during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. we will cue it. we re now really 13 days outside these mid-terms. control of congress clearly hangs in the balance. we re in the homestretch, people fighting for the votes and have this record breaking early turnout. what does it mean? we re going to go to one of the national experts who s been exactly in this position 13 days out. michael steele, look around left, right, center. he s here in one second. michael stands by. over 12 million people have now voted. that smashes the turnout totals at this point in 2018, which was the first election since trump became president. you remember how energized people were then. i can only tell you what s happening as it happens. i can t predict. but right now as of tonight we re seeing huge intensity in these mid-terms. we re also seeing reaction in isthese big debates, pennsylvania senate, new questions for fetterman and the democrats,
out this morning was in response to the committee s unanimous vote to serve him with a subpoena. he hasn t yet actually addressed the subpoena to say whether he would comply with that demand for documents and testimony but in this letter to committee chair bennie thompson, trump doubled down on the claims that have bedebunked en debunked tha0 election was stolen. lawmakers also shared testimony they said linked the trump world to right wing extremists along with new evidence from secret service agents and show never before seen footage of congressional leaders scrambling to respond to the attacks from a makeshift bunker. joining us now, cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju and whitney wild. manu, first to you. this video was really something both shown during the hearing and what cnn obtained exclusively, as well. how are lawmakers, especially l republican lawmakers responding to what was shown at the hearing and also to the subpoena? not much from republican
headed near a pride event that was happening here at this park and in other parts of downtown here in this town. and they said, you know, they had riot gear with them, including shields and smoke bombs and some weapons, although not firearms. the men were apparently standing outside of the truck when someone spotted them. they all had the same clothes on, so someone said they looked like a little bit of an army, according to a witness. that s how police were alerted that they were in town, and i should mention, this group is familiar to us because they are an offshoot of a group that was at the charlottesville deadly unite the right rally that white supremacist rally in charlottesville that ended in the death of heather heyer who was run over by a man who also subscribed to this group. so this group was a splinter of that after what happened in 2017, the publicity was so high, they changed their name from american vanguard to patriot front. the leader of american vanguard bec
sexually attracted. i enjoy young people. i love to be around them. but, no, i m not sexually attracted to young boys. cnn s jason carroll is at penn state. so, jason, what kind of reaction is this interview getting this morning? not a good one. in terms of what students are saying this morning and a few last night that this interview actually made sandusky look worse. it s not like some of these students after the allegations had a high opinion of him after the allegations came out. but, clearly, from what we re hearing at least so far, kyra, after that interview, those who thought he was guilty before, their minds have not been changed and some others who were sort of dipping in and out of the story who happened to catch the interviews now say whatever they felt about him before, they now feel even worse. kyra? well, jason, you know, sandusky also addressed one of the key questions of this scandal. what exactly did joe paterno know and when did he know it? listen to