Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Cnn prime time with laura coates starts right now. Hey caitlin, im telling you, if you thought august was winding down. This is heating up. Until your vacations, anyone watching. Did you have a vacation plan, kaitlyn . What is the thing called vacation . Do you go someplace . You dont work . I wonder how that goes . One to answer that one i would think. We are not, i will do a staycation right here. Im laura coates, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. Listen, tonight, donald trump is bracing for two more indictments. You heard that right. One potential counsel, jack smith, for efforts to overturn the election. Another in hot lana, for trying to overturn the results in georgia. And yet, that phrase teflon don . It continues to be one of the oddest juxtapositions in all of politics. As his legal problems start to pile up, guess what, so does his poll numbers. Take a look while it is still early of course. He is crushing the field. Look at
Something that has been of interest to the special counsel, jack smith. I should know this was first reported by the journal institution. Cnn confronted. As you heard earlier, the District Attorney in the state says that he and her fellow prosecutors would have years into the prosecutors in the state of georgia are, quote, ready to go. Thank you for joining us, cnn primetime at laura coates starts now. Hey kaitlyn, im telling you, if you thought august was winding down, this is heating up. Cancel your vacation to anyone whos watching. Did you have vacation plans, kaitlyn . What assisting called vacation . Does that mean you go someplace and you dont work . I dont know how that goes. Neither of us can answer that question, i think. Nope, we are not, but ill do a sticky shunted. Here i am laura coats everyone, and thank you so much for joining me. Donald trump is bracing for two more indictments. You heard that right . One for special counsel jack smith for efforts to overturn the electi
also tonight we now know why defense secretary lloyd austin has been in the hospital for the last week. president biden himself just learning today that the pentagon chief underwent surgery after being diagnosed with cancer. as we also learned that he was under anesthesia without his deputy being aware. also tonight on the 2024 campaign trail nikki haley now within single digits of donald trump in the first primary state. the question is does this make the case for narrowing the gop field? we ll ask our political experts. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. with just six days to go before the first votes in the 2024 primary race, donald trump was in a courtroom in washington today hoping to evade charges for attempting to overturn the last election. but the three federal appeals judges before him sounded deeply skeptical about his lawyers argument that he has absolute immunity from prosecution for anything that he did while in office. this case is not only potenti
there are new questions tonight about the source of substantial loans the congressman george santos s campaign. the embattled republican, who s been caught in a web of lies as you know, previously claimed he made personal loans to his campaign, totaling more than $700,000. a new filings with the election commission, he is indicating that loans of $500,000 and $125,000 had come from personal funds, those were left on marked. i want to turn out right away to cnn political commentator, jonah goldberg, and ashley allison. national politics reporter, eva mckend. eva, let me begin with you here about the new questions around these loans. what are you learning about the loans he allegedly gave to his own campaign? laura, the blood broad outlines of the story that you mentioned, that is absolutely correct. he previously said that he personally loaned his campaign $700,000. that was in the filing. he also has reiterated, he went on that podcast with congressman matt gates not too lo
about racism in this country and race relations more broadly. after the fatal police beating of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old unarmed black man. there s been conversations about race, about policing, and about power and it s abuse for years. complicate of course by the fact that the five officers charged in his death are also black. that is what many feel so passionate about how we teach about the legacy of race and racism in this country. it is why it is become, frankly, so controversial. especially in places like florida where the republican governor ron desantis has been slamming a new ap african american studies course. tonight, the college board is out with changes to that curriculum, raising questions about why they choose and why they chose to remove certain topics. leyla santiago has the very latest. look at this traffic. for 42 years, he was killed right here. from that moment, it was never the same. the man was arthur mcduffie, a black father beaten to death by