everyone. i m laura coats. this is cnn tonight. you just saw banks bust. there are fears about what could be happening overseas as we speak and how that could affect us all. we ll have more on that later in the show. plus, the president of mexico blaming the united states for the fentanyl crisis, charging lawmakers haven t done a thing about it. what is being done about the fentanyl that s killing thousands and thousands of every single year. there is news out of the full ton dcounty grand jury investigation of president trump. remember this call trying to overturn joe biden s victory in the state. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. well, apparently, there is another call as well, and one only the grand jury has heard. now you re really interested. we ll tell you about it in a moment. a lot to talk about with my panel. obama white house senior director, communications director, p
viewed justice clarence thomas as key to stopping the certification of the election. the former director of national intelligence is my guest tonight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, biden s major speech this hour, with just six days until election day, president biden any moment now will deliver a major speech. the topic is the threat to democracy, and it comes on the heels of a violent attack on the house speaker nancy pelosi s husband paul. biden betting this will turn the tide of the midterms. but as he prepares to speak, only 9% of likely voters say voting rights and election integrity are the most important issues to them. 51% say the economy is their number one concern. 51%. and today that issue was front burner. the fed raising interest rates by another three-quarters of a percentage point. rates have been rising at an unprecedented pace with mortgage rates above 7% for the first time in 20 years. you can see the stage
earlier today the fbi raided the former president s florida home, mar-a-lago, while he was in new york. according to president trump, the agents swarmed his residence unannounced, breaking into the home and even his personal safe. in a statement, the 45th president wrote a beautiful home is currently under siege, rated and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. he continued nothing like this has ever happened to the president of the united states before. after working in cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. it is prosecutorial misconduct. the weaponization of the justice system and an attack by the radical left democrats who desperately do not want me to run for president in 2024. cording to the new york, who got the scoop first somehow, the search was focused on documents that the former president brought with him from the white house, including potentially classified documents. sources a
Happy friday, it is 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york, and Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial just resuming this morning with a former Trump White House aide facing cross examination. Madeleine westerhout back on the stand, shes testified about trump signing checks and Michael Cohen visiting the white house. And speaking of cohen, we just learned that the prosecutions star witness will take the stand on monday. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is outside the courthouse for us. Also with us our legal panel for the hour White Collar Defense Attorney and former federal prosecutor sarah krisoff, and criminal defense attorney bernard via low na. Vaughn, catch us up. Whats happening inside that courtroom this morning . Reporter hey, good morning, ana. Madeleine westerhout who was the trump Executive Assistant inside of the white house for his first two and a half years there is currently testifying Under Cross Examination by Susan Necheles. Theyre currently looking at an email in which a