He was not the one who ultimately carried out hours up prior to that attack. And so you see clearly that the military is trying to address these concerns, that they could have prevented this. But clearly, according to the military, they could not have. So its actually there are also questions about a Marine Battalion commander on site at abbey gate and whether he the understood the rules of engagement. Did the report look into that . This was another complaint that some sniper marine corps snipers had, which is that they informed their Battalion Commander about this bald man in black and saying that they nt to enga him. Itas not ear what the response of that request, but of cours ultimately tt shot was not taever, e Military Sayst the Battalio Coander Understoodery we what the rules of engeme re in at theres no evidence to thcontrary, jake. All right. Natasha bertranat the pentagor us. Thank you so much. You can flow on fabook, agram,hreads x, formerly known as twitter, also on the tiktok all about under jake tapper, you can follow the show on x at the lead cnn. If he ever miss it episode the lead, you can listen to the show once you get your podcasts all two hours, just sitting out there like a big ripe peach. Are covered. Engineers now with wolf blitzer in the Situation Room. I say tomorrow happening now, were following two major breaking stories tonight first, the Breaking News out of manhattan, Donald Trumps unprecedented Hush Money Case begins its the, first time a former us president has ever stood trial on criminal charges. Jury selection now underway as the judge, the Defense Attorneys and the prosecutors marrow down a massive list of potential jurors to find the 12th New Yorkers who will consider trumps vape also tonight, The Middle East, im edge after israel vows to exact a price for an iranian attack what israeli official tells cnn, the war cabinet is determined to act, but its still unclear where when and how the idf might retaliate the white house. Meanwhile, urging calm in the region as President Biden turns his focus to diplomacy and deescalation welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I will blitzer a urine the Situation Room the skis, cnn Breaking News. We begin our coverage tonight in new york, regardless, trumps historic criminal trial is finally underway. The Court Adjourning for the de just a short time ago after Getting Started on the first order of business, Jury Selection, cnns Kara Scanll H more on all o todays developments s or thing like ts has ever happened before is never been anything like it. Er wee of delays a lastditch legal maneuveng, juries selection nownderwa in the Hisric Unprecedentesh Money Case against donald trump following a series of rulings clarifying the evidence allowed in the case 96 potential jurors passed through magnetometers to enter the courtroom with trump they were sworn in and questioning began a few minutes later, at least 50 perspective jurors were excused because they told the judge they could not be fair and impartial of those who remained three question by the judge listed the New York Times and cnn as their sources of news none said they had read any books by Michael Cohen or trump and none of them said they worked or volunteered for any pro trump or antitrump groups. Nine members of the jury pool were questioned and not dismiss by the time Court Adjourn for the day. Trump faces 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Records the manhattan district attorney, alvin braggs as the former president , attempted to cover up payments made to Adult Film ActressStormy Daniels just before the 2016 election, trying to stop her from speaking out about the alleged affair with trump. Judge juan merchan started the day by denying a motion from trumps lawyers to recuse himself as it attorneys debated judge juan merchan said he would not allow the infamous access Hollywood Tape to be shown or video of trumps deposition in the E Jean Carroll lawsuit that found him liable for defamation. Karen mcdougal, a model who says she had an affair with trump in 2006 and was paid 150,000 to keep quiet about it. Will be alleged how to testify. Attorneys also argued about how much the jury can be told about Michael Cohens crimes. I did it at the direction of in concert with and for the benefit of donald j. Trump, the credibility of trumps former fixer, who admitted he orchestrated the Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels will be one of the most bad over elements of the case. Prosecutors also ask the judge to find trump for social media posts attacking witnesses involved in the case, saying he violated a gag order. The judge scheduled a hearing for next week to settle that matter. The trial is expected to last six to eight weeks. It may be the only case against trump to face a jury before the 2024 section. The Presumptive Republican nominee, complaining about the judge as he walked out of the courtroom judge, divorce is not going to allow us is a very conflicted allow us to go to that anymore leave here for i have to take go pc and you before the United StatesSupreme Court because he thinks you superior trumps lawyers asked the judge to excuse him from cte next thursday so he could attend Oral Arguments before the us Supreme Court. Where trumps lawyers for argued that the former president because it has president ial immunity from the february, from the january 6 case in washington, dc, the judge denied that, requesting that trump is a criminal defendant and he is required to be here. Wolfe juror scannell in new york for us. Thank you. Lets get some analysis from our legal and political experts in elliott williams, let me start with you. More than half of these potential jurors hurs were excused today. What does that say to you . Oh, okay. So jurors cant serve if they cant pledge to be fair and impartial. Now theres a big caveat to that. A judge can actually rehabilitate them and say, look, if i instruct you as to what the facts and the law are codes you serve on this jury. The judge seems to have changed there was a not to do that here for a big reason. I think he knows its going to take a very hard time to pick a jury here. And if you can weed out as many people as possible, people who raised their hands and start from the position of saying that they cant be fair, are good folks to skim off the top. So i think thats what the judge did just trying to find the herd because Jury Selection here is going to be a beast its certainly could take days. And what does it say to you . Andrew mccabe, that this suggests that this whole jury Selection Process could turn out to be rather difficult. I think it absolutely will be difficult and i think that the judges action today is an implied acknowledgment of the fact that he understands that that Jury Population probably leans against trump. And so todays cattle call approach to dismissing a 50, 50 jurors at once is kind of acknowledgment of that. He doesnt want to spend his time as elliot laid out trying to rehabilitate and really drill down on each one of those 50 people. Hes going to let them go in mass to try to boil down founded that group of folks who are more impartial in who can pledge to do the fair analysis that he requires during the process of the trial. Jaime gan galas with us today is any reason to think trump cant get a fair trial in manhattan . I dont think there is the there have been very high celebrated trials where wellknown defendants got off, o. J. Simpson comes to mind. And i am old enough. One of the first trials i covered was John Hinckley, who in 1981 attempted to assassinate ronald reagan. He almost killed him, shot three other people, John Hinckley in 19 in ad was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Everybody know about the case. This shooting actually happened on camera i do think to andys point this jury pool in manhattan, they did not vote for donald trump by enlarge that said trumps lawyers are looking for one thing, one juror to hang this group thats all it takes, right . And so to eliots point though the getting rid of these folks who volunteered to say, im not going to be impartial, im not going to be able to do that it really robs trump and his team of this amine ed. When i say robs, theyre going to still make this point. Im not suggesting the former president s could all of a sudden say this is a totally fair trial. But i think it robs them substantively of this point that whatever gets seated is somehow skewed against them because at the outset, the judges completely just excusing all the people that they themselves say, i cant do this its in any kind of impartial way. They would the trump team would very much like to have the individual explanations of why these people feel like they cant possibly be fair because that would all be very helpful to them in the event he receives a final verdict of conviction. That would be very important data to you in an appeal challenging the choice of venue essentially, he filed a motion wanting to move the trial to someplace where wed have a more favorable jury that was of course, denied, and that could be grounds for years through ill get a little bit of the mechanics of Jury Selection. This is such a critically important part of this page, and people dont understand it. We all go to jail very duty, but people dont sort of know the behind the scenes. Judges are seeing number one, who can be fair and impartial in the eyes of the law. And then both sides are allowed to get rid of some jurors. They simply dont want these are people who arent legally excluded. These are the people who could still be fair and could still follow the law and dont have a major conflict. But one side or the other just doesnt lie. By. Now. The questions arent as straightforward as you think wolff. A lot of times, even things like whats your education, what zip code you live in, what magazines do you read . Our little ways of teasing out. Number one, how might this person work in a group how whizzes personal leader is this person going to block tradition or leadership or anything like that . At and in a case like this, where politics is a little bit of a proxy even education is something valuable because of the fact that i think the prosecutors here might want more highly educated traditionally voters, trump folks may want to see more of joe six pack. I mean, education is the defining in faultline in american politics today, i was being polite about it, but yes, it is. I think in the Pop Psychology of Jury Selection, those are the kinds of things that prosecutors and Defense Attorneys are trying to tease out to see if they can divine how a particular juror might one way or another. So jimmy, what other challenges will both sides face in picking . Jurors . So look, these lawyers have a lot of experience. They have a sense of what theyre looking for. The judge merchan has this very extensive questionnaire as elliott pointed out, but lawyers will tell you very good. You can get fooled. You can think someone is sympathetic and theyre not, or juror who might lean one way or the other. Thats persuaded by the other jurors at the end of the day, they do run out of strikes and that will be the panel they i should have clarified that both sides have a finite number of what are called peremptory challenges are strikes of jurors. So theyve got to be selective and playing them, right . Yes. Ten each side here to play a game of chess, trying to get them the other sides had to figure things out. But look, weve all been burned by a juror who was nodding and smiling along with we are saying Jury Selection or who on paper, whether its education, class politics victim of a crime, crime, dog node, whatever else, simply voted a way that we werent anticipates art, not sayyed. Its you go with your gut. You tried to make these very meaningful decisions based on very superficial information. Gen. Very limited information. But at the end of the day, a jury will be in paneled and im i shared jamies confidence that well have a fair lins interesting. Theyre related development. The judge next week will hear arguments on whether or not trump has already violated the gag order that has been imposed. Had to do it. Absolutely had to do at those tweets over the over the weekend are pretty clearly far beyond the parameters of whats been permitted under the gag order to not address the prosecutors demand that he be sanctioned for that conduct over the weekend, would have sent a clear signal to trump that theyre gagewa what are is useless. Its not going to be enforced. And would have made the whole thing meaning its interesting. David, the Biden Campaign announced that President Biden will remain quiet. He wont comment on this ongoing trauma for now. Well see if that holds. They didnt today and the White House Press secretary, Karine Jeanpierre was asked at the briefing today and she just danced around this xu clearly, what they dont want to do with their hyper aware of when you talk to folks inside biden moral days, they dont want to feed into this already false claim, quite frankly, from donald trump, that this is all politics and this is team biden exacting of persecution in the form of a prosecution against him and they want to make sure but they stay away from doing anything that gives him any kind of rope on that matter. And so youll see right now, quiet, the contrast will be on display though. I mean, joe biden will be in scranton, pennsylvania tomorrow talking about the economy and donald trump will be sitting in a courtroom for Jury Selection. Yeah, thats quite a different way of campaigning our guys, everybody standby. We have a lot more coming up just ahead. 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