and then you kissed his ass and then he endorsed you and you said he s the greatest president of all-time. you were there to stand up for our constitution but when the barbarians were at the gate you were happy to let them in. i think i disagree with everything my opponent just said including the words but and the. a big debate night both contentious and personal. i m john berman with brianna keilar, and bad blood between tim ryan and j.d. vance playing out on the debate stage last night in ohio. saw it in the first clip. sparring over rtd economy, inflation, clashing over racist rhetoric and abortion. more competitive than expected in a state donald trump carried twice. both men describing each other as asskisser and succops and that was the more friendly part of the debate. if you can believe that. in utah, flashes of evan mcmullin attacking incumbent senator mike lee accusing him of betraying america on january 6th and a chance to confront lee over text messa
full swing across several states. and overnight fierce debates, candidates in ohio, georgia, iowa and utah going toe-to-toe in heating rounds. feature policy arguments and personal jabs. and a new pledge, president biden promising to keep abortion rights front and center if democrats could keep control of the congress for another two years. let s begin this hour with cnn s jeremy diamond at the white house. so let s pick up there. you have new reporting about how president biden is hoping to take action on abortion while also keeping the economy front and center. what is the white house saying? reporter: yeah, exactly. bianna. with three weeks left until election day, president biden is trying to push those issues. the democrats view is it is favorable to them in voter s minds and today we re expecting according to a democratic official for the president to make a new promise as it relates to abortion rights in a speech this afternoon at howard theater here in washington, d
intelligence has stark words for what s left of putin s arsenal. plus, the two americans captured in ukraine held for 105 days. we follow their story. and tonight they will tell you what they endured. and a dead heat for arizona governor, a face-off in ohio s senate race tonight. and the republican in georgia still hanging on despite the ugly allegations. john king is here. he says this is the most unpredictable election he s covered in his lifetime. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, unsustainable. that is the stark analysis tonight from america s director of national intelligence avril haines. she says russia is now firing off its precision weapons at an unsustainable rate. its conventional arsenal, terribly depleted. ukraine s defense ministry posted a video that i m showing here which appears to show russia pulling 70-year-old antiaircraft guns from its warehouses. 70-year-old weapons going to the field. that is the depletion of t
happening now, early voting is underway in the critical midterm election battleground state of georgia. we await the start of a high- stakes debate in the governor s race and a dustup in the senate showdown, as well. republican herschel walker s on the defensive for using an honorary sheriff s badge as a political prop. russia intensifies its attacks on civilians, unleashing a swarm of kamikaze drones on the ukrainian capital. i will ask a former cia director, david petraeus, about the u.s. response to this brutal phase of russian president vladimir putin s war. cnn is on the scene with an all-female fighting unit supporting protesting against iran. the battle and why they take it personally. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room. we are hitting a critical stretch for the candidates of both political parties. the final chance to make an impression on voters with early ballots already being cast. natio
this video filmed by a local television channel shows the moment just after an iranian drone and several missiles struck one mpt kurdish opposition party bases. killing eight soldiers and injuring more. on a day on which 70 missiles kurdish authorities say rained down in the space of just four hours. this base only two years ago was on the front line in the fight against isis after pac received u.s. training. it isn t far from u.s. central command centcom forces. just one day after the attack on the pac base, centcom shot down another iranian drone, which appeared, they say, as a threat to centcom forces stationed in the area, and as the u.s. anti-isis presence in iraq is set to continue, so is the threat iran poses. these female fighters have vowed to fight until there is a regime