joining us tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram and twitter and tiktok. i m jake tapper. our coverage continues with the strong laura coates and the mighty alisyn camerota, as i head off on this thirsty thursday to do what i do best, sit at the kitchen table and drink. i know you saw. well laura, i think we re gonna have to really step it up with the superlatives. one time i carried you and now you re strong. i don t need a superlative. i don t need hype girls, i m good. he s just young. have fun with your bourbon, we will see you later. good to see you ladies. and we re keeping the conversation going tonight, good evening everybody i m laura coates in washington, d. c.. and i m alisyn camerota in new york. this is cnn tonight. we re here with our panelists across the political spectrum. one team here with me and the other team, the right one, in washington, d. c. here with me. and after we get started to look at two key states that people have been
laura, what happens when a country s leader makes a bad, unpopular decision? apparently, that depends on the country. because, british minister resigning today after only six weeks in office. her economic plan plunged britain into turmoil, and her own conservative party, turned against her. you know, in this country, the voters decide, but the candidates are nominated by the two major parties as you all know, which limits the leadership choices. tonight, dueling panels are back. allison taking on this very topic of how do you solve a problem like unpopular leaders? we have to set the clock. 4:00, we will see which panel can come up with the spicier answers about this. this is not going to be like that show where there s a horrible ending at the end? there s no death coming? there s a huge bucket of slime that will fall on one of our heads if we don t deliver on the panel. that is true. which person do you think would be more upset if her hair gets messed up? all r
hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on
disgrace. dashed hopes. chaos absolute abject chaos. a radical conservative agenda causes full scale collapse of the british government. sounding just like the commitment to america. tonight, how a republican house can make the uk meltdown look calmed by comparison. then, congresswoman zoe lofgren on the forthcoming trump subpoena. andrew weissmann that looks like new evidence on an attempt to defraud the united states. republicans unveiled their sweeping don t say gay bill. and 19 days from november 8th. i take an image to pencil and write this down. all votes don t count. more notes on what could be an early start of your intimation. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york and chris says. we re just 19 days from midterm elections. all signs are pointing to a tight battle from both majority houses around the country. races we expect to be close are close. as some we did not expect to be close. most forecasters expect the republicans are favor
wisconsin. she spent the last 15 years running elections in that city. here she is 11 years ago 2011. she was trying to figure out how much extra time voters would need to cast their ballots in 2012 under the state s new voter i.d. law. madison city clerk, and today we are having a mock election in the city county various scenarios of voter i.d. and figure out how to do the best practices for 2012 before we actually have an election. whistle bail says she chose to do this work because she wanted to combat voting inequities in madison. she encourages every new wisconsin election clerk to go through the training to similarly find there why. quote they have to focus on why they are doing this work. what comes down to is making learning accessible to those who are eligible to vote. that s why they keep showing up, day after day. her why is more important now than ever. because in 2020, mary beth contemplated not showing up. she almost quote. that is because after election