To deal with russia. We want to talk about all of this with abby phillip and audie cornish, who are here now. Abby, whats your take away . I think what youre raising about abortion really speaks to something that i could not ignore, which was that this was a republican audience in the state of iowa about the republican caucuses. But she was speaking to a national audience. She was really trying to present herself, i think very differently from many of her other colleagues in this race. But she was also trying to leave herself a lot of room on some issues like abortion. I thought it was so striking to me, just the tonal difference here. This was almost like a republican candidate circa the george w. Bush era, incredibly hawkish on Foreign Policy, serious and very substantive on a number of other issues, whether its on entitlements or government spending, even things like guns and the border and china. But i was keeping track. It took her 70 minutes to say the word woke after she was ask
to deal with russia. we want to talk about all of this with abby phillip and audie cornish, who are here now. abby, what s your take away? i think what you re raising about abortion really speaks to something that i could not ignore, which was that this was a republican audience in the state of iowa about the republican caucuses. but she was speaking to a national audience. she was really trying to present herself, i think very differently from many of her other colleagues in this race. but she was also trying to leave herself a lot of room on some issues like abortion. i thought it was so striking to me, just the tonal difference here. this was almost like a republican candidate circa the george w. bush era, incredibly hawkish on foreign policy, serious and very substantive on a number of other issues, whether it s on entitlements or government spending, even things like guns and the border and china. but i was keeping track. it took her 70 minutes to say the word woke a
your votes color in the midterm map. follow the money and the big names and many of the critical races are jump balls. today president biden is in florida, even though democrats have little hope in the big races there, yet he will warn republicans wins would put social security and medicare at risk and he will attend two big fund-raisers, plus, a confession. court documents spell out in plain language an attacker s plan to hold the speaker of the house hostage and to break her kneecaps as a message to democrats. some republicans still find this somehow funny. about 50 million put into increasing school safety with school school resource officer, armed officers to make sure we re protecting our kids. it is not impossible to protect our kids at school. they act like it is. nancy pelosi, well, she s got protection when she s in d.c. apparently her house doesn t have a lot of protection. back to that sad story in a moment. up first, the final midterm sprint. you see big n
subtly international divert its path and save every life on earth. there s been international condemnation of the self styled referendums being held in parts of ukraine onjoining russia. the g7 the group of seven wealthiest nations have called the votes a sham, as reports emerged of russian forces intimidating people into voting. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south and cover around 15 percent of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the results seem almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. our correspondent hugo bachega is following developments from kyiv. ukraine has dismissed this so called referendum as a farce and says it has no legitimacy and western countries have dismissed the vote as a propa
That are populated by iran, Islamic Revolutionary guards, quds force, which is the Paramilitary Arm there are, there are some other options. The former head of the mossad is israels former spy agency a couple of hours ago, also said the Israeli Cabinet is considering targeting Iran Nuclear Infrastructure which would definitely be an escalation i think they are considering a lot of the options and probably trying to take an action that makes him look serious. But not get them into a complete allout war. Of course, though the every single one of these things that you say, i think anybody watching is fearful you think its just a small escalation, but none of these things really are. Were in unchartered territory seth. Thank you so much. Thanks erin thanks for joining us. The lead starts now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start this hour with Breaking News and what we do just heard from House Speaker mike johnson live right here on the lead just minutes ago, he i