Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
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Wednesday briefing: Trump’s appeals court hearing; Florida tornado damage; Ecuador attacks; Lloyd Austin; CES 2024; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Major Storms swept the country yesterday. |
| 0:05.0 | The Defense Secretary shared details about his hospitalization, |
| 0:09.0 | and we have some good news for fans of weird tech. |
| 0:12.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the 7 from the |
| 0:14.1 | Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewel. It's Wednesday January 10th. Let's get you caught up |
| 0:19.2 | with today's seven stories. |
| 0:30.0 | Number one, judges appeared skeptical about Donald Trump's claims of immunity from prosecution. Trump's argument is that he can't be tried for attempting to overturn the 2020 election |
| 0:35.2 | results. |
| 0:36.3 | He says that's because he's a former president and because the Senate acquitted him in his |
| 0:40.4 | impeachment trial over the 2021 capital attack. |
| 0:44.0 | But at an appeals court hearing yesterday in DC, |
| 0:47.0 | three federal judges seemed to disagree. |
| 0:49.5 | One even suggested that this kind of immunity |
| 0:51.9 | would, in theory, allow a future president to have a rival |
| 0:55.0 | assassinated by the military without repercussions. The appeals court could issue a ruling at any time |
| 1:01.6 | and that ruling could delay the trial which is planned for March. |
| 1:05.3 | That's what Trump hopes will happen. |
| 1:07.0 | He wants to push it back until after this year's elections. |
| 1:11.0 | Trump attended the hearing yesterday and afterward he threatened unrest if the criminal charges against him damaged his presidential campaign. |
| 1:18.0 | He said there would be bedlam. |
| 1:21.0 | And tonight Trump is skipping the final Republican debate before next week's Iowa |
| 1:24.9 | caucuses. The debate between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador |
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