Laura Coates Live

Hunter Biden was seen at the White House and in Delaware at his father’s side amid what the president’s allies acknowledge is a difficult moment for both men. The president also planned to spend most of Monday in Wilmington, where jury selection for the trial – the first of a sitting US president’s child – is underway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We break down the profound reverberations of the Trump trial verdict will have on the upcoming election, the legal system, and American politics for years come. Plus, a lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of three Black men alleges “blatant and egregious race discrimination” by American Airlines when they were removed from a flight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money criminal trial, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes him the first former president in US history to be convicted of a felony. A felony conviction of a former president or party frontrunner is unprecedented, but Trump, who is the 2024 presumptive GOP nominee, can still run for office. A source familiar with Donald Trump as he left court said he was in "good spirits and ready to fight." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The jury in Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial finished its first day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict after meeting for more than four-and-a-half hours. The 12 men and women will also again hear from Judge Juan Merchan. The jurors requested four pieces of testimony: Pecker’s testimony about his phone conversation with Trump in June 2016, his testimony about not finalizing Trump’s payment to AMI for Karen McDougal’s life rights, his testimony about the August 2015 Trump Tower meeting, and Cohen’s testimony about the Trump Tower meeting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story about an alleged affair at the end of the 2016 election. Trump’s attorneys told the jury that the prosecution’s criminal case against the former president is wholly reliant on the testimony of Michael Cohen – the “MVP of liars” who is out to get Trump. Which narrative the jury believes could ultimately decide Trump’s legal fate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Special counsel’s office prosecutors have asked a federal judge in Florida to place a gag order on Donald Trump that would limit his ability to comment about law enforcement that searched his Mar-a-Lago resort. The request – a first in the classified documents mishandling case – comes after the former president has repeatedly and falsely criticized the FBI for having a policy in place around the use of deadly force during the search and seizure of government records at his resort in August 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President Donald Trump held a rally Thursday in the Bronx as his campaign looks to make inroads with Hispanic and Black voters ahead of November’s election. The event in one of the most Democratic counties in the country comes days ahead of closing arguments in Trump’s New York criminal hush money trial. Trump faces 34 felony counts and has pleaded not guilty. Ben Carson joins to answer why he thinks the support of Black voters for Trump has increased since 2016.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

During a marathon day of proceedings in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, a morning hearing in front of Judge Aileen Cannon devolved into a shouting match amongst the attorneys, and the afternoon series of arguments prompted the judge to wonder if the legal nuances of the case may be too difficult for jurors to understand. Plus, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley plans to vote for Donald Trump.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney who is prosecuting Trump, is projected to win her Democratic primary rematch with attorney and author Christian Wise Smith. And Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the former president’s case, is projected to win his nonpartisan election for Fulton County Superior Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics include the hush money trial against Trump, Cohen's testimony, tense courtroom exchanges, accountability in cases of violence, support for domestic violence victims, ICC arrest warrants, Biden's response to ICC on Israeli officials, tech ethics in Israel, and unauthorized use of Scarlett Johansson's voice.