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♪ top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." good to have you along. i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm bianna golodryga. today's final jobs report before election day was just what the white house was hoping for. 261,000 jobs beating expectations from economists, but not too high to further drive up inflation. this goldilocks number helps the president make the case for his party in the final sprint to november 8th. former president trump is also on the campaign trail. he'll be in pennsylvania tomorrow pushing for the republican in one of the tightest races for senate that is key to determining who will control congress. pennsylvania has seen more than 1 million votes cast and is just one of several key battleground states where the early vote appears to be record-breaking. in total, more than 34 million americans have already cast their ballots. cnn's correspondents are

following it all. >> we begin in the neck-and-neck race for senate. >> today is the final day of early in-person voting in georgia. you can see lines wrapped around the building at this particular polling spot in atlanta. those numbers absolutely astronomical at this point here in georgia. those early voting numbers, like, they're talking about more than 2.2 million voters so far which is dwarfing what we saw in 2019 and starting to approach presidential early voting numbers here in georgia. in fact, a tweet that just came out from gabriel sterling with the secretary of state's office, says that number has grown even more today saying that more than 2,380,000 voters have cast their ballots so far in georgia. the candidates getting out on

the trail, doing those bus tours and they're trying to get to voters to encourage them to come out and vote or make sure they have a plan on election day. now, notably, raphael warnock is off the trail physically today. and that's because he is going -- he's attending the funeral, the memorial service for his mentor, the reverend in new york. herschel walker was also off the campaign trail for part of the day yesterday as he attended the memorial for his mentor, former georgia coach vince duly. warnock is going to be holding a telerally with voters this evening to make up for that. walker is on his bus tour. he was talking to voters, of course, people here also paying close attention to that governor's race between brian kemp and also democrat stacey

abrams. that much-anticipated rematch with much bigger numbers in early voting. >> let's go to arizona now. how are the candidates there spending these final days of campaign season? >> reporter: well, victor, what we're seeing is, you know, a closing message on the economy. but what we are seeing today from the republicans is an emphasis on border security. i want you to take a look at this video that came into cnn just a short time ago. my colleague traveling with the top of the republican ticket and what you see there is the u.s. senate nominee, blake masters, kari lake, the attorney general nominee and secretary of state nominee. they will be touring the border in just a few minutes. they are in travel right now to head to the border. but blake masters, i want to talk about him for a minute. he is locked in a very tight

race with democratic party senator mark kelly. and he is specifically talking not just about the economy but also what he's doing today, the border. >> blake masters has some beliefs that are just dangerous for arizonians. he wants to cut taxes for big corporations that are hiking up prices and has said that he would privatize social security. >> got a wide-open southern border. moderates don't like that. 13% inflation and moderates don't like that. the most important things right now are crime, inflation and the border. >> reporter: and you heard from senator kelly. he's trying to make the case that a vote for blake masters is too out of step for the state of arizona. we are seeing the democrats out today as well and it's going to be a very busy weekend. katy hobbs is on a bus tour and

we're seeing the democrat, senator kelly being joined by dr. jill biden. >> thank you. let's go to florida now. steve, you're learning more about who is casting those early ballots there. tell us. >> reporter: yeah, there have been 3.8 million people who have voted so far in the races for governor, senate and congressional races up and down the ballot and right now the numbers are looking very good for republicans. so far, of the people who have voted early, 44% are registered republicans. that compares to 37% who are democrats. that gives republicans a lot of confidence going into tuesday. how do those numbers compare to, say, two years ago. well, in 2020, there was actually -- it was actually pretty close. democrats at this point in the cycle outnumbered republicans, but only by a little bit. and then as you know, donald trump ended up winning florida with a huge turnout on election day. two years before that in the 2018 midterms, democrats actually trailed republicans but only slightly at this point in

the election cycle, but in those races, republicans won very narrowly up and down the ballot as well. the fact that republicans have a seven-point advantage at this point is giving them a lot of confidence. i will add the caveat, we don't know how people are voting, obviously. there's still a lot of people in the state who are registered no party affiliation, meaning they're not a republican or a democrat. a lot of those people have voted early as well and there are still a lot of people left to cast ballots. but the numbers that we're seeing are not only positive for republicans on paper, but they also track with the trends that we are seeing in the state over the last couple of years. this is the first election cycle where republicans are going into election day with a voter registration advantage over democrats. republicans have seen a surge of people signing up to vote over the last two years. democrats, meanwhile, have actually lost several hundred thousand voters across -- in every county in the state but one.

so when the numbers on voter registration match with the turnout so far, you can understand why democrats in the state are getting nervous, bianna and victor. >> we should get the results in florida soon. always one of the first states to report. thanks to our panel of correspondents. thank you. joining us now, stephanie grisham, former senior aide to the 2020 candidate, adrian elrod and gloria borger. a nonpartisan group who follows these races have shifted 20 of these races. the momentum that democrats have seen drift away from them seems to be getting -- to pick up speed towards republicans in these last days. >> yeah, i think they're incredibly worried about it. anything can happen in the last few days of an election and they know that.

as howard baker used to say, you know, in politics, overnight is a lifetime. but they do see the trends setting in the wrong direction and they're worried about it because, you know, conventional wisdom right now is that they're going to lose control of the house and, of course, the senate remains in contention and that's important to them. because all of the seats, so many, not just a handful, but more, are margin of error seats right now. and you have a very unpopular president in a lot of these key states and so this is pushing the boulder up the hill for them and it's difficult when a president is out there saying, look, things are bad, things are in a ditch, but i'm the one who can get you out of the ditch, and people are sceptical about that and worried and even though 70% of americans believe that saving democracy is important,

it's in single digits when you ask -- when you ask them whether it's one of their top issues. it's 9%. there you go. >> and adrian, it's harder when you're technically not in a ditch. we're not in a recession right now. we had a robust jobs report. but it's a delicate balance for the administration and for democrats to tout this while also knowing and seeing poll numbers reflecting that americans are really worried about the economy. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think that's why you're seeing democratic candidates running the two-track system where they're saying, look, we feel your pain, we understand that gas prices are high, we're working on lowering them, we understand that food prices are too high, here's what we have done. they talk about the provisions in the inflation reduction act, lowering prescription drug costs, a number of cost-saving provisions that put more money in family's pockets. what they're doing is saying we feel your pain, but also here is what we've done to address this. you may not feel it immediately and that's one of the problems

here is that you're not going to feel the effects of some of these policies ideal after the election. but you contrast that with what have the republicans done on inflation and what is their plan? there is no plan. i mean, republicans were practically gleeful, you know, a year ago when inflation numbers started going up because they thought that would help them in the midterms. they have not presented a reliable plan. and so i think the democrats candidates have to hammer home the message, that, yes, this may not be perfect, the economy may not be great for you, but we have implemented a plan, whereas republicans have no plan to address inflation going forward. >> stephanie, on that republicans having no plan. >> you know, i would agree that right now -- i'm wondering about the republicans messaging on that issue, but i would say, speaking about arizona and the piece you had just before, i think it's absolutely very smart that they are out there talking about the border and immigration

because that is something that has gone out of control since biden took over the office. another thing i think is going to be interesting, though, for the midterms is the down-ballot races. i'm watching that in terms of, you know, if the president -- the ex-president is going to announce again, i think he's going to watch and wait to see if people like kari lake are going to win, because those are the people who are going to go with him and not certify elections. that's what i'll be watching for more. i think the republican messaging on immigration is really, really smart. i'm not sure with inflation that their message of trump will fix everything is going to work out. >> it seems that republican leadership has sighing a breath of relief. we have four days to go. the former president hasn't made clear his announcement, his plans for the future. but it was interesting to hear scott jennings earlier today saying if he does announce and if georgia does go into a runoff

election, that that could actually hurt herschel walker. we remember what happened in georgia last time falling to the democrats. what do you make of that argument? >> i think it's accurate. if it goes into a runoff, first of all, i think not having kemp at the top of the ticket would hurt herschel walker more in many ways. but we remember what happened in the last election. donald trump was saying, you know, the election was fixed and people stayed home. and i think people are going to be worried that if he keeps out there talking about the rigged election, that republicans could stay home in a runoff. what i think you got going on right now is potential republican presidential candidates running on zoom calls with their staffs trying to figure out if trump announces, can they leave that playing field to him for very long? when do they need to jump in? what do they need to do? and how many of them would do

that, you know, especially those who said they wouldn't take on donald trump. somebody like chris christie said he would. but what about the others? so i think this gives a lot of people -- right now, they have to worry about how this affects a potential race and putting donald trump front and center again so early. >> governor hutchinson says he's not ruled out a run. says that if former president trump gets in the earliest date we have from sources from his aides is november 14th. that's next monday that he could be a declared candidate, the decision has to be made in very early 2023. there's no break now between one election and the next. >> it's a week apart. >> what about ron desantis? what does he do? he's got a couple hundred million dollars in the bank. maybe he doesn't have to worry

as much. but people are going to have to start making decisions. >> adrian, we're standing by from the president. he's going to talk manufacturing. going to talk about the 261,000 jobs created in october. september numbers, revised upward to 315,000. but this poll, the cnn poll shows that 75% of americans believe that the u.s. is in a recession, 61% of democrats believe that the economy is in recession. who's fault is that? >> i don't know that it's necessarily anyone's fault? there's some confusing statistics. the unemployment rate is really low. these job numbers today were outstanding. biden has created 10.3 million jobs under his tenure. but you are seeing an inflation cost going up, you saw interest rates rising. americans have less money has a whole in their checking accounts than they did a couple of months ago. you're seeing some confusing economic statistics. i think the white house is being

very smart in leaning into the economy. they're not shying away from it. he's talking about in this big speech today, ron klain has been on tv talking about how we're not going into a recession. they're leaning into this and they're making it clear that, yes, we have policies in place that are going to help you, but we truly believe based on some of these economic statistics that you're seeing that we are not going into a recession. >> it's interesting, stephanie, because adrian wasn't actually 100% correct when she said republicans haven't put forward any plan. what we've heard as of late is that one way that they potentially will tackle inflation and cut spending was to tap into popular entitlement programs like social security and medicare. and we haven't seen them walk away from that message given how popular that is with millions of americans, both republican, democrats, independents, is that a winning message? >> yeah, i think it is. i think that, you know, their

message right now is resonating in terms of people just understanding. i think the democrats have been horrible at messaging, so that's where i'll disagree with -- they have been leaning into it. but they're talking about, this is going to get fixed, but it will get fixed in time. republicans are talking about, this is what we're going to do and it will -- it will happen and we will make it happen. so i think that the way they've been talking about things has been smart in that generation or in that way, excuse me, but i think, again, if the dems would tighten up their messaging about, yes, these are the current ways that we're doing things, but in the future we're going to do this, that would be probably better. >> thank you. and make sure to join cnn on election night for special coverage starting tuesday at 4:00 p.m. learn what's happening in your state and around the country. gearing up to run again, trump aides are eyeing the third week of november to announce his 2024 run and we've learned the

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ambassador, welcome back. let me start with a question about kash patel and what they would have known? would they have had to have known all the information he would have given this federal grand jury before giving it to them? >> typically as part of getting this kind of immunity, there is a -- either a discussion, what we call a proffer, of the kind of information, or you have information as a prosecutor from other resources. in the indicate of kash patel, we know he's central to donald trump's claim that these documents that are at issue in the criminal investigation were declassified. frankly for any of us who have worked in the area of classification, the idea that donald trump has advanced declassification is ridiculous so probably they've put kash

patel in here to cross examine him to show how foolish this defense is. >> what do you make of cnn's reporting that the doj is now mulling potentially appointing a special counsel if the former president does announce he will run and speak the presidency in 2024 to oversee at least two of these major investigations into him. is this a repeat of what we saw with mueller? >> whenever you have a political figure like donald trump who is considering running for office, reportedly may announce in november, and he's being investigated by the attorney general of his possible political opponent for president, you have to think about the appointment of a special counsel to provide that layer of political insulation.

the risk in appointing a special counsel is that these two separate doj grand jury investigations, one of trump's alleged election denial activity in 2020, another one on the mar-a-lago classified documents, that those will be slowed down by the appointment of a special counsel. so that is the big consideration that merrick garland has to weigh, political distancing versus slowing down those investigations. if he picks someone, he needs to pick someone who is known for going fast. >> how much insulation does a special counsel investigating the former president offer? we all remember how former president trump railed against doj, derided the investigation. i don't know that it gives much insulation to the department of justice. >> well, victor, of course you're right. i lived it in the impeachment because i met repeatedly with

mueller's team and then i was sitting ten feet away from him when we took his testimony in the house judiciary committee. but the audience here is not donald trump. it's the majority of americans, it's the folks who have not been a part of this election denial movement persuading them, hey, this is someone who can be relied upon to look at these prosecutions in an independent way. sometimes you even choose a former u.s. attorney or official of the other party. so a former republican u.s. attorney, and for the roughly 70% of americans who will start with an open mind on this, they are the audience. >> that didn't stop the former president and his allies from attacking bob mueller who had impeccable credentials. >> i want to get to other cnn news that we're learning here

and that is the january 6th committee will be interviewing and speaking with some of the secret service agents who were in the president's motorcade on january 6th. we heard from cassidy hutchinson. obviously she's not there. but she told the story of how the president seemed to lean forward to the driver, was very angry when he wasn't allowed to go to the capitol. how important would their testimony be? >> bianna, it's quite important. we all remember that stunning testimony by cassidy hutchinson about the president's -- former president's extremely strong reaction in the motorcade when he couldn't go with his followers to the capitol on january 6th. immediately after that happened, there were anonymous allegations attributed to the secret service that she was not telling the truth. well, now the information has come out as we learn more and more evidence. it corroborates that story.

that means that if there were -- there was an organized attempt within the secret service to intimidate her, that's possible obstruction of justice. if those within the secret service who previously testified did not tell the truth about this episode that cassidy revealed, that raises obstruction issues within the committee's investigation. so the committee is probably trying to decide whether they should make a criminal referral against some in the secret service for possible obstruction of justice and perhaps for being too close to the former president. >> yeah, of course their testimony would be under oath. norm eisen, thank you. today thousands of twitter employees no longer have a job. how far did elon musk's cuts go? and later, an individual has been identified in connection with threats to synagogues in new jersey. what we're learning straight ahead.

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came in an email. one former worker says they were remotely logged off of their computers at work. >> where we're week into a new ceo, elon musk in office, what is going on there? >> one week and he's let half of the company go. thousands of twitter employees overnight learned that they were fired. they learned through their personal email accounts, because their work email accounts had been turned off. the timing of this right before the midterm elections, if you think back to 2020, on election day, election week, there was all of these tweets, all of these viral videos that kept alleging to show voter fraud, voter fraud, voter fraud. most of them, once they were fact-checked, once we looked into them, all proved to be bogus. and twitter, at the time, was trying to fightoday we learn th has -- and just a few minutes

ago, i spoke to jason who is a er at twitter and a former executive. and here's what he had to say about some of the concerns. >> you see tools like twitter being used by powerful influencers to spread disinformation and to question the integrity of elections and to in general threaten the faith that people have that democracy is working as intended. and so i think rightly post-2016, twitter started playing a much more active role. the problem is, is that elon seems to be fairly contemptuous of that role. and it's not about protecting free speech, it's trying to put his thumb on the scale for a certain type of political performance and i think that's dangerous. >> yeah, i think it's going to be a really, really big issue next week. we know there's people lining up to claim fraud in all of these different states. twitter -- i mean they didn't --

haven't always done a great job with fighting any of this stuff in the past. now they've let most of the teams go. i was speaking to some people in there today and they're very worried. >> yeah, to do it today when a week after this we'll be on the other side of the election, why today? why now? >> elon musk, he's unpredictable. >> that's the answer, i guess. elon musk. >> i do wonder what jack dorsey must be thinking about all of this? he's the one who really supported elon musk taking over the company. is this what he wanted? >> he's been very quiet. >> thank you. well, the fbi and new jersey's governor say they've discovered the source of a broad threat to local synagogues and the local community is no longer in danger now. >> the anti-semitic comments were posted on an online forum frequented by extremists. brynn gingras is here with the information. >> they found this individual,

they spoke to this person who especially said, you know, they don't like jewish people, they weren't going to do anything, but they're angry, and, of course, that's alarming. it's unclear if this person is going to face any charges. what happened here, they posted on this extremist website -- extremist views on the website which is a form where extremists use our posts and it set off this five-alarm fire especially because it made it seem like this attack had already happened. we bring up instances in our past where we've known about instances on these forums and they haven't happened yet and we're saying, why didn't you listen to the red flags. that's why the five-alarm fire went off with the fbi. but there is no longer a threat. it's good that, of course, the law enforcement were able to track this individual. the governor is saying this in a tweet, i want to read it to you, while the specific threat may be mitigated, it remains a tense

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today jake sullivan, the u.s. national security adviser, made an unannounced visitor to kyiv. he met with president volodymyr zelenskyy and announced an assistance package. his visit comes as millions of ukrainians are living without power. >> zelenskyy confuses the kremlin of waging an energy terrorism on his country. christiane amanpour is in kyiv where residents are coping with winter blackouts as winter approaches. >> reporter: week four of ukraine's new struggle against the cold and the dark. rolling blackouts blanket kyiv, nighttime is spooky and we're entering this high-rise apartment complex to see how the residents are coping the russia's constant attacks on key infrastructure.

up to the 12th floor, no light in the stairwell but our cameras and no elevator. she meets us hobbling down on crutches and the foot she fractured by tripping over the steps the first night of the blackouts. >> hi. >> reporter: she's a journalist and a former press secretary to president zelenskyy. together we visit her neighbor with her 18-month-old daughter. a generation of war-traumatized kyiv kids. >> is she stressed? >> she's, like, oh, oh. she's pointing to the window so that she knows that something goes wrong. >> reporter: the two of them are recovering from a two-hour ordeal, trapped in their tiny elevator when the power went out. now, all over kyiv, residents are putting small care boxes inside with water, snacks and antianxiety medicines.

by the time we sat down to talk, the power popped back on again after nine hours on this day. >> reporter: do you feel demoralized? enough already, it's time to surrender and negotiate. >> no way. look, we have passed through the hardships of the '90s and we didn't have light, water and heating and everything for hours and hours every day. and that then was desperate because we didn't -- we knew it was about poverty. now it's about war and we know that we must win. >> reporter: winning this phase of the war comes with weapons like these to charge phones and any other emergency equipment. >> it's the most important thing here to have in ukraine. it's a power bank. without it, you don't have any connection and it's the most important now to know that your relatives are okay. >> reporter: they tell us generators are almost all sold out and superexpensive now as well as candles, torches and head lamps. natalia has improvised light

from a water bottle and her iphone. downtown it's dire for businesses too. every beauty salon operates on hair dryers for that blowout and water to wash out the shampoo and the dye. >> translator: after we finished dyeing it, i might have to go home to dry it. but it's fine. >> reporter: just one floor here has power and the others are dark. before the war, hair house had 150 clients a day. now it's more like 50. and the salon has lost 60% of its revenue. but as dmitry tells me, they keep calm and carry on. >> i believe that we should work even without light. even without electricity. we should help our army, we should help our people and we will do our job until the end. and we believe that sooner or

later, the light will come. >> reporter: like so many civilians they say enduring these hardships on the home front is part of their war effort, supporting their troops on the front lines who are fighting to keep ukraine independent, fighting for their homeland. >> and, of course, you can see there that their spirits have not been dented despite the attacks and the u.s. announcement of those hundreds of millions of dollars of new aid include sophisticated air defense systems, and those systems, of course, needed to top the cruise missiles, the drones that are attacking the energy infrastructure. back to you, bianna. >> thank you. and i just -- i can't get over the resilience of these people. i don't know what putin is more frustrated with, how poorly his army is performing or their resolve. thank you. moments ago president biden spoke about today's better than expected jobs report.

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