president biden moving to keep gas price s down with the critical midterm elections fast approaching. good morning, it is wednesday, october 19th i m brianna keilar with john berman. today the president is expected to announce he s authorizing the release of 15 million more barrels from the u.s. strategic reserve. the draw down first announced in march to release 180 million barrels. and on the inflation front, millions of americans could see a bump in paychecks next year thanks to an inflation adjustment in the tax code. this comes as president biden and democratic candidates lockdown midterm messaging. the focus now, economy and abortion. president biden was speaking trying to rally voters still angry about the supreme court decision on roe v. wade, pledging to protect abortion rights if more democrats are elected to congress. right now, we re short a handful of votes. if you care about the right to choose, then you got to vote. that s why these midterm elections are
happening right now, martial law. putin is cracking down on several regions. another sign that his war is losing momentum. hours from now, president biden will announce new actions to tackle gas prices, including another release from strategic oil reserves, as voters say inflation and rising prices are key issues heading into the mid terms. let s begin in ukraine. earlier this morning, i wrote with a cyberexpert, and asked what he thinking of the move for martial law. it s an act of desperation. things are going from bad to worse. he s losing more and more territory in these four recently annexed territories. just yesterday, the new head of the russian ground forces said they have to make some hard decision where their position is particularly untenable on the right bank of the river. that s probably an indication they re looking to withdraw potentially from that. what putin is trying to do there is forestall t. of course, any further loss of territory, desperately tryi
this is the worst day he has ever had legally. plus, the former guy is already lying about the two big court defeats today. we ll have a special look at how lies and conspiracies can threaten our democracy, as the 11th hour gets underway on this important wednesday night. take a breath, because here we go. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. this is a very big news night. one that has not been good for donald trump. just a short time ago, the 11th circuit court of appeals and a trump s lower years a huge defeat. two of them appointed by trump himself, lifted the judges order that prevented the justice department. seized from mar-a-lago in its criminal investigation that. ruling came after the world learned the former guy is now facing a potentially crippling lawsuit that poses and his real date business and a family. letitia james, new york to tierney general, sued trump, his adult children ivanka, eric, and she s accusing him of lying to banks in the state, fr
from the ukraine/russian boarder. half an hour away from the opening of the markets. yesterday they took a massive dive after the fed s announcement of another interest rate hike. cnbc s andrew ross sorkin will join us shortly. mike barnicle back with us for the hour. we begin with the lawsuit from the state of new york against donald trump. his eldest children and the trump organization alleging years of fraud. the state is seeking $250 million in damages and wants to bar the family from serving as officers of new york-based companies. the lawsuit is more than 200 pages long and outlines exactly how trump allegedly overvalued his assets by billions of dollars to get more favorable loans. trump, his children, and the organization are accused of using more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations over a ten-year period. new york state attorney general letitia james says she has referred to violations to the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and to the
calls staggering business fraud over a decade. we ll have the response from team trump in just moments. we re also watching blowback in russia to vladimir putin s plan to mobilize more troops to fight in ukraine. more than 1300 people were detained in rare protests. the desperate measures taken by some russians facing a potential draft. also a significant update in the january 6th investigation. a source telling nbc news it is agreed it has reached an agreement to interview conservative activist ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. what that could mean for the panel s next hearing next week. we start with the latest on the multiple investigations into donald trump. joining me now is vaughn hillyard from trump tower in new york, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, charles coleman, the former new york prosecutor and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and senior member of the mueller probe. charles and andrew fortunate