Lawyer asks for 'honest answers' as individual questioning begins
Jury selection is moving into a new phase with lawyers beginning the individual questioning of prospective jurors who made it through Judge Merchan's initial cuts.
Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass, up first, reminded prospective jurors that the case is not a referendum on their politics.
"Really give us the most honest answers you can," Steinglass said. "No one is suggesting you can't be a fair juror because you've heard of Donald Trump." He added, "We don't expect you to have been living under a rock for the last eight years or the last 30 years."
Steinglass first asked whether anyone felt like the district attorney's office had to prove more than the law requires "because of who he is."
Not a single hand went up.
"I think the job of the jury is to understand what's facts," one woman said. "I don't think it matters what my political views are. We listen to the facts of the case."
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Trump is engaged with some of the responses at times, and at other times he leans back in his chair with his eyelids heavy.