moment, with just 13 days until midterm elections it is one of many developments that continue to shake up races in central states. we will focus on their impact tonight and in pennsylvania the debate certainly made a mark as fetterman admitted just minutes ago the aftereffects of his truck made speaking difficult at times. my doctors, the real doctors and i believe, they all believe that i am ready to be served. i didn t hear you say that you would release your full medical records, why not? you have 30 seconds. again, my doctor believes that i am fit to be serving, and that is what i believe is where i am standing. republican, mehmet oz making headlines as well with this on abortion. i want women, doctors, local, political leaders, leading the democracy that has always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. the question now, what will pennsylvania voters make of what they saw and heard? we will have real a
his business ventures here. thank you for the reporting. thank you. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it s thursday, october 27th. and i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. nice to be back with you. it s great to have you here. john berman is off this morning. beginning with developments in ukraine where battle lines are being drawn in the southern city of kherson. ukraine says russia continues to move the occupation administration from kherson but is enforcing the city with newly mobilized recruits that ukraine s military suggests are being used as cannon fodder. more than 70,000 civilians have left the city as fighting increases. and a russian military strike in zaporizhzhia causing some damage, and power grids. cnn also witnessed a prisoner exchange, including the remains of an american fighter who traveled to ukraine to fight alongside the ukrainian troops. clarissa ward joins us from
all right, we are going to get started. everyone come on in and grab a seat. so, thank you for getting back in so quickly after break. we are starting the second panel. this one is directly from professionals on elections at the state and county levels who [indiscernible] i am really excited to be coming by five a bipartisan group of democrats and republicans. whom i have known for years and respect a great deal. so i will briefly introduce them. feel free to elaborate on anything i ve said. when your turn comes. but as many of you might know, this is secretary joslin of michigan. joslyn and i have known each other for years and years. and she has won election to the secretary s office in 2018 and then she also won the 2020 election. and she wrote the book on secretaries of state. for before took office. i encourage you all to read it. to her left is matt masterson. on one hand i can tell you, what i really think of him and his work. but he is going to be saying nice th
discuss election integration integrity and democracy. what we have seen is the intentional targeting and harassment of threats being directed at the professionals, at the public servants that we all rely upon. who facilitate our democracy, who give voice to the voters. we did not plan when we finally did founded ceir to host events like this. but what has been clear since the november 2020 election, election officials in this country have been subjected to an endless onslaught of harassment, threats, abuse, designed to make their lives miserable. this is not because they did not do their jobs well, it is because they did do their jobs well. the 2020 election was the most secure, transparent and verified election in american history. that is objectively true. more paper ballots than ever before, more audits than ever before. more postelection litigation bet verified and confirmed the outcome. despite this, we are suffering from this endless attack on democracy. we wanted
Dr. Andrew wiest sitting in the middle is University Professor of history in the school of humanities at the university of southern where he is also the founding director of the dale center for the study of war and society. He has several major publications, including vietnams forgotten army heroism and betrayal in the aavin for which he won the society for military histories book award. So dr. Rice, i know i mispronounced part of that. But take it away. Good afternoon. I have the today of hosting the america war panel here at the mississippi book festival. And i would like to thank the festivals organizers especially ellen rogers, who we saw earlier. Shes wearing this beautiful dress with butterflies on it. Yall thank her if you see her and course would like to thank the audience members here and in who are in person on cspan for joining us today. Yall are in a treat. We get yall in for a treat. We get to talk about for that cover the entire span of u. S. Military history, all the way