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it is the top of the hour. we're so happy you could join us this morning. i'm don lemon. it it is november 2nd. >> losing faith in the election system. a new poll reveals how many voters already distrust the results of the mid-term elections before they even come in. >> and, wow. caught on camera, this texas woman gored by a bison in a state park. you are going to hear from her during and after that attack. >> a very busy wednesday here in the country. we're going to begin with this new reporting. members of the pelosi family will soon be able to hear audio from the 911 call paul pelosi

made to police on the night he was assaulted and they'll get to see camera footage of that brutal attack. jamie, good morning to you. what do you know? >> reporter: good morning, guys. don, as you said, the police, the local san francisco police, the d.a. are providing members of the pelosi family. they will be the first to hear that 911 call, which we know lasted about three minutes. that may be critical because as the details are coming out, we're getting sort of a realtime narration of what was going on and of course the body cam footage, which the d.a. told cnn yesterday you will see. so members of the pelosi family are going to actually see the attack where paul pelosi was hit in the head with a hammer and his skull was fractured, don. >> jamie, we have finally heard from the district attorney on last night talking to erin on

what he could and couldn't say. >> i think a combination of the d.a. and what we heard from the police chief, first of all, this phone call lasted three minutes. we're getting extraordinary detail about what the assailant said to police, volunteered, that it was a suicide mission. that sound you just played from the police chief i think is critical to anderson cooper last night. he said that it was crystal clear to him that he intended to kill paul pelosi and let's not forget the intended target was nancy pelosi. this was political. >> so much of your coverage has also has to factor in these conspiracies that now these officers, the investigators are essentially having to debunk in

realtime, but it's the more the facts come out, the more like a crazy conspiracy it seems. >> a couple things. first of all, shame on all these people who are spreading this nonsense. i think we need a new word for conspiracy theories, i think we need to call them lies. but as far as civility is concerned, enough is enough. this is just crazy. we're living in a very polarized country. this is clearly only making it worse. i would just add on a political note, we are a week away from election day. i'm not saying the republican base that follows this is going to dramatically change, but in some of these tight races, maybe it will make a difference around the edges. >> i think you're right. it's not lies, it's dangerous lies, deadly lies. >> absolutely. absolutely.

>> thank you, jamie. >> jamie, thank you, as always. let's talk about new numbers. polls for republicans are showing a strong position ahead of next week's mid terms the economy is at the forefront of what most of voters care about, but only 3% say crime is the most important issue this election season. for them let's bring in political director david chalian. what do the numbers tell us? >> this brand new batch of polling that we're wribringing m our exclusive cnn polls deals with confidence in the election results. take a look. are you confident that the u.s. elections will reflect the will of the people? this is a divided nation. 50% are confident, 50% of americans are not. take a look by party. so democrats far more confident than not, 61 to 39%s are

independents roughly split 49-51. 59% of republicans are not confident that the u.s. elections will reflect the will of the people, four in ten republicans are. if you look over time we do see flight uptick in confidence across all parties. so a slight uptick from june, july to know, 57 to 61%. we've seen significant growth in confidence among republicans, though as i just showed you, more republicans are distrustful than trust. >> right. go ahead, david. >> no, please, go ahead. >> i just ask you what the numbers show about greater republican confidence in the election system and obviously so much of this stems from election denialism continuing from the former president on down. >> yeah. i mean, we just asked straight out did joe biden legitimately win enough votes for the presidency? that's what we asked in the poll? and overall, the american

population, 67%, yes. a third of americans, 32% say, no, he did not. i want you to look at this by party. democrats overwhelmingly, independents overwhelmingly, but republicans are a complete reversal of the public overall. 66%, two-thirds of republicans, say that joe biden did not win enough votes to legitimately win the presidency in 2020. >> unbelievable. >> david, thank you very much. appreciate that. >> the white house is like, um, we been in office. >> david did a great job on the numbers. this is more than just about the numbers. this is a crux of what is happening in this country and this is a crux of why tuesday is so important because people believe in lies. the election was not stolen. this was the most controlled election. you have to look at who has been

spreading the lies. >> is still spreading lies. >> and those are the bigger questions. the bigger question is who is doing it and why is it happening and why are american voters allowing things like that to happen? because we shouldn't be. this is really important stuff and this is why tuesday is really important. election deniers quite honestly should not have the momentum that they have. the truth should have the momentum. >> we talked a lot of these senate races, who the candidates are, what they stand for. we just talked to one of the democratic candidates for governor in arizona. also a race that people have not been paying as close of attention to that is something everyone in washington is watching is nevada and the senate rate there. it could decide who controls the senate. who do you call to rally voters to the final campaign days if you are the democrat and freaking out right now -- >> the big guns. >> barack obama. >> democrats typically did not

think they would be worried about this seat but now it is one of the most worrisome that they are facing. >> reporter: no question about it. barack obama was at a rally just north of here last night trying to fire up democratic voters, attacking republicans up and down the ticket, including adam, running for the senate. obama was criticizing him over his effort to overturn the 2022 election result, his ties to the oil industry and his plans to deal with inflation, which is of course a driving issue in the race. democrats have been racking up major victories in nevada tore the better part of a decade, but next week that trend could come to an abrupt end. first term senator trying to cling on to her seat amid a gop offensive that could not off democrats up and down the ticket here. >> she rubber stamped joe biden's reckless spending. >> as democrats seek to tap into

voter anger over inflation and high gas prices. the polls showing the race dead locked and democrats are calling in the big guns. >> i am here to ask you to vote. >> reporter: as he joined john legend, president obama sounded the alarm. >> the only way to save democracy is if we together fight for it! >> but one person, president joe biden, democrats have ketpt at n arm's length. >> president obama is here. why not president biden? >> i'm focused right now on this election and making sure i'm getting around talking values. >> reporter: she has aligned herself with donald trump. >> they can try to blame anybody they want.

they can only blame themselves now. >> reporter: appearing at a rally with the former president in rural nevada last month and with his eldest son, donald trump jr. last week. >> you guys ready to take your country back? >> but he has limited his interaction with the press, even dodging cnn's questions a the an ev -- at an event last week. strategists from both parties say the two candidates are not well known among the electorate with roughly 300,000 voters here. >> the charmed life of adam laxall always looking out for himself. >> outside groups have tried to define this many across the airwaves, dropping nearly $110 million in just the last two months. as he toured a major solar project outside of las vegas, he

taugh touted energy. >> you're in a state that is a proud pro-choice state. my opponents are on the other side of that. >> reporter: this senate race will not feature a single senate debate. democrats believe that is a concerted strategy to limit his interviews to friendly media interviews. but they say masters has not effectively defined herself despite being the first woman latino senator and she noted she's a third generation nevadan. >> it's been a big question what are the democrats' message in these final closing days. we'll be covering the election very closely at cnn. we start at 4 p.m. eastern next tuesday. we'll be going all night. >> that's when it starts and

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haha haha harry enten. let's go over to the magic wall and we're going to talk about the powerball and get an idea of what americans are thinking about the lottery. i think the first question is if you in fact win the lottery, would you share it with your friends and family? 87% of people say yes, they would. i'm iffy. would you quit your current job if you won the lottery? 62% of americans said yes. i'm in the no camp. i like being with these folks. the number one question is how do we win this freaking lottery? how do we win it so i could go up to buffalo ow. pick numbers larger than 3 1.

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the supreme court has declined to block a subpoena for republican senator lindsey graham to testify. they said the questions can be limited. the grand jury is vetinvestigat to overturn the vote in georgia. brad raffensperger is running for reelection. mr. raffensperger, obviously the reason that the district attorney wants to talk about this is because of calls that he made to you. i wonder when senator graham was calling you, what did you believe was the purpose behind that phone call? >> he was calling about the process he had for accepting absentee ballots. back in 2020 people wanted to make sure it was being done and there are questions about that

process. post 2020 a lot of people are probably more as as well versed in election security. we're looking at things. >> did you think there was a legislative performance behind senator graham's calls to you? >> i don't know exactly what they do in washington, d.c. i think that's one of the reasons we're having strong turnout, people are frustrated with what is going on in washington, d.c. we've seen the pocketbook issues. i'm going to let the grand jury do what they do and make sure we have a fair and honest election coming up this coming tuesday. we have record turnout right now. >> if he denies that or anything about asking you to do something in this election, is he essentially lying to the grand jury? >> well, i think i'll let them do their process. we've had our statements and he'll have his and that's all in a sealed process. but like i said, our big issue

is like last night we passed over 1.9 million early voters. we're going to be over 2 million here sometime midday today. we're just really focused making sure everyone knows their vote will count. we have honest and fair elections here in georgia. >> you make such an important point. it is great, everyone should be celebrating how many people are turning out to vote early, how many are expected to go to the polls on election day, it's fundamental to our democracy. you've nearly matched the 2020 election in terms of numbers of early votes. democratic gubernatorial candidate stacy abrams says this is happening in spite of georgia's innew voting law. what do you say to her? >> it's silly. it doesn't make sense.

it's not logical. we're having record turnout. we now have nphoto i.d. minnesota has been using photo i.d. for absentee voting for years. we're seeing that people really feel that we have safe, secure and honest elections. we're having record turnout for early voting. people are seeing the lines are move being quickly. we're not receiving any major issues in any area. all 159 counties are doing their job, making sure the people will have a smooth process. we're just expecting that to continue. we've been recognized by the senate for election of innovative research on the left side of the aisle and we've been recognized by heritage on the right side of the aisle for having strong, accurate elections with integrity. i think that's successful in also having the right, appropriate guardrails in place --

>> just because people are voting in record numbers doesn't mean there still aren't suppressive efforts and you look at what happened with the drop boxes, the number of drop boxes being reduced, especially in black and brown areas and where they can be located, and the hours that they can be located. why isn't it important? it worked during the pandemic and during covid. why isn't it important to open up as many places at possible as many days as possible for people to get out and vote? >> it's a key point. during the pandemic, we had 25% of the people voting absentee and that's why as an emergency measure drop boxes were put in as an administrative rule. the drop boxes wreren't allowed. the numbers are down for

absentee. >> maybe this was something that actually worked and you would learn from it and say, wow, look how many people we gave access to for voting. no? >> yeah. now we have 80% less people voting absentee. 1 for every 100,000 voters. next session the general assembly can vote on it and say should it be tweaked, should there be more drop boxes. back in 2020 we had nearly 40 counties that did not have a single drop box and now every county has to have a drop box. we have safe voter i.d. we have record registrations. we have 6.9 million active registered voters and it looks like we will be pushing well over 4 million, which is what we had in 2018. we won't hit the presidential number of 5 million but it's here as the proper guardrails and accessibility and we believe we're the model for election

integrity but also election access. >> it's remarkable the numbers. when i interview governor kemp, he told me this is proof what president biden and other democrats have said about the new election law is wrong. brad raffensperger, we appreciate your time. we'll let you get back to early voting in georgia. >> thank you. >> all eyes will be on the state where he is, georgia, coming up on tuesday. >> coming up, we have caught on camera a texas woman gored by a bison in state park. you'll hear what was happening right as this attack was under way. >> oh my god!

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you're going to have to see this next one to believe it. i'm sure this woman could not believe what happened. but she lived to tell about it. you would say she's lucky to be alive but i don't think this is very lucky there. she was gored by a bison.

rebecca clark shared a video of the attack last month that exploded on social media. ed lavandera joins us from texas. what a crazy experience. >> reporter: you know, rebecca clark's survival story is that, it's quite an amazing survival story but it is more than that. it really puts the spotlight on decades of efforts to save one of the most iconic animals in north america. walking under the vibrant sky and rustic cliffs of cap rock canyon state park feels like a journey in a lost age. this sprawling land is home to a herd of southern plains bison, a species that centuries ago dominated the landscape. today it a park where the bison and the human roam. >> this is kind of my memory

wall. >> rebecca visited the park pore -- for a week of solo hiking. >> i want to remember the time and the things that happened. >> reporter: it's a story she's lucky to tell. >> keep going. i just want to get by. >> reporter: clark recorded on her phone as she crossed paths with bison roaming the trail, closer than the 50-yard minimum recommended. at what point were you concerned? >> when i saw him turn, instantly i knew he was going to come after me. oh [ bleep ]! >> oh my god! >> reporter: the bison gored clark in the past. >> it was so fast. he rammed me, hooked me and

flipped me into the bush. >> reporter: what was going through your mind? >> i thought i was paralyzed. >> the bison's horn cut a wide gash in her back. >> i still know that i was too close. i wasn't as diligent as i should have been. >> reporter: clark posted her video on tiktok. it went viral and put the spotlight on this unique state park. >> bison are a keystone species. >> reporter: the superintendent is a passionate advocate of growing herds. >> it's cool to have bison walk across the road in front of you. >> reporter: in the 1870s, the texas bison were decimated in the great slaughter, but famed ranchers kept a few and were kept and bred on a private ranch

in decade. in 2011 they released the bison to begin roaming freely. since then the herd grew from 80 animals to 350. >> the song "give me a home where the buffalo roam," that's where we live. >> reporter: visitors are warned to keep their distance. here the bison are king. >> they are survivors. they survived our best attempt at trying to get rid of them and they're making a comeback. >> reporter: has this changed your relationship with this animal? >> i'm sorry, gosh, i can't believe he did this to me. i'm trying to protect the opportunity to go experience nature. >> reporter: this is what makes rebecca clark emotional. she'd be devastated if her encounter prevents others from this bison experience. you love the outdoors that much? >> yeah, wow. >> reporter: i am so sorry. >> it's an ah-ha moment for me

there. yeah, i hope i didn't keep somebody else from that. >> reporter: so, guys, rebecca clark says she is well on her way to recovery, that she'll be hiking again and enjoying the outdoors by the end of the year. and donald beard, the superintendent of the park, says that his goal is to increase the bison population herd here in texas up to 2,000 but he needs to find other places across the southern plains where these animals can continue to thrive. >> thank you, ed. >> president biden and former president trump and obama all traveling to pennsylvania this weekend in a last-ditch effort to energize voters before tuesday's leelection. will it make a difference?

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joining me, josh shapiro. thank you for being with us this morning. let's talk about the economy. so much of this as you know is about inflation and you've got a democrat in the white house, you've got democrats controlling the house and the senate and inflation is out of control. my question to you is as governor, there's not a lot you can do to deal with inflation but you do oversee all these state agencies that deal with tax policy, that deal with grants, that deal with aid to those suffering. what would you do as governor to help people struggling with the economy, with inflation? >> well, look, obviously this is not an issue created by the governor of the commonwealth or the state lawmakers but i do think we have a responsibility to address it, to bring down costs for pennsylvania families. that's why i leaned in on this issue and put forth a concrete plan to reduce costs for pennsylvanians. first we would cut business taxes. second, we'd get rid of those

nuisance taxes like the cell phone tax. third, we're going to double what's known as the property tax rent rebate and double the number of seniors that are eligible for it. that's going to help seniors with rising costs be able to stay in their homes and finally for those who are dealing with pain at the pump, i want to give them all an immediate $250 gas tax rebate. two cars, $500 and so on and so forth. we have to cut kcosts for pennsylvania families. this problem may not have come from pennsylvania but i'm the only candidate to address it. >> let's look at what's happening here. the economy is number one. it's always as james carville said, "it's the economy, stupid." democrats are running on abortion. 51% on economy, and crime if you look at the republican message,

it's 3%. it's at the bottom of the list. what is the disconnect here for democrats on abortion and republicans on crime? >> look, i can't speak for national democrats or national republicans. i can speak to what i hear in pennsylvania every day. i would just tell you i think pennsylvania voters, republican and democrats, they know how to walk and chew gum. they care about rising costs and care about their personal freedoms. those personal freedoms are under attack with this dangerous extreme opponent that i'm running against who wants to ban and criminalize all abortion with no exception. i lean in on personal freedoms and talk about the economy and crime. i'm proud to be endorsed by prosecutors of both parties, by local police all across pennsylvania. i've got a plan to hire 2,000 more police officers across this commonwealth, properly trained and from the communities that they are subomeone to protect

because have a right to be safe and feel safe in our communities. that's why we've seen so many republicans join with democrats and independents in our campaign. >> i'm fascinated by the fact that you and your competitor agree on a lot when it comes to the economy. you want to cut corporate tax almost twice as much as he does. you want to cut it 4%, he wants to cut it 2.5%. president biden has talked in the last week about corporate war profiteering. you and the president seem sort of on a different page. are you? >> well, look, i'm not paving a whole lot of attention to what the president's plan is or what people in washington, d.c. are paying attention to.

i'm talking about what washington county, pennsylvania needs. if we're going to spur economic growth, we need to cut taxes and raise wages. that's a common sense approach that's going to help our economy. that's what i'm focused on, the people of washington county, not the noise coming out of washington, d.c. >> president biden is many coulding to ca cou cou cou cou coulding to -- coming to campaign with you on saturday. we see the big bust b behind yo. >> what bus? >> y'all are welcome to come and join me any time. do the morning show from the bus. >> maybe we will. >> we had an election express here. >> oh, remember that? can i ask you about something we are seeing from our reporters on the ground in pennsylvania and this is really fascinating to me. they are hearing from voters, you are deeply popular, who are

voting for you for governor but when it comes to the senate, they are voting for mehmet oz. what do you make of that? >> we'll see what voters ultimately do at the end of the day. i'm for john fetterman. you couldn't have a clearer contrast in both of these cases but i'm focused on making the case against doug mastriano, who is the most dangerous candidate in the nation. our voters are discerning. we've seen a long history of ticket splitting across pennsylvania. i'm proud of the fact that so many republicans have joined with democrats and independents in supporting me. i think they recognize this is a moment where we got to take off the red and blue jersey and just wear the pennsylvania jerseys, with our freedoms threatened

with mastriano. we need to stand tall around the values that we hold dear, democracy, freedom and our love of this country. and that's something that's uniting democrats, republicans and independents behind my candidacy and i'm honored to have that support. >> i just have one question about that. you said you are supporting john -- >> i thought don was about to drop some knowledge. >> i was about to drop some knowledge. >> don is always dropping knowledge. i do have a quick question. you said you're supporting john fetterman. do you believe he should have his the press? >> that's obviously a decision john is going to make. i will be with him tonight in state college, we will be rallying students at penn state but that's ultimately his call. >> my knowledge drop time was --

it is i think the biggest lesson. >> give it to us, don. >> it's branding. you have the bus and you have the jacket and you stayed on message. this isn't about this person, it's about me. it's not about what's happening in the nation, this is about what's happening to people in pennsylvania. staying on message, but i'm making a joke about your branding, but nice jacket, by the way. >> well, don, if don lemon knows how to dress, if you like the ted lasso puffer coat, that's a good deal. >> you don't even know what a challenge it is to keep up with this. >> thank you for joining us from your bus tour this morning. we look forward to paying attention closely to pennsylvania. >> thank you. coming up. >> this is a good one. she has acted in classics, legally blond, american pie, two of my favorite movies and don has a chance to talk to her, jennifer coolidge, the one and only. we will have her interview ahead. >> she's fun. >> oh, my god. you look like the fourth of july. that makes me want a hot dog

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definitely a scene jennifer coolidge, maybe you don't know her name but have seen her in everything. her most acclaimed performances are in "the white lotus" and the "the watcher." she is a streaming star. she will make you laugh. i got a chance to sit down with the actress in new orleans at her home. here is our interview. >> i'm a huge, huge fan of yours. is that okay? if i fan out a little bit? >> please. why not? yeah. >> you are an emmy award winner, you have been on the big screen, you've been on the small screen and now you are the streaming star holding it down on hbo and netflix. what is that like? >> it's way more enjoyable if you never expected the moment to

happen. i think it's the surprise of it all that makes it so fun just because i just -- i truly believe if i had expected this all to happen it never would have happened. i think -- i don't know. who knows? sometimes i think i don't even want to analyze it because i don't want to jinx it. it's just this weird, you know, lucky moment. >> what do you mean weird lucky moment? you mean to have success at a ripe young age of we won't say? >> yes. yes. don't say. >> because hollywood is such -- it's like youth. >> i mean, i think one of the reasons people have had such a maybe big response on both sort of both shows that sort of, you know, came out and stuff like that is that i think a lot of people, you know, even especially i think covid had something to do with it. it's like i think a lot of people want to feel like they have a chance at something, that maybe they thought it was a missed chance. and i think i'm a good example of that. >> and i am deeply, deeply insecure.

i know a lot of rich white [ bleep ] up people. so let's have fun, okay? >> when you think about -- about "white lotus" because the success that happened during covid and everybody was watching. i watched it, actually binge watched it when i had covid. >> you did? >> i was watching it as i had covid and i was like i want to be in hawaii with them. and i said these are such awful people, i don't know, but i'd still like to be in that beautiful place. >> a lot of us were awful. i mean, some of us not intentionally awful, but, yeah, we are spoiled -- spoiled rotten. >> why do you think it was such a success? do you think it was because of covid? obviously it's because it's a great series. >> i think mike white has this -- is very tapped into who people are and how to tell a story. i think his stuff is very real. and then we had a lot of, you know, strong feelings for marie bartlett's character, sympathize being -- look, i was a cocktail

waitress right before i got stifler's mom. >> are you trying to sed do you say me? >> yes, ma'am, i am. >> the big screen i came to know you as a sex symbol, as st stifler's. >> i glad they didn't cast a supermodel for that role. i think they wanted a woman who might be in the neighborhood. i'm glad they went with someone kind of normal, if i am -- if i can pull that off. i thought -- it was like a normal woman that like, you know, just some kid would maybe have a crush on. >> let's go to "the watcher" now, your other success that is also airing at the same time. >> excuse me. did indentured servants build this home, do you know? >> what? i mean, how would i know? >> it's scary. >> yeah. >> it's creepy.

>> i think people love it when it's a true story and it really did happen to some people, creepy people are always more interesting than monsters. any sort of robot or anything -- nothing is creepier than a creepy human. >> i think the folks in streaming now have more of an influence on the culture and are even in some ways bigger stars than people on the screen, on the big screen, than the box office i should say, that go to movie theaters. >> i feel like maybe the people that are streaming these shows aren't as in love with perfection as the previous audience. i make a million wrong moves in a day and i think maybe the streaming people like that. >> i think you're right about that. >> you do? >> i think that's part of the success because it's more relatable. >> no one has ever said i'm right about anything. >> she's amazing. kayla said can you get jennifer coolidge, i felt challenged to interview her. >> that show is so good.

mike white, dave burnett behind it, they are amazing. >> and to watch her as well. >> what's your mission in life for me? >> is to get poppy to watch "white lotus." that interview was to good. hearing her talk about her career and how it got started, she was grateful they didn't cast some supermodel. >> did you watch the first episode of "white lotus." >> it was on sunday right before we were getting ready for this show. >> i watched it last night. >> good? >> yeah. >> my saturday night plans. >> the thing is streaming stars now have just as big an influence or as much impact or more than box office movie stars because everyone is watching streaming and everyone is watching the "white lotus." hbo max. if you don't have it sign up and also "the watcher" is on netflix. thank you for joining us, everyone. we will see you back here tomorrow morning. "newsroom" starts right now.