wallace. i was happy to be in with for her. tonight, bill maher makes his debut live tonight a week out from the midterms. we re going talk about everything you want to hear bill maher talk about and maybe some of the thing you don t, which is why bill maher makes for a good guest. paul pelosi, a defendant in the attack, arained. we begin with election day. we are one week out, and we have the continuation of what sounds like an american trend line, because early voting is smashing records. that means it s big interest. it is left, right, center or something else? we ll get into it. let me start with the most important number we have, it s not a poll or a prediction testimonies a fact in america one week out that 25 million people have cast their ballots early. that continues the trend i ve told you about, outpacing trend by over 3 million vote, and those midterms for the first election since trump came into office. you can remember the mood and energy then and how many peopl
house counsel pat cipollone and his former deputy, patrick philbin. coming up on thursday, the federal magistrate judge who approved that search will hear arguments for and against unsealing the search warrant affidavit. cnn s jessica schneider joins us now. so what do you know about the fbi s interviews with pat cipollone and patrick philbin? reporter: yeah. anderson, we know that the most senior former trump officials to be interviewed in what we know is really this ongoing criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of the classified documents and this revelation that they have, in fact, talked to the fbi, it s significant because, you know, they were trump s designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. so they would have these details. they d be able to give the fbi about what was taken to mar-a-lago. also, you know, whether trump insisted that documents remain with him, what his intent or mind-set was, and that could really be cr
the magic wall. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, trump s lawyers talking. cnn confirming that the fbi interviewed two of trump s former lawyers. the former white house counsel pat cipollone and deputy patrick philbin. they are the two most senior trump officials to be interviewed in the criminal investigation of trump s handling of classified information. this is a significant development. obviously cipollone and philbin know a lot. they were trump s point men for dealing with the national archives. investigators, of course, asked questions about how 15 boxes of teeshls ended up at mar-a-lago even after, even after they said they returned everything. team trump did. according to the new york times philbin had been working to return all the documents since the national archives realized any of them were missing. it was trump, though, who resisted. several advisers telling the times that trump would say, quote, it s not theirs, it s min
yes, i think so. this investigation has been going on for so long, it really is getting close to decision time. now i m not saying it s going to happen within the next month, but certainly it will be a fast-moving investigation. right, paul callan, john dean, our thanks to both of you. appreciate it. as we mentioned at the top, today also saw senator lindsey graham testifying before the georgia criminal grand jury. cnn s sara murray joins us with what we re learning about that. sara, any sense of what prosecutors wanted to learn from senator graham? look, graham fought for months to try to avoid this, but today was his day to appear before the grand jury. we know prosecutors were very interested in calls graham made to election officials after the 2020 election. in particular he made a call to georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger. raffensperger came away from the call thinking that graham was asking him to discard ballots, which is something graham has denied. you can
obviously trump and his allies were trying to overturn the election in georgia, john. senator graham, has he said anything about his appearance today? his office did release a statement acknowledging he was there for more than two hours today. they said he answered all of the questions posed to him that was a big question, whether he was going to challenge anything that was put before him. and they said he felt like he was treated with respect and with professionalism. how close is the district attorney there from finishing this probe? what more does she need? she has some decisions to make. she has said she wants the grand jury to wrap up their investigative activity this year. but we know there are high profile witnesses, people like michael flynn, people like mark meadows the grand jury has yet to hear from. so she is going have to to decide, do we keep this grand jury going to try to get every possible witness, or does she feel like she has enough, does she move forward are