classes resume at a virginia elementary school for the first time since a first grader shot his teacher. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans this monday morning, secretary of state antony blinken in egypt this morning, the first leg of his three-day tour of the middle east. his visit coming at a time when violence is flaring between israelis and palestinians. iran and ukraine also high on the agenda as blinken prepares to leave cairo for israel where prime minister benjamin netanyahu new right wing government is causing turbulence at home and abroad. nic robertson has the latest from jerusalem. what is blinken hoping to accomplish on this visit? reporter: i think the best hope here of people on both sides, palestinians and israelis is that he can lower the tensions at the moment. how does he do that? well, he s very likely to appeal to prime minister netanyahu to reconsider some of his cabinet s decisions over the weekend o
united states and all around the world. i m max foster in london. just ahead on cnn newsroom donald trump and john eastman together were part of a likely criminal conspiracy. emails show that president trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong. this is the closest thing to a smoking gun and deliberate wrongdoing in this meeting. we re going to continue to stabilize markets and decrease the prices. i agree with anything that will make gas prices cheaper because right now they are astronomically high. i put liz truss in number 10. i hope it was worth it. i am a fighter. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s thursday, october 20th. 9 a.m. in london, 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. we begin with exclusive reporting. sources tell cnn former donald trump and his team are allowing federal agents to conduct a new supervised search of trump s mar-a-lago estate still part of an effort to save trump from poten
on your wallet. president biden will announce a move to help keep energy prices down for americans less than three weeks before the all-important midterm elections. the president will announce the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic preserve. of course, in the past few days gas prices have been dropping in some areas but on average they re still up 17 cents a gallon from a month ago. of course, the cost at the pump factors into the economic worries voters will carry to the polls and could be a problem for democrats since they re the party in power. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house. phil, what do we expect to hear from the president? you know, ana, not a lot of levers the president can pull in an international economy and global market like the oil market. this, what the president will announce is one of them. both an actual action, announcing the sale of another 15 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve but also in sending
the ejections from the stars and a lot of people have different takes on, you know, what this actually looks like. some people say they see the hand of god coming up. the producer for this show says he sees the galloping horse. i don t know about that. what do you think? i see a horse. i do see it. do you see a horse? i see a horse. i could be convinced to see the horse. yeah. i love there s a such thing as a baby star, but just how detailed this picture is. hubble was nice. it was nice. this is fantastic. yeah. it really is impressive. it s so cool, except now i have stuck in my head and i give it to the both of you baby stars, doo-doo doo-doo we didn t plan that. we didn t. thank you as always. top of the hour. i m erica hill. i m victor blackwell. good to have you along. any moment we will see president biden make his now second economic announcement of the day. the president is expected to award $2.8 billion in grants targeting the electric gri
transparency in this unprecedented situation and he set in motion essentially a process where the justice department can come and propose redactions to this crucial document that backs up that search and seizure at mar-a-lago last monday. so during this hearing there was a media lawyer advocating for transparency here, saying the judge is in the place of the media, in the place of the public and becomes the gatekeeper here for what is released widely. but the judge also was hearing from the justice department, from jay bratt, the head of counter intel, one of the top attorneys that we know has been working on this investigation. and one of the things that bratt emphasized is that this is an ongoing criminal investigation that needs to be protected, there s grand jury activity described in that affidavit, there are several witnesses whose interviews with the fbi or with the grand jury are also described in that affidavit, that it does have extensive information about the inves