crist said something about how he could take it, but you know, desantis is a bully, and he bullied kids at a press conference, et cetera, et cetera. no love lost between those two. not just for the audience, i think the actually loathe each other. also, charlie crist is such a political, interesting political history on both sides of the republican democratic divide. yeah, desantis made a reference to what chris thought but something sixth parties ago, referencing how he had been a republican and independent and now he s a democrat. yeah, tough race. tough race. thanks so much, anderson. appreciate it. and welcome to cnn tonight, i m jake tapper. tonight, an uncharacteristic warning from one of the most respected nonpartisan journalist in the world. breaking from 50 years of journalistic tradition to come here and warn you about the threat he says donald trump poses still to the united states. threats to both democracy and to american national security. bob woodward b
in case you have not heard, the midterms are about two weeks away and the threat of chaos around election day, is frankly very real. was discuss all of this. we have our political panel, analyst herndon, republican analyst doug hahn, and political commentator kerry, great to have all of you with us here tonight but there is so much to talk about in terms of chaos that could happen with the midterms, let start with election deniers. as you know, the place is lousy with them right now, particularly in places like arizona. then, today, ted cruz went on the view and could not answer the question as to whether or not joe biden was legitimately elected. he pivoted, and karen, this will be to you because this is the new talking point that i hear all the time now from republicans, when they get uncomfortable about the election denying, the pivot immediately to the past. with listen to this. was biden legitimately elected? half of the party thinks that he wasn t that it would be v
constant contact with russia to try to secure griner s release. and donald trump is firing back as author bob woodward is sharing his recorded phone calls with the former president. woodward joins us to break down the trump tapes and take us behind the scenes of their extraordinary conversations. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. this hour, we re counting down to the pivol u.s. senate debate in pennsylvania as well as the bigger midterm battle playing out across the country over the next 14 days. cnn correspondents are out in force in critical swing states. and here in washington covering the fight for control of congress. first, let s go to jeff zeleny in harrisburg, pennsylvania. the senate debate begins two hours or so from now. what do we expect? reporter: wolf, this is the marquee senate debate. when they go head-to-head for just an hour this evening. the first time they ve ev
it was emotional in many ways, several children. i counted what appeared to be a recently newborn infant, at what point in the journey, we don t know. these migrants came here today at the naval observatory which has the vice president s residence behind that. vice president has been asked since thursday, what she thought about this, there was no response to that she waved off those questions, and her husband did respond to migrant buses arriving here and called the whole thing shameful but washington dc is a sanctuary city and the mayor talked about this yesterday. because washington dc is not a border community the city lacks infrastructure to care for the people here, probably 100 thursday, 50 we ve seen so far today. this is a large city but the infrastructure and sanctuary city cannot accommodate people being dropped off by governor abbott s office. florida governor ron desantis not going to stop these buses because it is there only mechanism to help overrun border commu
and let s start with lucas tomlinson at the white house for us. good afternoon. the bus trips are a message to the president, democrats and even vice-president who claim the border is secure. the border is not secure and you need to help us stop this. i don t care what crying, let them cry in their beer all day long, and the people of martha vineyard s what a bunch of elitist hypocrites they are. and buses were dropping off in washington, and massachusetts avenue for the second time, and today, which happens to be constitution day, more migrants are sent as well. the white house is reeling from florida governor ron desantis sending a plane of migrants to martha s vineyard. they were misled where they were headed told they would be headed to boston, misled what they would be provided when they arrived, promised shelter, refuge, benefits and more. these are the kinds of tactics that we see from smugglers in places like mexico and guatemala. of course, you re in the ro