welcome to lead on mattingly in today for jake tapper and we are live outside the new york courthouse where the former president's criminal hush money trial is playing out as we speak. >> the jury selection process that is now complete today, judgment for sean seating five more alternate bringing the total number to six yesterday, of course, a full jury of 12 receded, made up of seven men and five women. and total of 18 needed for the trial to begin. now, judge, were sean now, holding a sandoval hearing, what's known as a sandoval hearing. >> that's going to determine whether the prosecution can ask trump phi testifies about certain aspects of his legal past, including the e jean carroll defamation case in the civil fraud judgment handed down earlier this year. now, trump attorneys are fiercely pushing back the outcome could factor in whether trump decides to testify at all later in the trial. so he said he was going to do. we start off with cnn senior justice correspondent

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