high interest rates are real bad for people who are buying stuff they don t pay for right away. that s my ba-humbug. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. it s friday. friday. we love our jobs but it is friday. i think i love friday. tgif. we made it guys. we made it. we made it. good morning, everyone. don lemon here. poppy harlow, kaitlan collins and it is friday and we are happy to be here but we re happy that it s friday and we get a couple days off, because next week is going to be a marathon. we have a lot going on next week. wait until you see how long we re on television. we have cots behind us we re going to be sleeping on. it s going to be a busy week. it is. and leading into next week there is an oprah size endorsement we have to talk about. it s in pennsylvania s senate race. will it make a difference? big one. hours from now thousands of twitter employees will learn if they are fired through email. wha
know, compared to the maga trickle down economics. biden and the far left lunatics are waging war on iowa farmers, crushing american energy and strangling iowa families with soaring prices. we re the only candidate that has hands on experience fighting against crime and gun violence. we have families all over the commonwealth worried about crime, so much so they won t send their kids outside. democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea. this notion that each of us has within us a spark of the divine. my offensive linemen they used to tell me sometime, follow me i take you to the promise land. i tell you, vote for me we all get to the promise land. let s fight for more, better, let s never give up. fight for freedom, fairness. i don t know why you can t look at america and understand
were pulling their hair out. they wanted people to early vote. we want that, and trump was telling people, don t early vote, don t trust it. can we talk about oprah s endor endorsement? yes. dr. oz doesn t get a car. dr. oz doesn t need a car from oprah or another house. i would like to ask you, everyone says this is big from fetterman, remember a month ago, the statement from the oprah camp was we re not getting involved here. now she said if i live in pennsylvania i would have already voted for fetterman for many reasons. good for him? not necessarily. i know her. she s wonderful. and her commitment to the community, to making a difference, we need more people like that. i know where you re going with this she s seen as an elitist in hollywood. and they may turn people off in
steal. all i m saying is, as we continue to cast apersians at our electoral system we re doing ourselves damage. that s true. young people do not baelieve democracy is working. that doesn t mean we can t talk about and find ways to improve. speaking of these people voting, more than 30 million people across 46 states that have already voted. my question is are we underestimating the early vote count whether it s democrats or republicans. usually it favors democrats but maybe republicans learned their lesson. the governor of florida who may be a presidential candidate, is challenging trump, trump says vote on election day only. desantis is saying vote early. and trump s campaign aides
a tight race, everyone is looking for any edge they can get on both sides. so the fetterman campaign and john fetterman himself delighted to have this endorsement. as you mentioned, there s a personal connection here. oprah making dr. oz a household name, backing his television show, having her on his television show. so the fact that she would come out and support fetterman is significant. i ll held you listen to what she had to say about it. you mentioned pennsylvania. i said it was up to the citizens of pennsylvania, and, of course, but i will tell you all this, if i lived in pennsylvania i would have already cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. fetterman is saying in a statement he is honored to get this endorsement and any edge they can get in the campaign they re going to take it. as for mehmet oz, this is the statement they released.