hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. just nine days to go until the midterm elections. and the political heavyweights for both parties are hitting the trail, as the campaign hits the homestretch. president joe biden, former presidents barack obama and donald trump all fanning out across the country. this weekend, obama perhaps the democrats best messenger, rallied voters in key battleground states, trying to boost turnout. we have team covercoverage, cnna mckin is covering the final debate in georgia. let s catch up with kevin traveling with the president in delaware. what is biden s primary message this week? well, we should start by noting where the president is not this campaign weekend. and that s on the campaign trail. he is here in wilmington. he did join the 19 million americans who have cast early ballots yesterday. and we will start to see him campaigning more next week when he travels to florida on tuesday. and this is a tri
caribbean, forecasters warning it could become a serious hurricane. we ll show you exactly where it s headed. and president biden takes aim at the republican midterm election and focuses on the abortion fights right. can he turn it into a winning strategy, and can he capitalize on recent political wins. plus, international outrage. rub has been accused of holding a sham referendum, attempting to annex parts of ukraine as the u.s. is threatening horrendous war crimes. we re going to take you to the front lines. welcome to the weekend. saturday, september 24th. we re grateful that you are starting it with us. good morning, amara. good morning to you, boris. it is dark, and it is early, but it is very nice to be with you. this morning we re watching two major storms. first to hurricane fiona, which is now a post-tropical cyclone making its way to canada. damaging winds and heavy rain are pounding the region. in nova scotia, more than 300,000 customers are without power
home to appear in court in florida on tuesday but it s unlikely he will be fingerprinted or handcuffed. theoretically, he could be jailed if found guilty. espionage act violations can carry up to ten years in prison for example but the charges may be difficult to prove. legal experts say as things stand, mr trump will still be able to enter the presidential race. but he does face all sorts of other legal problems, from probes into his new york businesses, to various sex abuse cases. let s bring in dr leslie vinjamuri who is the director of the us and the americas programme at chatham house. 0nce once again we are talking about charges levelled against donald trump and yet the suggestion is this will do no harm to his chances of running for the white house. what you make of that? first i would say in many ways these are far more
forced to consider yet another trump presidential campaign. he s expected to make an announcement from his estate in florida on tuesday. fresh off some undeniably weak results for the gop. democrats defying historical trends to maintain control of the united states senate. they requested this by defeating several of trump s maga favorites including dr. mehmet oz in pennsylvania. dawn in new hampshire. blake masters in arizona. and adam laxalt in nevada. they all lost. as voters say no to trump, in many of his maga darlings, so to our conservative media outlets. the wall street journal editorial page, and your post in the national review, now all saying the republican party should put trump out to pasture. as the national review wrote, the pattern of republican wins and losses on tuesday were not random. its message was not hard to learn. it plunges off is a blinking
he travels to florida on tuesday. and this is a trip that the white house has tried to put on the schedule for a long time. they kept having to cancel it for various reasons, and the president is going down to try to boost the democratic gubernatorial candidate, charlie crist. this is an interesting stop, just because of the national dynamics of that race. you have ron desantis potentially eyeing a national office. that is also where president trump lives now in florida, so it will be interesting to see how president biden uses that in his campaign speech. later in the week, the president will go to new mexico. he s expected back in pennsylvania and he ll spend election night eve in maryland. not necessarily the most high profile races. of course, president biden has not necessarily been the most sought after surrogate in this campaign, but they will offer him an opportunity to get out his message as democrats grow increasingly anxious about november. listen to how president biden