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toss-up race in the rematch for governor is leaning red. >> john: congenial affair, don't you think? can the the democrats send senator warnock back to washington, we'll find out. and a george-based political reporter is on the ground tracking the mood in the closing hours. >> sandra: "america reports" rolls into a second hour here on a friday afternoon. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: good to be with you another 60 minutes. counting down to election day, one last weekend to campaign and get out the vote. >> sandra: democrats in new hampshire trying to hold on to a seat they c...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com that's it for us. let's hand it over to laura coates and "cnn tonight." laura? >> anderson, thank you so much. i'm laura coates and this is "cnn tonight." look, i've got to get right to it. i know we're supposed to think about politics and other notions today. but i've got to tell you about alex jones because i've been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories, to pretend that sandy hook, the tragedy never even happened, that the ...

with over to laura coates, anderson, i'm laura coats and this is cnn tonight. and look, i gotta get right to it i know we're supposed to think about politics and other notions today, but i gotta tell you about alex jones because i've been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories to pretend that sandy hook the tragedy never even happened and the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviou...

His inner srkal called the investigations into january 6th. remember this? >> witch hunt. >> this is a partisan political witch hunt. >> this is absolutely a witch hunt. >> this is witch hunt 3.0. >> nothing but a political witch hunt. >> well, let remind you what a real witch hunt once looked like. can we go back to 1693, salem witch trials, 19 people hanged for stating the obvious, that they weren't witches. 55 others confessed, obviously under extreme pressure. one of them was johnson jr., the only woman whose name had not been cleared. why am i talking about it? now her name has been clear...

The only woman who had not been cleared. why am i talking about? it because now her name has been cleared. it took an eighth grade civics teacher and her students to convince state lawmakers to finally clear johnson. so as much as trump and his allies do like to use the term, and perhaps others more colloquially, the term witch hunt, the only part of january 6th that resembled what happens, say, in salem, was this shot of a gallows erected for mike pence. coming up, a much different legal battle. the nfl is now appealing the suspension of cleveland browns quarterback to shaun watson. is his pu...