eastern on cnn continuing with our breaking news coverage, a jury of 12 has been selected and former president donald trump's criminal hush money cover up trial. >> it's bringing our political panel three after that, and much more. alice stewart of this big moment for donald trump, you heard him come out and say and i certainly understand his sentiment. i want to be in new hampshire campaigning. i want to be in south carolina campaigning instead. i'm here. he had this big ream of papers of op-eds, mostly from the usual suspects yes. but people backing him saying it's an unfair trial how do you how do you take his handling all this? >> well, i'll look. he's clearly going to stick with his message, right? he's going to continue to come out of court every day and go into court every day. saying that this is a witch-hunt. this is weaponization of the justice department. i am the biggest threat and opponent of joe biden and these district attorney. and this court system is out to get me. and as he said with all of the reams of