general earlier about the paper tiger that seems to be the iranian regime they're not very good at this. so why show the world the failure rate of 50% >> you know, i don't know how you define being a strong, but i have to say, is limited to public, isn't a real threats on october 7 de show that how they can violent using rape as a weapon of war. >> so in my >> proxy, exactly through the proccess, they're using different properties everywhere to create chaos. so i have to say that this should be a tipping point for democratic countries to do something. because the ultimate solution for ending war is to end islamic public. this is what the iranian people want regime change, whether the the rest of the war want to use this or not. but this is the ultimate solution. >> we'll see. so much that can

unfold in the coming days. thank you both very much. rena nine and my say, alleging that a leader, john thank you very much. and thank you for watching news night tonight. laura coates live starts right now >> so what's in and what's out and donald trump's criminal trial the big story prosecutors need to tell. plus, you've got questions about the trial. what we've got answers, i'll be taking your calls and your questions live in just a few moments. tonight. i'm laura codes live >> all right. so the first then we all learned today. >> it's not gonna >> be easy to find jurors. and the first criminal trial of a former president. 96 prospective jurors brought in for questioning, at least 50 of them. that's more than half for those of you don't want to do math and 11:00 p.m. they raise their hands so they could not be fair or impartial and

precisely zero have been selected so far, we know we did get some clues today about the strategy of the da is going to take clues that came from the evidence that they asked the judge to allow in that he granted notably, karen mcdougal, a name from the past. she will be allowed to testify you may remember her. she's a former playboy model who alleges that she had an affair with donald trump. he of course, denies that, but prosecutors say that american media or inke, the parent company of the national enquirer agreed to pay mcdougal 150,000 bucks five months before the 2016 election to keep quiet, about the alleged affair, the da's office has argued that the am deal shows a pattern along with fermi, daniel is hush money payment at the heart of this very matter. >> we >> also learned the judge merchan will allow evidence of the national enquirer suppressing stories that might have been harmful to trump and publishing others that attacked

trump's opponents from the transcript, one of the prosecutors saying they expect testimony that quote, many of the headlines and the stories behind them were shown to mr. trump before they were published. they could he could approve, reject, or suggest changes going on to site a series of headlines hacking, ted cruz by accusing him of infidelities and having a family connection to jfk's assassin but the judge will not allow that infamous access hollywood tape to be played. he did, however, say that comments trump made on the tape could be introduced as evidenced suitably, including him bragging about grabbing women by the p word prosecutors allege one the tape came out, the campaign scrambled to bury the daniels. a allegation because they were worried about what female voters might think. >> and >> amid his usual, let me of unsubstantiated charges well donald trump said this is about

election interference. that's all it's about >> well, >> that's funny he's right according to the da alvin bragg, he to think that's all about election interference. that is the story that prosecutors say they're going to present to a jury whenever they actually find in one story much bigger than just that check to stormy daniels. a story of what they allege was a scheme by trump and his allies to keep voters from hearing damaging information that might cost him the election but the question of course, is can the da actually prove it? i want to bring into, into liberal commentator and host of the new national show, the big deal with errol louis on spectrum news errol louis and cnn legal analysts, former us attorney michael moore, and former house judiciary special counsel in trump's first impeachment trial norm isaan. he also investigate trump is counsel to house democrats and litigated cases involving him previously in a brand new book out called trying trump, just in time to

beat trying trump. let's talk about this as begin with. all of you, norm, actually you were in the courtroom today and i have to know what that was like seeing donald trump walk down the courtroom to actually face a criminal trial >> well, it was a first in american history, laura and as a student, of are almost two-and-a-half centuries of national life >> the image of a president, former president the united states being held to account just like any other defendant, one of the jurors was he was being questioned today, said i believe no one is above the law of president. a former president, or a plumber >> and that >> was the line that captured the day for me because that's the american idea. but he's also it's not above the law,

but he's not below the law. he's exercising all his rights. that's why we add a little bit of a slow de with juror pick him today. >> the jury selection process, first of all, we all know is not lawn order. when you have a crime committed, a defendant identified and everything is conclude with sam waterston down the courthouse steps at the end of 40 the eight minutes with commercials, it takes time, right? the jury process takes time. you know, this michael and four for that began, there were the emotions about what might come into evidence and what might not just walk us through what your impression was about the judge's decision to allow some things in already. >> yeah. you know what i'm glad to be? with you here. >> it's no >> surprise that the judge is going to let some of this evidence in. prosecutors like to get an evidence of pattern and practice motive been of mine scheme. these are things that sometimes we call similar transaction type evidence. and so this extra payment that was made, these other things that they have talked about that's not that's not a shock to me

at all. but mcdougal, that's right at the same time, he kept out the plane of the tape itself because that could be two prejudicial of the case and could introduce some error in the case. so he kept that out. so he's doing a balancing act trying to get it evidence that may in fact go to the efforts to prove the crime at the same time, not putting an evidence that and allowing them to present evidence, they could it could ultimately outweigh its usefulness in the case. and so that's no, no grass surprise, but no surprise either. this is slow. what is a little surprising? as written me and you don't always see this and we practiced mostly in federal court and you see judges move things quicker and you may not always take up time when you've got jurors waiting to have motion hearings and that type of thing. these are the kind of things that sometimes i just like to take it first thing in the morning or during breaks so that they don't inconvenience the jury pool. so not a surprise that it's a slow day. we'll see how it goes throughout the rest of the week. and i think probably

weeks as they tried to pick a jury in the case, you know, the idea that they're not going to allow and testimony about sexual misconduct or otherwise, there's always a balancing act of what's probative meaning. isn't it? formative versus what's prejudicial, isn't going to hurt the actual defendant. this balancing act took place but donald trump was in a criminal courtroom today, error. all right. he was actually present. he had to be a participant. it wasn't voluntary he may or may not have had his eyes closed for a few moments. maybe he was meditating. we do not know, but he he was also at one point sarcastically chuckling and you have to wonder what impact that has to have donald trump, former president a larger than life figure for many of these juries, seeing him for the very first time in that courtroom. >> well, let me look. the court in the procedure and the reality of the situation as a way of bringing you down to size if you are a wealthy businessman, even if you used to be the most powerful man in the world. i mean, he, he was read his rights today. he was that it was literally read his

rights. he was told like any other defendant, if you don't show up for some reason, are warrant will go out and you will be arrested, you will be dragged here in chains. that must have been a sobering moment. i would think for him, he's not in a position to really sort of spin this the way that he tried so hard to do in some of those civil cases where you have a little bit of leeway, you can show up or not show up. you can show up in kind of make a spectacle of it. in this case. now, all that's gone. you are here because you're on trial. your freedom is at stake. you have the right to remain silent. you should probably do whatever your lawyers tell you to do, that, even within that, of course, donald trump is bucking and pushing against that and trying through little chuckles and statements outside of the courthouse to try and convince his followers that this is all something that they should ignore, that it's all politics that is all made up that somehow the justice department is controlling, is elected prosecutor in manhattan. but the reality is, i think we'll see over the next six weeks that many people, if they're fair and they're watching this,

we'll see that that's not true. the facts of the case are not being dictated from the outside. it's what he did and what the prosecutors can prove he did. well, let's well let's just why he's going to do in the courtroom. i mean, just imagine if you will, for a second, i'm a judge clay like that feeling for a second >> there's a >> moment that people talk about sidebar, right? where you're going to go up to the word the judges sitting and you're gonna go before the judge are going to have a little hashing machine. just look at the amount of space that three individuals are taking up. then you add a juror getting questioned, and you add someone who is what, six foot three and donald trump as well, sitting there as well. and the former president, that's what he would like to do. norm, he wants to sit there. or stand there during the actual question process while a potential juror is next to him well, and this was discussed today because it's not just that i'll trump he can't move without his secret service gerardo. yeah. you're right then. >> there's a posse of lawyers here's the defense lawyers the prosecutor's side. so there are special features when you

have a former president who is appearing. >> but >> it should not detract from the fact he wants to go to his son's graduation. know, he wants to go to the supreme court. he's very bitter. he can't be in the supreme court next week to talk about the 2020 election interference case >> the immunity >> yes so he is it's in the supreme court in washington on thursday. has lawyer todd blanche bagged. he says very important to my client >> no >> and donald trump complained about it afterwards. he came out in the hall so he is definitely feeling that's why he fought so hard over ten efforts to delay this. he's feeling that pressure of the justice system on him, the same as any other defendant. >> but imagine if you are a juror in this courtroom, right? and the pressure that he is trying to avoid, you're going to have to answer questions

like, have you ever attended a trump rally or an anti hi trump rally or somebody in your circle, how do you feel that trump is being treated by the system? do you think a president should be charged in the state criminal action and they gotta to sit there and what make eye contact, not make eye contact show impartiality. >> it's >> a lot of pressure for a juror knowing you've got a gag order in place with him who doesn't want to buy buy it i mean, it is pressure. i mean, people don't like to have to answer questions anyway, when they get caught infringer at so you take that and you now exponentially increase the pressure by putting a former president, there, and this sort of circus that's going on outside the courthouse and then of course, as as they come in and then in the courtroom, where you have the former president's sitting there in you're face-to-face and you're having to talk about your feelings about a particular the way he's either being treated are the things that you've done, are these i mean, those aren't comfortable questions. so it does add to it. and i think that the end of the day is what's going to really add to the length of time that it takes to get an impartial jury

in the case. we can say that they've already asked more questions. i mean, typically they would ask 58 or so questions. the court would to get and we've got about 42. so we're already way past what the norm would be, but we are seeing now on the public is at least see it through this process. what i think would be just regular sausage making trial and many is that you pick a jury, you go through this process, you'd have some motions here. it just happens to be different because it's a former president and it's going to be more drawn row >> i was born in manhattan, spend most of my adult working life here. i think people may be surprised at their ability to find fair-minded jurors who really didn't follow every bit of the 2016 campaign or the 2020 campaign, or what goes on in the world of politics, or frankly, the news media. >> there are >> worlds within manhattan. people who are in their various, their artistic community involved in their family life, involved in their neighborhood life. they've got a whole different world going and so it's going to be really interesting to see what out of

his very, very diverse county we're going to find. and i think we will find people who don't feel particularly one way or the other about donald trump. >> that's gonna be an important point. i do think that even if that the sarcastic it may is also saying or someone who can present that way. absolutely in french of the lawyer is right. that's going to be the key errol louis norms aza. thank you all so much. michael morris, stick around, please as well. so one of the prospective jurors who got dismissed today said something that encapsulates just maybe how hard or difficult this process might be in manhattan. the person was overheard saying in the hallway, quote, i just couldn't do it. >> now, they >> were one of the jurors who said they couldn't be fair or impartial remember, this jury pool comes from a deep blue manhattan. more than 85% of the population did vote for biden and 2020, it doesn't are actually going to find one way or the other based on how they voted. but that's a focus from the trump team especially now there were a couple of jurors

who started being quest's or the end of the day who were not ruled out. at least not yet one of them remarked, i feel that nobody is above the law, whether it be a former president or a sitting president, or a janitor. well, joining me now, jury consultant jason blum and worked for a former of baseball as pitcher roger clemens, on his federal perjury trial. good to have you here. jason, let me ask your guidance here because the struggle might be real. you got at least 50 of 96 potential jurors. let go in one day hey, and one believed few hour period saying they could not possibly be fair. walk us through how normal that would be in a high-profile case such as this? >> well i find that to be extremely rare because what you're basically gleaned from that is there are now about half of the people that have been in the courtroom from who can say they can serve on a jury 467 or eight weeks when they say that they can be fair and impartial, i have a little bit of trouble with that. and

as someone who does jury focus groups day in and day out, studies the psychology of jury decision-making. i know one thing donald trump is famous. people have formed opinions about him already and those opinions are very rigid. and they've been there for a long time. we also have to lay are in the notion that the facts in this case are already out there these jurors are not going to learn about a new story, about a new scenario, about a new thing that happened. these facts have been all over for about six, maybe seven or eight years. >> and when >> we learn things, we form opinions about things when we form opinions about things, we then form biases about things. so it's nice that many of these perspective jurors can say, i think can be, i can be fair. i can be fair and impartial. eight weeks from now when i have to decide who's right and who's wrong, i can set aside my biases, but i think that's a very, very

difficult thing to do. and i'll add to it that people, jurors, actually, they vote with their politics. and it's hard to set that aside theoretically, it would be fantastic if we could set aside our biases and will always tell the judge that we can or we'd like to think that we can or that we will try. but the reality is that's a very, very difficult ask of anyone. >> so how do you help the attorneys on their respective sides? weed out the bs overzealous juror who was like, absolutely, i can do that. sure. no problem. that's what every, every actor is correct. it's what you want to be which makes you all for skeptical. how do you identify the red flags and course, correct? yeah. there's two things we've got to do here in the courtroom. one is identify the stealth jurors. >> these >> are the people that are going to have the ulterior motives for sitting on a jury. i mean, think about this, laura, who wants to sit on a jury for eight weeks that's a long long time. and you talk

about how new york city is mostly blue, which i agree with, but we have to think about is the people that are remaining that can sit on a jury for six, seven, or eight weeks. are they equally cut between red and blue, but we're looking for the south jersey. how do we find them? we add that's the same question several different ways, such as, do you like oranges, do you like fruit? do you like fruit that can be peeled and you're looking for the consistency there what you're also looking for is people who can, who are not there to set a score with donald trump trump are settles score with the government. and that's this jury nullification argument because the facts are out there, but what the jury has to decide at the end of the day that these perspective jurors probably do not realize is whether or not there was a falsification of documents as opposed to did donald trump pay out some hush money? did donald trump had an affair with a porn

star, things like that. but there's so much out there about this right now. it's hard to set aside what you have already learned in the last thing, i'll say about it in terms of what needs to go on in the courtroom is it's the way you frame the his questions. if you just simply ask a prospective juror, can you be fair everyone wants to get along and go along, so they're always going to say yes. >> the >> better way to frame it is. can we agree that because of the way you feel about donald trump? or can we agree that the way that you feel about the criminal justice system is going to make it difficult for you to be a fair and impartial juror in this particular case. and you have to make it easy for them to say yes because quite frankly, and you did this earlier put yourself in the seat of a prospective juror when they say i can't be fair when they say i can't follow the law in a courtroom in front of a judge, in front of prosecutors in front of defense lawyers, in front of donald

trump. this perspective juror doesn't know what's going to happen it's especially important point, jason uv rays and just thinking about you got to do all that as the prosecution and defense in striking jurors, >> trying to figure out who you don't want on your team or on your jury panel. and have a former president standing beside you and the entire atmosphere around as well. jason glen. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> as i bet you've all got plenty of questions about this trial. i know i do when we come back, i'm going to answer some of them live laura coats law brought to you by bristol myers squibb hcm is a serious heart condition >> affecting as many as one in 200 people like me and me, i was still short of breath on my beta-blocker. >> so i talked to my

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at nine >> right? with day one of the jury selection of donald trump's new york hush money trial now concluded, there are still a lot of questions about the trial. aside we're, going to answer them live. your questions. we always invite you into the conversation and michael moore it's back with me to help as well. if you ever want to participate, you can just go to cnn.com slash trump trial questions. fill out the form type in your question there, and then we'll reach out to you. have you call in as the trial unfold. let's go to our first color of the night. we get rich from colorado, rich. what's your question? >> well, i'm kind of curious. what can prosecutors due to prevent a trump supporter from using this opportunity to lie their way into the jury investigations allowed are penalties such a juror's exposed once the trial begins that's a great question. i'm glad that you've asked both of them. first of all, the idea of trying to navigate how to select a juries. lot of gut intuition and some research in

terms of having past experiences of things you might have somebody who is a quote, unquote stealth juror, as we've discussed, you has a different motive for being on the trial. that's what you have to ask. a lot of questions to figure out what but they actually are thinking and can they be consistent and their responses, and that's for the second part of it. once the jury panel has been impounded, going to have 12 and then six alternates as well. there'll be a way to track to figure out if there's anything that they're doing to violate the judge's orders about what they can and cannot do going forward. and if they are violating that, we had the alternate jurors it's coming in and no one at that time, we'll know until the trial is over, if they are an alternate. that's a great question, nancy from allentown, pennsylvania, what's your question >> during his civil trial, he just got up and left the courtroom because he allowed to do that during his criminal trial you know, try to predict his behaviour might be a little bit odd, but it's not allowed to leave in a criminal trial. unlike a civil words voluntary, but michael, what i mean that's right.

>> he he did kind of get up as he pleased and didn't show up. it points if some of his civil cases this is different part of sitting in a criminal court is because you have a right to confront the people against you. and so the court is essentially protecting that constitutional rights and yeah, you're going to be here. and so you have to be in the courtroom. you've got you've got to be present every day and then that way i can be sure as the judge, that your rights are protected and that we we keep things moving forward, so he's gonna be there. i think the judge in this case has made it clear he's not gonna give him a pass even for things that trump's asked to do. >> but interesting that if he were to violate or not show up on his own accord, they could still go to trial, but he have a warrant that's that's exactly right. >> at that point. he could be arrested for not showing up. >> let's go to scott from levitt town new york. scott, what's your question >> you gave me, laura, thank you for having me how will the jury be treated during and after the trial? and we'll their names and addresses been on to the lawyer well, what we do know right now is none. those will be public at this time because of protection for

the jurors. obviously, you can imagine how the prospect of intimidation or just media interests are general public interests and individuals would be it's they're going to have that bit confidential. now, after a trial, it gets a little bit murkier, michael wright figure out how they can preserve the anonymity of these jurors. they might want to come forward other own accord, falling the trial, but during they cannot that's right. >> and it's not unusual after a trial for a judge to tell the jury you know, at this point you're free to discuss it at this point, you know, you're outside like the case is over, you've made your decision at loggers may have a question, a medium, i have a question, but pretty much he turns it loose to them at that point to decide whether they won't remember, remain anonymous or whether they want to talk about their deliberations of case. >> emma from norwalk, connecticut. what's your question? >> is it possible that the trump team and the da will ultimately work out a plea deal prior to trial that prevents it from going forward, like a plea deal if so, how likely is that and what would happen

procedurally >> michael's are you taking a great question and it's a good thought and i think under normal circumstances, you would think that this might be something that happens, but i just think it's unlikely at this point that we've seen sort of this long drawn out process to delay the trial were now here and i think of all the cases that trump may want a city and this is probably the one that he wants to have go to court if he had to pick one, i'm not saying he wants to be here so at this point, he's likely to use this is probably the best advertising for his campaign that he can do. we're going to hear his litanies after each court day, i guess and so he'll continue to pound the hammer that he's been abused by the justice system in this dam is some evidence so there he would give all that up if he talked about a plea, he would have to actually admit he had done something wrong that seems to me at this point to be unlikely. again, in a regular case, i think you would always have a discussion between the defendants lawyers and the prosecutor's. this seems to be unlikely. move i think at this point, and of course, if he were to bleed guilty, it's not

up to the prosecution or the defense is serving your sentence. she's in the judge's hand. that same judge that he has had an antagonistic approach towards. we'll see if that impacts anything at all, michael, thank you for helping. there are questions. thank you to everyone who called it. hey, do you have a question like to answer on the upcoming trump trial, we'd love to hear from you submit your questions at cnn.com slash trump trial questions. up next, israel vowing to retaliate after iran's attack over the weekend but western allies are urging restraint. so what kind of response should we expect? >> we'll discuss next >> cnn? >> with kasie hunt tomorrow at five easter. >> when these business owners need cash fast, they turned to viz to credit to fund what's next from fitness? studios to medical offices and every small business in between. >> we've got you covered >> whether >> you need new equipment, funds to expand or need money to cover unforeseen business the expenses bus to credit is

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likely to act soon israel's army chief telling soldiers that iran stripe will be met with a response. so when will it happen? >> and what will it? look like? >> when israel is facing a tough decision? because how it responds will impact the growing powder k ons attack was in response to israel strike on iran embassy complex in syria just earlier this month, iran is response was the first time, but it launched a direct military attack on israel the country firing more than 300 projectiles in the form of drones and missiles, mostly launched directly from iran own territory. israel's military says more than 99% of them were intercepted, but it was a hair great moment and for several hours, it was unclear how it all play out >> what we saw about a minute ago was a bright red light shooting off in that direction

and then you could hear the sound of a fighter jet sort of turning on its after burners it appeared and zooming off towards distant horizon it gave the impression that the fighter jet had just got instructions. there's something out in that direction. get out a meat it fast and i'm hearing the sound of the jet again what israel's government is now facing a lot of outside of pressure to exercise restraint, including from the united states. we're learning president biden has told israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the us will not participate in any offensive action against iran. during me now someone who's covered the region extensively, senior editor at bloomberg bobi. gosh, thank you so much for being here today. >> i wonder, what do >> you think israel's response will ultimately look like we're hearing that it would be soon. but what will it look like? >> so the challenge for israel involved prime minister netanyahu is to respond without

escalating and that those are two very hard needle to thread simultaneously. there's a lot of pressure from within israel, particularly from the political spectrum to the right of netanyahu to respond. after all, if your enemy fires 300 missiles and drones in your direction, even if they even if this was primarily a performative operation with lots of advanced warning with no realistic chance of actually striking israeli target, even if all that the fact that these will launched, that they were launched from iran is an act of war and a country like israel has to respond but as you pointed out, all of israel's allies, the united states, all the european countries are urging israel not to respond to in, in a way that would escalate. so the message from the white house to bibi is take

the win. you can declare victory because none of those drones and missiles really did much damage israel's defense systems worked. israel's allies rally to its support, the united states, jordan, france, britain helped to block and defend israel from the attack, declare victory, and move on. the trouble is that's not what israelis particularly those from the israeli, right? that's not what they want to hear. they want iran to be punished for an act of war. >> well, let me ask you about the performative aspect of it. i mean, obviously 99% of the drones and missiles were intercepted. the idf and iron dome, obviously all right, strong >> was this truly symbolic and performer or they >> can be actually had an opportunity or a chance to inflict some pain and damage. why engaged in a performative act? >> well, it is to shore degree of seriousness that israel,

iran has not previously done. i mean, the fact that they were launched from iran is not a small thing. yes, it is performative, but it is also serious in its own way. the reason >> launched from iran, as opposed to through a proxy, through a proxy from lebanon, which it has done before from iraq, which it has done before from yemen, through the hoodies another proxy for iran, which it has done before iran has escalate by launching these directly from iranian soil. but the manner in which this was done by by signaling well in advance that an attack was coming by the fact that it was launched from iran meant that the trajectory of all of these flying objects would be but did well in advance and era, that israel and its allies would have lots of opportunity hours to prepare to strike down. that's the performative aspect. i nobody in iran seriously could have expected any of these missiles or drones to actually land and hit a target? in israel.

>> so is there, if there's a performer bathroom, is there a psychological aspect to this as well? i'm trying to i guess its chest beating in a way, but yes. >> so the iranian political leadership the grand ayatollah gan dolan, supreme leader, khamenei, had to respond to the israeli attacks from the embassy. they run-ins, essentially back themselves into a corner by will give me by constantly warning that they would respond. they would respond. they would respond. they got to a point where they had to. respond. and it wouldn't do to have a small response because a small response, just shooting off a few rockets in the general direction of of israel would not satisfy day to have a constituency within their country culminate off the hard right in the era onion spectrum, particularly from the irgc, the iranian military. they also were, were demanding some sort of response.

>> so >> coming they had to come up with something that would show a greater degree of seriousness, a greater degree of purpose then he has ever done before, he has done that question is now that bibi netanyahu is facing those same kinds of pressures. how does he respond? >> what if netanyahu does not exercise restraint as being urged >> well, so then we've already reached a look with every little escalation that has taken place so far. and then it has been as well assassinate iranian nuclear size in iran iran responds by firing off missiles from lebanon, israel strikes syrian targets, iranian targets in syria israel responds with some more rocket attacks. the escalation has taken place. the trouble with this escalation ladder. i think military planners call it the trouble with this escalate escalation ladders, you reach a point where you can't go back down anymore. and the next step

up takes things beyond the point of control, beyond point where you can be certain of the outcome and that's when we enter very, very dangerous territory in a place in the part of the world has already dangerous where there's already so much chaos because of the israeli war on hamas in gaza. the last thing we need is another front. and this one against a much more powerful enemy being iran. >> vigorous. thank you so much for breaking this all down. i appreciate it so much. pleasure. >> ahead. >> the big moment for women's basketball held, getting even bigger. i'm talking about tonight's wnba draft. we've got the picks fashion, and we'll talk about it with someone who was their next situation with wolf blitzer tomorrow would six on cnn >> i'm getting vaccinated by ssrs pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine >> syllabi because i'm at risk

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>> 2024 stanley cup play. begin april 20 with the first pick in the 2024 wnba draft. the indiana fever select caitlin clark >> the anti-death blaze stars are about to become rookies. again, the next generation of stars hit the orange carpet tonight in new york for the wnba draft, caitlin clark went first overall to the indiana fever, followed the by cameron brink going to la and third pick and anti-death boulay champion kamilla cardoso is heading to chicago alongside angel reese, who went seventh overall. >> this was >> the first time fans have come to the drafts since 2016. and i'll 1,000 tickets were sold in 15 minutes. it is the culmination of an incredible and lay season, which came to a close of the record viewership

numbers for the championship game. simply put, women's basketball is having a long awaited moment. >> dring me now a fresh from the >> drafts, cnn sports anchor coy wire. also with this cnn contributor kari champion. so glad to have you both here. how lucky am i tonight we're going to do with three-piece or carpeready. right. reaboth thr is aligng getoh, okay. well, there you go >> begin with you tonight. waa big night in a htit culminatioof a lot >> of years of hard work, decades of hard work. the wnba been around for 27 years and i think we've all felt this growth is boom and the popularity of not just college hoops, but women's sports in general. and when i got there tonight, brooklyn academy of music, this historic venue, right? they had their first event there and 18, 61, and tonight they're hosting the

next stars of the wnba and from the bus load out when they start to come up, there were kids of all ages, parents with jerseys on children. these superstars into the venue. and then when you were in there i mean, that place was popping. i mean, there were so much energy almost blew the lid off the place. and you had legendary coaches like dawn staley in the house to see their players like kamilla cardoso get drafted third overall. >> and >> we had this family vibe to. have been tilotta nfl drafts. and you do get this great sense of fans so, um, but, but you kind of get that division because there's like us versus them, but no matter which team's jersey that had on, they were all cheering every pick and i love that sense of community that i saw and felt their tonight isn't working. >> go ahead. >> well, detainees point i think going to wnba games. everyone wants to compare and i don't think we should because there is more of a familial community and it feels more like a family event. and this is their moment as you well

know, because they have caitlin clark and angel reese and dawn staley and cameron brink and they have obviously cardoso, they have all these huge superstars that we're familiar with and we can say their names, but there is still this intimacy that i think is really important that we don't need to try to make them not have anymore by comparing it to the nba, this was a big night, a huge night and for me watching, i'm sitting at home, i'm thinking this is so special and i hope that they can really, really capitalize on the momentum of what is happening. and by they, i mean the wnba, is it similar? >> in this draft? many and probably watched the nba draft in terms, if you go first overall, you're really not going to stay at that team the long run. that's not the same thing here because they only have 13 teams and that includes the new team that's coming from that'll be in san francisco. and then obviously today they said they wanted to hopefully expand to 16 teams. they don't have the depth. so usually you're going where you're gonna go, once you get drafted, you don't get switched out at the last minute. they don't have that many roster spots and

that's something also that they're going to hope to work on, obviously with these new stars who are going to create a new generation of people in popularity to watch the game, right >> and caitlin clark, for example, she's projected to sign a four-year deals with their with indiana fever, so she will most likely be there for the long term because they're not going to treat her away, right. >> and i was talking to the one that team owners tonight and was really interesting unlike in say the nfl or nba draft, where these last-minute deals and teams move in and shaken and trying to steal picks, if you will, in players for their team, they kinda all oh, yeah, try to be on the same page and communicate this is who we're thinking. we're going to take an everyone kind of knows within that first round there specifically who they're going to pick and do their background checks. they study their character and then when a draft that player, they want to help support them, where are they from? kamilla cardoso from brazil bill what does she need for us as an organization from us to help her thrive when she gets here and all these other players, this was really

well-thought-out, well-planned out for them to help them succeed. >> well well-planned, been have been to do with that connected tissue here, coy, let me ask you though, you mentioned camila and also oh angel reese there now on the same team. they were playing against her since high school, right? they played against each other since high school and they had a lot. there was a lot of trash talk back and forth between them and that last game, which i loved to see, the passion as we call it, but obviously as teammates, they're gonna get along. i they asked camila, do you see how do you think? your teammates she was like great just like wake is that right? because i want the drama here's the thing >> the reason why college basketball women's college basketball was so good because we had story lines, we had characters, we had, we had good guys, we had bad guys, good gauss, bad gauss, whatever you want to call it, we had something to invest in and i don't want them to lose who's that when they get to the wnba, sorry, i said it best the other day sooner william said for so long, they've needed their moment and obviously in tennis,

she was she was the lightning rod. serena williams was, and we need this in this moment. don't though, dull it down or meghan, competitive, let them trash talk. it is their rite of passage let's get into it as if we're watching it the way we should let them was struck because that fashion, it was on display as well today, i mean, coy, you know, quite shot him down. ya think you doing it? i have it a friend earlier today, i said like i felt like i was in a room full of magical unicorns and they were floating their feet, weren't even touching the graph. caitlin clark there that you're seeing she's the first time any nba or wnba player were prada on an orange or red carpet and yes, they really put some thought into it, angel reese told me she said, can i tell you? something? i had to switch out my outfit last minute because the other one i had planned was too small, so she went out and through that masterpiece together, this killing it out there. it was the ladies was a big moment as a great moment for these young women who are really helping to champion women's sports, but also

inspire the next generation that's right, it's so important my? kids are watching the term and they were watching with the same amount of excitement as they do for the nba as they do for any other sports. and i thought it was amazing freshman my daughter and my son who's a basketball phenom, if i do say i love it my mom brings the orange line i the games as 11 guys coy wire, karatay up. it's like right down their >> thank you. oh, this is a >> bus killens tax day with this in the next thing especially for mark cuban next, the blade air reveals his nine figure bill when i guess i feel better to the tax man you're taking a swipe at a certain former president in the process >> looks like allergy season is back time to start saving on

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