putin meets. ukraine is turning the tide in the war and taking key territory. first, 20 hours that matter a whole lot, very lot to your life. the biden white house has a deal in place to avert a major rail strike. the 20 hours of negotiations included a call from president biden, who reportfully sided with union real workers. amtrak is scrambling to get back on the rails trains its canceled as it anticipated the strike. the president holding a rose garden event to savor the moment. it would have meant shortages of key goods and price spikes on everything from gas to key groceries and more. every good you need, is delivered on a rail where it needs to go. today is a win, i mean this sincerely, a win for america. straight to the white house. k walk us through how this happened. reporter: it s not only a big win for president biden but a big relief for the white house, who thought economic consequences would look severe. had they not gone to the deadline on friday. that
and the inbum kcumbent is retir. republicans hoped to have their seats checked by now to invest. but they re on invest in ohio, as well. in wisconsin. potentially, north carolina. and most of the states where they re on defense are places where former president trump endorsed them through the primary, got them on the ticket and now there s a scramble to get them through the general, getting them to pivot and try to get them to be more amenable to broader electorate, not just the trump base that comes out during the primaries. but people who may be in the middle. people who may have voted for joe biden in 2020 and voted for trump in 2016 and are up for grabs. they don t like the idea of election deniers being put into congress. now, you see the pivots. you re starting to see some of the candidates moderate. it s been difficult and we re seeing in the polls they are not able to pull it off. up next, one of the key issues that democrats think they are helping. abortion policy and poli