president biden moving to keep gas price s down with the critical midterm elections fast approaching. good morning, it is wednesday, october 19th i m brianna keilar with john berman. today the president is expected to announce he s authorizing the release of 15 million more barrels from the u.s. strategic reserve. the draw down first announced in march to release 180 million barrels. and on the inflation front, millions of americans could see a bump in paychecks next year thanks to an inflation adjustment in the tax code. this comes as president biden and democratic candidates lockdown midterm messaging. the focus now, economy and abortion. president biden was speaking trying to rally voters still angry about the supreme court decision on roe v. wade, pledging to protect abortion rights if more democrats are elected to congress. right now, we re short a handful of votes. if you care about the right to choose, then you got to vote. that s why these midterm elections are
on your wallet. president biden will announce a move to help keep energy prices down for americans less than three weeks before the all-important midterm elections. the president will announce the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic preserve. of course, in the past few days gas prices have been dropping in some areas but on average they re still up 17 cents a gallon from a month ago. of course, the cost at the pump factors into the economic worries voters will carry to the polls and could be a problem for democrats since they re the party in power. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house. phil, what do we expect to hear from the president? you know, ana, not a lot of levers the president can pull in an international economy and global market like the oil market. this, what the president will announce is one of them. both an actual action, announcing the sale of another 15 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve but also in sending
the pain it will cause us. he is blocking way to make our own as much as he can. 1984 was the last time we were tapping oil like we were tapping beer in america. today s sale marks the end of the 180 million drawdown biden announced in the spring. the white house is warning there could be more of this sort of move on the horizon. so i mentioned that we re really getting low. what s that going to look like? but they said this a few weeks ago. so we re not considering new releases from the strategic petroleum reserve beyond the 180 million which is what you are speaking about, about the 1 million that the president announced months ago. we don t have anything more to share and we won t be considering new releases. harris: her pants are literally on fire because that was not true. the president trying to contain rising gas prices but fears now growing that it will do exactly the opposite. today s national average $3.85. 50 cents more than a year ago. temperatures are droppin
tonight on the reidout here s the promise i make to you and the american people. the first bill that i will send to the congress will be to codify roe v. wade. and when gres passes it, i ll sign it in january, 50 years after roe was first decided the law of the land. the republican spin is that voters only care about inflation. but what does the massive early voting tell us about reproductive rights as a motivating factor in this election? plus, the dramatic debate moments from last night in ohio, utah, and georgia as democrats hold republicans accountable for trump s big lie. and the scourge of dark money in our elections and why republicans are fighting so hard to prevent the exposure of their wealthy dark money donors. we begin tonight with president biden s message to young voters. biden is seeking to call up i want you to remember that the final say does not rest in the court now. it does not rest with extremist republicans in congress. and finally say,
midterms. plus charges against a major company and a guilty plea for financing isis. and actor kevin spacey is back on the stand today defending himself against sexual assault allegations. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. president biden is making a move today to try and put abortion rights back in the spotlight and back on the ballot. with the midterm elections three weeks from today. the president is speaking soon at a dnc event in washington where he is expected to make a promise that his first move in the new year will be to codify roe v. wade, that is if democrats don t lose power. this is one of the many topics that candidates debated last night in key races across country. but let s get to the white house. jeremy diamond is standing by. what is the president laying out in this speech. reporter: well president biden is trying to put an issue that he and his advisers believe is advantageous to democrats front a