john: chaos on a college campus in virginia where activists ambushed a students for life meeting reportedly throwing punches. it got violent and aggressive quickly. pro life students say somehow despite the threats against them, they are the ones who got shut down. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, it s friday. feels like a monday. sandra: so much news to get to. sandra smith in new york. the latest example of a certain type of speech getting shut down in this country and even attacked. right here on our college campuses, students at another university are mounting a revolt against their commencement speaker. they say he is harmful, that speaker, the republican governor, glenn youngkin, who earned 1.6 million votes. that s all new at 2:00. reaction from his lieutenant governor winsome sears in a bit. but first, breaking news on the former president. john: at this time on tuesday we expect to see former pr
now, santos was completely denying the allegations. he also was making a reference to the fact that this prospective staffer who is a former reporter made some audiotapes, recorded conversations with santos and then leaked them. but this is just the latest serious allegation in a long string of allegations against the embattled congressman. a long string that keeps on getting longer. melanie, thank you. it is the top of the hour. just a short time ago the pentagon defended the president s choice to delay shooting town a suspected spy balloon from china. a fight jet brought it down saturday. after the balloon crossed the continental united states, multiple republicans have criticized it calling it a weak response. but commander at norad says the intelligence gathered will be of value. there was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons. this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilit
we are now just five days to midterms with control of congress on the line. and here are the big named closers on the trail today, president biden flying to new mexico, vice president harris in new york and former president trump in iowa where he s kicking off four rallies in five days. we head to georgia first because power in the senate could come down to this race and the peach state yet again. cnn s eva mckend is in atlanta. you ve been tracking this key battleground tate for months. what do we need to know? reporter: well, ana, we ve gotten to the stage of the game where senator warnock, herschel walker are making their closing arguments, senator warnock talks a lot on the trail about his bipartisan work in congress. arguing that he is willing to work with republicans if ultimately it is in service to georgians talking about health care and his efforts to lower the cost of insulin. meanwhile, herschel walker working overtime despite his many scandals to tie warnock to
Is me. Well see if he shows up in these debates. Governor christie, thank you for joining us tonight. Abby, thank you and good luck. Thank you very much for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now. He laura. Hey, good to see you. Looking good there. You noticed, thank you, you look at yourself. So informative. Well see right back here tomorrow. A high stakes president ial trip, a Hostage Video, and the tragic effects of the war being felt right here at home. That is tonight on laura coates live. Now, if you thought for a moment that what was happening in israel and with gaza would not affect what is happening here at home, you are sadly mistaken. As the sun rises on yet another day of war in the middle east an american president is now preparing to head that way. Weve already had a secretary of state, secretary of defense, theyve already gone to the region. Lets add word to that, theyve now gone to the now dangerous region and were in the middle of airstrikes and bombin
now, this is the latest in the attacks against civilian areas here in dnipro. if you look at the scale of the devastation, this was an outpatient mental health clinic. it was hit at 10:30 in the morning yesterday morning at a time, mercifully, local authorities say, when the numbers of people were actually relatively low because they were between shifts of medical staff. nonetheless, two people confirmed dead. they have also found the remains of a possible third victim. they re being analyzed in the wreckage here. one person was killed at least 100 meters up the road by the flying shrapnel that flew out from this very significant missile strike. local authorities don t know what was fired, but they do in their view know, in their view believe that this was an act of terror in the words of president zelenskyy. clearly the international investigators are trying to establish the details of that,