Laura Coates Live

Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders of four University of Idaho students. Kohberger declined to speak during the hearing and the victims’ families remain in the dark about his motive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Department of Justice said Tuesday it has reached out to Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell for a meeting amid backlash over the administration’s handling of files related to Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. The release involves more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration’s chaotic handling of the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files continued Friday as the Justice Department asked a federal judge to make public years-old grand jury testimony made behind closed doors against the convicted sex offender. In its filing, the department justified releasing the heretofore secret evidence as “a matter of public interest.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003 included a note bearing Donald Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired from her job in the Southern District of New York, according to people familiar with the situation. Comey was a prosecutor in the case against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and more recently against Sean “Diddy” Combs. The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress aren’t satisfied by his decision to not release additional files from the Jeffrey Epstein case, and it’s threatening to deepen the MAGA divide he now faces from his base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeffrey Epstein’s former attorney joins as the controversy over the Epstein files turns into political quicksand for the president. Plus, Barack Obama tells Democrats to toughen up. Will his party listen? Also, Trump’s dramatically new tone on Russia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, ordered that DHS must develop guidance for officers to determine “reasonable suspicion” outside of the apparent race or ethnicity of a person, the language they speak or their accent, “presence at a particular location” such as a bus stop or their occupation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge agreed to issue a new nationwide block against President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The ruling from District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, while keeping intact the ability of plaintiffs to seek a widespread block of the order through class action lawsuits, which is what happened Thursday in New Hampshire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices