general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.
a margin of air ahead of a much anticipated debate there tuesday night. so is a gop weight on november 8 possible after all? was asked republican pollster strategist ed is a partner at the tarrance group. nice to see you again. so, first of all i want to ask you about the public mood. the right track numbers, the polling 25%. can you recall a time especially for an election when the public was in such a sour mood? there was a period in the spring we saw the numbers move slightly worse. in fact wrong track when over 70% for the first time in the 40 years i ve been doing polling and watching it. it was basically because the progressives of the democratic party had become disenchanted with the president on not moving their agenda. but when the supreme court case came out they kind of moved back in that direction. and that now seems to be hovering in this over two one margin wrong track belief by the there. which is one of the worst if not the worst i ve seen in off year electi
politicsnation. tonight s lead hanging in the balance. it has opened in 17 states. including barriers battleground states, where both parties have calls that call them they re heavyweights. to campaign two and a half weeks left to the midterm elections. top tier democrats have been on the campaign trail, courtesy of president biden that has been there. who was in pennsylvania, going into this weekend campaigning for john fetterman. as democrats try to hold on to their razor-thin majority in the senate. donald trump is stumping in for maga candidates in texas tonight. he faces a november 14th deadline. to be deposed before the january six committee. they congressional subpoena issue, coming yesterday. just hours after trump s former cub paid manager steve bannon was sentenced to four months in prison. for defying his congressional subpoena. this amid new revelations about what the fbi may have found, and it s august rate of trump s mar-a-lago estate. nbc news confirming that
report. the dow closing down more than 1200 points as rising consumer prices drive up fears of new interest rate hikes and recession. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, as queen elizabeth s funeral gets closer, her coffin is now inside an iconic symbol of her 70-year reign, buckingham palace. cnn s bianca nobilo reports on the arrival ceremony in london and all the new moves by the royal family on another day of mourning. reporter: the final journey back home. the queen s hearse taken to buckingham palace, to the embrace of her children and grandchildren. a night for the family to grieve in private. mourners bid her farewell in edinburgh, streaming past her casket, adorned with the scottish crown, and have been queuing up in london ahead of wednesday, for one last chance to say goodbye to the late queen at westminster hall. take fire! cheering her motorcade like they cheered the ne
and can you see the countdown at the top of your screen. look at the vice president and her husband will be there to speak. this is the first time a woman and a person of color has gone to the moon. steve: that is ultimately the goal. this particular flight though will be unmanned. they will have three test mannequins strapped in to figure out what radiation effects and everything else. you will see it live if it goes off on our show. it s all about the heat shield, they say because it s a test flight. the idea is to make sure that the heat shield can protect the people inside and they really won t know that until it comes back. brian: yeah, i mean, you got to you are going to watch two rockets disengaged and then ultimately just be the orion craft that will go into the moon s orbit, whip around a few times and then come back octobe. so that s a 42-day mission. and we ll probably cover all 42 days. steve: you know what, brian, you are probably right. we will mention i