♪ good morning, everyone. great to see all of you. saturday, november 5th. i'm amara walker. great to be with you. i'm boris sanchez. you are live in the cnn newsroom and we are grateful you are starting your saturday with us w he begin with a countdown to the midterm election. the election just three days

away and amara, we can see the finish line now. >> yes, we can. it feels like it's been a long last several weeks. we are finally here. this is the last weekend of campaigning before tuesday's elections as the candidates and their surrogates make their final push for votes. in the battle for control of the senate it comes down to a handful of key states, including pennsylvania. president biden, barack obama and donald trump all campaigning in the state today. >> the president keeping his focus on democracy and the economy. he says he is optimistic about the midterms, but polling has indicated that the momentum is on republicans' side. another race that could decide who controls the senate is in georgia between senator raphael warnock and former football star herschel walker. >> millions of voters have already cast their ballots. in fact, early voting is up compared to the 2018 midterms. almost 35 million people in 47 states have voted early.

and our reporters and correspondents are covering the election as only cnn can. we are bringing you live reports on this final weekend of campaigning before election day. and president biden is hitting the campaign trail today. >> his first stop in joliet, illinois. arlette, give us preview of what we expect to hear from president biden. >> reporter: well, amara, president biden today is set to zero in on the ways that his administration is trying to offer economic relief to americans as the economy and inflation remain top concerns for voters just four days away. specifically here at the event, this is an official event that the white house is hosting, he is set to talk about efforts to lower prescription drugs, protect social secured and medicare. areas he believes are under threat. the white house has stepped up messaging as there is concern that discontent over the economy

could jeopardize democrats' control of the house and senate. now, last night at a fundraiser nearby here in chicago the president told democratic donors that he believes it would be a horrible two years if the republicans are able to take control of the house and senate. he did note he would have to the veto power if they were set to send certain legislation to his desk. as he is issuing these warnings, he is still striking an optimistic tone about democrats' chances. >> i know you always ask me how are we doing. we're going to win this time around. i feel really good about our chances. i haven't been in all the house races, but i think we are going to keep the senate, pick up a seat. i think we have a chance to win in the house. i don't think we are going to not win, keeping the house. i'm optimistic. i really am. >> reporter: the president has a series of events, the big e

later today when he campaigns with his former boss president barack obama in lawsuit when they campaign for lieutenant governor john fetterman. that is one of the races the president has gone in the closing days of the election. the white house said he will go with are where he can be helpful and hoping to push fetterman over the finish line as they campaign for him in pennsylvania later today. >> going where he can be helpful. interesting way to put that. thank you so much we want to focus on the high-stakes senate race in georgia now. former football star herschel walker, senator raphael warnock locked in a tight competition that could determine control of the senate. >> been quite an unpredictable race there. eva mccann is in athens, jersey shore. update us and how it's shaping up between walker and warnock. >> reporter: good morning to you both. game day here in georgia. herschel walker holding a rally with support ners a little bit

at the university of georgia. it's a homecoming from him. he is where wrightsville but is here in athens where his football career was launched and he has made this football a sort of key to his election argument that he didn't go the standard political route, he is not a standard politician. he tried to tie democratic senator raphael warnock, his opponent, the incumbent, to president biden's economic policy and the biden agenda. senator warnock has argued that walker is not fit to serve in the united states senate. warnock also spent a lot of time playing up his bipartisan credentials saying that he is willing to work with republicans, ultimately in service of georgians and talking a lot about health care, how he worked to lower the cost of insulin for georgians. getting less attention is the race for governor in this state. it is a rematch certainly to be watched between republican

incumbent governor brian kemp and democratic candidate stacey abrams, making very different arguments on the campaign trail. governor kemp talking a lot about the economy arguing that he bucked pressure during the height of the pandemic and reopened the state's economy before many other states. abrams, meanwhile, argues that the policies that kemp championed are just too dangerous for georgians. i caught up with her on her campaign bus this week. >> the reality is our lives are at stake. women are losing more and more of their rights and this governor said he intends to pursue further legislation. he is willing to sign legislation to deny access to contraception, weakened the gun laws in the state of georgia and he wants to do more. >> reporter: so georgia is often referred to as the center of the political universe. makes a lot of sense. it is a true battleground state with two key races to watch.

>> appreciate you. thank you for that. and to all of our reporters and correspondents out there. one sitting president and two former ones are campaigning in pennsylvania today. one of the most closely watched senate races, president biden and former president obama holding a rare joint appearance to rally supporters. >> let's take you to pennsylvania now and cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean joins us live from pittsburgh. a lot of big names on the road today in pennsylvania. update us on that senate race. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. that tells you everything you need to know. it is saturday. we are three days away from election day and that's where they are sending the top surrogates of both parties. we will see former president trump later tonight. i am standing it in front of where former president obama is going to rally people in pittsburgh on behalf of lieutenant governor john fetterman, the democratic nominee for senate. of course, he is running against republican mehmet oz in a race that has become the most

expensive senate race across the country. it has been hotly contested. it is a very tight race. it could very well determine who controls the u.s. senate. that's why. it's an open seat. republican pat toomey is retiring. democrats hoping to pick this up. republicans honing to defend it. remember, republicans just need to pick up one seat in order to do that. so you can imagine all the attention that is here. so the closing arguments that we are hearing, fetterman pitching himself as a man of the people here in pennsylvania, someone that they can count on to be authentic, who he says he is. he is really incorporated his stroke recovery into his final pitch to voters saying he got knocked down and he is going to get back up and they can count on him to do that. for his arepart. mehmet oz pitching himself as a moderate. we were with him last night. he talked to the crowd about reaching out to their conservative democratic and independent friends saying that he wants to get rid of extremism in washington and work in a bipartisan way. which message will resonate the most, we will have to wait until tuesday, of course, until voters

make their voices known. but this today is all about riling up the base. this is about the two biggest stars, the three biggest stars in their representative parties talking to their base, turning out the base, and then that tiny sliver of independent swing voters that exists here in pennsylvania in a big way, that's what's up for grabs, that's likely what will determine the outcome of this very, very critical senate race. guys. >> and what could determine control of the u.s. senate as well. jessica dean from pittsburgh, thank you. >> let's break down these important races with cnn senior political analyst ryan, the chief washington correspondent at pilotolitico. great to see you. thanks for joining us from miami. there is a lot to get through here. notably, as part of his closing message, president biden has focused on defending democracy from election deniers. i'm wondering how effective you think that message will be tuesday given this new cnn

polling that shows the economy and inflation are far and away the top issues for voters right now. if you put all of those other issues and combine them, abortion, elections, gun policy, combine all of them, they still don't hit the 51% of voters who say the economy and inflation are their most important concerns. what do you think? >> it's almost like a sliding scale of how important are those issues to you on a day-to-day basis immediately, right? so inflation we experience it every day when we go to the grocery store or fill up the car with gas. on the other side, big important issue but not one necessarily that is something that voters think about every day in their day-to-day lives is what biden talk about in his speech the other night, the threat to democracy as he described from the other party. so i think the white house has been -- they haven't necessarily

made that the closing argument. i notice last night the white house september out an email talking about one of biden's stops today in illinois and they were -- a white house official was emphasizing social security and medicare and bread and butter issues and warning about republican party policy radicalism, not democracy. so i think the big set piece speeches they think it's important to talk about, but on a day to day basis they recognize that inflation and the economy are the things they need to tell voters how they are addressing those issues. >> ryan, we got updates are from georgia and pennsylvania. those two senate races, obviously, very contentious. what are you watching for in each of them come tuesday night? >> we have a big day in pennsylvania, obviously. we have former president trump, president biden and former president obama all will be in pennsylvania. and i do think it's very interesting that oz on the

saturday before election is going to be at a rally with trump and mastriano. mastriano is someone that national republicans have distanced themselves from that many national republicans will not endorse, although most house republicans in pennsylvania have endorsed him. but there are some state republicans who have stayed away from him. oz has been very sort of careful in how he embraces him. now in the final weekend, you know, the front pages of newspapers in pennsylvania tomorrow are going to be oz embracing trump and mastriano. now, maybe that's what he need to really rev up that trump-inspired rural base in pennsylvania. on the other hand, pennsylvania is a lot about those philly suburbs and moderates who are really not happy with joe biden, but might be willing to give fetterman a -- might be willing to give fetterman a chance and they see oz with trump and

mastriano and they say, you know, i can't do that. i think that's a very interesting strategic calculation on their part. in georgia, look, this was the state that gave democrats the senate two years ago. so i would say the biggest remaining question, does it go into a runoff or not. you get a second shot at this if neither candidate hits 50%. so we could all be down in georgia and watching that as, again, the race that decides the election. worth noting senator schumer in the hot mic moment recently thought georgia was going slipping away from the democrats. >> yeah, really a revealing remark that chuck schumer made to joe biden on that runway. ryan, you are in florida now. i know you are headed to nevada the next few days and the senate race there is perhaps closer than many expected. senator catherine cortezmaso in

a tough fight. how do you see that playing out. >> don't let my editors know i took a weekend vacation to miami before one of the senate swing states. you know, that, again, that's -- look, the democrats lose nevada, they are not going to take back the senate. they can't lose one of their incumbents. the governors race there, people forget there is a governors race, that had has bad polling for the democrats recently. i will point out that someone that -- a lot of us look to as the foremost expert on nevada voting patterns, jon rahlston, he is really dug into the early vote and argued that it is not great for democrats, that there is a big rural turnout in nevada and the democrats are on election day are going to have to really make up a lot in the

urban areas. as you know, boris, there has also been a lot of polling, it's mixed, but a lot of polling in nevada that suggests democrats are having trouble with latino voters. the incumbent democratic senator there is latina herself, and that is a really warning sign for democrats if republicans further eat into that voting group in a state like nevada. those are the two things i would watch right now. >> yeah, the economic headwinds playing majorly in a state like nevada. the tourism industry suffering because of covid-19. ryan, we will get you back to the days off and that fancy hotel i recognize on miami beach. thanks, ryan. >> thanks, boris. take care. >> of course. don't forget on election night join cnn for special coverage starting tuesday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. we are going to have up to the minute results on what's happening in all the key races across your state and around the

country. in other news, at least one person is dead and multiple people still missing this morning after a tornado outbreak hit three states late friday. a total of 18 tornados have been reported between texas, oklahoma and arkansas. and dozens of homes were destroyed in the storms with power lines down across the region faerkting nearly 62,000 people. and officials in lamar county, texas, have declared a disaster after a tornado caused significant damage to homes and businesses. also, just north in mccurtain county, oklahoma, authorities are still searching for several missing people after the storm left at least one person dead. still ahead bs, another provocation by north korea's kim jong-un. south korea says four more missiles have been fired overnight. the latest on the he is skating tensions there. plus, the attack against nancy pelosi's husband raising concerns about the threat of

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so much anger over the incident continue to grow. we are in seoul with the latest. >> reporter: i am at a massive aileen cannon here in seoul. one of eight locations in south korea where people are gathering, lighting candles and expressing grief, sorrow and ainge over what happened at the itaewon district saturday night when 156 people died. most of them young people in their teens and 20s out celebrating on halloween and got caught in a horrific crowd crush in one of the narrow alleyways of that packed nightclub district. the crowd is estimated to be around 100,000. that's according to local media and to organizers. the same number of people who packed into the itaewon on saturday night, and yet unlike saturday night the police are out here doing, frankly, a very good job of keeping the crowd under control. there are scores of officers.

there are barricades and every step that you take is controlled. the movements of the crowd are controlled to prevent exactly the kind of disaster that happened with all of those young people pack neighborhood a very narrow space unable goat out, unable to move, unable to breathe and those who fell down, those who got crushed, those who suffocated and died are being remembered right now. this is in some ways turned into a political event. a lot of people expressing anger against the current south korean president, yoon suk yeol, saying he is possible for the lack of planning, lack of crowd control, the fact that the 130 or so officers who were out were mostly looking for drunk and disorderly conduct or drug offenses and not trying to actually control that rongs of young people, not stopping them from getting into a dangerous situation in itaewon. the questions, the soul searching continues out here for so many people in seoul, south korea. will ripley, cnn, seoul.

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republican senator ron johnson is facing a tough re-election bid in wisconsin and now as the race is entering its homestretch he has been asked if he would commit to accepting the results of tuesday's election, but he has declined. >> cnn's omar jimenez live from greendale, wisconsin. tell us hmore about his reply. he continuing to cast doubt into

the legitimacy of the midterm elections? >> reporter: well, these are things that we're hearing in the final stretch of the midterm campaign here. we are actually at an event next to his opponent, democratic lieutenant governor mandela barnes, who is doing one of these events in these final stretch days of the campaign. ahead of these midterm elections, some of those comments that senator ron johnson made, as you mentioned before, coming to me, came at one of his stops in a different part of wisconsin earlier this week when he was asked point blank if he would accept the results of tuesday's election, and he didn't outright say yes. instead, he said that we are just going to have to see. i sure hope we can because, in his words, he doesn't know what the democrats will have planned. take a listen to some of his words. >> i sure hope i can, but i can't predict what the democrats might have planned. you know, we're not trying to do anything to gain partisan

advantage. we are just doing whatever we can to restore our confidence. sure seems like there is an awful lot in the past a lot of attempt on the part of democrats to make it easier to cheat. we want to make it easy to vote but very hard to cheat. >> he showed us who he is. he didn't commit to accepting the results of the 2020 presidential election because he didn't get the result he wanted. it's petulant, to say the least. a person who goes so far to say, yeah, i didn't get what i wanted, so it can't be right. it's very arrogant. it's the height of arrogance. that's who he has always been and that's who he will continue to be. >> reporter: johnson eventually accepted the results of the 2020 election but held a senate hearing looking at alleged irregularities in the voting, no widespread fraud detected, and at the very least, as some criticized, he elevated conspir theories. on the campaign trail we are in the final stretch as both candidates are trying to do what

they can to secure some of these final votes. this is out at a canvas launch that mandela barnes is hosting, one of two that happens today, but one of many the next few days. later today we will be with ron johnson who is on his own bus tour trying to make that important transition. turning handshakes and cheers into the ever important votes. >> that is a hope. omar jimenez, thank you. >> so this week president biden delivered a stark warning about dangerous rhetoric while campaigning ahead of the midterms saying democracy is in peril, also on the ballot, concerns about political violence have increased since an intruder attacked house speaker nancy pelosi's husband, paul, while he was this their san francisco home last weekend. of course, those fears and tensions have been rising since the insurrection of january 6th. joining me now is shannon hiller, executive director of the bridging divides initiative at princeton university. appreciate you joining us this

morning, shannon. first off, i know that you are keeping a very close eye on these close races, specifically which ones and what are your biggest concerns? >> sure. well, thanks for having me. i would say one of my biggest concerns is that fear that you mentioned. in our daily monitoring we look both at risk and the preparation to make sure that our elections are safe and secure, and to be honest, we are not seeing that increase in violence all over the country. what we're seeing is a lot of preparation to make sure that elections are safe and secure. so what i'm most worried about is when a few of these incidents like in arizona or unfounded claims of election fraud cause people to be more fearful than they need to be, you know, the reality is that our election is very safe and secure and i'm not concerned with people going out to vote now or on election day. >> so you wanted to emphatically make sure that that point was out there, that you want people

to feel confident that they can head out to the voting polls on tuesday and not have to worry about the security and safety. but i want to ask you this, because i know your group at princeton, along with the anti-defamation league, you are building a national database that tracks incidents of threats and harassment against government officials. while you believe that it's safe on election day, what about after election day? do you feel like, you know, there is rising concerns about what may happen after, especially if people are not happy with a particular candidate or the outcome of a specific tight race? >> sure. i am glad to share a bit more about what we found in that initial study. we focused on threats and harassment to local officials. and so one of the things we saw in 2020 was in states where there were persistent claims, unfounded claims of election fraud, local officials of both parties saw greater numbers of

threats and harassment. those numbers came back down. it's one reason why we feel more confident this year. if candidates like senator johnson continue to push these types of unfounded claims in the cl climate we're in now, we may see the same types of threats and harassment continue. so it's one reason why people along with many other groups we're calling on all americans to reject that type of dangerous rhetoric. >> i think michael fanone wrote a piece for cnn.com where he said, i think he was frustrated that the top issue, of course, understandably, is the economy, but he was saying that the democracy, the threat to our democracy is an existential threat and indifference is really a concern. i know you have previously worked helping countries dealing with political crises and transitions and you were an advisor at usaid. from what you have seen, and just give us context here, i mean, how fragile is our

democracy compared to the countries that you have worked with that you have seen on the brink? >> right. well, we're absolutely in a pivotal moment in this country, but i think just like in a lot of these other countries where i worked, i take a lot of encouragement from community groups and others who are really showing us the way, you know. we see across the country where elected officials and community groups are coming together to protect civic space, sort of take down tensions, even around contentious topics at the local level. so i think that the way that we turn the tide on sop of this national discourse is to look to those examples. it's exactly the type of thing we would do in other countries where we are supporting some of these local efforts and see that together they can make a real difference. t. shannon hiller, appreciate the conversation. thank you. >> thanks so much. and a reminder.

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critics, including the fcc commissioner this week, say that instead of negotiating, the united states should just ban the app all together. my next guest agrees. adonis hoffman a former legal advisor and chairman to the staff of the fcc. tiktok is mostly known for silly dances. why should the united states ban it? >> good morning, boris. thanks for having me. we have to keep this in context. right now there is a raging debate in congress, both houses of congress, as to how to regulate big tech companies like facebook, amazon, google, twitter, et cetera, and so those are u.s. companies with great capacity. so think about it. we're talking about regulating american companies and yet the notion of regulating a company owned by -- a chinese company which has strong ties to the

chinese government is maybe not on the table. and i think that we've got to look at this as an external existential threat in terms of cyber, state-sponsored cybersecurity, state-sponsored cyber warfare. and that's really the context in which we are operating today. >> do you have any evidence or indication that the chinese communist party has gathered americans' data via tiktok, used it as some kind of a back door? >> well, i think the evidence is certainly circumstantial and there are those who are expert in the area of cybersecurity who can probably address those. i think we have to look at what what the facts as they are on the table. as you pointed out in the intro, tiktok, bytedance is the parent company. by the way, tiktok is only one product of that company. there are many others. but tiktok has its own privacy

policy says it has the authority and the capacity to share that data in the united states for americans with any of its partners, and its partners could and probably do include the chinese government. >> so is there anything that tiktok or bytedance could do in these negotiations with the u.s. government that would make you think it's safe and that maybe your family members, people you know are safe to use it without fear of getting their data stole on? >> the discussion up to now has been, you know, sort of bifurcated. ban tiktok or allow it to keep going. i think there may be some perhaps a different, a middle path. y as you know, ban an app is very difficult. practically, technologically, then there is the human element, which if we are told not to do something, we will find a way to do it. an outright ban is going to being practically very, very

difficult to enforce. on the other hand, i think that the real crux of this is going to turn on government-to-government negotiations. as you mentioned, the united states is already in negotiations with chinese government as to a number of security issues. this should be first, very, very top sort of at the top of the agenda. and it's going to turn on the ability of our diplomats and our security experts in the u.s. government and in the executive branch to extract the kinds of concessions and conditions from the chinese government under which tiktok and bytedance could operate in the u.s. context preserving the privacy, data security protections that we all come to expect from these kinds of companies. >> yeah, extracting concessions from the chinese government that it adheres to over time is a tall order. adonis, i wanted to ask you, because a lot of users are tiktok are very young and may not be fully aware of the

potential consequences of the ccp having access to americans' data. what are the possible consequences of that? >> that's really the sinister art pa of this, boris. it's a simple app. download it on your phone and away you go. and the notion that if you have talent or, you know, you're funny, what have you, you could make a lot of money on tiktok. there is a whole generation of users now who say, who want to grow up and aspire to be a tiktok star, you know, social media star, and reap millions and millions of dollars. that's sort of the -- that's the practical issue of social issue we have to deal with. with respect to using their data, we don't know what our limits are. this is a new generation of potential american leaders who have opened the door to all of their sensitive financial data, their keystrokes, health data, who they are talking to, god

knows how broad and wide that data trove is and can be used for whatever nefarious purposes. we are now in election season and we know that the chinese government has used data, used, you know, cyber tactics for nefarious purposes to draw divisions among people in the united states. this is just one expression of potential threats and risks that we face going forward. >> it is a fascinating conversation and we appreciate you sharing your insight with us. adonis hoffman, thank you. stay with cnn. we'll be right back. unction. supply fuel for immune cellsls and sustain tissue health. ensure with twenty-five vitamins and minerals, and ensure complete with thirty grams of protein.

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