president trump and his criminal history. and what if he takes the stand, he can be asked about cnn s laura coates is outside the new york courthouse okay. laura, we now look ahead to this afternoon& for monday when we re we re expecting opening arguments i mean, history is being made as you know, this is a former president united states on trial criminally about 15 floors above us right here outside of a manhattan courtroom there are 18 jurors who will be impacted, and panel that includes six alternates. and of course, the 12 jurors who were already 2nd to be the ones to deliberate now, those alternative would be very important still, because those alternatives will likely or might be high opportunity to actually deliberate in full. i want to get now to kara scannell, who has been in and out of the courtroom all day today on this wealth frankly, a surreal de, but one of the surreal aspects of this includes an american president on trial, and he has been closely watching all the ta