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MSNBC Legal Analyst 'Really Nervous' Trump's Comments Outside Courthouse Could Sway Jurors

David Henderson expressed concern that former President Donald Trump's remarks outside a New York courthouse could influence jurors in his trial.

for his freedom. >> david henderson, let me get your take to what we've heard from donald trump and how it plays into all of this. >> i find myself thinking, chris, if i was on this jury team -- not the jury team -- the trial team, how would i feel about this, it makes meer in ous vows. jurors are influenced by what happens in the press. what i see that makes me nervous are two things, him talking about how long it took to bring the case and talking about the fact that other agencies didn't bring the case. i'm not persuaded by that. none of us on the panel are persuaded by that. some jurors sometimes will be persuaded by that. here is the catch. he's very good at making these speeches outside of the courtroom. from what i've seen from him so far, he's not very good at testifying on the stand under the constraints of the courtroom and overall between those statements and between what his lawyer said during opening statements today, they have set a really high burden for themselves with respect to

understatement. >> absolutely. all those cases. he's facing a lot and this is as you say, an historic moment. the court session that will end earlier today because of the passover holiday but we also learned an alternate juror has a tooth ache and that needs to be attended to so they're ending earlier because she has to get to the dentist. life goes on. we begin our special coverage now with vaughn hillyard outside the court. nbc news legal analyst, former u.s. attorney, and former senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg. and jury consultant and former prosecutor, david henderson and paul charlton. and we have charles cohen and former manhattan district attorney, catherine christiansen. vaughn, court's expected to get back underway at any moment.

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more methodically versus other people who might make decisions more on gut feeling than on facts. but it strikes me as a jury that although as david said we have not really met a lot up close, we have weeded out everybody who is identified by themselves biased against donald trump and with this 42 question series of questions, i think this is about as good as these lawyers are going to get in terms of understanding what these jurors are all about. there is always the opportunity for someone to be less than truthful or misleading and hiding a bias that they may have, but i think this is the best we're going to do. so far i think this jury seems just fine. >> yeah, and what about the fact that there are three attorneys on there? is that unusual? >> it is very unusual. as a lawyer myself, when i pick a jury, i often would excuse lawyers from the jury because what i worried about wasn't that they were going to rule for me

just to show you how much more unfair it is. >> so, just to let you know there is going to be a hearing on the gag order on tuesday, right? i think the idea in anticipating this hearing and the gag order will be how judge juan merchan deals with it. we remember back to judge engoron and he held donald trump in contempt of the gag order two separate times, he had to pay a fee over those two separate times of $15,000, right. so we'll be watching to see how judge juan merchan sets the temperature for his courtroom throughout this trial. >> yeah, david, is there any chance a gag order could be lifted? >> under the gag order, i think we'll have an ongoing problem with this trial. joe jamil, known for cursing in

opening statements on monday. a reminder, trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts. joining us now from outside the courthouse, nbc news correspondent yasmin vossoughian, and with us barbara mckwid, former u.s. attorney in michigan and msnbc legal analyst and david henderson, civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. what is the latest from inside the courthouse this morning? >> reporter: we started out with 22 today, we're down to 19. three so far have been excused from the jury pool that showed up early this morning. one of them because of fear and anxiety, fear for her identity being revealed, one saying after thinking about it overnight, doesn't think they can necessarily be impartial. we have got some interesting characters, jose in this jury pool, which are fairly interesting when we get to the voir dire portion of the q&a, when they ask their own questions of the potential jurors. let me read the quotes from inside the courtroom from the potential jurors. the one that was excused said i don't think i can be fair and

the courtroom, the judge said every time you curse in my courtroom, i'll fine you a thousand dollar and the legend goes he shows up the next day for a check for $100,000 and said, judge, just let me know when that runs out. former president trump is going to push the envelope as much as he can and not going back off, violating the orders put in place where he's not supposed to make public statements. you got it treat him the way you treat any normal person who did this, not that normal people do this often, but don't think it is enough to stop him. i think the gag order stays in place, i think he'll continue to violate it. it is going to be a lot of back and forth throughout the duration of this trial. >> yasmin vossoughian, barbara mcquaid, david henderson, thank you. back to capitol hill, breaking news there. ali vitali. what do we know? >> reporter: this rule has now passed in the fashion that we expected it to. but certainly in a considerably rare way, which seems to be the word of the day here because of the way that the house is conducting its business.

his former foe, back in 2016, governor chris christie, and at one point long time ally. and then went on to say that michael cohen, the star witness of this case, michael cohen's son actually works at this potential juror's company. and so there is a lot of interesting kind of nuggets to take away from this potential jury pool and we're all going to hear that come out, of course in that q&a portion of the voir dire. the voir dire process is extended by five minutes for each side, asked early this morning by attorneys if they could get five more minutes because of the larger jury pool, right? 22, now 19. and judge juan merchan granted that. >> david, jury selection was anticipated to pay weeks, maybe two weeks. but we're nearly done after just four days. what do you make of the pace of this case so far? >> jose, i'm less focused on the pace than i am how generous the judge has been with the defense,

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