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judge jones, how do you think judge merchan is handling? the trial? so far and the fact that the jury, aside from seven more alternates, has already several more alternatives that have already been seated i think he's doing a good job. >> anderson these are hard cases at the beginning because the lawyers tend to spar and there's a lot of kind of combat at the beginning and laurie here's tend to be two clinical at times in what they do and jury selection. and then after a while it's sort of collapses of its own weight. you may have seen that today and i have to say if they get the whole jury pick tamara than he's done a great job. job of getting it done this week. >> the two jurors were dismissed today as we've talked about one, because concerns her identity had figured out, the judge has the media to refrain from describing jurors by physical descriptions, not disclosed. their current and past employers what happens? do you worry that details will leak out? i mean, as jeff was saying, you know, it is very easy for some unscrupulous person to put infor
judge jones, how do you think judge merchan is handling? the trial? so far and the fact that the jury, aside from seven more alternates, has already several more alternatives that have already been seated i think he's doing a good job. >> anderson these are hard cases at the beginning because the lawyers tend to spar and there's a lot of kind of combat at the beginning and laurie here's tend to be two clinical at times in what they do and jury selection. and then after a while it's sort...
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judge merchan saying, at one point, mr. blanche, you are losing all credibility. here are some of the posts that prosecutors flagged as violations. this one on april 10, from trump on truth, social writing. look, what was just found with the fake news. will the fake news reported? it was above a photo of a 2018 statement from stormy daniels denying her relationship with trump another three days later, trashing michael cohen witness asking, quote, has disgraced attorney and felon michael cohen been prosecuted for lying and four days after that, a repost of a foxhole slamming perspective jurors allegedly undercover liberal, active, alleging i should say, undercover liberal activists are quote, lying to the judge in order to get on the trump jury the prosecution also brought up this remark from the former president outside the courtroom just yesterday what are they going to look at all the lives that last line in the last trial. >> so he got caught lying pure and what are they going to look at that prosecutors said that two was another violation. >> they'd be fightin
judge merchan saying, at one point, mr. blanche, you are losing all credibility. here are some of the posts that prosecutors flagged as violations. this one on april 10, from trump on truth, social writing. look, what was just found with the fake news. will the fake news reported? it was above a photo of a 2018 statement from stormy daniels denying her relationship with trump another three days later, trashing michael cohen witness asking, quote, has disgraced attorney and felon michael cohen...
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karen mentioned judge merchan, we want to bring in john e. jones, the form the third, the former chief judge for the us middle district of pennsylvania, judge jones, appreciate you've been back with us. what was your biggest takeaway from opening statements? >> well, it's interesting. >> i think the opening statements we're not unexpected there's a lot that the prosecution didn't say and i'm curious about that. >> i think they're they're kinda playing hide the ball, not inappropriately with some witnesses. i agree with your panelists had hope hicks is it's going to be a very interesting and maybe a pivotal witness to tie the former president or not to what happened from the defense's standpoint. i was curious about todd blanche is statement that it is not illegal to influence an election. i'm not sure where he's going with that at because i why he raised that is a little unclear to me. but those are the first takeaway is i had from the from the opening statements, i was surprised that judge merchan ended cord early because an alternate juror
karen mentioned judge merchan, we want to bring in john e. jones, the form the third, the former chief judge for the us middle district of pennsylvania, judge jones, appreciate you've been back with us. what was your biggest takeaway from opening statements? >> well, it's interesting. >> i think the opening statements we're not unexpected there's a lot that the prosecution didn't say and i'm curious about that. >> i think they're they're kinda playing hide the ball, not...
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it might be slow, but it is progress. >> and what, what judge merchan did was interesting and somewhat different from the way other judges operate. other judges sometimes don't let people excuse themselves by saying they have strong feelings he, he's just letting everyone go. he he has enough of a pool. he has hundreds of people waiting. he is not going to quarrel with people who say they can't be fair. >> that's good. that means this process will move along 40 people making it through essentially half a day because the the morning and was mostly taken up with legal arguments. this is good progress. i mean, they are going to have a jury in a week or two here >> jeff, i'm wondering what you make the different evidence that the judge has ruled in miscible. karen mcdougal, the former, played barred play man at the foreign president allegedly had an affair with, will be allowed to testify and other hand, the accident it's hollywood tape which everybody knows about can't be played for the jury. i thought those were very >> reasonable conclusions by the judge. the karen mcdougal story is ver
it might be slow, but it is progress. >> and what, what judge merchan did was interesting and somewhat different from the way other judges operate. other judges sometimes don't let people excuse themselves by saying they have strong feelings he, he's just letting everyone go. he he has enough of a pool. he has hundreds of people waiting. he is not going to quarrel with people who say they can't be fair. >> that's good. that means this process will move along 40 people making it...
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i commend judge merchan for getting the jury picked this week. i don't see that that creates a problem at all. perception may be that it's going too fast. this is typical of a trial. when, you know, you're gonna be seated for maybe a month or month-and-a-half. you need to get busy. i mean, you're taking time out of people's lives and it only makes sense to get started jill, we heard about potential jurors crying, getting emotional, talking about a lot of people talking about stress and anxiety. can you just talk about the stress i mean, anybody might feel on a jury, but particularly this. >> yeah. and there's a lot of reasons people don't want to be on juries, but i don't want to add another one, but it is stressful. is stressful in any case ace think of cases like where there's a horrific crime involved in the jurors are gonna be exposed to horrific photos and scenes and things like that. it can be very, very stressful here. the jurors know that all eyes are on this all eyes are watching they walk into court. there's donald trump, a president. t
i commend judge merchan for getting the jury picked this week. i don't see that that creates a problem at all. perception may be that it's going too fast. this is typical of a trial. when, you know, you're gonna be seated for maybe a month or month-and-a-half. you need to get busy. i mean, you're taking time out of people's lives and it only makes sense to get started jill, we heard about potential jurors crying, getting emotional, talking about a lot of people talking about stress and anxiety....
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judge merchan did grant a couple of those cause challenges and for the other jurors that they didn't like, and they didn't get cause challenges than they use the predatory challenges on those jurors joel huntley, taylor. thank you. kara scannell, geoff toobin as well. we spent some time at the start of the trial on the catch and kill scheme at the center of it. all they were focusing on the one woman, one of two, who silence candidate trump allegedly tried to buy stormy daniels. her story before that moment. and since from our randy k stormy, daniels don't know who i am. i suggest you don't do that to you get long before she was stormy daniels? she was stephanie gregory, born in baton rouge, louisiana. she reportedly had dreams of becoming a veterinarian or a journalist. she was the editor of the school newspaper and president of the four h club. beneath her 1997 high school yearbook photo, a caption that reads, we will all get along just fine as soon as you realize that i am when by the time she was 17, she was dancing and strip clubs across the south, stripping was her entry into p
judge merchan did grant a couple of those cause challenges and for the other jurors that they didn't like, and they didn't get cause challenges than they use the predatory challenges on those jurors joel huntley, taylor. thank you. kara scannell, geoff toobin as well. we spent some time at the start of the trial on the catch and kill scheme at the center of it. all they were focusing on the one woman, one of two, who silence candidate trump allegedly tried to buy stormy daniels. her story...
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and what judge merchan doesn't want to do is interrupted for a sideshow judges get focused on getting the trial and he knows that he's got these people, they're inconvenienced as i just said, and their lives are disrupted by this. he's you're gonna give everybody some time tomorrow, but he's not going to burn the day. i don't think on sanctions. i think in the end he probably won't sanction the former president. i think what we'll probably do is admonish him, draw some bright lines about what he can and can't say. i think some of the stuff that the former president was doing was too cute by half and he's going to say, look, i'm going to give you a warning, but if it continues then you can't do it. and by the way, the statements he made outside the court today your panelists didn't comment on that, per say, but it strikes me that where the president, the former president, is doing is he's testifying outside the courtroom as your lawyer panelists no, that's usable if he decides to testify, he can be impeached by the statements that he's making publicly. again, i think it's attorney can'
and what judge merchan doesn't want to do is interrupted for a sideshow judges get focused on getting the trial and he knows that he's got these people, they're inconvenienced as i just said, and their lives are disrupted by this. he's you're gonna give everybody some time tomorrow, but he's not going to burn the day. i don't think on sanctions. i think in the end he probably won't sanction the former president. i think what we'll probably do is admonish him, draw some bright lines about what...
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he's got to try to figure out in his mind and his heart that is judged merchan whether he can sit fairly a judgment. and as well knows, he's not the finder of fact in this case. ellie's point, i believe having read his very good piece is is that this gives an appearance of a conflict. it doesn't look right to the public well, that's a call, judge. merge. sean is making. i agree with la. he's not going to recuse at this point. he's going to hang in the risk of course, is that he presides and creates an appellate issue. and the case ends up being reversed based on the fact that it appellate court believes that judge russia and should have recused but i think we've crossed the rubicon. now, he's not going to leave. >> ellie. do you think it is a big issue for an appeal >> i think it will be raised on appeal and i think there's a possibility. i think i agree with judge jones, a fairly remote possibility that a court of appeals we'll disagree with this, but as judge jones properly notes, what judge martian did was he went to a an ethics panel of other judges and he asked them for an opinion.
he's got to try to figure out in his mind and his heart that is judged merchan whether he can sit fairly a judgment. and as well knows, he's not the finder of fact in this case. ellie's point, i believe having read his very good piece is is that this gives an appearance of a conflict. it doesn't look right to the public well, that's a call, judge. merge. sean is making. i agree with la. he's not going to recuse at this point. he's going to hang in the risk of course, is that he presides and...
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but if trump continues to violate the court's order, it is well within judge merchan's ability and his power to order him locked up for contempt. i don't think he's there yet, but and dollars sanctions will certainly be the first sanction but, you if trump continues to violate these rules and we are very early in this process, it could happen kara, i mean, you've watched this, judge closely. how do you think he's going to do a potential violations? >> i would expect the prosecutors will bring this up tomorrow morning before they bring in the new pool of jurors and the judge was pretty firm in the former president. yeah. yesterday, when he was making comments it was the judge that notice and identified that trump was muttering in the courtroom and gesturing in the direction of the juror. and he said he wanted to note it for the record, and he said he would not tolerate jury intimidation in this courtroom. he said, am i making myself clear? so you know, he he ordered trump's lawyer to go over and talk to him about it, so i don't think he's going to light the tweet here and it's going to
but if trump continues to violate the court's order, it is well within judge merchan's ability and his power to order him locked up for contempt. i don't think he's there yet, but and dollars sanctions will certainly be the first sanction but, you if trump continues to violate these rules and we are very early in this process, it could happen kara, i mean, you've watched this, judge closely. how do you think he's going to do a potential violations? >> i would expect the prosecutors will...
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. >> monday, new york state judge juan merchan expanded a gag order and is now restricting trump from talking about his family after finding trump's rhetoric threatens to instill fear and append the rule of law it is no longer just a mere possibility or a reasonable likelihood that there exists a threat to the integrity of the judicial proceedings. the judge wrote, the threat is very real judges overseeing trump's cases have faced bomb threats and swatting calls at their homes courts have increased security. >> it's very disconcerting to have someone making comments about a judge and it's particularly problematic when those comments are in the form of a threat, especially if they're directed at one's family. >> the hush money case will be the third trial trump attends as a defendant in the past six months sitting across the table from the judge, he is attacked. >> we have a judge that property is it worth the tiny fraction? >> a frequent target is new york state judge arthur and who found trump liable for fraud and ordered him to pay nearly half 1 billion billion this road, judge trum
. >> monday, new york state judge juan merchan expanded a gag order and is now restricting trump from talking about his family after finding trump's rhetoric threatens to instill fear and append the rule of law it is no longer just a mere possibility or a reasonable likelihood that there exists a threat to the integrity of the judicial proceedings. the judge wrote, the threat is very real judges overseeing trump's cases have faced bomb threats and swatting calls at their homes courts have...
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the other argument would as this judge, judge, merchan had denied trump's efforts to try to delay the trial until the supreme court ruled on presidential immunity in a completely separate case at the federal criminal charges they're appealing that and they wanted the judge the appellate judge, to put the trial and hold for that. i mean the appellate judge asked a lot of questions dear, but trump's main argument was they just want another bite at the apple for some of this, the da's saying, you're not even following the right procedure here. these are things you can appeal until the case is over. what was interesting is we actually heard from a lawyer for the court today who's speaking on behalf of judge merchan to this issue of recusal saying that there's absolutely no evidence, no oh, proof that he stands to benefit because of his daughter's job and the judge pretty swiftly denied this in there are some special accommodation made today in the court. what happened? yeah. i mean, the court's calendar was pretty packed this afternoon. they had oral arguments from other cases that have b
the other argument would as this judge, judge, merchan had denied trump's efforts to try to delay the trial until the supreme court ruled on presidential immunity in a completely separate case at the federal criminal charges they're appealing that and they wanted the judge the appellate judge, to put the trial and hold for that. i mean the appellate judge asked a lot of questions dear, but trump's main argument was they just want another bite at the apple for some of this, the da's saying,...
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meantime, the judge, juan merchan could rule on the prosecution's motion and to hold trump in contempt for his attacks on witnesses, notably michael cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, who made the payments to stormy daniels, which has boss allegedly hd through misleading business records the defendants meant some of his day today lashing out at the gag order. he is accused of violating calling it unconstitutional and complaining that quote, the conflicted judges, friends and party members can say whatever they want about me. but i'm not allowed to respond on top of the trial tomorrow. the supreme court also hears oral arguments on his claim of presidential unity in the federal january 6 case. here to help break it all down, former house january 6 committee senior investigative counsel to me, aganga-williams, cnn's kara scannell, bestselling author and former federal prosecutor, jeopardy thuban, and cnn legal analyst karen friedman, agnifilo. so caroline, start with you. what do we expect more on the court to a meeting at trump tower in 2015. >> now, he began by introducing them to kar
meantime, the judge, juan merchan could rule on the prosecution's motion and to hold trump in contempt for his attacks on witnesses, notably michael cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, who made the payments to stormy daniels, which has boss allegedly hd through misleading business records the defendants meant some of his day today lashing out at the gag order. he is accused of violating calling it unconstitutional and complaining that quote, the conflicted judges, friends and party members can...
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the form present also cites a comment, judge juan juan merchan made to the associated press last month. the judge declined to discuss the case, but said the preparation for the trial was quote, intense. and once again, the former president takes a swipe at the judge's daughter and her alleged political connections. this comes days he's after the judge expanded the gag order against the former president to include all family members of court staff, including the judge's daughter former president, is apparently already flouted that order on more than one occasion. now, the manhattan da's office has previously said that trump offers no evidence for recusal other than a quote, daisy chain of innuendos i'm gonna get some legal perspective now from former federal chief judge john jones, the third and former federal prosecutor, elie honig. joe jones. what do you make of this filing from the trump team is there any evidence your mind that the judge should recuse himself? >> well, it anderson, first of all, it's good to be back with you. i don't see anything in the motion that's new they indica
the form present also cites a comment, judge juan juan merchan made to the associated press last month. the judge declined to discuss the case, but said the preparation for the trial was quote, intense. and once again, the former president takes a swipe at the judge's daughter and her alleged political connections. this comes days he's after the judge expanded the gag order against the former president to include all family members of court staff, including the judge's daughter former...
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judge, juan merchan issued a stern warning to trump after he visibly reacted to a jurors answers about a video she posted on social media. he foreign trump's lawyer. your client was audibly uttering, i will not have any jurors intimidated in the courtroom that juror was questioned outside the presence of the others about a video she posted on social media showing an outdoor celebration quotes spreading the honking cheer around election day 2020. she said it was a new york celebratory moment. trump's lawyers suggested she was biased. the judge said he believed the juror could be fair and didn't excuse her. trump's attorney, todd blanche, telling those in the jury pool, vote, it's extraordinarily important to president trump that we know we're going to get a fair shake. one juror said he finds trump fascinating because he walks into a room and he sets people off one way or the other. blanche seemed amused with the response. another juror said she learned for the first time tuesday that trump has been charged in three other cases prosecutor joshua steinglass, address prospective jurors, a
judge, juan merchan issued a stern warning to trump after he visibly reacted to a jurors answers about a video she posted on social media. he foreign trump's lawyer. your client was audibly uttering, i will not have any jurors intimidated in the courtroom that juror was questioned outside the presence of the others about a video she posted on social media showing an outdoor celebration quotes spreading the honking cheer around election day 2020. she said it was a new york celebratory moment....
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recent social media attacks on judge merchan and his daughter i think it's scurrilous. anderson, i spent a number of years on the judicial security committee of the judicial council of the united states and i'm well-versed in threats to judges, but this now transcends that. we're talking about judges, families, we're talking about prosecutors, prosecutors families and what i've opined and what i fear greatly is we're going to get somebody killed 99.9% of the electorate will not act out whatever their feelings may be. but you're talking about that fringe element that here's this, like a dog whistle and things that they're doing the will of their benefactors i what really worries me and judge, my child is riding the tiger here >> but >> if i were presiding in this case, i'd bring him in personally. have a really pitched discussion, and i think i'd have to tell him that if he continued down this road the next appearance would be one where he'd bring his toothbrush because, you cannot tolerate this kind of painting outside the lines. it is not a question to the first amendm
recent social media attacks on judge merchan and his daughter i think it's scurrilous. anderson, i spent a number of years on the judicial security committee of the judicial council of the united states and i'm well-versed in threats to judges, but this now transcends that. we're talking about judges, families, we're talking about prosecutors, prosecutors families and what i've opined and what i fear greatly is we're going to get somebody killed 99.9% of the electorate will not act out whatever...
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>> so there was a new decision tonight by judge juan merchan, who is overseeing the case, saying that he was denying trump's motion for pretrial publicity. trump was saying that because of all the publicity, couldn't get a fair trial in new york. judge, deny that saying that trump in fact has caused a lot of the pretrial publicity, saying delaying this case is not tenable because there will never be a period of time when there isn't publicity. but trump's team also made a late filing today that is related to this issue. they ask the judge to amend how he is going to question the jury pool when they first come in, the judge said he would ask if anyone could not serve on this jury because they're not fair or impartial or for any other reason, trump's team is asking the judge to separate that because they wanted to try to build data for their appeal. they've been arguing that they should get a change of venue in this case because of the publicity and because they believe manhattan nights tend to vote democratic and would be again it's trump. so they want the judge to separate it and ask
>> so there was a new decision tonight by judge juan merchan, who is overseeing the case, saying that he was denying trump's motion for pretrial publicity. trump was saying that because of all the publicity, couldn't get a fair trial in new york. judge, deny that saying that trump in fact has caused a lot of the pretrial publicity, saying delaying this case is not tenable because there will never be a period of time when there isn't publicity. but trump's team also made a late filing...
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i wasn't judge merchan is doing a good job so far. he's the kind of judge i would like to appear in front of as a prosecutor, he's keeping order and efficiency in that courtroom. but this is a blind spot for him. i don't get what the delay is in terms. i mean, is it likely stormy daniels would be called as a likely karen mcdougal would be cool, i think, yes. >> on both probably, i think because they're necessarily helpful. let's say not not necessarily necessary, but helpful to the prosecution in sort of playing out but this case and showing the jury who the human beings, we're here. but the thing to keep in mind, i'm really looking for how is the defense can cross examine them because neither of them has testimony that goes to the heart of the crime, the heart of the crime has jeff was saying before, it's not the alleged affairs, it's not it's the hush money it's not the national enquirer, it's the way that those financial transactions were structured and accounted for. and an effective cross of stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, bot
i wasn't judge merchan is doing a good job so far. he's the kind of judge i would like to appear in front of as a prosecutor, he's keeping order and efficiency in that courtroom. but this is a blind spot for him. i don't get what the delay is in terms. i mean, is it likely stormy daniels would be called as a likely karen mcdougal would be cool, i think, yes. >> on both probably, i think because they're necessarily helpful. let's say not not necessarily necessary, but helpful to the...