a so-called sandoval hearing now underway. that is a routine hearing that we ll address trump s criminal history and then assess it s how much prosecutors can ask him about it. if he decides to testify, jury selection ended before the lunch break, that means a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates have been seated on friday afternoon, opening statements could begin monday at the same time, a hearing is also underway now, on donald trump s request for a change of venue you in the trial will continue to monitor that as well. boris, we re also keeping track of drama on capitol hill. speaker mike johnson is fighting to keep his speaker s gavel the calls for his removal continue to grow louder though today, republican congressman paul gosar joined his colleagues, marjorie taylor greene and thomas massie in the effort to boot johnson from his job there, fuming over johnson support for the foreign aid package that includes billions of dollars for ukraine greene has said that, a quote, civ
witnesses are going to be first call. you said about the sandoval hearing, the sandoval hearing where currently these potential cases, past trial determinations from the e. jean carroll suit to the fraud trial, if donald trump were to testify there are current deliberations to the extent which the prosecution could cross examine donald trump about those cases. this will come down to the determination of the judge in the upcoming hours. so let me bring you in on bonds reporting. it was not lost i guess on the jurors that this tragic event took place outside. tell us what that was like. we re not sure what they know or what they knew when it was going on. but they left and i m sure they saw the commotion and have seen what happened. it was really striking, though, because we were inside the overflow room, most of the reporters are in overflow room because the actual courtroom is kept empty so the jurors can queue and they re not seen by reporters. we were all there right as it was an
trial, and that means protecting the people who are going to be deciding the facts of the case, which are the members of the jury, members of the public. when you talk about trump s inability to control himself, there is something happening i believe tomorrow afternoon called the sandoval hearing. my law degree at television law schools i m getting closer to taking the bar, but the sandoval hearing is going to determine basically which of trump s misconducts and criminal aktsz could be used if trump were to take the witness stand and undergo cross-examination, is that right? that s basically it, yes. so trump is going to be presented with a litany of wrong doing. can you explain that process and the likelihood trump is going to absolutely freak out during it? he s not going enjoy it, because he s going to hear about all the bad things that have been attributed to him. and i don t know how he s going to react, but all the things
i mean, i think it is part of what danny was talking about, right, because we started off the day with seven and now we re at six and looking at juror number four, that could become five. i think when folks have more time to think about the gravity of this case, and this is what i m hearing for a lot of folks in that overflow room as well, and think about the commitment that this case is going to take, and what it could really mean for this country, if you think about, this is history in the making, we may lose more, even though we thought this was a considerably quick timeline and we were going to be looking at the arguments on monday. one more thing, jose, i want to say, you did ask rebecca about the sandoval hearing, there was a filing by the people for this sandoval hearing, basically talking about the evidence that they would put forward if donald trump decided to testify. and all of it was about the establishment of his behavior. so, talking about, for instance, the judgment