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republican, and democratic lieutenant governor governor john fetterman. georgia s candidates met in a live debate last night. raphael warnock faced off against republican herschel walker after weeks of bombshell allegations leveled at the former football star. cnn s eva mckend has more. reporter: democratic senator yell war knock and republican challenger herschel walker are in a contentious georgia senate race with u.s. senate controlling. it is time to get under way. reporter: they debated friday night. walker, running on a family values platform currently involved in a scandal over allegedly pressuring the mother of one of his children to get an abortion. a week before this debate a former girlfriend said you paid for an abortion and encouraged her to have another. in an abc news interview this week, you said that the accusations are, quote, all lies. for the voters watching tonight, can you explain the circumstances surrounding these claims. you have 60 seco ....
rival, reasserted communist party control over every aspect of chinese city. what we know is tomorrow when we see his top advisers revealed, is that he s going to be stacking it with his closest advisers and loyalists. so in this next term, expect xi jinping to double down on his ironclad rule, so a more authoritarian china at home and a more aggressive china abroad. fredricka? possibly more surprises. selina wang, thank you so much. all right. hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. with just over two weeks until midterm election decides who controls congress, voters are turning out in big numbers across the country to cast their ballots early. so far nearly 6 million people have already voted in the midterm elections. in georgia, more than 660,000 voter have already cast their ballots. that number is not far off the early voting turnout for the 2020 presidential election, and it s a quarter of a million more than the early voting tur ....
from msnbc world headquarters to new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour. the fallout grows on the fbi search in mar-a-lago. as we wait to see if donald trump s legal team filed a motion for a special master to review the evidence seized the department of justice is nearing a major deadline to propose redactions for the affidavit season that search. earlier today, house intelligence committee chair adam schiff spoke on winning the balance of the public s right to know versus the government s concerns. i think the question is, at one point in time does the public get to see that affidavit? i think the justice department makes a powerful case that at the early stage of the investigation, when it could jeopardize the pursuit of justice, this is not the time to be giving essentially the trump lawyers a roadmap into how to intimidate witnesses or how to derail illegitimate investigation. this all comes as a new nbc news poll out today shows ....
search warrant served on monday. that s right, victor. we didn t expect attorney general merrick garland to come out today but he is going to be making a statement from the justice department building in downtown washington. they haven t disclosed yet exactly what it is going to be about, but you re right, there has been pressure building in recent days since this search on monday, this unprecedented search of a former president s home, that we are watching to see whether garland may want to make a statement about this. now, this isn t something that the justice department typically would comment on. it is an ongoing investigation. we don t believe that there have been charges brought at this time. we haven t seen any emerge from this. it s also about national security issues. on top of that, garland is not the type of attorney general that makes a lot of public statements, does a lot of press conferences, even whenever there were charges for seditious conspiracy, ano ....
reporter: has it hit you, what if you were on the other side of the bench with him? how close you guys were? i don t want to think about that. i don t want i don t want to think about that. here in washington the white house is responding to growing outrage over what experts call a russian show trial for wnba super star brittney griner, the administration officials say the president has read the letter from griner, talking about the terror she feels about never being freed from the prison. it s a priority for this president, he is doing everything that he can. he takes this to heart. he take this is job very seriously, especially when it comes to bringing home u.s. nationals who are wrongfully detained, it s a priority. we are going to make it happen. and we are following a big development in the georgia investigation in to donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. as a fulton county special grand jury hands down the subpoenas to current and form ....