monday, sign up for free, visit otter.ai ai or download the app there s new ally in the fight against crime climate change. this is new car business blue carbon. we just need to protect nature will do the rest corbin plus cnn filled sunday night a historic data we ve been keeping track of this afternoon a full jury and alternates were in paneled in the historic case that former president donald trump is facing. he becomes the first former president to ever face a criminal trial. and right now, a sandoval hearing is underway. it s a complex legal process, but ultimately we are anticipating that opening arguments are set potentially for monday. all right. a big de on monday, there s also that appeals court about a change of venue hearing going on right now. a work keeping an eye on it. we ll be back with you on monday or you guys well, thanks for having me. yeah, it was good to have the lead with jake
behavior by the court. and in fact, i would argue that the court judge, mark sean, is constitutionally protected by imposing this type of gag order. he s not going to be overturned on appeal for doing this. this is not a violation of donald trump s rights in any way. this is more of a donald trump pr move but if you re going to invoke the constitution, at least do it correctly. if you were the former president of the united states jeremy, the flip side of this, that being kinda the back-and-forth about where the former president since prosecutors have already accused the former president of violating that gag order. i guess what the questions i had is if this issue is so important, why is the hearing not until next tuesday more than a week? after the jury selection actually started here i think that judge merchan just wants to get this moving forward because you delay you have this hearing. it s going to delay the jury selection some process, and the more time you get stuck with th
welcome to lead on mattingly in today for jake tapper and we are live outside the new york courthouse where the former president s criminal hush money trial is playing out as we speak. the jury selection process that is now complete today, judgment for sean seating five more alternate bringing the total number to six yesterday, of course, a full jury of 12 receded, made up of seven men and five women. and total of 18 needed for the trial to begin. now, judge, were sean now, holding a sandoval hearing, what s known as a sandoval hearing. that s going to determine whether the prosecution can ask trump phi testifies about certain aspects of his legal past, including the e jean carroll defamation case in the civil fraud judgment handed down earlier this year. now, trump attorneys are fiercely pushing back the outcome could factor in whether trump decides to testify at all later in the trial. so he said he was going to do. we start off with cnn senior justice correspondent
standard of evidence, a standard of of that you need to prove for the judge to rule in favor of the prosecution is much lower. it s just a preponderance of evidence as opposed to a criminal trial where you have to have beyond a reasonable doubt doubt. and so defense is saying that s just not fair. and so is they re pointing out that if you do that, then we should be able to bring in some of the various problems. is mike michael cohen as a witness as well. and so that s going back in for the judge saying we re not going to mix apples and oranges here as part of his decision-making in so we expect it s going to keep keep going for at least another hour. yeah. it s been a fascinating back-and-forth jeremy, herb and kara scannell, our team inside the courtroom and reading everything out and it s been pretty fierce up to this point. i want to ask you because our colleague cares can also broke gonna be a hearing happening, i think right now in an appeals court tied to this case, there s like
decisions that he s already made. and so a look at the end of this, the judge says that he is going to go back and look to see whether earlier statements he made, whether he was inconsistent but he s trying to shut down at least some of this discussion because he believes he s already made some rulings that address these questions. should we expect that this is strategic to some degree, right? i think there may be merit to this particular issue, but they re trying they re going to keep bringing as many things up as they can to slow things down, muddy the waters competent it s possible. right. i mean, look, how many the other thing that they re trying to do is we know there s another hearing right now. they re trying to buy a little bit of time because just in case they do get there for their motion to move this trial to another venue perhaps slowing things down could buy them in time in case they get their way. we don t anticipate that but that s the way it s going to go. but certain