and not the one i want. take 20 so i don t eat them, yes. okay. well, go to jake tapper s house, not laura coates. you get one piece of candy and probably black licorice. you probably give apples. i ve given toothbrushes from time to time. i have. not just kidding i give full cans of sodas, too. the parents hate me. nice. this is cnn tonight. i m laura coates. as i mentioned allison is on assignment. we re going to have a panelists from across the spectrum and they re on the screen right now. here is a really provocative question that we re going to tackle tonight. here it is. so what if the 2020 midterms are a repeat of 2020? i know it sounds like a very interesting proposition, maybe a scary one for a lot of people. but what if election deniers are refusing to accept results? i m not saying january 6th happens again but what might be the consequences of that? i ll talk to the master pollster who is scared to death what will happen and plus, the january 6th com
january 6th committee zeroing in on what could be a key phone call. a source telling nbc news the call was made from from her president trump to a support staffer, it may be rando but the aid is in talk with the select committee. the backdrop to all of it, 2024, with a new interview out today with the former president, saying he s made up his mind about whether or not to try again for the white house and that announcement may be sooner than you think. one of the reporters behind this group is here live. the abortion law that indiana is asking them to put back on the books and who the state is investigating for performing the procedure there, even though it s legal. we ve got a lot of news on this thursday afternoon. we will start here in washington with senior national political reporter, cofounder of the punch bowl news and jake sherman and former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosen. do we start talking about this deal on the electoral count app, is it going
investigative information to come forward to help us in our decision making process. and i will stick to that. all right. i ll tell you this, if he s not fired by noon tomorrow, then i want your resignation and every single one of you board members because you do not give a damn about our children or us. stand with us or against us because we ain t going nowhere. we ll bring you more from the meeting tonight and talk to angel garza, who s step daughter was killed along with 18 other students and two teachers that day. also tonight there is more video unseen until now from inside the school. the video underscores what a report released yesterday from a texas state house committee ca called systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making, unquote. according to the committee s report, there are 376 law enforcement officers who responded to the scene. 376. yet, as a full hour ticked away, not one of them managed to do what all first responders are trained to do, which
from inside the school. the video, which will see in a little bit underscores what a report, released yesterday from a texas state house committee calls, systematic failures and agreed to sleep or decision-making, and quote. during the incident, now, according to the committee s report, there were 376 law enforcement officers who responded to the scene. 376, yet, as a full hour ticked away not one of them managed to do what all first responders are trying to do, which is confront the killer immediately. now, compounding that obscenity is how hard getting a straight answer and has been like that from the very first day. there was a couple of law enforcement that engaged the suspect, but he was able to make entry into the school, that s the sergeant with the texas department telling me about a school resource of officers and others who supposedly engage the shooter outside of robb elementary. and, that was a very early report. , and it turned out he was wronged, which o
legally legally with an ar-15 rifle, all done one day after he turned 18. he shot his grandmother, as we reported last night. crashed his truck near the school, as you see there. greg abbott, governor of texas did try to confront the shooter but he did not engage and the shooter was able to enter the school you see here. he also barricaded himself in his classroom. he distributed part of his plan to kill in what we are told was a private facebook message about 15 minutes before this shooting. he also reportedly sent text messages to a 15-year-old located in germany. the gunman was 18 years old and reportedly a high school dropout. reportedly there has been no criminal history identified yet. there is no known mental health history of the gunman. he used one weapon which was an ar-15, using two 23 rounds. that s additional information we re learning there, courtesy of the governor of the state, greg abbott. he is the chief executive of texas, he is law enforcement, he