We start tonights broadcast with breaking news, sad news. One of the giants in americas long battle for civil rights has tied. Congre congressman john lewis has passed away. He was 80 years old. Months ago he announced he was battling stage four pancreatic cancer. This was a man who participated in the civil rights era. He was on the front lines of so many vital moments of our nations history. He was as kind as he was tough. A rare fixture in washington. This was a man who many people may have disliked his politics, but it will be hard to find a Single Person who did not like the man. Again, congressman john lewis of georgia has died. We now turn to our original report to begin this broadcast tonight. It is the story of race, justice delayed but justice finally received georgia. Here now, deborah roberts. Hi, welcome. Reporter its a hot sunday afternoon at the restaurant in griffin, georgia. Todays special, heather coggens famous egg rolls. Chili cheese egg roll, taco egg roll. Reporte
midterms. and in georgia 1 million preelection ballots have been cast. let s bring in cnn s eva mckend live in a polling place in georgia. eva, what are you seeing? reporter: well, a common answer from voters when you ask them why they are turning out early is because they want to take advantage of the opportunity. they don t want work to maybe get in the way on election day. so they are exercising their right early. been record turnout daily since early voting began lasweek. secretary of state brad raffensperger says that this illustrates that georgia has among the best election systems in the country but this democratic opponent still says that voter suppression is alive and well in georgia staking issue with the state s voting law, take a listen. i would put our election system, i would put our georgia election system and our voters up against any other state in the union. we re seeing record turnout. and i anticipate we ll continue to see midterm records broken. j
before the midterm elections. and we are in the final stretch, as candidates work to reach still undecided voters. in the senate race in pennsylvania, it s all about swing voters in the suburbs. democratic lieutenant governor john fetterman is up against republican mehmet oz. the outcome of the race there is critical, if democrats want to keep their razor-thin majority in the senate. cnn national reporter dan meriga is live for us in philadelphia there today. how tight is this race this weekend? it s remarkably tight. you ve seen the lead, the polling lead that john fetterman had over the summer has narrowed in recent weeks. and both campaigns, democrats and republicans acknowledge, there s a smaller and smaller sliver of undecided voters in this contest. that s what they are seeking to reach. dr. oz has been off the campaign trail today. he appeared on fox news this morning. he spoke about crime and the importance of the debate on tuesday. that s the key date in this conte
us. we are learning the names of some of the top republicans who have testified in multiple investigations involving the former president both in the federal case involving the misuse of classified documents and also the investigation in georgia into the former president s attempt to overturn the election results there. cnn s sara murray joins us now with details. let s start with the fulton county, georgia investigation. who is testifying? well, anderson, we have learned that there are two prominent witnesses who have testified before fulton county grand jury. one of them is former georgia senator kelly loeffler. the other is former white house lawyer pat cipollone. both of these are big gets for the district attorney down in georgia, fawnee willis. it gives you an idea how long-ranging her investigation. what news to the federal grand jury investigating the documents at mar-a-lago? we are learning this evening, that kash patel, a top adviser to former president donald
good evening. thanks so much for joining. us we are learning the names of some of the top republicans who have testified in multiple investigations involving the former president both in the federal case involving the misuse of classified documents and also the investigation in georgia into the former presidents attempt to overturn the election results there. cnn sarah murray joins us now with the details. so sarah, let s start with the fulton county georgia investigation. who has testified? well, anderson, we have learned that there are two prominent witnesses who have testified before the grand jury, and one of them is former georgia senator kelly lafleur. the other one is former white house lawyer pat cipollone. both of these are big gets for the district attorney in georgia. it gives you an indication of how wide-ranging the investigation is. whether with testimony to the federal grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago documents? we are learning this evening my co