Laura Coates Live
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Laura Coates sparks unique conversations and covers the most interesting stories of the day through a news, legal and pop culture lens.
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Apr 20, 2024 • 47min
Man lites himself on fire outside New York courthouse
A man lit himself on fire outside a New York courthouse related to Trump's hush money trial. Discussion on proving Trump paid hush money to win the election. Speaker Mike Johnson causes GOP drama with foreign aid bill.
Apr 18, 2024 • 47min
DA Bragg wants to bring up Trump’s past cases if Trump testifies
If Donald Trump opts to testify at his New York criminal trial, Manhattan prosecutors want to use his past legal run-ins to discredit him to the jury. In a filing released Wednesday, prosecutors for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office say they’ll ask the former president about the recent verdicts against him, including the recent civil fraud trial with the New York attorney general, where a judge found Trump and his company liable for committing persistent and repeated fraud by inflating the value of his assets to get better loan rates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 17, 2024 • 46min
Trump rails against criminal trial on social media
On day two of the Trump hush money trial seven jurors were placed on the panel that will decide former President Donald Trump’s guilt or innocence. So far four men and three women have been selected to serve on the jury that will ultimately consider 34 counts of falsifying business records against Trump. Trump’s courtroom conduct got him once again – briefly – in hot water with a judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 16, 2024 • 46min
Israel vows response to Iran’s attack: “face the consequences”
After day one of Trump’s hush money trail, more than half of first batch of prospective jurors say they can’t be fair and impartial, the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape can’t be played, but Karen McDougal, an actress and model who alleged she also had an affair with Trump, will be allowed to testify. Plus, the world awaits Israel’s response to Iran’s retaliatory strikes from over the weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 13, 2024 • 47min
The DEI debate: necessary policy or flawed strategy?
Judge Juan Merchan has rejected yet another attempt by former President Trump to delay his criminal hush money trial set to begin in New York on Monday. Merchan issued an order denying a motion from Trump’s attorneys to delay the trial due to excessive pretrial publicity. Plus, a roundtable discussion on DEI and why it is dividing America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 12, 2024 • 46min
O.J. Simpsons dies at 76
O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star and broadcaster whose athletic achievements and fame were eclipsed by his 1995 trial in the brutal killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, has died of cancer, his family announced Thursday on X. He was 76. Murder trial witness, Kato Kaelin, a friend of Nicole Simpson, joins to discuss the impact and legacy of the trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 11, 2024 • 46min
Monday: jury selection begins in Trump’s New York trial
Sen. Raphael Warnock joins to discuss the hot-button issue of abortion after Trump and Biden both weigh-in. Plus, for the third time in three days, a New York appellate judge has denied an attempt by former President Donald Trump to delay his hush money trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 10, 2024 • 46min
Parents of school shooter sentenced to 10-15 years in prison
The parents of the teenager who killed four students in the 2021 school shooting in Oxford, Michigan, were each sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 15 years in prison, weeks after being convicted of manslaughter. Plus, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the state must adhere to a 160-year-old law barring all abortions except in cases when “it is necessary to save” a pregnant person’s life – a significant ruling that will make a Civil War-era abortion law enforceable in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 9, 2024 • 47min
Trump jurors to be asked if they support QAnon, Proud Boys
CNN has obtained the jury questionnaire in Trump’s New York hush case. Prospective jurors will be quizzed on their feelings about Trump and asked if they or anyone in their circle have ever been to a Trump rally or worked or volunteered for a Trump presidential campaign, the Trump presidential administration, or any other political entity affiliated with Trump. But they won’t be asked explicitly what political party they belong to, who they’ve voted for or who they have made political contributions to. Plus, Donald Trump elaborated on his position on abortion, saying it should be left to individual states to determine abortion legislation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 5, 2024 • 47min
Trump loses bid to dismiss classified docs case
Former President Donald Trump was dealt two major setbacks Thursday in his efforts to derail the criminal cases against him, with judges in the Georgia election interference case and in the federal classified documents case both rejecting bids by the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee to have those cases thrown out. Plus, musician Ne-Yo joins to discuss AI and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
