daily beast reporting the georgia republican senator and antichoice candidate herschel walker paid for his then girlfriend s abortion in 2009. the daily beast has now reported that that woman is also the mother of one of her four children. we re going to have more reporting on that later in the show. republicans however continue to shop and recent polling says that he is in a tight race with the democratic incumbent, senator raphael warnock. there is one october surprise that could change the course of the midterm elections, and it s coming from over 70,000 miles away. in saudi arabia, opec plus, the alliance of oil producing nations led by saudi arabia and russia, announced a 2 million barrels per day cut in oil production yesterday. opec plus decision could lead to a potential spike in gas prices, just 33 days before the midterms. today, president joe biden had a one word reaction to opec plus s decision, disappointment. what is your reaction to the opec plus decision?
producing countries to increase their oil output. ali she hobby, a study analyst, told the new york times that it is certainly not a hostile, anti biden act. it has nothing to do with biden, it is to keep the price in unacceptable band. and quote. okay. so how should we analyze this set of facts? the summer, saudi arabia paid former president donald trump to host a tournament at his golf courses, which is a move much criticized as so called sports washing, attempting to launder its reputation on human rights abuses with people who don t care about that sort of thing. people like the former president, who bragged to reporter bob woodward that he, quote, saved mohammed bin salman, after a saudi death squad had washington post reporter killed and dismembered with a bunch of. his words, as quoted in woodward s book called rage, i saved his ass, i was able to get congress to leave him alone. i was able to get them to stop. and quote. those were trump s actual words about helping a
according to u.s. intelligence the missile tests do not pose an immediate threat to the united states. let s go to seoul and bring in paula hancock. give us the latest. reporter: john we re hearing here from the south korean side that the u.s.s. ronald reagan is off the east coast, carrying off navy drills as north korea fires yet more missiles. as north korea continues to break its own missile launch record. south korea says trilateral naval exercises are back in the water. holding drills to track and intercept missiles, a response to the north s launches. american aircraft carriers cruising around, pretty much nothing. it will probably make some people in the united states and republic of korea happier. but it will have zero impact on north korea s behavior and decision making. reporter: north korea blamed the flurry on the u.s. calling them counter measures against last week s naval drills. it will increase the condemnation, isolation, increase the steps that are
reporting, but overnight they reported a stunning update claiming the woman behind the allegations is also the mother of one of walker s children. the daily beast explains why they held details about her, the woman, who is a registered democrat and years-long relationship with walker continued after the abortion told the daily beast the chief concern with revealing her name is because she wanted to protect her family s privacy address best she could. walker says he doesn t even know who the woman could be. the anonymous woman has now also alleged she had a child by you. your response? i say the same thing i said, that, you know, i know this is untrue. i know it s untrue. they keep telling me that and it s totally untrue. i m not sure why that would be told. i know nothing about any woman having an abortion and so they can keep coming at me like that. they are doing it because they want to distract people. for national republicans the response has not been to run away fr
this is on top of an announcement from another tech company in the region, micron, which said earlier this week it will spend $100 billion on a new plant in upstate new york. that is the good news that the president is trying to ride high into the midterms, which are 33 days away now. the not so good news, which republicans are seizing on, and democrats aren t too happen about either is opec plus s announcement to cut oil production, led by saudi arabia and russia. the cartel is taking 2 million barrels off the market a day, starting in november. that s 2% of the global oil production. now, while the united states is somewhat shielded from a price increase, because the white house has been tapping into the country s strategic oil reserves, the rest of the world is not, and prices are already climbing. beyond prices though, there is also political fallout, as we told you yesterday, the cut in production could have the effect of helping russia fund its war in ukraine. neutraliz