out all the stops. the nrsc just committed nearly a million bucks in ad spending for oz. how critical is this race for republican hopes to retake the senate? well, certainly republicans don t want to be losing control of any states while trying to pick up control of other states. there s just a handful of states, pennsylvania is one of them, that republicans want to hold. georgia is one they re trying to flip. nevada increasingly looking like a target for republicans to flip. they thought new hampshire at one point. new hampshire seems to be receding and republican money moving out of new hampshire going back into the other states, into georgia and nevada and into pennsylvania. there s one more state we haven t talked about, north carolina, has been thought of for a while now as a sleeper state, but these are areas that republicans have to protect if they have a real vision to flip
that is true. they re not cutting entitles. jim, why don t you fact check it. you can see, there s plenty of coverage of it. there was a fact check this week. joe biden has been saying the same and the washington post fact checker fact checked him this week and said he was not telling the truth. the bottom line is, it s a scare tactic. you ve been around democratics all country. to be continued. why doesn t cnn fact check me. i was going to say, scott, i do believe that senator rick scott, who was head of the republican senate campaign committee, he has also talked about revisiting social security, medicare, as a part of the platform of the nrsc. there is not a single republican candidate in the country running for office on cutting social security and medicaid. every republican candidate is running on controlling inflation, stopping the crime wave, stopping the immigration
capehart sundays at 10 eastern right here on msnbc. finally this hour, a concerning medical story to tell you about. cases of respiratory illness, rsv, are quickly rising across the country with some pediatric wards nearing capacity as children are hospitalized. nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez has more. reporter: this morning doctors and nurses nationwide sounding the alarm over an unprecedented rise in respiratory illnesses among young children. nearly 75% of the country s estimated 40,000 pediatric hospital beds are now full. connecticut children s hospital in hartford is in touch with fema and the national guard about putting up a medical tent in its parking lot. other hospitals are also stretched thin. the majority of the children are coming in pretty sick. they re requiring higher levels of oxygen than they would normally require. rsc usually causes mild