hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in watershington. we are two weeks out and tonight a one-night only event in a pivotal senate race, john fetterman versus mehmet oz on the debate stage sgl. plus, progressives push president biden to push russia to end the ukraine war. and diary excerpt. a broken promise from a supreme court justice. a new book digs into the life of senator ted kennedy. up first, the midterms. we count your votes two weeks from today. already upwards of 9 million ballots cast across 40 states. big debates tonight remind us the consequences are enormous and many of the key races are remarkably close. 36 governors races. always important but all the more so because of the new politics of abortion rights. all 435 house seats up. republicans now confident they will seize the speaker s gavel from nancy pelosi. and 35 senate contests including a race that s absolutely crucial. john fetterman and mehmet oz square off. it is their one and only
senator joe manchin s team confirming that he will, quote, unequivocally not support any climate provisions in the democrats economic package or consider raising taxes on the wealthy or corporations. moments ago president biden took off for saudi arabia in a highly anticipated and controversial meeting with the crown prince mohammed bin salman. the president is seeking to boost oil flow and reset the relationship with the kingdom, less than two years after vowing to make saudi arabia a pariah for its human rights abuses. cnn s kaitlan collins and wolf blitzer are in jeddah, saudi arabia, where the president will be visiting. wolf, to you first. the president, before he left the west bank, met with the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas this morning. he continues to advocate for a two-state solution, announced an aide, but right now there are no substantive talks between the israelis and palestinians. where do those negotiations stand and where does a two-state
the tops supermarket in buffalo, new york, that s where a gunman killed ten people in a racist attack. it s now reopened today. it has, it s a very important day there for so many reasons. it has undergone a complete renovation. there is a memorial to the victims to try to help, of course, so many still grieving and traumatized in this community. no matter if all the justice that we deserve is given to us or not, we will still be able to move on from this. i just don t want it to be that we are expected to be so resilient that we forget that this happened or so resilient that we are forgotten about. but they should know that they can t break us. our athena jones is live in buffalo. at athena, what s it like to be
york. at athena, really disturbing video. what happened? reporter: you can see it s disturbing and disturbing even to the folks on site. they saw what they believe is evidence of racial bias, this scuffle ensuing and pulling white teenager off and setting him on a couch, while while the other police officer kneels on the back of the black teenager, handcuffing him behind his back and coming over to help. meanwhile, the white teenager also involved in the fight just left to sit there on the couch without any handcuffs. a lot of folks who see this see evidence of facial racial bias s problem in america, the idea that the black youth is automatically assumed to be the aggressor or the dangerous one. listen to how the boy s mother,
athena jones is live in oxford, michigan, this morning. at athena, what is the school saying now and what are you hearing about the possibility of school officials facing some responsibility here? reporter: good morning, jim. what s unclear is if school officials will be facing charges, clearly something that oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald has not concluded or announced yet. we know the school superintendent, the school district requested an independent third party investigation into the events leading up to tuesday s shooting and also sharing their version of events. the upshot at no point did counselors or staff feel crumbley would be of harm to himself or others. we heard how they responded monday a teacher saw him searching for ammunition on his cell phone. ethan saying shooting sports were a family hobby. tuesday another teacher saw a