thank you for joining me tonight. coverage continues with laura coates. i ll take it on a friday night. one per customer. apologize. i m not trick-or-treating at your house. one piece of candy for each kid. oh, no, no. you hand it all out? yes, i don t want it in the house afterwards because i ll eat it all. i m always like one piece kid and not the one i want. take 20 so i don t eat them, yes. okay. well, go to jake tapper s house, not laura coates. you get one piece of candy and probably black accolicorice. you probably give apples. i ve given toothbrushes from time to time. nice. good evening, thanks. i m laura coates. we re going to have a panelists from across the spectrum and they re on the screen right now. here is a really provocative question that we ve been tackling tonight. here it is. so what if the 2020 midterms are a repeat of 2020? it sounds like a very interesting proposition, maybe a scary one for a lot of people but what if electi
and not the one i want. take 20 so i don t eat them, yes. okay. well, go to jake tapper s house, not laura coates. you get one piece of candy and probably black licorice. you probably give apples. i ve given toothbrushes from time to time. i have. not just kidding i give full cans of sodas, too. the parents hate me. nice. this is cnn tonight. i m laura coates. as i mentioned allison is on assignment. we re going to have a panelists from across the spectrum and they re on the screen right now. here is a really provocative question that we re going to tackle tonight. here it is. so what if the 2020 midterms are a repeat of 2020? i know it sounds like a very interesting proposition, maybe a scary one for a lot of people. but what if election deniers are refusing to accept results? i m not saying january 6th happens again but what might be the consequences of that? i ll talk to the master pollster who is scared to death what will happen and plus, the january 6th com
cast with 17 days to go until election day. at stake, control of both champ pwers of congress. the democrats have control now, but whether they can hold onto power is still in question. president biden says he s not going anywhere. at least he doesn t intend to. the reason i m not making a judgment about formally running or not running, as soon as i make that announcement, a whole series of regulations kick in and i have to treat myself as a candidate from that point on. i have not made that my formal decision, but it is my intention to run again. and we have time to make that decision. before that, his party needs to weather the midterms while acknowledging many are on shaky political ground. here s what i think. it s been back and forth with them ahead, us ahead, them ahead. pwaorlgt. and the polls have been all over the place. i think that we re going to see one more shift back to our side the closing days. part of his carefully crafted midterm strategy, tactically
in puerto rico, which was slammed by hurricane fiona nearly a week ago, there are still broken trees, roads damaged and widespread power outages. fiona continues to cause havoc. in canada, it made landfall in nova scotia at hurricane strength. homes on the coast just washed away. what can we expect? reporter: ian is expected to rapidly intensify over the upcoming days as it moves into the gulf of mexico where the environment is a little more conducive for development. we re losing that wind shear. it changes with height as it moves off to the west at 16 miles per hour. a lot more convection. a lot more organized as we are looking at satellite. as we notice a bit more of a center, we ll gain some clarity as to where this storm is expected to arrive on somewhere the coastline of florida. so currently sitting down in the caribbean, expected to take its track into the gulf of mexico by monday becoming a category 2 storm, with winds expected around 100 miles per hour. tuesday mo
aurlette saens is in wilmington, delaware. what has the white house learned? reporter: the white house has refrained from saying much publicly about the fbi search at mar-a-lago but officials have privately started to express concerns over those classified documents that were taken by former president donald trump. now, one of the concerns that is percolating among officials is whether this type of classified information taken to that florida home, whether that might jeopardize the work of the intelligence community by putting the sources and methods that the intel community uses to try to obtain information possibly at risk. many of these documents were highly classified top secret, so there are some concerns about what kind of impacts that could have on the intelligence community going forward. intelligence officials have expressed concern about what exactly is in those documents. there are also diplomatic concerns as well as whether there would be any diplomatic fallout