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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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Election Day In America: Democrats Reckon With Next Steps

It is no disputing the sweep of Donald Trump’s White House victory. But, there are many unanswered questions about the road ahead and serious concerns about how he will lead the nation. Trump’s win of the popular vote for the first time is prompting Republicans to claim a mandate to carry out Mr. Trump’s most aggressive items on his America first agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 07, 202448 min

Election Day In America: Wisconsin Officials Expect Final Vote Count After Midnight

All across the United States, from Arizona to Pennsylvania, Michigan to Georgia, and battlegrounds in between, the final hours are underway in one of the closest and most consequential presidential races ever. CNN can project Donald Trump will win the battleground state of North Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 06, 202459 min

The Dizzying Week Of Insults And Controversies

Donald Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney is a “war hawk” who should be fired upon, as he raged against one of his most prominent intra-party critics while campaigning Thursday night in Arizona. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 02, 202447 min

LeBron James Endorses Harris: “The Choice Is Clear”

Trump — who altered reality for tens of millions of Americans by claiming he was cheated out of power four years ago — is creating a sinister threat to the 2024 election and spinning a legacy of fractured trust that could taint presidential votes long after he’s left the stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 01, 202445 min

Trump Dons Safety Vest At Rally, Mocks Biden Over “Garbage” Remark

Harris said she “strongly” disagrees with criticizing anyone based on how they vote, after remarks from President Joe Biden sparked backlash from many who interpreted them as referring to Trump supporters as “garbage.” Trump and his allies quickly seized on them to accuse Harris, by extension, of looking down on Americans who back the Republican presidential nominee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 31, 202447 min

Harris: ”I Don’t Believe People Who Disagree With Me Are The Enemy”

Kamala Harris on Tuesday night warned Americans that Donald Trump would open up a floodgate of vengeance against his political rivals, including ordinary Americans, while promising that she’d work for the American people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 30, 202448 min

Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican Stars Show Support For Harris

The violent and vulgar rhetoric at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday has prompted finger-pointing within the former president’s inner circle and deep concern that his message was once again eclipsed by controversy. Several of Trump’s allies expressed dismay at the language used by speakers at the New York City event, particularly an off-color joke about Puerto Rico by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who opened the event and set the tone for an evening of disparaging and divisive remar...

Oct 29, 202448 min

Harris, Beyoncé Team Up For Abortion-Focused Texas Rally

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered an address tonight on reproductive rights at a Houston rally featuring Beyoncé. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump spoke about immigration in Austin and held a rally tonight in Traverse City, Michigan. Harris and Trump remain locked in a tight contest with 47% of likely voters supporting each candidate, a new CNN poll finds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 26, 202444 min

Harris Campaign Seizes On Ex-Aides Calling Trump A Fascist

Former President Obama joined Kamala Harris at a rally in Georgia. Obama seized on recent interviews in which John Kelly, the Republican nominee’s former White House chief of staff, described Trump as an aspiring dictator. Plus, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model is alleging that former President Donald Trump groped her in the 1990s, in what she believes was an attempt to show off for Jeffrey Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 25, 202446 min

Kamala Harris Faces Undecided Voters At CNN Town Hall

With only 13 days left until Election Day, Kamala Harris faced undecided voters at a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania. Our panel of analysts cover key moments from the event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 24, 202446 min

John Kelly: Trump Said Hitler “Did Some Good Things”

John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, entered the 2024 fray in stunning fashion, saying the former president fits “into the general definition of fascist” and wanted the “kind of generals Hitler had” in a series of interviews published Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 23, 202447 min

Elon Musk's $1M Giveaways Could Violate Election Law

While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 22, 202447 min

Obama Mocks “Older, Loonier” Trump At Rally

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were in the battleground state Friday. Harris pledged to invest in manufacturing communities and work with union members in Grand Rapids. Trump spoke at a rally in Detroit and said the city “has such great potential,” a week after insulting it. In Arizona, former President Barack Obama questioned former President Donald Trump’s competence, arguing that America doesn’t need to see what an “older, loonier Donald Trump looks like with n...

Oct 19, 202446 min

Israel: Hamas Leader Killed In Gaza

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, believed by Israel to be chief mastermind of the October 7, 2023, terror attack that set off the current war in Gaza, was killed by Israeli forces. Many global leaders in the West expressed hope that his death signals the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza and could provide an opportunity for the release of the more than 100 hostages still being held by Hamas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 18, 202446 min

Latino Voter To Trump: Your Inaction Was “Disturbing”

Trump told a skeptical Republican voter Jan 6th was a ‘day of love’ at an event Wednesday. Plus, Vice President Kamala Harris turned questions about her nearly four years in office into attacks on Republican rival Donald Trump’s record in a heated interview Wednesday on Fox News, her first appearance on the conservative network, as she courts disaffected Republican and independent voters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 17, 202446 min

Texas Senate Battle: Could Ted Cruz Lose His Race?

Ranked one of the most conservative senators, Cruz’s bid for a third term should be a smooth ride in a place that has consistently elected Republicans in statewide contests for the past 30 years. But for the second election in a row, Cruz finds himself fighting to keep his seat against a well-funded Democrat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 16, 202446 min

Woodward: Mark Milley Called Trump “Most Dangerous Person”

Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Republican rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania over the former president’s comment that the US military should handle “the enemy from within” on Election Day. It was the latest example of Harris’ campaign drawing sharper distinctions with Trump in the presidential race’s closing weeks, using the former president’s own words and those of his former aides to cast him as dangerous and unstable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 15, 202446 min

Trump Increasingly Talking Immigration As Edge On Economy Wavers

At last month’s presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed violent migrant gangs were “taking over” Aurora, Colorado, amplifying and exaggerating a disputed rumor his supporters had spread across the internet in the days leading up to his nationally televised face-off with Kamala Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 12, 202447 min

Obama Rips Nostalgia Over Trump Economy: “It Was My Economy”

Former President Barack Obama delivered his most personal, furious indictment yet of Donald Trump and a Republican Party he said was in thrall to a man who he believes had, over the last week, violated the trust of Americans devastated by a pair of catastrophic hurricanes. “The idea of intentionally trying to deceive people in their most desperate and vulnerable moments – my question is, when did that become OK?” Obama said, pointing to Trump’s lies about the federal government withholding assis...

Oct 11, 202447 min

Milton Remains Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane

Milton remains a powerful Category 5 hurricane as it races toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, where it could be one of the most destructive storms on record. Though it is forecast to weaken before it makes landfall, it will grow in size — meaning its disastrous impacts will be felt over a larger area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 09, 202446 min

Harris Says She Owns A Glock, Has Fired It At A Shooting Range

Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions about how she’d pay for her economic plans, whether Democrats were too slow to enact border security measures, how she’d confront Russia over its war in Ukraine and more in a wide-ranging “60 Minutes” interview that aired Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 08, 202447 min

Trump Falsely Claims Hurricane Relief Went To Migrants

Hurricane conspiracy theories collide with the election and could end up hurting people who need it the most. Plus, Kamala Harris rallies in Michigan as one of the state’s most famous personalities from there warns that one particular move could cost her the election. Also, could the Melendez brothers be close to getting out of prison? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 05, 202447 min

GOP's Cheney Urges Voters To Reject Trump's "Depraved Cruelty"

Special counsel Jack Smith and former Rep. Liz Cheney have thrust the issue of the GOP nominee’s false 2020 fraud claims into the endgame of Trump’s neck-and-neck showdown with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, while reviving memories of a day that will stain American history. Appearing with Harris in Wisconsin, Cheney presented herself as part of a bipartisan movement to block Trump from the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 04, 202447 min

New Evidence In Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 Case Against Trump

Federal prosecutors laid out their most extensive case to date against former President Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election in a sweeping legal brief that was unsealed. The 165-page document offers new detail about special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president’s efforts to lean on state officials and paint a narrative of widespread fraud that prosecutors say Trump knew was untrue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 03, 202447 min

Israel Begins “Limited Ground Operation” Into Southern Lebanon

The Israeli military says it has begun “a limited ground operation” in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. There will be “no long-term occupation” of Lebanon, Israeli officials said, but declined to provide a timeline. The ground offensive comes after hours of Israeli raids and artillery fire across the border, and after Israel restricted civilian movements in some border communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 01, 202447 min

Harris Visits Border, Proposes Stricter Rules Than Biden

Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive against former President Trump on immigration during her visit to the southern border in Arizona as she tries to turn a political vulnerability on its head. Immigration has featured prominently in the 2024 presidential election, with polls showing voters placing more trust in Trump to handle the issue than Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Sep 28, 202446 min

Hurricane Helene Makes Landfall

Hurricane Helene has made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. It is the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend. Storm surge — how high the water rises above normal levels — could climb to 20 feet along Florida’s Big Bend. The National Weather Service is warning of “unsurvivable” storm surge in Apalachee Bay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 27, 202450 min

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Indicted On Federal Charges

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on at least one federal criminal charge, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The indictment follows a monthslong federal investigation by the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, which was reportedly scrutinizing his connection to Turkish officials and businessmen, and campaign donations he received. The charges he is facing are not publicly known at this time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Sep 26, 202446 min

Harris Backs Ending Filibuster To Restore Abortion Rights

Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin. The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent delay tactic in the Senate, told CNN on Tuesday that he wouldn’t back her candidacy now — despite signaling earlier this month he was getting ready to do so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Sep 25, 202446 min

Trump: If We Win PA, We Win The Whole Thing

Campaign officials are weighing a potential visit by Harris to the US-Mexico border while in Arizona as the campaign tries to close the gap with Trump on the issue of immigration. Plus, Hezbollah has fired multiple rocket barrages into northern Israel, a day after Israeli airstrikes targeting the militant group in Lebanon killed nearly 500 people and wounded 1,600 others — the deadliest day in the country in nearly two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Sep 24, 202447 min
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