emerging about the brutal hammer attack on nancy pelosi s husband, paul. the fbi revealing that the suspect planned to kidnap the house speaker herself and potentially break her kneecaps. also tonight, the midterm campaign hits the closing stretch. cnn is on the ground in crucial swing states as both parties make one final push to win over voters. and the death toll rises from a halloween celebration that turned into a crushing crowd surge. we ll go live to south korea where grieving families are demanding answers about how this horror could happen. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. at any moment we expect to learn even more about the attack on paul pelosi when the san francisco district attorney holds a news conference. right now cnn s josh campbell is in san francisco for us with all the chilling new information about the suspect s confessioned plans to target speaker nancy pelosi.
penning newspaper columns and presenting the podcast rock and roll politics. maria margaronis is a journalist, who s written and presented a number of radio documentaries on the crises man made and natural which have afflicted greece. ashis ray has half a century of explaining events here to his readers in india. a fulltime occupation in itself, you might think, but he s still found time to commentate on his beloved cricket. lovely to have you all new the studio. all together as well. so thank you for being with us. borisjohnson street, according to a ukrainian mp, could soon be found on maps for odesa, as it expunges the memorialisation of famous russians. assuming the british prime minister s visit to india this week is followed in due course by a free trade deal something neither the european union nor the united states has pulled off there ll probably be a thoroughfare named in his honour in mumbai, too. in this country, borisjohnson way might be a cul de sac. such is
Sending in their biggest surrogates as we close it out. president biden has been here once a week for the last two weeks. he s coming back over the weekend with former president barack obama here in philadelphia. we re also expecting to see former president donald trump as they both try to motivate their party bases, sway any persuadables, wolf, as we race toward election day. cnn s jessica dean reporting from philadelphia. thank you very much. democratic pennsylvania senate candidate, lieutenant governor john fetterman, is speaking out about the attack on house speaker nancy pelosi s husband and the very disturbing divide in american politics right now. listen to what he told cnn s don lemon. let me start with the aftermath of the violent attack on the house speaker s husband at their home. what did the attack and the subsequent conspiracy theories say about the state of our politics right now? yeah. i just of course i was appalled by that and of course the vitriol that is o
Because the collapse of the so called orthodox parties in france and the rise of macron almost as sort of a personalised party has kind of completely fractured the party system and yet, although it is a presidential election that we are witnessing now, you do have to have party bases. you know, macron busted through that, but with these consequences that the parties are so weakened, there could be space for a le pen figure to surface at some point, so i think it is rather worrying that those older parties have just kind of collapsed because what replaces them? yes, the party may be over for some but the consequences live on for everybody else. thank you all very much. thank you for your company. martine croxall will be be in this chair next week. i ll see you in a fortnight s time. from all of dateline, goodbye.
And yet, although it is a presidential election that we are witnessing now, you do have to have party bases. macron busted through that, but with these consequences, that the parties are so weakened there could be space for a le pen figure to surface at some point, so i think it is worrying that those older parties have just kind of collapsed, because what replaced them? the party may be over for some, but the consequences live on for everybody else. thank you all very much. thank you for your company, martine croxall will be be in this chair next week. i will see you in a fortnight. from all of dateline, goodbye.