tonight we got the admission - watch our conversation on peacock. from tucker carlson that he hates donald trump passionately. that is the headline of the night. that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, a look behind the scenes at fox news during the 2020 elections, with texts and emails released as part of dominion s 1.6 billion dollar lawsuit. who is continue to push trump s debunked big lie with rupert murdoch questioning if they went too far. then, tucker carlson cherry-picking, and flat out misrepresenting the events of january 6th. the condemnation we are hearing from some republican lawmakers and the brutal kidnapping in mexico. two americans are dead. two survivors are back on american soil. the warnings to americans traveling to that area, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we are digging into a mountain of evidence tonight, a brand-new court filing and
world. i m laila harrak. ahead on cnn newsroom, we re in the closing stretch of an extremely consequent midterm election. it s a dead heat for senate races in pennsylvania, arizona, and georgia. we have a preview of what s at stake for both parties. plus, some spanish-speaking communities are being inundated with election disinformation and conspiracy theories. ahead, a look at how it s spreading so easily. and ukraine is bracing for a bitter winter as russian strikes pound the power grid, leaving millions in the cold and dark. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. we re now just one day away from the critical midterm elections in the u.s., and the stakes couldn t be higher. the candidates are now making their final pitch ahead of election day. up for grabs, all 435 house seats and 35 of the 100 senate seats. the outcome of this election will determine who controls congress. and while democrats currently hold a slim majority, it
this is perhaps the most anticipated debate of the election season. it s also the only chance for pennsylvanians to see the candidates side by side. they re debating just this one time. the senate is 50-50 and pennsylvania is crucial in the fight to either keep or gain control. cnn s jeff zeleny is in harrisburg where the debate is happening. jeff, what should people expect to see tonight? reporter: well, victor, i think people can expect to see fireworks as we ve seen in debates across the country. more interestingly this has a unique element to it and that is because of john fetterman. of course he s the lieutenant governor of pennsylvania but he s been recovering from a stroke for the last several months. so this debate tonight is going to be slightly different. it s going to have a closed captioning system. john fetterman is still having auditor processing issues. he can t always hear and see things in realtime so he ll be using closed captions as many americans do when
well, it is the top of the hour at cnn newsroom. 15 days now until election day and candidates are out battling for every ballot. in the florida governor s race, democrat charlie crist hopes tonight s debate will help shift the momentum as he tries to unseat ron desantis. in pennsylvania, there s a debate tomorrow in the much tighter senate race there. polls show the democrat john fetterman has a small lead over his republican rival, mehmet oz. nearly 7.3 million americans have already cast a ballot in 39 states with the early vote turnout in the battleground, georgia breaking records. cnn has just released new poll averages showing just how tight the race for senate is in critical swing states of pennsylvania and wisconsin. president biden just made another pitch to voters coming up on november 8th. that s the midterm election day. he just spoke at democratic party headquarters in d.c. to make his closing argument. cnn s senior white house correspondent phil mattin
argued that is pretext to get their hands on the former president s financial documents but lower courts have said that the committee could obtain these documents until the supreme court intervened here and put a temporary pause on this. now, erica, if the supreme court affirms this lower court ruling, if this is allowed to stand, it is significant because if the house ways and means committee is allowed to obtain these tax returns from the former president, that really would represent a significant chipping away at some of the protections that are afforded to sitting presidents and signal a real boost to congress s over site powers. so we ll see what the supreme court does here. this is just temporary. paula, appreciate it. also with us elie honig and when we look at this, i think it might be helpful to just remind us all the reason that they said as paula layed out, they want to look into how the irs is going through the tax returns. if and when they actually do get the