80s theme. i like that a lot. thank you, dashing jake. thank you very much. thanks, guys. see you. hello, everyone. this is cnn not to, i m alisyn camerota. i m laura coates. we re 20 days away from the all-important midterm elections. with key races around the nation tightening up, especially those that will decide who controls the senate. now, there s this question. look, while he s not on the ballot, how much of a factor is the former president donald trump in how americans will actually vote? listen, there are significant developments in donald trump s legal troubles today. a lot is percolating right now. here are just some of the headlines in the course of just a few hours. this is from cnn politics exclusive. trump considers allowing federal investigators to search mar-a-lago again, and then also a federal judge says that trump signed legal documents that he knew he included false voter fraud numbers. also, you got trump appearing for a deposition in the
night that the president and first lady will head to puerto rico last night which was rocked by hurricane fiona 25 deaths in puerto rico have been connected to the storms. reuters reports that as of friday, 230,000 homes and businesses remain without power. fiona bore down five days after the anniversary of hurricane maria, which wreaked major havoc on the island before moving up the east coast. after puerto rico, the first couple will head to florida to examine the damage caused by hurricane ian. with wind speeds that top 155 miles per hour, tens of thousands of buildings were leveled, millions of people lost power. so far, nbc news confirmed at least 77 people have died from the effects of iain which barreled into florida s west coast as a category four storm on wednesday before veering to the east overland, reentering the atlantic ocean and making a second landfall as a category one hurricane and the carolinas. nbc s steve patterson is in fort myers beach where i left hi
all in? we win and are we ready tomorrow to take back this country? are you ready to take this state back? [cheers and applause]. who s ready to send mark kelly back to space tomorrow? laura: now, we re going to hear from reporters and candidates across the nation tonight including our own mark meredith in ohio where donald trump is still delivering what was billed as a highly anticipated speech. but first, the great realignment. that s the focus of tonight s angle. with republicans about to take control of both the house and the senate, most democrats aren t interested in serious soul searching about how it all unravelled. for a bunch so worried about election denial, they seem to be preemptively questioning the legitimacy of the impending republican takeover. how concerned are you that the upheaval at twitter will result in a flood of misinformation, disinformation right before the election? and it actually goes beyond twitter. today there are reports that
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continues to spawn violence across the country. meanwhile on capitol hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country hits its borrowing limit. we ll have the latest on efforts by the white house to find some sort of compromise. plus, the george santos saga takes another really strange turn. now there are questions about where his mother was on 9/11. also ahead, we are hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. remember that? we ll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. and we ll dig into new reporting on an aggressive new proposal from the biden administration as it pertains to the war in ukraine. joe has the morning off but willie and i are here in new york, and we have with us, the former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. former white house communications director under president obama, jennifer