and an entire demonstration. what result do you want? do you want the democrats to keep control of the united states senate and house of representatives? oh, i would love you know, i m not making those choices or decisions. i m going to work with whatever i have. that front democratic senator joe manchin, a short time ago. i ll ask him to play out the scenarios for us on how democrats might hold power, and what could turn that power over to the gop. plus, abortion. it may be the single biggest issue driving voters to the polls, even more than the economy. how is this issue influencing voters in swing states? and will action at the state level to limit abortion rights make its we re going to dig. and we start with those hotly contested races and ballot box issues across the country. and kansas, and abortion rights vote is facing crucial test on tuesday. it s the first of its kind since the supreme court ruling overturning roe v. wade more than a month ago. and, we re
name a full-time monkeypox coordinator as the world health organization declares a global public health emergency. a spokesperson for the w.h.o. joins me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to all the latest developments in the january 6th investigation. the select committee is not slowing down at all. releasing new evidence today showing donald trump crossed out key parts of the speech he delivered the day after the capitol riot. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is on the story for us. he s joining us now. tell us more, evan. what are you learning? we know that the former president was resistant to trying to stop the violence. one of the things we learned from the committee today, this is incredible, that this did not make the cut for last week s hearing. what we learned from the committee, they released a video that indicates that he was resist
are ready. ukraine has everything they need to start sending those ship sudden the black sea. but they have been awaiting the formal go ahead from the joint coordination center this would set up in his stumble along with the un and other countries that are part of this deal. to really monitor and implemented it. today, we heard from a turkish official who i spoke to. who said that yes, they do expect that first ship to leave as early as tomorrow. everything goes according to plan. we also heard from the infrastructure ministry here in ukraine saying they are still working on the preparations. they have nothing to announce. exactly when that first ship is going to go out when it does, it s going to be very closely watched. both here in ukraine and around the world. to see whether russia abides by its commitments under the steel to allow that ship to leave. not to attack it as well as whether that ship can navigate through black sea waters that are now filled with mines that they make th
the ukrainians have been furious that hours after this agreement to resume the export of grain was signed on friday, at this port where i am was slammed by russian cruise missiles on saturday morning. that said, the ukrainians denouncing russia by saying you cannot trust moscow, are also saying they want to stick to this agreement that was signed in istanbul that they were parties to, and they re saying the onus is on the united nations and on the turkish government, which for the mediators here, to make sure that russia abides by the rules. russia, for its part, says just because it signed an agreement doesn t mean that there is a cease-fire. they claim that after denying initially the cruise missile strikes, that they were targeting military targets here in the port. there has been condemnation of the cruise missile strikes from the u.s. government, from the british government, from the
kyiv. matthew, these talks, highest level since the start of the hostilities and part of the discussion are these humanitarian corridors. was there any progress on establishing more of those and assuring, frankly, that russia abides by, you know, protecting those humanitarian corridors, which they haven t done in many cases? that was the kind of assurance and that was the kind of guarantee that the ukrainian delegation, led by the foreign minister, were going into these talks with the russian counterpart and russian foreign minister to try to get but the impression that was given to me by a senior ukrainian official who had knowledge of these talks was that sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister was only there to listen, he wasn t empowered to make the kind of concessions and decisions that you would expect in someone at that level to come to these high level negotiations to make. so the short answer is no.