apparently a competitive pool is a big thing and he gets heated. james harris and russ redhead, they've been playing against each other and tournaments for years, so they were rivals but when harris needed a kidney russ stepped up no, i don't know. you. >> thanks to my doing something like i wouldn't know what to say to him, but thank you he, realizes how much it means to me to have a life back. >> i'm doing this because like i said, it's the right thing to do and i think that if the roles were reversed, i would want somebody to step up for me >> russ redhead. thank you for stepping up. and russ and james. i see you. >> thank you for joining me today. i'll see you back here next saturday at 8:00 a.m.m. eastern smerconish is up next

two >> days until trump trial. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia with this question. do you have a state of mind that would preclude you from rendering an impartial verdict based upon evidence adduced at the trial of former president donald trump because that's the question that will be front and center on monday when jury selection begins and trump becomes the first former president to ever face criminal prosecution. said differently, said more simplistically. can trump get a fair trial in manhattan. that's today's poll question. it's were carnage.com. here's what he said yesterday. >> jury selection is largely luck. >> it >> depends who you get. it's very unfair that i'm having a trial there >> judge juan merchan from the new york supreme court has the difficult task of seating a fair and impartial jury 12 jurors, six alternates in a manhattan borough where trump in 2020 received only 12.3% of

the vote in 2016 against hillary clinton. he got less than 10%. >> no >> wonder then that 500 or so perspective jurors will be summoned for consideration. trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment to a former adult film actress stormy daniels. jurors will have to determine whether the payment was a violation of state and federal election law, meaning that trump paid the money for the purpose of silencing daniels with an eye toward his reelection or as trump will argue, was it made despair his family from embarrassing disclosures irregardless of the election. 12 jurors must make that decision by a unananimous verdict. so how exactly does a jury gets selected? well, in this case, after answering 42 questions designed by the judge to elicit bias it's a process that happens in civil and criminal courtrooms all across the country every day it's called ward deir or to speak the truth o.j. simpson death

this week reminded everybody about his trial, which of course was televised. the simpson jury selection process, the selection process took two months as sararah eschar recenty wrote in the dispatch to find 12 jurors attorney started with 250 people who were asked to fill out a 79 page 294 question questionnaire in trump's case, despite the defendant, they won't be asked who they've voted for previously or who they will vote for the future, nor whether they think the 2020 election was stolen they will be asked whether they belong to advocacy groups what media they follow, whether they have any political, moral, intellectual, or religious beliefs that prevent them from following court instructions. if they participated in activism for or against trump politically whether they've ever belong to q and naught or antifa and perhaps most importantly, whether they can set aside

anything they've heard previously and decide the case solely based on evidence presented at trial. on friday trump's lawyers argued the jury questionnaire lacks a question. to quote identify potential jurors who align with rival political parties that but could still support a ump, disqualifying bias that is worthy of follow-up inquiry by defense the lawyers are asking that if the judge doesn't amend the questions, they be allowed to ask questions to explore any affiliations the jurors will be given anonymity in a move normally reserved for cases involving the mafia or drug cartels in a letter to lawyers last week judge, more shawn made it clear that any jurors were perspective jurors who won out. we'll have their wishes honored based on his prior experience presiding over the case of the people of the state of new york versus the trump organization the judge said that questioning every person who self-identifies that they

cannot be fair or partial, or is otherwise unable to serve would be unnecessary, time-consuming and have no benefit so how hard is it to seat a jury in manhattan that will sit in judgment of donald trump. that's today's poll question. go to smerconish.com and cast a ballot. can trump, get a fair trial in manhattan? my first guest knows something about this question. william j. brennan is a veteran criminal defense attorney, who as co-counsel with michael vanderveer represented the trump payroll corporation in the 2022 criminal case in front of the same judge and in the same court room brennan conducted the board de in that case and william j. brennan joins me now, bill, thank you for being here. what stands out from your jury selection process? >> good morning, michael. the biggest difference will be that in our case, same courtroom saying judge, same type of case criminal. we had an entity, a

corporate entity, our client was the trump payroll corporation. in this case, the former president of the united states will be in the courtroom huge difference >> we're their circumstances. i'm sure there were maybe you can share one with us where you thought someone should have been removed for cause. and judge muss schon thought otherwise >> yes, there were quite a few actually, one comes to mind. we had a questionnaire. i don't think it was quite as long as this one that i saw in the current case. but i think good question is 29 and 30 were something like do you have strong opinions about the former president and that was 29 and 30 was if so, would they affect your ability to be fair? and we have one perspective, juror and i've been picking juries really since the late 80s, a long, long time and you think you have some intuitive skill set developed them, but i saw a female juror probably in her 40s, casually dressed. she

an irish broke. she worked at irish bar normally mytype a juror in a criminal case and she had checked off 29 and 30 and it was late in the day and i asked her, i see you've checked these off with those strong feelings, be positive or negative. and she says, i despise that man and i guess i just maybe was beat up from the long de but i said, well, look, you don't have to sugar coat it for me, speak your mind. she said i speak to me my de eight him and you know, i've never experienced that and i looked at judge merchan and i just kind of assumed that he would meet my gaze and we would dismiss her. but judge merchan, who was a very smart and capable a judge and he ran a tight ship. peaceable that way too. a minute. he said, if i told you what the law was, and instructed you on the law, could you put those feelings aside and deliver a fair verdict? and she said yes, and it's been my experience and i

suspect it was your experience when you're actively practicing law? when a prospective juror is in the courtroom and there's the pomp and circumstance and the judges in his or her black robe, most people do say yes so he kept her for the next round, which really meant it was going to keep her and we came up with a different strategy. she had a parental health issue. she was dealing with and we got her out that way, but michael, the problem was not that perspective juror, it was like rows of shark teeth once she went there were 50 more behind her. so we got rid of a preamble. he yes. but there are different are you >> more are you are you more? surround in voir dire when it's a trump affiliated corporation or as it will be monday with the man himself. are you more concerned representing him about the woman with the irish broke who says i hate him or the sleeper who's not telling you anything

and not showing you where companies hit the nail on the head >> that's if she was obvious if she she had her fin out of the water, you can see you can see where she was from the boat. it's the sharks that are under the water that are the problem when somebody checks no box and you just have a feeling, boy, i don't think this guy is going to be good for us and you say, well, you know, sir on paper, you appear to be the perfect juror, but you sure that not anything, maybe something even in your own mind that would cause you to give pause or hesitation tetra. now have good put me in, coach. yeah, i'm fine. i'll be great. >> that's the >> juror that scares me because as you said, it's a sleeper cell juror and mike. okay. reported to remember where we pick from up there, you pick from the island of manhattan >> so what of the mindset that it only takes one, you know, the rule of it only takes one. you're just looking for that one who could who could make

sure there's not a unanimous verdict. does that apply when it's donald trump or a trump-related affiliate? >> i think that applies in any criminal case. look, we go into every case that we decided to try with an eye towards winning. but a lot of times in criminal law, you play for the fumble. you need a unanimous jury of 12. in most jurisdictions to get a conviction. and if you get one juror is a holdout that hung jury can really be a game changer. i think i think it does apply, but i think it's tougher when the defendant is this particular defendant and it's just the island of manhattan that provides the potential jury pool. >> okay. belt. you're uniquely qualified to address this subject like a whole world is wondering about the jury selection process in a trump case, you did it in front of this judge and in the same courtroom? so what's your answer to my poll question today? can donald trump get a fair trial in manhattan

>> it'd be better off in staten island, michael >> it's a tough it's >> a tough group to pick from. it's often said that his name across the country, 50% feel woman well, i am 50 another way, but it's been my experience having pick going through hundreds of perspective jurors that on that island it's not a 50, 50 split. >> my experience only william j. brennan. thank you for the insight. really appreciate it >> thank you, michael >> remember i want to know what you think. go to my website. it's were cornish.com. how could it be anything else? >> this is today's poll question. can trump get a fair trial in manhattan? what are your thoughts? hit me up on social media. i'll read some throughout the course of the program. what do we have from the world of x setting it up, aren't used for cornice yeah, i'm trying to pull a fast one on you. what was her name? laura. i'm trying to pull a

fast one on you. having having invested the time to study the jury questionnaire to track down and bring to you the lawyer who actually conducted voir dire. it's all just me when a fast one on, you know, i'm delving into the issue of whether people could put aside their biases. foreign against the man and render a fair verdict because that's the question of the day and it's gonna be the question of the next several weeks as we watch this play out so you're welcome, laura, still to come with the consumer price index again, on the rise, it's still the economy stupid. were than three decades after james carville coined the phrase inflation is the primary concern of voters, but are the price tags of certain everyday items like a snickers bar warping, consumer emotion since the overall cost of living. and if you subscribe, remember to the daily newsletter when you cast your ballot, it's mercado.com remember you're gonna get editorial cartoons from the legend since rob rogers drew this very timely cartoon blue carbon

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28% said very important. that's 89% while inflation has fallen from the highs of the mid 2022 era, many families aren't feeling the relief. food prices are still up 21% compared with when biden took office january of 2021. and just in the last year alone, car insurance up 22% elder care, up 14%. motor vehicle repair up 12% baby formula and formula 10% outpatient hospital services, 8% rent of primary residence up close to 6% anxious consumers trying to outpace prices are now buying up gold, which often happens in times of economic turmoil costco began selling $2,000 gold bars in september in the fourth quarter, sold more than $100 million worth now, wells fargo estimates that costco is selling up to 200 million worth of gold and silver each month >> yet my >> next guest says that for many people, inflation feels

higher than it actually is. he put forth this thesis in the new york times essay under the headline wire voters so upset consider the snickers bar joining me now is paul donovan, chief economist of ubs global wealth management. he's also the author of several books, including the truth about inflation, mr. donovan, thanks for being here. what does the price of a snickers bar say about our perception of inflation? >> so here's the thing >> when it >> columnists think about inflation. we use this huge basket of goods, including things that we don't buy very often. you don't buy a car every year, even the average american doesn't buy a car every year but you've got to somehow wait that in the basket, so you have a mix of things we buy very frequently and things we don't bind very often at all. but the problem is, as consumers, when we think about inflation, we remember

the price of something we buy very frequently. so that hey, be your walmart bill, that could be a subway fare. and of course it could be snickers, bars, the best selling chocolate bar in the united states. every time you go to the vending machine, if the price has gone up every single time you buy a thick as bar, you'll being reminded, the price has gone up and that france six in your mind, and you forget about the fact that the television you bought last year was $50 cheaper >> okay. you wrote this in the essay and the times you say, why aren't voters recognizing the decline in the inflation rate? because voters are humans and humans don't think about inflation rationally to which i then asked, but what is irrational about worrying about food costs if in fact they are rising, like what you say that the flat screen might be coming down. but if food is still increasing, we've got a problem well, actually now in

about a third of cities in the united states, food prices are falling. so not the inflation rate coming down. the price is lower than it was a year ago. so you are starting to see what economist called deflation price levels coming down in about a third of american cities today but what we've got is an issue here. you're actually because the united states is a relatively advanced economy, relatively high-income economy food is not actually a very important part of the household budget lots of other things are more important and you spend typically somewhere between ten and 20% depending on your income bracket on food. so it's not actually a huge parts of your everyday spend other things, your mortgage or health insurance back kind of thing. that's where you're putting your money, but you focus on the thing that you're buying on a regular basis and

that's why it's a little bit irrational to put so much emphasis on there. lots thing ignore food prices but then not actually the dominant part of your monthly outgoings >> the essay that you published in the times did not address housing. you did just reference your mortgage rate but your housing costs are going up as well and the insurance costs is something that i don't think gets enough attention or discussion i guess what i'm saying is i get your point. i'm buying that snickers far too often frankly. but what can i look to and say? there's light at the end of the tunnel, there's promise because in my setup, we were fair. we presented a broad stroke of everything. it's all going up well, it's not the fact that actually you're all things going up. so we've had falling prices for durable goods. that's 30 furniture and cars and electronics. they've been falling for over a year and a half >> absolutely. coming down. >> and i'm

>> afraid to say the way that you guys over in the united states calculate housing costs, inflation is just downright weird. so the largest part of inflation in the united states is a price called owners equivalent rent. it's a quarter of the calculation and it's a price absolutely no human being has ever, ever paid in their life. it's completely made up number and this is a big distortion if the united states calculated inflation the same way that europe calculates inflation, us inflation today would be 2.4% european inflation is also 2.4%. so the united states has got exactly the same inflation rate is europe has at the moment. but because you calculate housing the really weird way, which nobody actually pays, that's distorting your overall number. insurance is a big deal. but you mentioned motor insurance in the introduction. there's a lot of confusion about what motor insurance is consumer price inflation. so as motor insurance is rising, 22% a year

but if you look at the personal consumer expenditure deflator, another way of measuring inflation. and in fact, the one that the federal reserve looks at its well below 10% inflation, still very high, but nothing like the cpi number. honestly, to be frank, america doesn't spend enough money on it statistical agencies. and you've got poor color what is statistics? so we're not entirely sure what's going on. a lot of the time >> so i value everything that you've told me here in the states. we've got an expression. it was coined by james carville. it's the economy stupid and the snickers bar is probably going to be of more value. and this was your premise in terms of people's perception than all the other factors that you just cited. thank you. mr. donovan. i appreciate your time very much. >> thank you >> via social media, catherine, what are we what are we hearing? what are we seeing from the world of x americans overall aren't very intelligent it is clearly not all inflation, but corporate greed period. well, jack guard, you're getting to the cause,

but not the price. the fact that the prices are going up, i think is indisputable. well as to whether we will look beyond that factor and trying to assess the cost and where it comes from, how much does the situation in ukraine have to do with grain and food prices that we're that i don't know. i think that gets lost in translation and we tend, here's my view. we tend to give too much credit and too much blame to whoever's in the oval office at any particular time for factors that they probably can't control. i'm not giving biden a pass on the food prices. i'm just saying, i think sometimes we air one way or the other too much. i want to remind you. go to my website, it's where cottage.com answer today's poll question cannot wait to see how this turns out. can trump get a fair trial in manhattan. >> up >> ahead, america's were hobbled by the pandemic and long after school is reopen, one problem has persisted and it's across all dem a graphics absenteeism during the last academic year, more than a quarter of public school

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nationally, an estimated 26% of public school students were considered chronically absent last year that number surge from 15% in 2018 to 28% in 2021 this, according to data from the american enterprise institute 18 miss days a year, it sounds insanely high, at least to me. it caused me to dig in the attic for a quick comparison. i found three of my old report cards. one was from the seventh grade. i missed a total of three days for the year. one was from ninth grade. i missed one day, by the way, that was a suspension. that wasn't even sickness and midway through my senior year, i didn't miss any days educational experts, they say chronic absenteeism is a leading factor in the nation's slow recovery from pandemic learning losses since students can't learn if they're not in school and the problem it cuts across all demographics, district size, income, race for example, the richest school districts saw chronic absenteeism rates, nearly double from 10% before the

pandemic to 19% in 2022 and 2023, the poorest districts, which already faced higher rates of student absenteeism saw an alarming jump from 19 to 32% since the pandemic. the new york times says the trends suggest that something fundamental has shifted in american childhood and the culture of school in ways that may be long-lasting. what was once a deeply ingrained habit, wake up, catch the bus report to class if now something more tenuous. joining me now is not malcolm senior fellow at deputy director of education policy at the american enterprise institute, dr.. malveaux. this is your data. so what's the cause? >> you know, there's not just one cause that's the thing. there's a lot of things going on here. there's some of this is sickness. i'm sure some of this is transportation difficulties. the need to work, other poverty related factors, but the real cause the change

that happened over the pandemic. i mean, this jumped about 90% for everyone across the board. and so it's something that changed broadly over the pandemic in my mind. a lot of this is sort of the culture of expectations, the behaviors, the routines that we were used to when the question came up, hey, i can i not go to school today >> i'll bet it back in the de you heard reference to my absences, parents would send their kids to schools where maybe they should have kept them home because they had a flu or flu symptoms or a cold maybe that's a large part of this explanation that now parents are erring on the side of keeping the kids home from school when they're showing any symptoms >> you know, i think that's part of this look over covid, we got a lot of very strong messages, public health messages which in the context of covid, made a lot of sense if your children are not

feeling well, keep them home for the health of everyone else. >> and >> we never saw sort of a right sizing a pushback, a pivot on that when covid wasn't a pronounced problem. and then perhaps so we should move back to the kind of patterns of responses to mild sicknesses that are probably appropriate. look in england, their chief medical officer sent a letter to all the schools and to the public saying you know, if your kid's mildly sick mildly send them to school because school attendance is important >> i'm really worried about. i mean, i'm on a crusade to shine a spotlight on the way in which we become so disconnected as a society which is a contributing factor to political polarization. and i'm worried about our youth and their mental health struggles they are missing socialization like okay, the three r's i get it. but if they're not in class, if if a quarter of them are chronically

not in school, it's one less opportunity to mix and mingle i think that's right. look, i just want to go on the record. i love schools. i think schools are great places, but part of that greatness is the connectedness of a community. and of all the students and consistent attendance is sort of the basic building blocks of that. we have some measures of what has gone wrong with students over the pandemic. we know that learning loss is a big hit. we know that chronic absenteeism down. we don't have great measures of mental health, of feelings of connectedness. but i'm pretty certain that those things have taken a hit and the way back is cultural wide is a culture change where we come back ready to learn, ready to participate, ready to engage and i think that is vital for the health of these very basic institutions for children how do you make it

to the next grade? i thought if you missed x days a year, you know, you didn't pass >> there's a lot of rules on the >> books and there's rules in schools, there's rules out of schools, even to win, we refer families to the district attorney's office because they miss too much school. the enforcement of a lot of these rules is mixed and is probably much less then it was pre-pandemic. and of course, there's much more need for enforcement because we have so many folks who are being absent at higher rates. i don't actually think punnett i don't think michigan's the way this, but i do think that some enforcement is going to be necessary to turn the tide >> stick with me. and let's, let's together. i'll read aloud a social media reaction. this comes, i think from my live chat pre-show, what do we

have? come on, michael, what was the what was the suspension for? i've admitted this before. i mooning. i was sent home in the ninth grade for mooning in gym class what do you make of that, dr. marcus >> you know, i haven't done the >> research on mooning recent years, but i'll try and update that and see what i can find out. before you >> all right. i was going to i was going to make one other point to you, which is i'll bet that there's this belief that, hey, the kids cannot be at school because after all, they can do it online, but online is not a substitute for all of the social interaction that you and i both agree is missing quick response from you. >> yeah. i mean, we got a lot of exposure to these new tech tools and look at least as far as learning laws, i don't think they have a great track record and i think as far as kids relating to other kids, the track records probably even worse so i don't think that's a supplement >> nice job. thank you. alarming data. appreciate it >> thank you

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pentagon >> and this piano were 205 days from the conclusion of the election. so who's got the big pmo that's the phrase, poppy bush famously used about having momentum as a candidate on one hand, several indicators have recently turned to president biden's advantage including the polling, abortion no labels, jobs at a trump trial the national polling has gotten better for biden, a new york times sienna college poll out just this morning from this past week puts trump ahead of biden by only 1.46, 45 too close to call in february that same poll had trump with a five point lead that echoes the aggregate from real clear politics. also a virtual tie, trump at 45.5 biden at 45.3 but of course we don't elect presidents based on popular vote. if we did president hillary clinton would be finishing up her second term.

so what about the battleground states? in arizona, georgia, michigan, nevada, and north carolina, the real clear politics average has trump up by anywhere from 2.8 to 4.5 but in wisconsin and pennsylvania, it's neck and neck and wisconsin trump's margin is a negligible 0.6% in pennsylvania, biden is quote, unquote up by 0.1%. and of course there was the abortion bombshell this week in arizona, the day after trump delivered his statement on the issue saying it should be left to the states one of those states through a monkey wrench into his election. arizona supreme court made afforded to decision that after the overturning of roe, the state's standard had reverted to its 18 64 law, which was never repealed. >> a >> law that dates from before arizona was even a state, or women even had the right to vote which bans abortion from the moment of conception, except when necessary to save the life of the mother. it makes no exceptions for rape or

incest and that's huge for biden and democrats because as we've noted here and has been noted elsewhere, abortion rights are undefeated since the june 2022 scotus decision that gave the power to the states. last week, we talked about how abortion would be on the ballot in florida so could both of these states, florida and arizona be in play also in trump's favor. pardon me. in biden's favor, the fact that no labels couldn't land a candidate and ended its hoped for a third-party run, which the data suggested would have pulled me more from biden then from trump another factor not to be overlooked, the economy added 303,000 jobs in march, surpassing economists predictions unemployment tick down to 3.8% and biden announced a revised student loan forgiveness plan in the swing state of wisconsin where he needs to reach young voters who like others are dissatisfied with what's taking place vis-a-vis israel and gaza. unless we forget, trump goes on trial monday in the

hush-money case the first time a former president has ever faced criminal prosecution. remember, among those who say they would vote for trump 13% say they would not vote for him if he's convicted of a felony by a jury before the election maybe we're about to find out if they really mean it add all that up and it seems that the big mo is on biden sayyed. but hang on. there are qualifiers, namely inflation, the border, the rfk factor. inflation is heading in the wrong direction for an incumbent. most american say, president biden has made the cost of living and illegal immigration two of the major issues choose in this year's general election worse than they were before according to a survey from the associated press and norc published on friday, 58% say biden's approach to the cost of living, either hurt a little or hurt a lot in contrast, just 18% say the president had helped ease pressure with his policies.

another majority, 56% said the same of the president's handling of immigration and border security with only 16% saying biden to help that issue on top of that, there's geopolitical worries. the prospect of a widening war in the middle east, and inflation concerns causing the dow to fall 475 points on friday there's also the rfk junior factor after cnn's kfile reported that one of rfk's campaign workers said out loud that his goal was to get rid of biden. and that biden's loss was her number one priority. she was quickly fired but rfk junior does pull more from biden then from trump when he's included in the polls, those real clear politics numbers that i showed you before, trump 45.5, biden 45.3, a tie when you add in the option of rfk junior, it's trump 41%, biden 35.7, kennedy 11.7. that's trump by five so who really has the big pmo

political veteran joe klein wrote a substack post this week titled biden zeitgeist, watch. the arrows are up, the reality not so much. he listed a number of concerns for democrats, including not just inflation, but also the gop business establishment returning to the to trump fold, the party listening too much to quote, it's out-of-touch. activists. and he said there is the passive nature of the biden administration itself. why is merrick garland still attorney general, even though there are clear indications that the president is furious with him why is the southern border is still open? why do democrats take comfort in the fact that they've raised a ginormous amount of money, even though money doesn't mean all that much at the presidential level, don't by the blip in the polls and don't expect that abortion is enough to overcome an awful lot of negative factors in the coming months biden's in trouble. he needs to talk to people outside his inner circle and then take action even if

he's, if he's going to have a chance in november so who really has the advantage unless you can see around corners nobody knows. the only thing for certain is that there are people whose names we don't even know at events that we could never foresee that will continue to unfold and determine the outcome of this election still more of your best and worst social media comments and don't forget to vote on today's poll question. at smerconish dot com, ten trump, get a fair trial in manhattan while you're there, sign up for the free daily newsletter, you're going to find exclusive content from cartoonists, like two-time pulitzer prize winner steve brief >> there's debris of this guy parents, husbands and wives. it's god. >> i wish i could have done something differently. you can just make it better for those that follow up, space shuttle columbia, the final flight, two part finale tomorrow at nine on cnn. >> my name is marie and 49

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