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Laura Coates Live

DeSantis hits trail, driving while black, Disney film fallout

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Ron DeSantis gives the first speech of his presidential campaign in Iowa, taking aim at former President Trump. Our panel explains how that will play with the national audience. Plus, a new study shows the first 45 words a police officer says during a traffic stop of a black driver can predict how that encounter will end. One of the researchers, who discovered the warning signs of a police stop likely to escalate, joins CNN Tonight to discuss. And, the fifth grade Florida teacher being investigated for playing her class a Disney movie with a gay character in it, joins to tell Alisyn Camerota about the heated school board meeting where parents and students had a lot to say about the situation. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening everyone. I'm Allison Camarada. Welcome to CNN Tonight. So while Kevin McCarthy

0:10.7

tries to corral Republicans on the debt deal, Ron DeSantis is in Iowa marking the first

0:16.1

big speech of his presidential campaign and taking aim at the former president.

0:20.4

Well, now he's attacking me over some of these disagreements, but I think he's doing it

0:27.1

in a way that the voters are going to side with me.

0:29.8

All right, well, our panel is going to explain how all of this will play with the national

0:33.4

audience. Plus, a new study shows that the first 45 words a police officer says during

0:40.0

a traffic stop of a black driver can predict how that encounter will end. I'll talk to

0:45.6

one of the researchers who discovered the warning signs of a police stop that's likely

0:50.3

to escalate. And remember the fifth grade Florida teacher who was investigated for showing

0:55.0

a Disney movie with a gay character in it. Well, as we speak, there is a heated school

1:00.2

board meeting going on where parents and students have a lot to say about all of this.

1:05.8

That teacher is going to join us straight from the board meeting. Just a reminder, here's

1:10.0

the controversial scene.

1:12.2

Any sweethearts waiting for you back home? There it is. Who is it? It's no one. DeAzo. His

1:23.9

name is DeAzo. DeAzo, huh? I really like him a lot. I just don't know how to tell him.

1:29.2

Well, that explains everything. But let's begin with Governor Rhonda Santas' first big

1:34.8

speech of his presidential campaign. Here with me tonight, we have presidential historian

1:38.8

Doug Brinkley, Natasha Alfred from the Grillo, Coleman Hughes, host of the Conversations

1:44.0

with Coleman Podcasts and Scott Jennings who worked for President George W. Bush.

1:48.2

Great to have all of you here. Okay, so first, let me play for you guys what Rhonda Santas

1:54.4

just said. So this is his first big speech. He's also, I believe, taking some questions

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