it s the candidate quality. masters i m quoting the not my own senate minority. lies about what happened between the election. 2020. lies about what happened january 6th and other candidates down the line. i don t care. put millions of dollars behind that. people rejected them, this whole idea about money is b.s. and deflection. hang on. and i think josh hawley is delusional, and people are following, if you continue to follow in the footsteps and the thinking logic of josh hamwley, the republican party, if you believe that s what he s saying, the republican party is dead as he actually said is right. we have to leave it there. appreciate that. straight ahead, cnn exclusive. rye russia delayed announces retreat from kherson, ukraine, until after the midterm elections. fascinating. crushes setback, sad, in the fight against alzheimer s. why this experiment many treatment appears not to be working.
only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. this morning, we do have new cnn exclusive reporting, the u.s. has intelligence that russia may have delayed announcing withdrawal from the ukraine city of herself ton avoid giving the biden administration a political win ahead of the midterms. president biden more than hinted at that last week. listen to this. waited until after the election to make that judgment, and which we knew for some time they were going to be doing, and evidence of the fact they have real problem. the russian military. let s go straight to our white house reporter who has exclusive reporting. what does this intelligence indicate?
is it right? that russia waited until after the midterms? reporter: yeah, poppy. biden was more than hinting at something there. right? u.s. intelligence officials believe the kremlin made this decision very purposefully, that they wanted to wait to announce the formal withdrawal, formal retreat of russian troops from the city of kherson until just after the midterm elections were over to avoid giving biden, by extension, the democrats a boost. interesting for a couple of reasons. first, obviously, they believed voters could be swayed by such an announcement. kind of misunderstands what voters in the u.s. actually care about. but the second, of course, is that they still believe that a gop-controlled congress a gop-controlled administration, even is better for their interests. they did not want to give and do anything that could have given biden and democrats an advantage in the election. of course, a retreat from