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The groups are hosting a rally against rittenhouse wednesday. a prosecutor says ghislaine maxwell and jeffrey epstein were partners in crime against teenage girls. sex crime. accused recruiting and grooming girls for the financier to abuse. she says she is innocent. a jury has been seated in the trial of the actor accused of staging a racist homophobic attack on himself and lying to police about it the case brings up difficult issues for vice president kamala harris. this is the jussie smollett ...

We know proceedings very underway. the jury seated. catch us up on whats going on right now. >> reporter: right. well, we didnt think the jury was selected and about to be seated and sworn in, but theres been a couple complications. one of the jurors came forward and told the judge after being picked, going through the process, that she had a financial hardship. her employer only covering two weeks of paid leave for her for jury duty, and this trial expected to last at least six weeks. that woul...

On our shores. joe biden announcing a travel ban but it understands starts monday, a travel ban very similar he cite sized donald trump for being racist during the campaign. what do we know and not know? thankfully we had dr. marty that care on the program earlier. these are the moments you want to hear from somebody who understands infectious diseases. heres a portion of what he said earlier. >> its already not just in belgium and south africa. its in other several countries in africa. its in h...

Instructions. thats the 36-page document that even the attorneys and judge admitted were complicated and chuck, im going to stop right now. it looks as if the jury is in the room based on everyone being seated, and ill just let you go ahead and listen to what the judge has to say, assuming hell be talking. >> lets see if we have audio right now. and if theyve opened it up. we obviously have a visual. lets see if we have the audio. it doesnt look like anybody is speaking. yeah. shaq, lets remind ...

Room for possible appeal after the trial? >> yeah, so what happens is that to the point of having this jury in its composition, is struggling. just address that briefly. you have this community which 69% white, which is about 26% black. you would figure that a jury would be a nice cross section of that demographic. its not. and so thats troubling. whats more troubling is you have an acknowledgment of the court that there is intentional discrimination, but no remedy that would address that. like ...

The defense denied that saying there were other reasons that they felt the jurors would not be impartial. the judge sided with the prosecution here believing that the defense had used race. but at the end of it all he said the law does not give me much option. we will go with the jury as has been seated. >> any explanation why the defense got twice as many strikes? >> first of all, you have to remember there are three defendants going on trial and three different defense teams and six attorneys ...

Should learn from the right wing. have game. have manipulation. have -- this is the game were in. if this is the game were, in learn to describe what youre about. learn to describe what youre meaning. learn to describe what your goals are in ways that dont immediately alienate the people that youre trying to support, number one. and number two, that dont play easily into the game of the right wing. should we have to do that? no. but do we have to? absolutely right. do you want the commercial or ...

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Craig Mastantuono, legal expert, Adjunct Professor of Law at Marquette University talks with WISN-12 News.

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