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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday April 22nd, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today week two of Trump's hush money trial begins. Plus it'll be a

jam-packed week at the Supreme Court and the House approves legislation that

could ban Tik-Tok.

We're kicking off an epic week of historic and impactful news,

starting with Donald Trump.

The former president's hush money trial will move to opening arguments today.

I caught up with USA Today Justice Department correspondent Bart Chanson for a look ahead.

Hello Bart.

Hello.

Thanks for hopping on Bart.

So before we get to this week, you know, jury selection is now behind us.

How complicated of a process did this end up being?

Well, it didn't wind up being as hard as they thought it might be.

The judge had estimated it could take as long as two weeks to seat them,

and they were able to narrow down to 12 jurors and six alternates in one week, much of the first day was spent in some legal arguments.

So they really went at quite a pace to get the jury seated.

The meat of the case opening arguments are set for today,

Bard. What can we expect here? Well, the prosecutor has laid out this case as basically

a campaign finance violation by making a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, a porn

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