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
Perpetualing fraud upon the american public. They are not journalists, they are liberal hacks who dont like or trust the tens of millions of americans who voted for donald trump. Of course they were not going to of coer what a former president of the United States was saying in his own defense, but we will. This is a very sad day for america and it was sad driving through washington, d. C. And seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and graffiti. This is persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. If you cant beat them, you persecute them or prosecute them. Laura shame on the media for not covering this case as it should be covered, or those remarks. None of us should be surprised. New york times, washington posts, teaming with coconspib r spirrators. They seek to help the party in power and interfere with the next president ial election. Their Coverage Today was reminiscent of How Simpson Case was handled and what see
risk. good evening from studio b in new orleans. site of tonight s national day of racial healing town hall, which i will be hosting tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern along with chris hayes and trymaine lee. i ll tell you much more about that a little later. we begin tonight with the real life confluence of a toxic stew of election denial, extremism, and political violence. the type of nightmare scenario that is all too real in america. police in new mexico arrested failed republican legislative candidate solomon pena, who they say orchestrated a string of shootings targeting democratic officials in the state. last november, pena lost to his democratic opponent in a landslide, by nearly 50 points. but claimed he really lost because of so-called fraud. apparently he s both an election denier and a sore loser. after the election, a very stable pena wrote on twitter, i dissent. i am the maga king. he later posted a photo of himself in maga gear, noting much like donald trump, he n
live. we start in the uk, where borisjohnson has apologised for the pain, loss and suffering during the covid pandemic, saying he takes personal responsibility for mistakes that were made. mrjohnson, who was prime minister throughout that period, has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry. during questioning, he said government ministers did the best they could in very difficult circumstances, but admitted they could have done better. so many people suffered, so many people lost their lives. inevitably, in the course of trying to handle a very, very difficult pandemic in which we had to balance appalling harms on either side of the decision, we may have made mistakes. i don t want to try to anticipate the discussion which i m sure we will get into about the timings of lockdowns. .. will get into about the timings of lockdowns. inevitably, we got some things wrong. i think we were doing our best at the time, given what we knew, given the information i had available to me