happening now. ivanka trump under oath testifying in the civil fraud trial against the trump organization. we have a new update on what she just said on the stand. when it comes to abortion rights, the message from voters after last night, can you hear me now? the seventh consecutive election were attempts to further restrict abortion access since the supreme court stepped in. tonight we re down to five, five republican presidential candidates will face off on the debate stage in miami. trump, the front-runner skipping out once again to take the spotlight elsewhere just down the street, by the way. i m sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. all right. happening now at this moment, ivanka trump is on the witness stand in a new york courtroom. she s been there for nearly an hour or so testifying in the civil fraud trial against her father and the family business. she is no longer a defendant herself in this case, but she is cl
the bigger picture of jack smith s case? we re going to get into all of that coming up? also this hour, belarus, russia, where exactly is yevgeny prigozhin? the mystery surrounding the fate of russia s wagner group deepened after the president of belarus in a rare news conference said he was still in his hometown of st. petersburg more than a week after the rebellion that shocked moscow and the world as wechlt. and long-time gop megadonors launching ads to try to prevent the former republican leader are from retaking the white house in 2024. we begin this hour with the former president and walt nauta, his aide, in court. after two delays, trump s co-defendant in the classified documents case finally arraigned in court a few hours ago, pleading not guilty nearly a month after his boss. he faces charges of obstructs the investigation into the retention of classified documents. it s been a whirlwind 24 hours. on wednesday authorities unsealing new portions of the
i talked to her for a little while. i said go by your heart. lindsey graham of south carolina who has publicly endorsed trump reacted on twitter saying i m certain that south carolina s nikki haley will be competitive in the race for the presidency. she s strong and sound on foreign policy and did well by south carolina as governor. haley won t be the last to get in and challenge trump as speculation swirls around this crowded potential field that included mike pence, former secretary of state mike pompeo and florida governor ron desantis. and neil fox news reported another south carolina politician might get in the race, senator tim scott is kicking off a listening tour that takes him to iowa and he s launching ads in that state. neil: this sounds as crowds as the 2016 republican race, griff. we ll see what happens. thanks, my friend. griff jenkins in washington.
get them moving on tax reform. here is a snippet. let s lower tax rates for employers. and help families with their cost of living. so call congressman dan donovan. tell him we have been waiting for tax reform long enough. the time for reform is now. republican congressman from staten island in new york. it looks like the president is going to be twisting his arm to make sure that he gets on board with this. the u.s. chamber of commerce, by the way, will be launching ads in ohio later on this week. so they are spending an awful lot of money in conjunction with the white house information strategy to try to get tax reform through before the thanksgiving break, jon? jon: all right. john roberts other chief correspondent at the white house. melissa: ways in on the firing of fbi director comey and how the press covers the president. our media panel weighs in. plus the political fallout from back-to-back hurricanes. how the president has been handling the disasters.
she hasn t spent much time there. also the clinton campaign today saying they re going to be launching ads in michigan, virginia, colorado, new mexico. what do those states have in common? we haven t been talking about them, so why are we suddenly talking about them? basically the clinton campaign is fast-towaforwarding to a nightmare scenario. that fbi story broke last friday. it s dominated the news since then. we re not quite seeing it in the polls yet, but fast-forward a few days. let s see if we start seeing some of these states, the gray states on the map. let s say we start to see more of trump. it wouldn t take much movement to bounce them into trump s category. if donald trump were to win, this is a big if, but if he were to win all the toss-up states on the map right now, see what that would do to the map. he starts to draw pretty close to 270. there is a district in nebraska, a district in maine. give them to trump. here it is.