wonderful, wonderful, laura, is a reference to steve martin s great film l.a. story when he says he s falling in love. and here i thought it came to mind because you saw me in canary yellow. that s what inspired it. anyway, it was a cinematic theme. i like the trivia. i like the fun facts to start the show. that s awesome. next i ll work on a pop up video for it. very good. and you re awesome too, jake. good evening, everyone, i m laura coates in washington. and i m allison camerota in new york and this is cnn tonight. we re also here with our panelists across the political spectrum there s actually one team in washington with me. and the other team here in new york with me. basically we have so much work we need two studios. it doesn t fit in one. so let s start with all the developments heading up to the mid-terms. the big guns from barack obama to donald trump are about to hit the campaign trail, and we ve also got new polling that tells us a lot abou
that s why it was so important. hillary clinton, first woman oprah says i prefer obama. that was a big moment. i just feel like obama had a star factor anyway. there was something about him for me perspective wise, not even working in politics, but there s something about him that was an x factor there. you watch certain people and twrou pay attention and you believe them, and there s an authenticity. and yes, oprah boosted that. and they did find after oprah came out for him, northwestern university did a study they believe directly linked her to voter turnout and donations. she went and worked for it, and i think we forget because, you know, he was in power for eight years. he actually won by a very little bit in the primaries. he only barely edged out hillary clinton. so did oprah make that difference, who knows, but
this was successful is because of the filter and the intelligence and the resources in the region. obviously, we have seen even president trump credit the kurds with the intelligence to making this possible. so i think that, again, moving forward it is early times right now, and the question becomes as to whether we could have similarly successful missions in the future as we continue to pull out, and change the syrian policy moving forward. perspective-wise, charlie, how impactful is baghdadi s death, and there are success source and the president acknowledged this, but lindsey graham is calling this a game-changer in the war on terror and how do you see it? i think that the unfortunate truth of the lived experience in 9/11 is that when you kill one terrorist leader another one does take its place like a hydra, and notwithstanding that trump said that baghdadi was the
in mexico while their claims are processed here in the united states. joining me now by phone, washington post mexico bureau chief joshua partlo, who wrote that story. this is extraordinary news. perspective-wise, sir, how big a break would this be from current u.s. policy? thanks for having me. yeah, this would be an enormous change in business as usual at the u.s. border. the way it works now, if you come and apply for asylum in the u.s., you get an initial screening at the border and then if you pass that, you re admitted to wait in the united states, to live in the united states pending your immigration court proceeding. that could be months, that could be years in the united states. many, many people have done that in recent years and it s one of the policies that president trump obviously is very unhappy about. okay. joshua, as i was reading your
building behind you? my goodness. let me bring in usgs seismologist gavin haisz. when gavin hayes. when you look at the intensity, 7.3, and for comparison the initial quake killed more than 8,000 a couple of weeks ago, that was 7.8. perspective wise, how who is the rarity for this to happen a couple of weeks from one another? well, the likelihood of a magnitude 7.3 after a magnitude 7.8 aftershock is not incredibly small. it s not an unexpected event. i hear you have maps to show me? i do yes. i have a map of the distribution of the aftershock that occurred after the .8. in the region there have been 100 aftershocks since the april 25th event. this magnitude 7.3 aftershock has had several aftershocks of