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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The first criminal trial of Donald Trump begins in New York.

What's happened so far and what are the weaknesses of the case being built by

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the

Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassal and

Bill McGurn. An extraordinary moment for the country, the first criminal trial of a

former US president who also happens to be the presumptive Republican nominee

for the presidential election that is now only seven months away and many polls

show him beating Joe Biden. The 34 felonies that are being brought here in New York

relate to the 2016 hush money payment that Donald Trump made to Stormy Daniels as hush money for an alleged affair in 2006.

And then the repayments of that and the internal accounting of those repayments to Trump fixer Michael Cohen. But the atmosphere

this week at the court seems to belie the magnitude of what's going on when the

court opened on Monday there was some preliminary rulings by Judge Juan Mershon.

For example, he said that prosecutors would not be able to play the Access Hollywood tape for the jury.

But by the afternoon, we were straight the jury. But by the afternoon we were straight into jury selection.

First group of 96 people who went through that screening were asked whether they could be

fair and impartial and apparently more than 50

raised their hands and were then excused. We're back doing that again today.

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