>> the candidates can also invite some of their supporters. >> but i think not having that loud sort of booming applause, that's one of the differences here. and, of course, asa hutchinson is not here as well. there will be seven candidates on stage tonight. it could be some of their last opportunities. but we should keep in mind, iowa and new hampshire voters are watching this with more open minds, perhaps, than some national voters. we'll see what happens. >> that's the point that david chalian made at the begin of the show and i'm glad that you made it to end it. thank you so much. >> great to be here with you. >> we'll go through the library together. >> we will. thank you so much for watching. don't forget to tune in tonight, cnn's anderson cooper and i will host the republican presidential debate, post debate analysis, live tonight at 11:00 p.m. history. get the political analysis that you need right here on cnn. appreciate you joining "inside politics." "cnn news central" starts right

now. ♪ expelled from the hermit kingdom, the u.s. army private who bolted into north korea is in u.s. custody. north korea saying their investigation is finished. plus, senator bob menendez faces a federal judge and growing calls to resign. but the democrat is fighting back against bribery charges. we'll have the details on what went down in court. plus, skipping the debate stage for a swing state. the elephant not in the room. former president donald trump will be a no-show at tonight's republican presidential debate as his business faces serious trouble in court. we're following these developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central.

for the second time in his senate career, bob menendez has pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges. a short time ago, the new jersey senator and his wife were arraigned and he is set to leave the courthouse at any moment. and we have our eyes on that. you can see this live shot here of the courthouse. prosecutors saying that they both received cash gold and a luxury car in exchange for favors for the egyptian government. more than half of senate democrats are calling on him to resign. last night when that number was slightly smaller but not that much, he dismissed the idea outright telling reporters that he will not step down because he's innocent. kara scannell was at the arraignment for us. tell us what played out inside of the courtroom. >> reporter: senator menendez and his wife entered pleas of not guilty to his bribery charges. the hearing lasted only about 30 minutes and we're waiting for

him to exit the courthouse now. what happened inside was that he sat there in the court flanked between his attorneys. he sat with his hands collapsed and he only addressed the judge twice to say yes, in honor. when he entered the courtroom, he came in through a side door which is where defendants are kept. you could see a cell in that hallway. it really gives you a sense of the seriousness of the moment. this arraignment only took about 30 minutes. he was released on $100,000 bond. he has to surrender his personal passport. he can keep his official passport and he also has a restriction where he can't have any contact with staff members of his office, of the senate foreign relations committee or political advisers who have knowledge of this investigation outside the presence of council. as we know from the charges in this case, they relate a lot to his time on the senate and the allegations that he took bribes in exchange for helping and

aiding egypt. you can imagine a number of staffers were interviewed by investigators and that is why this provision is part of his bail and his release. he didn't answer any questions by reporters in the hallways. in fact, when he entered the courthouse today, he walked in holding his wife's hand, a codefendant, a partnership in crime according to authorities. when he left the courtroom today, they walked out again hand in hand. a sign of alliance between them. now, she also entered a plea of not guilty in the case. she was released on $250,000 bond secured by their home. and she has to surrender her passport. they both have some travel restrictions, though, the senator's is less severe because he's a senator. the other two defendants pleaded not guilty. we are getting sense that they are starting to wrap up this process. they have to sign paperwork for their bonds and they also have to surrender their personal passports. that is what's taking place inside the courthouse now. we're told it's beginning to

wrap up and we're expecting the senator and his wife to leave momentarily. their car is out front. that's why you see the pack of cameras around it waiting for him. there's also microphones. we understand he's walking out right now. if you can see him and his wife, they're heading toward their car. >> and they're not taking -- they are not making any comments, it appears, at this point, kara. >> reporter: right. it does not sound like he has answered any questions. he didn't answer any as he walked into court this morning and he didn't answer any leaving the courtroom. now he's in the car. if you can see it, it's starting to pull away from the curb and the courthouse surrounded by photographers and reporters. and here he is making hi s way past our camera now. he's left the building after pleading not guilty alongside his wife and two other co-defendants. i asked the senator's aides if

he was heading back to washington, d.c., today, but i did not get an answer on that. >> i just want to go back, kara, as i think we heard the senator's car honking, to these provision that is came about today, a couple of the -- one surrendering of the passport. he is not right now the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. so he's stepped down at least temporarily. you would presume then that he cannot travel internationally or he could for work. that's one question i have. but the other one being, any staff having been interviewed, are you saying that he cannot speak to them not in the presence of a lawyer? and i ask that because how does he go about his business of the senate if he cannot talk to staff not in the presence of a lawyer? >> reporter: that does ask a very important question here.

so the terms of his release, he's released on $100,000 personal bond. he has to surrender his work passport. his travel is restricted to the united states. he's not allowed to have any contact with the co-defendants other than his wife. but there is this provision of his release it says he cannot have any contact with his staff, staff of the -- the foreign relation committees or any political advisers with knowledge. thank you, brianna. outside of the presence of his attorneys. and that is a signal that there may have been some people who have knowledge of this investigation, of some of the issues that are alleged in this indictment and that is why that provision is in his bail. so he doesn't try to talk to any witnesses about what their possible testimony could be, brianna. >> that raises a lot of questions as you point out there.

kara scannell, thank you so much for being our eyes and ears on the ground at this arraignment. we appreciate it. and i want to bring in one of new jersey's top democrats. leroy jones jr. sir, i wonder, if you spoken to senator menendez since this indictment dropped. >> no, i haven't, brianna. >> what's your message to him right now then? >> so just giving the gravity of what's just been reported, you know, with the bail restrictions that he has, you know, the -- the inability that he has to discharge the offices, the responsibility of his office, it's quite -- a great compromise for a person that is in such responsible position. i listened to my pastor this morning and she said something that just rang really loud to me that i think bob menendez should understand. and that is, the worth and value of a person's name is more

important than a title. and that's why the call for resignation has been, you know, so voluminous lately because he should be concentrating on defending his name and alleviating the responsibilities of the title. >> i mean, he's accused at this point of giving sensitive information about u.s. embassy personnel in cairo to egyptian government officials through his wife. these are some of the most serious charges in this indictment. is this different -- and i know this is a bit of a political question. but it's also because it's a legal question about maybe what may be more damaging or more serious. is this different to you than his last indictment? >> well, you know, i'm not a lawyer. but just listening to the gravity and the content of the

indictment and the charges that ensued with the indictment are extremely disturbing and, you know, very, very critical to the rule of law and it seems to breach the spirit of our constitution. so that's why -- and i -- i hate to keep going back to the call for resignation, but that's why it is critical that he begin to defend his name and leave the title on the table, you know, for purposes of just stepping away and understanding that he will not be able to discharge the duties given the conditions of the bail requirements. >> we've heard menendez say that he's being targeted in part because he's latino. does that ring true to you?

>> no, i don't think that's relevant in this particular case. the charges are very serious, they're compelling. it is not, in my mind, anything that speaks to a person's heritage or their ethnicity. you know, it is incumbent upon him to recognize that this is time to protect what your family has given you, and that is your name. >> leroy jones jr., we appreciate your time today, thank you. >> thank you, brianna. boris? >> another major headline we're tracking today. the u.s. army private who ran into one of the most repressive nations on earth on purpose is now back in u.s. custody. more than two months ago, travis king raced across the dmz while on a public tour of the joint

security area that separates north and south korea. this is a picture of king on that tour before making a run for it. you see the back of his head there. of course, this is a rare move, this release, considering north korea's brutal record on human rights. let's take you now to the state department and cnn chief national security correspondent alex marquardt. do we know exactly how this went down, his release? >> boris, i think you hit the nail on the head, it is a rare move. it's something that we're still trying to understand. north korea saying today that they were expelling private king, that he had confessed to crossing the border illegally. why exactly north korea decided to do this today is still unclear. what we do know now from senior biden administration officials is that earlier this month, north korean officials told swedish officials that they were willing to release private king. why sweden? the u.s. doesn't have an embassy in pyongyang.

sweden is known as a protected power. they represent u.s. interests in pyongyang. now, this was the culmination, this release is the culmination of months of what biden administration officials are calling intense diplomacy, not just involving the u.s., north korea and sweden but other countries as well. certainly china was involved. we know that private king left through china. over the course of the summer, he's been held since july 18th. there were concerns that private king would be used for propaganda purposes. those never really materialized. there were concerns about his health. he has said according to officials to be in good health, happy and eager to get home to his family. there are questions about what north korea might have gotten in exchange. biden administration officials are insistent that there were no concessions, that there was no exchange here. that this is north korea releasing private king. private king was taken from

north korea to china, from china he flew to south korea to a military facility, and then he is set to fly onwards home to the united states. boris, we have heard from king's mother, she said that she will be forever grateful to the united states army and all its interagency partners. when private king arrives back to the united states, he's going to go to texas, he's going to go to a medical facility called brook army medical center for both mental and physical evaluation and treatment. big questions still, boris, about what will happen in terms of disciplinary procedures because he had been -- he was being sent home back in july because of an assault that he carried out in south korea. those issues we're told by u.s. officials will be addressed once private king is back up on his feet. >> still many unanswered questions. thanks so much for the update. let's expand the conversation now with "washington post" columnist josh rogan. thanks for sharing part of your

afternoon with us. the u.s. is saying that king was released without any concessions. does that ring true to you? >> look, to be sure, boris, that's very unusual. charles robert jenkins, an army soldier who defected in 1965 was held for 39 years and used for propaganda before they let him out. adam warmbeir was taken hostage in 2018 and returned on a stretcher and in a coma. private king is a very lucky man who did a foolish thing by running across that broad. it took many governments to orchestrate this release over the last couple of weeks. and according to administration officials, he's in good health and good spirits.

he's happy to be on his way home. what happens next, well, after they -- things settle down, he could face a court-martial because that's usually how the army handles deserters. >> you mention the machinations by china, south korea, and sweden in there as well, what kind of deal-making goes on in a situation like this? i'm still in disbelief that they would let him go in exchange for seemingly nothing. >> right, most of the negotiations were logistics. swedish officials had to fly into north korea and accompany him all the way to the north korean/china border. the u.s. embassy had to coordinate with the chinese government to pick him up and get him out of china. all of that is a huge logistical operation. why did the north koreans let him go, i think that's the $65,000 -- $64,000 question. something that private king may

have some insight into once he gets stateside. they didn't see the value of holding him greater than the value of releasing him. and it shows they don't want to deal with the united states. the kim regime has pointed towards china, they're dealing with putin. they don't want to talk to us, even to get something out of releasing an american hostage. that's not a good sign at all. >> what does it mean for u.s./north korea relations if they don't even want to have a conversation? >> not much you can do except leave the door open for them and hope they come back to the table. i mean, i've argued in "the washington post" that we should put some more humanitarian and economic support on the table for the north koreans, try to, you know, get in between them and the russians and the chinese. but the biden administration doesn't seem interested in that. we can see this as a sort of moment of cooperation, but it doesn't indicate that there's going to be any real progress i think. all the other signs coming out

of north korea state that they're going to get worse, they're going to build more missiles and nuclear weapons and come closer to our adversaries. and i think that's the bigger problem that the u.s. government will have to deal with one way or another after they get private king home. >> josh rogan, always great to get your perspective. thank you, my friend. >> any time. brianna? oh, actually. stay right here. still ahead, four days until a government shutdown. speak kevin mccarthy is test driving a new strategy. blame everybody else but the republican hard-liners that are holding up that government funding deal. seven republican presidential candidates will take the debate stage tonight. none of them named donald trump. we're going to preview what to expect. and wide-scale looting across philadelphia overnight. the police commissioner calling it an attempt to destroy our city. much more on this news still to come. stay with cnn.

the federal government is on track to shut down here in four days and the deal that senate leaders just cut that could prevent it is on a road to nowhere in the house. under pressure from republican hard-liners, speaker kevin mccarthy won't offer the senate's stopgap bill to the house. he's deflecting from his conferences infighting and placing the blame elsewhere. >> the senate has done nothing. the senate has not done one thing when it comes to appropriations. is that different? no. normally the senate doesn't bring them up in the committee. the senate has done nothing. >> lauren fox is on capitol hill for us. tell us where things stand. >> yeah, if it feels like we're headed or marching toward a government shutdown, it is because we are. the two sides are extremely divided right now and this is not just about republicans and democrats. this is about the house and senate. as you noted, the senate announcing yesterday that they had a bipartisan deal on a bill

to fund the government through innovate 17th. it included $6 billion in disaster aid, $6 billion in ukraine assistance, but that bill is doed on arrival in the house of representatives. and house speaker kevin mccarthy is pledging to his members that no matter what, if the votes are there or not, on friday, he is going to bring a short-term resolution to the floor of the house and force his members to vote on it. the expectation, the hope from some of his allies is that some of those hard-liners who have been saying all of this time that they are opposed to any short-term spending bill, that they will start to see the light given the fact that they are closing in on a potential government shutdown on saturday night. that, of course, is a huge gamble for mccarthy. time after time over the last several weeks, his hard-liners have proven again and again that they are not willing to cave. and one of those members who came out of the house conference meeting this morning where leadership was trying to

encourage their members to unite, to be a team, to work together, he said he was still a no on a short-term spending bill and to prepare for turbulence ahead. another senior appropriator tom cole said this to me. >> obviously we've got our challenges here as well. and the two chambers are a long way apart. so, again, i'm not at all confident we won't end up in a shutdown. >> reporter: and the house is continuing to work through several amendments on individual appropriations bills while we expect that those bills potentially could face problems on the house floor. keep your eye on friday and what happens when house speaker kevin mccarthy does try to bring that sh short-term spending bill to the floor. are his hard-liners starting to change their mind. we'll see. brianna? >> we'll be watching very closely. thank you so much. boris? >> seven republicans will take the stage tonight in california

for the second presidential debate. but the front-runner, the elephant not in the room, is former president donald trump. he's skipping a debate in favorite of his own counter programming giving a prime-time speech in front of current and former union members in michigan. one day, we should note, after president biden was in that battleground state joining auto workers on the picket line. as trump tries to court blue-collar voters, he and his sons lost a white-collar lawsuit in new york. a judge ruling they committed fraud for years by overvaluing their properties to get favorable loans and insurance deals. let's discuss all of that and more with alice stewart and doug high. alice, first to you, the judge's ruling in new york, should that be something that the seven candidates up on stage tonightm on? >> it should and it will. i guarantee. because what this does, this goes to the very heart of what donald trump really built his name and empire on is how

wealthy he is. and his assets. and this cuts right into the heart of that. so that is fair game for them. but we're also hearing from at lo lot of the candidates, donald trump is going to be on the receiving end of a lot of attacks tonight because what they've realized in the first debate and up until now, they dodged weaved around donald trump and tried to soft punch him. it's not working. they're behind 40 points in these policy. they're going to deliver direct punches to donald trump and we're seeing it. nikki haley has done it with regard to the debt. she's put out an ad today for competency tests for candidates over 75. we're seeing desantis and others go after donald trump on his soft position now on abortion. so he's going get exactly what he should have been getting all along, but they're doing it in a way not to alienate the base. it's going after him on policy but saying, look, i can deliver the same -- the policies that you want without all of the drama. and that's going to be the difficult challenge for them.

>> it's like a high-wire act trying to court the base while not attacking the guy that drives so many voters. what are you anticipating from tonight? >> i think we'll see some of that. but we also won't see a lot of that. what we've seen so far when it comes to all things donald trump is, the people who are running against him sort of defy the political gravity that you would do in any other campaign. meaning, if your opponent gets indicted, you use that against him. instead of doing that, which is just the basic obvious politics 101, they don't go after him, they reinforce his messaging. they may criticize him on spending too much. he did spend too much. but they're not going to call donald trump a fraud as the judge has and they certainly aren't going to go back on what they've said, that there's a two-tiered system of justice and that the system is rigged which reinforces donald trump's messaging. why are they 40 points behind donald trump? because they don't give donald trump anywhere to go. tonight may be their last option

to do so. >> is this going to be a make or break night for florida governor ron desantis. he's been in second place a long time. >> it is a big night for him. he has a lot to lose and nikki haley has a lot to gain. nikki haley has momentum at her back. he's planning to show he's a proven leader in the state of florida. he has delivered on issues that are important to not just republicans, but general election voters. and he's going to make the case donald trump has been a loser on the general election states, i'm a winner, and he has the policies and the winning record to win just -- not just the primary, but the general election. and that's going to be a big message that we see out of him tonight. >> and it could be make or break not just for ron desantis but for all the candidates when it comes to donors, right? >> absolutely. this is a case to make -- for small dollar and large dollar donors. one of their challenges is, we

heard a lot from desantis or nikki haley or others that donald trump can't win. the polling shows that he's neck and neck with joe biden. the latest poll that we saw is an outlier that has him well up on biden. anything that shows donald trump isn't a guaranteed loser in this, means that their rhetoric falls short and makes it harder for them to make that real case. >> i'm wondering about working-class voters. we saw biden and trump go to michigan. how critical is that vote going to be. >> this could be critical. but here's the way you go after working-class voters is, you speak to them. you don't use them as a prop. that's what donald trump is doing when he's going to michigan to talk to these uaw workers. he's using them as a prop to distract from the fact he is not going up on the debate stage. and we're seeing joe biden saying i'm the prounion president and he goes out there yesterday and speaks to them. donald trump and what we're hearing is going to use this opportunity more to go after

biden for his electric vehicle policies and, look, the reality is, donald trump is a free-market candidate. he is for the free markets and for businesses. so for him to go there and say, i am all of a sudden prounion, it's not going to really sit well. but he can use this as one opportunity to say i'm for the working person. it doesn't really gel with his policies of the past. >> do you think trump moves the needle with union voters? >> i think he can a little bit. some of these are people who voted for him in 2016. these are people he lost in 2020. i go back to what he said when he was running against hilary. he said i'm with you. that can be a powerful message. given the weakness that biden has with some of his core voters on this, union voters, it's an opportunity for trump, does he do it in a ham-handed fashion? that's what we'll have to see. >> we'll be watching closely and hopefully you will too. to the postgame featuring anderson cooper and dana bash on cnn. thank you both so much. target says it's going to

close stores in major cities across several states out of safety concerns. we're going to explain why. and the republican-led house oversight committee says it has bank records and wire transfers from hunter biden. what it could mean for their impeachment inquiry.

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philadelphia as retailers are hit with a rave of break-ins. crowds are barging into stores stealing merchandise and leaving widespread damage. you can see looters pouring drinks onto stolen apple products. multiple stores were hit and more than a dozen people were arrested. in all of this is coming as a wave of retailers say they're struggling to contain store crimes that have hurt their bottom line. target the latest to announce the closing of multiple stores in major cities across four states. let's talk about this with john miller. let's talk first about these store closures. nine target stores. what are these stores dealing with? we're talking about cities like san francisco, portland, seattle. what are they dealing with when it comes to theft and organized crime? >> well, they're dealing with organized retail theft which is groups of people that actually make their living this way and we're seeing this new trend,

which you kind of described a little bit, where a group of 30 or 60 people will come in a caravan of cars, do a smash-and-grab or just a grab and go as they like to call it. and that intimidates employees. it intimidates shoppers. if you look at the surveys that the national retail federation did this year, 81% of store employees believe that organized retail theft has become more violent than it was in the year before. and 54% of them believe that criminal justice reforms which make these crimes misdemeanors where nyou're not held on bell, where you're going to get a ticket and let go, where you're not going to face jail time, has encouraged the increase. >> that's really interesting. let's talk about what happened in philadelphia last night. initially what we saw was a peaceful protest to deal with

charges that had been dismissed against a police officer and looting began shortly after the protests ended. police say what they're investigating here is a possibility of a caravan of vehicle that was going from location to location. how does that work? how are they coordinating and what does that tell you about what kind of operation this was? >> well, what it tells me is, we had a similar operation in new york when we had two nights of looting around the george floyd demonstrations. what you have is, you have people who are not part of the protests, they're not part of the marches, it's not like they broke away from the marches and went to loot stores in a spontaneous way, these are actions that are planned out by groups, it's all done on social media in advance. they target stores. they line up the cars, they switch license plates to be undetectable, they post lookouts on scooters and they will move in rapidly and try to break into the stores and take everything

they can leave in. in this case, they made a number of arrest and is they're working with the video, license plate readers and everything else in philadelphia to see if they can make more. >> yeah, it's -- we're seeing in and it's also -- it's hard to get to the bottom of it with data. but the retail employee number you mentioned is certainly very important where they're perceiving this to be more violent. john miller, thank you so much. we appreciate it. and ahead, a wedding became a graveyard. that is how officials in iraq describe a deadly fire at a hall that claimed the lives of at least 100 people. ahead, we're going to tell you what caused this.

house republicans investigating hunter biden say they now have some of his bank records and they claim they've discovered wire transfers from china that list president biden's wilmington home as the beneficiary address. cnn political correspondent sara murray joins us now with the details. sarah, a source telling cnn this is the first time the panel has subpoenaed bank records for hunter biden, what else are they claiming that they found? >> that's right. house oversight republicans say that they were able to find two of these transfers from a chinese national to hunter biden in 2019. and house oversight chairman james comer is stressing that this is the first time the panel has been able to find examples of transfers that are going directly to hunter biden instead of through various llcs and also pointing out that the address on these transfers is joe biden's home in wilmington, delaware. again, this is all coming as house republicans are launching this impeachment inquiry and trying to make the argument that

essentially there was no daylight between what hunter biden was doing and his business dealings and what joe biden, now the president of the united states, was involved in. but, of course, they fall short of meeting that mark in terms of actual proof. you know, in this instance, they're not putting forward any evidence that joe biden received any of this money, knew of this money. they're putting forth this example of the address where hunter biden was living at the time. >> yeah, sarah, what will hunter's attorneys now saying? >> well, as you can imagine, boris, they're not impressed by the work of republicans in congress on this issue. abby lowell said this was a documented loan, talking about the payments, not a distribution or payout that was wired from a private individual to his new bank account which listed the address on his driver's license, his parents' address, because it was his only permanent address at the time. lowell goes onto slam republicans saying we expect more occasions where republican chairs twist the truth to

mislead people to promote their fantasy political agenda. that's the stock that hunter's legal team is putting into these revelations from house republicans, boris. >> thanks so much for the details. now to some of the other headlines that we're watching this hour. at least 100 people died and another 150 were hurt after a fire broke out at a packed christian wedding in northeastern iraq. much of the venue completely reduced to ashes. the father saying the bride and groom survived and they're being treated at a nearby husband. they have arrested nine people in relation to the fire but they have not said what may have caused it. a texas homecoming queen was told she's not welcome back at this year's homecoming. kaylee isn't being invited because of her insubordination that she broke the dress code when she wore a colorful sash

celebrating her mexican heritage five months ago at graduation. she was told it was okay to wear it. the league of united latin american citizens says the snub is pure nonsense. writers can finally go back to work today after nearly five months off the job in a strike that might have delayed the next season of your favorite show. the union fought for higher pay and better compensation from streaming services. and ahead, boosted out, a new survey shows only 25% of american adults definitely want the latest covid-19 vaccine. we'll have more on that.

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despite a spike in the new cases of covid-19, infections in the united states, a new survey shows many americans aren't interested in getting the latest coronavirus vaccine. it wards off the virus circulating that has caused multiple deaths and hospitalizations. jacqueline howard is here to walk us through the numbers. so this poll says that about a third of american adults are saying no thanks. do we know why? >> that's right, boris. the numbers are interesting. it does not break down exactly why but i will tell you what it found. we do know that across adults, this was the survey of more than

1,000 across the united states. about one in four, 23% said they definitely plan to get the updated covid-19 vaccine. another 23% said they probably plan to do so. that means that more than half said they either probably or definitely won't make plans to get the updated vaccine. i will say with older adults, 65 and older, a larger share of them said they do definitely plan to get vaccinated. that number, 34% said they definitely do have plans to get the updated vaccine and we know with children, we tend to see a smaller share among parents in this survey. more than half said they don't plan to get their child vaccinated. so these numbers are interesting to watch as we see the rollout of updated vaccine continue, boris. >> so how concerned are health officials about low turnout? >> they're watching the number

closely because of the low turnout. this is a vaccine recommended for everyone 6 months or older. it is updated to target the currently circulating omicron subvariants. these the variants dominant right now in the united states. and we know that most people haven't gotten their last covid-19 vaccine in a year or longer. so we do know that getting this updated vaccine will help kind of get that rebuild of immunity as well. so that's why there are health officials watching the uptake numbers closely. the rollout just started. it will be interesting to see what the numbers turn out to be as we get closer into fall and the winter season. >> thank you. still to come, released by north korea. a u.s. soldier is back in american hands after two months in the her mit kingdom's custody. we have new information about travis king and why he was turned over.

no debate but a prime time appeal to michigan voters in a brutal ruling for from a new york judge. how former president trump is attempting to steal the spotlight from list primary contend orders debate night after a judge said he's been a fraud for decades. plus, a mad dash into north korea. what we're learning about u.s. army private king's strange trip

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