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he's pleaded not guilty. let's speak to former federal prosecutor. thank you let's speak to former federal prosecutor renato mariotti, who's in new york. very much for coming up on the programme. bring us up to speed. brute programme. bring us up to speed. we do programme. bring us up to speed. - do have a jury that's been selected. they have been working today on alternates. in other words, these arejurors alternates. in other words, these are jurors who are going to place of the actualjurors in case a juror has to be excused for one reason or another. it appears that we're on track for opening statements on monday. track for opening statements on monda . . track for opening statements on monda . , , . , ., monday. opening statements, what does that mean? _ monday. opening statements, what does that mean? what _ monday. opening statements, what does that mean? what do _ monday. opening statements, what does that mean? what do we - monday. opening statements, what i does that mean? what do we expect? sure. they are where both sides describe what they believe the evidence shows. it's eventually a way for both of the sides, prosecution and defence, to set forth the issue in front of the jury, to make sure thejury is
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that is allowed for under the new york laws and applicable procedures. it's a fine up to $1,000 each time, but it also can be a fine and jail or a fine or jail. putting it into context, the other times he violated gag orders, for example, justice engoron's gag order where he got dinged $15,000, that was in a civil fraud case. this is a criminal case. that's why you see what renato pointed out earlier, that the judge is not allowing the defense to get the names of these witnesses in advance, because of a fear of what donald trump is going to do. i know a lot of people who are tuning in watching are very impatient and they don't understand why the judge hasn't done anything yet, but i want to reassure people on tuesday there's a process and procedure by which this contempt hearing has to take place. under the rules and the law, you have to have an evidentiary hearing. it can't just be the judge saying i'm holding you in contempt of court.
president and those jurors were excused and were questioned about that. but we definitely saw that today. so some of them maybe forgot they had done it. whatever the case was. it's difficult to pick a jury, and you also are seeing coming into this, and it was jarring this morning, we had seven jurors picked last night. we came in this morning, and one of them came in and had that change of heart, and part of it was, you know, she was worried her family knew that she was down there, even though she hadn't identified herself. the other fellow that was excused, there were some questions about his integrity raised. we don't know if that's why he was excused, but he also said he had questions about the identity. it goes to show how hard this is. i wouldn't be surprised if we walked in tomorrow and lose one or two based on what happened yesterday. >> renato, this is another part of this i think is particularly
tonight, a social media post from donald trump that's raising a lot of questions about whether he violated the gag order. it is hush money case. he's quoting fox host jesse watters saying this. they are catching undercover liberal activists line to the judge in order to get on the trump jury unquote. now, that's completely unsubstantiated in charge. you do realize but does it also violate the gag order? i want to bring in formal power prosecutor, renato mariotti, renato, so glad you're here. i mean, frankly this question has been looming for some time. will he violate the gag order? has way he's done so far violate the gag order. now, this is opposed to truth social. there's absolutely no evidence of the fact that there are somehow these leaper jurors. so that's been a question people have had. >> but the gag order prohibits trump from doing this. >> let's read it for everyone to see what it's actually on the table here it prohibits that him from making or directing others to make public statements about any prospective juror or any juror