far left socialist agenda which led to increased spending, increased inflation. democrats should talk about the economy. they should contrast their views with the republican decision. they should be talking about how much things cost at the supermarket, the gas pump. if they talk about anything else, they are nuts. todd: alexandria hoff live in washington with the very latest. alexandria? you heard that last sound bite. they ve been trying to talk about anything else. inflation is a top issue for midterm voters combined with recession concerns and the biden administration has had to come up with a sensitive response. it s possible but not inevitable and we are doing everything we can to strengthen the foundations of the american economy. retail sales, payload employment, industrial production, all of those have not been flashing red. all of those are not recessionary territory. eco-there is s vehicle there is now a 63% chance that recession will hit e next three mo
them neville. former president obama just wrapped up a rally with democratic senate candidate john fetterman in pittsburgh. mr. obama will team up with president biden for another rally later this afternoon in philadelphia, and former president trump stumping later as well for senate candidate mehmet oz and gop gubernatorial candidate doug maas try january know. we ll have full cover coverage with lauren wright standing by in philly, bryan llenas on former president trump hitting the trail, but first, rich edson on the democrats rolling out their big guns, and he is live in pittsburgh. hey, rich. reporter: hey, good afternoon, arthel. it is a wealth of former presidents here on the western part of the state. president obama just finished here close to the university of pittsburgh where he s trying to turn i out voters, college students, folks in the area to vote for john fetterman for u.s. senate. also campaigning for the house candidates and the governorship that s also up
the sort of area between russian and ukrainian territory. the two sides had agreed on a two hour cease fire, so there was a narrow window of time that we had to move in and out during which there was no shelling which is pretty unusual in that area along that contact line in zaporizhzhia. and essentially at a certain point we had to stay back a little bit and an ambulance went with further down the road where the russians passed the body of joshua jones to the ukrainians. they then brought him down towards us, they took the body out. those two lawmakers who i mentioned, ukrainian lawmaker, went as side to identify the body. they had been in discussions with the russian side and already exchanged photographs to be sure that was it the body of i don t joshua jones. there were certain tattoos and markings that they used to identify him. and he was driven in to the city of zaporizhzhia and he will move on to kyiv and from there the hope is that as soon as possible he will be repa
if this had been a boxing match the referee would have called this in the first 60 seconds. and now in case you need reminding it wasn t your run of the mill debate because due to his stroke fetterman required special dispensations. may notice these large monitors that are behind us. this is part of our closed captioning system. it was requested by john fetterman to help him process the questions that we are asking him tonight. laura: but right off the bat it was pretty clear that fetterman would need a lot more than that big screen. what qualifies you to be a u.s. senator? you have 60 seconds. hi. good night, everybody. laura: good night? well, scary thought. that might have been actually the best moment of the entire debate for fetterman. one of the most remarkable exchanges was about fetterman s views on fracking. i absolutely support fracking. i believe that we need independence with energy, and i believe i ve walked that line my entire career. you have made
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