united states and all around the world, i m max foster in london. just ahead they like to use that power to strip us of our freedoms, our freedom to vote to be safe from gun violence, our freedom to control our own bodies in the state of georgia. government can build an economy is just complete fallacy. it never worked anywhere. voter suppression is just as much a lie as voter fraud. i turn around and i told the crowd, you can t come this way. people are dying. announcer: live, from london, this is cnn newsroom, with max foster. it is monday, october 31st, 8:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where the final stretch of the midterm elections has begun. so far more than 20 million early ballots have been cast and to get more votes candidates are hitting the campaign trail with some urgency. polls show republicans have a slight edge right now and trying to keep that advantage by pledging to fix the economy. this is our year. democrats ca
after it was shelled this week. they say moscow s actions are increasing the risk of a terrible accident. # we re locking in the air. # we re walking in the air. and the author and illustrator raymond briggs, best known for the children s book the snowman, has died at the age of 88. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we start in the us, where donald trump has declined to answer questions under oath as part of an investigation into his family s business practices. mr trump described the inquiry by the new york attorney general, letitia james, as a witch hunt. ms james is looking into whether the trump organization tried to acquire loans and avoid taxes by misleading the authorities. the former president s deposition comes just days after the fbi carried out an unprecedented search at his florida home as part of a separate investigation. shortly after his visit to the ne
of staff mark meadows. she has been in some of the most dramatic motels of videotaped testimony. she identified the names of several republican lawmakers she said were asking about pardons. she talked about conversations around the legality of the fake elector scheme. she reportedly confirmed accounts that trump reacted approvingly to the chants of hang mike pence. we re also learning that the cell phone video of john eastman last week. you re looking at it as it s unfolding, eastman was there in order to overturn the election. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s bring in jessica schneider on the latest. brianna, cassidy hutchinson has long been considered a crucial witness since up close and personal to those at the white house. and she does have crucial details on what happened on january 6. we know she s been interviewed behind closed doors privately by the committee three times. and now, she will appear at this last-minute hearing in public. privately, we kno
cassidy hutchinson. her two hour blockbuster appearance before the january 6 committee included testimony that the former president and top aides were warned that some supporters at the elipse were armed with weapons like knives, guns, bear spray, tasers. hutchinson had a unique vantage point critical to conversations never revealed before yesterday. she said that trump grew irate that the security screenings on january 6 were apparently deterring his supporters, his armed supporters, from joining the crowd. so furious that he ordered his aides to have the metal de detectors removed. another leading reason, likely the primary reason, is because he wanted it full and he was angry that we weren t letting people through with weapons. i overheard the president say something to the effect of, you know, i don t fing care that they have weapons. they are not here to hurt me, take it away. they are not here who hurt me. and she testified about trump s determination to join his su
squarely on donald trump and his baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen. listen to this. president trump ignored the rulings of our nation s courts. he ignored his own campaign leadership, his white house staff, many republican state officials. he ignored the department of justice and the department of homeland security. president trump invested millions of dollars of campaign funds, purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false and convincing millions of americans that the election was corrupt and that he was the true president. as you will see, this misinformation campaign provoked the violence on january 6th. cheney played testimony from the top u.s. general, confirming it was then vice president mike pence, not donald trump who called in the national guard to quell the riot. she also showed video of trump s closest advisers, including his own daughter rejecting his voter fraud claims. listen here. i had three discussio