hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a busy news day with us. president biden taps the strategic petroleum reserve, 15 million barrels is barely one day of what america consumes but the price of gas is hurting the midterm prospects and thehe is trying to show he trying to ease your pain at the pump. no blank check for ukraine. a promise to boot democrats from committees. no promise to rule out cutting social security and medicare. kevin mccarthy gives a window into his agenda. should republicans take back the house. martial law. russia signs off on new decrees from vladimir putin trying to exert more power over ukraine. president biden in a new move designed to help your budget a bit and hopes also maybe his outlook. in just a short while the president announces a batch of new oil drawn from the strategic petroleum reserve, some 15 million barrels and his energy team today won t rule out releasing more oil over the w
on your wallet. president biden will announce a move to help keep energy prices down for americans less than three weeks before the all-important midterm elections. the president will announce the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic preserve. of course, in the past few days gas prices have been dropping in some areas but on average they re still up 17 cents a gallon from a month ago. of course, the cost at the pump factors into the economic worries voters will carry to the polls and could be a problem for democrats since they re the party in power. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house. phil, what do we expect to hear from the president? you know, ana, not a lot of levers the president can pull in an international economy and global market like the oil market. this, what the president will announce is one of them. both an actual action, announcing the sale of another 15 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve but also in sending
Third hour. This is we made it through the stretch hour. The power hour. The power hour. The seventh thing inning str were so glad everybody is with us this morning. Im glad to be next to you too. It is going quick. It is already 8 00. Speak for yourself. I did two hours and now it is three. Im so glad to be here with you guys because you guys mean, i think we all help each other make each other better and we hope we make you better at home. There is a lot to get to this morning. Welcome to the program. Were going to give you some news now including these baseless Conspiracy Theories circulating about the attack on paul pelosi. Were going to debunk them one by one in a cnn fact check coming up shortly. Midterm elections, were one week exactly away, but a lot of votes already cast in early voting. Republican leaders gaining confidence that this is going to cut their way. Chris sununu of New Hampshire running for reelection, hell join us this hour to talk about his partys prospects. And
it s 8:00. it s 8:00. good morning. goes by quickly when you have this much news. don lemon, poppy harlow, kaitlan collins. monday, november 7th, election eve. excited? yeah. i m excited. a lot to get to this morning. one more day for the candidates to make their closing arguments before the people decide. we will hear from voters across the country today to see what is on their mind. also some very troubling developments over the weekend. suspicious white powder send to kari lake s campaign headquarters in arizona and opened by one of her staffers. now the arizona republican is speaking out. industries across america are laying off workers in a very uncertain economy. we ll tell you how airlines are responding to the volatile. we have the ceo of delta in this hour. first, the final days of the campaign trail, we ll talk about that. president biden stomping for democrats who have one notable thing in common. they are all taking on republican opponents who
next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead. we re going to get into this. we re in the midterm homestretch. what you see from senator kennedy is not actually an aberration at this point. many republicans are turning to fear tactics, tropes, racial references, and sometimes outright documented racism in this part of the final weeks of this campaign. some candidates are used in the past racial dog whistles. that s the tactic where you re signaling a type of racism to one audience while preserving your deniability. but lately the right wing relied on social sirens than any dual whistling. crime is up in america and that could be a valid issue for campaigns but some republicans are literally campaigning on the false racist accusation that black americans would be the cause of all american crime. and i m going to show you exactly the quote so you can decide for yourself what you re hearing. but i want to you know up front, this is not like a fringe or rookie candidate. in th