Opening statements begin on monday. And according to the judge, quote, this trial is starting. So long we have been using the word erosion on trumps institutions and americas faith in them f. This weeks spectacle showed us any, the term erosion the flow of water, slow and steady, might be under stating the immediate danger. We should think of the harm done to the structure of our democracy like a tidal wave, Flash Flooding possible. Try as we might to board up the windows to be kept from being swept away there is damage more and more every second. Some jurors so frightened or intimidated from doing their basic civic duty that some were moved to tears in the courthouse as they were today for fear of retaliation. You can see it in the way the disgraced president lies in the case and the way everyone is in if. He conditioned his followers to Distrust Anything and everything outside the sealed mega bubble. The Executive Director of protect democracy described it to us like this. I think pe
Begins to collapse. Now, with a panel of 12 jurors and six alternate jurors assembled and empanelled with a Purpose And Mission of determining trumps criminal fate we are left to wonder if the Title Wave crashing around us will get us. It is that we will get to with our favorite experts and friends. To with our favorite experts and friends. Msnbc legal analyst, but we start with my Friend And Colleague msnbc legal correspondent Lisa Ruben just came out of the courtroom for us. The courtroom we are in, on the 15th floor. One of the more dreary places i have been in a courthouse t. Is wood paneled but it has no art whatsoever. There are more cords than there are anything else and they are stapled to the wall. And the one thing that it is as