, welcome to a holiday edition of the last word. 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was the first time since 1934 that first term president saw every senator in his party reelected. every senator who is running. in 1934, first term democratic president franklin roosevelt sought every democratic senator running for ev election get reelected. president biden saw the same thing this year. and the democrats added a seat to their control of the senate when john fetterman won in pennsylvania. a very difficult state for democrats to win. as is arizona and georgia. but, democratic senate candidates won in those states to. from my race in arizona, i had wide support by republicans. republican mares and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. you know, they ve come up to me frequently. but also, endorsed me. republican mayors. because, you know, they re tired of what they ve seen over the last, well, six years now. and they just want to get things done, an
a margin of air ahead of a much anticipated debate there tuesday night. so is a gop weight on november 8 possible after all? was asked republican pollster strategist ed is a partner at the tarrance group. nice to see you again. so, first of all i want to ask you about the public mood. the right track numbers, the polling 25%. can you recall a time especially for an election when the public was in such a sour mood? there was a period in the spring we saw the numbers move slightly worse. in fact wrong track when over 70% for the first time in the 40 years i ve been doing polling and watching it. it was basically because the progressives of the democratic party had become disenchanted with the president on not moving their agenda. but when the supreme court case came out they kind of moved back in that direction. and that now seems to be hovering in this over two one margin wrong track belief by the there. which is one of the worst if not the worst i ve seen in off year electi
peaked and how much you pay in your everyday life will soon go up. donald trump goes under oath and refuses to answer moments. a marquee moment into the investigation into the former president s finances. he faced questions from new york s attorney and lawyers in the new york attorney s office. we know trump did what he says only mobsters do, pleaded the fifth. trump saying, under the advice of my counsel and the above reasons i decline to answer is the questions under the rights and privileges to every citizen under the constitution of the united states of america. tell us more. reporter: trump around here at 9:00 a.m. he said he was going to assert his fifth amendment rights and not answer any questions. trump said what he said only mobsters do. today he is taking the fifth because the new york attorney general leading this investigation letitia james, he has called her racist and her investigation is politically motivated so he was not going to answer any questions.
trump s old cabinet. the west wing was broken. it was not functioning properly. the problem hesident has a l history with president xi. we re adversaries, we re competitors with china right now, no doubt about that . welcome, it is friday, july 29, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where flash flood warnings are up right now as more storms and heavy rains move through the region. that is after catastrophic flooding already claimed the lives of at least eight people and the governor warns the death toll will go higher. and he said that it could take years for residents to rebuild and called it the worst flooding disaster of his lifetime. overnight residents near a dam were ordered to evacuate due to the fast moving water and the area has gone through this before, but not quite like this. we ve seen water in the streets before, but we ve never seen water, you know, waist deep in the streets or chest deep in the streets. never seen this in all the year
we re live with the latest. a deadly strike on a train station. we will have a report on the escalation and fighting as ukraine marks its independence day. we will have more on those stories in just a moment. we begin this hour with more evidence of just how long the national archives pleaded with donald trump s legal team to get documents from the former president. about 100 days after he left office, the archives realized documents were missing and asked for them to be returned. even the white house counsel agreed cnn has confirmed reporting by the washington post on the story. it comes as the department of justice is finalizing its reductions to the highly sensitive affidavit that was used to justify this month starts. those reductions are due today. our reporter has more. present joe biden forcefully declaring he had no knowledge of the search before it happened. i do not have any advance notice. the allies have been insisting that he was somehow behind the unprec