Good evening I'm William Brangam.

Jeff Bennett and I'm Navaizer away on the news hour tonight.

After some setbacks, the jury in the Trump-Hushmoney trial is filled. The US and

Britain target Iran with new sanctions as the world waits for Israel's response

to Iran's weekend attack. And scientists sound the alarm as warming ocean waters trigger

massive bleaching of the world's coral reefs. Welcome to the news hour. A full jury has been seated in former President Trump's

criminal trial, but jury selection has had a rocky start as two previously

selected jurors were dismissed. And prosecutors again

accused the former president of violating a gag order and asked the judge to

hold him in contempt. I'm joined now by former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth.

Jessica, great to have you back on the program.

A bit of a whiplash with this jury, it was up and then it was down and now there was a full

jury seated. Two issues came up with regards to these jurors

being dismissed. One, a juror was worried that her identity was being revealed in the

process. A second was concern over was concerned about

over whether another juror was somehow hiding his or her true intentions

about why they wanted to sit on the jury.

Are those just normal concerns,

especially in a case like this?

Well, they raised two distinct concerns, these two jurors.

The first juror who said that she was concerned essentially about her privacy

and I think implicitly her safety because she thought that her identity essentially

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