years amid fears that the country is heading into a recession. it s a challenge for president biden as he attends a dnc event and tries to sharpen his midterm message. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in ukraine where bogus referendums are under way as moscow tries to solidify its hold on occupied territory. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, is this so-called voting essentially happening at gunpoint? reporter: basically it is, wolf. we re seeing video and hearing reports of election workers going house to house, door to door, with ballot boxes, accompanied by armed men, in some cases armed men wearing balance cla vas. we re wear the election workers are going door to door. people are locking their doors and simply not answering to avoid voting. in fact, the ukrainian authorities have urged residents of the occupied t
food prices too have gone up. nothing s being done about it. it s going to kill the people, these diesel prices. they have no i have no choice but to fill up my tank. there s no other choice. definitely too much. and it has to change, hopefully soon. neil: it is the story of the week, and right now it is hitting americans hard. i m talking about inflation, and it is still out of control. here s how bad things are getting. we re grateful if the rise isn t as dramatic as we had experienced in just the prior month. that is the state of things now with prices spiking at near 40-year highs. the last time we saw that is when jimmy carter was president. concerns that we re seeing the same thing roll out now and rolling around hoping for relief. good luck on that front. but kelly o grady on how customers and you are feeling. kelly. reporter: hi, neil. well, week we saw new inflation data with april s consumer price index out. the 8.3% year-over-year number was worse than ex
Stumping with jones, senator cory booker and terry sewell. Im trying to get the last, i know you made already a million phone calls, but im here to try to help to get some folk woke. Those people who dont understand the opposite of justice is injustice b, it is indifference, it is inaction and it is silence. Got to get some folk woke. We deserve to have a senator whos character and integrity and veracity is not questioned on day one and there is only one candidate in this race that we can count on. And thats doug jones. I want to bring in Senior National correspondent, alex, joining us from montgomery. We just laid out some of the latest from the doug Jones Campaign. Meantime, the roy Moore Campaign
is getting another boost from the president. Reporter they are and the Moore Campaign in contrast to the Jones Campaign has actually remained relatively silent over the course of this weekend. That is in part due to the fact that moore may feel like he is more comfortable because he knows t
has done today is what newt gingrich did even in 2010, republicans did the same thing, came out with an agenda. democrats did the same thing in 06 when they took the house. so bottom line is this election, republicans are trying to make this about the democrats, ordinarily you don t need to be for anything in a midterm election like this, but it s nice to have something in their hip pocket. i m sure they tested this and polled it. it s pretty generic. it s a fairly benign document in terms of what they re going to do. a parental bill of rights, not hire all these irs agents, border security and law enforcement measures. so it s fairly safe. but i don t think at the end of the day this message, while it s probably fairly popular, is not going to really make much of a difference, just as these other proposals that were presented in previous years when the party was trying to take over. they re trying to make this a referendum on the democrats. as van said, this might become
now that trust or that belief is gone forever. neil: and that very leak is what has prompted these security concerns right now. when he said that trust is gone forever, that also could mean the security of justices in their homes might be gone forever. what did you think of that? yeah. i think his points were very poignant and sad. and, look, this whole notion of rule of law. meehl, we ve talked about it a couple times neil, with we ve talked about it a couple times. that s a highly revered notion in this country with a rich history of respect for it. and what we re seeing with uneven law enforcement measures, what we re seeing by a white house that s seemingly incapable of calling out criminal acts and by the celebration somewhat of a leak which is really a devastating moment for the supreme court, these are all big erosions to the rule of law and, i think again, a very bad day for our jurisprudence, veried wad day bad cay for i our