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america. abortion rights, the biden presidency and elvis presley's second cousin all facing tests today. >> israel is making new advances against hamas near gaza city. new reports of more tunnels being taken out and the israeli prime minister for the first time really talking about what comes after this war. ivanka trump set to take the stand in the fraud case against her father's business. the admissions that donald trump made in his testimony that could leave a mark. i'm john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is off. cnn news central starts now. it is election day in america once again, my friends. >> thank you. you want to know where the country is headed in 2024? pay attention to today. candidates and issues on the ballot in key states that could

be a barometer of what is to come. abortion rights have been a huge issue since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, a winning issue for democrats. today, ohio, a red state, will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. abortion rights also a campaign issue in virginia where every seat in the state's general assembly is in play. two incumbent governors up for re-election today. receiven tate reeves in mississippi facing a tough fight from brandon presley, the second cousin of elvis, and in kentucky, democratic incumbent andy beshear is trying to hold on in a state that voted overwhelmingly for donald trump in 2020. that is where we find cnn's eva mckent in louisville. lay out the sticks. >> reporter: yeah, john. attorney general cameron just finished voting here with his family here in louisville. actually, upwards of 300,000 kentuckians already voted early. but cameron joining the upwards

of a million people expected to turn out today. this contest really presents a true test for incumbent democratic governor andy beshear. if his brand of politics still has durability. last night, we were with him in lexington, and he argued there's no such thing as a democrat bridge or a republican bridge. and that's really emblematic of how he speaks about many issues here in the state that all voters are on the same team. clear appeal to trump supporters. let's listen. >> folks, this race is about us. it's about kentucky. if we can send one message to the rest of the country, it should be that anger politics should end right here and right now. >> reporter: so despite his popularity in this state, the attorney general really presents a credible challenge to the governor. he has worked tirelessly to

connect the governor to president biden, who is not popular in the state. he's also challenged him on matters of public safety, the economy, education, keep in mind, john, when the governor won four years ago, it was just about by 5,000 votes, so that gives you a sense of how close elections are here. and how close this one is expected to be. john. >> yeah, eva mckend, thank you. let's dig deeper into kentucky. no votes counted yet, but look back at 2020, the presidential race in kentucky. you can see donald trump trounced joe biden. in fact, joe biden won only two counties, where lexington in louisville are. compare the two counties that joe biden won to how andy beshear, the incumbent democratic governor, did when he first ran and won in 2019. you can see, the democratic

governor, he won all these other counties. a lot of blue outside the urban areas. beshear needs to do that or something close again today if he hopes to win. let's dig deeper into the urban counties. fayette county, you can seeanda bashir in 2019 when he won, he won by let's call it 32 points. so andy beshear, ab plus 32. let's look at how joe biden did in fayette county in 2020. joe biden won the county, but he only won by 21 points. beshear won by 32. he has to run up the score in this county and also where louisville is if he wants to have a chance today. so when the votes start coming in, this is what you want to keep an eye on. >> great stuff. let's talk about virginia right now. both chambers of the state legislature are up for grabs. and how that shakes out tonight, people believe, may have real ripple effects far beyond the commonwealth of virginia, including the political future

of the republican governor there, and the potency of abortion rights as a battleground issue. still today, john king has more. >> a change of seasons in loudoun county, and a choice that will echo well beyond virginia. >> abortion is tough. i have two girls. i feel personally that every woman has the right to do what she feels is right for her with her body. >> nannette is a registered republican but one of the suburban voters who changed virginia to blue. she voted early for the democrat in a critical state senate race here. >> five fliers in the mail every day for the last month. a lot of money wasted. >> republican governor glenn youngkin is among those spending millions. >> holding the house, flipping the senate. holding the house, flipping the senate. >> youngkin is not on this year's ballot, but his

presidential ambitions are. he thinks he can reverse the republican collapse in the suburbs even while backing new abortion restrictions. if voters give him a full republican legislature, youngkin said virginia will ban abortions after 15 weeks with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. >> no longer are we going to allow bureaucrats to tell folks parents don't belong in the classroom. >> no abortion mention in his rally speech. you say you're for tax cuts, for parental rights, more funding for police. isn't it strong to say i'm for this too? >> it's very clear where i stand on this. we're running a big advertising campaign. >> here's the truth, there is no ban. virginia republicans support a reasonable 15-week limit. >> maga republicans want to ban abortions in virginia. criminalizing abortions is wrong. >> it is a giant test of whether republicans can end a streak of punishing election losses since the supreme court tossed out roe v. wade. >> discussion around abortion is one between an extreme position

from the left and a reasonable position from all republicans. >> the youngkin events look like a presidential test run. this is in henrico county, democrats hope to unseat a big youngkin ally and prove the abortion debate still cuts their way. >> there's nothing reasonable about banning abortion. >> during the covid lockdowns it was siobhan doneven that really worked to get our kids back in the classrooms and deeply appreciated for that. >> rachel calls herself a conservative independent. supports donald trump, prefers a six-week abortion ban, but is open to compromise. >> i don't support abortion. but if he can get it to 15 weeks, i think perhaps that's a fair middle ground. >> loudoun county is 40 miles west of washington, d.c. it still leaned red when gevan moved here 15 years ago.

it is more than four times that now, and 20% of the county's voters are asian. >> my neighbors are indians, vietnamese, korean, and chinese, and if you talk about diversity, this is a very diverse area. >> it's also become more democratic out here. does that bother you? >> it bothers me, yes. >> south carolina born gladys is part of loudoun's evolution. she's an independent who leans blue, owns a business, and takes issue with youngkin's education agenda. >> this thing about not teaching black history in the schools, not recognizing our black history, because i lived it. >> still undecided on the state senate race that could tip the balance of power. >> i have never been this torn before. >> you're open to some restriction. >> absolutely. >> even if she votes republican this time, burke says youngkin is wrong to think virginia will return to red next year. >> absolutely, biden. biden, biden, biden.

>> you like him? >> absolutely. i think he's done a great job. >> nannette is the face of virginia's suburban shift. her last republican vote for president, george w. bush back in 2004. that is the last time the republican nominee carried loudoun county and virginia. still a registered republican, but ready to cast a fifth consecutive democratic vote for president next year. but with hesitation. >> i don't think he's the perfect one. but if i have to pick between him and trump, who i would never, ever, ever vote for, it would be biden. and just pray. >> that's for next november. first, this year's big test. >> and kate, just moments ago, i was texting with gladys, the african american woman at the end of the piece who said she was undecided. she's a devout christian, an independent who leans blue, but she does support some abortion restrictions. she's worried about giving republicans too much power. how does she vote? this is what's at stake not just

in virginia but can republicans find a compromise middle ground after getting thumped on the abortion issue over the last year and a half or so. fascinating election tonight in virginia. >> and what it means for '24. one of the more -- one of the stories that i did in the 2020 cycle that has stuck with me the most is how suburban women, they had voted for trump in '16 and how what they had seen, they turned to voting for biden in pennsylvania in 2020, which was a huge part of what we know was biden's win then. and it just, now we see, it's such an unknown of what the political climate in the suburbs is really going to mean a year out from now. >> there's a giant tug of war in the suburbs. profound disappointment with president biden. you heard even in the end, she doesn't like trump, she can never vote for trump, so she said she would vote for biden and pray. that's reservations about his age, is he up to the job? a very affluent county, so maybe

less pain from inflation, but still inflation. you see disappointment with the president's job performance and the fear of donald trump back in the white house, and that's the tug of war that these suburban voters who settle virginia, who settle pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, georgia, arizona, who settle nevada, this is what's going to happen. we have one year to the main event. the presidential election in 2024. we'll get clues tonight. >> a tug of war between disappointment and fear. great stuff. it's great to hear from the voters, as you get it. thank you. great to hear from john king. pretty nerve-racking for him to be touching the magic wall with john king watching. who will control gaza when the fighting ends? benjamin netanyahu weighs in on that and talks of a cease-fire. ivanka trump will be the final witness called in donald trump's civil fraud trial. what to expect after her father's contentious testimony. and a jewish man is dead after being injured in an altercation at dueling protests

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today marks exactly one month since hamas terrorists launched that horrific attack on israel. hamas still holding 240 hostages. and now, with israeli troops inside gaza and encircling gaza city, israeli prime minister netanyahu is talking really for the first time about plans for the day after this war ends. >> i think israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility because we have seen what happens when we don't have it. >> netanyahu also making clear in that interview with abc he's open to brief tactical pauses as he put it in the fight, but there will be no cease-fire until all hostages are released. jim sciutto standing by in tel aviv, israel, for us.

jim, what do you hear in these new remarks from the israeli prime minister? >> reporter: you know, what i hear, i hear daylight between the israeli government position and the position of the u.s., its closest ally. president biden has said that he does not support an israeli reoccupation of gaza. now, netanyahu did not say reoccupy, but he did say maintain security responsibility, which you would imagine involves a continued israeli military presence there. and he did not define exactly how long that is. is it weeks, months, is it years? 18 years ago that israel withdrew from gaza, and handed it to palestinian control. and it's not the only instance of daylight between israel and the u.s. on the question of a cease-fire, you hear blinking and others say that there's great support for some sort of humanitarian pause. blinken describes that in very short term limited terms, it

seems. that's one thing. also, it seems that his requirement to have a cease-fire is the release of all the hostages which does not seem like a realistic prospect at this point. in negotiations this weekend with blinken in the region focused on releasing women and children first. on all those issues you have distance between the u.s. and israeli positions. that's consequential because it raises questions to when you get to an agreement on any of these things. >> good point. so also, jim, on this one-month anniversary of the hamas terror attacks on israel, talk to me about support for the ground operation from israel. do you see people support forging ahead? >> reporter: listen, i think there are two different realities. when you're inside israel, the way folks view the attacks on october 7th a month later and the military reaction to that, and people outside the country and the u.s. and europe,

certainly in the arab world, and here, a country divided in many ways and most people by the polling have lost confidence in netanyahu's leadership. but in terms of a military response to those horrible attacks on october 7th, there is an enormous amount of support here going forward. even to the point, kate, when i was in the northern part of this country, people will say openly, residents, members of the military, that after the military operations are done in gaza, they want to see military action in southern lebanon to push hezbollah back from the northern border. so the appetite for ongoing military action is certainly greater inside this country than outside the country. and that gives you a sense of how things might go, going forward. >> great to see you, jim. thank you. john. this morning, the heads of 18 u.n. agencies and aid groups including sydney mccain of the world food program are calling

for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire. they say, quote, it has been 30 days, enough is enough. this must stop. cnn's melissa bell is in cairo. what's the latest on that front? >> reporter: well, we have actually got a visit today in cairo, and tomorrow we expect him to travel to rafah, the u.n. high commissioner for human rights. he's been speaking here today, saying look, human rights violations werhe heart, the source of this one-month-long conflict now. they must provide a way out as well. and what you have seen, that whole 18 united nations agencies urgently calling as they have day after day individually, for some kind of humanitarian pause to allow some of that much needed aid to get in, with every day that has passed, things have gotten worse. the u.n. is now saying 70% of gaza's 2 million population is now living in inhumane

conditions. no food, water, sanitation. that has got to stop. and yet, here we are one month on, and neither the loud calls from regional leaders that have gone on for much of that month for a cease-fire, nor indeed the american now american position of coming into that and also calling for a humanitarian pause to allow the aid, nor indeed the fact so far there have been 88 aid workers killed in gaza. it's the highest death toll for aid workers. none of that seems to have made a bit of difference to israel's position, either when it comes to the ferocity of the bombing or the siege. we have been hearing from one u.n. health agency worker approaching one of his gazan counterparts saying every day we think it is the worst and it keeps getting worse. >> melissa bell in cairo, thank you so much. kate. joining us now for more is

beth saner, former deputy director of national intelligence. i want to ask you first about when netanyahu says israel will have the overall security responsibility for gaza for an indefinite period of time, does that tell you that israeli leaders have landed on a plan for the day after? do you think the biden administration and israel's neighbors, quite frankly, in the region will be on the same page on that? >> i think it is actually coming to the lack of a plan. the reason that israel says or netanyahu says that israel is going to have to take over is because they're coming to the realization that there actually are no other options. so as much as everyone doesn't want that, there is no real alternative. the palestinian authority can't do it. and they won't do it. the egyptians, it is a pipe dream to think about the

egyptians and others coming in and being this multinational force, so i think what we're seeing is, you know, kind of reality hitting. hitting everybody kind of straight in the face and this is where we are. >> also, you have the reality, as melissa was laying out, of the situation in gaza. going from bad to worse for civilians there, for aid workers there. calls for a cease-fire are increasing because of the images and stories coming out. tony blinken himself saying we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. then in an interview with russia's -- with rt's arabic channel, one of the political leaders of hamas was asked why they have built this tunnel network, but never build any bomb shelters to help civilians in gaza. his commentary and answer to that question is telling. listen to this. >> translator: we have built the tunnels because we have no other way of protecting ourselves from being targeted and killed.

these tunnels are meant to protect us from the airplanes. we are fighting from inside the tunnels. everybody knows that 75% of the people in the gaza strip are refugees. and it is the responsibility of the united nations to protect them. >> this from the governing body of gaza. i mean, they are saying they do not think they are responsible for protecting civilians there. re-enforcing that civilians in gaza are caught in the middle of this. what should people take from that? >> hamas is a terrorist group. hamas is a terrorist group. hamas is a terrorist group. you know, repeat after me. people who are demonstrating for palestinians are absolutely on the right side, but people who are demonstrating for hamas and

not recognizing the atrocities that it committed against israeli citizens are on the wrong side. and so this is -- we are at a point, though, that i think that, you know, it's getting harder and harder for the united states to be in the position that it's in, in 100% support for israel and everything that they do. and jim sciutto's commentary that we just heard, that emphasizes how israel plans to go forward and the appetite that the israeli population have for retaliation is something that the united states and our g-7 partners with blinken in japan today, it is getting harder and harder to stick that, to find that fine line in between. and the united states position ultimately is going to have to move. >> and that's the unknown,

right? the really big unknown is what does that move look like and when does president biden make that move, if the position they're in right now is an unsustainable one? beth, great to see you. john. three trumps down, one to go. what ivanka trump is likely to say when she takes the stand in the multimillion dollar fraud trial against her family's business. a major second amendment case before the supreme court, the justices will hear arguments over how far the government can go to disarm violent offenders who also face domestic abuse restraining orders. what ivanka trump is likely to restraining orders.

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tomorrow, it is ivanka trump who takes the stand and could be the final witness in the $250 million fraud case against her father and her father's business. this comes after donald trump put on a show on the stand, but also gave testimony that could have a serious impact in this case. cnn's kara scannell is with us now. what can we expect? >> reporter: well, john, ivanka trump is expected to take the stand when court resumes tomorrow. she is someone that the a.g.'s office wants to testify because she was involved in the trumdeu loans at play in the case. and all of this goes back to this question of these financial statements and were they fraudulent, that the judge said they were. now, she's the third trump child who will be testifying. donald trump jr. said he didn't prepare the financial statements. eric trump said he wasn't aware of his father's financial statements until this investigation got under way. i obtained an excerpt of

ivanka's deposition last year and she says a little bit of both of those. >> do you have any recollection of your father having personal financial statements? >> not specifically. >> what about generally? >> well, see, i combine them all in my mind. like, the statements of the company and so no, i mean, not like specific to him. look, i have my own. i have never prepared one. i don't know, i never made one. i'm not an accountant. >> john, some of that we also heard when donald trump was on the stand yesterday for nearly four hours. he acknowledged that he did look at his financial statements on occasion, he suggested values for some properties. and that he knew the banks had relied on them, but he also put up a number of defenses arguing that he never inflated the property values.

he did acknowledge there was a mistake with his apartment, but he said he thought mar-a-lago was undervalued and never caused the value to be increased. he also said there was a worthless clause saying you people shouldn't rely on them because there are some disclaimers in there. that is something the judge has already ruled was, quote, a worthless argument. in addition, trump maintains repeatedly on the stand that nobody lost money, the banks were not victims, and foreshadowing when they begin their defense in this case, as soon as monday, that we may begin to hear from some of the bankers in the case who are expected to say these statements were not material to their decisions in making these loans. >> thank you so much. joining us now is caroline policy. she's also a lecturer in law at columbia law school. thank you for coming in. ivanka trump up next. what do you think the state is looking to get with her, and what do you think she's going to try to do here? >> ivanka has tried purposely to really distance herself from this case, from the get-go.

remember, she was a defendant initially in tish james' case. she got it dismissed because of statute of limitations issues. she tried to evade testifying in the case. she argued she wasn't suf sufficiently tied to the trump organization in new york. that failed. i think you're going to see her really in line with her brothers, don jr. and eric, sort of the ididn't know anything. you heard that quote there, i'm not an accountant. that's almost echoing what don jr. said. so i think she'll try to do as little damage as possible to her father and her brothers while at the same time maintaining complete ignorance with respect to the financials. >> the most we will have seen publicly of ivanka trump in some time. we're in this interregnum between "the lead with jake tapper" donald trump's testimony yesterday and ivanka trump's testimony tomorrow. trump said he was aware of valuations. he weighed in occasionally on

the financial statements and knew that banks relied on him. all of those things emerged from his testimony. where does that leave the case going forward? >> i love this. this was classic trump. i call it the perfect call defense. his hubris really wouldn't allow him to take the path that his sons had taken, which is i really wasn't involved at all. he did, you're right, he admitted to weighing in on these valuations. in fact, he said they were undervalued in some respects. my favorite was, with respect to the square footage of his apartment, he said, well, maybe that was including the roof. he really tried to defend these valuations while at the same time admitting he had something to do with them. i think it was a wash in terms of his testimony. i don't think there were any slam dunks yesterday with tish james' case, but i think little by little, they are stacking up against him. >> the defense has the option to cross-examine any of these witnesses. they haven't yet. do you think they should or need to when it comes to what you saw from donald trump yesterday?

>> yeah, well, chris kise made a statement after the testimony saying that in all his years of practice, donald trump was the best witness he's ever had on the stand. that blows my mind. i don't know if he's -- i think that's just bravado. interesting that they didn't choose to cross-examine him. usually you would see him try to clean up some of that questionable testimony. you know, it could just be the fact that there was nothing more to give. the judge, after sort of that first back and forth in the morning, the judge did let him go on these soap box soliloquies, long ranlts. he did get to say a lot of what he wanted to say. >> i think chris kise probably had that statement prepared before the testimony, no matter what trump was going to do, it was going to be the best he had ever seen. what's left? besides ivanka trump's testimony, what's left for the state to make its case? >> nothing, the state has said ivanka will be -- they're wrapping up after ivanka.

now it's time for the defense to put on their case in chief. i think there will be somebody from deutsche bank coming. remember, the issue here in this case is reliance and materiality with respect to that inducement on the statements whether or not the banks relied on them. i think they're going to try to fight back on that aspect of the case. >> caroline, you always make things so understandable. >> bankers are normally really boring. they may be very interesting. >> great to see you. coming up for us, dueling protests over the israel/hamas war turned deadly in ventura county, california. so far, no arrests. police are investigating this as a homicide and a possible hate crime. and a new warning this morning to colleges who won't or can't seem to find a way to stop hate from spreading on their campuses. it could cost you a lot.

this morning, police are investigating the death of a jewish man who died following an altercation at a dueling pro-israel, pro-palestinian demonstration. the victim, 69-year-old paul kessler, had a confrontation with at least one counterprotester. his death has been ruled a homicide by the medical examiner's office. stephanie elam joins us now. bring us up to speed on where things stand. >> reporter: this happened on sunday, john. that's what we know. there was a protest going on where there were pro-israeli protesters and pro-palestinian protesters that were at the same intersection in thousand oaks which is northwest of los angeles here in southern california. what law enforcement is saying that witnesses said there was an altercation with at least one other counterprotester, and that

what they understand is kessler fell backwards, hitting his head, according to the sheriff's office. this is new video we just got cleared here in the aftermath of what happened. you see the woman with the palestinian flag bending down, which looks like she's trying to help the man who fell, kessler, who fell in this moment. he was taken to the hospital, but he later died the next day. he died yesterday of his injuries. now, it's unclear what led up to this altercation at this point. they don't know how many people were involved, either. we also know that no suspect has been named yet, but we also know that the ventura county sheriff's office is not ruling out that this could have been a hate crime. so what is also interesting here is that you're looking at the neighborhood. we know that also there is a rabbi from a nearby temple who has spoken to law enforcement. he is telling cnn there were conflicting reports, is what he has understood. he's also encouraging the community to wait for the

results of this investigation before anyone jumps to conclusions. also, we have a statement that we have received from the executive director of the council on american islamic relations and the statement says, quote, we are deeply saddened by this tragic and shocking loss. we join local jewish leaders in calling on all individuals to refrain from jumping to conclusions. sensationalizing such tragedy for gains or spreading rumors that could escalate tensions that already are at an all-time high. obviously, the sheriff's office looking for any more video from anyone who was there to share that with them so they can further investigate this. they're saying that this blunt force injury, according to the autopsy, is what led to kessler's death. and the manner of death being a homicide, but still many questions out there, john, about what led up to this and what happened. there will be a press conference later this morning that we will

be tuning in to for sure. >> we'll stay tuned for that. stephanie, thank you so much. kate. so facing fear and hate on more and more college campuses. the white house, the biden administration, is taking new steps. the department of education just pushed out new guidance to schools even going as far as warning that federal funding could be pulled if campuses don't step it up to prevent anti-semitic and islamophobic hate. rene marsh sat down with miguel cardona for an interview with this. what did you hear on this? >> reporter: this is an urgent message coming from the age enls in charge of policy for all of america's schools and coming at a time that we have seen these unprecedented number of anti-semitic incidents on campuses nationwide. and in this new letter this morning, the education department's office of civil rights reminds k-12, colleges, and universities that they have a, quote, legal responsibility

under title vi of the civil rights act of 1964 to provide all students a school environment free from discrimination, and if not, their federal funding is at stake. here is the education secretary on that. >> how aggressively will the department of education pursue pulling funding in these scenarios? >> withholding federal dollars in our toolbox. i would want to provide support, guidance, and if there are egregious acts, i want to make sure we're investigating them. >> reporter: and he went on to say that the point at which a school could potentially lose their funding is if they just absolutely refuse to combat these issues we're seeing on campuses. the agency says it has seen an uptick in complaints filed with the civil rights office. eight to nine complaints, expecting the number to rise.

they're also crafting additional guidelines for schools and universities to help them essentially be guided through how to handle these incidents on campuses. you know, it is tbd on when exactly that new framework will be available for campuses, kate. >> look, it's tough, but it is these schools' responsibilities to allow students to be able to live campus life, get their education free from the hate and fear of -- for their safety that we have seen since the hamas terror attack on israel on october 7th. it's great that you're leaning into this. thank you so much. john. in just minutes a supreme court will hear arguments in a key second amendment case. one that could ultimately impact almost every gun safety law.

all right. in just minutes supreme court is going to hear arguments on whether or not the government can deny guns for those placed under a restraining order. it is an important case and the

first case that the supreme court will hear since it marked the expansion of rights in decades. our supreme court justice reporter paula reid is outside. what should we expect? >> it is back after a little bit more than a year after the majority issued a decision that threa threatened this nationwide, and resulting from a case of a man who had threatened his girlfriend with violence while under a restraining order. the law enforcement searched his home and found multiple firearms. now, in the wake of the expansion of the gun rights was

then overturned, but they will concede they don't want this man to make their case, because he is a drug dealer, and this man has been accused of domestic violence and engaged in bizarre shootings, including at a whataburger after his friend's credit card was declined, but instead of focusing on the personal characteristics, this not a restraining order, but a conviction to restrain someone's rights. but restraining order is a tool when it comes to combatting domestic violence, because 70 women every month are shot and killed by an intimate partner and women are five times more likely to die if their abuser has access to a gun. arguments are about to get under way. >> this is seen as gun amendment case, but there are people in

the anti-domestic violence case watching this closely, because it is very important to the casework they do. and now, there is a people out behind you? >> yes, it is a case that brings out a lot of opinions and thoughts and people who believe it is a first opportunity for the supreme court to really clarify what exactly they meant in that decision a little over a year ago. did they mean that every case would have to have an equivalent from the time of the country's founding. is that what they meant? did they intend to include some nuance or context like domestic violence or to rare tities or something like that, and this is an opportunity for people to come out before the court to express their opinions on this case. >> that is something that people will be looking for how closely they are referencing past here now that the supreme court has seemed to set that bar in second

amendment cases. paula reid, thank you so much. kate? >> coming up for us, key races in several critical states today and what it could mean for 2024. we will have all of the details for you.

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