election the person who got the most votes. brings us together. >> this country was built. >> there is a movement reaching into to church basements and union halls. >> shines and a beacon around the world once more. >> this is our chance to answer that call. >> that is our broadcast for tonight. brian will be back tomorrow. thank you for being with us and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. the president tonight at the white house said about the coronavirus -- and i quote -- it is going to disappear. one day it will be like a miracle. it will disappear. he then said, nobody really knows. and while i am sure the president would not say that without having an adequate scientific and factual basis for

proclaiming that to the american people, the evidence today does not seem to indicate that the miraculous day when coronavirus is going to disappear is upon us. at least not yet. today the nation of norway announced its first case of coronavirus. the netherlands also announced their first case. denmark announced their first case. estonia announced their first case. romania announced their first case. northern ireland announced their first case. nigeria announced its first case today, which makes that the first case reported in all of sub-saharan africa. sweden announced five new cases today. italy, as of yesterday, had announced 12 deaths attributed to the virus. today that number jumped to 17 deaths in italy in 650 cases overall. it's not clear why, but the total number of cases in france more than doubled today compared with yesterday. france is now reporting 38 cases including a dozen patients who have tested positive in one

region north of paris where they don't know what the initial vector of transmission was for those dozen patients. france also reports that in its latest death from coronavirus, that patient is also somebody for whom they could not track how he got the virus in the first place, but he has now died. there's new reasons to worry about the situation in iran, in particular in terms of how this is going to go in the middle east. in iran, the official death toll as of last night was 19. as of tonight, it's 26. but the guardian newspaper today cites opposition and reformist sources in iran as saying the death toll is much higher, more like 50. friday prayers were suspended in iran today, but they have still kept open the shiite pilgrimage sites, which are believed to be a focal point for the iranian outbreak, which is of unknown size. remarkably among the people who have now tested positive for coronavirus in iran, there are a

number of high-ranking politicians, including several members of parliament who have the virus. the deputy minister of health in iran has tested positive for coronavirus. also the vice president of iran for women and family affairs -- that is not a job i knew they had in iran. but the woman who holds that job is herself an immunologist, and she reportedly has now tested positive for the coronavirus herself. world health organization officials warned today that the death rate in iran thus far casts doubt on what iran has announced in terms of its total number of cases. if they've already got 26 deaths already, let alone potentially twice that number, the total number of cases, the total number of people infected in iran almost must be much larger than what iran is admitting to or potentially to what they know. i mean what do they know? what are they doing for testing? one of the things we're starting to recognize around the world, that as testing rates increase,

the reported number of cases increased too, right? it makes sense. you can't confirm any of these infections unless you're testing for them. testing protocols and actual tests vary quite widely around the world. we've been reporting over the past few days about the situation in south korea, where they're making a very concerted effort to test tens of thousands and ultimately hundreds of thousands of people. yesterday remarkably over the course of one day, south korea's new cases jumped by more than 30%. more than 300 new cases were reported yesterday just in one day as they scaled up testing. more than 300 cases yesterday. well, today they reported more than 500 new cases in south korea. again, as they continue to scale up their testing as fast as they can. south korea is now up to more than 2,000 known cases. but, again, more than 500 of those cases just reported today. and the disruption to daily life is scaling up as well based on

the prevalence of the virus in specific countries but also the way individual countries are deciding to respond to it. today the japanese government ordered all schools across japan closed immediately until the end of what is basically spring break for japanese schools, which means that every school in that country is closed effective immediately and will stay closed until maybe early april. i mean it's february now. imagine if that happened in your family, right? imagine if all the schools in your town shut or all the schools in your state, all the schools in your country all shut on zero notice, closed immediately starting tomorrow and they're not going to be open till april. how would you be able to hanlt that in terms of your family responsibilities, work schedules, child care and everything? in iraq, they have also ordered the schools shut until march 7th. in kuwait, they have ordered the schools shut until march 12th. again, whether or not you think

that is a reasonable precaution for these countries to be taking in public health terms, just think about the social disruption that entails to everyday families, especially because these decisions didn't have a long lead time. it's just, you know, effective immediately and shut for a long time to come. in addition to the school closures in iraq, iraq has now banned its citizens from traveling to iran, china, thailand, south korea, singapore, italy, kuwait, and bahrain. in israel, the health ministry has advised all israelis to reconsider the necessity of flying anywhere. quote. if you do not genuinely have to fly, do not do so. that's the message to all israelis from the israeli health ministry. and when countries around the world -- and we're seeing big businesses cancel business travel around the world. when countries and big businesses, large entities like this start making blanket decisions, telling people don't travel and we're shutting stuff

down, it's easy to see why we're having the kind of financial market reactions that we are now having and what appears to be a sort of sustained way. this isn't an esoteric fear. this is the recognition of real economic impact. today the dow jones industrial average dropped 1,192 points in one day. that's the largest single-day point drop in the dow ever. the dow has now dropped 3,200 points this week. the s&p, nasdaq, and the dow all had their largest one-day point declines ever today. in terms of how our country is faring, how we are handling it, i think it has to be -- we have to contend with the fact that there is a problem at the top in terms of leadership and clarity and just, you know, sentient awareness of the basic facts of what is going on around this crisis right now.

>> it's going to disappear one day. it's like a miracle. it will disappear. >> i don't know if part of the response plan from the u.s. government is to try to get the president to stop talking about this matter so that he stops saying fantasy, made-up, untrue things like that. it will disappear. one day it will just disappear. i mean ultimately remarks like that from the president will get in the way of the u.s. government being able to communicate real information to the american people that is important for our lives. but the president's public remarks on this crisis thus far have just been repeatedly and insistently wrong in a way that is going to be consequential because our lives are going to be affected by the public health response to this crisis. and while i have been very comfortable, increasingly comfortable ignoring the president's words, we have a sort of mantra here for the trump administration, which is

watch what they do, not what they say. in a case like this, in a public health crisis like this, the president's words are very consequential in themselves. and what he's been saying about the coronavirus is not his usual, you know, feel free to ignore it, bragging, making stuff up about his enemies and the press and all that stuff. i mean the president is telling the public things that are not true about the coronavirus, and specifically about how it is being handled in the united states. and this is a problem. the president again tonight says it's only 15 cases of coronavirus in the united states. it is not 15 cases. it is at least 60 cases of coronavirus in the united states, not 15. the president continues to insist that the number of cases is going to drop. it's going to go away. it's going to become near zero when even his own administration's health officials are saying, we need to prepare for the fact that the number of cases in the united states is going to go up.

the president is saying the number of cases is going to go to zero. it's going to drop away. it's not. it's going to go up. the president is not telling you the truth about that. the president has said that in the last two days, that the coronavirus is less lethal, has a lower fatality rate than the common flu. that is quite dramatically, mathematically incorrect. but him insisting on that is causing confusion for people who are trying to understand the scale of this problem and how our lives are going to change here and what public health interventions might have to be. i mentioned that part of what we are seeing internationally is as countries are scaling up their testing efforts, that's allowing them to diagnose more and more cases of coronavirus. well, one of the things that makes it important for us to have real information about this crisis from our government as opposed to the kind of stuff the president has been saying, which is not true, is that the testing

dynamic is very much in flux here in the united states. that dynamic we're seeing in other countries where they're scaling up testing and that's producing large numbers of new reported cases, it's not playing out that way in the united states yet because thus far in the united states, access to testing for this virus has been quite limited. as of today, it's being reported that fewer than 500 people have even been tested for coronavirus in the united states. we've got 60 cases, but we've only tested 445 people. contrast that with south korea, which is aiming at testing 200,000 people and has tested tens of thousands already. just look at what's going on in california to get a sense about what might be so troubling about that in terms of our own government's response. according to california governor gavin newsom today, california has 33 cases of its own. california has more than double the confirmed positive cases than the president admits to for our entire country. there are 33 confirmed cases in

california. but according to california governor gavin newsom, more than 8,400 people in california are being monitored as potential cases. more than 8,000. that said, last night we reported on the california case that was the first instance, the first known instance of somebody being diagnosed in the u.s. with the coronavirus without any known source for their infection. this is a person who hadn't traveled overseas to china or anyplace elsewhere the virus is known to be more prevalent. this is a person who is not known to have been in contact with anybody who had that kind of overseas travel. her source of exposure is a mystery. northern california woman. we don't have any way to trace how it is that she got infected. she's the first person whose infection in the united states is of totally unknown origin. as we reported last night, the centers for disease control and california public health officials have started contact tracing for this patient to figure out who she's been in contact with, who might have been the source of her

infection, but also who she's been in contact with who she might have infected as well since she has had the virus. well, tonight we've got significantly more information about that california case. according to california health officials, this woman was brought to a community health center in vacaville, california, a community hospital with about 50 rooms. she was brought in by family members when she was feeling ill and not getting better. she stayed at that hospital for several days while her condition got worse. she was having severe, increasingly severe pulmonary and respiratory systems and the hospital staff at that community hospital decided they needed to transfer her to a facility that was better equipped to handle somebody in that kind of a condition. so they transferred her from the vacaville community hospital to uc davis medical center. and it was at uc davis medical center where she was finally tested for coronavirus, and she tested positive. well, now in the aftermath of this case becoming known and becoming a confirmed positive, dozens of staff members at that

community where she first appeared have spent several days being monitored for their potential exposure. also staff at uc davis medical center have been isolated. they're now being monitored for having been potentially exposed. so, you know, just since she has been in contact with the health care system, there's a question of potential additional exposure to health workers who helped treat her, in the environment where she was being treated. but the question remains as to how she got it. the community hospital where this woman first presented is less than ten miles away from travis air force base. travis air force base is one of the military facilities where the trump administration decided to bring americans, supposedly under quarantine conditions, after those americans were evacuated from a cruise ship. the cruise ship had been to china. passengers on board were known to have contracted the virus. it was docked at yokohama in japan and just sitting there. the u.s. government made the decision to evacuate americans off that cruise ship. last week "the washington post"

had dramatic reporting about the chaos inside the trump administration as they were trying to decide what to do exactly with those americans who were stuck on that cruise ship. one of those americans had a friend who was a republican congressman, called up his 23re7bd who was the congressman. that got the attention of the trump administration. they decided to evacuate more than 320 americans off that cruise ship. those 320-plus americans were told by the u.s. government that they would be brought home and they would be kept safe. in the midst of bringing them home, though, 14 of the american passengers themselves tested positive for the coronavirus. and so what to do. because there's more than 300 of them, but 14 have tested positive. as "the washington post" described, those passengers were essentially left cooling their heels while trump administration officials and public health officials fought about it. officials from the centers for disease control insisted that those 14 americans who tested positive should not be flown home on the same plane as all of the other americans who hadn't tested positive.

cdc officials argued that it wasn't safe. it was improper procedure in terms of trying to contain this as a public health threat. but the trump administration decided to overall those cdc officials. trump administration officials in the state department and the department of health and human services said, no. we're going to overall your concerns. cdc officials went so far as to insist then that the cdc wouldn't have its name as an agency mentioned at all in any of the press materials discussing the u.s. government's decision here because they didn't want to make it seem like the cdc had signed off on what they believed was a terrible and unsafe plan. they explicitly objected to it. well, now "the washington post," "new york times," "wall street journal" have all reported on a whistle-blower complaint filed by an employee at the department of health and human services, and it is a whistle-blower complaint that fines a fairly terrifying light on how the

department of health and human services, under trump cabinet secretary alex azar, how they decided to handle this crisis of these infected americans being evacuated back to the u.s. once the trump administration had decided to disregard the cdc's explicit advice about how to handle those 14 infected people. the state department and alex azar's health and human services department insisted that the cdc was wrong. they knew better how to handle those 14 infected people. and so they brought these evacuees to two air force bases, to march air force base in riverside county, california, and to travis air force base near vacaville. hhs, according to this whistle-blower complaint, ordered teams of more than a dozen personnel from hhs, from something called the administration for children and families inside hhs, that they should go into the quarantine zone for those evacuees. they should greet those american evacuees upon their arrival at those two air force bases.

here's what "the new york times" described what happened based on this whistle-blower's complaint. quote, the staff members were sent to travis air force base and march air reserve base and were ordered to enter quarantined areas, including a hangar where coronavirus evacuees were being received. the hhs staff were not provided training or safety protocols. without proper training or equipment, some of the exposed staff members then moved freely around and off the air bases with at least one person staying in a nearby hotel and then leaving california on a commercial flight. according to the whistle-blower, quote, i soon began to feield panicked calls expressing concerns with the lack of hhs communication and coordination, concerns with staff being sent into quarantined areas without personal protective equipment or training or experience in managing public health emergencies. concerns about safety protocols and the potential danger to both themselves and members of the

public they come into contact with. nobody knows why staffers from this particular part of health and human services were the ones who were assigned to meet with the coronavirus evacuees inside the quarantine zone. these are staffers from the administration for children and families. that's not part of the u.s. government that responds to public health emergencies. i mean in this administration for reference, these are the people who have been assigned to take custody of the kids who were taken away from their parents at the border by homeland security. these aren't public health emergency. these aren't quarantine staff, right? why did the trump administration send these people into the quarantine zone to meet with the evacuees with no personal protective equipment, with no training as to how to prevent themselves from becoming exposed or infected? why did they send these people to go meet with the americans who had tested positive for

coronavirus? and then after doing so, they sent those same staffers out into hotels and onto commercial aircraft and back into the surrounding communities and ultimately back into their offices at hhs around the country. did you design this to try to spread this thing around the country? i mean you're the health and human services department. you're the ones who insisted you knew how to do this better than the cdc. you explicitly overruled them on this, and then this is how you handled it? both "the times" and "the post" reporting tonight that even today there are these two dozen-plus hhs staffers who were put in this position, who were not trainetrained, not given equipment, not told how to make themselves safe. they were just sent back to their offices after they had this contact with the evacuees and to this day, they have still not been tested. they haven't been put in isolation. they haven't been told to take

their temperature. the trump administration just sent them to go meet face to face with the people who had been evacuated because of coronavirus, and then they dispersed those staffers around the country. this woman who was at -- who is at uc davis medical center, apparently fighting for her life, she is the first case in the united states where it's somebody who definitely has the infection but they haven't been able to trace where she got it from. california governor gavin newsom said today that although this woman is from solano county, which is where travis air force base is, she has no connection whatsoever to travis air force base. but that air base is in her community, and the trump administration, according to this whistle-blower complaint, did send federal staffers on to that base to meet with quarantined exposed persons and then let them wander off, including into that community.

and so now here we are. trump health secretary alex azar is in charge of the department that made that decision about how to initially handle those american who's were brought here over cdc objections. alex azar is the one who sent those untrained, unprotected staff members from his own agency to go deal with the evacuees. that's who president trump has put in charge of the coronavirus task force for the u.s. government now, which means he might be in charge of the u.s. government response to coronavirus, but it's possible that it is also vice president mike pence who is in charge. it's not entirely clear. it's also possible that the person who is in charge is a respected public health professional named debbie birx, who used to be in charge of u.s. global and hiv/aids concerns. mike pence named her today as coordinating the white house coronavirus response while he says that he is leading it, but he also says that secretary azar is chairing the task force

response. i mean i don't know. it seems like they're all working on their titles. i'm not sure who's actually running it. there seem to be a few different people in charge. is the testing situation likely to get fixed? is this a basically unapproachable problem let alone an uncontainable problem if a state with 40 million people in it like california to date has 200 test kits? solano county itself has declared an emergency in response to this situation. officials there tonight briefed the press. they said in their briefing tonight that, quote, we need to start to prepare for the fact that we are going to see community transmission in the united states. we have got to prepare for what we are going to do to protect ourselves when it's here. those local officials and cdc officials with them basically a breath of fresh air on this point in terms of the straightforwardness with which they're approaching it. it's not being shared at the federal level. joining us now is dr. ezekiel

immanue immanue immanuel. it's a pleasure to have you here. thanks for making time tonight. >> nice to be back. >> first of all, tell me if i got any of that wrong or if it seems like i'm looking at any of this backwards. i would be very happy to have you correct me on any of that stuff. >> i would just emphasize two important points. one is there's a lot of unknowns here. we really -- you know, this is brand-new virus. we don't know how it's spreading. we do know it spreads and between two and three people get it from each infected person. we really don't know its death rate because we don't have enough cases. but i think, you know, in general you got the story right, and i think we do need, as you said, a coordinated, science-based response to this problem, and we need to be very well prepared. you know, god willing, it won't be a big problem. but as we say in medicine, you prepare for the worst and hope for the best. >> in terms of knowing the

number of cases, i'm finding that the testing situation to be increasingly hard to get my arms around. i mean how is it that south korea has tested tens of thousands of people and we've apparently tested less than 450? it would seem like testing is an important part of trying to get a grasp on the scale of the problem and what needs to be done. how come we can't scale up our testi testing? >> well, one of the problems is that every hospital or health community has to go back to the cdc to get a test kit. that seems like a mistake, especially now that we know there's community passage of this and many asymptomatic people are passing it. so we have to have a high index of suspicion right from the start even if someone's asymptomatic. and i think you're right. we need to see tens of thousands of tests being done in this country, if anything, to just prevent further spread. we're not going to contain this.

it probably, as the california case suggests, has broken out. but we do need mitigating responses to this problem and to try to reduce or isolate people who do test positive. >> what do you think we should expect in terms of a time frame for that kind of scaling up that you're talking about? if that is key to trying to figure out how to mitigate the impact of this uncontainable virus in terms of its spread, how fast could we be at the level where we've got 10,000 kits, tens of thousands of kits out there and they can do it in all the states where they've got prevalence? >> i mean, you know, if you have a whirlwind personality who is running this, that's one step that they would take. another step is getting all the state health officials together and talking about them and making sure everyone knows what the federal government is doing and what the states are doing, and ensuring that there's close collaboration. would you make sure that we have enough personal protective equipment, the ppe out there in

all the hospitals and throughout the country. you would make sure that our drug supply is secure since so much of the raw materials come from china and the generics come from china, and that's -- you have to get on that. i mean there's a very long list that you need to do. i'd say the other thing we need to prepare for and china made quite clear that it could threaten us -- hopefully it won't -- is surge in the hospitals. if a lot of people get infected, we may begin to overwhelm our hospitals. we have less than a million beds in the united states in all hospitals. what's the surge capacity? how are we going to respond if we have a large number of people? we still have people who have other conditions whether it's cancer or need surgery. so we have to be able to handle that surge, and that needs a plan as well. and, you know, taking care of the united states is only so good. we have to make sure that the world has an adequate response too, so we need to partner with the w.h.o. and other

organizations in addressing this. so there's -- you know, there's a list which is where you would start if you were taking over this and really pushing it forward. >> dr. ezekiel emanuel, sir, thanks for your time. it's good to see you. >> thank you. hope that was helpful. >> it is helpful. it's a good list. i'm taking notes. i think we all are. i have -- i wish i had more confidence that at the white house they were also taking notes, writing this stuff down. maybe i'll send them a transcript. we'll be right back. man: sneezes skip to the good part with alka-seltzer plus. now with 25% more concentrated power. nothing works faster for powerful cold relief. oh, what a relief it is! so fast! i receivelize travel rewards. going new places! going out for a bite! going anytime. rewarded! learn more at the explorer card dot com.

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there was a bird flu outbreak in 2005 and afterwards the george w. bush administration launched a new program called predict. the idea was to try to discover new diseases that could be spread from animals to humans. bird flu, sars, mers, this new strain of the coronavirus that is the cause of this current crisis, they're all believed to have come from animals before they started making people sick. the idea with predict was to try to predict and prevent the next pandemic or at least to better help understand these types of diseases, to understand it ahead of time if it was eventually going to hit. that program collected more than 100,000 samples, documented more than 1,000 new viruses, including a new strain of ebola. it was a huge success, running for a full decade until the trump administration cut off funding for the predict program late last year.

they shut the whole thing down. the trump administration also this past year shut down the entire global health security and biothreat infrastructure that had been specifically built up by the obama administration, particularly after that administration's successful response to the 2014 ebola outbreak. that response was headed up in the obama administration at president obama's direction by a top aide to vice president biden named ron klain. joining us now is ron klain. he was chosen by president obama to lead that ebola response. he was chief of staff to vice president al gore and vice president joe biden. it's great to have you here. thank you. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> at some point i'm going to get you at the desk here with any in new york and we're going to have a long talk about how this is supposed to go. tonight let me ask you point-blank if you are worried about how the trump administration is handling this crisis thus far? >> of course i am. i think anything that could be done wrong probably has been done wrong. it starts with the president himself continuing to make

inaccurate statements, inaccurate statements about the consequences of the policies adopted, inaccurate statements about the pace of vaccine development, about the likely spread of the disease in the united states. you couple that with the announcement today, the implementation today of a decision to silence our senior public health officials, people like tony fauci, who served seven u.s. presidents, won the presidential medal of freedom, the world's leading expert on infectious diseases, ordered by the white house today to stop briefing the public. so you have a punch of bad decisions by the president, an effort to silence the people who can give the public the state information. that's a very bad combination. >> in terms of those sort of dual problems that you were just describing there, obviously in a real response, a real and responsible response to this kind of a crisis, you do want coordinated messaging. you do want a united front. you do want the united states government speaking clearly and with authority and saying true things. you want somebody like tony

fauci briefing the public in terms of the public health threat here. with the president repeatedly saying things that are not true, does it make sense to have somebody trying to coordinate messaging? i mean do you have to have somebody rebutting the president and saying, no, we're not going to have a shot for this real soon. no, there aren't only 15 cases. no, we're not going to zero cases. i mean i don't have too much sympathy with vice president mike pence being in charge of this, but if i were him, i would have no idea how to coordinate u.s. government communications around this with the guy at the top saying the things that he's saying. >> you know, rachel, i think at this stage of the game, anyone who believes what president trump says kind of gets what they deserve. the challenge is, is there a place where people can get reliable information? and that is our public health officials, our nonpartisan public health officials, people like dr. fauci, people like the doctor at the cdc. when i was running the ebola response, we made a decision i would be behind the scenes.

i coordinated with a team on policy implementation, the effort to deploy people to west africa, the effort to get our hospitals ready at home. we had people like dr. fauci, people like dr. tom frieden, be the public spokes people. the american people don't need to hear from donald trump or mike pence about the coronavirus. they need to hear from the experts who know the facts, who know what's happening. what vice president pence should be doing, or whoever else he's brought in to work on this, should be speeding up our response. our response is too slow. we are not getting hospitals ready. we are not getting testing kits deployed. we are not doing the double-time work we should be doing to be getting ready for the inevitable. >> ron klain, head of the u.s. response to the ebola crisis during the obama administration. again, ron, i'm going to get you here, and i'm going to grill you for a long time. >> i look forward to it. a lot more to get to tonight. stay with us. and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier.

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one of the members of the jury was sick. one was traveling out of the country. but pretty much all of the rest of them showed up. they didn't have to. it was totally voluntary, but the person that they, the jury, had voted to convict, the president's longtime adviser roger stone, as well as the president himself, they were making wild public allegations against the jury, specifically against the forewoman of the jury from the roger stone trial, saying she was biased and bad and that's the only reason roger

stone was convicted, and he should therefore have his conviction thrown out. in a hearing over whether or not roger stone would get a new trial because of these allegations of bias on the jury, the judge asked members of the jury if they would be willing to return to court so they could answer questions about this alleged bias. and they all did. and in this remarkable scene under supervision by the judge in coordination with lawyers for both sides, two of the jurors were brought back into court to answer questions about what had happened when they were hearing roger stone's case. the judge: did the foreperson encourage civility and respect among the jurors? juror a, she did. the judge, was every juror invited or permitted to speak up? juror a, yes, absolutely. the judge, what concerns did you have about whether the foreperson was attempting to dominate or control the outcome in any way? answer, i never had any feeling she was attempting any of that.

the judge, was anyone a voice for taking your time or being sure to apply the presumption of innocence? answer, i would say that several people were, including the forewoman. that was juror a. then we had juror b, who went further. the judge, did you have any concerns at the time you rendered your verdict about whether you and the jury had engaged in a full and fair consideration of the evidence. juror b, we had a problem with -- well, i don't know how to say this. we all agreed on -- most of us agreed on our answer. we already said that, you know, he was guilty. but it was the forewoman, i don't know whether i can say that, but it was the forewoman who insisted that we examine question three, examine charge three a little more. the judge, okay. there was a count you sent out some notes about. is that the one that the foreperson asked you to be more careful? juror b, yes, that's the one. we needed to examine that a little more and read the transcript, find out more

evidence. the judge, so it was the foreperson who insisted that that level of attention be paid to that count even though some of you were already ready to decide? answer, yes. the jurors coming in to defend the foreperson of their jury, who was being attacked on the fox news channel, who was being attacked by the president of the united states, and who was being attacked by the defendant in that case, personally attacked as being some sort of bad and biased person that has resulted in roger stone's unanimous conviction by that jury. jury duty is a pain. it's a civic responsibility. i know, but it's a pain. in this case, though, with the president of the united states personally attacking members of the jury, we're now at the point of asking for basically heroic patriotism on the part of these jurors, who never asked for any of this, who are just normal, everyday citizens who are doing their civic duty by saying yes and turning up for jury duty. they're nevertheless stepping forward to rebut the attacks on

this jury that are coming from the sitting president of the united states. it's remarkable that the president has put us in this situation, but it is also remarkable that this jury has stepped up to defend itself and to defend each other in the way that they have. and one of those jurors is going to join us live here in studio, next. as a caricature artist, i appreciate what makes each person unique. that's why i like liberty mutual. they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. almost done.

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brita? 110... seriously? but zerowater- let me guess. zero? yup, that's how i know it is the purest-tasting water. i need to find the receipt for that. oh yeah, you do. this is from juror number three. he says, quote, our foreperson oversaw a rigorous process, slowing us down on several occasions and advocating for the rights of the defendant. roger stone received a fair trial. he was found guilty based on the evidence by a jury that respects respected his rights and viewed the government's claim skeptically. our jury valued truth plain and simple. -- saying, quote, the truth still exists. 9 truth still matters. when the president attacks our jury's foreperson, he's effectively attacking every american who takes time off work, arranges child care and

otherwise disrupts their life temporarily to participate in this civic duty. his attacks denigrate both our service and the concept of equal justice under u.s. law. that's an op-ed that just recently ran in "the washington post" from seth cousins, who served as juror number three in the roger stone trial. mr. cousins joins us live here in studio now. sir, thanks very much for being here. i appreciate it. >> thanks, rachel. >> i imagine what you've been through, it was not an easy decision to talk about this publicly. >> it wasn't. i wrote the -- i wrote that first op-ed back in november shortly after the trial had concluded. i felt like it was important to put a voice out there about the process that we had followed, about how seriously we had taken roger stone's rights in the process. at the time i felt like just my words would be enough, and it seemed like they were for a while. but then over the last three weeks or so, seeing the attacks come in on the jury, on the process, on the forewoman, coming even from the president

of the united states, as you've noted and many people have noted, repeatedly attacking her, it just felt like someone needed to speak up a little bit. >> it's been remarkable to see both in -- you being public about this but also in the hearing this week, the judge contacted members of the jury or had the court contact members of the jury and basically invite you to return to court. but it was totally voluntary. you didn't all have to do it. >> it was voluntary. we didn't have to do it. there were a couple of people who were traveling for work. there were a couple of people who expressed they weren't going to be exhibit testifying, so it was absolutely a voluntary appearance. >> then two jurors, juror a and juror b, were questioned by the judge effectively about what the process had been like and about these allegations of bias. >> that's right. >> can i ask you if you were juror a o juror b? >> i was juror a. >> was that an intimidating process itself? >> it was a fascinating process, rachel. this whole thing has been -- i mean i never imagined that this would happen. first time i've ever served on a

jury. it's going to be hard to top. >> it's not always like this. >> so i have heard. it was -- it was a little bit intimidating. i will say that judge jackson has very firm control over her courtroom and a very sort of fair approach to the process. so i certainly didn't feel nervous with her asking me questions and answering honestly the questions she had. >> i want to ask you a little bit more about what it's been like to have the president himself personally wade into this process, which i imagine adds both the surreality of it but also sort of the stakes. we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. >> all right. >> seth cousins was juror number three in the roger stone trial. the president and the stone defense have been attacking the jury, including in personal terms since mr. stone was convicted and sentenced. we'll be right back with seth cousins after this. working with mike bloomberg was one of

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process with your fellow jurors. you didn't know any of these people before who came together and took this very seriously and were very proud about the way you approached this. how has that sclashclashed with way conservative media and the president have attacked you guys? >> sure. i think the attacks are frankly appalling. i don't think that -- i don't think that the president or elected officials or frankly the press have a place to be attacking jury service and the idea of jury service. jury service is core to our -- it's core to our justice system and to the administration of justice, right? it's written into the constitution. it goes way back to common law before that. i hadn't thought much about jury service before i was on this panel, and i've had the chance to think about it a bunch since then. it has -- it has led me to

understand, like, how important jury service is, what a sacrifice, even though it may just be a temporary, a few-day inconvenience, but the sacrifice that every american citizen makes when they report for jury duty, when they answer the summons, and the critical piece that they're playing in sort of upholding our justice system, protecting the rights of citizens who are accused of crimes. >> do you think the kinds of attacks on you and the foreperson of your jury in particular are designed to either change jury verdicts or to make people too afraid or too shy about putting themselves -- about doing this civic duty and participating in it. are you worried about that? >> i am. i certainly wouldn't be surprised if they are designed to make people afraid of serving on juries that may be judging other people in trump's circle in the future. i don't know if they're designed to attack the basic idea of jury

service and turn people away from that, but i fear they actually have that effect. >> mm-hmm. seth cousins, again, you have every right to keep yourself completely anonymous and not talk to the members of the press and the public about this, but your doing so has given a super important window into what this was like and a way to appreciate how much is at stake with these attacks on you guys. thanks for doing this. >> i'm honored to do it. >> we'll be right back. stay with us.

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