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top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." so good to have you. i'm victor black well. >> i'm bianna. less than two weeks until election day and new twists may shake up some key races. in georgia where the tied u.s. senate race could determine

which party will have future control, republican candidate herschel walker is facing a second allegation that he paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion. walker is calling this a lie. the unnamed woman says she is an independent who voted for donald trump and was walker's mistress in the early '90s. >> he has taken the position that he is, quote, about life, end quote, and against abortion under any circumstances when, in fact, he pressured me to have an abortion and personally ensured that it occurred by driving me to the clinic and paying for it. >> and in arizona, phoenix police say they've made an arrest at a democratic candidate's headquarters specifically here, we're talking about the campaign office of ka ka katie hobbs, the democratic nominee for governor.

a republican rival kari lake mocked the camp for tying the crime to the election calling it jussi smollett part two, which refers to the actor convicted of lying to police. we're also watching president biden this afternoon. he is expected to speak this hour from syracuse about the economy and the election. and joining us now is cnn political analyst and david chalon. good to have both of you with us. this herschel walker news and i'll start with you, margaret, he's now making jokes about it. he says that, well, i didn't kill jfk either. it doesn't seem like it that the voters in georgia, the republican voters are making any moves based on this, and the republican, i guess, establishment didn't make any moves because it comes down to an equation and they need georgia. >> yeah, victor. i think that's right, and i think the calculation in terms of the gop is that this is sort of baked in now, and it's not,

like,, you know, strategically what's their next option, but having a second accuser come forward with a lot of the same details, the signing of the note with an h and a lot of the same patterns, it certainly makes the first accuser more credible. i think we're at a stage now a week and a half out from the election where some of the polling and interviews just suggest that herschel walker's character or forthcomingness on his past relationships with women or his past stances on abortion is not really the pivot point about what a lot of these voters are going to base their decisions on. i think it's too soon to know whether it's going to have any, you know, nuanced impact, but because it's georgia and because you're looking at the potential for a runoff, that creates, you know, sort of a barrier to -- it creates the possibility that we just won't know the answer to this election on election day or even the day after it.

so we'll see what happens. in a normal year, in a normal race, they would have been shocking allegations the first time around and the second accuser would have been additionally shocking. there are just different circumstances surrounding this race at this moment. >> so in a normal year, a normal race, georgia would probably be tied. pennsylvania would be tied, but did you ever think that the gubernatorial race for the state of new york would be tight, and not only that race, but the race for sean patrick maloney's seat as well. you have biden campaigning with governor hochul and the first lady going to be campaigning for maloney and trying to weigh in and help his campaign. what happened there? is it mostly related to crime? >> well, that is certainly a big issue in the new york race and a big issue quite frankly around the country, bianna. listen. what i'm hearing from democrats is a rising level of concern with each passing day now that there is this potential red wave building and that this midterm election season may perform to

form like we have seen in previous midterm cycles with a first term president which is that everything at the end potentially just collapses in the drexeirectional wave from t president's party. that may be happening here. what you noted about where the president is going today to new york, i mean, here is -- we are 12 days away from election day. we know president biden's approval ratings are upside down. he's more unpopular than he is popular broadly across the country. where can he go? he can go to a district like this one up in syracuse that he bested trump in by, like, 7% to 8 percentage points. there he is, perhaps to try and it's a republican-held district, and perhaps the seat that democrats eye as a potential

pickup. as you noted that gubernatorial race between kathy hochul and lee zeldin is uncomfortably close for democrats in deep blue new york, but that is where the president can sort of go and show up at this moment because then a lot of the true tossup races, he's just not being welcomed there right now. >> david, let me stay with you and talk about the rallies announced by the former president, donald trump. he's got four rallies, iowa, pennsylvania, ohio, florida, put an asterisk behind florida because he's not campaigning for both the top republicans there. some of these are really tight races. candidates who have been trying to moderate their positions or messages since the primary. does he help in oz in pennsylvania? does he help a vance in ohio with it so close in their attempts to kind of play to those independents? >> yeah. the trump team as you can see

from the map you just showed, they target where to send him very, very carefully and deliberately to places where the landing of trump's plane and he can hold a rally there that could juice republican turnout. so he goes to a republican area or where there are a big base of trump-aligned voters, and he can turn up their participation in the election. we saw them do this when he was president, and it is what helped the republicans have sort of a surprise victory in some house races in the 2020 cycle, and that's sort of how they're deploying him now. i do like that you caught that florida detail, victor, that he's on that one just going for marco rubio, but ron desantis doesn't seem to have been invited there, as they continue this shadow boxing pre-2024. >> quite a difference in that relationship from where it was four years ago where you had the former president endorse him. things have changed on that

front. margaret, how are things looking in pennsylvania for democrats? how are they feeling after that debate for fetterman? because it really was his election to lose up until tuesday night. >> well, they're feeling very, very anxious, and the trajectory before the debate was closing in. fetterman had a significant lead in earlier polling when oz was still strongly identified around trump, but as the general election season has progressed, that lead was narrowing to within really the margin of error depending on whose research you're looking at. the debate was a gamble and most of the democratic strategists that we have talked to have concluded that in a best case scenario it probably did not help him with people that were trying to make up their mind based on their perceptions of his health or his -- or the trajectory of his recovery. i will say that pennsylvania has been one of the states where we've seen a significant amount of early voting and that the

early voting numbers as of the night of that debate, something like three-quarters of those who had early voted were democrats. so a lot of -- there's been a good number of people who already had cast their ballot. perhaps already have made up their mind. the reality is we don't know. we've heard, you know, anecdotally from some democrats who felt more sympathetic to fetterman afterwards because he's trying hard and it was brave of him to take the stage, but for many who were saying i really like the guy, but i want to see how thhe's doing, the trouble on the fly may have hurt him. we don't know. we will see, but democratic strategists are concerned. >> yeah. i believe that some 600,000 pennsylvanians have already cast their vote in that commonwealth. margaret talev and david chalian. thank you. >> thanks. the new york police department is advising elevated vigilance ahead of the city's midterm elections.

a bulletin from the nypd warned of a complex domestic threat environment, but said there are currently no threats known. >> brynn gingras joins us. what do you know? >> reporter: this went out with the intelligence bureau. these get disseminated a lot of times, specifically for coming up to a big parade so to speak. it's notable it's coming out right before this midterm election, specifically because bolton says that we're in a complex domestic threat environment, and it brings in real world examples of things that they're keeping their eye on ahead of these midterms, not just here in new york, but really across this country. one thing they bring up is the tailgating that we're seeing that has been reported on so well in other state. they've also brought in intelligence they're seeing online in encrypted apps and chat rooms about poll workers. there is no immediate threat that they're seeing against a poll worker on a polling site or any candidates, however, this again is just so notable because it is warning everyone to be

alert when those midterm elections come up. i want to read one part of what this memo says. it says given the elevated domestic violence threat throughout the united states, uniformed members of service are advised to maintain heightened situational awareness in support of the upcoming midterm election. this speaks again, and it says it in this memo of the environment we are in right now created by january 6th, of course, with the election deniers that we have been talking about for years. so again, they're just getting ready for what's to come in just less than two weeks. >> we're seeing it all over the country, these heightened threats. staying in new york, separate story, but we're getting reports now of a hijacked new york city bus? >> crazy and terrifying incident that happened this morning in a morning dcommute. we learned that a 44-year-old man jumped in front of a city bus as it was moving and was able to board that bus with what officials say appeared to be a

gun. luckily this bus driver is a veteran and had years of experience and kept the doors open. 20 to 25 people who were on board that bus were able to get off, and the suspect told the driver, keep driving, go. someone is chasing me, threatening the driver. the driver was able to get 30 to 35 blocks, guys, before jumping out the window next to the steering wheel of the bus and the suspect apparently took over the wheel and then ended up subsequently crashing. no one got injured. the suspect, but still a crazy story that happened in the city today. >> it was remarkable no one was injured. >> it's incredible. >> brynn, thanks for the reporting. >> thank you. in texas today, emotions and outrage from the families of the uvalde school massacre. they attended a safety commission meeting expecting an update from top law enforcement official steve mcgraw, but he made no mention of it at all. >> we were there today.

tell us what happened during this event today. >> reporter: well, victor, certainly they were expecting this briefing. they thought they would get new information. the officials at the dps indicated to family members that there would be some kind of high level briefing that they would get new information, and families traveled here to get that information. qui quite simply it didn't happen. the families got to vent their frustration, their grief, their pain of just continually being denied this information. it's sort of cruel, you know? they make them come here, sit through this explain themselves, and then they get no information. the other thing really, the big thing here was that the family members called on the director to resign, steve mcgraw, the director of the department of public safety to resign and really was just kind of these moments here where he was trying to explain himself and he then tells the families, well, there was no failure on the part of the dps as an institution.

take a listen to how he described that. >> you're right. one of our core values is accountability. accept responsibility, plain and simple and i did make that statement. i can tell you this. if dps as an institution failed the families, failed the school, or failed the community of uvalde, then absolutely, i need to go. i can tell you this right now. dps is an institution, okay? right now, it did not fail the community, plain and simple. >> reporter: it's just, you know, after all these months, five months and we keep talking about the police failures here, for him to come out and say that certainly did not sit right with the family members. they're upset over it. they feel of course, there were failures. everyone feels there were failures. it's very obvious and documented. his response there was really

interesting because it comes on the heels of when we questioned him back in october last month. we found him, we went and asked him questions about the response and whether or not people were going to be fired and he said, well, if anyone is found culpable at the dps, then i would resign. well, where are we today? we have a firing of a sergeant at the dps. other dps officials are under investigation and yet now it's, like, mccraw is trying to play cute here and say, well, we didn't fail as an institution. individuals failed and therefore i'm not resigning. >> yeah. understandably frustrating for these families that have been waiting months for some answers. thank you. with me now is adam martinez. he is a parent of a student who was at robb elementary school the day of the shooting. thank you, adam, so much for joining us. i want to get your reaction to the day as a whole, but first your response to colonel mccraw saying that the dps as an

institution has not failed? >> yeah, i think he's changing his statement. unfortunately for him, we have him on camera. so when he said if he had culpability, last time i checked, kculpable means having fault. they fired already a couple of people so they were culpable. it's plain and simple, but, you know, we're trying to put the puzzle together and he's holding some of those pieces, and when he does give us those pieces, they're inaccurate. they don't fit. so we need transparency, and he could easily just release that body cam footage and let us decide, you know, what actually happened. >> what was your reaction to the fact that no real update was released today? i know one had been expected and many in your community had been hoping to hear some more de details. >> once again, it's not really

surprising. i think from the beginning they wanted to withhold information. that's why they said that they were -- they did a good job. they ran to the subject, you know, when they started releasing this footage, that's where it turned into a problem for him. >> do you think colonel mccraw should step down? do you feel safe living in that state with him as head of the dps? >> absolutely he should step down, and you know what? we didn't tell him. he said it himself. if he said something, he needs to be a man of his word. you look at dps and you think integrity and he's saying this and then he decides to walk his words back. so i mean, like i said, you know, he said it himself, and now he has to stick with his word. >> i know you opted to enroll your children in virtual learning for this semester. how are they doing? how much -- how aware are they of all of this? >> you know, we talk to them

daily about it, but, you know, they're -- they're doing well, you know, the schools aren't that safe right now. so we feel better. they're safer at home. they're happy, you know, we're probably going to go back after christmas if everything goes well, but there's still a lot of issues, so we're trying to take it day by day. >> there's still a lot of issues and i know you're trying to do your best to protect your ch a sense of normalcy. i hope they have a happy and fun halloween, adam. thank you. adam martinez, thank you for joining us. >> appreciate it. thank you. president donald trump was in federal court this hearing about the mar-a-lago documents investigation. we've got details on that. and at any moment president biden expected to deliver sharp criticism of republicans blaming them for rising costs. we'll have much more on his final pitch to voters. that's coming up. customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! (limu squawks)

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we're expecting in just minutes president biden will make a speech an the economy and make his closing pitch to voters as election day nears. he's expected to highlight the success of his economic agenda while calling out republicans for not doing enough to lower costs. >> cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is with the president. so jeremy, what more can we expect to hear? i know he's more likely to tout the chips act. >> reporter: officially, president biden is here to tout those $100 billion in investments in semiconductor manufacturing by that company micron right here in syracuse, but what i'm told is president biden is actually going to spend a lot of this speech sharpening

this contrast message that he's begun to lay out over the last couple of weeks with republicans. we are after all, 12 days away from those midterm elections and every speech at this point whether it's a rally or an official event is in effect a political speech by the president. this is not just to talk about what he has done, what he has accomplished, but to warn voters about what republicans would do should they win back a majority in congress. the president is going to talk about the fact that republicans want to repeal key cost-cutting provisions of the inflation reduction act including prescription drug provisions as well as some other aspects of that law as well. the president we know is facing these lower approval ratings than he would like to at this point. that's why we haven't seen him on the trail with a lot of democrats, but he's going to be using this event to set up that contrast. he's also going to be playing a very delicate balancing act.

he's here on the heels of positive economic news in terms of the gdp growth numbers rebounding this morning, but at the same time he wants to make clear to voters he has shown they're a top priority right now, and their priority is inflation and the economy, and he understands their pain and concerns, so to talk about the progress that has been made, and also the work that still remains to be done. >> we will head back to syracuse as soon as we hear from the president. jeremy diamond, thank you. lawyers representing donald trump left a federal courthouse in washington a short time ago after a private hearing in the investigation into documents found and recovered by the fbi at mar-a-lago. >> kaitlyn, this trump legal team usually appears in court in florida. what can we read into this d.c. appearance? >> what we know now is there is some sort of new dispute before a federal judge, the chief judge

of the d.c. district court that's happening in this mar-a-lago documents investigation. our team at the white house today did see the whole crew of lawyers who are representing donald trump in that particular investigation, entering and leaving the courthouse. tha there were also national security prosecutors working on that exact case here as well. they went into the courtroom and they were there for about two hours and they left and didn't say anything. no one would give us any comment about the reason why we're here. we still don't know if there was any resolution today or how it would affect this investigation, but what we do know as we step back is what this means is it's a sign that prosecutors are working to move forward in this investigations into mar-a-lago into the potential of obstruction of justice, and there is a situation that is

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russian president vladimir putin is once again, no surprise, blaming the west, pointing fingers for creating a global crisis while trying to dominate the world. >> translator: russia is not

challenging the western allalli. russia is defending its right to exist and freely develop. >> putin went on to say that so-called western elites had no right to force other countries to follow their path. joining us now is general steve anderson and cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier. let me start with you, kim. putin also said he never intentionally said anything about use of nuclear weapons, only that russia responded with hints to threats from the west. from what we heard from putin, is a nuclear tactical attack or any type of dirty bomb any more or less likely based on what you heard from vladimir putin today? >> well, look. his speech had multiple different audiences. one of them was the international community showing that he is sticking to his plan, moving ahead with this military campaign, but also again sort of flirting with the use of nuclear

weapons, kind of saying, oh, i didn't really say that, but look. every time he uses this tactic of bringing it up, what it does is change the channel. most recently away from russia on the battlefield. the other audiences he's aiming at are those within russia who might be on the side of the majority of people as i understand it from polls which are not always authoritative, but it seems like the majority of people are with him and he has to explain to them this war of conquest and then finally he's also aiming at europe. there are places like germany where some parts of the population are looking ahead to the cold winter and talking about peace deals and negotiations because they don't want the pain that putin knows he's about to put them through in terms of energy costs and lack of heating. >> yeah, and those temperatures already starting to go down in europe and in ukraine. general, let me ask you about his tactics going forward

because a lot of experts would suggest that now would not be the time for him to deploy a nuclear weapon if he's just mobilized some 200,000 troops and sending them out on the front just to nuke them doesn't really make sense, but on the topic of a dirty bomb, do you view that as potentially a pretext to then setting up this new front in kherson or in the southeast to bring in some of these mobilized troops that have been trained over the past few weeks? >> well, thank you, bianna and victor. i do not believe that he is serious about using them. i agree with kim in the assessment that a lot of this is just speaking to an audience back in russia. the hardliners that he has surrounded himself with, trying to appease them and to act tough to the rest of the world and to the u.s. and nato and the ukrainians, you know. he's losing the imaneuver war ad

he's trying to change the subject, change the channel and we've got to step up. i would remind our viewers that 15 years ago the united states was spending $300 million a day on the war in iraq and afghanistan. thus far, we've given the ukrainians the equivalent to about seven weeks of the war in afghanistan and of course, this is a far more existential threat to us all. so we need to step up. we need to take his threats seriously, but we need to make sure that the ukrainians have the air defenses that they needed. they don't have them right now. we need to step up with air defense systems with the united states and nato that will help them beat the threat they're getting right now. essentially these drones and any hints of any expanded, you know, war in regards to the use of those missiles to deliver dirty bombs or nuclear weapons. >> general, you said here and i wanted to lean on your suggestion that american contractors go in to help them learn to use the hardware, the systems that would give them the

partial air cover to prevent these. attacks on energy facilities and infrastructure. short of what you are recommending, is there any way to avoid what officials in kyiv now are saying that could potentially be this complete blackout as we get into the colder months? >> well, i think that if we get the right systems in there, victor, we could shoot down these iranian drones that are wreaking havoc right now. they've launched them in swarms and the intent -- ukrainians are successful in knocking about 85% to 90% of them, but enough of them are getting through and they're targeting the critical infrastructure and as kim pointed out, winter's coming up and they're trying to make life painful. so i definitely think that we can improve our air defenses, specifically i would like to see the c-ram system, the counterrocket artillery and mortar system that was used so incredibly successfully in iraq and afghanistan. i have personal experience with them. these are available, they are

mobile systems. we could get them in there and we could probably train, you know, short of getting on the ground in ukraine, i'm sure we could train them in poland how to use these and drive those systems into kyiv to knock out these low-flying threats that are really attacking their infrastructure and making life miserable for the ukrainians right now. >> two of these defense systems had been delivered and set up in ukraine. they're more sophisticated systems and ukraine has been asking for much more support for months now. brigadier general steve anderson and kim dozier, thank you. well, happening now the university of florida's faculty senate is holding an emergency meeting for a no-confidence vote after a sitting u.s. senator was named the school's only finalist for president. we're live in gainesville up next.

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happening right now, a university of florida emergency meeting is under way on campus over who should be the school's next president. a large number of faculty, staff, and students alike are outraged that sitting u.s. senator ben sasse, a republican from nebraska is presumably the only candidate being considered. >> cnn's layla assaieyla santia there. what are you hearing from the students on campus? >> reporter: right now there's an emergency meeting where a lot of faculty members are asking questions of those who were given an opportunity to

interview, senator ben sasse asking questions about the process and his stance and a lot of this comes after the last time he was on campus doing a q&a session in which he was interrupted by protesters that didn't really want to hear a lot of what he said, and didn't agree with his stance. as i spoke to students here on campus today, a lot of them took issue with his stance on lgbtq issues and says it doesn't really align with the community's inclusion efforts. so this is a senator, take note, that said he was disappointed with the supreme court's decision to declare same-sex marriage legal all over the country, and this is also a senator we should point, that has also not toed the party line. he has been critical of president donald trump. he has experience in academia, was once president of mid land university. so take a listen to what we've heard from both sides today.

>> our president is supposed to exemplify our core value that is drive and guide our university, including the core value of inclusion and how can we have president who has, you know, this history of being opposed to lgbtq rights, to women's rights, you know, exemplify that value for us. how can queer students and women feel included in our university when we have such a person as our president? >> i didn't hear a politician. my experience was that of a person who is not focused on politics, who has a passion for higher education, who wants to move in that direction, a person who is open to dialogue, who really listened, who is willing to learn. >> so both sides there, hear a bit from those who agree with who could be the next president of the university of florida and those who say, this does not

bode well with this community, and its inclusion efforts. right now as we speak inside, the faculty senate is talking about this election. there will be a vote for no confidence after this, and then november 1st will be the vote of the board of trustees here at the university of florida for the next president of the university of florida. >> we'll be following this. leyla santiago, thank you. the respiratory virus rsv is surging across the country, but public health experts say this outbreak did not come out of nowhere, but it was hard to predict. we'll explain why, next.

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