well, did remain longer than liz truss. the lead starts right now. liz truss resigns as prime minister only 44 days in, making history for shorten newer at 10 downing. you ll never guess who is vying for her job. president biden hitting the road for the midterms. he s in pennsylvania touting infrastructure alongside democratic senate candidate john fetterman but would it be better for democrats if biden stays at the white house? then breaking news for the search for a missing princeton university student. police have recovered a body. hello and welcome to the lead i m john berman in for jake tapper. and we begin with our politics lead as president biden hits the campaign trail with just 19 days until the election. biden making a road trip to pittsburgh, pennsylvania today. his 18th trip to the commonwealth since he became president. and the 19th is next week. this week it was to highlight how the bipartisan infrastructure law is rebuilding the nation s crumbling roads
biggest mid-term election issue is chaos. full coverage on fox. dana: rich edson is diving into some key races we re watching and playing close attention to the next 19 days. conservative supreme court eliminating the right to abortion and proposals from republicans in congress to enact abortion restriction democrats focused their campaigns on protecting abortion. voters are more concerned about inflation and gas prices than abortion. some democrats are making the case the issues are all tied together. abortion is an economic issue. it has been reduced to this idea of a culture war. for women in georgia this is very much a question of whether they will end up in poverty in the next five years. having children is why you are worried about your price for gas and why you are concerned how much food costs. democrats are calling republican abortion extremists. republicans painting democrats on the extremists as well. in pennsylvania democrat john fetterman says he is aga
republican lawmakers say all of it all of it puts our national security in danger. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . the decision by president biden to release another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve puts our nation s emergency supply at its lowest level in four decades. this has been his administration s reflexive move for months now. biden already has released, when you add it up, 165 million barrels. now add on to what he is about to bring us, 15 more and you hit 180 since he took office. in other words, his presidency has been rocking high gas prices for quite some time now. why now focus on it? the president seeming to get a bit defensive when someone asked that question. what is your request to republicans who say you are only doing the release to help democrats in the mid-terms? president biden: where have they been the last four months is my response. is it politically motivated? president biden: no it s
president. 19 days to go to election day. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith in new york, and i point that out, because he does not typically wear a suit. john: i bet it s a hoodie suit. i m john roberts in washington. 19 days until americans decide whether the democratic agenda in washington is working, 19 days for closing arguments and one from the white house chief of staff. first of all, we have done things to bring prices down. passed the inflation reduction act and when you look at where the economy was when we got here, 8% unemployment. we brought that down to the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. we are putting americans back to work. businesses are open that were closed two years ago, schools are open that were closed two years ago. the president is fighting to bring down prices of everyday things like prescription drugs, gasoline, and i think that s our message to voters at this very tough time. sandra: at this ver
said this about declaring a state of emergency in his city. watch. we may have to do that. there s going to be a point that we may have to do that. at this point and the white house has asked foe a listen to said just yesterday on this network. did the white house ask you not to declare a state of emergency? absolutely not. you know, one of the things i m thankful for the white house, the federal government, they ve done a good job of working with us and helping us. jacqui heinrich is live on the north lawn what is the white house saying this hour? the white house is denying that they made a request. it s more of a response than we usually get from them. occasionally signalling that they re aware of the problem at the border. we got a read out with the president s call with the mexican president, some discussion of these issues. there s not a lot of discussion here at the white house about immigration or the border as annish european. even though the voters are givi