Tuesday, November 7, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
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Tuesday briefing: Takeaways from Donald Trump’s testimony; what’s on the ballot on Election Day; WeWork bankruptcy; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump took the stand in a New York court and it's election day in America. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Hannah Jewel in for Jeff Pierre. It's Tuesday, November 7th. Let's |
| 0:15.9 | get you caught up with today's seven stories. Number one, Donald Trump clashed with a judge in a New York court yesterday. |
| 0:27.0 | The former president's historic testimony in his civil fraud trial quickly went off the rails. |
| 0:32.0 | He attacked the judge, government |
| 0:34.3 | officials who questioned him, and the case against him itself. Trump and his |
| 0:38.8 | business are accused of a years-long fraud. The judge has already ruled that Trump broadly committed fraud. |
| 0:45.2 | He now needs to determine whether specific illegal acts happened in the process and decide any |
| 0:49.9 | potential penalties. New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke to the press outside the courthouse about Trump's |
| 0:56.4 | testimony. |
| 0:57.7 | He rambled, he hurled insults, but we expected that. |
| 1:03.4 | At the end of the day, the documentary evidence |
| 1:06.1 | demonstrated that, in fact, he falsely inflated |
| 1:08.9 | his assets to basically enrich himself and his family. |
| 1:12.8 | Trump could be made to pay $250 million in penalties |
| 1:16.6 | and be blocked from doing business in New York. |
| 1:19.2 | His daughter, Ivanka, is set to testify in this case tomorrow, and the former president is still facing |
| 1:25.1 | criminal charges in four other ongoing cases. |
| 1:28.1 | Israeli forces are closing in on Gaza City. That's our second story today. |
| 1:37.2 | Gaza City is the largest city in the Gaza Strip. It's in the territory's north |
| 1:41.4 | where Israel says the Palestinian militant group Hamas has most of its |
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