seated.
mr. trump faces 34 felony counts
of falsifying business records,
revolving around hush money
payments to cover up an alleged
affair with a porn actress.
the former president has pleaded
not guilty to the charges and
denied an affair.
before today's questioning of
prospective jurors got underway,
the judge made it clear that the
presumptive republican nominee
was expected to be in court
every day of the trial.
the judge also making an
important ruling over the
admissibility of the infamous
"access hollywood" tape in the
trial.
senior legal correspondent laura
jarrett has late details.
>> reporter: donald trump
sitting in a manhattan courtroom
today watching the process of
whittling down a pool of
hundreds to a jury of 12 with
six alternates, people who will
soon sit in judgment of the
former president, the first to
ever face a criminal trial.
>> we're not going to be given a
fair trial.
it's a very very sad thing.
>> reporter: 200 people summoned
to the courthouse...