Lottery, which begins right now. Today on inside politics, ohio says no. Voters reject a measure that would have made it easier for republicans trying to make it harder for women to get an abortion. Plus, do republicans solemnly swear to report who are whoever is the nominee. The Loyalty Pledge in order to make the first debate stage. And biden test drives a traffic and weather approach to win over voters. He defends his lclimate credentials in a new interview, but dances around a big unfulfilled promise. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, a hard lesson for republicans in ohio and nationwide on the issue of abortion, again. Thats a hard no. Thats the headline in this mornings paper that follows a clear voter verdict. 57 of ohio voters rejected a ballot measure, issue one. Its technically about the rules to rewrite the constitution, but voters viewed it as a test of Abortion Rights and what states should be allow ed to tell wome to do. Jeff celmy i
there was an unprecedented amount of obstruction iner the investigation into hunter biden s finances. watch. are you convinced, lookingck a back at this now, that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family ? i mean, we were conducting w investigation of hunter biden and we were tryingere tr to fole the normal process. we were trying to get to the bottom of it. itand ultimately, you know, if was going to lead to another individual, you know, we should follow that to to determine what was actually happening. but, you know, there werew ther definitely hindrances that i ve never seen before in my 14 y years concerning this investigation that didn t allow us to followea through an investigation of of of anyher in other individual to include president biden. so this guy seems credibldie according to the whatsapp messages. in 2017, hunter biden demanded that chinese energy company cfcc pay the bidensom more than doube what the ccp billing company was already of
invasion of ukraine. a spokesman for the u.s. air force called the actions reckless, unsound and unprofessional. let s bring in natasha bertrand and melissa bell live in kyiv, ukraine. melissa, what are we hearing today from ukrainian and russian officials ans about this inciden the black sea? reporter: what we are getting from the russian ministry of defense is a direct contradiction to what the united states has said so far. what the russians are saying is that there was no contact at all, and that drone went down into the black sea as a result of sharp maneuvering, moscow accusing that drone of flying without transponders that allow a drone to be tracked, a violation of the temporary measures that were put in place for the special military operation in that area. the euphemism that russia uses for its invasion of ukraine. what seems to have happened is that drone was destected off th coast of the crimean peninsula. russian jets scrambled to get up there, and we have seen
the 100 or so classified documents and not even going after this part of the case. this is strictly going at this issue that exceeded the jurisdiction. you can look at this one way the first sentence of his argument goes at the issue that he says this is an investigation by his political rival and success sore joe biden. thank you, evidan perez. what jumps out at you from trump s emergency legal request? two things. first of all, jake, the narrowness of the request by trump, all he s asking for is that the special master review the documents presumably so that his team can receive them, he can get early discovery in the case and also, i just have to say it s sort of move that on its face is a head scratcher to me. frankly, the request by the doj was very narrow. it was very well tailored and the court of appeals decision was well reasoned. so i don t know why this would ordinarily be a wise choice of resources by the trump team. kerry, in a separate case the justices ha
Classified documents case against the former president trump, a new cooperation deal between jack smith and the i. T. Worker known as trump employee number four. What might this mean for the prosecutions case. Plus, a manhunt commands in pennsylvania for a convicted brutal killer. Two entire School Districts in the commonwealth have canceled classes as incredible new video is released showing just how that inmate escaped. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Donald Trump On Trial moments ago, a critical hearing wrapped in the Fulton County, georgia, Election Subversion case against donald trump and defendants. Cameras were allowed in the courtroom. A first in any case against the former president. One of the biggest topics discussed, whether the 19 defendants in the case will be tried together or separately and when those trials might be held. The judge ruled from the bench that protrump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell will go to trial together on october 23rd but the judge h