welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. and tonight we re less than a month, 27 days, away from one of the weirdest and least predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what s happening now and ending on election day, november 8th, is not typical. it s not. as of now it s not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. no. it s more like a sharknado. now, typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins, feeling good because things are bad. with high inflation and fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power right now, that s democrats responsible and accountable. because phrases are up almost everywhere you look. life is more expensive. by which of course i mean life cereal, wheat and processed wheat products up more than 20% year-to-year. and as humpty hump might say, straight butter baby, by which butter is up 30% august to august. an
reality tv based. i love the inventing ana. i love the interview because you know most people can t speak to her. even the shows and series people have, there are drawings of her, there s drawings from her in jail. now this is actually right in the thick of things. it was a great interview. thank you so much. i don t think if you picked it up i m not really sure i m buying what you re selling. but we ll see. i think the phrase is you weren t picking up what was being put down. we ll see. she has a chance now to do her thing. let s see what she does. let s see what she does and i think we ll probably get a show out of it. i wouldn t be surprised maybe there was another angle to pursue. maybe that s the next one. thanks so much. great show as always. good evening, everyone. look, this is cnn tonight. i m laura coates. allison is off tonight. we ll see her again soon. we are going to keep our conversation going with panels across the political spectrum. this is a day
all those visits despite the president s claim. the new york post. the business partner called joe biden the big guy in a panicked message to hunter after the bombshell lap taupe story broke. ted cruz says enough is enough. this guy, how many films has he made of himself committing multiple felonies? i have to sai, jesse, if you put out a film with you with a pile of crack and prostitutes, somebody would come knocking on your door and they would prosecute you. but if daddy lives at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, apparently the criminal laws do not apply and it is deeply corrosive to our system of justice. griff jenkins is live in washington good morning, dagen. top news for hunter biden on multiple fronts. the new york post headline you referenced appearing to finally put to rest speculation around the identity of the big guy. the subject of much speculation as part of the ongoing grand jury probe into hunter biden s business dealings. but even more telling, dagen, fox n
phone calls and meetings demonstrating how the former president personally and continually tried to convince them to support his fraudulent claims about a stolen election. part of today s hearing focused on someone whose home was actually rated by federal investigators yesterday. former justice department official named jeffrey clark. we are going to have more on that right in just a moment. the committee s interest about clark has to do with the former presidents effort to install clark as acting attorney general so that clark could use the levers of the justice department to subvert joe biden s victory in the 2020 election. take a listen to this incredible moment recalled today of a white house meeting just days before january 6 involving jeffrey clark, today s witnesses, the white house counsel, and then president trump. clark had just explained his plan, and here s how white house counsel eric hirschman responded. a warning, now, some of the language is a little bit sal
of evil, but it s hard to pin they are basically murdering anything and anybody they can. outside of game of thrones, it s not what you really expected. how many murders can you have in one family? she just had to come here. had to see it. had to feel. what happened in this dark, empty parking lot? so far from home. i feel somewhat numb. just so senseless. i m angry. i m very angry. her name is sherry jackson. she has been looking, searching. she s come half a world away. for this one moment. [noise] well, this is our last hope. to finally solve the mystery that has haunted her. what happened to her big brother? what did they do to larry? larry risken? he loved life. just being around him and in his presence, you too would feel carefree. larry risken was a navy man. joined the service after high school and rose through the ranks to become a commander. a leader of men. went to the gulf war. and back home in olympia, washington, his sis