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Harrak give us the lest wolf jt moments ag seventh der,ith ated in th trial, hes a male, hes a civil litigator. And youay its meiews about tru during his presidency said likely he didnt agree with him, bute said he Coulbe Afteanother Fullay of Jury Selection, where there are now sevejuror seated ithis ce its this like Massive Sensofravitas and imrtant because you know tt this is history in the making. Dozen more potential jors filed Intoanhatt Courtrm Tuesdaand six juro were seated as Jury Selection continued in day two of the first Criminal Tria of a former president , the seated jurors include an irish menn and sales, a female oncology nurse, a corporate male lawyer in english teacher re. At a charter school, a softwarengineer and an owner of a busess. Theury selection strategy for both parties takinghape. 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One juror said he finds trump fascinating because he walks into a room and he sets peop o one way or th other. Sir blanche seemed amus with e response. Another juror said she learned r the first time tuesd that trump has been chargedn thre othecases. Procutor joshua steinglass, address prospectiv jurors, asking them to set aside any strong feelings. He asked each to consid if they would be able to look defendant trp in the eye and return a guiltyerdict. Ifhe casis pren beyond a reasonable ubt, trump up here to look at the jurors, tilting his he once or twice as they were answering yes. According to pool reports, one ror who was excused after e sa shead a scheduling conflict, deribed her expeence to cnn. The same time you walk into the courtroom you see trump sitting there. I can never seen him in person before. You see him sitting there. And its like, oh, its ju a guy well, so now that there are seven jurors selected out of the initial pool of 96 on thursday morning, 96, new jersey. Will come intheyve already been sworn in well ain, goingough the 42 over questions th are in that estionnae, tn qutions by the attorneys, and th thll strike until we have 12 jurors and a numberf alternates. Will laura kara scanll in new york for us, cara, thank you very much. Lets dig deeper right now on the seven jurors who have n been swin our senior legal analyst, elie honig has with me over her the magic well, elleithee, what do we know about these jurors . Will jury secti, its a fascinating exercise, and its realore art and science are ying to read human beings inherently dynamic and unpredictabl but weve learned some rlly important, i think potentially revealing detas about these seven jurors. These jurors will be on the case so far knofor males three females, lets take a quick look at what we have for juror number one. Juror number one will be the Forepersonno Magic Powers Asciated with thforeperson. Ths the person who generally mmunicat on behalf of the jury with the deliberations inhe room. What jumped out at me, nothing remarkable in the bio, but this is a person who said he watches both fox news and msnbc. Thats an interesting combination. If im trump and i got anyone who watches any fox news, i want to chance that the jury, but i have to note this in new york, i pi jurie in new york, people sometimes confuse fox news wh The Lol Fox Five and the jury form does not separate those two. So could be that the Waactually Talkg Talking about the local news, whh is really not partisan. Lets go to juror number two turn number two, isnt nurse in new york, you get a lot of medical professionals, lot of hospitals, theyre in my experience, medical professionals tend to be technical. Theyre capable of separating facts from emotion and really prosecutors want th it really depends and how strongly you feel that your cases sed wh you get down to the technical elements of it. So youre always going to yorker watchesnn. Thats good to see. Juror number tee ay. Juror number three. Now this is interesting. This is a lawyer and typically the Rule Of Thumb is lawyers dont like Lawyers Theiruries at the prosecutors office, we almost automatically got rid of any war, but its also hard to do because you do have a lot of lawyers in manhattan the concern is that a lawyer might just take overor t jury. They mightay, listen, im a lawy, rget about the judge. I know whats going to happen here, but its rd to seat a jury with no lawyers on it. Interestingly, he does read the wall street jonal, wch has been quite critical of Thi Paicular Case in its editorial pages. So jur number three, i thk would please me from trumps point of view. Les goo jur number four. Juror number four is an older man. Hes a businessman, hes a family man. He says he finds trump fascinating and mysterious. That would worry me if i was with the das office. I dont want someone whos enamored with trump or finds any sort of fascination or mystery in him. But again, he doesnt seem to have very Strong Political views for or against donald trump. Lets go ahead, the number five . Number five is Young African american. This is a teacher, a highly educated woman. She said she does not, did not know that trump is facing charges in other criminal cases. She knows now teachers are another interesting one, teacher sort of cut both ways because on the one hand, teachers know how to say no, right . They know how to tell their students, know you cant do that. On the other hand, teachers are interested in rehabilitation, giving people a second chance. So as a prosecutor, we were always sort of mixed about teachers. So again, this one i think strikes me as a fair juror. I dont think either sides going to be delighted or overly upset, which are a number five. Lets go to juror number six here. Turn number six as a software engineer, a young person are recent college grad Software Engineers similar to the oncology nurse. I think this is a person whos profession requires her to be analytical to separate out emotion. And again, usually prosecutors like that, by the way, gets news from New York Times. I know theres this notion, the New York Times as liberal in new york everyone gets there everyone gets their news from the New York Times. So i dont read too much into that. And now we have juror number seven, not sure if we have a graphic this just happened juror number seven, wolf is another lawyer. A secular now we have two lawyers a litigator, a civil litigator. So someone who knows his way around the courtroom. So we have a really interesting think jury here. Some of what happened here breaks the normal rules, the normal mold for what you wanna do when youre picking a jury my assessment so far is there are certain indicators about these juries that i would like from trumps sayyed, theres other indicators i would like from the das sayyed, but i have to say i have to hand it to the judge and the parties here. It seems that these seven jurors, based on what we know, are fair and capable doing exactly what their oath or require them to do, which is to judge this case based on the facts and not based on emotion or politics or elie, i want you to stay with us. I also want to bring in some of our other legal and political experts as well, a jimmy gang, gayle, let me start with you. What was your major takeaway from the seven jurors who have now emerged. So first of all, i dont dont think we should be surprised that judge merchan has actually seeded seven jurors. I know there was talk that this would take weeks and weeks, but he has the reputation of being smart experienced, evenhanded, and i was told last week he was going to keep it moving and as ellie knows, each sayyed runs out of strikes a certain point, they need to emwer people because they dont know whats coming. I thought it was interesting that when donald trump left today, he used the word rushed in his statement that the trial was being rushed. What do we know about donald trump . He has wanted to delay delay, delay. I think the fact that seven or down so quickly, maybe bothering him on the jurors as elie said, im interested that there are two lawyers on the on the jury thus far yes there are, a. Lot of lawyers in new work but as you would say you get t concerned, they might influence unduly influence a panel. Well, if im just sprised that you found seven people so quickly in new york without strong opinions about donald trump, hes been a fixture in new york city, in manhattan, in particular for decades, whether it was in business or politically. And to a person. One of the jurors said, well, hes fascinating and mysterious, and other ones said he speaks his mind. I kinda like that but no oh, no real strong opinions about in One Way Or Another which in new york, its kind of surprising or they didnt share share. Let me just say that thats seven out of 90 something. So it took a lot to narrow it down, right . You need 12 in the end, six plus signs, i guess theres still more work that needs to be done on chris febary is witus as we, a former federal prosecor, juror number four, its interesting, told the court, and im quoting now, trump makes things interesting given that and other things weve heard to trump be fairly happy with these selections, at least so far. I dont know if i would say happy because i agree. I mean, i think this is a solid group of people just based based on what theyve described in their occupations and what night, but i agree with ellie. I mean, there are elements of what some of these people disclose, including that comment that if youre trump are going to catch her ear and he only needs one of them, right . Hes not going to get acquitted but he if he gets one of them, thats a hung jury in a miss trial. That would be good for him are any of these statements le that weve heard from these prospective jurors, seven of them now, confirm something that prosecutors should worry about. Yeah, i would worry about very much about the person who finds donald trump fascinating. I mean, look, donald trump, whatever anyone may say, donald trump is enormously charismatic, i guess charismatic can be positive or negative and that would worry me on kushs exactly right. But this is not going to wind up in a not guilty verdict. You need to all 12 to say not guilty. What trump is playing for here as a hung jury and people have to understand 11 one is a hung jury, so i want a wildcard if im trumps team, i want someone on that jury whos a narrow and with trump who finds him fascinating, who finds him charismatic and that comment would definitely worry me from the prosecutors perspective, there were other jurors who said one of the teacher we talked about said that her friends have negative views of donald trump politically and i would like or prosecution would allow that juror two to be seated if as you say, theres potentially a problem there, i would have struck that juror and the prosecutor im not sure it could be. They got to observe the person. We dont thats the big difference that so maybe there was something in the demeanor, maybe there was something maybe there was something in the way the person said it, right . Were just seeing this sort dry transcript fascinating. I mean, what if it was said with an eye roll, i find him always fascinated. All right. I mean so im not sure and we can always second guess after the fact, but that one would have jumped off the page to me as a strike. Well, what trumps lawyers are looking for somebody whos strong and independent and if everybodys going one way, this other person could be the holdout for what youre talking about, which is the hung jury. And its got to be somebody with a backbone. Yeah. And maybe the person whos friends all had strong opinions about donald trump, but she wasnt she wasnt swayed by them One Way Or Another, maybe that would be the person who maybe thats what they were thinking. But youve got to have somebody strong two withstand any pressure inside the jury room on because what do you think these jurors whats going through the minds of these jurors right now because were learning a lot, a lot more and more about okay yeah. Okay. I have some thoughts about what the mission here. First of all, i imagine its somewhat surreal, right . To be selected i am wondering if some of them are a little unhappy with the amount of information that is being made public about them. Now this is not the fault of the media when be very clear about this responsibility to guard all of the spirit, very specific information that were learning resides with the das office and with the judge. Im a little surprised that we are learning all of this because i do not think this jury is going to remain anonymous necessarily. If you keep if they keep this up, youre worried about their safety . Yeah, im worried about their safety. I mean, its up to them if they want to write a book after all, this is said and done, but thats your option. They shouldnt be out of this way. Theyre not supposed to be out of this way because we dont know her name was but we do know a lot of details about the virginia right. If you know where someone works, if you have some idea of their neighborhood it doesnt take a lot in this day and age to pick up the phone, to go through social media and see if you can put together a profile of someone. So i think it is important that as much as possible they need to stay anonymous, as anchorage said, if at the end of the day they want to become public thats their choice. But at the end of the E Jean Carroll case, we all remember for the judge said to the jurors, if i were you i would stay nobody knew their names, right . Nobody knew they were good point is very important points we want these jurors to be safe. Theyre doing important work and they have to be protected no doubt about that. All right. Guys stay with us. We have a lot more to discuss coming up. Well have more on day two. Of this truly historic Criminal Trial of a former president of the United States stay with us. Youre in the situation you in the fight against climate change. 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