First Trump Trial Witness, Tesla's Tough Spot, Nassar Victims' Settlement

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

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The New York jury weighing criminal charges against Donald Trump has now heard from the trial's first witness. Elon Musk's Tesla is running into a whole lot of red lights: slumping sales, mass layoffs, and now a 55 percent drop in profits. And more than 100 people who reported being abused by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar will share a nearly $140 million settlement.

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0:00.0	The judge in Donald Trump's New York criminal trial weighs a gag order.
0:06.0	I'm not allowed to talk the people are allowed to talk about me.
0:09.0	And the trial's first witness testifies about blocking stories that could have hurt Trump.
0:14.0	I'm Michelle Martin, that's Le Lafaudle and this is a first from NPR News.
0:20.0	Tesla is hitting some pretty big bumps in the road.
0:22.8	Its profits have been cut almost in half.
0:25.2	But owner Elon Musk is downplaying those troubles to investors.
0:28.5	In the future, gasoline cars that are not autonomous
0:31.3	will be like riding a horse and using a flip-book.
0:33.6	And some closure for more than a hundred victims of former USA gymnastics Dr Larry
0:38.8	Nassar.
0:39.8	They've said they were abused by Nassar after the FBI learned of allegations against him.
0:45.0	Now they've reached a settlement with the Department of Justice.
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