i m christine romans. new day starts right now . two weeks from today. the midterm elections. brace yourself. i m john berman with brianna keilar. the race for control of the senate looks to be tight. new cnn polling shows democrat john fetterman with a slight edge over republican mehmet oz in pennsylvania. and in wisconsin ron johnson, democratic challenger men della barnes basically even. inflation the top issue. followed by abortion rights. early voting in that state begins today. in pennsylvania 44% of likely voters sight the economy. and more on debates in a moment. tonight in new york, a highly anticipated debate between incumbent democratic governor kathy hochul and republican challenge lee zeldin. zeldin made crime the focus of his campaign. and last night desantis and crist going toe-to-toe on abortion. and theian going poulter wars and may have his eye on the white house refusing to commit all four years if he wins the election. according to a top official,
moments ago the appeal hearing got under way for wnba star brittney griner in a russian court. this comes three months after griner was convicted of smuggling cannabis into the country, or cannabis oil. her lawyers say griner is hoping the court will reduce her nine-year sentence but not expecting miracles. cnn s matthew chance is monitoring this for us. what do we expect to happen today, matt? reporter: well, john, not expecting fireworks. in fact, i had a conversation with the lawyers in moscow a few days ago, and they said, look, know, anything could happen, of course. they re pushing that the sentence of nine years to be overturned and the verdict overturned as well, but what they re hoping for at the very least reduction in the amount of time that brittney griner has been sentenced to serve in a russian prison s she s been sentenced to nine years. whats it will go down to eight
as the city braces itself for the next attack. now, despite all that initial optimism that a russian withdrawal from kherson may be imminent, we are now getting some indications from the ukraine military, also from the head of military intelligence, that we shouldn t be too exuberant, or ukrainians and kherson residents shouldn t get too sited this is going to happen right way but they do see evidence russia is withdrawing administrative things like banks and passport offices but they also do see that they are building up defensive positions. so in short, we simply don t know exactly what the situation is in kherson or how long it would take potentially to liberate that city, and on the broader picture, president volodymyr zelenskyy, john, warning ukrainians last night as russia continues to hammer civilian infrastructure, that this will be the toughest winter
discuss what s likely to happen next, and geopolitical issues, by that you re talking russia, ukraine, u.s., china relations. saudi-u.s. relation. eu recession. the uk fiasco. all of these things, they say, are bigger issues than recession. as david solomon of goldman sachs reminded us, recession is still very much out there. when you find yourself in an economic scenario like this where inflation is embedded, it s very hard to get out of it without a real economic slowdown. so i, too, am in the camp we likely, likely, have a recession in the u.s. going to have i think, most likely recession, might be in a recession in europe. reporter: now, nobody is forecasting a recession or anything like that of the 1980s, but you have to remember, there s an entire generation of
we are on fossil fuels our economy, our families pocketbooks, are going to be absolutely dependent and beholden to people like vladimir putin. because the oil and gas prices are set globally. we don t control it in the u.s. and it s only by moving off of these. it s only by taking away the source of russian power and russian money that we re going to become truly energy independent. you want to talk about shortest of short terms. there are members of congress we ve spoken with here. from new jersey and others. dick durbin, who say we just need to cut ties with saudi arabia at this point, time to stop selling them weaponsw. what do you say about that? what the saudis and opec did was a political slight more than anything else. there s going to be