it s the top of the hour you re watching cnn news central and it is election day in the united states. we re closely watching several key races on major issues that could reverberate all the way into november 2024 either though joe biden and donald trump or any other republican presidential candidates are not on the ballot today there are issues that fire up their party s respective basises and here they are, abortion. democrats have seen win after win in red states over abortion rights. in virginia one republican is leaning into the abortion fight, convinced he can snap the republican party s losing streak on that issue. we re covering those votes and more. let s start with sunland tracking the virginia race. abortion is not on the ballot in virginia neither is governor glen youngkin, but those two things weigh heavily on the minds of voters. reporter: that s right. the governor has been involved in this race, and made his abortion proposal front and center in this campa
we also need to be focused on the day after. and so in conversations that we ll be having through the course of this weekend, i expect you ll see a focus there, and particularly how we can get over time two states for two peoples, which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state that they are entitled to. so, these roadway the things that we are focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues. but i m convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place, that s what we ll be working to do. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point in their offensive in gaza and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on, are you confident you ll be able to get them to make movement on this, given the positions we have seen from israelis? as we said and it s impor
that this one senator is having this kind of an impact on our operational readiness and if you don t think it isn t, i would urge him or anybody else who doubts this, go on down to tampa, florida and talk to the folks in central command about the priorities and what they are trying to do on behalf of our administration s policy in the middle east, especially right now with everything going on. it s having an impact and as karine rightly said, an impact on family members, can t get schools for the kids, can t buy or rent houses, don t know where they are going to be living next. absolutely ridiculous. the vice president was over in london and said if israel and ukraine were bifurcated the president would veto it. you over the last couple of days have explained that you would be something offset, especially involving the irs. but i wanted to be clear, if the president was presented with a clean israel funding bill without ukraine, he would veto that as well? the president b