Anderson Cooper 360

The Justice Department has made an extraordinary move to intervene in a race that could decide the balance of power in the Senate, a legal maneuver that President Trump says he ordered. In a lawsuit filed today in Alaska, the DOJ preemptively asked the state not to certify the results if the incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan loses. Plus, for the first time, we're hearing from the hero Oregon dad who last week raced after a school shooter and into the line of fire.

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The continuing fallout in the Ohio governor’s race from the ad Republican nominee Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign made using the estranged mother of his opponent Democrat Dr. Amy Acton.  President Trump went all in on it today, posting on social media, "I only wish the mothers of my opponents would be so brave as to come forward and explain that their son or daughter is a liar, and much worse.” Plus, the Trump administration is indicating that construction on the president's proposed 250-foot triumphal D.C. arch could begin just days after the midterm elections.

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President Trump is in South Carolina tonight, a state he won by 18 points in 2024. And new polling from CNN shows 32% of voters approve of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president. That's his lowest approval rating ever while in office, including just after January 6, 2021. Plus, what the president's former personal attorney, Alina Habba, is saying in response to a New York Times report, that says a Venezuelan billionaire wanted a Trump pardon and his family gave Habba a $50 million deal. Anderson speaks to the reporter who broke the story.

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Trump continues to campaign in red states that voted for him by double digits in 2024 as he tries to stave off GOP losses in the midterms. Tonight the president is in Greenville, North Carolina to rally for Michael Whatley, another Republican in a tight race. Plus, who slowed down the Starlink used by Ukraine's military to defend itself: Elon Musk or President Trump? There’s new reporting from the Wall Street Journal.  

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We are almost two weeks away from the midterm elections and President Trump is in Kansas tonight, a deep-red state he won by 16 points two years ago and one that has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932.  Plus, how far will the president go as he increasingly turns his back on Ukraine, slams its President Zelensky, all while giving Russia a pass?     

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Tonight, White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia is out of the job she held for just five days. Plus, President Trump visits a deep red corner of Georgia, as new signs point to the electorate possibly trending bluer in a number of districts around the country. 

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Three children, aged 5, 8, and 11, and one teacher were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to Police Chief Mike Krantz. A community member who saw the teen shooter entering Silver Rail Elementary School followed him in before engaging him in gunfire, killing him before responding officers arrived, Krantz said.

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Just days before early voting begins in Texas, Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico will appear on CNN tonight at 8pm ET for a town hall moderated by Erin Burnett. Talarico now stands an essentially even chance of becoming the state's first Democratic senator since 1993, and whose victory could hand control of the Senate to Democrats for the last two years of the Trump administration. Plus, more questions regarding the president's new press secretary, whether she is what she claims to be; namely an attorney who has actually passed a bar exam.

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With just three weeks left in the campaign, President Trump spent nearly 8 hours on a plane to a state that should have been safely red in the first place, while his handpicked new press secretary is being panned for her debut performance. Plus, more on Kimberly Guilfoyle's departure, and the cold shoulder she got from the president.

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With the midterms just three weeks from tomorrow, the president rolls into Ohio carrying a ton of new political baggage, on top of the kind that has been weighing Republicans down the entire campaign.Plus, all we are learning about why federal agents searched the D.C. home of a Democratic congresswoman, whom the president now calls "crooked," and once called "garbage."

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