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Laura Coates Live

More Biden searches, GOP’s Santos problem, NAACP president interview

Laura Coates Live

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

More locations connected to Biden could be searched after a total of 20 classified documents have now been found - and the President isn’t happy about how his administration is handling the scandal. Republican Rep. George Santos claims he underwent a double knee replacement after playing volleyball on a scholarship for a school he never attended. The panel discuss why most Republicans are shying away from calling for his resignation.Ben Jealous a former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He joins to talk about Biden’s renewed push for voting rights on MLK day, and how to end racism. Also tonight: inside the NFL’s “Emergency action plan” that saved Damar Hamlin’s life, why the political importance of black voters is the clearest in Georgia, and a Mafia boss and Italy’s most wanted man is arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run.Hosted by Laura Coates. 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

Well, good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Codes, and this is CNN Tonight, and you're looking

0:11.9

live really at, well, the White House in this in turmoil. Multiple sources tell CNN there

0:17.8

could be even more searches and even more locations after more classified docs were found

0:24.0

at the president's one-time private office, more found at his home in Wilmington, and the

0:29.4

White House Council's office, that's an important point. The White House Council's office

0:33.2

is closing just this weekend. The additional five pages of classified material has also been

0:39.2

found in Wilmington, and we're in President Biden is getting frustrated by the way his

0:44.1

administration is handling all of this, and it's maybe overshadowed what had been a pretty

0:49.1

good news streak for his White House in recent times, at least since the Red Wave had not

0:54.1

materialized, and the mood among its AIDS tonight described as, it is what it is. Not sure

0:59.8

what that means, but it is what it is, apparently this evening. We'll talk about what that really

1:04.0

means as they wait to see if yet another shoe drops. Now, meanwhile, there is the Congressman

1:10.6

George Santos, and Kevin McCarthy says he's always had questions about the Congressman's

1:16.0

resume, which of course, if he has always had questions, it raises another question of

1:20.7

why he and do anything about it earlier. As another apparent wapper, surfaces from Santos

1:27.0

who lied about his resume, his education, and apparently even now volleyball.

1:33.2

You know, it's funny. I actually went to school on a volleyball scholarship. I knew what I did.

1:41.2

Yeah. When I was in Baruch, we were the number one volleyball. Did you graduate from Baruch?

1:46.2

Did you graduate from them? Yeah. So did I. I did. So did I.

1:49.2

Very cool. So great school, great institution, very simple, but very good. I look, I sacrificed

1:53.9

both my knees and got very nice knee replacement, knee replacement from my class. That's playing

1:59.5

volleyball. That's how serious I took the game.

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