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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

with other cases but jury selection will resume in the morning a few hours from now. so far, seven jurors have been officially selected. a total of 18 will hear the case. the former president spent a good part of this morning complaining about the jury process. he said his lawyers should have gotten unlimited chances to strike potential jurors. but that is not how it works. they have exactly the number of chances that the law allows. no more, no less. equal treatment. now donald trump is also saying that he is willing to take the witness stand in this trial. and district attorney alvin bragg revealed his plan to cross examine trump. if the former president decides that he does want to testify. that list includes his half a billion civil fraud judgment and the civil verdicts finding him liable for defamation and

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Laura Coates Live

before the jury, including a list of quote, all misconduct and criminal acts of the defendant which the people intend to use at trial to impeach the credibility of the defendant. now, i know when you here are the word impeachment when it comes to trump. but thinking about the political thing in the senate and the house, you've heard at least twice, right? this is not that kind of impeachment. impeaching a witness in a criminal trial means you're trying to present evidence that shows that they're not telling the truth. you do it when they actually take the stand. so imagine the scene playing out in the courtroom, right? you've got the former president is it an on the stand. he's questioned about everything from the new york fraud case when we're he's been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of penalties to a part of a unanimous civil a two-part. unanimous civil fraud federal jury verdict that found him liable for defamation to the tune of $90 million. and sexual abuse the writer e jean carroll, to gag order violations. the 2022 tax fraud conviction of his company. i mean, all of these things could be on the table if he were to

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The Lead With Jake Tapper

remarkably, the former president has a few of them, including being forced to pay for falsifying business records, forced to pay damages for defamation against e. jean carroll, forced to pay fees for a bad faith lawsuit against hillary clinton the judge in this case will have to decide which if any of these are relevant enough to be brought up before a jury with us now, former trump attorney tim parlatore, and we should point out to him, this only comes if they need it in the views of the prosecutors to undermine the president's credibility. and only if he chooses to testify do you think he's going to ultimately testify? >> i don't think he will, but litigating emotion like this is a very important factor in making that determination nation. and that's why it has to be done at the beginning of the trial and so you want to really have an idea of what, what is and is not out of bounds before you make that decision. but honestly, i don't think that he should or will testify in this case because i don't think that he has anything to add. it's just it's unnecessary risk. >> so let's talk about some of these issues that will come up

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

big if he ends up testifying in his own defense, that is a giant f despite the former president's claims which is my absolute, it's a scam. it's a scam that's not a trial testifying. i tell the truth. i mean, all i can do is tell the truth and the truth is that there's no case they have no case. and again, you have to read the scholars read all of the legal scholars. i haven't seen one legal scholar that said this is the case prosecutors begged to differ. >> they're now unveiling some of their ammunition, what they would bring up all potentially cross-examining trump to discredit him to the jury. it's a long list. we don't have time for all of it, but prosecutors say they would ask the former president about the recent verdicts against him. how, for example, he was found liable for business fraud order to pay tens of millions of dollars to e. jean carroll for defamation and prosecutors say they would bring up how he was fine for violating a court order by publicly attacking a judge's law clerk, despite being warned not to do so.

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Anderson Cooper 360

verdicts and the e jean carroll cases were two different juries found trump liable for defamation. one found trump liable for sexual well abuse, among the other, miss legal run-ins, trump has had. they also want to focus on a judge sanctioning him for filing a frivolous lawsuit against hillary clinton. they also want to be able to ask him about a settlement that the trump foundation had with the new york attorney general's office in which trump agreed to dissolve his foundation. and lastly, they want to ask him about the criminal convictions of two trump entities for tax fraud in 2022, trump's sayyed has signaled that they're going to challenges the judge said he will hold a hearing over this issue before he rules whether any of this will come in he said that could be as soon as friday they afternoon if they wrap up jury selection in time. so he seems like he thinks that that is possible kara scannell, stay with joining us has also bestselling author and former federal prosecutors, jeffrey toobin, also jury consultant jill huntley, taylor geoff, the former president, posted on his

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Anderson Cooper 360

pertaining to the type of felonies he's charged with. and i'm quoting now, each party must be allowed to following number of peremptory challenges. ten for the regular jurors and all of the cases and two for each alternate juror to be selected. and that's something his legal team is certainly aware of their client, apparently not so much regardless, the jury selection process this has been going quickly enough. we could see opening statements by monday. more now from cnn's kara scannell, who joins us so we're gonna get to the trump complaints about jury selection in a moment. but first, talk a little little bit about the information that prosecutors want to now introduce. >> yes. so prosecutors want to be able to ask trump if he takes the stand on cross-examination about a lot of the legal issues that he's had, including the verbal fraud case for the judge, found trump liable for persistent and repeated fraud. they also want to bring up the verdicts in the e jean carroll cases were two different juries found trump liable for defamation. one found trump liable. for sexual abuse and among the other, miss legal run-ins, trump has had. they also want to focus on a

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Anderson Cooper 360

here's the state law pertaining to the type of felonies he's charged with. and i'm quoting now, each party must be allowed to following number of peremptory challenges ten for the regular jurors and all other cases and two for each alternate juror to be selected. and that's something his legal team is certainly aware of. their client. apparently not so much regardless, the jury selection process has been going quickly enough. we could see opening statements by monday more now from cnn's kara scannell, who joins us. so we're gonna get to the trump complaints about jury selection in a moment, but first, talk a little bit about the information that prosecutors want to now introduce. >> yeah. so prosecutors want to be able to ask trump if he takes the stand on cross-examination about a lot of the legal issues that he's had, including the verdict in the civil fraud case for the judge found trump liable for persistent and repeated fraud. they also want to bring up the verdicts in the e jean carroll cases were two different juries found trump liable well for defamation. one found trump liable for sexual abuse. among the other, miss legal run-ins

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Andrea Mitchell Reports

they will discussing that right now. we will see if he gets dismissed. that brings the total to six. perhaps five if of the needed 12 and six alternates. prosecutors today saying that donald trump broke that gag order seven times since monday. including when he reposted a false claim last night by a fox news commentator about perspective jurors. a tuesday hearing is set to sort that out. separately, what's called a sandoval hear is scheduled for the end of day tomorrow. that's when the judge will decide what's permissible if donald trump decides to take the stand, what's permissible about his past convictions in civil courts and other issues. prosecutors intend to bring up the recent civil judgements where mr. trump was found liable of business fraud, sexual abuse and defamation. we start with nbc's vaughn hillyard outside the courthouse

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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

now trump is also saying he is willing to take the witness stand in the trial and today the da unveiled his plan to cross-examine trump about his recent high profile legal losses if the former president decides to testify. it includes his half $1 billion civil fraud judgment and the civil vertex will find him liable for defamation and sexual abuse of eiji carol. the judge will decide what the jury will be allowed to hear. >> the judge rules on what things the defendant can be cross-examined on for prior litigation that goes to the defendant's credibility. he will not like listening to that. >> reporter: meanwhile trumps replicant allies in congress suffered a blow this afternoon. the house gop's impeachment of

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