first, what do you expect from the hearings today? yeah, as elie laid out, it seems like it s going to be a kind of preview of the arguments to come and most importantly of the d.a. making the initial salvo in the cases and have the trump defendants giving a preview of what could end up being the president s defense from the political perspective, this continues the saga that has crescendoed to this point. for a lot of indictments it felt like one after another, a wash, a waterfall of information that was washing over voters. i think that mug shot and this kind of latest round of georgia indictments kind of broke through in a different way. i think you re going to see more attention on this case. going to see the kind of trump never surrender argument being tested on a national front and we don t necessarily know how that s going to land. we know among the republican base itself it s caused people to rally around him in a