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welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. and tonight we re less than a month, 27 days, away from one of the weirdest and least predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what s happening now and ending on election day, november 8th, is not typical. it s not. as of now it s not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. no. it s more like a sharknado. now, typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins, feeling good because things are bad. with high inflation and fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power right now, that s democrats responsible and accountable. because phrases are up almost everywhere you look. life is more expensive. by which of course i mean life cereal, wheat and processed wheat products up more than 20% year-to-year. and as humpty hump might say, straight butter baby, by which butter is up 30% august to augu ....
predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what is happening now and ending on election day november 8th is not typical, it is not. as of now, it is not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. now it is more like a shark nato. typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances. to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins. feeling good because things are bad. high inflation, fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power. right now, that is democrats. they are responsible and accountable. phrases are up nearly everywhere you look. life is more expensive, but which of course i mean life cereal, weak and processed wheat products. up more than 20% here. as the late great rapper might say, straight butter baby. by which of course, i mean the tuck cost butter is up 30% august to august. of course, our friends in saudi arabia are making sure that we all continue to feel more pain at the pum ....
coy, nice to see you. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. new evidence, new testimony. i m john berman with brianna keilar. that is the promise from the house january 6th committee as it holds its last public forum before the midterm elections. it comes as there s new reporting in a separate investigation. the mar-a-lago documents case. cnn is told donald trump directed an employee to move boxes at mar-a-lago after he received a sup pena for classified documents. and we re told, the committee is going to hammer home that trump remains a clear and present danger to the united states. sarah murray has more. we re expecting this to be their closing argument. reporter: that s right. while we are not expecting to see live witnesses at the hearing, we believe we ll see new video as well as new emails from the secret service. the house select committee investigating january 6th preparing its closing arguments ahead of the midterms. ....
does she feel like she owes an apology? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. as riveting as the stories were, it was who was telling them that gave way to chilling testimony before the january 6th committee today about donald trump s pressure campaign on his vice president, mike pence, to stage an illegal one-man attempt to overturn the presidential election results one pence adviser calling it constitutional mischief another warning it risked the election being settled in the streets. members of pence s inner circle testifying about the presidential tweets, public taunts, and angry phone calls any they say pence was subjected to the panel releasing never-before-seen photos of vice president pence sheltering during the capitol riot reading a trump tweet as rioters roamed the grounds above him. pence praised by the committee for refusing to go along with the plan to reject the electoral votes. garrett haake is at the capitol with detai ....
with great challenges. that s what one city council member expressed today. they took a moment to mourn the 102 lives lost before visiting neighborhoods impacted by violence. oakland leaders spent saturday but their community just hours after police began investigating another homicide. the 100nd homicide of the year happened in east oakland near 45th and bancroft avenues. 2 people were shot. one is in stable condition. the other debt city council members and other community leaders held a vigil at city hall for all of those impacted. i m a woman. a mom. i have been. i m a victim of violence myself. i know it s scary and i want our residents to know that the city council is absolutely committed to eu council president nikki fortunato bass also visited bella vista park saturday there. she spoke with people who are concerned about their own safety. people are fed up. and i have to say that it was also very good to talk with people about how committed they are to the c ....