so tell us what s happening in the georgia senate race. look, look how close this is. this is the forecast for the georgia senate race. herschel walker with 49%, raphael warnock with 49%. normally, we don t include libertarian candidates but i have here chase all of our at 2%. why? because the rules in georgia basically stipulate that if the leading candidate does not, in fact, get a majority of the vote on election day november their will in fact be a runoff come december. and right now the forecast suggests that neither herschel walker nor raphael warnock will reach a majority of the vote. i just want to point out how important georgia is in terms of winning control of the united states senate. if herschel walker wins, the democrats chance of retaining control of the senate is just 26%. if raphael warnock winds, look at that, it jumps up to 76%. so, whoever wins georgia has a pretty good job of controlling the senate overall. and here is the only other thing i will sort o
battleground georgia. and cnn senior data reporter harry hinton is here with us. he is awake. he is alive. he is at the magic wall. he is fired up and ready to go, as we can see. harry, we love having you here. tell us what is happening in the georgia senate race. look. look how close this is. herschel walker with 49%. raphael warnock with 49%. normally went we don t include libertarian candidates. but i have chase oliver at 2%. why? because the rules in georgia basically stipulate that if the leading candidate does not get a majority of the vote on election day in november, there in fact will be a runoff come december. and right now the forecast suggests that neither herschel walker nor raphael warnock will reach that majority of the vote. but i just want to point out how important georgia is in terms of winning control of the united states senate. if herschel walker wins the democrats chance of controlling the senate 26%. if raphael warnock wins, it jumps up to 6%. whoeve
this is still an emergency situation. we are in search and rescue mode. again, that count is going to continue to go up and we don t lose this many people in flooding. it is a real tough one. rescuers are working around the clock. the national guard from kentucky, tennessee, and west virginia are lifting hundreds from the floodwaters. more than 600 already. washed away roads and bridges adding to the already very complicated recovery efforts. cnn s evan is at a command center for the research and rescue efforts. how are they coordinating what, is going on? reporter: well, hi, fred, when they say command center, they mean a place people gather. this is a parking lot of a shopping center here in jackson, kentucky, that is in the middle of where the floodwaters happened and behind me agencies are coming from all over the country, all over the state to work to try to help find people who might be trapped or still need help in the floodwaters and they re also working with a
more missing text messages, the washington post reporting tonight that text from trump s acting homeland security secretary chad wolf and his deputy can cuccinelli are missing. they tell the post that the textbook from a key period leading up to january 6th. we have a new cnn exclusive reporting tonight that prosecutors are getting ready for a court battle to force former trump white house officials to testify about conversations they had with the former president. joining me now to discuss all of this, senior crime and justice reporter caitlin pollens, and john wood, former senior investigator for the january six committee. also with us evening, mr. marc mackinnon, the executive producer of the emmy nominated the circus and former adviser to george w. bush. good evening one and all. have to admire the hat. you gotta, mark mckinnon. you guys gotta get your hat game on. caleb got her glasses game. i don t know. i got nothing. john, you got a good luta. good evening one a
Welcome to prime time weekend, lets get right to the weeks top stories. With less than two weeks to go before he makes history by becoming the first expresident of these United States to ever stand trial on criminal charges, donald trump is turning to a tactic straight out of a mobsters playbook. The expresident , going after the daughter of the new york judge, judge merchan, who is overseeing the criminal hush money case. In typical trump fashion, his attacks have been filled with foaming at the mouth rage and bluster, and conspiracy theories with a dash of disinformation for good measure. The expresident accusing the judges daughter of sharing a photo of donald trump behind bars on social media. Court officials quickly knocked that down, but trump hasnt stopped going after the judges daughter. He has posted about her at least four times since tuesday morning. Trumps attacks began one day after judge merchan imposed a gag order on donald trump, prohibiting him from lashing out against