Will the courts Trump the Donald?
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Donald Trump’s disqualification from the Colorado ballot.
The state’s Supreme Court has ruled him ineligible because of his actions in the run up to the US Capital riot in 2021. Americast’s Sarah Smith and Justin Webb join to discuss whether this could be the beginning of the end for his 2024 bid.
And the departing First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, is in the studio to talk about his political legacy, as well as really liking cheese. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Gemma Roper, Sam McLaren and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Matt Dean. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, we've got two things coming up for you |
| 0:06.7 | on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:08.2 | First of all, I'll catch up with the AmeriCast gang |
| 0:11.0 | to find out what's actually going on with this court ruling in Colorado |
| 0:14.7 | that's got some people saying oh Donald Trump won't be able to run for president after all |
| 0:18.6 | next year more complicated than that and the second half will be a nice extended detailed chat |
| 0:25.0 | with Mark Drakford who is standing down next year as First Minister of Wales and |
| 0:30.2 | we will cover a lot of ground with him. |
| 0:32.8 | An update on the last episode of newscast. |
| 0:35.4 | Thank you for your messages and your observations about the trial of Brianna Jai. |
| 0:40.0 | Always interesting to hear from you about stories like that. |
| 0:44.0 | We've also had an update from the court today. |
| 0:48.0 | The judge, Mrs Justice Yip, has said that there's a strong public interest in naming the two teenagers who have found guilty of Brianna's murder and they will be named when they are sentenced in February. |
| 1:02.0 | So that's an update on that story. Shall we get on with this episode? Here it comes. |
| 1:07.0 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:09.0 | Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages. |
| 1:12.0 | Do you know any questions on things that are not related to math? |
| 1:14.0 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:19.0 | The era of global warming has ended. |
| 1:21.0 | The era of global boiling has arrived. |
| 1:23.6 | It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done Kia. |
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