full swing across several states. and overnight fierce debates, candidates in ohio, georgia, iowa and utah going toe-to-toe in heating rounds. feature policy arguments and personal jabs. and a new pledge, president biden promising to keep abortion rights front and center if democrats could keep control of the congress for another two years. let s begin this hour with cnn s jeremy diamond at the white house. so let s pick up there. you have new reporting about how president biden is hoping to take action on abortion while also keeping the economy front and center. what is the white house saying? reporter: yeah, exactly. bianna. with three weeks left until election day, president biden is trying to push those issues. the democrats view is it is favorable to them in voter s minds and today we re expecting according to a democratic official for the president to make a new promise as it relates to abortion rights in a speech this afternoon at howard theater here in washington, d
politics. at this hour president biden looks to change the midterm trajectory. three weeks exactly from election day and the president promises new federal efforts to protect abortion rights but he needs democrats in charge of congress to succeed. plus, the trump tapes. cnn exclusively obtains recordings from a new audio book over the course of 20 interviews, the former president brags about his nuclear button, says he respects vladimir putin and more. and democracy is always on the ballot but this year is very different. three republicans who might win house seats were at trump s january 6th rally and a red state republican senator who tried to help trump hold power takes heat at a campaign debate. any moment now we will hear directly from the president of the united states. his goal today, to shake up the final three weeks of the midterm campaign by focusing on abortion rights. the president s remark, we are told, will include a new promise to open next year with legislati
tonight, more classified documents from biden s time as vice president found at a second location. first telling cnn, the president s legal team discovered this batch during a search conducted after the other classified documents were found back in november. it s just adding to the chaos and maybe the delight of some in washington d.c. tonight. if you look down pennsylvania avenue from the white house to congress, investigations are brewing. you can argue that some are absolutely warranted. you can argue some are absolutely not. but this is president biden s new reality, as he navigates the next two years with republicans controlling the house. i want to bring in former republican congressman, joe walsh, cnn political commentator, ashley allison, and téa mitchell, washington correspondent for the atlanta journal constitution. look, biden does not have the smoothest of paths ahead of him. we can say that with a straight face and perhaps a little bit of a smile or a friend. as
a debate coming up. john: begin with the supreme court hearing arguments today on what could be one of the most consequential rulings for higher education in decades. hello, john roberts in washington and hello to you this afternoon. gillian: good to be with you, john, on this spooky halloween. john: good to be with you as well. gillian: i m gillian turner. whether to end affirmative action policies in a pair of cases. john: opponents argue the criteria has harmed millions of students, particularly asian-americans. david spunt starts us off live outside the supreme court. did justice brown jackson recuse herself. that s right, because of her position on the harvard board of overseers, and her connections to harvard university. she thought it was best she sits out. there are two separate cases, overall affirmative action affects millions of students across the country and the justices began hearing two arguments three hours ago. started with the case out of the uni
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