Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Granddaughter, and you totally seem to have forgotten the overwhelming amount of violent rhetoric against President Trump himself. What did you say during these moments . Take a look. And with this kind of inspiration, i will go and take trump out tonight. Yes i have thought an awful lot of blowing up the white house. One with the last time an actor assassinated the president . [cheers and applause] i want to clarify, im not an actor. I lie for a living. However, its been a while. And maybe its time. How dare he say the things he does . Of course i want to punch him in the face. Right. [cheers and applause] the press always asked me dont i wish i were debating him . No, i wish we were in
high school and i could take him behind the gym . Thats what i wish. Sean so where is the fear, the worry, the concern about all of this rhetoric against the president . T . Now do you think what you just saw is a little bit worse than being heckl
prevented them from going on their honeymoon. you can imagine. paul butler, this is not a complicated case. it s just a complicated life and lives, because he filled out the form and he bought the gun. the question is whether he thought he was free of addiction. not complicated but sad and tragic. many of the jurors said during their voir dire, their families have experienced issues with drug abuse. the defense is that when hunter filled out that form saying that he wasn t a drug addict or user, that that was true at that time. he used drugs in the past. the form asked about the present. there are questions on the form, have you ever been convicted of a felony? the drug question is, are you a
only see the end result. remember, we had a voir dire process we also had other new yorkers were willing to raise their hand and say you know what? i m too biased. i can t be impartial and they stood up and walked out. that is actually something trump and todd blanche were complaining about. i think it is an admirable thing about our jury system, that people in new york county are going to have certain biases just like people in staten island are going to have different biases based on polling and election results, and all of those people during voir dire were honest enough. some of them self-selected, raised her hand and said you know what? i can t be fair and impartial and the 12 that remained were not 12 random people. there were 12 people who had to look themselves in the mirror and say i can do this. i have opinions. i made of voted a certain way and i may have thoughts about the president because this is
application to hold trump in criminal contempt for ten social media posts in the last, you know, several days that they say endangers those witnesses. on one hand, you have judge merchan saying, i m not going to order them to provide the names of those witnesses, and on the other, you have a hearing tuesday on whether to hold him in criminal contempt. a judge who says, i won t order your adversary to provide you with a list of their witnesses is probably someone leaning toward granting some form of sanctions and holding trump in criminal contempt because he sees that danger that the d.a. s office does. lisa, it s been i was slightly amused because all the hype going into this voir dire of the jurors was, oh, my god, this could take weeks. we could be here for two, maybe three weeks. we got this done in four days, five days. talk a little bit about that
evidence lies. back with us outside the manhattan courthouse, nbc news correspondent yasmin vossoughian and here with me, former new york prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, charles coleman. yasmin, what s the latest from the courtroom? reporter: off of that point you were making about steinglass wrapping up the voir dire portion of their q&a with potential jurors, asking the potential jurors, would you look donald trump in the eye, could you convict him, going on to say he wants assurances they have no concerns about their ability to render a guilty verdict. i m reading from the google doc. trump, then, and this is color from inside the courtroom, is craning his head to see the jurors at the very end and responding to steinglass, he asks if two witnesses say two diametrically opposite things, is one of them lying. will any of them have a problem understanding that. that is a glimpse into what steinglass, an attorney for the people got into during his voir