Trump's Staying Power, Oklahoma School Lawsuit, Security in Haiti

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

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Donald Trump's legal woes haven't hurt him in the polls. The ACLU files a lawsuit to block the country's first religious public charter school. Kenya steps in to bolster security in Haiti.

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0:00.0	It's been one legal blow after another for Donald Trump.
0:05.1	And yet he's crushing his GOP rivals.
0:07.2	The bizarre thing about any of these indictments is it reinforces one of Trump's core messages
0:13.4	that the system is rigged.
0:15.0	I'm Laila Faudid with A. Martinez and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.0	A lawsuit in Oklahoma seeks to block the country's first publicly funded religious school.
0:26.6	The plaintiffs say the school is clearly unconstitutional, now the case could go all the
0:30.3	way to the Supreme Court.
0:31.8	And overrun by violent gangs, Haiti has been in turmoil since its president was assassinated
0:36.4	in 2021.
0:37.5	The West has declined to send help, so now Kenya is offering to send police calling an
0:42.2	act of solidarity with the sentence of Africa.
0:44.6	Stay with us.
0:45.6	We've got all the news you need to start your day.
0:56.6	Early in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential run, he boasted that he could bend Republican
1:01.9	voters to his will.
1:03.9	Remember this?
1:04.9	I could stand in the middle of fifths they have in you and shoot somebody and I wouldn't
1:08.0	lose any voters, okay?
1:09.0	It's like an incredible.
1:11.0	Trump survived multiple scandals and impeachments when he was president and now, after two indictments
1:16.7	and a possible third, Trump is still the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican presidential
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