hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your busy newsday with us. president biden hits the road as we hit 12 days till election day. a handful of key senate races are a toss-up. republicans increase will go i confident about capturing the house. early voting way up, some democrats do see some hope there. plus, get this quote, security is a joke. we have some new cnn reporting shows millions of your tax dollars earmarked to protect election workers have not been spent and it leaves the people who count your votes vulnerable to threats. and donald trump sets campaign closing rallies in iowa, in pennsylvania, in ohio and in florida. his election lies echo across this year s republican campaigns, a new snub 6 a potential rival. more proof trump is thinking 2024 comeback. and now in order to make our country successful, safe and glorious again, i will probable h have to do it again but first we have to win a historic win for th
a critical rebound, or is it the calm before the storm? the data is in and the u.s. economy grew by more than expected last quarter putting an end to a six-month slump and the president is hoping this bounce gives democrats a jolt before election day. but before we discuss the political fallout let s look at the numbers. with cnn s matt egan and rahel soloman. break this down for us. does this mean we are out of the woods. unfortunately, not so much. great news that the economy bounced back last quarter. but that doesn t mean that the risk of a recession going forward has gone away. both things can be true at the same time. today s report showed that gdp increased last quarter at an annual rate of 2.6%. pretty solid. i think that plus low unemployment should put to rest this idea that the economy is already in a recession but this gdp report had concerning signals. it s really the improvement was driven by trade, exports were up. imports went down. that alone was enough to
there. he got stuck there on the border between the two countries and a frozen forest lined with barbed wire, because he tried to cross the border from belarus into poland. and neither country would take him. his experience is the same as tens of thousands of migrants in country is experiencing war and violence like sudan, iraq, syria, and yemen. that is because the leader of belarus, alexandra lukashenko, has been using tens of thousands of black and brown migrants as pawns since 2021. he has invited tens of thousands of migrants from the middle east to belarus only to then redirect them to the polish bolder, there by manufacturing a migrant crisis. thousands of these people were trump at the border. more than a dozen bodies have been found. likely frozen to death. lukashenko did this, he harmed all of these people, to make a political point. to stick it to the european union that bastion of elite globalists. he had telegraphed it for years. he warned the eu. fox reports, qu
that is how cold it gets on the border of belarus and poland in the month of february. that is about 19 degrees fahrenheit below freezing. that is the low. the high is a bombing 30 degrees fahrenheit. negative one degrees celsius. still below the freezing point. that is why it looked like this on poland s border with belarus in february, when a 24-year-old refugee arrived there. he got stuck there on the border between the two countries and a frozen forest lined with barbed wire, because he tried to cross the border from belarus into poland. and neither country would take him. his experience is the same as tens of thousands of migrants in country is experiencing war and violence like sudan, iraq, syria, and yemen. that is because the leader of belarus, alexandra lukashenko, has been using tens of thousands of black and brown migrants as pawns since 2021. he has invited tens of thousands of migrants from the middle east to belarus only to then redirect them to the polish bolde
At times as money grubbing, inconsistent, driven by personal hatred, even rolling out that shes crazy line of attack against her. At one point Attorney Susan Necheles said you have, quote, a lot of experience making phony stories about sex. To which daniels replied wow thats now how i would put it. The sex in the films is real just like what happened to me in that room. To try to prove that Stormy Daniels profited off her association with donald trump, trumps Defense Lawyers pointed out stormy sold merchandise to which Stormy Daniels fired back, quote, not unlike mr. Trump. Team trump also suggested that Stormy Daniels opposed trump politically and wanted to take him down. A line of questioning that comes with a lot of risks for the expresident s team. As nbc news reports the defense spent considerable time trying to prove that daniels had a political motive for wanting to out trumps story, trying to hurt his election bid. Wouldnt that bolster the prosecutions arguments trump had for w