Introducing Laphonza Butler
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What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A testy and defiant Donald Trump showed up to court yesterday in Manhattan, for the first day of his civil fraud trial. The former president called the suit, brought by New York attorney general Letitia James, a “witch hunt,” though it could cost him control of his sprawling real estate empire.
Laphonza Butler will be the new junior U.S. Senator from California, after she was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to replace the late Dianne Feinstein. Marisa Lagos, political correspondent at NPR member station KQED in San Francisco, joins us to discuss Butler’s career.
And in headlines: the scientists who laid the groundwork for the COVID vaccines won a Nobel Prize, the U.S. Supreme Court officially started its new term, and Mariah Carey has declared an early start to this year’s holiday festivities with a new tour.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, October 3rd, I'm Josie Duffy-Rice. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Trayville Anderson and this is What A Day, welcoming you all to whatever season |
| 0:14.3 | you're in right now. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, whether you're in spooky season, cozy season, season-all-depressive disorder season, |
| 0:19.9 | we're here for you. |
| 0:21.3 | Yes, we are. |
| 0:22.9 | We're not doing no holidays, isn't it? |
| 0:25.4 | On today's show, the scientists who laid the groundwork for the COVID vaccines have won |
| 0:35.4 | a Nobel Prize, plus the queen of Christmas herself has declared an early start to this |
| 0:40.8 | year's holiday festivities. |
| 0:43.1 | Right on time. |
| 0:44.1 | And by that, I mean, way too early. |
| 0:47.2 | But first, Donald Trump was named in Hatton Court yesterday for the first day of his civil |
| 0:51.3 | fraud case, brought by New York Attorney General Latisha James. |
| 0:55.4 | Prosecutors claim that the president, his two adult sons and others in his company committed |
| 0:59.8 | fraud by, as the Washington Post put it, inflating the value of his real estate empire. |
| 1:04.8 | Trump, unsurprisingly, denies that he committed fraud. |
| 1:08.2 | And yesterday was the first day of what is expected to be a week's or even monks-long |
| 1:12.0 | trial. |
| 1:13.0 | Oh, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | Don't like that for us. |
| 1:16.0 | He did. |
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