-led congress, and why it really matters for everything from health care to global and national security, to the balance in your 401k. plus, i will talk to yuri salk, the adviser to ukraine defense minister about a very important week for ukraine, and a new evidence that ending roe was not enough for the anti abortion lobby in this country. the war against reproductive rights rages on, and it s worse than you would think. i will call this week s meeting of the velshi banned book club comes together. it is a celebration of mother daughter love and it has been banned. i will talk to the author, graceland, about why the story is so important. ahead. velshi starts now. . good morning, i m ali velshi, it is saturday january 21st. it is two years of the day since president biden s presidential moderation. we begin with a dire warning to the present day, but to do so, let s go back in history to this famous exchange. little did i dream you could be so reckless and so cruel ask
we are just three days away from election day. pittsburgh, i am here to ask you to vote. it is no coincidence that we have three presidents in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. you must vote republican in a giant red wave. most important of all is the senate race where democrats are trying to flip a seat. i m running to serve pennsylvania. he s running to use pennsylvania. i want to go to washington and bring balance. georgia is often referred to as the center of the universe as a true battleground state. he has failed as a senator! he doesn t know hard working people. he doesn t know struggling people. the startling new admission from tehran. iran s foreign minister saying iran did provide a limited number of drones to russia, but it was in the months prior to the conflict. i m alex marquardt in washington. pamela brown is off. thank you so much for joining me here in the cnn newsroom. let s begin this hour on the campaign trail. that s where we fin
sovereign border to the south under biden s watch. desantis is now sending illegal immigrants to the blue state of massachusetts where the vineyard is, as you know. two planes filled with those illegal immigrants arrived at martha s vineyard yesterday. a state representative for that area with this angry tweet. republicans who call themselves christians have been plotting for some time to use human lives as political pawns. here is former ice director tom hoe man. they say it is imhumane and cruel and invoking religion. the open border is inhumane and cruel. they incentivize immigration. harris: it s showing up at the doorstep of the vice president s resident. greg abbott sent two more illegal immigrant buses to d.c. the drop-off point outside the naval observatory where the vice president, kamala harris lives. remember how she keeps saying our border is secure. let s go to griff jenkins who was outside the v.p. s residence now. griff. governor abbott has sent over 190
critical races stand this morning. plus in a couple hours, the man accused of attacking the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi is expected in court. the new details about what he was allegedly planning. also, right now, anguished families confronting the parkland shooter in court today. what they have said so far. and overseas, former israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tried to return to power as israelis head to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years. we have a live report from jerusalem. and we begin this very busy hour with the intensifying midterm races now just seven days from election day. so far, more than 23 million people have already voted. both parties are looking for that crucial 11th-hour boost from party stars. today president biden will be in battleground florida stumping for democratic gubernatorial candidate charlie crist and val demings here in the south florida area. former president obama making a campaign push and in a few
it is wednesday, october 12th. i m christine romans. president biden says he believes russian president vladimir putin is rational. mr. biden said putin s objectives invading ukraine were irrational and a serious misjudgment. do you think putin is a rational actor? i think he is a rational actor who s miscalculated significantly. so if he s not rational no, i didn t say he s not rational. you said the speech. i think his speech, his objectives. i think he thought they would welcome him with open arms. this is home for mother russia and i think he totally miscalculated. cnn s jasmine wright is live in washington. what else did the president have to say about putin and ukraine? reporter: obviously the president warned of catastrophic mistakes and miscalculations. president putin continues to make these nuclear threats. as the u.s. grows more concerned while looking at the escalations happening in ukraine caused by russia. he warns of armageddon. take a look at