Thank you for watching Newsnight State of the race. Laura coates live starts right now live defying reality. Donald trump makes a campaign prediction, but not even his own supporters are buying. Plus, diddy is not getting out before his trial. A judge denying him bail again so what exactly will his life like in that Brooklyn Jail ive got a special guest who is ben there . Hes going to join us. And 48 the election. And Donald Trumps path to 270 seems to be well expanding lees according to him we are going to win New York. And thats the first time in many, many years that are republican can honestly say it. And were going to do, and we have to do it. We do it. And the election nationwide is over you heard him he thinks the state he lost by more than 20 points in 2016 and by The Way, in 2020 is in play he dedicated nearly two Hour Rally on long Island Tonight to make that very case and in the immortal words of dodgeball so bold strategy cotton, lets see if that pays off for them look, who
didn t set up in the last segment. people are nasa excited and people when you build the first images from the times of space telescope. those are likely some of the first galaxies form in the universe booms of years ago. when you see, by the way, from a spike of sky. as small as a grain of said held at arms length. my mind is exploding. and the blurring and stretching you see in from the galleries, that is actually their light being spent by all the massive galaxies between them and us. gravitational lunging, key prediction of hindsight theory of general relativity. something to make even einstein smile. and have to do more research do that in. then use continues with laura coats and cnn tonight. we re talking behind. thank you already above. me thanks anderson. i appreciated. i know e=mc2. that s ball can get through today. but i am laura coats, this is cnn tonight. so steve bannon, he threw down the conflict after being indicted on criminal contempt charges back in nov
Foundation has been fined for illegal activity when it made a political contribution to the Attorney General Of Florida at the time she was being asked by her constituents to investigate Trump University. Hillary clinton and her top aides knowingly destroyed evidence and covered up their actions. The big question now, are these attacks true . Did Hillary Clinton really destroy evidence . Did donald trump really pay off floridas ag . Cnns drew griffin did some digging on the claim. Reporter this story couldnt have come at a better time for the Clinton Campaign which is pushing back against all those pay to play allegations. Why its come up again is a fairly old story. I did this back in june. Is trump did have to pay a 2,500 fine to the irs for a 25,000 donation. The reason is, carol, it came from trumps foundation. Thats against the irs rules. Foundations cant give to Political Action committees. Its allowed the story to rekindle the allegations that trump essentially paid off the Atto
video tomorrow. now as for the steve bannon drama, shall we say, what turned to people with very valuable insight. cnn commentator, jonah globe berg. who knows the bennett and mark fischer. let s interview them several times and written extensively about banned its relationship with donald trump. he s a senior editor at the washington post. i m glad that you re both here and i wanna begin with you because you don t know him very well. of course. but you ve known him either before he was part of the administration for trump and i m just wondering what you think steve bannon is doing? what this game is? is it a game? he wants to testify now, likely to be in public. surprise surprise, you don t have a platform and maybe a show. is it a show? is it a change of heart to you think? i think it s a. show i think people can try to turn this into some sort of complex mystery, with more theirs and steve bannon ensemble. or you like to wear a lot of
aligned on this issue of election fraud. we know in early december barr came out and undercut former president trump s message on this by saying that the justice department had not found any evidence of large-scale voter or election fraud that would change the results. directly undercutting the message that the former president was putting out. even after he left office he s continued to have to defend himself against allegations from the former president that he tried to block investigations. but it s clear the president was not deterred when he encountered this resistance from his attorney general and moved on to acting top justice officials. let s discuss this now with andrew mccabe, cnn commentator, former fbi director who had his own history with donald trump that has been well covered. what was your reaction when you saw these hand-written notes today? it s extraordinary. hand-minute contemporaneous notes are some of the best evidence you can come across when you re trying to