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Probably 30%. but that's still much higher than what we ended up with on this jury. and even the number of african-american potential jurors that made through the lengthy two-and-a-half-week jury process, many of them were struck down by the defense. >> it's interesting, because one of the attorneys for one of these accused, this is a mr. goff who represented earlier in the deposition, speaking of white men over 40 born in the south without a college education. they know the value of the racial makeup of the jury, but i wonder if you are making this case to this jury of 11 whites, one black me...

There appears to be some bias, but what did the judge say after that? >> reporter: the judge indicated he had to act within the bounds of georgia law, and because the defense provided non-discriminatory reasons why they were striking these jurors, and of course, many of them were black potential jurors, they would still be allowed to be seated. despite his ruling, it was remarkable to listen to this judge, because as you said, it seemed like the judgestid i -- siding with the prosecutors when he said it appeared there was discrimination in this jury process, which ended in 11 jurors who were w...

>> and i want to just do a little criminal justice law one-on-one here for folks that are not familiar, because it can get obscure. the grand jury is differ from a regular jury, right? it's a same group of people and often hearing a bunch of different cases. but they're also there in the room and it's basically not adversarial trial process, right? it has a different standard than the kind of jury process that we see in a normal criminal trial when actually goes to trial. >> right. the prosecutor's burden is much lower. it's often seen as pretty easy to get an indictment if they have just the ...

Proudly, quote, i'm not an impartial juror. i'm not impartial about this at all. this is an astonishing admission of partisanship. >> anybody taking an oath tomorrow can have an opinion. this is not a jury box. >> many do but this is something the founding fathers decided to put in a body susceptible to the winds of politics. >> i understand democrats saying this isn't apples-to-apples because there were more witnesses heard during the impeachment investigation and the trial. in one breath now he's describing this process as more of a criminal trial, process the jury process, back in 1999, he ...

Can you be fair in the matter? well, he can't do that? it seems he has no business being on the jury. and i think that the corruption that's involved in this jury process spreads further. because we also have the president making contributions to key senators to buy off their vote for the purposes of the impeachment. there is no other way to look at it. it shouldn't surprise us that he would do know what he did wrong in ukraine and what he did before trying to obstruct other investigations. that's exactly what we have here. the entire process is defective, flawed, unjust and fixed by the words...