Autoworker strike looms, Hunter Biden indicted, trial plan rejected
Laura Coates Live
CNN
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
BREAKING NEWS: The UAW is to begin targeted strike action if a deal is not reached by midnight, meaning production could grind to a halt at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. Plus, the special counsel investigating Hunter Biden indicts the President’s son on three felony gun charges, alleging he lied about struggling with a crack cocaine addiction when he bought the weapon. And, a Fulton County judge rejects D.A. Fani Willis' plan to try Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants together in the election subversion case, on October 23rd. Our panel discusses what happens next.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Coates. Welcome to CNN. Tonight are breaking news. |
| 0:13.6 | We are less than one hour away, everyone, from what looks like maybe thousands of auto |
| 0:18.8 | workers walking off the job. The deadline is midnight. I mean, you see the countdown |
| 0:23.5 | clock right now on your screen. Don't turn away. That's going to be very important because |
| 0:28.3 | it could mean that production could actually grind to a halt at general motors, at Ford, |
| 0:33.6 | at Stellantis, the company that builds Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler brands. Now, the |
| 0:39.5 | UAW President Sean Fain saying, just a little while ago, if there's no deal by midnight, |
| 0:46.3 | that means that three plants are going to go on strike. |
| 0:52.6 | Tonight we call on three units to stand up and go on strike at midnight. If we do |
| 0:58.2 | not reach a tentative agreement in the next two hours, we're calling on GM, Winsville |
| 1:05.6 | Assembly, local 2250 in region four to stand up and strike. We're calling on Stellantis |
| 1:14.9 | to lead to assembly complex, local 12 in region 2B to stand up and strike. And we're |
| 1:23.2 | calling on Ford, Michigan assembly plant, final assembly and paint only, local 900 in |
| 1:31.0 | region 1A to stand up and strike. These three units are being called to stand up and |
| 1:39.3 | walk out on strike at midnight tonight. That's 57 minutes away, everyone. We've got |
| 1:45.8 | much more to come as that midnight deadline is quickly approaching us. Plus, for the |
| 1:51.3 | first time now in American history, the Department of Justice has now filed charges against |
| 1:56.9 | the son of a sitting president. An adult child, I will note, of course, but Hunter Biden |
| 2:01.9 | is accused of lying when he bought a gun. Why? Well, they say he falsely swore that he |
| 2:07.7 | was not addicted to illegal drugs, even though he was struggling with the crack cocaine |
| 2:12.2 | addiction at the time. Now, there's the threat of a trial upending, of course, his father's |
| 2:18.1 | re-election campaign. And we have news on another trial that could upend, well, another |
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