Trump's Staying Power, Oklahoma School Lawsuit, Security in Haiti
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It's been one legal blow after another for donal trump.

and yet he's crushing his G. O. P.

rivals. The bizarre thing about any of these incitements is IT reinforces one of trumps core messages that the system is rigging.

I'm laa folded with a Martinez. And this is a first from M. P. R. News, a lawsuit in oklahoma's to block the country's first publicly funded religious school plan to say the schools clearly on constitutional. Now the case could go all .

the way to the supreme court. And overrun by violent gangs. Hate has been turmoil since president was assiniboins one the west has declined, sent helps now offering to send police calling an act of solidarity with the sentence of africa.

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Early in Donald ms. Twenty sixteen presidential run, he boosted that he could bend republican voters to his will. Remember this, I could stand .

in the middle fifth avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. okay? It's like, incredible.

Trump survived multiple scandals and impeachments when he was president. And now, after two indictments and a possible third, trump is still the undisputed front runner for the republican presidential nomination.

White house correspondent franco, although is is to tell, saw all about this. Frank, he has been called the text on done, but less fact check. This is a really true that downtown p gets a bump when IT is indeed.

I mean, for the most part, yes, or at least says that relates to the republican primaries in march, a several weeks before the first entitled trump had just forty three percent of the vote in republican ling, according to a real clear politics average. But a day after he was charged in a hush money scheme to an adult film actress, his number has had jumped to fifty percent. Two months later, he was invited for his handling classified documents. His polling average jumped again, and polls, of course, go up and down, and they did dip a bit, but not much, and they are back up. Now is trump warns that he could be invited over january six.

And these strikes me as a kind of scandals that would derail pretty much any other political campaign. So why is that trump difference?

Yeah, that's right. I mean, many politicians try to avoid or downplay these kind of canals, even a small one, but trump has really embraced his legal problems. He's turned them into part of his case also, to have returned to the White house.

I talked to dug, hi. He's a long time republican strategist. He told me that the endicotts have helped trump keep attention and also help shape the narrative of the primary.

The bar thing about this endpoint ment or any of these indictments is IT reinforces one of trumps core messages that the system is rigged, ed, against you and me and him. And so anything that comes from this that becomes more proof, not that comes wrongdoing, but of the system being rate. He adds that trump .

s had helped from his rivals. Instead of attacking ham, they've largely rushed to his defense. And that's because trump has so much support from the base in criticizing him isn't a rest they are willing to take yet. So instead you hear them echo trumps claims that this is politically motivated, which all just lends more credibility to his message.

right? So for all of trumps resilience, so is there anything at all that does wind up sticking?

Well, a, we should emphasize that the polls were talking about our republican primary polls. And it's one thing to win the republican nomination, it's another to win the general election. So while the indictment ts may have boosted trumps chances with republicans, IT could hurt him with independence and swing voters.

The general election is a long way away, but his legal troubles have appeared to hurt him with those voters. And we did see that before in the mid terms. And a recent npr poll found that a majority americans, including fifty two percent of independence, believe he's done something illegal. And that's why some republican leaders and some republican donors are worried about trump's long term prospects in the general election, even though he's been dominating the primary.

That's White house correspondent franco or then is thanks a lot for your reporting. so.

The aco u and some parents and local hoa have filed a lawsuit to stop a religious charter school from opening. In that state.

the old virtual roman catholic school would be funded by oklahoman taxpayers. A state board approve the plan, opponents say. A government funding for a religious school is clearly on constitutional, and the case could go all the way to the U.

S. Supreme court reporter beth wallace with state impact. Oklahoma has been following this story. A bath had the state board justify approving public funding for a religious school.

So same is door is the patron saint of the internet. And the same isador of civil and state by catholic rural charter school would be a key through twelve all virtual school.

IT was approved by oklahoma's state wide virtual charter schoolboy in a split three to two vote, and actually our state attorney general has called the legitimate of that vote into question due to the timing of the vote and whether a newly appoint inboard member had officially started his term. So still some validity of the vote questions standing there, but the reasons that those board members give who voted yes, they say IT was a vote for a religious liberty. School choice is also a really hot topic in oklahoma, as with a lot of the rest of the country. And by school choice that mean subsidizing more private education with public dollars, this wave of school choice policy has really hit oklahoma. And saint as dore is certainly a part of that.

Now the you and others say that this violence of separation of church and state, what's the main argument there?

So the plane s uh, lawyers argue that students whose identities might conflict with the teachings of the catholic church could potentially be discriminated against. Danmark is the director of the A L, U. Program on freedom of religion and belief. He says the schools would be in violation of numerous state laws.

among other things. These basic rules, which applied to anyone seeking to start a charter school, bar these schools from discriminating and prevent them from imposing religious views on students. Yet the state board approved the application by a three to two vote on june fifth against the legal advice. Even of the state republican attorney general, who is unequipped, said that the approval of this goal is unlove you .

know in in its application see is a or even said that I would be advani zing two students um IT also say the lawyers definitely point out they're worried that students with certain disabilities won't be receiving an adequate level of support that they need, especially because, thing is, air will have no in person component to help those students who might need that other virtual schools in oklahoma have that hybrid model for those students.

So what are the supporters of the charter school saying about the lawsuit?

But they're definitely hoping that they will eventually end up at the supreme court and that the conservative majority will be on their side. Our state superintendent of public instruction, ryan walters, he's been an ardent supporter of school choice. He's also a non voting member of that charter school board, he says, saying as IT or as establishment is a move to quote and atheism as the state sponsored religion. He sees the suit as an attack against religious liberty. The school is supposed to open next fall, though obviously there are a lot of legal chAllenges.

W is a report with oklahoma impact for thanks so much.

The nation of kenya has offered to send a thousand police officers to hate I and lead a multination effort to support the haien police.

This comes just days after the us. Department ordered most american citizens to leave hate after the kidnapping of an american nurse and her daughter. Game violence has been widespread in hay since the country's president was assassinated .

two years ago. For more on this, we're joined now by jacket in Charles correspond IT with miami herg. Why has the offers from kenya and not hate neighbors like the U. S, maybe for example.

well, the U. S. Has said that they do not want to lead a force even though they support this.

They have in a resolution that's been before the U. N. Security council now for about nine months.

And the U. S. Had been hoping that canada would step up and lead. And though canada hasn't publicly said no, they also haven't raised their hands.

So it's been nine months since government requested international help with specialize force to come in to help the hatin national police. We've seen jamaica said they're willing to to help fuel some sort of multination force. But again, up until now, no one has said that, yes, we will leave IT.

So this development week year comes after months of discussions and debates at the U. N. And kenya, also saying that, you know, african nations should take more of a leadership role in helping hate address this um security, humAnitarian, an crisis.

What about the country of hate? How are they responding?

Well, you know whatever you talk about, foreign venture is always controversial and hate, right? Given the history you know in terms of the us, you know back in early nineteen hundreds, but when you take to average, they just want help. They recognize that in the country of two thousand million people with only thirty five hundred police officers on the streets throughout the country on any given day, but that is not going to cut IT.

Um in the last couple of weeks we've seen a resurgence, gangs, violence, even before this kidnapping of the american couple. You saw dozens of families that basically flood took up presidency um in front of the U. S.

Embassy y in porter print because they had basically been pushed out their homes by gangs. They have since left, but they are still home listed now at a school, sleeping there. And we've got a number of kidnap things.

Even before this american couple, a very prominent doctor who worked to the ministry of health, he has been kidnapped. We have a journalist who has been held now for over eight month. So people basically feel a sense of desperation and really in need of help. And at this point, let IT come from where I can come from.

mention how it's going to be an international group, LED by kenya, what other countries are going to help out well.

like I said, we've already had to make a that is volunteer in a couple of other carbon countries but yesterday until you good here is your secretary general who has been pushing for quoting who every bus force has act for regional um countries hate his neighbors to also step up because what you're talking about a thousand police officers from kenya but what the U N. Also recognizes that what hate needs is military muscle.

When you look at these gangs, they are heavily armed. They control of these eighty percent of porter prints. You really need assets.

The country doesn't have any helicopters. IT doesn't have any planes. So IT really needs the ability to go in there into secure infrastructure and also to root out these games. So the kenya model right now, it's a start, but it's going to to take a couple of other steps and we're going to see you know how this shapes out. Who else says yes will go in?

And when might these police officers arrive in hating?

That is unclear. King is going to send the suspend team in the coming days, in weeks to hate, and then we will have a Better idea in terms of what is needed and how they're going .

to build this multination force. Jackson Charles covers hate and the crib an for the miami hero jack talks.

Thank you.

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