nearly 12 million voters across the country have already cast their ballots for the critical midterm elections. more than 4 million of those ballots have been turned in throughout florida, california, georgia, and texas. the candidates are facing off in some of the final debates of the campaign season after the highly anticipated showdown in pennsylvania. john fetterman released a new ad criticizing mehmet oz s response to abortion. oz barely mentioned the debate during a gcampaign event in the last hour and says he focused largely on crime. in a race to control congress, both sides are narrowing to the most competitive races. new money is being injected from both sides as well, a sign of just how high the stakes are in these midterms. our cnn editor joins us now. where do things stand for the battle for the control of the bo what we re looking at. let s go to the map broadly. i m going to write on this. there are 35 seats up. 21 of those are republican. 14 are democrat. fu
i m katy tur. millions have voted. 34 million to be exact. billions with a b have been spent on ads. candidates in just about every potential plate of their potential constituents, and with four days to go, who is gettable, and trying to flip the switch in a last minute undecided voter s head. what about a celebrity endorsement? oprah winfrey just got behind the pennsylvania senate candidate john fetterman, instead of mehmet oz, a regular guest on her old talk show and she inserted herself into the dead heat race and if she lived there, she would have voted fetterman quote for many reasons. and more than just another celebrity endorsement, a pointed and personal snap, from the woman who basically gave dr. oz a thing, who gave him the platform and the face recognition and he has been running his whole campaign off of, how much of the oprah seal of approval actually have? back in 2008 it was estimated her endorsement of barack obama in the democratic presidential primary gene
the fabric of space and time itself. saying that candidates are putting up america on a path to chaos which sounds like a pretty good heavy metal bands. a struggle for democracy, a struggle for decency and dignity. a struggle for prosperity and progress, a struggle for the very soul of america itself, this is a choice we can make. this union and chaos are not inevitable. the remarkable thing about american democracy is this, just enough of it. on just enough occasions have chosen not to dismantle democracy, but to preserve democracy. we must choose that path again. because democracy is on the ballot. astronomer once said that extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence, which we add except in politics when you are a democrat, then you can say the very worst things possible without a shred of data. but a nefarious speech republicans are such a threat, why is joe biden only talking about it now that they got there handed to them. and getting the exact republicans on
reporting, but overnight they reported a stunning update claiming the woman behind the allegations is also the mother of one of walker s children. the daily beast explains why they held details about her, the woman, who is a registered democrat and years-long relationship with walker continued after the abortion told the daily beast the chief concern with revealing her name is because she wanted to protect her family s privacy address best she could. walker says he doesn t even know who the woman could be. the anonymous woman has now also alleged she had a child by you. your response? i say the same thing i said, that, you know, i know this is untrue. i know it s untrue. they keep telling me that and it s totally untrue. i m not sure why that would be told. i know nothing about any woman having an abortion and so they can keep coming at me like that. they are doing it because they want to distract people. for national republicans the response has not been to run away fr
kremlin and russia, but they were told no. this comes as a federal judge in the case throughout an important charge against a man actually on trial. russian national will now face on the four council of lying to the fbi after the federal judge in the case remove the first count over a technicality. demanding that the governments as the primary sub sewers for x a british spy christopher steele, who compiled a dossier aimed at destroying then candidate donald trump. john durham allege it that he lied to an fbi agent when he said that he had not talk to a democratic political operative named charles dolan about the steele dossier. he gave him information that ended up in the dossier, but that s two community via email. they did not talk. a witness in the case of connections to russia. according to two fbi agents on the stand, dmitri pascal. the employees claimed that the mueller team squash their efforts to investigate or even interview him. on paper, this case is about him, b