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Local dog park twice a year, for medication. none of those people made the jury. one of the unfortunate consequences of this part of the jury selection process is that many identifiable details came out putting the anoninimity at risk. another potential juror was dismissed saying she has really bad anxiety and people have found out where i am. anxiety is completely understandable for a criminal trial of this historic magnitude theres a heightened level of intensity inside the courtroom and outsi...

Still a possibility i will vote for him because politicians have faults. >> that is an interesting distinction. i will sit and think on that. thank you so much. joining in right now is ms nbc legal and assist, and coauthor of a stable genius. she is also a msnbc contributor. welcome, ladies. joyce, donald trump is contending he cannot get a fair trial in manhattan. of what you saw in the jury selection process this week, can he? >> reporter: this was a fast jury process. some folks have been sug...

>> to both of your points, and i made this point when we were driving in this hour. you sort of laid out the tiktok of what happened in that jury selection process. and then of course, the hours after that you have josie waters on fox news as the daily beast reports sowing doubt in his segment regarding the jurors with a quote "i think at this point, we can say that it wont be an acquittal. what the hell do you have to base that on mr. waters? this is the problem. you are absolutely right that m...

She went on to explain that because of that experience, because she was bombarded with press and because of how many people could tell who she was from publicly reported details, even though the jury is supposed to be anonymous, because of all of that, she no longer felt she could be impartial. she couldnt ignore what she described as outside influences that might affect her decision- making in the courtroom. now, there are a lot of issues at play here. one is that through this jury selection pr...

Obligated to bring this information to the courts attention and so they did. just to be completely above board here, no reporters were able to hear the conversation with the judge so we dont actually know if prosecutors concerns panned out but ultimately juror number four was excused from this jury. a juror who may have had a strong anti-conservative issue. a jury who may have even been anti-trunk, flagged by the prosecution. that is how fair this jury selection process is in reality. alvin brag...

Are in new york. others are going further, claiming that liberals are trying to sneak onto this jury, claiming that the jury selection process itself is rigged. >> trumps already catching a handful as they try to sneak onto the jury. having a democrat prosecutor and a democrat judge in a democrat city isnt enough. you need to rig the jury too. >> now, the fox fear mongering here has not been limited to fox airways. last night, trump posted this to truth social, questioning, quoting jesse watters...

After this jury selection process came together pretty quickly. it moved together pretty quickly. so as folks might have seen, there were what was it three days of jury selection that moved a little bit more methodically and then toward the end of day three, it seemed to happen overnight. yeah. now, why that happened, you might have heard that each side has ten strikes of jurors limited number of people that they can get rid of for any reason. i presume they just ran out of strikes yesterday. th...

Refuse to contribute to political campaigns for a couple of reasons. one, they know it will undercut decisions if issues pertaining to that party will come before them. and be a problem. think about all the journalists we know who wont even contribute to -- >> dana: a good principle to not do it. >> it is. you may have to cover a story where that person is front and center. the same thing for a judge. he did that knowing all of these trump cases were percolating in new york city and it could ver...

Process. it wasnt just because everyone ran out of their peremptory, you know, choices there, you know, preventing certain jurors and getting others. what was it about this process or this judge that allowed that to happen so quickly, that were now, today, presumably getting the remaining five alternate jurors, and what does that say about the process or the trial starting on monday? because i dont think anyone thought we would be here. i mean, maybe wed go another week. you sort of ramp up into...

Reporting on the impanelled jury for donald trump, a historic moment in this nations history, and as i look out of the corner of my eye, i heard an individual yelling that hes on fire, and it was hard to kind of understand what i was seeing with my own eyes. and i want to keep an eye on this press conference and make sure we go to that as soon as they get up and going, but as i looked over, i thought, theres a fire in the middle of that square, and this is a cordoned off area, ana, that is there...