jurors all of whom were women expressed concerns about their inability to serve due to their fears surrounding the case. the first juror was dismissed after saying she has really bad anxiety and wouldn t be able to be completely here and fair. adding, people have found out where i am. another broke down crying while she was being questioned, saying, i have to be honest. i feel so nervous and anxious right now. a third juror was excused after saying she felt anxiety and self-doubt. her voice audibly cracking while answering questions. all of this underscores the unique challenge the jurors in this trial face. a trial that at times has felt more like that of a mob boss than that of a former president. today, for example, trump s attorneys once again asked for the name of the first witness, which the d.a. s office has refused to share with the defense, due to the fact that trump has been posting about everyone and anyone involved in the case on social media.
going forward or it could stay smooth. it s been two different kinds of weeks, it seems to me. if you were prosecuting this case, who would you call first? because there are different ways to do it. michael cohen was at the start of the catch and kill trial, as was david pecker from the national enquirer. or they could go back and start with stormy daniels. what would you anticipate being that first witness? yeah, it s a great and big question. cohen, they said, is going to be the sort of tour guide, but i think it would be a mistake and they won t start with him. my best guess is pecker. they ll start through macdougal and set things up for either that or a very sort of banal witness that just goes through paperwork. i think they ll start with low emotional intensity but then try to frame the story and have cohen somewhere in the middle. you don t want him as the last, you don t want him as the first. and give us a sense of what we should expect to see, lisa, on monday morning a
occurring a never before occurrence in the united states. a former president of the united states on trial in a criminal trial, but it is a spectacle that is unique. give us a little context because it can attract anything. it can be a carnival, donald trump wanted it to be a protest, it s not. it s attracting cameras, and it s just different. it s the trial of the century without cameras in the courtroom, they re outside. it is, and as we say all the time, you and all four of us, he s not guilty until proven guilty if he ever is. but the people who founded this country were not exactly anticipating that someone who was a president of the united states and even more who is seeking the people s affirmative vote to become president again would be on criminal trial, what, six months before the election, seven months before the election. it just boggles the mind. you know what i would love to do, i know the reidout has no investigative unit, but i wish
and arson experts. people do this to themselves but the point here is the person traveled from florida all the way to the trump trial. this is not connected to trump, it has really nothing to do with him. i read all his writings he posted. it s nonsensical, as yasmin clearly reported. it doesn t make sense. he named every politician, every hollywood person, every billionaire, every person on the news, every name he can think of. he tied them all together in some crackpot conspiracy theory. he s a disturbed person. it doesn t make any sense. i think the good part of that, though, is hopefully the judge will take a look at that, to reassure his jurors that this was not directed at the trial, at mr. trump, at them, at the court family. i hope he takes the time to do that. i would even say, you know, to the judge, consider letting the jurors read his rantings which are only a couple pages. once you read it, you will be
were there and witnessed it live. it was an unbelievable moment to see. i gotta say. i was on the air live. i was with chris jansing earlier in the day. history in the making. the first jury ever seated for this historic trial which we ll all be watching closely over the next six weeks. then i heard a scream out of my right ear. in which someone said he is setting himself on fire. i turned to my right just off camera and about 50 feet in front of me, joy, really half a block, half a new york city block, i see a large plume of fire. about 20 to 25 feet high. and i gotta say, in my head, i thought for a moment, okay, that is an area that is cordoned off for protesters. i have seen protesters there back in april when the former president was first arraigned. there were protesters there on monday as well. that number has gone down every single day since then. and so i thought, someone set off a fire, and then i looked