Key takeaways from Donald Trump's hush-money trial | Planet America | ABC News

00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Trump’s legal woes - supreme court to the rescue?
03:41 - The most important case in US history? Our interview with UCLA law professor Rick Hasen
21:32 - The presidential heart attack that changed America
26:37 - Arrests and protests as tensions on university campuses escalate
32:56 - Trade war? Why Biden hiked steel tariffs
37:28 - Malarkey!! Biden and the uncle who was “eaten by cannibals”
Supreme Court to the rescue? The key takeaways from Donald Trump’s immunity case. Also, protests and arrests as campus tensions escalate. Planet America Fireside Chat 8pm AEST ABC NEWS
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[@Borella309]

I did really enjoy the Planet America Archive segment - would great to see these presented into a full length collection/series?

[@bowerbird5808]

Why does the song “four dead in Ohio” keep running through my mind?

[@drjones1736]

Just to begin, thank you so much for your show. The government keeps cutting your funding, and you create better tv. Hail the ABC.

[@deadshot8077]

Stuff that. Why are my taxes funding these lies?

[@saberint]

@@deadshot8077what would you prefer them to fund? A independent news source is vitally important.

[@DuckReach432]

@@deadshot8077 Buddy, name a lie told here.

[@deadshot8077]

@@saberint I’d prefer my taxes funded welfare for vulnerable people, and policing our borders. You?

[@deadshot8077]

@@DuckReach432 dude, just watch it.

[@EstaviusMarx]

Imagine being Ted Cruz. You don’t even defend your own dad being defamed, having backflipped completely once it was clear Trump was going to win. That’s low.

[@brinjoness3386]

Trump called his wife ugly and he said and did nothing. Real Texan masculine cowboy. Tbf to Trump, Ted cruzs wife is nearly as ugly as his mother was.

[@MarthaAnthony]

Or his own wife when Trump called her ugly. Or Mitch McConnell not defending his wife when Trump made racist remarks about her.

[@kevildub]

It's ironic that Trump cries fake news all the time, then openly colludes with friendly media to produce literally fake news, or at least suppress news.

[@TrueMAGA]

Donald hires the best people....Mrs Mitch was appointed Minister For Transportation under Trump. She has Chinese investments and had control of the shipping🚢

[@jimgraham6722]

The Trump stuff is a pathetic side show. You may not have noticed yet, but the world is moving on - quickly, very quickly.

[@jimgraham6722]

The key takeaway is the US needs some young, intelligent, thoughtful leaders more interested in furthering their country rather than themselves. I am not holding my breath, that generation seems to have gone missing in action. For a country of 350M this has to be embarassing.

[@ianwest7003]

No it hasn't at all. The Dem young members are incredibly strong. You are talking without knowledge. Educate yourself before you comment.

[@beadsy-dl5up]

@@ianwest7003 The US has the OLDEST politicians in the world which i find outrageous as most of them seem to be there until they fall of their perch

[@roughhabit9085]

Trump is doing his best to shake the dreamers out of their trance and these scandalous prosecutions are helping his cause.

[@beadsy-dl5up]

@@roughhabit9085 Yes they are scandalous and that is why Trump had the catch and kill inacted to stop the scandal being exposed in public

[@beaucheadle9598]

It’s by design, especially on the democrat side the DNC has been squashing alternative “unsponsored” candidates for decades. Eg Bernie RFK JNNR.

[@MarthaAnthony]

No other President has needed to ask this, needed to clarify how much illegal behaviour would be acceptable. This says everything about Trump. It never occurred to the US' founding fathers that a criminal or corrupt person would be chosen let alone be elected into that office.

[@Playtechy]

That's what impeachment is for. Democrats didn't believe any criminality in Bragg's NDA case until Trump announced he was running for re-election, how lucky, right? And the thought that the DOJ should have the power to 2nd guess the president's every action and target them after they leave to relitigate and seek a crime for retribution is absolutely not constitutional. It never was. The DOJ was NEVER intended to have the power to interfere in another branch of government's leader, but you know who does? Congress with Impeachment (Which removes immunity upon conviction).

[@jimgraham6722]

Exactly. The great Republican leaders would be appalled to see how this high office has been reduced to a farce by not just one but a bevy of narcissistically obsessed flim flam merchants obsessed about themselves rather than the well being and progress of their country.

[@sueznann8927]

Nixon, Obama, Clinton, Biden to name a few

[@MarthaAnthony]

@@sueznann8927 None of them ever asserted they had complete immunity. And exactly what has Biden or Obama done? Lots of accusations, no evidence. Also, Nixon stepped down precisely because he knew he was in the wrong.

[@richardbehan8118]

​@@sueznann8927sssshhhhhh! They don't mean those criminals, just the criminals they don't like.

[@deborahbates2994]

Strange how Cruz has forgotten how he really feels about Frumpy Trumpy.

[@planestrainsdogsncars4336]

Jesse Watters parents cant stand their son and his attitudes.

[@rike94]

Drop this on Spotify, please!

[@carrow1057]

National Enquirer: and the difference between them and Fox News?

[@carrollsanders9376]

Fox News can inspire Crazies to Attack or Murder people who disagree with them, Nation Enquire is considered Trash for the uneducated.

[@ricsonix1]

Well done fellas, always an intelligent discourse with good balance and presentation.

[@judithjames4522]

Balance?? Consider being checked out for vertigo.

[@soupful]

What discourse ? Both are same biased arseholes

[@soupful]

Defund taxpayer's abc lefitist bozos

[@darv011]

Who in heavens name is Stephanie Clifford!!! It's Stormy!!!😂😂

[@Scott-up3bq]

Excellent episode,feel good knowing Donald's half Scottish.😂

[@GerardHammond]

top summary - thanks

[@davidhouston4810]

Should Australia continue its alliance with the USA? if Trump is declared to be Above the LAW.

[@marianmartinez1494]

if he gets back in the White House you can guarantee he will make sure we are left to our own devices if we're threatened by foreign countries.

[@embracedmadness]

We should run Pine Gap and charge a fortune for the data.

[@deadshot8077]

I would vote that we should ONLY continue the alliance if he or someone else decent is elected.

[@martinwoollett8468]

Don't forget this would apply to all presidents. Biden could take him out before the election.

[@davidhouston4810]

@@marianmartinez1494 Then perhaps it would be wise to prepare for such an eventuality.

[@roughhabit9085]

I don’t think Jesse Watters admiration for Trump rivals his disdain for Biden.

[@alecynot.2016]

Anyone see. The Whitehouse Plummers. Mini series?

[@ritabarber4069]

Too depressing. Switching off

[@Kangaroo-Bob]

Awesome. Please don't come back

[@richardbehan8118]

Depressing because it's all bs?

[@allancarey2604]

Soooo, the cannibalism thing might not be to far off the mark. I friend of mine ended up in a PNG highland region which wasn’t 1st contacted with the outside world in the 1950’s. The village showed him a Japanese & allied aircraft wrecks and made comments around an unfortunate end along that line.

[@allancarey2604]

Oh & I love the place, I worked there for awhile which left me with a deep affection for the country.

[@johnnylockwood]

44 minutes does not "Key takeaways" make

[@BOT_0x76DE45AB]

Bless Donald Trump. Even that voiceover that mimics him gives me goosebumps.

[@tomstruct]

Thanks team 🎉

[@paulmoss7940]

Yeah day three ....where is the crime ? What crime ?

[@dondevice8182]

Even at the start, the story was he refused to be driven there in the motorcade in the rain. He felt it was a drag, tiring, and the, he came out with his “losers” nonsense.

[@jasongray6341]

He said that theyre were treated like suckers and losers , its so easy to find out

[@davidleaman6801]

No. He said that they WERE suckers and losers.

[@richardbehan8118]

​@@davidleaman6801no he didn't. Look it up, stop being told what to think you tool.

[@judithjames4522]

Don't tell me the ABC is getting tough on crime??

[@darv011]

I wouldn't give Jesse Watters credit for anything intelligent.

[@RK-rj2sc]

Life ooh boy... It's short... We get to showcase our Love Hate Anger Fear all in a Nutshell 😅😅😅 ooh boy and it's all over before you blink...... 😊😊😊 All the best

[@PrateekVarshney_PV]

Love the Trump voice reciting the rant he wrote.

[@Thrankson]

Cruz is a coward🤷‍♂️

[@obelix703]

23:34 For another, crazier story, look up Grover Cleveland’s cancer treatment.

[@JasonBlack66]

There Is A Reason that trump Types in ALL capitals.

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Comments are back on! I'd stopped tuning in, comments off is so 2024 ABC. Nowadays apart from you guys, I avoid the ABC preaching to me about what a terrible human being I am. My crime was to be born white & male ~50yrs ago. Shame on my recently deceased Mum huh ABC/SBS? =(

[@PoggeB13]

The Cruz family will still vote for Trump. Blackmail? Bribery? Cowardice? I have no sympathy for Ted or his father.

[@Thrankson]

FOX is also “news” for hire😡

[@Chromebiscuit]

Thing is the protestors are saying "no Zi*nists allowed" instead of "no jews allowed" so they are criticising their political ideology, not their ethnicity. I don't think it's comparable to saying "no black people alllowed", and to conflate antizi*nism with racism is sooo tiring. We are used to seeing way more Islamophobia let's be real

[@stellarmonk]

Chas' Trump impression is getting pretty good

[@tracielittle7203]

What financial gain did the National Enquirer have for catching and killing? Why did they do it??

[@embracedmadness]

Helping a mate out. And Trump probably has some dirt on the owner. He learnt from Roy Cohn the value of having dirt on opponents.

[@saberint]

Who knows… favours count and it’s great to have in the back of your pocket, a president that owes you a favour or two

[@davidleaman6801]

The National Enquirer has been spoken of highly by DJT. DJT's followers get their news from it. It appeals to their frame of mind.

[@jakehardman612]

imagine pretending your shocked about about lies as your blatantly lying on television. absolut hacks

[@alvaskins]

Which part was a lie?

[@hg1644]

TDS podcast

[@richardbehan8118]

I'm glad they put two people on this program that have the same views as each other. Then we dont have to worry about any kind of meaningful rebuttals. Thank god!

[@GrimJackal]

Shhh. Go back to Sky. It'll all be okay.

[@richardbehan8118]

@@GrimJackal I don't watch any MSM. I'm glad you enjoy watching shows with no difference of opinion. It's how you become a tool of propaganda 👏👏👏

[@youarehere.]

Chas's selective fact checking is getting very tedious.

[@williampatton7476]

when did he do that?

[@Scott-up3bq]

Come back Donald 😊

[@ArnaudJoakim]

Loll 😂😂😂😂

[@carrow1057]

Any reason you two are not grasping the significance of what another trump term means for democracy across the globe? Please dont be like US journalists, too close to the problem. You are supposed to be incisive and cutting edge. Amp it up a bit and less verbatim journalism. This is not normal.

[@ledpup]

They don't understand much of what is going on. Fairly clueless.

[@cameronbobsmith]

yes! Their objectivity, intelligent and fair reporting of stories critical of both sides is sickening.

[@WhatNotEven]

get a grip

[@jimgraham6722]

Exactly obsession with flim flam over substance.

[@richardbehan8118]

Do you mean that another Trump term will in fact save democracy?

[@lacie1741]

The two are clueless re: Trump. They act as thought he's deserving of being thought of as legitimate. He is not.

[@carrollsanders9376]

He never was always a Liar, Trump was too stupid to understand the IBM Paper Punch cards that recorded Barack Obama's birth certificate in 1961, Trump was too stupid to understand holes though paper.

[@Reginaldesq]

Its called balanced reporting

[@williampatton7476]

74 million people voted for him. Unfortunately.

[@SkandiaAUS]

Chas talked about the reaction (complaints) from viewers when he defended Trump's bloodbath comments. Simply adding context got him complaints.

[@WhatNotEven]

you’re getting dangerously close to the point

[@mikehall3074]

So Biden can Off him. Good, let it pass🤗🙃

[@Playtechy]

But he can't? A president still can't murder, that was clear if you heard the hearing instead of relying on propagandists to tell you what to think. And he'd still be impeached for it, and impeachment removes immunity upon conviction - thus he'd then be criminally charged. Yes, the constitution is complicated, but I promise if you put a little effort in and listen to the hearing you will understand it much better.

[@Maxkil]

I love how you title all your videos with something anti Trump, like it will make a difference. How's bidenomics going for you

[@taranullius9221]

Maybe he shouldn't have tried to overthrow a fair election and gotten 90+ felony counts against him. How's that? Bidenomics isn't doing anything for us, we're Australian you dolt. As for America, you have record stock market metrics, record low unemployment and your inflation has plummeted and you'll start seeing interest rate cuts soon trying to recover after Trump added 25% of your national debt in only 4 years. Biden also created more jobs in 2 years than Trump in 4 so I'd say it's going really quite well. Cr*me is also plummeting after its massive spike in 2020 under Donald Trump.

[@taranullius9221]

The headline is also neutral. It's reporting the plain facts, or are you disputing the fact that a former POTUS is currently on trial for fraud and conspiracy?

[@embracedmadness]

How is that title anti-trump? He paid hush money to hide the fact he banged a pornstar without a condom while his wife was at home with a 4month old baby. And conservatives worship him…

[@TrueMAGA]

🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗

[@camerondeans9056]

If you think the title is anti-Trump, that says more about you really

[@leighc2982]

Bullshyte.

[@carrollsanders9376]

Your correct Trump always was Bull 💩.

[@boonnathan9827]

I think the Supreme Court knows trump is going to lose.

[@Playtechy]

Lose what exactly? The criminal cases are doomed to fail on appeal (because a fair trial initially simply isn't possible until the higher courts) and Trump's poll numbers increased after each indictment and leads Biden in them.

[@richardbehan8118]

Lol he's not going to lose. If you haven't been paying attention, Trump hasn't lost the whole time they have going after him.

[@BassLiberators]

@@richardbehan8118 What do you mean? It only just started and he's lost every appeal he's made so far.

[@richardbehan8118]

@@BassLiberators every other attack on him over the last 8 years. How stupid do you have to be to think any of the attacks on Trump are anything but political attacks. Why hasn't anyone in congress been tried for insider trading or any other kind of corruption. How does someone like, for example, Nancy Pelosi have a net worth of $150 million for being in politics all her adult life. Get a clue. Open your fuggin eyes. I get it's hard to get past the propaganda of the MSM because it comes at us from all angles, but please, take a step back and ask yourself why.

[@richardbehan8118]

@@BassLiberators when the MSM said Hillary was a 98% chance of winning and that Trump would bring the world closer to WW3. That was my wake up call when neither of those things happened. Now we are closer than ever to WW3 because of Biden and the democrats. Please, try and think for yourself.If you still have that ability.

[@r.d.w.molenkamp1276]

So amazing how Ttump trolls are posting their opinions 5 minutes after the launch of the video while the video itself takes 44 min and 30 seconds to actually watch. No wonder they never know about the bad things their new 'Jesus' did wrong xD

[@Playtechy]

I haven't seen the video. But I've watched the whole court hearing twice and a dozen videos from different lawyers and law professors discussing it. Why would my opinion be less valid because I didn't watch some TV personalities and journalists opine on something they don't really know about?

[@dysturbedone3395]

@@Playtechy "Lawtube" has really helped me understand what is truly happening. Soros backed D.A's,, with their corrupt prosecutors. Biased Judges, unconstitutional gag orders. It truly is a 2 tiered justice system.

[@richardbehan8118]

"Trump Trolls"? Oh you mean the people that don't believe the bs you are fed on a daily basis. Got it.

[@GrimJackal]

@@Playtechy Sure you have.

[@Playtechy]

@@GrimJackal I don't think you have any reason to suggest what I said was inaccurate, so I can only come to the conclusion that your comment wasn't made in sarcasm.

[@sueznann8927]

Lucky for you they don’t show the amount of 👎 anymore

[@BassLiberators]

Just search "youtube dislike viewer". This video is currently 87% likes.

[@sueznann8927]

@@BassLiberators where do you find that?

[@davidhorne2672]

@@BassLiberatorswell that doesn’t help this posters argument at all. 87% positive is quite significant considering how many bot accounts are commenting.

[@BassLiberators]

@@sueznann8927 Google search

[@raptor1672]

Skirting around Biden's senility is getting tedious.....

[@farright118]

40:40 PNG has canabalism

[@goldcoasttime]

comments i thought ABC had block Australians speaking about their reporting

[@FLASH-MATT]

This guy, Boris Epshteyn is clearly the missing link between Russia, Jeffrey Epstein and Trump. 😅🤣😂

[@lllordllloyd]

Just reminding the ABC's very busy but mentally plodding headline writer that 'key takeaways' is a phrase used only by idiots and salesmen in shiny suits. Just, stop.

[@carrot595]

Idiots in the ABS ?

[@robertwilliams7777]

I have such contempt for these clowns. Thinking they're cutting edge when all they ever do is regurgitate the official narrative. The only way to stay so ignorant is to never dare seek independent information. And you don't have to go to Fox etc, there's a whole ecology of left wing independent media. Glen Greenwald, who broke the Edward Snowden story, Matt Taibbi, so right wing he was the Rolling Stone's political reporter, for instance, are pouring scorn on this case.

[@ticktock7483]

That is the most weak as piss retraction I have ever seen, one worthy of Fox News. ‘It’s not my fault that I didn’t read the dates on the tweets, it is that radical left bureaucratic court’s fault’ 😂

[@GrimJackal]

???

[@JudoGingerNinja]

this nonsense show is misleading and should be pulled from the ABC.

[@alvaskins]

Why?

[@TheDrunkMunk]

@@alvaskins Judo is offended by actual balanced journalism. How dare they try their hardest at being impartial

[@andrewwright6898]

Yes. Most of the critical comments here are just nonsense. It's as if a Sky News troll factory is at work.

[@GrimJackal]

Which parts are misleading? List them and how they are misleading. If you don't, maybe the case is you just don't like what you're hearing.

[@anamariaalvarez1746]

Change the welfare system, don’t make it so easy for them to demand and receive so many benefits.

[@BassLiberators]

No. Go after the rich, not the poor.

[@user-ne1zo5zz3w]

As a Democrat I can't stand K. Harris so I will be forced to vote for Kennedy or Trump because I realize that Biden will never last another four and a half years!

[@MichaelJeffery1]

Terrible woke ABC

[@GrimJackal]

Which part is woke? Can you explain further?

[@kdaxir4731]

The students were doing a lot more than free speech.

[@W_Bin]

8:00 _"Can only read 1 page at a time and can't search"_ - Maybe one day ABC will learn about bulk downloads and ocr lol. They've been available for at least 10 years. But you're probably all using macs.

[@ignatiussimoes4390]

This is a clown show

[@deadshot8077]

The dumb vocal impression of Trump was pretty pathetic of you.

[@TrueMAGA]

Gays For Drumpt 🎉

[@embracedmadness]

It’s a 6/10… but the cry baby diaper wearer does whinge like that.

[@deadshot8077]

@@embracedmadnesshe sounds nothing like that.

[@embracedmadness]

@@deadshot8077 you’re right, he sounds worse.

[@taranullius9221]

So is s*mping for Trump.

[@korradog8714]

Jesus Christ is coming back SOON.

[@ZootZinBootZ]

Impossible

[@idriveskyline]

lol claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

[@lllordllloyd]

... and man, has he got a lot of self-declared 'Chrisitians' to expunge directly to hell.

[@carrow1057]

And proselytizers will be going to HELL. Do not pray on the street corner. You never read the bible?

[@ledpup]

Difficult if he never arrived in the first place.

[@rubenzamora9383]

Abc,Run out the clock?, your an fn joke!!!!!

[@GrimJackal]

Good one buddy. You really showed them.

[@JasonSwadling-hw8cw]

The FBI should not be tampered with in anyway shape or form The FBI needs tobe left alone to investigate highcrimes and mistormeamers

[@deadshot8077]

“Mistormeamers” LOL

[@pissiole5654]

@@dcptiv what a person being investigated for a crime might potentially have a negative opinion of the law enforcement agency pursuing them for said crime? unheard of!