president biden is expected to slam election deniers into a surprise speech tonight. the lead starts right now, six days from the midterms president biden has something to say, adding a prime time speech to his calendar taking on the heightened political climate. as the election rolls in candidates are rolling out their closing message. plus, the plan to rope supreme court clarence thomas into the 2020 election. why a trump lawyer called thomas the only chance to delay the process. and north korea is firing off its longest short-range missiles in one day as cnn also learned the rogue nation is secretly supplying russia with weapons. hello and welcome to the lead. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. the countdown is on in our politics lead. just six days left until the votes are counted in the congressional balance of power decided. a brand-new cnn poll suggests republican candidates have the momentum. 51% of likely voters say they ll vote for the republican can
force which means maybe inflation pressures will ease a little bit. and i ll point this out, joe, and mika, the idea here, interest rates didn t move on this and neither did the expectations in the futures market for where interest rates will be by the end of the year. so, again, kind of like that goldilocks scenario. i mean, at least for this month, of course this is a month by month thing, but at least for this month, you look at everything from new jobs added, job participation rate, the wages going up, but not so high that it adds inflationary pressures on the economy. a lot of really good news in this report. and legendary tweeter duke st. journal said, i think this may be a few minutes ago, i think this may be what a soft landing looks like. if we were of course to continue to move into this direction, dom, i guess this would be what a soft landing that the fed is desperately trying to achieve would look like, right? this would be. and the reason why you have this s
Insurrection clause which bars officers of the United States who stage Instructional Rebellion from serving again. Democratic congressman adam schiff this week. The 14th amendment section 3 is pretty clear, if you engage in rebellion against the government, or give pain and comfort to those who do, you are disqualified from running. Doesnt require you be convicted of insurrection. It just requires you have engaged in these acts. Its a disqualification from Holding Office again and fits donald trump to a t. Paul joining me is the former Attorney General of the United States, general casey. You wrote about the 14th amendment issue arguing there are problems with the argument one of which is the president may not be an officer under the definition of that amendment. There are three steps to take under the 14th amendment under the 14th amendment. One is the step that he cant serve, he cant serve as senator in the House Of Representatives or an elector, need someone in the electoral college
people haven t commented, justice thomas didn t comment for this story, so you know, we re still reporting. all right, and we re still following it because it has been some really impressive and incredible work. thanks very much for coming on and sharing it with us. thank you. next, outrage in china as the government deliberately sends flood waters into some people s homes. and five americans imprisoned in iran now possibly a huge step closer to coming home. should i be selling right now? let me take a look at the numbers for you. you tried. limiting when it was okay. no tech behind closed doors. but social media s algorithms of addiction always won out.
so many republicans, including senator graham of south carolina have defended the justices involved, and that was a republican senator from texas saying, hey, maybe a code of ethics is needed here. it s not clear what more steps the senate will take. i do think you re right, some of this would have to fall at the feet of doj, but maybe there will be more momentum in a bipartisan way to get something on the books, some sort of code of ethics for the supreme court. that s congress. would there be potentially any movement on the supreme court itself? i mean, they just had their ethics code changed a little bit. that s why we re talking about some of this. didn t check a box, didn t disclose something, thought he didn t have to and it s clear he does. do you see anything changing here in terms of the supreme court policing itself? as of right now, no. the chief justice has said basically trust us, we know how to do this. we use the code that other federal judges as guidance. but fe