it is election day in america. hello everyone i m anderson cooper welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are looking at live pictures of voters lining up to cast their ballots. polls are open in a majority of states. at this hour six more states are opening their doors to voters. the big question who will control congress. dozens of house races are considered toss ups, republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to win the majority. in the senate the race is likely to determine control are very tight. republicans need a net gain of one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. more than 40 million americans have cast their ballots in early voting ahead of today. it all comes down to turnout today and the issues. the only certainty is that voters will decide who they elect and who controls congress. we have this consequential midterm election covered for you from coast to coast. i want to begin with our coverage with cnn s jason carroll li
we have a movement, guys. this is a movement. it s not a campaign. it s a movement of patriotic arizonians who are sick of the crap, right. there are too many extreme positions in washington. too much out there pulling us away from where the real answers lie. i will bring balance to washington, but john fetterman, he ll bring more extreme. and every day i feel better and better. by january, i ll be even better. but dr. oz will still be a fraud. we re going to have factories and jobs in america again. we re going to secure our border again. we ll put criminals in jail again. prosecutors will prosecute again. things will be affordable again. we ll save the greatest country in the history of the world. regardless of who you are, the color of your skin, where you might live, how much money you might have, your sexual orientation, sexual identity, our religion will have an opportunity to succeed. and that is just some of what we heard last night from the most watched c
phang show this morning. with all of our live tv grand lands, i ll see you tomorrow morning at 7 am eastern. velshi starts right now. good morning to you, particularly early morning here in arizona, it is saturday october the 29th. i m ali velshi in phoenix, arizona for another edition of velshi across america. only ten days left in this midterm election, cycle this worst first nation since donald trump began spreading the big lie, following his lost of joe biden in 2020. that lie, of a stolen election that wasn t stolen, fueled the violent insurrection at the capitol on january 6th. it is still spinning off new lives today, creating an atmosphere in which the future of democracy itself remains in doubt. the threat of violence, and intimidation hangs in the air. particularly here in maricopa county arizona. on the day that the mob swarmed the cat bottle, roz on january six, some carried rough vince assaulted wang forsman s officers, many of them were explicitly looking fo
capitol on january 6th. some of the mob that breached the capitol that day were explicitly looking for the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. they were yelling, where is nancy? as they stormed the halls of congress. sources tell nbc news, that question was uttered once again by an intruder who broke into speaker pelosi san francisco home in the middle of the night yesterday and violently assaulted her husband paul with a hammer to the head. speaker pelosi was in d.c. at the time, but is now back in san francisco to be with her husband who is expected to make a full recovery after undergoing surgery for a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hand. we do not know yet what the attackers motive was, but the san francisco police department said last night quote, this was not a random act. this was intentional. the violent assault of the capitol on january six may have been quelled that afternoon, but the insurrection is ongoing. donald trump s dangerous rhetor
up next. tonight on the reidout nancy, nancy! where are you, nancy? we re looking for you. nancy. oh, nancy. nancy. where are you, nancy? the chilling sounds of january 6th. where is nancy? happening again. not in the people s house this time. but in speaker pelosi s own house. her husband paul brutally beaten with a hammer by a maniac with a reported history of posting extreme right-wing memes and conspiracy theories on social media. meanwhile, elon musk is getting ready to reinject those dark online forces back into the veins of twitter, which he now completely controls. and we begin tonight with a shocking development in the political extremism that has loomed over the midterms. early this morning an assailabout attacked paul pelosi, the husband of nancy pelosi, at the couple s home in california. mr. pelosi who was home alone was hit in the head with a hammer multiple times. the assail want was reported to have shouted where is nancy, where is nancy, during the