pennsylvania, casey, bob casey, wrote after the debate fetterman has a clear record of public service, knows the commonwealth, cares about pennsylvania, will be a great senator. like no comment at all about the debate itself. i thought it was just kind of interesting that the two senators had those reactions. clearly a rorschach test. clearly how they want people to view this, through a particular lens. either they know, or only two weeks away from the midterm elections, so these are the candidates. these are the options. so, i guess the reflecting that in terms of how they want people to have an understanding of what happened. and our panel will have very strong feelings. they wanted to. and they ve got very strong feelings about how john fetterman performed. i mean, obviously all eyes were on him. and it was challenging. it seemed like it at certain times. yeah. so, okay jake, thank you very much for setting the table for us. all right, guys. did you even see
heard of that. a couple times. and so, i watched a lot of the oz fetterman debate. and interesting little tidbit, after the debate, the republican senator who s leaving, pat toomey, he wrote it s sad to see john fetterman struggling so much. he should take more time to allow himself to fully recover. a very pointed statement from a republican senator. the democratic senator from pennsylvania, casey, bob casey, wrote after the debate, fetterman has a clear record of public service, knows the commonwealth, cares about pennsylvania, will be a great senator. like no comment at all about the debate itself. i thought it was just kind of interesting that the two senators had those reactions. clearly a rorschach test. clearly how they want people to view this, through a particular lens. either they know, we re only two weeks away from the midterm elections, so these are the candidates. these are the options. so, i guess they re reflecting that in terms of how they want people t
if he s on tv, i m lying. i had a stroke, he never let me forget that. john fett terman takes everything to an extreme and those extreme positions hurt us all. just how much information the justice department wants particularly about information with the trump party. we likely have a recession in the u.s. everything is going up except our income. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. hello, it s wednesday, october 26th. 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. u.s. election day now less than two weeks away. democrats are on the defensive, desperate to keep their ever so slim majority. arizona georgia, nevada could alter the balance of power. voters know this. the mid-terms of 2018 had the highest early voter turnout. these are the issues, americans want the federal government to address inflation and unemployment. crime is also a top concern. economic issues are getting a heavy play in pennsylvania where the country s
midterms. and in georgia 1 million preelection ballots have been cast. let s bring in cnn s eva mckend live in a polling place in georgia. eva, what are you seeing? reporter: well, a common answer from voters when you ask them why they are turning out early is because they want to take advantage of the opportunity. they don t want work to maybe get in the way on election day. so they are exercising their right early. been record turnout daily since early voting began lasweek. secretary of state brad raffensperger says that this illustrates that georgia has among the best election systems in the country but this democratic opponent still says that voter suppression is alive and well in georgia staking issue with the state s voting law, take a listen. i would put our election system, i would put our georgia election system and our voters up against any other state in the union. we re seeing record turnout. and i anticipate we ll continue to see midterm records broken. j
tonight. just short of weeks of an attack by an intruder who was trying to get to nancy pelosi. paul pelosi is out in the hospital. chief medical correspondent gupta joins us what the recovery from a skull fracture might look like. also tonight, the president, and two former presidents all helping candidates and close races. making their closing arguments with control of congress not just up for grabs, but in reach for either party. we begin though tonight with breaking news. exclusive cnn reporting on how the justice department could proceed with cases against former president trump, if he decides to run. as his surrogates, are allowing a hinting for president again. sarah murray has the news, where joining us right. now what are you learning? sources are telling our team that the justice department is considering whether a special counsel is considered necessary to oversee the investigation surrounding donald trump. if he decides to run for president in 2020. for which as