president biden is expected to slam election deniers into a surprise speech tonight. the lead starts right now, six days from the midterms president biden has something to say, adding a prime time speech to his calendar taking on the heightened political climate. as the election rolls in candidates are rolling out their closing message. plus, the plan to rope supreme court clarence thomas into the 2020 election. why a trump lawyer called thomas the only chance to delay the process. and north korea is firing off its longest short-range missiles in one day as cnn also learned the rogue nation is secretly supplying russia with weapons. hello and welcome to the lead. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. the countdown is on in our politics lead. just six days left until the votes are counted in the congressional balance of power decided. a brand-new cnn poll suggests republican candidates have the momentum. 51% of likely voters say they ll vote for the republican can
underground bunkers. a north korean missile came dangerously close to the island, crossing a de facto maritime buffer zone between the north and south. pyongyang never officially recognized that line, until wednesday, they never fired a missile over it, either. south korea s president holding to his hawkish stance on north korea, calling the launch an effective territorial invasion. the missile actually fell just shy of the south s territorial waters. he forged ahead with operation vigilant storm, infuriating north korea. this is south korea s largest combined military air drills with the u.s., five days of war games, 240 aircraft, thousands of service members from both countries. pyongyang s foreign ministry promising powerful followup