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
and thank you so much for joining us tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and the tiktok on jake tapper. our coverage continues with the strong laura coats and the mighty alisyn camerota as ahead off on this thirsty thursday to do what i do best, sit at my kitchen table and drink. i feel like we have to step it up with the superlatives. i lifted his car one time and i m strong. one time. i don t need a sue perlative. i m just i don t need hype girls. i don t need hype girls. you are just you. you have no power here. good-bye. we re keeping the conversation going tonight. apparently i m strong and you re mighty. i love that. i m laura coats in washington, d.c. i m alisyn camerota in new york. one team here with me. and the other team, the right one, in washington, d.c. here with me. we will look at two key states that people have heard a lot about and one that we haven t been hearing enough about and frankly it is flying under the radar,
with a controversial stop in taiwan, not ruled out, not confirmed. a live report from kentucky where a deadly flood is deaf stath rural areas. this is by far the worst flooding disaster, at least of my lifetime, in kentucky. it has wiped out what we believe are hundreds of homes. we have half of some of our counties under water. we will lose double digit lives. in pete we trust. i will be joined by our legendary justice correspondent pete williams as we pay tribute to his remarkable career here to nbc news before he heads off for new adventures. we begin with the economy and the white house. joining me now are kristin welker and cnbc senior economics reporter steve leaseman. the white house trying to control the narrative on this economy. inflation continues to be a major drag on their messaging. reporter: you are right. they are trying to put the focus on the fact that the labor market is strong, that the unemployment rate is low. but it is a complicated argument t
don t yet know what the fate of mark meadows motion to remove to federal court will be. it s very easy to look at this through a vacuum but remember, there s already a moment now to say can i get some of these cases into federal court. this is all considering and assuming that s not going to happen because without mark meadows or others it would be, you know, not 19 people. but this is going to be a very interesting hearing to get the room, the temperature of what s happening there. and also what is the preparation like right now for fani willis. is she really ready to go? and are those defense counsels who asked for an earlier trial date, were they calling a bluff or will their bluff now be called? and we will find out fairly soon. sara, it s interesting because we know that as all of this is unfolding right now a federal judge could rule at any moment now whether to allow the former white house chief of staff mark meadows to move his case from a state court in georgia to
This has been going on for years now. even a certain point, you know, democratic activists got over complaining about gore versus bush and moved on. but, like, this is really going such a strong way, and they re going to lose and keep losing because people want to look forward. the greatest example of that is kemp in georgia. you know, stacey abrams, again, she helped organize that state. kemp, though, fared better than herschel walker for quite a few reasons, but one was he told donald trump he lost. and there are a lot of people in those suburbs that were, like, okay, heraffensperger were not deniers. so you get the vote. you can tell donald trump no and say he s wrong when he s wrong and still win. kemp proved that in georgia. two republican speakers are weighing in about where the