top of the hour on cnn newsroom. so good to have you. i m victor black well. i m bianna. less than two weeks until election day and new twists may shake up some key races. in georgia where the tied u.s. senate race could determine which party will have future control, republican candidate herschel walker is facing a second allegation that he paid for an ex-girlfriend s abortion. walker is calling this a lie. the unnamed woman says she is an independent who voted for donald trump and was walker s mistress in the early 90s. he has taken the position that he is, quote, about life, end quote, and against abortion under any circumstances when, in fact, he pressured me to have an abortion and personally ensured that it occurred by driving me to the clinic and paying for it. and in arizona, phoenix police say they ve made an arrest at a democratic candidate s headquarters specifically here, we re talking about the campaign office of ka ka katie hobbs, the democratic nominee
to work in washington for the first time in a month. we ll look at their fall agenda agenda. we are live in georgia with brand new reporting on possible election interference. what this surveillance video shows and maybe more importantly who it appears to show walking into a county election office weeks after the 2020 election. how it all fits into the fulton county criminal problem. i m joe fryer in for hallie jackson. we start with the latest fall out from the judge s ruling granting trump s request for a special master. i m joined by caroline wedding and former fbi consultant andrew wiseman. ken, we re learning more about what this doj ruling means and doesn t mean at least at this point right now. what can you tell us? i m being told this ruling does not put a stop entirely to the fbi investigation into the mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. there are lots of classified documents that came out of mar-a-lago in january and another batch was handed over in june.
master to review the materials including classified and top secret government documents that the fbi seized from trump s mar-a-lago resort. trump s lawyers and justice department prosecutors now have until friday to submit a list of potential candidates to be named as that special master. let s bring in cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. just walk us through the ruling. what will this special master now do? alisyn, the special master that the judge says needs to be appointed is going to be responsible for looking at everything, everything that was taken from the search of mar-a-lago that happened a month ago. one of the things she talks about in her ruling, she says that essentially this person, this special master that the justice department and the trump team need to come together and find this person, is going to be essentially looking at all of the things while the justice department is going to have to pause its investigation, essentially, not being able to u
with other school districts for applicants? absolutely we are. o donnell: and, our eye on america cbs s meg oliver shows us a program working to keep kids safe. if it wasn t for basketball, i don t know what i would be doing right now. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. tonight, we are one step closer to seeing a redacted version of the affidavit the government used to support a search warrant of former president trump s florida home, mar-a-lago. that release could come at any moment. a federal judge ordered the unsealing hours after the justice department submitted the document with redactions. there are parts of the affidavit that federal investigators want to keep secret, citing concerns that it will impact the early stages of this probe. the redactions are expected to be extensive. media organizations, in
very good thursday morning to you . i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. this just in to cnn, important news for the u.s. economy, the nation s gross domestic product, how much the economy grew or shrank, declined less than previously thought in the second quarter of this year. revised up from negative .9% to negative .6%. it may not sound like much. it shows our economy is shrinking. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now with more. we often have seen revisions like this, with jobs figures, sometimes in both directions, sometimes in a positive direction, what is the significance of the revision here? it means the economy is less lousy in the second quarter than we thought, and in fact consumer spending and corporate profits were stronger and that is an underpinning here of the u.s. economy. you look at quarter by quarter by quarter, you see two quarters in a row of a shrinking u.s. economy. but shrinking much less in the second quarter than the fi