continues and it is a lot of news on cnn with wolf blitzer, the one and only in the situation room, have a good weekend happening now, president biden tries to bounce back from his struggles out there on the debate stage. holding a fiery campaign rally today. and volley to win the election. but many democrats are in panic mode right now suggesting at least privately, he should consider sinner stepping aside. i get reaction from a key house democrats. this hour also tonight, donald trump is seizing on president biden s performance and slamming him as incompetent trump team celebrating as their candidates. so many debate lies were overshadowed by president biden s troubles. this hour, we re getting a new read on how cnn s historic presidential debate played in key battleground states that could decide the election talking to voters in the pivotal swing state of pennsylvania welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. a, you re in the
fiery speech to follow up a debate that many democrats called a disaster. can his direct attacks now on donald trump quiet the talk about his future on the ticket? plus, what the polling reveals about the democratic names floated to take his spot. our steve kornacki is standing by with the numbers. and the debate question that donald trump did not want to answer, his response when asked if he would accept the results of the next election. the supreme court siding with a january 6th rioters, that could upend cases, including one against former president trump. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in battleground, north carolina, where president biden s demeanor was completely different than the debate stage last night. nbc s mike memoli is reporting from raleigh. the president, he sounds rearing for a fight. reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i mean, we started this debate series of events with a lot of people wondering whethe
Dana we miss having colin allred on, congressman from texas 32. Well have him on again. But we had Breaking News with the Attorney General resigning from his position at shepard continuing coverage as the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions has resigned. A replacement is at the ready. The ramifications are many. Reporting begins now from capitol hill. Justice, the wise house and beyond. First to the man that broke the story, john roberts live on the north lawn. John . Only by virtual of our terrific producer at the Department Of Justice, jake gibson who said he had information. We got it confirmed. So the president this morning asked for the resignation of Jeff Sessions. This was before he went in to that sometimes crazy Press Conference that was scheduled for 11 30 a. M. He knew that there was going to be a Resignation Letter that was coming over from Jeff Sessions
at the Department Of Justice at any moment. We have confirmed with sources that Matt Whitaker and the president has tweeted a
epicentre, to a city where we know that at least a dozen people have been killed and many more are trapped in their homes because they have completely collapsed, but we are struggling to get their because if you look at this road is just year, it is ruptured and blocked off. this is what we keep coming up against, these roads that are just totally inaccessible. and we know that the rescue teams are also struggling to reach these worst affected areas where people are trapped in their homes. it means that we are still trying to piece together the extent of the damage and how many people have been killed and how many people have been killed and injured in this earthquake. people s worst fears about his earthquake have not materialised. the tsunamis forecast to hit the coast last night didn t happen. even so, this has been a terrifying day and night for people. because the memories of that earthquake here in 2011, and the huge tsunami that followed, that killed nearly 20,000 people, those
coast last night didn t happen, but even so this has been a terrifying day and night for people because the memories of that earthquake here in 2011 and a huge tsunami that followed that killed almost 20,000 people, those memories are still so fresh in people s mines, then you have the constant aftershocks that we have been happening since yesterday afternoon. we had a strong one just a couple of hours ago. the authorities are warning that there may be more major aftershocks in the day to come. what this earthquake has done is remind peoplejust how vulnerable they are to these disasters. heavy russian air strikes on ukraine have killed dozens of people. russia attacked kharkiv with waves of different missiles during the morning rush hour. there were also missile attacks on the capital, kyiv. military authorities issued air raid alerts that lasted for at least three hours. ukraine s air force commander says