i m beeianna golodryga. first if ukraine, another brutal wave of russian attacks across kyiv. explosions heard across the capital are civilians are urged to shelter after a barrage of kamikaze attacks. a pregnant woman was killed. those attacks involving drones and cruise missiles that targeted critical infrastructure, cutting powner some areas. and in china, a third term as the leader of the ruling community party. in his address xi bluntly threatened to seize control of taiwan by force if necessary. that line receiving the biggest applause of his two-hour speech. we ll have more on that speech in just a moment. latest wave of attacks on kyiv. our reports are standing by. let s begin with clarissa ward in kyiv. and clarissa, i want to talk more about the attacks but i want our viewers to look at what you saw firsthand this morning. this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from here. we also saw another elderly woman being
top of the hour here on cnn newsroom. the countdown continues to the midterms. 22 days left until election day determining who will control congress, and a new poll from the new york times shows that republicans have a slight edge here. 49% of likely voters say that they plan to back the republican candidate for their house district compared to 45% for democrats. now this poll also found it combined 44% of likely voters are most worried about the economy or inflation. now today, early voting begins in the battleground of georgia. and the race for senate there, one of the tightest in the nation, democratic incumbent raphael warnock casting his ballot you see there. there s also a new twist there in the drama engulfing his republican rival herschel walker who s been denying allegations he paid for an abortion for his ex-girlfriend years ago. well, today walker confirmed the check in question was, in fact, his, but then doubled down the denials in terms of what it was fo
support of ohio republican senate candidate one j.d. vance. at one point, trump spoke over a song that was all but identical to an anthem of the qanon movement. attendees responded, this is real, guys, that picture s real. they responded with that one finger salute you see on your screen. new york times reports this, quote, it was the first time in the memory of some trump aides that such a display had occurred at one of his rallies. the song played at the rally was a song called mirrors and it was selected for use at a video trump paid at the cpac meeting and posted on his social media site truth social. but it also sounded striingly like the qanon theme song. regardless of what song was played, adherence of the qanon conspiracy understood what was happening and loud and clear. for those looped into qanon, the odds of missing trump s apparent outreach are about nil, particularly given that its aims and trump s are in sync, returning him to power. a year s long flirtation
senator chris murphy and ben o rourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he had been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese
one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former trump white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the leaked audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he stebve bannon been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese billionaire, who is kind of a patron of bannon s. in the leaked audio we got yesterday, bannon out on b