newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta and the key battleground state of georgia. right now we are in the final sprint before those critical midterm elections, and the balance of power in congress is on the line. today the biggest names in politics are out on the campaign trail. president biden and his two predecessors are all stumping today, and they are all in pennsylvania. moments from now president biden and former president barack obama, there you see the live picture right there, they will take the stage in philadelphia to rally for democratic senate nominee john fetterman. in a couple of hours from now former president donald trump will be in latrobe with republican senate nominee mehmet oz. pennsylvania is one of the three toss-up senate elections and it is a must-win for both parties to have control of the senate. cnn s jessica dean is in latrobe ahead of trump s rally and we begin with cnn s phil mattingly in philadelphia. phil, we have been talking to you throughout
we are just three days away from election day. pittsburgh, i am here to ask you to vote. it is no coincidence that we have three presidents in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. you must vote republican in a giant red wave. most important of all is the senate race where democrats are trying to flip a seat. i m running to serve pennsylvania. he s running to use pennsylvania. i want to go to washington and bring balance. georgia is often referred to as the center of the universe as a true battleground state. he has failed as a senator! he doesn t know hard working people. he doesn t know struggling people. the startling new admission from tehran. iran s foreign minister saying iran did provide a limited number of drones to russia, but it was in the months prior to the conflict. i m alex marquardt in washington. pamela brown is off. thank you so much for joining me here in the cnn newsroom. let s begin this hour on the campaign trail. that s where we fin
fbi but to demand changes. christopher wray was to clean up after james comey but astonishingly, he has made things worse. millions are fighting and americans and are now frightened of the fbi peer that is unsustainable and the democratic republic. christopher wray must be fire merrick garland impeached in the fbi replaced. we need a new organization that all americans can trust. todd: brooke singman has more what we can expect today. good morning guys that standing charges against igor danchenko after closing statements just hours from now. it comes as a federal judge dismisses one of the five charges against igor danchenko with false statements to the fbi. igor danchenko told the fbi he never talked to charles dorn junior apr executive who contributed information to the debunk still dossier. the legal team arguing since he never literally spoke to him but emailed back and forth, the statement was true. the trial also uncovering revelations of the alleged payments to inf
are you concerned about the strength of the economy right now? president biden: i m not concerned about the economy i m concerned about the rest of the world. can you exley that affects. the economy is strong as hell . but the american people feel differently. nearly 78 percent think the economy is in bad shape under biden and 71 percent of people say their family has had to cut back just to afford the necessities braid, new york pos highlighting the pain that they are feeling to $.1 trillion had been wiped this year. all that bad news is dragging democrats down on the campaign trail, but pete buttigieg think the president has been too successful. there have been so many think . the chips act being manufacturing back to the unite states. of course the infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act great on top of that american rescue plan. in some ways, having achieved s much a legislatively makes it hard to talk about all at once because there are so many compl
triple threat of flu, covid and rsv. and trapped underground, wochbtone of the people rescued tells cnn about their wild ordeal. this is what we re watching. and thank you for being here. candidates took to the stage and so what did voters take away from the debates? in pennsylvania, john fetterman and mehmet oz faced off sparring over abortion, inflation and fracking. and it was also voters best chance to see how fetterman performed as he continues to recover from a stroke six months ago. and in new york, governor hochul went head to head with her challenger lee zeldin, and that fight largely centering on crime during the heated debate. let s get started in pennsylvania, jessica dean is there. so they came, they debated and what did voters get to see? reporter: yeah, what did voters see because they will ultimately make the decision here. they are the ones that get to make the decision. so we saw john fetterman and mehmet oz coming together for their first and only deba