top of a new hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. it s good to be with you. president biden is in pennsylvania again giving remarks against the backdrop of a crumbling bridge. now undergoing repairs. the president said it s just one of the examples of how his administration has improved aging infrastructure across the country. as a result, pennsylvania has been able to repair fern hollow bridge in less than a year and by christmas god willing, we ll be walking. i m coming back to walk over this sucker. although my staff said to me, do you realize how many times you have been to pittsburgh? i said, no. they said, 19. i said, bobby, don t tell them scranton. the president is now heading to philadelphia for a private campaign event with john fetterman who is locked in one of the nation s most contentious midterm races. cnn s senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is at the white house. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is in philadelphia. all rig
good evening, everyone. this is cnn tonight. i m alisonyn camerota. we have details on violent attack on nancy pelosi s 82-year-old husband paul. an intruder attacked him with a hammer shouting where is nancy. when police arrived, he told them quote he was waiting for nancy. an angry president joe biden called the attack despicable. enough is enough is enough. every person of good conscious needs to clearly and unambiguously stand up against the violence in our policies regardless of what your politics are. this part will not shock you. the alleged attacker posted conspiracy theories on facebook includ including links to mike lindell. not only are our elected officials in danger days before the midterms, so are their families. federal officials are warning that domestic violent extremists pose a heightened threat to the midterms and beyond. let s bring in our cnn law enforcement analyst jonathan and cnn national security analyst juliette. great to have you guys in studi
Through the Olive Branches . Theyre hard to avoid in puglia, a region thats home to 60 million olive trees. Thats one olive tree for every italian in italy. This region is italy at its most elemental simple fresh cuisine thats grown and produced here. Fragrant olive oil, beautiful vegetables, cheeses renowned the world over. Hello. Hello. One focaccia. And durum wheat for pasta and bread. Grazie. Look at that. Im stanley tucci. Im fascinated by my italian heritage, so im traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this countrys 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. You really want it to be like that . Need to be like this. Despite being such a fertile region, puglia is also one of italys poorest. It was nicknamed the shame of italy. Located in the south, a place the italians call il mezzogiorno, or high noon, because of the intensity of the midday sun, poverty and hardship are very much a recent memory in this part of the world. Get out of here. But today
investigator reporter and bob woodward of the former president. some of it was played on cnn earlier today but what you ll hear tonight has never aired. from 2016 through 2020 woodward taped his conversations with the former president. he will be releasing all 20 of these conversations on the 25th of this month as an audio book titled the trump tapes which runs for more than eight hours. cnn has obtained a copy and what you ll hear tonight is striking. it speaks to who he was as president, who he is as a person and how completely intertwined the personal and presidential were for him and probably still are. something that s not just apparent in what he says but even more so in how he says it. something the printed word just can t fully convey. the conversations also speak directly to some of what the former president is now being investigated for. namely how he views classified material and a president s responsibility for safe guarding some of the countries deepest secrets a
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a busy news day with us. president biden taps the strategic petroleum reserve, 15 million barrels is barely one day of what america consumes but the price of gas is hurting the midterm prospects and thehe is trying to show he trying to ease your pain at the pump. no blank check for ukraine. a promise to boot democrats from committees. no promise to rule out cutting social security and medicare. kevin mccarthy gives a window into his agenda. should republicans take back the house. martial law. russia signs off on new decrees from vladimir putin trying to exert more power over ukraine. president biden in a new move designed to help your budget a bit and hopes also maybe his outlook. in just a short while the president announces a batch of new oil drawn from the strategic petroleum reserve, some 15 million barrels and his energy team today won t rule out releasing more oil over the w