producer, ganim era to let me know that a third alternate juror has been selected, so they are moving at a pretty quick pace and we could see opening arguments set for monday. what would you he expecting them? well, for the prosecution, they are going to have to really lay out the theory of their case so far based on their briefings, it appears that their theory of the case and they re charging documents is that the underlying intent to influence the election is what is the basis for the felony nature of these document? what is really a documents case falsifying of records. and so they re going to have to lay out how those connections take place. they also are going to have to lay out what they intend to present as evidenced in terms of the knowledge that the former president had and the intent that he had. so they have i think a tall order in order to to do that. as you were speaking, a father one, a fourth alternate juror has been empaneled stepping back. what s the fundame
avoid, judgment. it will be an intense weekend for the lawyers putting the finishing touches on opening arguments, tweaking strategy, and for the defense preparing a client who is famously uncontrollable and who has spent this week as politico puts it, having to sit and listen to strangers insult him, quote, trump has heard himself described by a those under consideration as racist, sexist and a narcissist. he s been presented with a social media post calling for officials to lock him up. he s been told to his face that he s very selfish and self-serving. with the prosecution about to make its case and the judge planning to rule on whether trump broke the gag order, the opinions of would be jurors are just the beginning. nbc s vaughn hillyard reports from outside the courthouse. i also want to bring in former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, paul butler, jury consultant, alan turnen halftimer is with us as well. apparently the pressure is
they made it that far along in the process, and what i d be interested in for both sides is what arguments are going to resonate with this jury? because everything leading up until now was more hypothetical in terms of arguments and case strategy, but now you have an audience, and so each side now wants to tailor their case to make arguments that resonate with the members of the jury and it seems like a well to do juror, jury that consists of people that productive members of society, maybe they don t pay such close attention to the cases that involve donald trump, and they haven t been paying that much close attention to this one but they re well informed. it looks like it s going to be a good jury on the surface. let me go back to vaughn, because i understand you have some new information about what s happening inside. reporter: we ve got two additional alternate jurors there, so what we have left are two open slots, chris, with 12 individuals who have gone through the extensive
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