general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.
the united states and around the world. welcome to cnn newsroom. the final stretch. 16 days to go until the u.s. elections, the candidates are pulling out the stops and pulling in high-profile support. xi jinping secures an unprecedented third term, cementing his iron grip over china s future. we re live in beijing and taipei with the latest. and ukraine s power grid under attack with frigid winter just around the corner. russia takes aim at critical infrastructure. a live report from kyiv is just ahead. the u.s. is just over two weeks away from the tightly contested and deeply consequential midterm elections. at stake this november, control of congress. and by extension, the president s political agenda. joe biden s democratic party currently holds 220 seats in the house, and to keep its majority, it must hold on to 218 of them. right now, though, republicans have a slight lead in the polls with 18 seats still up for grabs. in the senate, 35 seats are in play. cnn
gets under way today, with england hoping to end australia and new zealand s dominance of the competition by lifting the trophy. hollywood history under the hammer. we ll get to see the movie memorabilia expected to fetch millions. good morning. the heavy overnight rain pushes northwards and eastwards, already heavy showers following behind into the south west. and the strong winds in the south will continue as we go through the day. details coming up. good morning. it s tuesday, the 1st of november. our main story. the chief inspector of prisons has told breakfast the government must get a grip on a migrant processing centre in kent. a report published today, says back injuly the facility at manston was working reasonably well, but it says since then it has deteriorated significantly, with conditions being described as wretched. meanwhile, opposition mps have condemned the home secretary, suella braverman, for describing the arrival of migrants into britain as an invasion.
pronouncement nancy pelosi made over the last year from her compound in napa. hshe does have an effect on your life. what about lying? this was the year of lying. the people in charge tell an awful lot of lies. that s what we learned. we know this for sure, because while they re avid and committed liars, they re not good at it. they re pathetic, obvious and sad. don t take a leak on my boots and tell me it s raining. don t tell me something that isn t true and expect me to believe it. you insult my dignity, diminish me, treat me like a child. if you are your going to tell me a lie, put some effort into, try something clever. don t pull the dusty alibi over the shelf like expired spaghetti sauce and expect me to fall for it again. don t worry. everything is totally fine. we re doing a great job. they ve been trying that for, well, 21 years now with the still somehow secret 9/11 files. for nearly 60 years with the jfk assassination. at this point no living american still believ
look, really look at each other not as democrats and republicans and not as members of team red or blue but who we are, fellow americans. fellow human beings worthy of being treated with dignity and respect. i hope this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another. i hope this christmas season marks a fresh start for our nation. and to think i thought i was a semi fascist. who knew? mr. unity has been singing a different tune throughout his presidency calling republicans threats to democracy, comparing them to segregationists and claiming that they hate science. here s a small sample. watch this. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. trump and the extreme maga republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. jim crow 2.0 is about two insidious things, voter suppression and election subject vers