they said they wanted to come home safely and share their military skills with other fighters. the news continues. let s go over to laura. thank you, anderson. i am laura coates and this is cnn tonight. it seems that everyone told trump that the emperor had no clothes on, even behind closed doors but the vice president counsel, the vice president, they all told him that the plan to have vice president mike pence not certify the election was an american. in the words of the prosecutor, illegal. even the top prosecutor, attorney general bill barr could not support the play to stay in office. tonight we have two former attorneys general here. both are going to give us their take on whether the emperors wardrobe might be treated for prison guard. it is being watched very closely and we are wondering what his predecessors think and what might they have done differently. day three has had quite a theme. it is called pressure. persistent, relentless, unyielding pressure. all targe
America, its really kind of pathetic. Larry, thank you so much. New developments in the new york trial against former President Trump. Lets bring in former assistant u. S. Attorney andy mccarthy. Okay, andy, this is unfair. So judge merchan, its good to see you, thanks for joining us. Judge merchan holds former President Trump in contempt for nine violations of his gag order on trump. He fined former President Trump 9,000 total, ordered him to take down 7 posts at issue from truth social, threatens trump with jail, but watch this. Abc news is reporting Michael Cohen is making money by talking on tiktok about the ongoing new york trial against trump. Hes taking viewer donations doing nightly live streams on tiktok. What do you make of this disparity here . Well, i think its always been a constitutionally improper gag order, liz. Michael cohen aside, i mean, its obviously not fair that trump cant talk about the witnesses, but the witnesses can talk about him all they want. Its worse that
far as the legal case is concerned. i mean the second these allegations dropped, you had a number of opinions all across the spectrum, particularly about somebody who was so-called a late reporter or a delayed reporter of all these things. remember she was trying to get within the window of the new law in new york that says an adult survivor of sexual assault or abuse had a very slim window, and she was trying to get through that and had a very extensive complaint against this person. but there were no criminal charges that had been filed. they ran the gamut. the fact this has happened now, the day after, after his counsel has already said that she was in it for a payday prior to this, and he had been for the past six months threatened with some sort of action like this. she withdrew a threat and then came back with this lawsuit. there are going to be a lot of questions now about what s in the actual settlement and whether it s a complete and total muzzle for her now, which
any time you settle a case like this. yeah, huge question about that and, look, just as a reminder, diddy is wealthy, extremely powerful, still to this day after 30 years in this industry, something like this, i think, probably has already done some damage but i think they were clearly concerned it could do more if it were to continue, laura, i know you have a lot to get to in your show. have a good one. have a good one and happy early birth day, abby phillip, everyone. thank you. she ll be 25. thanks. a surprise ruling and a big victory for donald trump, but what happens now? tonight on laura coates live. remember that phrase, no one is above the law? how about this one, how does it go again, let me get it right, if the president does it, it s not illegal. starting to come back to you now, isn t it? well, today there s a new one for the history books, a colorado judge finding that donald trump incited, really, an insurrection or intentionally engaged in behav
The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. To theome everyone hearings and oversight in the department of justice. I begin by recognizing myself. Today we welcome attorney jeff sessions, the annual Department Oversight hearing. General, you have a long and distinguished career in public service. Even when your decisions are not always well received. Leaving theear department of justice has not been without difficulty, which is expected at the outset of a new administration. While much has been done to theect the proper under Obama Administration, more work must be done to ensure the department is operating to impartially administered justice. Our last doj oversight hearing was beyond disappointing. Loretta lynchal gave the least. And at least transparent testimony i can recall in my time in congress. It was lame a disservice to the American People. Ms. Lynch failed to respond substantively to every question posed by this committee. Former miss lynch and f