good morning, everyone! here we are. we ve made it. everybody got up. we woke up. we re all awake. is this rehearsal or real? it s real. it s the real thing. are you guys ready? i think we re ready. i m don lemon alongside poppy harlow and kaitlan collins. it is november 1st and welcome to our very first show we hope you enjoy. you ll learn a lot about us and get a lot of news. a lot of news. since i moved here, a halloween parade outside my apartment last night that went until, like, 10:00 p.m. blaring music. all of this stuff as i was trying to get to bed early like a first day of school. kaitlan is texting us, i m like, welcome to new york, my friend. get used to trit. my kids got home from trick-or-treating, and my husband s like, why aren t you asleep? this is my new life, babe. and like eight of us, dinner party, trying to give me wine. i got to go. got to go. new friends. go to dinner. 6:00 p.m. i have two in friends. happy to be here. we re goi
third hour. this is we made it through the stretch hour. the power hour. the power hour. the seventh thing inning str we re so glad everybody is with us this morning. i m glad to be next to you too. it is going quick. it is already 8:00. speak for yourself. i did two hours and now it is three. i m so glad to be here with you guys because you guys mean, i think we all help each other make each other better and we hope we make you better at home. there is a lot to get to this morning. welcome to the program. we re going to give you some news now including these baseless conspiracy theories circulating about the attack on paul pelosi. we re going to debunk them one by one in a cnn fact check coming up shortly. midterm elections, we re one week exactly away, but a lot of votes already cast in early voting. republican leaders gaining confidence that this is going to cut their way. chris sununu of new hampshire running for re-election, he ll join us this hour to t
your votes color in the midterm map. follow the money and the big names and many of the critical races are jump balls. today president biden is in florida, even though democrats have little hope in the big races there, yet he will warn republicans wins would put social security and medicare at risk and he will attend two big fund-raisers, plus, a confession. court documents spell out in plain language an attacker s plan to hold the speaker of the house hostage and to break her kneecaps as a message to democrats. some republicans still find this somehow funny. about 50 million put into increasing school safety with school school resource officer, armed officers to make sure we re protecting our kids. it is not impossible to protect our kids at school. they act like it is. nancy pelosi, well, she s got protection when she s in d.c. apparently her house doesn t have a lot of protection. back to that sad story in a moment. up first, the final midterm sprint. you see big n
searching on top of buildings. the concern over children in the hospital in this country, in part of california tonight, they have now declared a health emergency over the surge of children hospitalized with respiratory illnesses. and pfizer tonight with news on a potential vaccine for rsv in the future. the abc news exclusive tonight. a woman who accused georgia republican senate candidate herschel walker of pressuring her to have an abortion, sitting down on camera for an interview for the first time with our juju ch chang. why she s now come forward. saying, this isn t about political parties, that she voted for president trump. and what she brought with her to the interview. tonight, herschel walker s response. tonight, we have one week to the midterms. georgia, of course, and several other key state races all so close. any one of them could determine who controls the senate. so, rachel scott is here to talk us through this. disturbing new video tonight after that
that this was politically motivated. the pelosi attacker reportedly confab says. he was gonna hold nancy hostage and dr.. if she lied, he was gonna break your kneecaps. tonight, the explicitly political motive. the pelosi attack and the suspects onwards. and nonstop lies and conspiracy theories from the right. she s, her house doesn t have a lot of protection. we then can you support an insurrection and get elected governor of new york? the new alarm over the republican candidate there. plus, what may be promising new polling numbers for democrats in the senate. amid record high profits for fossil fuel companies, the new white house effort to lower the cost of gas. give me a break, enough is enough. it s time for these companies to stop more profiteering. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, paul pelosi, husband of nancy pelosi remains in the intensive care unit of a san francisco hospital. he s recovering from s