Laura Coates Live

Updated: 29 Mar 2025 • 1333 episodes
www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/cnn-tonight

Laura Coates sparks unique conversations and covers the most interesting stories of the day through a news, legal and pop culture lens.

Categories:

Show episodes

Current and former US officials have told CNN they believe two texts sent by national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in the now-infamous group chat involving senior US officials discussing battle plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen, may have done long-term damage to the US’s ability to

47 min
00:00
47:00
No file found

A federal judge on Thursday ordered key Trump administration agencies to preserve messages sent on Signal between March 11 to March 15. Judge James Boasberg made the ruling in a preservation lawsuit brought in the wake of the revelation that Cabinet officials were discussing war plans on Signal. Learn more about your a

47 min
00:00
47:32
No file found

The Atlantic published the full sequence of texts among President Trump's top national security officials discussing pending military strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen in mid-March — a chain to which The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added. The newly-published messages included te

46 min
00:00
46:33
No file found

Several of President Donald Trump’s top national security officials, at times with assistance from a top Senate Republican, shifted responsibility to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for sending potentially classified information that appeared in a group chat about US military strikes in Yemen that a journalist was in

52 min
00:00
52:24
No file found

US officials reacted with shock— and in many cases, horror — to revelations in The Atlantic that top members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet sent detailed operational plans and other likely highly classified information about US military strikes on Yemen to a group thread on a messaging app to which a reporter had

48 min
00:00
48:15
No file found

President Donald Trump, in a late-night Friday memo, directed federal agencies to revoke security clearances for more than a dozen of his perceived political enemies, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a

48 min
00:00
48:43
No file found