on the da side, i will be interested in how they set up this case for the jury. is it a case about election interference versus a hush money case? they said it will be election interference and this will be the first opportunity to present it to the jury in the proper frame to think about this case. we also expect a narrative of what the evidence will show during the case. that should be informative because a lot of this is not fully known for those of us on the outside, and then trumps lawyers will have an opportunity to preview some of their defenses and they have not seen the entire case, so i expect a lot of it will be about stormy daniels and the lack of credibility, alleged. let me . ask you, you said l me see the narrative for the first time, the opening statements, is that when we will hear maybe new evidence, things we have not heard before? it is very possible. there is a reason why lawyers call them opening statements instead of opening arguments. closing arguments, th
a circuit breaker when it comes to an imminent threat of violence against someone who has displeased him. how do you protect a jury that doesn t have the kind of secret service protection mike pence had? well, i will say when our jurors were anonymous and let me add, they were anonymous to us, the prosecutors and the defense attorneys. we didn t even know their names. so i sat there in court for six months staring at them, and they were staring at us, and i didn t even know their names. in fact, i remember getting up in closing arguments after six months and saying, folks, we ve been staring at each other for six months, do you know how happy i am that i finally get to talk directly with you, but with we had u.s. marshals that would transport the jurors to the courthouse every day from an undisclosed location. we didn t know where they were picking them up, and at the end of every trial day, they would be transported back out by the u.s. marshals to that undisclosed location. i hop
bonding to the defense case. after that, we ll hear closing arguments from both sides. the defense trump s team goes first, then the prosecutors will close. the judge will then instruct the jury hill tell them here s the law on the case. here are the rules to guide you and then the jury goes in for the most mysterious part of this, all the deliberation that will be entirely done in private i m an outside of the view of the parties. all we might see from the jury is notes occasionally asking questions until they send a note saying we have a verdict at that point, they will come out and we will see the verdict keep in mind in order to get a verdict guilty or not guilty has to be 12 to zero. either way, if there s one person in the minority than it s a hung jury. and a mistrial. very interesting in this trial could take weeks and weeks and weeks. so we ll watch it together with you, elie honig. thank you very, very for viewers. thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situ