country with herschel walker just taking the stage in georgia. you can see that live shot here, getting some backup from his gop friends. we re going to take you there and to upstate new york where president biden is, officially to talk jobs. unofficially, trying to help democrats keep theirs. we re live with our new reporting on his closing midterms message. spoiler. it s the economy. with the dow right now soaring on news of that better than expected gdp report. you know what else is soaring though? mortgage rates. we ve got the good, the bad and what is next for your money. plus, new reaction for the democrat running for governor in the high profile race in arizona. what katie hobbs said this afternoon after police make an arrest in connection with the break-in at her campaign headquarters. we ll take you live to phoenix. i m hallie jackson in washington. ellison barber is in monroe, georgia and shaquille brewster in new york, and mike memoli traveling with the president.
an acute threat. and we chose the word acute carefully. unlike china, russia can t systematically challenge the united states, but russian aggression does pose an immediate and sharp threat to our interest and values. immediate and short being the key terms and that s what russia is to the united states, and they are not a long term potential adversary as china is with their modernization effort. and they have laid out several key areas that the pentagon, the military, are supposed to be focusing on. one of those is defending the homeland. from potential attacks. and particularly, from the continued threats, and the growing threats from china. also, deterring potential strategic attacks against u.s. and allies overseas. outside of the homeland. and then finally, containing china and russia and europe and in the asia-pacific, and building a resilience in the
what s happening inside of russia because the kremlin themselves absolutely do not care how many soldiers are lost or how many ukranian civilians they kill. it feels like cheap punditry how much the russians have underperformed and cleary will underestimating the pushback that they would see from the ukranian forces. as someone who sat in europe looking to the east at the russian military for a number of years, are you surprised at all that the russian military has kind of stumbled in this conflict so far? i am. i m a little bit embarrass that had i had overestimated their capabilities when i was the commander of u.s. army europe. certainly they have certainly technological advancements and the modernization effort which began in 2007 has produced a lot of capability, but we know from history as far as our own experience. you can have all of the