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The aid package has a $5 billion price tag. with that, let s get smarter with the help of our leadoff panel tonight. nbc news washington correspondent joins us, and a new political contributor barbara mcquaid is here. a veteran federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. her new must read book, attack from within. howdies information is sabotaging america. it is out now. barb, you know we got legal questions tonight. beyond donald trump complaining unjustly about how the legal process works, fox news is now making up fabricating things about potential jurors and donald trump is taking these fabrications and now pushing them out and spreading them. how are we not right back in gag order territory? because that is going to pollute the american people and potential jurors out there. all these things they are ....
Juror should be struck for cause and then the judge has the final say? how does that go? yes. yes, so the judge can raise it himself too, but yeah, someone has to raise the issue or a concern, and then the judge signs off on it. he isn t giving them a hard time about any of this, as barb mentioned, he s just sort of moving people out as quickly as possible who say they cannot be fair and impartial. when you get to the preemptory strikes, those are the strikes nobody has to explain or provide any detail about their reasoning. it s a very good question you ve asked. i m going to give you an unsatisfactory answer, a lot is going to come down to the lawyer s assessment of this particular case and what they think would be helpful to their side. i m sure i know that trump has engaged jury consultants to engage profiles of people that would be helpful or unhelpful to them, and i m sure they re using that through this process. it s instinctive. ....
barb, if you had a chance to ask a question of the jurors, what would it be? i guess i would ask them about to what extent are they concerned about outside influences after they start to serve. they re going to be selected and deselected basd on biases. can they withstand any scrutiny they might get, even though we ll do everything we can to assure your anonymity, people might ask are you on that jury and they ll figure it out. will you be able to decide the case based on the facts and the law that you hear here and nothing from the outside? i like barb s question. i think it is an important question, actually. we have gotten a flavor of it today with respect to the person who got excused. and the media sort of interplay between the media and the legal proceeding is going to be unique and interesting to see unfold. ....
Barb is right. it is important for these people to, you know, be prepared to have to be able to insulate themselves from that stuff because this is going to be a very, very obviously heavily covered proceeding. well, thank you, both, so much for being with us throughout the hour. really appreciate you both. that s going to do it for us this hour. i ll be back here at 3:00 p.m. eastern filling in for my friend katy tur. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. .without the stuff you don t. so, here s to now. boost. the chances of a plane crash 1 in 11 million. you re not going to finish those salted nuts, right? so, here s to now. never waking up from anesthesia 1 in 185,000. validate your parking or just see how it goes? -what? -why stress about the unlikely? ....
Situation and the nature of this trial. one more note for you, we re hearing about the former president inside that courtroom. we re being told his eyes are currently closed, his arms crossed. he doesn t necessarily seem to be sleeping, but that was throughout the instruction process of judge juan merchan, in which he had to walk through the instructions for the potential jurors. yasmin, stand by, and come back with any new details as we continue the discussion with barb and ankush. 6 out of 18 raised their hands saying they can t be fair and impartial. your reaction? i suppose it s not surprising. and they re not even saying whether they can t be fair in favor of donald trump or against donald trump. that sounds about right. now, that doesn t mean that all of those people will then still be qualified because now there will be these rounds of questions and there may still be some strikes for cause, which means this person has some sort of bias that makes them unsuitable for this ca ....