i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. three weeks from election day, and today president biden is putting abortion rights front and center for voters. this afternoon he promised to make roe v wade the law of the land. promising to send a bill to congress to codify the law. they re hoping this could galvanize voters. if you care about the right to choose, then you ve got to vote. that s why in these midterm elections, it s so critical to elect more democrats to keep control of the house of representatives. folks, if we do that, here s the promise i make to you and the american people the first bill i will send to the congress will be to codify roe v. wade. when congress passes it, i ll sign it in january 50 years after roe was first decided as the law of the land. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house this afternoon. what s behind the strategy here of making abortion a focus of the mid terms. polling is showing that it s not the boost it was a few weeks ago
it s the continental shelf so all of this water goes on top of shallow ground and then when you talk about the tide so the natural rise in water, 16 feet with waves on top of that? i mean, it s devastating for this region. i m so concerned for the people who decided to ride it out. i was listening to the first responders saying we re not going to be able to get to you. ainsley: cedar key you have mentioned that. that little island the closist big city is gainesville but it s out there. and there is one little bridge. janice: you are cut off. ainsley: 100 residents decided to stay and they say every home could be flooded. and we saw that, remember, with ian we saw was it sanibel island and remember the governor built that bridge back very quickly so he was praised for that but you worry about the families that are there. janice: still people can t get into their homes.
cnn has exclusively obtained audio of conversations between journalist bob woodward and former president trump. woodward is releasing more than eight hours of his conversations with the former president and his close closist allies. he s releasing them for a new audio book. so here s a clip where the president is talking about his speech writing process. did somebody help you? yeah, i get people, they come up with ideas, but the ideas you are mine, bob. you want to know something? everything is mine. jamie gangel joins us live. what more he we learning? it s classic donald trump. bob woodward is doing something he s never done before.
carolina, where i am standing this morning. you know, it is very interesting. we ve been following this storm all the way from west palm beach to here. yes, the bahamas simp simply the pain is profound there. but there was a time when they were expecting this to make landfall on the mainland united states. first it was down in florida. we just lost one of our lights so i ll come back to the camera so you can see me. first it was going to be down in coastal florida. this is the closist it has come to direct landfall. 100,000 people without power in south carolina and georgia. that number will grow. the wind speeds here, i would say the consistent winds have been 40 to 50 miles an hour this morning with gusts north of 60 miles an hour. that will get stronger throughout the morning. and it s the water here that is the major cause of concern. 15 to 20 inches of rain could fall over the next 12 to 24
threat. not just because of that. his financial dealings, whatever it was, it was so bad, the u.s. intelligence community didn t want him to have their information. then, rick, you ve got to answer the why lie? the president easily could have said, this is my boy. we know that jared is his adviser on a variety of things, really, his closist confidant. and the president could have said that and could have said, pound salt, but he didn t. the reason to lie about it is because there s something else going on. the president has the ability to give jared kushner any security clearance he wants. he knows that. he said he didn t know it. ivanka lied about it directly. the whole thing is a con job. and the con job is jared kushner is not out securing peace in the middle east or securing peace with saudi arabia. he s out to secure contracts for a post-presidential business or whatever it is, both for him, for ivanka, for himself, for his family, and for donald trump. that s what he s out