From the kim regimes doorstep. Well get reaction in a live report this hour from inside north korea. Its a cnn exclusive. And calling it insane. President trumps nominee for a top pentagon post speaks out about the texas church massacre, saying its insane that a civilian can buy a semiautomatic weapon like the one the gunman used. Tonight, were learning new details about his disturbing past, including his escape from a Mental Health center. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight, the final ballots are being cast in an election seen as a test of President Trumps popularity and influence amid his plummeting Approval Rating. Polls close right at the top of the next hour, where voters are choosing their next governor. President trump has been tweeting support of republican candidate, ed gillespie, who shares many positions with the president , but has
Scott taylor says this is a repudiation of the Trump Presidency and blames the president s divisive rhetoric for the gops big losses. We will have scott taylor on next hour with us. The biggest win for dems is Ralph Northam beating former Republican Party chair ed gillespie. President trump blaming gillespies loss, he tweeted that the candidate never embraced trump or what he stands for. But gillespie did exactly that and it cost him. The proof is in the performance. In new jersey, democrats won back the state house after Chris Christies tumultuous eightyear run. All of this as President Trump is in china. The third stop on his asia trip comes after the president issued a stark warning to north korea telling kim jongun, do not try us. We have it all covered. Ryan nobles live in richmond, virginia. All eyes on virginia, a purple state. Now plain blue. No doubt about that, chris. There is a lot of soul searching going on among republicans in virginia today. This state one example of a sw
Challenging the at t merger with time warner. Many are asking if politics was perhaps at play in this decision. President trump has made it very clear he doesnt like cnn. If the Justice Department does not allow this through, theyre going to have to break up facebook. Lots to talk about. Were going to begin with the breaking news. New video of charlie rose responding for the first time on camera to allegations of sexual misconduct. Here he is walking to his Apartment Building last night in new york city. How you doing, mr. Rose . How are you . You want to say anything to those accusers . The people thats accusing you of all the wrong doings . Its not wrong doings. If you couldnt hear it, he said its not wrong doings. This is complicated. That is not what eight women are saying and it sounds like it could be more. They told the Washington Post rose sexually harassed them between the late 1990s and 2011 while they worked for or looked to work on the charlie rose show. The accusations ran
By phone, sharon is joining us by phone, reporter for New York Times. As you look through the article, ill read the title, says emails dispute white house claims that flynn acted independently on russia. Then sharon won asks who else might be involved in the process. Reporter what we learned is that the narrative has changed, right . What the white house had been saying was that flynn talked to the Russian Ambassador about u. S. Sanctions against russia and that the other transition official on the trump team didnt know about it but in fact the emails coupled with Michael Flynn showed that others did know he was talking to the Russian Ambassador and that kt macfarlands email with another transition official were forwarded to six trump transition officials, including reince priebus, shaean spicer a steve bannon. You add those names to the list of potential people that knew this, what does that mean, sharon . What does that mean. Good question. As the white house points out, theres reall
Talking about george papadakolas. You can look at the photographs with high meetings. Do we have that photograph . I have to tell you, in criminology, mike barnical, you look at these things to see who is in power, man, the attorney general on one side, the president of the United States who is going to be the president , obviously, and right in the middle. Boom. The man of the moment. There he is, right there. Papadopoulos. The story of the day good morning, everyone, its tuesday, october 31st. Its a scary day for a lot of people, happy halloween, with us, we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor, Mike Barnicle. Are you skard in. Im frightened to death. Freaked out, boo National Security analyst and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense jeremy bash and in walk, White House Reporter for usa today heidi pryzbila. Good morning to you all. I want to start with this, its really interesting, we have been hearing from critics of the special counsel from Robert Mue