voters here in the united states welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. tonight we re focusing on democracy, as israel holds its fifth round of elections in four years and benjamin netanyahu may be on the verge of a comeback, while in braziljair bolsonaro still hasn t conceded that he narrowly lost the presidency to lula da silva. and here in the us, it s a week to go until the midterm elections, and in the state of arizona, which donald trump narrowly lost in 2020, republican candidates running for state wide office won t admit that mr trump was defeated. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports from arizona. arizona s rugged landscapes speak to its place on america s old wild west frontier. today, though, it is the politics that is wild. some of the most corrupt elections we ve ever seen. with the state at the vanguard of the republican party s stolen election claim. you re across the pond and you think you know about our election. let mejus
jamie raskin: umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. umm, so, he didn t have anything in there about take some time off. (laughs) and, uh. crowd: usa! usa! usa! usa! jamie raskin: why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we re unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish document. it should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and we ve got to keep fighting for it. crowd: trump! trump! trump! trump! trum
watching. i am sam stein. katie fang will be back next week, do not worry, 7 am eastern. all will show online. though she is starting right now. ng right now. and good morning to you from beautiful detroit, michigan. it is sunday, october the 23rd. i m ali velshi, this is a very special edition of velshi across america. i am in belle isle state park in detroit, michigan, within 16 days until the most consequential midterm elections in recent memory. michigan is arguably the leading edge of a combustible trumpist, anti-democratic movement which includes fringe political figures, self styled militias and the potential for violence. i saw that with a group of michigan residents and voters from across the political spectrum to talk about this, plus women s reproductive rights, which is actually, literally on the ballot in michigan this year. and how they should think we can move forward as a country, full of people with different views, and the same set of facts. more of that c
president barrels toward conclusion, we put it all together. i got three men walking down a street carrying ar-15s. the explosive testimony. i heard the president say something to the effect of, i don t care that they have weapons. let me people in. new insight from witnesses. i said, you want me to take my state, 3.2 million voters and just throw them out the window? was he asking you to commit a crime? i don t know what he believed. the unanswered questions. i feel like we don t know the full story on the proud boys about oath keepers. and what might lie ahead. the former president and his allies represent a clear and present danger to american democracy, not because of what they did on january 6th. you better run, cops! it s because of what they pledge to do in 2024. a cnn special report american coup, the january 6th investigation. in arizona, the republican speaker of the house rusty bowers is an artist by trade. last february, bowers wa
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