Laura Coates Live
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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April 27, 2024 • 46 mins
David Pecker finally stepped down from the witness stand after more than 10 hours of testimony across four days, where the former American Media Inc. chief described in detail how he helped Donald Trump suppress negative stories and pummel Trump’s rivals in the National Enquirer during the 2016 campaign. The back-and-forth over Pecker’s story set the stage for the further brawls ahead when witnesses such as adult film star Stormy D...
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April 26, 2024 • 44 mins
The former president was the epicenter of attention Thursday during key testimony from media magnate David Pecker at his first criminal trial in New York. Plus, the Supreme Court appeared ready to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and the broad protections he has sought to shut down his federal election subversion case, but also reluctant to give special counsel Jack Smith carte blanche to pursue th...
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April 25, 2024 • 48 mins
Justices will be hearing oral arguments in his sweeping immunity case that could have profound implications for his legal fate and poses never-before-resolved questions about the powers of the presidency. Plus, a grand jury in Arizona has handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump’s allies over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, including the fake electors from that state and several individuals co...
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April 24, 2024 • 46 mins
Judge Juan Merchan appeared poised on Tuesday to sanction Donald Trump for violating the gag order in his criminal hush money case after peppering the former president’s lawyers with questions about why Trump’s social media posts were acceptable. Tuesday began with a hearing on Trump’s 10 alleged violations of the gag order. The day ended with former American Media Inc. chief David Pecker talking about how he vetted allegations of ...
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April 23, 2024 • 47 mins
The very different story as a jury is being asked to believe in Donald Trump's hush money trial.
Plus, new revelations in the classified documents case. What a top Oval Office insider warned Donald Trump and who allegedly got promised a pardon. And police intervening during pro-Palestinian protest at New York University after intimidating chants and anti- Semitic incidents.
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April 20, 2024 • 46 mins
Tonight’s show begins with Laura reflecting on an unbelievably disturbing moment after seeing a man lit himself on fire in front of the New York City courthouse where Donald Trump’s hush money coverup trial is underway. Pus, we explore the question: how does the prosecution prove Trump paid hush money to win the election? Also, Speaker Mike Johnson risks the wrath of GOP members with a foreign aid bill.
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April 18, 2024 • 47 mins
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 li...
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April 17, 2024 • 46 mins
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.
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April 16, 2024 • 46 mins
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.
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April 13, 2024 • 46 mins
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.
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April 12, 2024 • 45 mins
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.
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April 11, 2024 • 46 mins
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.
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April 10, 2024 • 46 mins
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 W...
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April 9, 2024 • 46 mins
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,...
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April 5, 2024 • 46 mins
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.
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April 4, 2024 • 46 mins
President Biden faces a red line moment and a high-stakes call over the deadly strike against aid workers in Gaza. Will it change anything? Plus, new footage from inside the raid on Diddy’s home and new reporting on the interviews federal agents are now conducting.
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April 3, 2024 • 47 mins
Wisconsin is sending a message to President Biden that could very well spell trouble come the November election. Plus, the strongest earthquake in Taiwan in nearly a quarter of a century strikes the country. Also, Trump seeks to remove the judge with 13 days left until the hush money trial in New York.
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April 2, 2024 • 46 mins
The judge in the New York Trump hush money trial expands the gag order on the former president after his attacks on the judge’s daughter. Plus, former Trump aide Hope Hicks is expected to be called as a witness in the hush money case. Also, for now, Trump has avoided the seizure of his assets after posting his $175 million bond. Trump’s stock falls 21% after reporting it lost $58 million in 2023.
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March 30, 2024 • 88 mins
Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants in the Georgia election subversion case are appealing a judge’s ruling that let Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis remain on the election subversion case. Plus, on Friday, Evan Gershkovich marked the grim milestone of one year in Russian detention. Shortly after his arrest, the Wall Street Journal reporter was charged with espionage — an accusation vehemently denied by Gershkov...
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March 29, 2024 • 84 mins
President Joe Biden on Thursday joined Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, the only living two-term Democratic presidents, aiming to use their star power to woo big-pocketed donors as Biden tries to join their ranks. Obama and Clinton weren’t the only former presidents in New York tonight, Donald Trump attended the wake of an NYPD officer in Long Island. The officer was killed during a traffic stop in Queens.
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