history that a former president will sit for a criminal trial. let's just zoom out fred and remind everybody how the heck we got here donald trump is facing 34 felony charges. these are state charges brought by the manhattan district attorney. the alleged crime is falsifying business records because of that hush money payment to stormy daniels, which went through trump's former attorney, michael cohen, and then he was reimbursed first do the trump org, which is a business registered in new york that's the alleged crime we all watched last week as they whittled down the jury pool to reach a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates. they are ready to go. >> this trial is expected to last probably about six weeks with a verdict, perhaps coming in june, are in the early summer. >> and of course, donald trump has pleaded not guilty and he denies the affair with donald trump. so opening statements