Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, second from right, makes his way out of the Warren E. Burger Federal Building during the first day of jury selection in a defamation lawsuit Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in St. Paul, Minn. Ventura filed the defamation lawsuit against the Chris Kyle estate claiming that Kyle's account of a bar fight in a book he wrote was false.

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Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, second from right, makes his way out of the Warren E. Burger Federal Building during the first day of jury selection in a defamation lawsuit Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in St. Paul, Minn. Ventura filed the defamation lawsuit against the Chris Kyle estate claiming that Kyle's account of a bar fight in a book he wrote was false.