuse the jury, but for example, when it came to the hillary clinton lawsuit, uh, judges said, look, if this isn t sandoval at this isn t relevant. i don t know what is so not a great sign for the defense team. we bring in on chris khardori, a former federal prosecutor into this this conversation. how do y
as the historic hush money case unfolds opening statements now set to begin monday a full jury and a panel of six alternates are selected and sworn in our reporters and experts are all standing by to break down all of today s most important development let s and look ahead to what s next. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer with a special report in this room the trump trial today are special coverage this hour begins with the breaking news. the judge overseeing donald trump s criminal trial says, opening statements will begin on monday. jury selection in the case now officially complete. let s check in with cnn s kara scannell outside the courthouse in manhattan. kara, you were there inside inside the courtroom for today s drum. now kind of proceedings give us the latest
that is this trial moving at the pace you expected well honestly, i thought it would take longer to pick a jury and state court, but i admire the way he s handled it. he s moved it along quickly, which is probably the right thing to do in this particular case, the longer it takes a longer people are going to have second thoughts. it s good to get the jury is seated and sworn. i think he did get fairly in every way and i don t think it was overly fast. i think it was thorough, it carefully planned, a good questionnaire. the lawyers had time to ask their questions. so while it was faster than i expected, i don t think he was railroaded and i don t think it s too fast. as you know, judge, there s been a lot of scrutiny over juror number 11, who said she doesn t like trump s persona, that she thinks he seems quote, very selfish and self-serving direct quotes were you surprised the judge borussia didn t dismiss her? would you have done so in his shoes? i
told you it was a dummy a tense moment and donald trump s trial today, as judge juan merchan told, trump attorneys, quote, you need to accept my emotions. this in response to the defense says attempts to file motions that were relitigating decisions. the judge had already made. let s bring in cnn s kara scannell. kara, i didn t trump respond to that moment. and how did he carry himself today? you are in that courtroom all day. so we ll during that moment, trump hadn t glared at the judge. he had a fixed stare at him as the judge is making a lot of comments that weren t necessarily going in trump s favor at the end of the hearing or what trump thought was the anti stood up to leave and the judge, who is not finished told him, please sit down, sir. but otherwise, during jury selection, which took up the entire morning, there was the routine moments or the 22 jurors were answering those 42 questions. and at that time, trump appeared to be leaning back at times he s closed does eyes othe