How do you pick a jury for Donald Trump?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
How do you pick a jury of right-minded individuals to pass a fair verdict on Donald Trump?
His lawyers say it's impossible, that this trial is a witch hunt, that he's been gagged AND denied the chance to go to his son's graduation.
Meanwhile, the judge has just carried on. They're selecting a jury which will witness the first ever criminal trial of a former US president.
We talk to criminal defence attorney - and hardened New Yorker - Randy Scott Zelin about whether justice can be served in such a politicised atmosphere.
Later, what actually happened on the film set of RUST in October 2021, when Alec Baldwin accidentally shot dead the lead cinematographer. Today the armourer - responsible for weapons and ammunition on set - Hannah Guttierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months prison. We ask an armourer here how film set rules are followed - and what he thinks went wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | The first ever day of the first ever criminal trial of a former president. |
| 0:25.6 | Riveting for the world to watch. One person wasn't quite so riveted. I have to ask you guys have been at the times have been live blogging this event. |
| 0:31.6 | And 40 minutes ago you wrote an observation that I was very surprised. |
| 0:38.9 | Trump appears to be sleeping. |
| 0:42.3 | His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack. |
| 0:43.6 | Tell us about that. |
| 0:46.1 | Well, Jake, he appeared to be asleep. |
| 0:52.8 | Well, that was Jake Tapper from CNN asking the question of the Queen of Trump Watchers, |
| 0:55.4 | Maggie Haberman, from the New York Times, who just says, yeah, he looked like he was asleep. And of course, for Donald Trump, who has made his |
| 1:00.9 | career with catchy nicknames, and the one for Biden being Sleepy Joe, what we had in court |
| 1:07.8 | yesterday was Sleepy Don. There is a reason why the first days of this trial |
| 1:15.2 | might be quite a trial, because the process just to select the jury will take quite a heave. |
| 1:23.7 | We're going to tell you all about that and what happened next. Welcome to the Newsagency, USA. |
| 1:32.3 | It's Emily. It's John. And on the 15th floor of apparently this voluminous but dingy courthouse, |
| 1:43.4 | Donald Trump sat, occasionally sarcastic, occasionally scowling, |
| 1:48.3 | and as we've just heard, occasionally fast asleep by the proceedings that were unfolding |
| 1:54.2 | to swear in the first jury, as you say, Emily, of the first ever ex-president to face criminal trial. |
| 2:03.2 | Yeah, and it is quite a moment because this essentially is going to take Donald Trump out of |
| 2:09.4 | the campaign for the general election every day, except Wednesdays, they have Wednesdays off, |
| 2:15.5 | for pretty much the next two months, between six and eight weeks. |
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