at this hour officially under russian martial law. putin takes steps amidst the punishing counter offensive. we ll take you to the front lines. our reporter was feet away from incoming fire. you ll want to see this report. and also breaking this hour, we re learning trump s team is deciding whether to allow federal agents to return to mar-a-lago because they say that he still has stuff as a federal judge now says, trump lied under oath about his claim of a stolen election. and senator marco rubio pulls a total 180. he once told a parkland victim s father that he supported raising the minimum age to buy a rifle. now he s taking it back. that victim s father is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front, the breaking news. martial law. putin s martial law now at this hour is in effect in parts of ukraine just after midnight local time. russian president vladimir putin doing the move not seen from russia since world war ii. martial law. and this o
your podcasts. the news continues with jake tapper and cnn tonight. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. tonight with exactly three weeks until the critical midterm elections here in the united states, candidates across the country in key races are increasingly taking extremism to the extreme. but what exactly is the definition of extremism? obviously that depends on who you ask. in a new ad airing in pennsylvania, republican u.s. senate candidate dr. mehmet oz paints himself as a middle-of the-road type of guy. his opponent fetterman is extreme for supporting criminal justice reform and supporting traditional democratic economic plans. guys like john fetterman take everything to the extreme. extremism on both sides makes things worse. we need balance, less extremism in washington. i m sure fetterman would respond that most of the extremism in contemporary american politics is coming from inside dr. oz s own party, but extremism, extremist, that s an insult we r
wonderful, wonderful, laura, is a reference to steve martin s great film l.a. story when he says he s falling in love. and here i thought it came to mind because you saw me in canary yellow. that s what inspired it. anyway, it was a cinematic theme. i like the trivia. i like the fun facts to start the show. that s awesome. next i ll work on a pop up video for it. very good. and you re awesome too, jake. good evening, everyone, i m laura coates in washington. and i m allison camerota in new york and this is cnn tonight. we re also here with our panelists across the political spectrum there s actually one team in washington with me. and the other team here in new york with me. basically we have so much work we need two studios. it doesn t fit in one. so let s start with all the developments heading up to the mid-terms. the big guns from barack obama to donald trump are about to hit the campaign trail, and we ve also got new polling that tells us a lot abou
good morning. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with breaking news out of california. paul pelosi, the husband of speaker nancy pelosi, is hospitalized, we have learned, after he was attacked inside their san francisco home. cnn s whitney wilde is joining us with some of the details. this is just unfolding as we are learning, some of the details, whitney, but so far what doe woo know and how is he doing? reporter: well, erica, it happened just two hours ago, 2:00 a.m., according to the speaker s press people. paul pelosi was attacked within their san francisco home early this morning. he is expected to make a full recovery. we have very few details at this point. notably though, the suspect is in custody. we re still collecting more information, erica, but certainly it is a very disturbing case, and we will keep on it. but right now, again, very few details. all we can tell you at this time is that paul pelosi was attacked early this morning in their san francisco home. th
taking calipari up on his invitation and catching a home game. love that story. i love it. cnn s coverage continues right now. good morning. i m erica hill. we begin with news just in to cnn. the u.s. economy growing in the third quarter and beating expectations. the gdp, a key indicator of economic activity, rising by an annualized rate of .6%, the first period of positive growth this year following two back-to-back quarters of decline. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans with us now. this is a little better than expectations. we were expecting to see a little bump here put it in context for us. this is american consumers, they weren t buying as many couches and tvs. they were dining out, going on trips. you saw how people were spending their money changed a little bit. it was a bounceback from the doldrums of the first half of the year. the big question is it the bump before the slump? the fed has been raising interest rates very, very aggressively. co