just elected its first female president in a 200-year history. that s according to projections. the women she says helped get her there. plus, pride policy, president biden s campaign is zeroing in on lgbtq plus voters this pride month. the strategy to tackle growing concerns over waning support. and could less be more when it comes to treating cancer? the new research on scaling back treatments to help patients feel better as they re getting better. our nbc news reporter are following all of the latest developments, and we begin with nbc s ken dilanian who s outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware, and, ken, i know we re in a lunch break just a few minutes ago, where do things stand right now in picking a jury? reporter: greetings, chris. they have actually moved through this jury selection process rather quickly. they ve got 34 qualified jurors of 36 that they want to get to in order to go to the second round where they really get down to brass tax and start wi
attorney and another former federal prosecutor, duncan levin. i have been reading this along, as we have been seeing notes get put in. i want to read a couple of potential jurors being asked a slew of questions about his unique position as the son of a president, including quote, do you disagree that the law should apply equally to all, including the son of a president. we talked about how difficult it would be initially to set a jury for trump. are there challenges given the high profile of the family and the defendant and the location? one juror actually said, you know, it s delaware. it s delaware. everybody knows about joe biden and his family. this is biden territory. as much and away as new york was trump territory for a long time. trump had his businesses in a split screen between the two trials is undeniable. a key difference that this was a former president in new york on trial, and this the son of the
round where they really get down to brass tax and start with the peremptory challenges and excludeing folks. the judge will bring in another group of jurors after this lunch break to pick two more, and then we ll go to that second round, and as you said in the intro, it s been fascinating to sort of watch and listen to the reasons people are being excluded, what information they know or don t know about this case. here in blue state delaware where joe biden has been a political force for 50 years, they re picking from about a million people in the state here. that s the jury pool. and quite a few of them have said that they can t be impartial because they have heard things about this case and hunter biden already or have negative views of the biden family, and a couple of other people have been excluded because of social ties to the biden family. one particular person played squash with the late joe biden. one person who qualified for the jury, a former wilmington police officer said h
just elected its first female president in a 200-year history. that s according to projections. the women she says helped get her there. plus, pride policy, president biden s campaign is zeroing in on lgbtq plus voters this pride month. the strategy to tackle growing concerns over waning support. and could less be more when it comes to treating cancer? the new research on scaling back treatments to help patients feel better as they re getting better. our nbc news reporter are following all of the latest developments, and we begin with nbc s ken dilanian who s outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware, and, ken, i know we re in a lunch break just a few minutes ago, where do things stand right now in picking a jury? reporter: greetings, chris. they have actually moved through this jury selection process rather quickly. they ve got 34 qualified jurors of 36 that they want to get to in order to go to the second
current president. two different things. in delaware, the biden name is everywhere and the president s picture is in the courthouse, right in the lobby. it s going to be hard to find a jury who doesn t know who he is, but that s not unique to this case. there are a lot of cases that have a lot of notoriety. there are murder cases in small towns all across america where everybody knows who the defendant is. the real challenge is finding people who can be fair. it s not politically fair but judge in a fair manner. people don t want to be associated with anything that has to do with a political high profile because it makes them nervous. there are a lot of people who don t want to do jury duty in the first place. they re always trying to get out of jury duty. the fact that there are people trying to get out of jury duty is not about this in particular. things have become so politicized and there are reports coming out that people are trying to doxx or show