brand-new fox power rankings are out, republicans holding the advantage and retaking the house. the senate is still up in the air. hello, well come, welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. mike: mike emanuel in washington. republicans are supposed to keep the advantage from the last power rankings but different side in the senate. toss-up races in arizona, georgia, nevada and pennsylvania will decide which party takes control. sandra: tight as ever, we approach the final weeks to election day, all of this as pocket book issues are likely to determine the outcome of many of these key races. recent polls show the economy, inflation, surging gas prices are top of mind for american voters. especially independents. mike: jackie and james in moments, but first alexandria, the election is likely to be decided by independent voters. that is exactly right, often hold the decisionmaking power and we are seeing the area of independent concern aligning more with republicans. the
in doing so, he has put before the world a choice. we must meet the moment, and we must not look away. but even though most nations don t agree with putin s tactics, some retain staunch allies of the country. cnn senior u.n. correspondent richard roth breaks down what happened at the u.n. well, most of the countries here on the security council denounced what was done and condemned moscow. the russian ambassador said, look, there is not gonna be a bloodbath if eastern ukraine. he called it a verbal assault in the security council, from the amount of countries that were denouncing moscow. china played it straight down the middle, as it always does. appealing and calling for restraint, no violence, and diplomacy please. the united kingdom joined the u.s., in saying that they will be revealing new sanctions on moscow.
ambassador denounce what russia is doing bringing in so-called peacekeepers into the two regions in eastern ukraine. well, most of the countries here on the security council denounced what was done and condemned moscow. the russian ambassador said, look, there is not gonna be a b bloodbath in eastern ukraine. he called it a verbal assault in the security council, from the amount of countries that were denouncing moscow. china played it straight down the middle, as it always does. appealing and calling for restraint, no violence, and diplomacy. the united kingdom joined the u.s. in saying they will be revealing new sanctions on moscow. the ukrainian ambassador, when he took his mask off due to covid rules, says there is a virus that is coming from the kremlin and the u.n. is sick and it it just depends on if the united nations now will succumb to what russia is doing. michael. all right.
going further into ukraine. it s way too early for this. it s way too early for this. good morning. and welcome to way too early. it s way too early here, but in ukraine, it s practically lunchtime and we ve seen a bunch of developments there overnight. we re going to bring them all to you, including the news that ukraine is asking its citizens to leave russia asap. we re going to get to that, i m hallie jackson in for jonathan lemire on this wednesday morning, february 23rd. listen, we have news. you know the back story. the context here, president joe biden putting new sanctions on russia as he s denouncing moscow s actions on eastern ukraine. saying it s essentially the beginning of a russian invasion. and that speech from the white house, the president condemned vladimir putin s decision to formally recognize the breakaway regions, and send troops in. he said, listen, this is just the beginning, we re going to