here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, october 24th. i m christine romans. we begin with the midterm elections now just 15 days away. early voting already under way with more than 5.8 million ballots cast in 39 states. right now polls and political spending suggests republicans are surging and stand a good chance of retaking the house of representatives with a solid majority. recent surveys show the reason for that surge, the economy. inflation and to a lesser degree crime. early this summer looked like the anger at the supreme court ruling overturning roe versus wade would give democrats a chance to hold back the red tide and keep control of the house. now it looks like that abortion-fueled momentum may have peaked too soon. they have to split their messaging between abortion and the economy are the democrats. nobody said we re doing abortion rather than economy. but it s about both. i can tell you that that issue is ver
tomorrow. we are one week away from the midterms. president joe biden heads back on the campaign trail this afternoon in a last-minute attempt to win over voters. we ll get live reports from two key battleground states, pennsylvania and georgia, in just a moment. ambassador ahead, a key government witness in the seditious conspiracy trial of the founder of the oath keepers testified he believed the january 6th attack on the capitol could start a new american revolution. we ll have these details for you straight ahead. and we ll be joined by a member of the january 6th select committee congressman adam kinzinger. willie? let s begin with new details on the assault on house speaker nancy pelosi s 82-year-old husband at the couple s san francisco home. the suspect scheduled to be appearing in court later today. david depape is being charged with a number of felonies including attempted murder as well as federal crimes that include the attempted kidnapping of a federal offici
wallace. i was happy to be in with for her. tonight, bill maher makes his debut live tonight a week out from the midterms. we re going talk about everything you want to hear bill maher talk about and maybe some of the thing you don t, which is why bill maher makes for a good guest. paul pelosi, a defendant in the attack, arained. we begin with election day. we are one week out, and we have the continuation of what sounds like an american trend line, because early voting is smashing records. that means it s big interest. it is left, right, center or something else? we ll get into it. let me start with the most important number we have, it s not a poll or a prediction testimonies a fact in america one week out that 25 million people have cast their ballots early. that continues the trend i ve told you about, outpacing trend by over 3 million vote, and those midterms for the first election since trump came into office. you can remember the mood and energy then and how many peopl
fbi to search mar-a-lago. the wall street journal that an informant familiar with the documents that trump had told investigators that there were more of them , more classified documents. this informant told investigators this after the national archives had retrieved the 15 boxes earlier this summer. enter the informant, a significant development. justice department officials as cnn reported, had doubts that trump was being truthful. this comes is the head of the fbi was silent when pressed on trump s baseless accusations of fbi agents planting evidence. christopher wray dodged the question. as i m sure you can appreciate, that is not something that i can talk about so i refer you to the department. ray was trump s hand-picked director. within the justice department, a major debate on whether they should speak out to the public about the search on trump s home. cnn is learning that some justice department officials believe that they should release a public statement. i
a newly unsealed document shows the agency is looking into several crimes which include the, quote, willful retention of national defense information. that revelation does a couple of things, one, it intensifies the focus on former president trump as the possible or a possible subject of the investigation. trump has claimed a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house, but in a cnn exclusive, 18 former top trump administration officials tell us they never heard of any such order issued while trump was in office. it also may be key that that law, willful retention of national defense information, it may not matter if the information was classified. we will dig into that more deeply. as the spotlight brightens on trump the doj continues its fight for some secrecy. the department expressed serious concerns that releasing the affidavit behind the search warrant could impede its investigation, also might endanger witnesses. still the judge appears to be