Laura Coates Live

President Trump defended Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ad featuring rival Amy Acton’s estranged mother, telling him to keep it up and “say thank you, God.” A source told CNN Trump thinks Republicans were “weak” for criticizing the ad and views backlash within the party as damaging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight we learned that the president of the United States is planning a rally to Mississippi next week, a sign that even Republicans are starting to worry about that Senate race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is in North Carolina trying to give a GOP candidate a boost. With just 14 days to go until midterms, Trump and Republicans and dealing with some discomfort as some races aren’t going according to plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump claimed riots and looting in France are foreshadowing what could happen to the US if Democrats win in November. He also rejected concerns about the prospects for GOP Sen. Roger Marshall in the surprisingly competitive Senate race in the solid-red state Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House turmoil with just 18 days to go until the midterm elections as the president fires his brand new White House press secretary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three children, aged 5, 8 and 11, and one teacher were killed when a 16-year-old Bend, Oregon, resident entered an elementary school and started shooting, police said at a news conference Thursday evening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tuesday’s Senate debates in Maine, Georgia and Iowa offered a revealing look at how Republicans are navigating a difficult political environment in the closing weeks before the midterm elections, with control of the narrowly divided Senate at stake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump on Monday kicked off a week of red-state campaigning with a raucous rally in Ohio, where Republicans are fighting to hold onto a Senate seat that could be key to the majority. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Continuing coverage of Hurricane Isaias. The DHS Chief defends the ICE shooting in New York City and calls the victim 'worst of the worst'. President Trump strikes a deal with Russian President Putin for diesel fuel ahead of the midterms. Trump now says he wasn't involved in the plan to livestream the execution of the Ft. Hood shooter. Plus, Katie Zacharia is named as the new White House Press Secretary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The shooting occurred just after 4 p.m. when an ICE agent discharged a weapon into the man’s vehicle, which also had a 5-year-old sitting in the back seat, New York City officials said late Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump made his third trip to Texas in less than a month to stump for a Senate candidate who’s privately questioned his political capital and whom the president has publicly insulted in personal terms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GOP Sen. Susan Collins and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, sparred over President Trump and abortion rights in their first debate Tuesday night in Maine’s Senate race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump hits Nebraska on his red state tour as he changes his tune on not one but two of his previous positions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest jobs report shows that recent months’ hiring was weaker than previously thought and that wage growth slowed, putting Americans’ paychecks further behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York State Attorney General Letitia James will be taking over as special prosecutor in the case alleging sexual assault at Cornell University, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday, saying she “lost faith” in the district attorney’s ability to oversee it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said that top tech executives had signed a new commitment aimed at better “self-policing” their companies’ AI models, arguing that the light-touch approach represents the best way to balance safety concerns with his desire to accelerate a technology that he’s dubbed “Super Intelligence.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump has personally driven the controversial, taxpayer-funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet’s duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the midterm elections approaching, the White House is airing a new TV ad promoting President Donald Trump and his policies that says it is “Paid for by the U.S. Government.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge is weighing whether to restore the ability of CNN, MS NOW and Politico to access the White House, after a 45-minute hearing Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the ban against them announced by President Donald Trump late last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump is dealing with who is breaking ranks outside the White House as more and more Republicans on the ballot are signaling his policies are hard to defend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The three national news outlets President Donald Trump banned from the White House — CNN, MS NOW, and Politico — filed a First Amendment lawsuit to restore their access. The emergency request is set to go before a federal judge in the DC District Court and could result in hearings and legal arguments from the administration as soon as this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump claimed Friday afternoon that he is “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico “from the White House.” He said it was “effective immediately,” but there was no indication his administration had taken steps to follow through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Republican advertisers have aired just 12 TV ads that mention Trump from September 1 to September 15, according to a CNN analysis of AdImpact data, to the tune of about $1 million. Those spots represent a fraction of more than 500 Republican ads produced during that period, totaling more than $160 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years in a renewed fight against inflation, which has picked up since early in the year due to the war with Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A record seven House Republicans join Democrats in a vote to stop Trump’s war in Iran as the President lashes out in the face of widespread political pressure. Plus, Democrats accuse Trump of holding the Kennedy Center hostage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country, rebuffing a proposal that election officials warned would have had catastrophic consequences if allowed to take effect for this year’s midterms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City released reams of previously undisclosed records about air quality following the attacks, showing city officials at the time knew conditions were unsafe. This year, a new seventh moment of silence was held during the NYC commemoration ceremony for the thousands of people who died from diseases linked to toxic exposure at the World Trade Center site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last night, the president promised Americans $5,000 payments if Republicans retain their House and Senate majorities this fall, and reiterated the promise while closing the convention. But he offered no details on how the payments would be funded and gave conflicting remarks on whether he believes they needed congressional approval. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump, in his address to the GOP midterm convention, vowed to pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate, an extraordinary attempt to seemingly buy votes to keep his party in power. He did not explain how he would make it happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Washington Post says the Trump Administration has stripped language criticizing a removed statue at Arlington National Cemetery for glorifying the Confederacy, even as it promises to bring the memorial back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a dramatic conclusion to a trial that gripped the nation and sparked passionate debate, a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial today in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the former nurse accused of murdering her three children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President JD Vance could provide neither a timeline for the Iran war to end nor a date when gas prices might sink below pre-war levels during a White House appearance Thursday, suggesting instead it was up to Iran to conclude the conflict that began with joint US-Israeli airstrikes six months ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New pressure on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as one GOP senator who voted to confirm him is asking the president to find someone else to run the Pentagon. Plus, President Trump leans into his midterm strategy of keeping the focus on himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Trump, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. One source said the decision was unsurprising given tension between Driscoll and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump’s detour in Iran now turns into a six-month slog. Plus, a look at what evidence the jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial wanted to hold for themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amid a growing trade war with one of the United States’ closest allies, President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” needling Canada further after trade talks collapsed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meta said Wednesday it has agreed to pay about $18 billion as part of a settlement to resolve a multistate lawsuit claiming that it intentionally designed addictive platforms that harmed young people’s mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dolly Parton, who rose from humble beginnings to the greatest heights of American music and became one of the country’s most philanthropic, unifying and beloved stars, died Tuesday in Nashville, according to a family statement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Supreme Court on Monday said that President Trump could begin carrying out parts of an executive order intended to restrict mail voting, but additional legal challenges could hinder implementation of his plan before the November midterm election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump goes to bat for his embattled Senate pick Darline Graham in South Carolina. Plus, the Pentagon fires top members of the “Stars and Stripes” military newspaper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A CNN exclusive on the Navy apparently reconsidering naming a carrier set to honor a Black war hero. Plus, President Trump buries the hatchet with Michael Cohen. So, what’s in it for both of them? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Voters are sending both wings of the Democratic Party into November, so can a big tent hold everyone? DNC Chair Ken Martin joins to discuss. Plus, a former LAPD detective takes the stand in the Tupac murder trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Democratic socialists once again demonstrated their growing influence with state Rep. Angie Nixon’s victory in Democrats’ Senate primary in Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The trial of Duane Keith Davis, who is charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon in the death of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur, began with opening statements Monday morning in Las Vegas from both sides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a Russian-born American citizen named Ilya Beloozerov is gunned down by the FBI in 2024, the authorities refuse to say why they’d killed him. CNN’s Isabelle Chapman embarks on a sprawling investigation that takes her from the Mississippi parking lot where he died to Washington, D.C. to unravel the mystery: Why did Ilya abruptly leave his family and his job and head for the border with laptops and cash? Why is there still no official explanation of his death? And maybe most importantly: Was Ilya a spy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” he told the court. “I knew what I was doing was illegal.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shock gloves, surveillance, a gun in a woman’s face. ICE faces new scrutiny as Trump wants to ramp up his immigration crackdown. Plus, the negotiations in Luigi Mangione’s federal case that could result in a guilty plea as soon as tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Democrats confront what they stand for as a party and what they want to leave behind. So, why aren’t Republicans doing the same? Plus, Wall Street firms fork over tens of thousands of dollars to get early access to Trump’s posts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices