many. that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose diaz-balart. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, the federal grand jury weighing a possible indictment against former president trump who received a target letter from the special counsel a week ago, making it likely he would be charged with crimes related to january 6th and the attempt to overturn the election. that grand jury is considering its decisions. at the white house, president biden creating a federal monument to emmett till, the black 14-year-old brutally tortured and lynched nearly seven decades ago. his mother who demanded an open casket funeral to reveal the horrors of her son s death to the public. multiple developments everys overseas. russian warplanes disabling an unmanned u.s. drone over syria. dramatic footage just released by the pentagon. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the
the campaign trial. in south korea, police are taking the blame for that deadly halloween crowd stampede that killed more than 150 people. mostly young adults including two americans. and the conservative supreme court majority takes up affirmative action today in college admissions. singling a possible reversal on another issue that had been law. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington on halloween. the attack on paul pelosi spurring a flood of conspiracy theories and disinformation including from twitter s new owner, elon musk, who tweeted an opinion, an opinion article from a low credibility source to his 100 million followers about the attack. and although many republicans have condemned the violent attack on the speaker s husband, republican governor glenn youngkin made light of the assault just hours after it happened. speaker pelosi s husband had a break-in last night and he was assaulted. there s no room for violence, but we re going to send her back to ca
demanding more transparency and they argue a special master could provide that. he could also provide a delay in court proceedings. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez leads us off. this all boils down to one judge. that s right. she came in over the weekend and said she was inclined to grant the former president s request for a special master without seeing anything from the justice department. that s what we re doing to see today. the justice department asking for to exceed the page limit that normally applies in this court in southern florida. they re asking for about 40 pages. now that s longer than the affidavit that we saw unsealed last friday. what we expect to see is, you know, more description of what s been doing on behind the scenes. we know that there s a group of fbi agents who are not involved in the investigation who have been looking specifically at these documents for anything that could be attorney-client privileged and they are removing that a
speaker. at home we re watching a major test of former president trump s influence over the republican party. in the five states where voters are headed to the polls today to vote in primary elections, all eyes will be on the slate of candidates who the former president endorsed and have embraced the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. will that message resonate with republican primary voters? today will also be a big test for these three house republicans who were among the ten who voted to impeach the former president. will they survive after taking a critical stand? one of today s biggest tests will happen in kansas where abortion rights are on the ballot for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. we ll have the latest into the massive implications of that vote. let s get right into it with nbc s steve kornacki at the big board. steve, what are you looking for this morning? a couple things, jose, you touched on. i think this referendum in
and catastrophic wildfires, a climate state of emergency in the united states. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. we begin in ukraine, where there is more fallout from thursday s brutal attack on a detention facility in russian held territory in the east. on sunday, the u.s. ambassador to you range said russia must be held accountable for the attack, and dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians were killed in the strike, kyiv says, moscow claims russia ukraine is responsible, and they are waiting for access to the site, ukraine says russian forces unleashed a barrage of schelling on the southern city of nikolaev, 2 does seven reported, killed while sheltering in their basement. the ukrainian president condemning the strikes in his nightly address. take a listen. ukrainians, in the region, the most brutal schelling during the entire period of the full-scale war, dozens of missiles and rockets, the occupiers and residential build