selection with all 12 jurors and six alternates sworn in by friday afternoon dreary consultant richard gabriel joins us now from los angeles. richard, thank you so much for joining me. this process seemed to move faster than expected. do you think that this jury is going to hold and in such an unusual high profile case, do you think that the six alternates are enough well, it remains to be seen. >> i mean, six alternates ordinarily for a six-week trial should be plenty but as we've seen in all these high-profile trials crazy things can happen, and depending what happens, even on monday, whether jurors come in and go, this is too much pressure. i didn't realize this was going to be so extensive they could replace jurors even next week. so i think the judge is hoping that'll be enough. it should be enough the thing about this jury is that there's a lot of high profile people on the jury, there's lawyers, there's engineers, there's financial people who i think do feel a little bit comfortable probably won't feel as intimidated. i think this is a pretty solid jury. the judge in this case is absolu

let's discuss with jury consultant richard gabriel. he's worked on a number of high-profile cases, including o.j. simpson casey, anthony, and aaron hernandez. he's the president of decision analysis and the author of the book, acquittal. >> richard. thank you so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. what's your impression of the pace of jury selection so far it could take up to several weeks to just seat a jury boris, i don't think he's going to take that long, actually, i think we're making good progress right now, even though a lot of jurors were dismissed yesterday who are obviously very candid about their opinions, said they couldn't be fair there's a number of people that are seated, so we've got 18 on the box the magic number that that both sides need in order to exercise their peremptory challenges is around 40, 38 to 40 jurors. >> there. so if we've got 18 so far, the parties are obviously reading the questionnaires and seeing okay. how can i exercise those i think we're getting there you fairly quickly roughly half t

geoff tube and richard gabriel. thanks so much kaitlan, we're going to see you at the top of the hour and nine on the source, you have a conversation with a member of the trump defense team joining sandwich, new york. new yorker contributing writer ronan farrow. carlos written the definitive book on the practice at the center of this trial. the title catch and kill lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators running. we learned today that several stories that you helped him cover will be allowed to be taken into evidence in this trial, including allowing karen mcdougal to testify how important do you think her story is two, this trial? so the larger picture it's pivotal and it's a pivotal moment in this case that judge merchan is saying, look, this is essential material to establishing the narrative. the narrative being that there was indeed a scheme between donald trump and the national enquirer, and that these payments had an electoral intent. and the evidence of a series of payments, not just a stormy dani

also bestselling author and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey toobin and richard gabriel, jury consultant and author of acquittal and insider, reveals stories and strategies bind today's most from this vertex. so jeff, as qarrah was just reporting out of 96 potential jurors say more than half were dismissed because they said they couldn't be impartial. only nine got through the questionnaire. i mean, is this how you expected things to go? >> it's actually good progress. journalists, we have we tend to think that everyone out there in the real-world potential jurors are following these stories closely the way we are in they're not, we are certainly going to get a jury here this process is underway. i've covered all these high-profile trials. we always think, oh, everybody is made up their mind. they haven't made up their mind. people are living their lives. they are going to they are going to be questioned by the lawyers, questioned by the judge a group of 12 jurors and six alternates will say they can be pair fair. >> and this >> trial will proceed. this trial is now underway. >> caitlin,

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. >> richard gabriel is here as well. gentlemen. thank you both for being here. we know that this trial is going to begin an ally. let me begin with you, because the prosecution says they intend to call their first witness. of course, after opening statements. but on monday, but that they won't tell trump's team who that person will be until the day before. so what will the prosecution really be looking for out of whoever their first witness is going to be well, you want to start a safe and you want to start strong, laura, you don't want to you're certainly not going to put michael cohen up there. let's put it that way to start off. >> you want to this is your first time you're really showing any evidence to the jury. >> and so you want to give them somebody who establishes a bedrock foundation of your case. so i suspect it might be a witness through whom they can get in some of the financial records. for example, we know that a key part of this case was the fact that donald trump reimbursed michael cohen through a series of 11 checks. many not all, but many of w

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