happening right now, martial law. putin is cracking down on several regions. another sign that his war is losing momentum. hours from now, president biden will announce new actions to tackle gas prices, including another release from strategic oil reserves, as voters say inflation and rising prices are key issues heading into the mid terms. let s begin in ukraine. earlier this morning, i wrote with a cyberexpert, and asked what he thinking of the move for martial law. it s an act of desperation. things are going from bad to worse. he s losing more and more territory in these four recently annexed territories. just yesterday, the new head of the russian ground forces said they have to make some hard decision where their position is particularly untenable on the right bank of the river. that s probably an indication they re looking to withdraw potentially from that. what putin is trying to do there is forestall t. of course, any further loss of territory, desperately tryi
david scott. effries. so here s the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime let s bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. that s right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because you have the tellers, the tally clerks in front of the chamber they are going through manually and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have matt g
biden is handling the issues in his first term. people don t want joe biden and want somebody younger to be president in 2024. it is not that older people cannot work, you should work as long as you want. the most important job in the world, rigorous job as president, not a job for an 86-year-old, which is what joe biden would be at the end of a hypothetical second term. that is an issue for somebody that hasn t shown signs of aging. joe biden says nonsensical things, shakes hands with ghosts and needs to spend every weekend at the beach. he will not be fit in four years. ashley: fabrications or lies he tells all the time, we can t tell if it is fact or fkz. when you talk about the age, you are correct, people in their 80s have an active mind. it is not about the age that other than cans me, it is how long you have been this politics and corrupted by politics of being a politician. when you check the boxes, when they say voters, their ideal candidate is no older than 65, ha