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This is something congress will be focused on. i have all the faith and confidence in the committee chairs overseeing this process, especially adam schiff, and nancy pelosi at the helm. i think we need to let the process play out and then see what evidence comes forward and make that determination. >> youve just mentioned those in the house and not the senate. the question to you, don, a big question, how are senators viewing their roles as potential jurors in an impeachment trial? lets take a g...

Dangerous man can never harm another innocent person. >> tom toolan was sentenced to life in prison and that is where things stood for four years but in august of 2011, everything changed. the massachusetts supreme judicial court overturned tom toolans conviction. the court said there were flaws in the jury selection process and ordered a new trial. the trial got under way in june. this time at a courthouse on the mainland. for the lochtefeld family going through it a second time was deeply disa...

Thats going to do it for us tonight. one last thing before we go. this time last night i said we expected opening statements today in the trial of former obama white house counsel greg craig. he of course is the only democratic administration official who has been caught up in a prosecution deriving from the mueller investigation. we did expect those opening statements today but there was a surprise in the courtroom today, and the judge essentially decided, told the courtroom today that she need...

No move of venue there. nor is it going to happen here. simply put. >> jon: dont you have to go through some voir dire and try to find a jury locally and if you cant find a jury locally you can then appeal? >> the motion to change venue can be moved prior to jury selection. thats where the judge is going to say we have a system in place to ferret out taint and abuse. so the jury selection process is there to make sure that defendants get a fair trial and that should be enough in this case. >> jo...

Soundproof room in the guys basement. >> sure, earlier this year. a couple months ago. troubling. there is also reports coming out about a rape in 2014 that was not charged. the girl says there was a consensual relationship that ended in a forceful rape. some of the reports that this attorney is talking about. is it enough? absolutely not. there is a jury selection process that will be enough for this case. >> jon: fair justice prevails in this country regardless? >> even in the trial itself. th...

Date in july or august. nothing has been officially set yet in terms of a trial date, but this would be months in the making for sure, brooke. >> okay. sarah, thank you. lets bring in cnn legal analyst elie honig and john jackson. so still considering gagging him. can we pro/con this gag order. let the guy, let it rip but it would taint jurors, right? >> ill do the cons. as a prosecutor, i do not believe in or like gag orders. >> you hate them. >> i never once even thought about -- when i did ca...

Really does depend on how much information those jurors shared about themselves during the jury selection process. i think one of the jurors actually said during the process that one of her neighbors had identified her as a juror when she realized that she hadnt been at work that day, so its -- it depends on how much information there is out there. i think as weve seen in a lot of these high-profile trials, its sometimes not that difficult to get information, even from small pieces of informatio...

Foreign policy adviser, have all pled guilty already to federal felony charges in conjunction with this investigation. were awaiting a sentencing at the end of this week for the campaign foreign policy advisor who has pled guilty. the jury selection process started today for a second federal jury that will hear additional felony charges against presidents campaign chair who was already just found guilty on eight felony counts and who is about to go on trial for another seven felony counts. the p...

Theres been a delay in the former trump campaign chairmans second trial. the judge now granting a request by the defense to push back opening statements a week to september 24th. lets bring in our justice correspondent evan perez. evan, what else came out of todays hearing? >> reporter: well, that was the big news is the fact that the defense wanted this trial delayed. they ended up just getting another week. so instead of september 17th, which is when the jury selection process is going to begi...

Very interesting because of course he was taken down by tax fraud acti fraud, even though nathat was n the only crime that he committed. that was what they got him on and that may be the case here. >> i dont know if the president wants to go down the tax return trail. >> ive known and covered manafort longer than i actually want to admit, but probably more than 30 years. and i looked at him very closely in the courtroom yesterday. hes 69. hes trying to put on a very strong and brave face. he ver...