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Everyone's concerned there might be a stealth juror in the mix, a injury who says they can be fair but is really in the tank for one side or the other. these are skillful lawyers on both sides, the cumulative experience on the prosecution team is very impressive. this is their job to detect jurors who aren't telling the truth to protect the integrity of the jury. we saw that happen earlier this week when the d.a.'s team came back and questioned juror number four, had found information that they felt like that juror had not revealed and had that juror removed. >> we do know their professions, t...

To legal response. >> trace: let's bring in mccarthy and a fox news contributor, andy, it's great to see you as eric was saying it looks like they could have the jury on the alternates all in place by today sells opening statements probably on monday. i want to go back if i can because the former president spoke about the gag order today and he said this, andy. >> i have to be released of the gag order. they have taken away my constitutional rights to speak and that includes speaking to you. i have a lot to say to you and i am not allowed to say at. it's very, very unfair. that my constitution...

>> 9:30 sharp, we're going to have a little judicial house keeping. merchan is going to tell us what the permissible scope of the cross-examination is about trump's prior misconduct and unlawful acts. after that, we get straight to opening statements from the d.a.'s office and then in turn from trump's lawyers. i don't expect that that will take more than an hour and change on either side. then as harry said, and previewed, we'll get to the first witness. my prediction is that first witness is david pecker because the very first event in this indictment, if you're going chronologically, is the...

Legal team are trying to find with the other potential jurors they can seat in those vacant spots. i should note in just the last ten seconds, the juror -- potential jurors have been dismissed to lunch here. we now officially have 18 individuals in the jury box who have finished that 42-question questionnaire. after the lunch break it will be up to the d.a.'s office and trump's legal team to go through voir dire where they'll be able to ask direct questions of each of those individual jurors so we expect some progress this afternoon, chris. >> thank you so much for that, vaughn. danny, let's t...

Lawyers that have been screened and filters out are corporate lawyers, not necessarily criminal lawyers, i think that kind of gives a little bit of ease to the people that are here. i put so much faith, jason, in the ability for these manhattan d.a. office prosecutors to make these decisions. they had limitless for-cause challenges. so if the juror could not be fair and impartial, they were gone straight out the gate, but they also had a certain number of preempatory strikes. the d.a.'s office was left with two strikes when the defense had no left. it's a dance you're doing in the art of jury ...