we're going to go to adam reese, our nbc news producer who was inside that courtroom. we're going to share him with nbc news, so it might be a kind of awkward juggle to get there if i have to interrupt, forgive me that's a fair warning. if we're talking about karen mcdougal and stormy daniels, talking the about the days before the 2016 election how much will the prosecutors make of that moment in time? earlier i was talking about the "access hollywood" tape, the way he was talking about the former miss universe pageant. are they likely to bring the courtroom -- bring the jurors back to what it was like the days before the election to try to set the stakes for why donald trump would want to be paying a woman off not to say anything about an affair she says she had? >> absolutely, and i think that one of the critical things that we just learned is it's a conspiracy count now, the conspiracy count is important because it doesn't just give the district attorney a legal platform to make -- to bring in the catch and kill narrative, but it heal will likely be what's called a

me now is kristen gibbons, former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and msnb reporter producer adam reesey. adam, give us a little bit of sense of what went on in that courtroom today. >> joy, the fireworks began as you said before the jury was in the courtroom. the judge, judge caplan is furious with mr. trump and his legal team because mr. trump posted on truth social today that the case is a hoax. that the attorney for e. jean carroll is a political operative. and that the dress that she was allegedly wearing on that night should be put into evidence. and the judge said, what's going on here? we gave you an opportunity to give your dna for over a year and you haven't done that. and these statements, not only by mr. trump, by his son eric, who tweeted this afternoon absolutely inappropriate joe tacopina, mr. trump's attorney said he would speak to his client we'll see if there are any more tweets the first witness of today, the first witness of the case was a woman who is the manager of burgdorf at the time, 1996, she described the layout of the store, the floor plan. they actually show

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