processing another act of political violence in this country. and we still do not know an exact motive. we do not know the power of lies and how they spread in our political discourse. no further than the general sixth attack at the u.s. capitol, that threat to our democracy remains clear and present. joining me now from san francisco for the latest on that attack, nbc news scott cohn. scott, where is the investigation at this hour? and what are you learning about the attacker? reporter: yeah, alicia, this is a widespread investigation. it includes, of course, the san francisco police department and the district attorney. also, the capitol police and the fbi. and a lot of it really focusing on the alleged attacker, david depape, 42 years old, who we know has led an unusual life for certain. and it s culminated in recent months, apparently, with a lot of blog posts and social media posts that are really kind of going through a potpourri of hate, and conspiracy theories and t
biggest mid-term election issue is chaos. full coverage on fox. dana: rich edson is diving into some key races we re watching and playing close attention to the next 19 days. conservative supreme court eliminating the right to abortion and proposals from republicans in congress to enact abortion restriction democrats focused their campaigns on protecting abortion. voters are more concerned about inflation and gas prices than abortion. some democrats are making the case the issues are all tied together. abortion is an economic issue. it has been reduced to this idea of a culture war. for women in georgia this is very much a question of whether they will end up in poverty in the next five years. having children is why you are worried about your price for gas and why you are concerned how much food costs. democrats are calling republican abortion extremists. republicans painting democrats on the extremists as well. in pennsylvania democrat john fetterman says he is aga
think that this incident has been largely memorable, and underneath the pile of the insane number of scandals and legal perils, but at the time, finding it very persuasive account. he denied, it but having it in front of a court and jury where it is factually litigated would be something else. after all this time, and all those allegations. i think one would say justice may finally the wheels of justice may actually be turning. i think we ve said that to each other multiple nights, but it could be happening here. thank you, chris. and thank you to you at home for joining us, a big show tonight, the one and only trevor noah will join me live on set in just a moment, which is great, i m glad he s here tonight because there is something happening in this final stretch of the midterms that i want to talk to him about. something i think he can help us wrap our heads around. let s start with the great state of indiana. every ten years, there s a census. the last census in 2020
nearly 12 million voters across the country have already cast their ballots for the critical midterm elections. more than 4 million of those ballots have been turned in throughout florida, california, georgia, and texas. the candidates are facing off in some of the final debates of the campaign season after the highly anticipated showdown in pennsylvania. john fetterman released a new ad criticizing mehmet oz s response to abortion. oz barely mentioned the debate during a gcampaign event in the last hour and says he focused largely on crime. in a race to control congress, both sides are narrowing to the most competitive races. new money is being injected from both sides as well, a sign of just how high the stakes are in these midterms. our cnn editor joins us now. where do things stand for the battle for the control of the bo what we re looking at. let s go to the map broadly. i m going to write on this. there are 35 seats up. 21 of those are republican. 14 are democrat. fu
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