good morning, everyone, and welcome to your new day. middle are it is saturday, october 15th. 16 days away from halloween. i m amara walker. good morning, amara. i m boris sanchez. we are so grateful you startsing your weekend with us. up next, the countdown to not just halloween, but the elections. the 2022 mid-term elections are on the way and candidates across the country are working hard to lock down support. the balance of power in congress is up for grabs and there are a handful of states which could determine which party takes control. that includes arizona where the race for u.s. senate is leaning to the democrats and mark kelly over republican blake masters. in nevada the contest for u.s. senate is a toss-up and at pennsylvania, the race between mehmet oz and john fetterman also up for grabs. another key senate race is right here in georgia where the candidates met in a heated debate last night. senator warnock faced off against herschel walker af
out this morning was in response to the committee s unanimous vote to serve him with a subpoena. he hasn t yet actually addressed the subpoena to say whether he would comply with that demand for documents and testimony but in this letter to committee chair bennie thompson, trump doubled down on the claims that have bedebunked en debunked tha0 election was stolen. lawmakers also shared testimony they said linked the trump world to right wing extremists along with new evidence from secret service agents and show never before seen footage of congressional leaders scrambling to respond to the attacks from a makeshift bunker. joining us now, cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju and whitney wild. manu, first to you. this video was really something both shown during the hearing and what cnn obtained exclusively, as well. how are lawmakers, especially l republican lawmakers responding to what was shown at the hearing and also to the subpoena? not much from republican
sean: first, got to get a lot of credit, you very quickly went right for the wrists. as a martial artist, i respect your quick response buried was she would have used the left hand, but the fact that you acted that quickly prevented him from sticking that knife he could have hit your carotid, he could have hit your heart. we may not be having this discussion today, you did a great job, i congratulate you. thank you, sean, and i also give a lot of credit to the seven, eight, nine, ten other people who instantly within a few moments came to the stage and tackled this attacker. law enforcement was there just a couple minutes later and they arrested the guy. a lot went right in the response. when i saw him lunge at me with that weapon in his hand, he was going towards my neck area, i just instinct if we went right up to grab that wrist, and i just needed to hold it for a few moments until that group came in. sean: i got to tell you something, we are looking at it from dif
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. whatever the results of next tuesday s midterm elections, there is no denying that these midterm elections are taking place with the very real specter of political violence and the prevalence of disinformation as a political weapon, unmatched in modern political times. large swaths of the gop have been swallowed up completely by the disinformation about the integrity of our very election systems, and many on the right have normalized conversations around political violence to the point in which polls show it is accepted by many as a useful tool to achieving the right s political aims. now, this says all sorts of things about the weakness of our democracy right now. more importantly, it says a whole lot of things about the weakness of the gop as a governing party. now, a party interested in governing would be desperate to debate policy and have those debates and win those debates ridded in data and a shared set of facts. there s none
today after a break for the holiday weekend, the day, federal prosecutors in washington, d.c., resumed prosecuting a case against five members of the oath keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy, or trying to overthrow the government. last week zeroed in on the group s founder, stewart rhodes. but today s former afghanistan veteran. her name is jessica watkins. introduced evidence that watkins discussed cutting off pool cues to serve as antifa smasher is. she sought to recruit and train people to join the oath keepers. if it convicted of seditious conspiracy, watkins and her fellow defendants face up to 20 years behind bars. there s been a lot of wrangling on the radar. but today s trial is important because it s another example of individual accountability. and this, case accountability for a small group that s not tweens flicked significant damage. individual accountability does not on its own get to the root of the problem, especially here let s take, for exampl