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There's a few members of the public that let in every day.

They're about five, six.

And then there's a second courtroom in the courthouse where the child is on close-circuit

television that has another dozen or so members of the public are going in.

And I kind of think that's amazing.

I kind of am like, everybody should go.

New Yorker staff writer Eric Latch has spent the last three and a half weeks in a New York City courtroom, watching the criminal trial of former president Donald Trump.

This historic moment in American history is also one of the most bizarre.

And so on Tuesday, Eric came straight from the courtroom to the studio to tell us what it's

been like watching the case up close. You're listening to the political scene. I'm Tyler Foggett,

and I'm a senior editor at The New Yorker. So you just came back from the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse where Donald Trump is having his hush money trial.

What happened in court today?

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