will his strategy work as many americans are more focused now on the economy. i ll ask the white house press secretary. and the cnn, cnn gets an exclusive, firsthand look now at a massive attack drone that s part of putin s arsonal. we ll go to kyiv where a critical situation is unfolding as russia strikes again and again. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with our midterm countdown and the crucial choices facing voters. with just three weeks to go. three weeks before the election day. cnn national politics reporter, eva, is following some of the hottest races out there beginning in the key battleground state of georgia. with three weeks until the midterms, voters are already flocking to the polls in large numbers. in georgia, the state set a midterm turnout record for early voting with more than 130,000 voters casting ballots monday. on the trail today, republican se
in what led to that aggressive unprecedented action taken by the fbi? we know former president trump seemed to be corporating with the feds regarding his presidential records. his team had already transferred 15 boxes earlier this year but the wall street journal reports things started to escalate earlier in the summer. what changed? newsweek claims there was someone inside mar-a-lago that told them exactly where they could find more documents. the magazine writing this, the raid in mar-a-lago was based largely from information from an fbi confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former president trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents, meanwhile, attorney general merrick garland is under growing pressure after the judge who approved the raid is refusing to let the d.o.j. stay silent. he s not giving the department until monday to answer requests to unseal the search warrant. that sounds like a call for tran
friends and i do believe the shooter are putting out tonight, you leave the forensic markers and i i understand the court has already ruled on that. i understand the tendency, though, after hearing narratives that has been made public cazden should make jennifer crumbley sound monster to those by her to make her sound horrible, mother in legal person. and the truth is, it s an effort to put her in hand wearing other to save. this is not something that could happen to any of us in the it is something that could happen to any of us and people fail what the sentencing memo shows the court through numerous letters of support that this is he does have okay she does have compassion. she has spent night after night crying, not only herself and her son, but also for victims and for what her son did and what she will live with, knowing he did. and what she missed all the years forward at the end of the day, we asked the court to look at mrs. crumbley s role in the offenses
vladimir putin, he invalidates the actor impersonating him. the chaos getting worse and going global. tomorrow marks a tumultuous week for president trump. his announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminum have rocked global markets, wall street as well. and his chief of staff has reportedly threatened to quit. let s start with tariffs, the controversy erupting in a tweet today. the president doubling down. tell our viewers the latest. reporter: that s right, wolf. the president was essentially doubling down on the comments he made yesterday, promising that tariffs are on the way against imports of steel and aluminum coming into the united states despite the human cry across washington. republicans all the way up to the house speaker, paul ryan, really asking the president to change his mind on this issue. you saw what happened in the
stock market yesterday. and then key u.s. allies like the u.k. putting out statements saying that they re reviewing this to see exactly what they re
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directly intersects with the news of the day about there being potentially a second premeeting for the russia trump tower meeting. rick gates is one of the names that rudy guilliani slipped and revealed in the series of interviews yesterday. what is the significance of paul manafort dropping his case against robert mueller. he was trying to have this case dismissed in court, saying that robert mueller s jurisdiction did not extend to what he is actually charging paul manafort with? as i understand, he dropped those charges yesterday. it just seems he is increasingly finding himself to be more cornered and he doesn t have a lot of options to fight back at this point, and this is all getting back to that original goal of trying to squeeze manafort and get as. information as possible out of him as they move closer hopefully to doing an interview of the president himself. that is still very much on the table. also, heidi, why is it that paul manafort you