the average american feeling the pain on groceries to gas but president biden is blaming covid vladimir putin and oil companies. will voters hold democrats accountable at the ballot box? congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers and cara hay are joining us coming up. we begin with the senate debate. i m sandra smith. john great to kick off another show with you. great to be on wednesday hump day. dr. oz and fetterman despite early voting well underway in the keystone state. democratic senate candidate struggled at times with his answers. in new york state, the crime crisis taking center stage. looking to oust kathy hochul. brian is live in harrisburg pa, what has been the reaction to fetterman s performance? lots of speculation what it could mean for john fetterman the fact there are renew questions about his fitness to serve when you look at exchange like this one about his evolving stance on fraccing. he said in 2018 he didn t and never has. i absolutely support
stretch. america reports is looking to a battleground matchup where stakes couldn t be higher. j.d. vance is neck and neck with his republican opponent. he join us live. judging from the opponent speaking this morning the tense political battle is about to hit a boiling point. try to dismiss j.d. as being an extremist weirdo which he is and everybody knows it. extremist weirdo? see how he responds in a closing race that could poachly tip the power out of democratic reports. welcome to america reports second hour. we will get to vance in a moment i m sandra smith in new york. we invited democrat tim ryan to join us any time. he s welcome on the program and hope he will come on to make his case after we hear from j.d. vance. he s been here before and can be here again. we begin the hour with breaking news. the hour at the white house the press secretary will face questions any minute 13 days from the midterm the president announcing plan to tackle inflation vowing to
raphael warnock and stacey abrams they declined our offer. we will visit with georgia voters in this hour to learn what issues are most important to them. and and we will hear from a special panel of local journalists covering these races. we are in ache worth georgia in the bell county of cobb northwest of downtown. plaintiff before we get into politics take a look at other headlines today. u.s. supreme court justice samuel alito says unveiling of roe v. wade puts his and mates in danger no. results have been made public from the investigation into that leak. a judge here in georgia is ordering former white house chief of staff mark meadows to testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then president trump and his allies illegally tried influence the state s 2020 election. meadow s attorney says executive privilege and other rights shield his client from testifying. russian president vladimir putin s monitoring drills of the country s strategic nuclear forces
that i m fit to be serving and that s what i believe is where i m standing. democrats are seizing on dr. oz already on defense for criticism of discredited theories he promoted on television saying this when asked whether aside from exceptions should abortion be banned in america. i ve been in the room when there s some difficult conversations happening. i don t want the federal government involved with that at all. i want women, doctors, local political leaders leading the democracy that s allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. we ll get reaction here as well as reports from other key contests across the nation. and we ll take a closer look at threats to election workers undermining access to the vote and election security in georgia, two years after former president trump tried to change the 2020 results. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell here in pittsburgh and the big question in pennsylvania this morning
surrogate, bob casey, about the candidate s debate performance. how, mr. fetterman, do you propose doing that, to make it more affordable for families? i just believe, making it it costs too much. i believe providing the resources to reduce the tuition to allow families to be able to afford it. for dr. mehmet oz, new questions about abortion rights. i have been in the room when there s difficult conversations happening. i don t want the federal government involved with that at all. i want women, doctors, local political leaders, leading the democracy that s allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. i will be joined by meet the press host and nbc political director chuck todd with what pennsylvania voters are telling him today. reports from michigan and nevada, two other key battlegrounds in the 2022 campaign. here in pittsburgh, all the talk today is about last night s big senate debate matchup. the one and