Source tonight, Donald Trumps first criminal trial resumes in hours, and we just got hold of new ammo dropped by the prosecution what could be coming at the former president if he ends up taking the stand and Impeachment Trial ends just hours after it began. Yes. A Biden Cabinet member now keeps his job while the speaker of the house is clinging onto his after teeing up a vote. Its only expanding a rightwing revolt and a new blow to boeing as a whistleblower testifies the the asian giant. This knowingly putting out defective planes that could break apart during flight are source tonight as an engineer looking at the safety of boeing who also lost his sister in a deadly plane crash. Im john king and for kaitlan collins, this is the source a shot across the bow to trump arguments not yet underway in the former president s first criminal trial. But the prosecution just revealed what it wants to use against him if big if he ends up testifying in his own defense, that is a giant f despite t
There will be a hearing eventually on whether all of that is fair fodder, but it does begs the question whether prosecutors are hoping to discourage trump from testifying by showing him all of he would face if he takes the stand, the trial resumes tomorrow with jury selection continuing. seven jurors he did yesterday, five more needed plus alternates, six of those most likely on this off day, trump s on another one of his trademark fact-free tears carping today about not being allowed, quote, unlimited strikes, meaning disqualification when picking the jury, ranting because he says his sayyed can t veto any prospective juror. they want each side only gets ten strikes. that s new york state law. and his lawyers certainly know that we ve got legal sources from all perspectives tonight, from the prosecution table or cnn legal analysts, former assistant us attorney elie honig from the defense side, veteran new york attorney, author i dala, whose past high profile clients have ranged from h
Taking the stand like, i know he s going to say he is every day from now until the end of the trial, it would be completely self-destructive from to take the stand and he doesn t lead to what would he say his defense here is going to be a reasonable doubt defense. they haven t proved their case. you can t rely on michael cohen. no reason for me to take the stand charged mershid still has to prepare for the possibility. he does and this is a hard trial to to keep control of already, and we re only in jury selection. we ve done pretty pro and jury selection to arthur s point, how much of all this what can you be asked? how do at delay this out? how much do we have to decide even before we come to that decision, does donald j. trump testify? was the judge do well, i think i agree with a lot of what are the saddened, but not all of it. and i agree with the fact that there should have been done before trials that if in fact the lawyer wanted to make a colorable argument to a jury, what th
In, judge marcia, it s are you happy with this? so far? you really, you really think? based on where we are now, i have seven looking for alternatives that we start on monday i think it s entirely possible. i was surprised by the number that they gotten the day one or day one-and-a-half, if you would which tells me that there probably following the rules, the lawyers are following the rules of the court, asking appropriate questions. the judge was very clear what they could ask him, what they couldn t ask the jurists seem to be interested in following the rules as well. and so i don t see why it would take that long. this is a class e non-violent felony offense. so as arthur alluded to, there are only or maybe you did to only ten challenges that are peremptory challenges where someone can be challenged on the jury for any reason or no reason so long as it s not discriminatory. so they ve already used more than half. they could get more, but that s discretionary. the judge could