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Laura Coates Live

DeSantis on tour, Santos explains list of lies, Roald Dahl revisions

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Governor Ron DeSantis is taking his war on woke show on the road today, visiting blue states and offering police officers money to move to Florida. We’ll tell you what Trump has to say about it. Plus, Republican Congressman George Santos gives a revealing interview in which he attempts to explain his list of lies. And, censorship or sensitivity? The classic children's books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach are getting re-writes.Also tonight: President Biden makes a surprise visit to the Ukraine war zone and announces an additional $500 million in aid plus new sanctions on Moscow, East Palestine residents report a growing number of ailments following the toxic train crash there, a family’s lawsuit alleges an inmate froze to death in an Alabama jail, and “Winnie the Pooh” gets a horror movie treatment.Hosted by Alisyn Camerota. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, everyone. I'm Allison Camerata. Welcome to a special holiday edition of CNN

0:13.0

Tonight on this President's Day. One man who seems to want that job, Governor Ron

0:17.8

DeSantis, taking his war on woke show on the road today. He's going to blue states and

0:23.8

offering police officers money to move to Florida. One person who really does not like

0:29.6

what DeSantis is selling, Donald Trump. And Congressman George Santos gives a revealing

0:35.2

interview tonight in which he attempts to explain his litany of laws. He says it's not

0:40.2

about trying to trick anyone. I've been a terrible liar on those subjects and what

0:48.3

I tried to convey to the American people is I made mistakes. This wasn't about tricking

0:55.7

anybody. We'll tell you the lie he says he regrets every day. Plus the classic children's

1:02.9

books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and James in the Giant Peach are getting

1:07.9

rewrites. The publisher is cutting out words like fat, ugly and white. Is it time to update

1:14.5

outdated books or best to leave them alone? We're going to talk about all that tonight.

1:19.7

But first let's get to today's politics. We have Mark McKinnon, former advisor to George

1:24.4

W. Bush and John McCain. We also have CNN's John Berman, also political analyst Natasha

1:30.1

Alfred and former US attorney Harry Litman. Hi guys, great to have all of you here tonight.

1:34.8

Hello. Happy President's Day. You have served. I know. I know. Okay, Mark, let's talk

1:41.1

about on this president's day. Ron DeSantis seems to want to be president that we hasn't

1:46.3

officially said that yet. So he's going to blue states, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania.

1:52.3

We've got to fill it all for you. So blue city. And he's doing something I think quite

1:56.5

crafty. He's offering $5,000 to police officers to move to Florida where he says they're

2:05.1

battling, you know, woke. He said woke so many times. I mean, I, it's his favorite word.

2:09.3

And so I lost count at some point. But that's, I don't know. It seems as though if whatever

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