thanks so much for joining us tonight, and this week in our 9:00 p.m. experiment, until next week, you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and the tiktok. @jaketapper. our coverage continues with the magnificent laura coates and the excellent alisyn camerota. she s waiting for her adjective to kick in, if she s magnificent, what am i? excellent. there you go. excellent is great dashing jake tapper. simple but classic. we like the no tie. gives a different vibe from him. somebody stole all my ties. it s not a fashion choice. tie left. i see. i also like you re calling it an experiment. you should be in a white lab coat starting on monday. the waist down, i am. disturbing. this just came a little real just now. wonderful. nice to see you, jake. thanks, jake. have a good weekend. everyone, we re keeping the conversation going tonight not about the lab coat and jake tapper but here we are. good evening, everyone. i am laura coates in washington
we ll get into that right now. let s get the impressions of our panel. we the cnn economics professor. we have kathryn here along with cnn political commentator scott jennings and nina co-chair of the 2020 presidential campaign. thanks for being here. let s get to it. let s see how they talked able the issue that has been in the news all week and that is the abortion claims. watch this. this week you said that the accusations are, quote, all lies. for the voters watching tonight, can you explain the circumstances surrounding these claims? you have 60 seconds. like i said, that s a lie. i put it in a book. one thing about my life is i ve been very transparent, not like the senator. he s hid things. at the same time, i said that s a lie and on abortion, i m a christian. i believe in life. i tell people this, georgia is a state that respects life and i ll be a senator that protects life. i said that was a lie and i m