with the guardian. he was in the courtroom this morning, and charles coleman, former brooklyn prosecutor and now legal analyst and host of the charles coleman podcast. good to have you both here. hugo, you first here. cameras were not allowed in the courtroom so we need you to give us a sense of what it was like inside and what stood out to you in this first wake? it was surreal with former president trump being the first former or current president to go to trial. it was a semiinal moment and the enormity of the moment was not lost on any in the courtroom, the reporters or the jurors when they filed in to the courthouse and effectively looked at trump, looked at the prosecution team and had to go through the voir dire process. to give a sense of how this worked, there was a pool of
tiktok bill, what is expected to happen there? when will that go down? so that will be one of the votes in the series today. so far it seems like it could happen either first or last. a lot of things are changing. it is not clear here. it is really fluid here. the vote was moved up for an half hour earlier. house members want to get out of town because it is eating into the recess and passover break but the tiktok bill is super important. i can t remember when congress has played such a heavy hand in a social media company albe it this one is owned by a chinese company. there is bipartisan support including from president biden who said he would sign all of it to get this done. which is one reason we will have on our former cia analyst alyssa slotcon to talk about this and see her take on this. julie tsirkin, thank you for rolling with it. excellent job as always.
judiciary chairman in the house, jerry nadler, last night. he says whitaker is not fit. he is not fit because he has expressed very negative opinions of the investigation. he s prejudged. he s also illegal because he cannot be attorney general until he is confirmed by the senate. he cannot act as attorney general until he s confirmed by the senate because the constitutional requires that. that s what he believes. what does the new house majority, democratic majority, what can they and will they do about it? joining me now, wo members of the incoming freshman class in the house. two members who just flipped red seats to blue in the midterm election. virginia s jennifer wexton, and michigan s alyssa slotcon. thank you for being here. thanks for having us. congresswoman elect wexton, matt whitaker, what is your reaction to the president making him acting attorney general? well, we re not quite sure