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Hello from CNN. I'm Joe Beck. With the five things you need to know for Monday, April 22nd.

Opening statements are set to start today in New York in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.

Trump is accused of covering up a payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election

to stop her from going public with claims they had an affair, which he says never happened.

Today both sides will get an opportunity to tell the jury their version of the story,

and then the prosecution will get to start calling witnesses. Daniels is expected to testify, along with Trump's former lawyer and fixer at the center of the allegations, Michael Cohen. But first up is expected to be David Pekker, the former chairman of American media, which publishes the National

Inquirer.

As CNN's Marshall Cohen explains.

According to the indictment, Peker and Cohen and Trump met shortly after Trump announced his campaign in 2015

and they all agreed according to the prosecutors that they would quote unquote

catch and kill negative stories about Trump basically

paying people off buying their silence agreeing to purchase the rights of

their story and burying it so that the voters would never learn of those

allegations.

And later this week the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Trump can be convicted

over anything he did while he was president.

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