capital insurrection. they stand trial for suggestions conspiracy. they are all complaining that they were simply awaiting orders from donald trump. she was once republican royalty but now, this woman, liz cheney, she says she is prepared to break a 40 year republican voting street to keep election denying, big lying members of her own party out of power. what is behind her choice to keep such a lonely world? who is backing her on that journey. you are not going to believe this week s selection for that banned book club. it has never even been banned. girls who code is a series written for middle schoolers. it is a babysitters club but with computer science. there is not a single thing that is remotely controversial about these books but the book banners came for them. we will talk about why the book banners are threatened by girls getting into science and more. velshi begins now. good morning to you, i am ali velshi. into saturday october the 8th. it is day 227 of russia s w
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
senate because washington keeps getting it wrong with extreme positions. john fetterman takes everything to an extreme. and those extreme positions hurt us all. all eyes on pennsylvania on a debate in that race that could determine the balance of power in the senate. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. it s great to have you. thank you for having me. john berman is off today. and democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz who you saw there, arguing the issues, also attacking each other in their first and only debate. fetterman addressed his recovery from a recent strokes. he used a closed captioning device for help. the candidates went toe to toe on key issues, like inflation and the economy. i can make the difficult decisions as you do in the operating room as a surgeon. i ll do them cutting our budget as well. he has never met an oil company that he doesn t swipe right about. he has never been able to stand up for working families across pen
the lead starts right now. the day after the heated debate in pennsylvania, how john fetterman struggles after a stroke going over with voters plus the new ad attacking mehmet oz and his awkward answer on abortion rights. they got him therapy, tried to take his gun. still, it was not enough. a family s actions before a gunman s rampage in a school with a rifle and 600 rounds of ammunition. plus, new protests in iran mark 40 days since a woman died in police custody accused of violating the country s dress code. could this be the start of a revolution? welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. a new report in our politics lead. a second woman claimed that herschel walker of georgia pressured her to get an abortion. she s not revealing her identity out of fear of reprisal, she says. her attorney, gloria allred, helped lay out her claims a short time ago. eva, what are we learning here? reporter: we are getting incredible detail from this woman who says sh
it s a global addiction getting those, likes retweets and shares. but did you know that social media has quite literally real this in and change our brains. this is american voices. we begin this hour with the best in the worst of this country. as republican leaders use asylum seekers as pawns and an attempt to punish my arriving at our southern border. they remind us who we are when we are at our best. texas governor greg abbott has said thousands of migrants to washington d.c., new york, chicago. without warning, just last week around desantis joined the political stunt sending migrants in texas to martha s vineyard. the washington post raids, these moves surely delight those in the trumpian base who have taken to social media with glee. as a prize drop underscores the alleged hypocrisy of liberals to force him to do with an influx. instead, they wound up only highlighting an outpouring for humanity. again, these republican governors are seeking vulnerable migrants for