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especially tonight. and adidas cuts ties just now with kanye west over his anti-semitic rants. that is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. brittney griner was again before a russian court today and received no mercy. the court upholding griner s nine year prison sentence rejecting the nba s star plea for leniency. she was convicted in august after russian authorities say that they found vape can sifters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at moscow airport. this was swift reaction after the appeal that didn t go anywhere, slamming the court proceeding as a quote, sham, vowing the biden administration is doing everything it could to bring her home. kylie atwood is live at the state department for us. what are you hearing about this now? reporter: the conviction has opinion upheld. meaning that she is still found guilty of smuggling drugs into russia. this trial essentially brings the end of the judicial process for britt ....
constant contact with russia to try to secure griner s release. and donald trump is firing back as author bob woodward is sharing his recorded phone calls with the former president. woodward joins us to break down the trump tapes and take us behind the scenes of their extraordinary conversations. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. this hour, we re counting down to the pivol u.s. senate debate in pennsylvania as well as the bigger midterm battle playing out across the country over the next 14 days. cnn correspondents are out in force in critical swing states. and here in washington covering the fight for control of congress. first, let s go to jeff zeleny in harrisburg, pennsylvania. the senate debate begins two hours or so from now. what do we expect? reporter: wolf, this is the marquee senate debate. when they go head-to-head for just an hour this evening. the first time they ....
being a great friend of this show. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for being with me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now a heart-felt tribute to queen elizabeth ii is under way in london. thousands pouring in to say a final farewell to their monarch. the last hour we saw the queen s eight grandchildren holding a vigil as she lies in state. the royal family also greeting world leaders as they arrive today ahead of the queen s funeral, which is monday. let s go straight to london right now. max foster, richard quest and anna stewart are following this historic event. max, to you first. this vigil, with the queen s grandchildren, was only about 15 minutes. wow, even with that brevity, you felt such love being exuded from these family members, from these young men and women who were paying the greatest homage to their grandmother. reporter: yeah. something they all wanted to do. outline, for william and harry, more practice at this sort of thing. f ....
fetterman and dr. oz. voters in georgia are arty casting ballots at a record pace with senator raffaella warnock and challenger herschel walker in a tight battle. we fox team at coverage with alexis mcadams covering the race in pennsylvania. charles watson is in georgia tennessee senator marsha blackburn is standing by with analysis. but first we kick things off with lucas tomlinson who is live at the white house. i lucas. christina, before leaving for the beach president biden was bragging about his recent court victories when it comes to student debt relief a plan. that all held up until last night. just yesterday, state court and the supreme court said no we are on biden s side. three hours after biden spoke federal appeals court in st. louis blocked his plan for the government to pay off the student debts for the white house that it will proceed and continue mission. we ll continue to move full speed ahead on the preparations with the compliance of disorder. s ....
london tomorrow. and questions over the list of so-called best colleges and universities in the u.s. after one university said its data was cooked. a brewing scandal putting money, prestige and power on the line. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with the politics lead. any moment president biden will give a speech in boston on an issue that s very personal and important to him and his family. the cancer moonshot initiative. president biden hoping to bring more attention to his administration s efforts to cut the cancer death rates in half. his son, beau, died of brain cancer in 2015, he was only 46 years old. let s get to athena jones for us. the date and location of the speech are no coincidence. that s right. this event is taking place at the john f. kennedy library on this day because this marks the 60th anniversary of jfk s moonshot speech where he launched the years long effort to land a man on the moon. saying we choose to put a moon on the moon ....