welcome to the beat. i m katie fang, in for ari melber. we begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric that s surging on the far right about a quote civil war. the new york times reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the mar-a-lago search, is flaring online. that search happened on august 8th. just hours after trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on twitter spiked a whopping 3,000%. the times says similar spikes happened on facebook, reddit, parlor, gab, and truth social. of course, some trump allies are fanning the flames. at a campaign event in arizona, michael flynn talked about governors declaring war. states rights, did you know that a governor can declare war? a governor can declare war, okay? and we re going to probably see that. that comes after margorie taylor greene said this at a trump rally in michigan. i m not going to mince words with you all. democrats won t republicans dead, and they ve already started the killing. when joe biden g
2020 meeting in the sedition case against five oath keepers on trial for plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power. this as a sitting republican senator warns political violence is escalating. that senator says this. i wouldn t be surprised if a senator or a house member were killed. up first for us, though, we count the midterm votes five weeks from tonight and there is a blockbuster development today in one of the senate races critical, absolutely critical to the balance of power here in washington. the daily beast reporting monday afternoon that georgia s republican senate nominee, herschel walker, paid for a woman s abortion back in 2009. walker calls this accusation untrue. it is a flat out lie. and now you know how important this seat is. this seat is very important that they ll do anything to win this seat and lie because they want to make it about everything else except what the true problems that we have in this country is. this inflation. the border wide
think it s more or less you have to work for it. reporter: her hard work paid off with a lifetime of awards, including the presidential medal of freedom in 2013. as for inspiring future performers, she said they needed to be one of three things. great, different or first. and i just happened to be different because i started writing my own songs and didn t really realize the things that i was writing about nobody wanted to talk about them. they were just doing them, you know? top of the hour on cnn newsroom . i m victor blackwell. and i m alyson camerota. it s been six days since hurricane ian made landfall. the death toll up to 106. 102 are in florida. and that makes hurricane ian the state s deadliest storm since 1935. one sheriff described the challenges still facing search and rescue crews. we have a difficult time identifying property at times because the property is no longer there. get us the information. and the second we re able to, these strike teams will
plus, the damage is so bad florida authorities can barely make out where property is, let alone search the property. and rescue missions are now recovery missions. six days after ian, crews cannot confirm who is missing and who might still be alive. areas getting food drops. and audio recordings of oath keepers with a plot to reverse the will of the american people and keep trump in office using force. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with that breaking news. president trump asking the u.s. supreme court to intervene over the seizure by the fbi of documents from his home at mar-a-lago. the latest shocking development in this legal battle after fbi agents searched his home in august and seized more than 100 classified documents. trump s request is to ask the supreme court to reverse the 11th circuit court ruling. that ruling of course gave the justice department access to review those classified documents recovered from trump s florida estate. his latest requ
and winds. ginger zee is here to time this out. in florida, meanwhile, the emergency shelters now filling by the thousands as the death toll rises from hurricane ian. and the desperate search and rescue effort, going door-to-door now, around the clock, days after ian hit. victor oquendo again tonight. the war in ukraine. and tonight, ukrainian forces breaking through russian ranks. reclaiming territory claimed by vladimir putin. and what president zelenskyy is now saying about negotiating with putin. ian pannell inside ukraine. and tonight, north korea, the longest missile test yet, firing a nuclear-capable ballistic missile directly over japan. the sirens sending many in japan running for cover. the u.s. responding tonight. martha raddatz is here. breaking head line involving that urgent hunt for a serial killer. tonight, two more murders potentially linked to this case and what we ve now learned. eamon elon musk s turn in the twitter war. tonight, the report mak