I'm sitting in the courtroom in Morton County, North Dakota. Jury selection wrapped up yesterday,

and today the energy transfer versus Greenpeace trial has officially begun. Energy transfers lawyer

Trey Cox delivers his opening statement. Energy transfer did everything right as it prepared to build the Dakota Access Pipeline,

Trey assures the jury.

There were protests.

They were small.

They were quiet, he says.

Now, enter Greenpeace.

Several photos pop up on screens throughout the courtroom.

Here they are, Trey explains.

These are the Greenpeace Six.

Not a single one of them lives in this community.

These people are professionals.

They embed in a location, then they escalate.

They are trained in how to teach people how to protest.

Trey says he's going to prove that the environmental nonprofit secretly planned,

organized, and funded a game plan to stop construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.

Greenpeace attempted to make energy transfer look like Satan himself, he says.

Shame on them, he exclaims.

They thought they could do it in secret.

They thought that we wouldn't be smart enough to figure out what they did.

He concludes, today starts the day of reckoning.

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