For Donald Trumps hush money trial. Several jurors were let go yesterday, saying they could not be impartial. House Speaker Mike Johnson is set to reveal a package of bills for aid, a move already meeting resistance from some republicans. Heres how you can comment on either or both of those topics. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. If you want to give your thoughts on either the former president s trial or efforts to find ukraine and israel and want to text us, you can do that at 202 7488003. You can post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Or you can post on x, cspanwj. From the bbc, kind of a round up of yesterdays events in new york considering the former president and his hush money trial. They report dozens of potential jurors have been ruled out of Donald Trumps unprecedented trial on impartiality grounds. Just ahead of the 2016 election, which he won. 60 of 96 potential jurors were quick to say they couldnt be impartial after the proceedings began monday. Jury selection begins today. The dismissals on day one are an indication of how challenging it could be to find a group of 12 impartial jurors for such a unique case. It concerns a high profile sex scandal who involves a former president who is running again for the white house. Reporting on that front yesterday, it was after those proceedings on the first day that the former president went before cameras and gave his thoughts and impressions. Here he is from yesterday. [video clip] we had some Amazing Things happen today. Looks like the judge will not let me go through looking forward to have graduation with the mother and father there. Looks like the judge will not allow me to escape this scam trial. If you read all the legal pundits or scholars today, theres not one i see that said this is a case that should go up for trial. It is a scam, a political witchhunt. It continues and continues forever. We are not going to be given a fair trial. In addition, next thursday, the United StatesSupreme Court on immunity. It is something we have been waiting for for a long time, and the judge is not going to allow us. It is a very conflicted judge. He will not allow us to go to that. And i have to go to d. C. Before the United StatesSupreme Court, because you think c is superior to the Supreme Court. We have a real problem with this judge, with a lot of things happening with this trial, including the da. He is sitting here all day with about 10 or 12 prosecutors over nothing. Over what people say should not be a trial, so i want to thank you very much, but i cannot go to my sons graduation or i cannot go to the United StatesSupreme Court or i cannot go to georgia or florida or North Carolina campaigning as i should be. It is perfect for the radical democrats. That is exactly what they want. This is about election interference. Host some of the comments from the former president yesterday after that first day of jury selection for his hush money trial. You can comment on that if you wish. 202 7488001 for republicans,. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488002 for independents. On capitol hill, more on that plane from house Speaker Mike Johnson for funding for ukraine and israel and other matters. Heres what to expect, via punchbowl, saying the broader republican conference plan to pass three separate bills to unlock aid to ukraine, israel, and taiwan. That also includes the housepast tiktok ban bill housepassed tiktok ban bill. Punchbowl adding speaker johnson hopes to bring these bills to the floor under a single rule. Johnson will probably need democratic support to get the rule onto the floor, and democrats seem likely to give johnson the help he needs. That is from punch bowl. Yesterday at the white house, the White House Security spokesperson john kirby talked about this effort by the house the past funding. Here are some of his comments. [video clip] the president spoke to congressional leaders. Did he receive any sort of commitment from Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the supplemental bill to the house floor this week . The speaker, whatever his plans might be, certainly we heard from leader mcconnell and from leader jeffries about the importance of passing the supplemental and getting it on its way. As i said in my opening statement, the fastest way you have got two good friends here, israel and ukraine a very different fights, to be sure, but active fights for their sovereignty and security. Time is not on anyones side, in either case. They need to move quickly on this. The best way to get that aid into the hands of the idf and the ukrainian soldiers is to pass that bipartisan bill the senate passed. I understand that is your preference, the bipartisan bill, but is the white a standalone bill that would just work on israel, as we have seen proposed, we would oppose a standalone bill. Host those are the comments from john kirby on this effort for ukraine and israel funding. Expect those to play out on the house floor this week. You can comment on that or the former president s trial in new york as jury proceedings take place. Lets hear from alan in brooklyn, new york, democrat line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would argue that, even though the Supreme Court rules that 14. 3 cannot keep the former president off the ballot under the insurrection clause, we should still have him be able to cap off the ballot based on his current conduct, in violation of his oath of office, and oath to preserve, text, and defend the constitution until not only keeping to the language of statutes but also respecting legal facts created by court rulings. In the president has consistently violated that part of his obligation by openly doubting the outcome of 60 court cases to determine the election in 2020 was valid and determining that hundreds of people who stormed the capitol were rioters and criminals, not hostages. By violating that aspect of his obligation as resident, he has, in the concept of lawyer language, been in anticipatory reach of his opposition to take a further oath. In other words, he really cannot take the next oath if he has already promised to do things that contradict its terms. Host how do you think the hush money trial falls in comparison to the other charges facing the former president . Caller i think it is much more serious most people would believe. On the surface, it is about personal moral impropriety. It really is about his admission , on emails and other communications, that because of the billy bush tapes, without awful quotation that came onto air, it looked like he was toast at that point and had no chances of winning the presidency we cannot let anything else to get into the public eye. Only then did he begin to negotiate seriously about a payment to Stormy Daniels and the other woman to keep their stories out of the air, because they thought that would be the nail in the coffin of his candidacy. Host lets hear from glenn in texas, republican line. You can discuss the trial yesterday or the efforts the past funding. Caller i would like to talk both of them, if i may. Host go ahead. Caller the trump trial, that is a sham. The prosecuting attorney, when you go to have a jury pool ive been on juries many times. The prosecuting attorney come and talk to the jurors before they are brought into court for seating in the jury box. The whole thing is a sham. The judge is a democrat, joe biden sponsor. The prosecuting attorney, they donate money to joe bidens campaign. And also, the daughter of this judge, she wants to make money off of this trial. The republicans cannot get any kind of decent trial verdicts in democrat new york. I cant understand that. Trump is the only man ok, now i am going to talk about the iraq situation. Trump will never get a decent trial in new york host by iraq, you mean the funding for israel or ukraine on capitol hill . Caller yeah, i will talk about that now. Host go ahead, make your point. Caller our country has stooped so low in our government. We have nobody in our government that has taken any kind of responsibility for anything. So the marches we had yesterday, and i had never heard this before in my life i was a military veteran. And the palestinians in our own country are saying death to americans, and our government does nothing about it host when it comes to the effort for more funding for israel and ukraine, do you support that or not, when it comes to the house . Caller right now, i support money for israel. Later on, we can support money for ukraine in a separate bill. Host ok. Washington state democrat line. Caller hello. Host go ahead. Caller good morning. I want to get back to this the first trump trial in new york. My thing is i want to direct everything right now and how he is being treated i know that everybody in the United States, we are all given that alien citizen right of due process of the law. I am viewing all this stuff, and as i am looking at this, in my lifetime i am almost 60 years old. Ive never seen all the inordinary special treatment and the extraordinary special treatment that donald j. Trump is receiving, not just in new york that is happening right now, going to trial, but in all the other cases that he is looking at right now, in other states. He gets so much special treatment. He is being treated host such as what . Caller ok, all these different motions come all these different processes time extensions. Extensions by motions. He is over exhausting all these cases with a friend motions. He is going right down the line and delaying, delaying, delaying. If it was any other judge, another u. S. Citizen of the United States, if it was a you, me, or any other citizen, we would be given our due process of the law, but no judge, in all of these other cases and the one that is in trial right now, they are giving him like i just said, inordinary an extraordinary treatment and extraordinary treatment. We would not be able to allow our lawyers to get all these different motions that are delaying, delaying, delaying. He has the money to do that. But any judge, if it was you, me, or any other citizen, they would say, you know what, we are not going to do any more delays. Host the Washington Post picks up from yesterdays events, saying when it comes to the judge himself in the courtroom saying that mr. Trumps courtroom behavior has been the subject of intense speculation, particularly because he was so outspoken earlier this year in federal court when he was sued for sexual assault, the judge gave mr. Trump a standard warning that if he disrupted court or did not appear for trial, he could be punished and possibly sent to jail. Mr. Trump indicated he understood the judges warning. Those are some of the events yesterday. You can talk about the events or if you want to put your attention on capitol hill and its efforts to pass funding for ukraine and israel, if you want to comment on both, you can do both. You can reach out to us on the lines or on facebook and x, or text us at 202 7488003. In florida nick, republican line. Caller good morning. I finally stopped laughing that was a bit of a question you asked. Such as what . If you want to trip up a liberal dummycrat, ask simple, concise question. Such as what . And you turned him into a stuttering fool. Good job there. Second point they let me bring a dose of reality to cspan, which is something i know cspan does not really like. Let me explain how judges and courtrooms and witnesses and jury members, how it actually works. When i was in college, in the late 1980s, i was called jury duty. A buddy of mine from college, his older sister happened to work as a stenographer in the county courthouse that i was called to. She said to me, if youre there, look me up, maybe we will have lunch. So i happened to be brought into a jury room where guess who the stenographer is . Her. Im on the jury, all of a sudden, her, both attorneys, and the judge are having a conference, and they are looking at me. I was told, you do not communicate with her, you do not speak to her, no contact throughout this trial. She was the stenographer host how does that relate to yesterday . Caller that judge is so corrupt. The fact that he has not recused himself and the fact that he has not been removed he has a daughter who has a financial stake in donald trump being prevented from running and being prevented from being the president of the United States. I was a guy in college who had a buddy in college i had nothing to do with that trial other than being a witness. He had nothing to do with that trial other than taking down what was said in the courtroom. And when she passed me in the hall later on in that day, she passed me in the hallway. She cannot even say hello to me. Not that i care, i did not know her that well. Host got the point. Washington, d. C. , democrat line. Caller good morning, how are you . Host i am well. Go ahead. Caller looking at this case i am not a fan of donald trump and donald trump should be charged with crimes that he did. But looking at this case in new york, this is all political. When he first announced he was going to run for president again on november 15, 2022, days prior to that, joe biden said, he will have to demonstrate he should not take power if he runs. I am making sure that, by legitimate efforts, he does not become the next resident again. When we look at all the characters involved matthew, who worked for bidens doj, and is now working with alvin bragg, and the judge and the daughter, both of them have conflict of interest. You can donate to biden, nothing wrong with that, but the daughter, everything against her alvin bragg this is a federal charges. You are merging state and federal charges. You cannot do that. This is a nondisclosure agreement. Trump used his own money, not Campaign Money. Then we look at Hillary Clinton actually used Campaign Money to host again, specifically, how does this relate to yesterday . Caller what i am looking at is this is a bogus case. I am not defending trump, but there is too much conflict of interest. There is no real charge. He is not authorized to charge, alvin bragg, and the only reason they are doing this is because he is running for president. Just beat trump at the ballot box like a normal president. This stuff the Biden Administration is doing it is a form of cheating. I do not agree with that. Host independent line, john in dearborn, michigan. Caller good morning. The ukraine and israel has me floored. It says to me we are truly an evil country, that we are doing this. Lets start here. We do not have the money. We have great needs in this country. They say it helps our Defense Industrial base, which i guess is the new term for the militaryindustrial complex. That is not a good argument. Thats an amoral economic model. We make things off of killing people . That is not a good model host so youre saying no funding for either ukraine or israel . Caller no. Because it is not helping ukraine. There is no way they can win this war. They have already lost about half a million people. And all of our politicians are unregistered foreign agents for israel, as far as i am concerned. Our ally ship with israel is not in our interests. Neither of these countries are democracies. Host israel and the middle east was part of Mitch Mcconnells comments yesterday. Here is a portion. [video clip] unfortunately, the second thing we saw was the commanderinchief sticking to the same playbook, secondguessing the will of the israeli people and trying to tie the hands of an ally under attack. President biden insisted, ahead of irans attack, that americas commitment to israel was ironclad. But after three years of appeasement and weakness and six months of quivering over israels right to selfdefense, i am not really sure who he expects to believe that assertion. Just saying so, saying our commitment is ironclad, does not make it so. Words do not paper over the glaring rift between the Biden Administration and the National Unity government in jerusalem. The public criticism of iran and israel by Senior Administration officials undoubtedly influences the decisions of israels adversaries. Its the if the president s commitment to a vital ally were ironclad, his response to this attack would not be to lecture our leaders against responding in selfdefense. Would an american commanderinchief failed to respond if an adversary launched 300 missiles at american soil . The fact that our collective defenses worked in this case does not obviate the threat. It does not make the need to compel iran to change its behavior any less urgent. Host france 24 reporting there was responses from the ukrainian president yesterday, saying in a post on telegram, zelenskyy saying to allies who had responded to ukraines call for more air defenses saying the intensity of russian attacks by defending israel, the world has demonstrated such unity is possible but also the same as possible in defending ukraine, which, like israel, is not a nato member, from terror. You can talk about what is expected in the house this week, four separate bills, portions of those bills dealing with ukraine and israel funding. If you want to talk about that and that effort or the armor president s hush money case yesterday, with jury selection currently underway, 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. Independents, 202 7488002. Katie joins us on our republican line from michigan. Hello. Caller hello. Host hi, youre on. Caller yes, am i on . Host yes, go ahead. Caller ok. What i have to say is trump has not done near as much as the kennedys did they had a woman killed. Trump didnt. What does it hurt to pay somebody hush money . It doesnt hurt a thing. And this here, the democrats have been against trump from the day he opened his mouth. And i think it is a shame that they are trying him for this hush money when the past president s have done much worse than trump even thought of doing. Look at biden. He hid papers, he hid boxes. They had that on tv, but he didnt get anything. Just because the mans name is trump, theyre after him. They even wen in they even went in his home, when he wasnt there, and took those papers which is fine