Tonight warships, boat strikes and reported plans to strike cocaine facilities.

President Trump is up in the ante in Latin America without any sign off from the branch.

Well, that's supposed to keep your check.

Plus, call it the upside down.

Letitia James appears in court not as New York's Attorney General, but as a defendant

inside her strategy to get the case tossed. And is the NBA betting scandal just the tip of the

iceberg? A former ref who was busted for gambling tells me how deep it goes. Tonight on

Laura Coates Live.

All right, remember when we were kids and we said things like, says who? And then some

authority figure would then say, says me. We're set up as a society to have some kind of power dynamic, right, where someone

is giving permission. There's always someone who signs off. It's a boss. It's a board. It's a parent.

It's a check. It's a balance. Someone's got to approve what you're doing. Well, forget testing

the idea that it's better to ask

for forgiveness than permission. President Trump is testing whether he really has to ask for permission

at all. Exhibit A. He's making it look like we could soon be at war in Latin America without the go-ahead from Congress.

You see this giant aircraft carrier?

It's the USS Gerald R. Ford.

And Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth is ordering it to the Caribbean,

along with the warships and military planes that go with it.

And sources are also telling CNN that Trump is considering plans to target cocaine facilities

inside Venezuela.

Never mind that Venezuela isn't even a major source of cocaine, we understand.

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