Hello everyone, and good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning saturday, september 21st. Im Amara Walker and im Danny Freeman in for victor blackwell. Thank you so much for having me with you today to have your dad. Heres what working on for you this morning battleground blitz, Vice President Kamala Harris rails against former President Donald Trump over reproductive rights and Lastminute Trip to georgia. While trump heads to North Carolina they were there republican backed candidate for governor is resisting calls to resign for lewd comments. He made on a Porn Site. Allies or former President Trump approved a controversial new rule in the Battleground State of georgia that some say could delay election results the changes they are calling for, and why both democrats and republicans say the fight is far from over. Plus israeli forces hit hezbollah strongholds in lebanon, killing a top target. Were live with the latest on the escalating conflict and rising fears of an allout war ahead. P
prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
we re watching a number of big races that will help define where this country is going, and where better to follow it all than outside of independence hall, birthplace of our declaration of independence and our constitution. most closely watched is the race for an open senator seat. pat toomey is retiring, which means this is the democrats best chance to make gains in the senate. lieutenant governor john fetorman currently leads the race against congressman connor lam, malcolm kenyatta and alex khalil. did fetterman s stroke change the calculus for voters? and what about the black vote? his opponents insist black voters haven t been adequately polled. on the right, there are seven candidates looming over all of them is donald trump. one in three gop ads aired here mentioned donald trump. and as charlie matthiasson put it, there are few states as deeply infect by donald trump s election fraud lie. the gop leaders are mehmet oz, cathy barnett and dave mccormick. trump picked o
they picked insurrectionists, whackos, freaks, and conspiracy theorists. let s be very clear here, from one former republican to a current republican. we re not talking about their mainstream policy positions that are hurting them. no. we re talking about the fact that these people are weirdos. well, all of that is right. it does remind me of all of that is exactly right. and here s why it is so important to understand what joe just said. you go back, and people are making the comparison to 2010. i know 2010 well. i had to deal with some candidates who, how should we say, were a little freakish of their own. what i did as the national chairman, along working with my state party leadership in the various states, was, okay, we ve done enough crazy. we re not doing that anymore. we re going to focus on taking the policy battle to the
baby formula not being on the shelves, right? and they are really worried. more woried than they are about cathy barnette. people are already pointing fingers. i talked to republicans yesterday who were really criticizing state party leadership and calling for the head of the state party chair, saying we need to reorganize, we need a new state party chair. sounds so much like donald trump in 2016. i m getting deja vu, i am. let s talk about the democrats. john fetorman has a stroke, still in the hospital. he says he s recovering. he ll be fine. not going to be at the election party. i wonder, how is the polling in this state? i heard from other candidates that philadelphia has not been polled correctly, the black vote has not been polled correctly. if you go around here you re not going to see john fetorman signs. is that them pumping themselves up? we ve seen plenty of polling misses in recent years. i don t know that we ve seen a