we like the no tie. different vibe from him. somebody stole all my ties. it s not a fashion choice. tie left. i 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. i am laura coates in washington d.c. i m alisyn camerota in new york. this is cnn tonight. we have a team here in new york with me. and the other team here in washington d.c. so we re going to kick it off with the herschel walker raphael warnock senate debate. it just wrapped up a little while ago in georgia. we ll talk to the panelists, but wow. have you seen some of these clips? yeah, i was trying to watch it while prepping. it was a very high stakes debate because it s the only one until election day
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
one of the park land jurors says serving on that jury is such a horrific mass shooting case was one of the hardest experiences of her life and then after the vote to recommend life without parole but no death penalty for the shooter, well, the atmosphere in the jury room got ugly. that juror is melody and she joins me now. melody, thank you for coming. this can t be easy. the entire process, i mean, i know as a former prosecutor, look, you don t ask to be on a jury and we ask a lot of the jurors. you ve had to go visit the site that was preserved. you ve been to the school. you ve had to be through the trial. you ve seen the pain and anguish. i want to check in with you, melody. you said it was one of the most horrific experiences of your life to go through this trial. what has it been like emotionally for you to be in this position? harrowing to say the least.
this is not the commander in chief doing any of this. they were so intent in making sure that the american people and dare i say the world knew this was getting done today, this was classic taking care of business. did that strike you as unbelievable? you know, it s interesting. i feel like a lot of people have this gauze image of the 1980s of regan and tip o neil and these guys that cut the back room deals and everything worked out fine and it was perfect and wonderful and it s not the case. right? a lot of that still exists today but you have these politicians needing to blast each other afterward. sadly, it took a tragedy to expose these people actually interacting like human beings and people that care for each other and so on. how we get past the ugly partisanship is really beyond me but they do work together well behind the scenes and that was evident on this day. to me, it s also they were
autopsy photos, looking actually going to the 1200 building. i just would love to be able to ask the juror face-to-face what it was, what tell me, tell me why? why did you find it that this murderer who was cold-blooded, he d premeditated, calculate, and planned it all and wrote it out and did exactly what he wrote out, exactly the way and what he put on his cell phone and how he dictated what he was going to do and i want to make everyone suffer. he actually did everything that he planned. i would like to know why they didn t give him the death penalty. let s face it, alisyn, it s a per pfect death penalty case. if this case didn t want the death penalty, then why do we have a death penalty? i want to know if their own feelings and their emotions