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Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.

A jury of 12 people has been seated in the so-called hush money case against Donald Trump in New York,

and the court has now turned its attention to filling out its slate of alternates.

Arthur Idala is a defense attorney not associated with the case he pointed out.

The judge is asking for a lot more alternates.

Normally it's 12 jurors and two alternates.

Here it's 12 jurors and six alternates.

But I guess the judge doesn't want to take the risk of having a mistrial if you lose the jury.

The court lost two members of the jury on Thursday, one dismissed over concerns as to whether he was truthful about whether he'd ever been accused or convicted of a crime, and the other

backtracked on whether she could be impartial.

The first ever trial of a former American president will of course unfold in the middle of

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