in the senate. all these candidates talking with voters and somebody not even on the ballot loom over one race. what will today s election tell us about donald trump s influence and the future of both parties? also this thundershower you have president biden back at the white house after speaking in buffalo, where he said democracy s in danger after that deadly racist attack. and he s calling out people who spread and profit off the so-called great replaisment theory. we ve got a context check on where that theory came from, and we re live in buffalo and on the hill with congress setting up a showdown over domestic terrorism. this just coming in from michigan on the state s abortion law there and what would happen in roe vs. wade is overturned. we re going to tell you what it says and what happens next from here. i m hallie jackson from washington. i want to bring in our team who s following that election in pennsylvania, because voters are voting. senior political editor
stalwart defender of mariupol, as they did back in 2014, the last time the russians invaded. so, the russians are going to be using this as a propaganda boom. they are going to be able to say they ve defeated this right wing sort of nazi group, and at the same time the ukrainians are going to see them as heroes, because they ve just endured ceaseless shelling for so many months. but for both sides, this is going to be something they re going to be touting to their people, saying they ve won. but for the russians this is critical because it means they control a stretch of land from the eastern donbas region, occupied by prorussian separatists since 2014 all the way to crimea, a peninsula that was annexed by russia also back in 2014. so this is a critical moment. but it really is more symbolic than anything else. hallie? matt bradley with an
happening, john, as we are hearing from nato that russian troops are arriving in that don bas region. and the real question now becomes do their attempt along with those prorussian separatists to push the front lines to the borders that they believe constitute those two breakaway republics. if they were to go ahead and push forward with that, that would result in major fighting and particularly in major metro metropolises, a port city, and so you have the sense here that really the city is on something of a knife edge as people wait to see what will play out. president zelenskyy and the foreign minister both saying today still the first choice of action, the first course of action is a committed pledge to diplomacy and trying to deter president putin from going any further. but they also finished off by saying but plan b, if plan a
we re polluting the air less. businesses and homes can rely on a steady source of power. this will be the first of many off-shore wind farms in the u.s. for standing in your heart is where i want to be and long to be ah, but i may as well try and catch the wind well there is already swift condemnation from russia after the u.s. announced it will supply antitank weapons to ukraine. that as the country battles prorussian separatists on its eastern border. the foreign minister said the deal quote, crossed the line and says it will create more bloodshed. this comes days after russia issued a blistering rebuke of
certainly the president, but there s finally some calm in the ukraine following a week long surge in warfare. the fighting between ukrainian troops and prorussian separatists is the worst that has been reported in months. president trump seems reluctant to call out russian involvement in this situation. cnn s phil black live in ukraine with the latest. phil, we were there nor mh-17. you were actually first on the ground. then we were surprised at the presence of russian influence. what s it like now? reporter: what we re seeing, chris, seeing some of the most intense fighting of almost the 3-year-old conflict. we re seeing where the building has been hit. luckily the 65-year-old woman who lived there had fled only 15 minutes earlier. many be other people here were not so fortunate. dozens have been killed over the last week or so in intense