in the suffering of his wife, meghan. there s widespread condemnation of the storming of brazil s congress by supporters of former president, jair bolsonaro. and history is about to be made here in cornwall, when later this evening the uk will be launching a rocket to send satellites up into space. and coming up on the bbc news channel, roberto martinez has been appointed as the new manager of portugal. the former everton boss left his role with belgium after the world cup. good afternoon and welcome to the news at 1:00pm. officials from rail, health and teaching unions, are taking part in separate talks with ministers to try to avert more industrial action. there has been no breakthrough so far. the unite union which represents workers across several sectors of the economy says the government has missed yet another opportunity to put this right, and the meeting was an insult to his members . strikes in the health service next week involving unite are now likely to go ahea
the democratic party all around the country. p they are now petrifiedetrifi by very real possibility that the democrats could lose the house and lose the senate, not to majr mention multiple major gubernatorial races all across this great country of ours. this weekend, barack obama, bernie sanders, even first lady jill biden, they re all hitting the campaign trail hard in a desperate attempt to salvager. some of these races. bujot noe t joe biden, the president. it s m he s just noort up to the taskt and it s more than he can handle at thishi point in his life. so he will be spending the weekend in delawarere with his wit granddaughter. so much needed rest and relaxation for the president.afe now, afterr al all, it was a vey nesy week for joe , public events almost every single day. needless to say, the struggle was very real. sed yesterday, for example, bideemn seemed to think that heg inherited five dollar a gallon gas pricesn ga and that america, you, the american people,
lost its mojo, that they ve blown a historic midterm opportunity, that all because their primary winners were just terrible. you do have republican nominating, shall we say, flawed candidates. herschel walker in georgia, j.d. vance in in in ohio, dr. oz in in pennsylvania. what looked like a wipeout for democrats in the fall is maybe not going to be so bad because of the candidates. republicans are nominating. walker can lose ause, can lose, johnson can lose their bad candidates so smug and so wrong. liberal super pacs even helped boost the so-called election, denying republicans the primaries with the thought that they d be easier to defeat in the general elections. well, even our own senate minority leader joined the pig pile against his own party, trying to tamp down his party s expectations by blaming the populace. the maga folks. there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than some senate races are just different or statewide. candidate quality has
carley: carley shimkus, president biden absent from the campaign trail this election season. and the white house schedule focusing on official business. this is likely the reason why. just 40% in a recent gallup poll. todd: now kevin corke live in washington with more, kevin, good morning to you. always great to be with you, guys. let me just quote a seasonally appropriate film that actually debuted about 38 years ago. who are you going to call? not ghostbusters but in this case democrats you are going to call barack obama. that is right. when you need political closure to rally the base and raise money make the closing argument, you ve got it. by the way, that is precisely what the president is expected to do with stops planned for nevada and wisconsin and michigan. as you pointed out, carley, georgia. and stacey abrams and raphael warnock and others in the hopes of helping the democrats avoid a rib wave in less than two weeks. joe biden and kamala harris also hitting