In a landmark case, SCOTUS overturns the constitutional right to abortion that had stood for half a century. Nancy Northup is the President & CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, and has tracked what would happen if Roe fell since 2004. She joins CNN Tonight to discuss how far she thinks some states will go in criminalizing abortion, how fertility services could be effectively outlawed in some states, and says her organization will now try to sue those states over their abortion bans t...
Jun 25, 2022•42 min
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Jun 24, 2022•2 min
After receiving what Rep. Jamie Raskin calls a “deluge of new evidence” from “divergent sources”, the Select Committee delays its subsequent public hearings until next month. The fresh evidence includes new information from a tip line, the National Archives, and a newly revealed Ivanka Trump interview about the 2020 election that shows contrast with her Committee testimony. The Uvalde school police chief is placed on administrative leave as CNN Tonight reports the latest on the investigative thr...
Jun 23, 2022•39 min
Top Georgia and Arizona officials will testify to the January 6 Select Committee tomorrow about Trump and his allies’ effort to overturn the 2020 election, with new details expected on the former president’s alleged involvement in the plot to install fake election officials to falsely declared him the winner of the seven states he lost. Federal prosecutors are now reviewing the fake Electoral College certifications the Trump campaign sent to the National Archives. Does the DOJ have enough eviden...
Jun 21, 2022•43 min
Maggie Toulouse Oliver is the New Mexico Secretary of State. She joins CNN Tonight to discuss how a Capitol rioter & GOP County Commission member is leading an election standoff in her state, by refusing to certify local election results hours after being sentenced for involvement in the January 6 attack. Trump lashes out at Pence, Barr and the entire House Select Committee after damning testimony and new evidence surfaces, floating presidential pardons for defendants if reelected. Capt. Eva...
Jun 18, 2022•42 min
The third January 6 public hearing focuses on Trump's campaign, with the help of lawyer John Eastman, to relentlessly pressure Mike Pence into overturning the 2020 election. Witnesses testify that Trump knew the plan was illegal but tried to have it carried out anyway and an email reveals Eastman sought a presidential pardon a few days after the insurrection. Will there be any criminal referrals and if so, who is the most likely candidate? Two former attorney generals join CNN Tonight to discuss...
Jun 17, 2022•41 min
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Jun 16, 2022•2 min
January 6 Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren defends her comments on Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle being paid $60,000 to speak for two and a half minutes at the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally on January 6. The ‘big lie’ casts a shadow over key primaries in South Carolina and Nevada as the Washington Post reports more than 100 GOP primary winners back Trump’s false election fraud claims. Plus, the Proud Boys storm a kids' event, prompting a LGBTQ hate crime probe, Biden blames the GOP for ...
Jun 15, 2022•43 min
In its second public hearing, the January 6 House Select Committee outlines how Trump perpetuated the “big lie,” and fundraised off false election fraud claims while knowing they were not legitimate, but has it proven anything criminal? Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff is a member of the Committee and tells CNN Tonight how it will highlight the different pressure campaigns the former President undertook to ensure that there was not a peaceful transfer of power. Plus, 31 people tied to a white suprema...
Jun 14, 2022•41 min
In his first interview since the Robb Elementary School massacre, which left 19 children and two teachers dead, Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo says he never considered himself the incident commander, blaming delayed action on the classroom's steel reinforced doors and having to wait for the right keys. January 6 Committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney takes on Trump and her own party in an explosive first public hearing, laying out what she calls the former president’s “Seven-part plan” ...
Jun 11, 2022•1 hr 22 min
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Jun 10, 2022•2 min
11-year-old Miah Cerrillo testifies before the House oversight committee, giving her harrowing account of how she managed to survive the Uvalde massacre by covering herself in her friend’s blood and playing dead. Nicole Hockley is the mother of Sandy Hook victim Dylan Hockley. She joins CNN Tonight to reflect on the trauma following the Uvalde massacre and her push for gun reform over the decade since she lost her son to gun violence. Plus, political violence fears escalate as an armed man is ch...
Jun 09, 2022•42 min
Actor and Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey makes an emotional plea at the White House for bipartisan action on guns, but some conservative Senate Republicans are publicly rejecting a provision that would incentivize states to enact red flag laws. Bill Avera is a Texas police chief who oversees a police force just like the Uvalde school district. As Texas officials remain silent, he tells Laura why he thinks there’s a delay in getting answers about the police response and accountability for the ...
Jun 08, 2022•42 min
With 13 mass shootings in 9 states over the weekend and at least 246 mass shootings recorded by The Gun Violence Archive in 2022, the country is on pace to match or surpass last year’s total. Michael Nutter is the former Mayor of Philadelphia. He joins CNN Tonight to discuss the gun culture in the city, and escalating gun violence against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner tells Laura about his prosecution and conviction record on gun-related crimes ...
Jun 07, 2022•42 min
In the wake of the Uvalde shooting, scrutiny over the inadequate police response at the scene continues to grow. New details come to light; the Uvalde school police chief who led the response to the massacre is revealed to have not had a police radio on the scene, a fourth grade survivor is preparing to testify before Congress next week, and The New York Times publishes a transcript of a Uvalde student’s call to 911: “I don’t want to die”. Plus, the attack in Buffalo leaves a neighborhood withou...
Jun 04, 2022•42 min
President Biden calls on Congress to ban assault weapons as the nation reels from back to back mass shootings. The gunman who opened fire in Tulsa on Wednesday has been identified as Michael Louis, a disgruntled patient of one of the victims. This, as the focus of the Uvalde school shooting investigation turns to the inaction of the school district police chief and other law enforcement officers who responded. Plus, the Depp-Heard trial and the court of public opinion, Glock is sued by a shootin...
Jun 03, 2022•42 min
In yet another mass shooting event, at least four people were shot to death Wednesday at a medical building on the campus of Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said. Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said in a press conference that the shooter is also dead. Police say they have not yet determined the identity of the shooter. This, as funerals continue in Uvalde, and school district police chief Arredondo declines to answer CNN’s questions. Plus, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are both foun...
Jun 02, 2022•42 min
It’s been one week since a gunman stormed Robb Elementary killing 19 students and two teachers but questions still remain about why police failed to act quickly, as apparent audio from a dispatch call emerges saying a child was on the line, advising they were in a room full of shooting victims. Plainville Chief of Police, Christopher Vanghele, is the Officer who led the initial entry team at the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. He joins CNN Tonight to give his reaction to the Uvalde police respon...
Jun 01, 2022•42 min
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May 28, 2022•2 min
Officials say the 18-year-old Uvalde gunman was “not confronted by anybody” as he entered Robb Elementary School before fatally shooting 19 children and two teachers. Questions are now being asked about whether protocol was followed during the incident, and scrutiny mounts over the police response as new details emerge. How was the shooter able to stay in the school for as long as an hour before law enforcement shot him dead? The GOP's Sen. McConnell says he’s directed Sen. Cornyn of Texas to en...
May 27, 2022•42 min
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May 25, 2022•2 min
The Trump-Pence rift widens as Georgia voters head to the polls and Pence campaigns for a Georgia Governor who wouldn’t help overturn the 2020 election. That, as in-person voting surges in the State, despite a controversial new voting law that critics feared would lead to a fall-off. Pence has signaled he’s open to a 2024 run during an interview with the NYT, but a Trump spokesman says the former vice president is “desperate to chase his lost relevance”. Who is right? Plus, the Pennsylvania GOP ...
May 24, 2022•42 min
Internal SCOTUS tensions flare as it edges closer to overturning Roe v. Wade, with justices beginning to publicly call each other out on the issue. That, as Oklahoma abortion providers brace for a near-total ban, with Republican Governor Kevin Stitt set to sign a bill that bans the procedure “from fertilization”, and allows civil suits to be brought against anyone helping to access abortion services. Could we see a health care crisis if Roe is overturned? 21-year-old Russian soldier Vadim Shishi...
May 21, 2022•43 min
The Oklahoma legislature passes the nation’s most restrictive abortion bill, banning abortions from the moment of fertilization and allowing private citizens to sue abortion providers who “knowingly” perform or induce an abortion “on a pregnant woman”. Dr. Yashica Robinson, Medical Director of the Alabama Women’s Center, and Nancy Northup, President of the Center for Reproductive Rights, join to discuss. Nina Jankowicz is the former head of the newly created Disinformation Governance Board. She ...
May 20, 2022•42 min
Dave McCormick and Trump-endorsed Memhet Oz are deadlocked in a too-close-to-call Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary, as mail-in ballots are being counted in race that could impact the balance of power in Washington. Jonathan Wackrow is a corporate security consultant. He joins CNN Tonight to discuss the “around-the-clock security” U.S. Marshals are to provide at the homes of Supreme Court justices ahead of their upcoming abortion ruling. Plus, Professor Michael Eric Dyson joins to discuss how to c...
May 19, 2022•42 min
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May 14, 2022•2 min
Members of Congress are no longer asking, they're ordering. The January 6 Select Committee issues subpoenas to GOP lawmakers Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks and Jim Jordan. Will any now participate in the investigation, and what would their colleagues do if they don't comply? Republicans call for the DOJ to stop Roe v. Wade protests at justices' homes, with Mitch McConnell calling such actions “flat-out illegal”. Are they? CNN Legal Analysts Joan Biskupic and Jeffrey Toobin jo...
May 13, 2022•42 min
President Biden Slams the GOP after the Women's Health Protection Act fails to be passed by the Senate. Are the Democrats now out of moves when it comes to trying to salvage Roe v. Wade? Texas District Attorney José Garza has vowed not to take legal action against women seeking abortion services if Roe is overturned. He joins to talk about why, and the ‘luck of a draw’ that some women could potentially face in states where prosecutors’ opinions are divided on the issue. Inflation slowed last mon...
May 12, 2022•42 min
Polls close in the Nebraska and West Virginia primaries, in contests seen as tests of Trump’s dominance in the GOP. Does the former president still have as tight a grip on his party now he's out of office and post-insurrection, and what weight do his endorsements now carry? The former defense secretary under Trump openly calls him a threat to democracy, but two top Republican leaders are caught on tape denouncing Trump’s actions on January 6 while continuing to support him publicly. Lauderdale C...
May 11, 2022•42 min
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May 05, 2022•2 min
