United Auto Workers on strike
Laura Coates Live
CNN
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In a historic move, UAW workers at the 3 largest US auto companies have gone on strike. Union workers are seeking better wages, benefits, and conditions, which they say are modest proposals given the companies' high profits and executive pay— approximately 300 times the average worker. Ford Motors has laid off 600 workers, and General Motors is closing a factory in Kansas at which 2000 people work.
Department of Justice special council Jack Smith wants a gag order on Donald Trump in order to prevent possible intimidation. Though standard in criminal cases, an order would be complicated by Trump's election campaign.
Today marks 60 years since the KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama, killing 4 young girls, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins, and injuring 22 others.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good evening everyone. I'm Laura Coates. Welcome to CNN tonight. We've got some |
| 0:06.6 | breaking news everyone. Jack Smith, the special counsel, wants a gag order on one Donald Trump. |
| 0:12.8 | He's asking the judge, hung your check in for what he's calling a narrowly tailored |
| 0:17.2 | order. Stop the former president for making statements that could well intimidate witnesses |
| 0:21.6 | or jurors or even lead to harassment. And how do you think Trump is responding? I'll |
| 0:27.2 | give you a cliffhanger and tell you about that in just a moment. Plus, it's day one of the |
| 0:32.6 | auto workers strike. The first in history against all of the big three auto makers and the union is now |
| 0:38.9 | warning that more workers will go on strike if they don't get the better pay and the benefits |
| 0:45.2 | they're demanding. They're walking the picket lines as we speak right now. But in a matter of |
| 0:51.0 | hours, they will be back at the bargaining table. Meanwhile, the companies are fighting back |
| 0:56.8 | Ford laying off 600 workers. Tonight, I'll talk to one striking worker. She's a mom of seven |
| 1:04.9 | who works up to six days per week and is barely making enough to survive, she says. |
| 1:10.2 | I want to begin with the latest in the filing from the new special counsel, of course, Jack Smith. |
| 1:14.8 | Joining me tonight, Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal of Constitution, |
| 1:18.8 | Tia Mitchell, associate professor of law at Georgetown University, Vita Johnson, |
| 1:23.7 | and former associate White House counsel to President George W. Bush, Jamil Jaffer. So glad |
| 1:29.1 | that you're all here right now. First of all, perhaps it's no surprise. There's been a request |
| 1:34.1 | for a gag order of Donald Trump. We saw this coming in many respects, right? The real issue here, |
| 1:40.3 | though, is how do you have a gag order in place in a way that actually makes sense for somebody |
| 1:47.2 | who needs to still be vocal? I mean, he's running for office. Number one, he's also Vita, |
| 1:52.5 | a criminal defendant who, if he were in a courtroom, could attack through counsel the credibility |
| 1:58.6 | of those who are accusing him of something. How do you balance that? Well, that's a great question. |
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