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Newsroom up next good morning you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin the hour with Donald Trump returning in front of a judge this morning as lawyers for the former President And E Jean Carroll are set to square off in manhattans federal Appeals Court Trump is seeking an appeal after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed the former columnist, awarding her 5 following a trial last year, the case is separate from the related Defamation Trial that was held ear...

Mail balloting in california, that will take a while. >> look, voting in america has changed. and thats not a sign of bad things. its a sign of reality. its changed. more early voting, absentee voting, all of it. and that has changed when we find things out. so when you take a total here of leading for democrats, leading for republicans, 34 uncalled, what are some of the races that are extremely close that youre focused on? >> lets look at some of them. look, they run coast to coast. but people ...

Ballots still out there, jose. and that is the issue. the incumbent democratic senator is behind the former republican attorney general by about 23,000 votes. that is 23,000 out of about 800,000 plus that have been cast. and it is known that there are a lot of mail ballots out there especially in clark county which is where las vegas is. it may be as many as 100,000 mailed ballots and democrats have done very well in mail balloting. and there were also at least 20,000 or so out where reno is. an...

Way through the list of the impeachment ten on the republican side, seeking out republican challengers and getting behind them in hopes of ousting those republican incumbents from their seat. most of these are from safer seats, but nonetheless, donald trump is looking to oust republican incumbents who impeached him and liz cheney is the top of the list. >> lets go to california now, a couple days out from this recall election. the republican larry elder has taken a page out of the former preside...

Lets get to the substance, though. the governor came forward and said, look, we dont know about any fraud in this state. the elections happen. weve heard some concerns but i have no reason to believe anything went wrong. he never offered any proof subsequent to that, but now you guys believe the most pressing concern is for you to make it harder to vote. what are you fixing? >> yes, thank you for that, chris. look, i have been in the legislature now six sessions. roughly 200 or so bills are file...

Subsequent to that, but now you guys believe the most pressing concern is for you to make it harder to vote. what are you fixing? >> yes, thank you for that, chris. look, i have been in the legislature now six sessions. roughly 200 or so bills are filed every session in the elections committee, and they have addressed issues like fraud, mail balloting, ballot harvesting, making sure veterans in combat zones have to access to the ballot. so, these bills are filed every session on these issues, an...

To be deadlocked in this way? it seems to be shaping up -- arlette saenz was talking about this a few moments ago, they just dont have the votes in the senate it seems to push this through? >> that is really the singular focus of all the groups working on this. as i said the courts are not really an answer. it is unlikely that john roberts, who set all of this in motion with the shelby county decision in 2013 where he argued voting discrimination was a thing of the past. the one lever the democr...

County, over 60% of the absentee by mail ballots requested were not returned. the concern is what happened to those ballots, but more importantly, with the affidavits that have come out through the state democratic party, concerns by voters about potential ballot tampering by those who were going around to collect ballots, which is illegal in north carolina. i think a lot of this is all kind of tied together to absentee by mail balloting in the ninth congressional district. >> i know you had som...

Were contractors. there is serious issues the way background checks are performed. the issue is not who is doing it. theres clearly problems in federal agencies as well as contractors. might be an issue of oversight. this company has 100 u.s. federal contracts of 95 different federal agencies. someone within the federal government should be going through a lot of these things after they send out the contract to make sure they are doing them appropriately. >> a good point. point well taken. ellis...

Republican texas legislature intentionally discriminated against minorities in drawing congressional districts and other districts and so this voting rights decision certainly doesnt help in a state like texas. >> i would even go a little further than it doesnt help. lets look at the stark facts of the state of texas, its growing in population, the population growth is coming disproportionately from hispanics, its going to be the case in the near future that there will be a hispanic majority in ...