Trump appeals bans, Sen. Menendez charged, Trump’s voter fraud investigation

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

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Trump appeals the decision in Maine barring him from the primary ballot, and is also expected to appeal the same decision in Colorado, following the 14th Amendment insurrectionist ruling against him. Plus, Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez is charged with receiving gifts from Qatar in new allegations in a corrupt scheme. And, Ken Block, an expert hired by the Trump campaign in 2020 to find voter fraud joins to talk about what he discovered. Also tonight, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks out after 300 migrants are flown from Texas to Illinois, Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns after intense outside pressure, and, how 379 people narrowly escaped a burning plane in 90 seconds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, we've got 307 days to go until election day. Can you believe it? And the
0:08.0	ballot battle is blowing up. Tonight I'm Laura Coates Live. Well, fasten your seat belts, everyone.
0:19.2	Well, fasten your seat belts, everyone.
0:20.9	Buckle up, as they say, this is going to be an election like we've never seen in our history.
0:25.8	And I know we say that a lot about this all being the wild, wild west and brand new, but we are
0:30.8	barreling down the road toward a collision between politics and the courts.
0:36.0	Donald Trump, and what may be the least surprising development ever,
0:40.0	today asking a main court to overturn Secretary of State's decision to remove him
0:46.0	from the ballot there, the primary ballot that is, because of his role in the
0:50.4	interaction at the United States Capitol, the seat of our democracy on January 6. in the quote a biased decision-maker who should have recused herself had no legal authority
1:06.1	made multiple errors of law and acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner." Unquote.
1:13.0	Look, you know where this is headed, right?
1:16.0	It's headed to the Supreme Court of the United States
1:18.0	and Bellows telling CNN this very point tonight.
1:28.5	We would welcome the US Supreme Court making a ruling. I will uphold whatever the courts determine and acting quickly to resolve this I think is in the best interest.
1:37.0	That sounds like Maine for bringing on. Well Donald Trump is facing 14th Amendment challenges in other
1:44.2	states besides Maine including Colorado remember that with the state Supreme
1:47.9	Court ordered his name to be removed from the primary ballot there which of
1:52.2	course made Trump all but certain to
1:54.4	appeal it and of course where will he appeal it wait for it the Supreme Court
1:59.0	notice a theme that's happening here tonight of, it's unclear when that will actually happen,
2:03.8	but let's not forget about the big picture here.
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