Good. Good evening I'm Ari Melbourne, our special coverage on this first day of the first ever criminal trial of an ex president continues and our all star panel is here.

Lawrence O'Donnell joins Jen Saki, Alex Wagner, Chris Hayes, Joy Reed,

My O' Wiley standing by, you got a lot to get into.

The Manhattan DA, Charger, Donald Trump's 2016 cover-up as a felony plot.

This hour we're actually going to dig into something we didn't even get to yet in our last hour of special

coverage.

The two key reasons that the DA says he can convict Trump along those

lines those two pieces there's also the clash inside the courtroom today as

prosecutors say Trump broke the gag order

we'll get to that later but we begin with how defendant Trump is struggling to

run his campaign while stuck inside this courtroom today a challenge partly of the defendant's own making,

because he is the one who over and over delayed this and other cases.

Now he's in one at this unfortunate time period for him.

Today we learned Trump must be present. in one at this unfortunate time period for him.

Today we learned Trump must be present

for basically the whole trial.

That could run six weeks or more.

The judge ruled, for example,

against Defendant Trump's request

to skip certain days.

And the campaign does plan more traditional events on weekends and using the court's

off day Wednesdays for fundraising.

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