regardless of what s behind the decision is cleared the democratic party doesn t want you to notice job item is obviously, physically and mentally in decline. or joe biden s record. don t believe your eyes come up believe us. joe biden has been a great president they insist. unfortunately the democratic party, that message seems to not be working. harvard harris poll from just a few weeks ago found nearly 60 percent of voters have doubts about biden s mental fitness. another poll by mammoth universities had nearly half of the democrats would prefer joe just sit out the next election. they don t want him to run. even some of joe botticelli s since his portability. for months they ve been pushing biden to step aside. eric times has recently run a number of pieces with all the same headlines. joe biden shouldn t run again. if it s any indication as to what they really think about joe biden s reelection. democrats have spent months waiting and plotting for biden s announcement. p
le learned about you is how hard you are on yourself. sometimes there is nobody that holds the leader accountable. it was not always about winning and losing for me. it is about being worthy of winning. and good morning, everyone. we re covering a lot today. we begin with tensions on the rise after the pentagon says a russian fighter jet hit a u.s. spy drone and forced it to crash. two russian jets intercepted the drone over the black sea yesterday. u.s. says one of them dumped fuel on the drone and then collided with its propeller forcing the drone to go down. putin is about to make a public appearance in moscow. we re waiting to see if he weighs in on the incident. following the crash, russia s ambassador was summoned to the state department. he claims there is no collision and that drone crashed on its own. here s what the white house had to say about that to our very own jake tapper. well, it won t surprise you that we refute that the russian s denial. i think any
what exactly do we expect to hear from him? reporter: yeah, that s right, bianna. president biden is going to be tackling head on what has become a political liability for democrats less than three weeks away from these midterm elections and that s the price of gas in the united states, which is now 20 cents higher than it was a month ago. we have seen those prices come down some over the last week, but there are still a lot of concerns, especially given the cut in production announced by opec plus earlier this month, the conflict that is still ongoing in ukraine and so president biden today trying to do something to tackle the rising price of oil and in accordance with that the rising price of gas. 15 million barrels of oil is what president biden is directing the administration to release from the strategic petroleum reserve and that is going to be the last of the 180 million barrels of oil that president biden announced last spring that the administration would release t
watching in the united states, and around the world, i m anna coren. this hour on cnn newsroom, we are seeing millions of people across america casting their vote in the midterms and election day is more than two weeks away. coming up, why so many are voting early this year. and former british prime minister boris johnson could be vying for his old job. ahead, why the tories may support the boris or bust campaign. we re live from london. and later the symptoms of the viral respiratory illness known as rsv that parents need to be aware of and what to do if their child has it. in just over two weeks u.s. voters will head to the polls and determine which party will control the house and senate. with so much at stake politicians have been hitting the campaign trail with urgency trying to clinch dozens of seats up for grabs. 218 seats are needed to control the house. right now it looks like republicans have a slight lead with 212 likely wins. in the senate three seats are
we are live in the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington. it s the final days before the midterm elections, today is down to 16 if you are counting. president joe biden is planning a rare stop to stump for democrats in florida. the president has kept a relatively low profile on the campaign trail this season as his party fights to win a few crucial races in several swing states, a prominent senator was on cnn earlier this morning warning that democrats need a messaging shift. is the abortion issue important? yes. but we have also got to focus on the struggles of working people to put food on their table. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democratic. and i think, again, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. and cnn s joe johns joins me now from delaware where the president is spending his weekend. joe, you ve covered these stretches many times before, w