Shutdown Day 21: Some In GOP Say Trump Needs To Get Involved

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Lawmakers have yet to reach an agreement to pay federal workers. GOP Sen. Ron Johnson introduced a bill that would only pay those who are being asked to continue working through the weekslong shutdown, while Democrats are pushing for all federal workers to be paid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight, President Trump demanding $230 million from, well, the taxpayer wallet.
0:09.6	Why?
0:10.5	His grudges.
0:11.6	The conflict of interest you'd be hard pressed to find even in a legal drama.
0:16.4	But can he legally do it?
0:18.0	He'll surprise you.
0:18.9	Plus, a Jeffrey Epstein survivor sends a message to the world.
0:23.6	Don't be fooled.
0:25.6	Jihad Uffre's new memoir is out, and it's reigniting questions about who knew what.
0:32.6	And more and more workers feel the squeeze from the government shutdown,
0:38.0	prompting many people to ask,
0:39.8	why isn't anyone actually talking?
0:42.2	Tonight, I'm Laura Coates Live.
0:50.0	All right.
0:51.8	Forget paybacks a bitch.
0:59.2	Try paybacks a taxpayer. Yes, I'm talking about you. Us, really, because it may be your, our, the we money, the American taxpayer's money that pays President
1:05.6	Trump for something he sees as a years-long injustice against him. Read it right here, straight from the New York Times.
1:13.7	Trump said to demand Justice Department pay him $230 million for past cases.
1:20.2	Yes, you're reading and hearing that correctly.
1:23.2	Trump no longer wants figurative payback.
1:25.3	He wants literal payback.
1:27.0	It is the same DOJ that investigated him in the first place
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