Laura Coates Live

As the investigation into the fatal shooting of a health care executive in Manhattan enters its fourth day, police are piecing together clues, including a backpack, photos, video, ammunition, DNA and more, to help zero in on a suspect they believe is no longer in the city. The shooting suspect, believed to have left New York City on an interstate bus, has not been identified or located NYPD officials told CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The suspected gunman who fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson traveled by Greyhound bus to New York before the shooting, a law enforcement source said. Authorities also said the suspect used a fake New Jersey driver’s license to check into an Upper West Side hostel. Smiling photos showing a man police consider a suspect may have provided a significant clue as he lowered his mask during a flirtatious moment with a New York hostel clerk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning in a “brazen, targeted attack” as he walked toward the hotel hosting the company’s annual investor conference, New York police said. The gunman is on the loose. But the assailant may have dropped some vital clues while fleeing, according to police officials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump’s choice of Pete Hegseth to run the Defense Department is in jeopardy amid questions from some key GOP senators over whether he’s fit for the job, forcing the president-elect’s team to maneuver behind the scenes to avoid a second Cabinet pick from collapsing amid a Republican revolt. No Republicans have said they will not support Hegseth, but even some of the GOP senators closest to Trump, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, are now wondering whether Hegseth can survive the tightrope walk to confirmation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son has left some Democrats fuming over his choice to repeatedly and unequivocally claim that he would never take that step, even though a pardon long appeared possible to Hunter Biden’s legal team. Multiple officials who recently worked for Joe Biden said they never believed the president or White House aides speaking on his behalf when they insisted in recent months that a pardon for Hunter Biden was off the table. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line. Now they have a new fear: becoming the personal targets of the world’s richest man – and his legions of followers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Trump ramps up plans for mass deportations, he is also vowing new tariffs on his first day in office. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada, and China starting on the first day of his administration, a policy that could sharply increase costs for American businesses and consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Special counsel Jack Smith is dropping the federal election subversion and the mishandling of classified documents cases against President-elect Donald Trump, seeking the cases’ dismissal in court filings Monday. Trump has said he would fire Smith once he retook the office, shattering previous norms around special counsel investigations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President-elect Donald Trump named billionaire Scott Bessent as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of the Treasury. Plus, Trump announced his picks for critical remaining public health roles in his incoming administration -- Dr. Janette Nesheiwat as US surgeon general; Dr. Marty Makary as US Food and Drug Administration commissioner; and Dr. Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida, as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hours after his first pick to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency dropped out, President-elect Donald Trump named former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his new choice to run the Justice Department. Trump made the announcement in a post on social media Thursday evening – the same day that former Rep. Matt Gaetz, whom the president-elect had selected for the role last week, withdrew from consideration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The New York Times obtained a document assembled by federal investigators detailing the trail of payments to various women made by former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who President-elect Trump picked as his nominee for attorney general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Sean Duffy, a former US representative and Fox Business host, as his choice for Transportation secretary. Duffy is part of a growing list of loyalists to play key roles in Trump’s administration, some of whom have sparked controversy. Key positions Trump has yet to fill are secretaries of Treasury and Education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team was in the middle of announcing new Cabinet picks this week when they were informed of a sexual assault allegation about one of his previous selections, Pete Hegseth, stunning several members of Trump’s team who have since raised questions about the viability of his nomination, according to two people close to the situation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump’s list of provocative picks whose confirmation processes will test the loyalty of Senate Republicans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general. “Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second administration. The announcement of Ramaswamy and particularly Musk, who leads companies with existing, lucrative government contracts, raises immediate questions about potential conflicts of interest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President-elect Donald Trump is likely to pick Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN, as he rounds out his national security team in a second term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested in an interview Friday that President Joe Biden’s late departure from the presidential race could have hampered Democrats’ ability to beat Donald Trump. “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said during an interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Almost immediately after it became clear that Donald Trump was on his way to reelection Tuesday night, phones began pinging in the president-elect’s orbit and the conversation at several of the dining tables in the Mar-a-Lago ballroom turned to who would staff a second Trump term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is no disputing the sweep of Donald Trump’s White House victory. But, there are many unanswered questions about the road ahead and serious concerns about how he will lead the nation. Trump’s win of the popular vote for the first time is prompting Republicans to claim a mandate to carry out Mr. Trump’s most aggressive items on his America first agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All across the United States, from Arizona to Pennsylvania, Michigan to Georgia, and battlegrounds in between, the final hours are underway in one of the closest and most consequential presidential races ever. CNN can project Donald Trump will win the battleground state of North Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney is a “war hawk” who should be fired upon, as he raged against one of his most prominent intra-party critics while campaigning Thursday night in Arizona. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump — who altered reality for tens of millions of Americans by claiming he was cheated out of power four years ago — is creating a sinister threat to the 2024 election and spinning a legacy of fractured trust that could taint presidential votes long after he’s left the stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Harris said she “strongly” disagrees with criticizing anyone based on how they vote, after remarks from President Joe Biden sparked backlash from many who interpreted them as referring to Trump supporters as “garbage.” Trump and his allies quickly seized on them to accuse Harris, by extension, of looking down on Americans who back the Republican presidential nominee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kamala Harris on Tuesday night warned Americans that Donald Trump would open up a floodgate of vengeance against his political rivals, including ordinary Americans, while promising that she’d work for the American people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The violent and vulgar rhetoric at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday has prompted finger-pointing within the former president’s inner circle and deep concern that his message was once again eclipsed by controversy. Several of Trump’s allies expressed dismay at the language used by speakers at the New York City event, particularly an off-color joke about Puerto Rico by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who opened the event and set the tone for an evening of disparaging and divisive remarks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered an address tonight on reproductive rights at a Houston rally featuring Beyoncé. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump spoke about immigration in Austin and held a rally tonight in Traverse City, Michigan. Harris and Trump remain locked in a tight contest with 47% of likely voters supporting each candidate, a new CNN poll finds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President Obama joined Kamala Harris at a rally in Georgia. Obama seized on recent interviews in which John Kelly, the Republican nominee’s former White House chief of staff, described Trump as an aspiring dictator. Plus, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model is alleging that former President Donald Trump groped her in the 1990s, in what she believes was an attempt to show off for Jeffrey Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With only 13 days left until Election Day, Kamala Harris faced undecided voters at a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania. Our panel of analysts cover key moments from the event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, entered the 2024 fray in stunning fashion, saying the former president fits “into the general definition of fascist” and wanted the “kind of generals Hitler had” in a series of interviews published Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were in the battleground state Friday. Harris pledged to invest in manufacturing communities and work with union members in Grand Rapids. Trump spoke at a rally in Detroit and said the city “has such great potential,” a week after insulting it. In Arizona, former President Barack Obama questioned former President Donald Trump’s competence, arguing that America doesn’t need to see what an “older, loonier Donald Trump looks like with no guardrails.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, believed by Israel to be chief mastermind of the October 7, 2023, terror attack that set off the current war in Gaza, was killed by Israeli forces. Many global leaders in the West expressed hope that his death signals the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza and could provide an opportunity for the release of the more than 100 hostages still being held by Hamas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump told a skeptical Republican voter Jan 6th was a ‘day of love’ at an event Wednesday. Plus, Vice President Kamala Harris turned questions about her nearly four years in office into attacks on Republican rival Donald Trump’s record in a heated interview Wednesday on Fox News, her first appearance on the conservative network, as she courts disaffected Republican and independent voters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ranked one of the most conservative senators, Cruz’s bid for a third term should be a smooth ride in a place that has consistently elected Republicans in statewide contests for the past 30 years. But for the second election in a row, Cruz finds himself fighting to keep his seat against a well-funded Democrat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Republican rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania over the former president’s comment that the US military should handle “the enemy from within” on Election Day. It was the latest example of Harris’ campaign drawing sharper distinctions with Trump in the presidential race’s closing weeks, using the former president’s own words and those of his former aides to cast him as dangerous and unstable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At last month’s presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed violent migrant gangs were “taking over” Aurora, Colorado, amplifying and exaggerating a disputed rumor his supporters had spread across the internet in the days leading up to his nationally televised face-off with Kamala Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President Barack Obama delivered his most personal, furious indictment yet of Donald Trump and a Republican Party he said was in thrall to a man who he believes had, over the last week, violated the trust of Americans devastated by a pair of catastrophic hurricanes. “The idea of intentionally trying to deceive people in their most desperate and vulnerable moments – my question is, when did that become OK?” Obama said, pointing to Trump’s lies about the federal government withholding assistance to hard-hit “Republican areas” or “siphoning off aid to give to undocumented immigrants.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milton remains a powerful Category 5 hurricane as it races toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, where it could be one of the most destructive storms on record. Though it is forecast to weaken before it makes landfall, it will grow in size — meaning its disastrous impacts will be felt over a larger area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions about how she’d pay for her economic plans, whether Democrats were too slow to enact border security measures, how she’d confront Russia over its war in Ukraine and more in a wide-ranging “60 Minutes” interview that aired Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hurricane conspiracy theories collide with the election and could end up hurting people who need it the most. Plus, Kamala Harris rallies in Michigan as one of the state’s most famous personalities from there warns that one particular move could cost her the election. Also, could the Melendez brothers be close to getting out of prison? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Special counsel Jack Smith and former Rep. Liz Cheney have thrust the issue of the GOP nominee’s false 2020 fraud claims into the endgame of Trump’s neck-and-neck showdown with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, while reviving memories of a day that will stain American history. Appearing with Harris in Wisconsin, Cheney presented herself as part of a bipartisan movement to block Trump from the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Federal prosecutors laid out their most extensive case to date against former President Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election in a sweeping legal brief that was unsealed. The 165-page document offers new detail about special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president’s efforts to lean on state officials and paint a narrative of widespread fraud that prosecutors say Trump knew was untrue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Israeli military says it has begun “a limited ground operation” in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. There will be “no long-term occupation” of Lebanon, Israeli officials said, but declined to provide a timeline. The ground offensive comes after hours of Israeli raids and artillery fire across the border, and after Israel restricted civilian movements in some border communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive against former President Trump on immigration during her visit to the southern border in Arizona as she tries to turn a political vulnerability on its head. Immigration has featured prominently in the 2024 presidential election, with polls showing voters placing more trust in Trump to handle the issue than Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hurricane Helene has made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. It is the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend. Storm surge — how high the water rises above normal levels — could climb to 20 feet along Florida’s Big Bend. The National Weather Service is warning of “unsurvivable” storm surge in Apalachee Bay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on at least one federal criminal charge, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The indictment follows a monthslong federal investigation by the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, which was reportedly scrutinizing his connection to Turkish officials and businessmen, and campaign donations he received. The charges he is facing are not publicly known at this time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin. The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent delay tactic in the Senate, told CNN on Tuesday that he wouldn’t back her candidacy now — despite signaling earlier this month he was getting ready to do so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Campaign officials are weighing a potential visit by Harris to the US-Mexico border while in Arizona as the campaign tries to close the gap with Trump on the issue of immigration. Plus, Hezbollah has fired multiple rocket barrages into northern Israel, a day after Israeli airstrikes targeting the militant group in Lebanon killed nearly 500 people and wounded 1,600 others — the deadliest day in the country in nearly two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial new rule requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day, despite bipartisan objections from election officials and poll workers. The vote was 3-2, with the three Trump allies supporting the move, and a Democratic and independent GOP-appointed member of the board strongly opposing it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices