gillian: and republicans say they are so optimistic they are spending big in deep blue districts no one saw coming. democrats say abortion rights are on the ballot and still a top concern for their voters. is that gonna translate at the polls? john: congressman tom emmer is here. john roberts in washington, good to spend another 60 minutes with you. gillian: you too, john. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. right to the races now. john: final sprint to election day, the closing pitches. gillian: the senate race is anyone s game, toss-ups in pennsylvania, georgia, arizona, and will decide which party takes control. john: control of congress could come down to a photo finish. gillian: kicking off this hour with one of the most fiercely fought races of them all, and aishah joins us from cartersville, georgia. we are in cartersville, reminds me of home, a small town people are fired up about this senate race. herschel walker is about to take the podium behind
worried about a long, cold winter while this war continues. back to you. john: no question, hard times ahead for the ukrainian people. greg, thank you. gillian. gillian: indiana state police have announced an arrest in the 2017 killings of two teen girls. richard allen charged in the deaths of eighth graders abby williams and libby german, believed to be the man captured in this chilling recording. take a listen. down the hill. alexis mcadams covered the case extensively during the initial faces of the investigation. alexis, you have to think five years later now the family may have been running out of hope that this day would ever come. gillian, that s what many would think but talking to the family members for years here, they really were amazing people. they have been through hell and back but kept that faith that this day would come and here it is, arrest in this case.
year. what has changed? well, if you think about it, john, they did have a good august, you know. it was john: great august. good, i would say, it tightened dramatically. politics, you ve been doing it a long time, professional baseball, a two-year cycle. 162 games, finds being out the messages. when you get to labor day before the election, you want to be ready to be in the playoffs and the playoffs start after labor day, that s essentially what you saw. we were not concerned but definitely watching it in august, because we went from like you say, having a much bigger margin on enthusiasm, on the generic ballot, to tightening. we never fell behind truly, if you think about this. john: you did lose a couple significant races, including new york 19. people say oh, that does not bode well for november. i think if you take a look at what happened in 19, they held
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is at it again with her latest tweet. claiming that students suffered whether or not their schools stayed open tweeting the bottom line is, everyone suffered in the pandemic. because of the pandemic the disruption was everywhere, and bad regardless whether schools were remote or in-person. we are focused on the urgent need to help kids recover and thrive. no question the teachers unions fought to keep the schools closed until they felt the teachers could be safe. gillian: and a follow-up yes to randi would be how is the school system going to help kids now set back as much as two years in math, science and reading, recover? there s no recovery from that. john: that is a big question. the effort that you would need to mount to make up for lost progress is monumental. sandra: are you going to cancel summer vacations for all students forever? no real plan to recover from