president biden makes a promise on abortion rights, as well as another widely supported issue, if democrats can keep control of congress after the midterms. plus, we ll have the big moments from a fiery senate debate down in florida. as marco rubio and val demings go after each other s legislative records. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. the russian forces are now more focused on civilians than soldiers on the battlefield. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this wednesday, october 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. it was a fiery debate for the u.s. senate in florida last night. between republican incumbent marco rubio and democratic congresswoman val demings. they clashed over inflation, abortion rights, immigration and guns. demings who has consistently trailed in the polls was on the attack for much of the night. so a senator who has never run anything at all but his mouth. the senator has obviously resorted to ly
come in and supply ukraine with so much money, and so many weapons. but this is a significant escalation from vladimir putin. the fact that he s calling up the reservists shows that he has no intention of backing away from this war. in fact, in his comments, he framed the war not against ukraine, he described this as a war against the west. and that the west, he didn t mention the united states, but clearly, that s the main power he s referring to, has been propping up ukraine and intends to bring down russia and bring down the russian federation the same way that the west primarily the united states, toppled the soviet union. so he is framing this very much as an existential fight for russia. and in order to fight this fight, he s calling up the reservists and making nuclear threats to show that he is serious and that he has no intention of backing down. so, richard, is there a sense this could lead to some sort of nuclear standoff? i think that is where this is heading.
the coming days and weeks, eeks who will monitor all the keywe match ups, all across the country, including pennsylvania, where the socialist bernie loving trut trust fund brad who never worked a day in his life, hoodie john fetterman. he is now refusingfe tdermo debe his opponent, world renowned opp surgeon, washington outsider dr nooz. now early voting in pennsylvania, it starts in two weeks. the people in the commonwealthek of pennsylvanis. a, they need answers to all of his insane radical positions that are tru truly to the left of bernie sanders and after his catastrophic stroke, we wish he him the best health. it does not appear thatt appe fetterman is capable of debating, much less servinart f. as a us senator. we have all those details coming up tonight. plusl those , the political weai weaponization of our justice system has never been has n more apparent. in a moment, we reev going to will bring you shocking new revelationbr news abouttion the apparent hunter biden
than last year. still you have people out there looking for the cheapest gas they can find in their neighborhood and it is a welcome reprieve for consumers. yesterday we saw that those falling gas prices one reason why consumer inflation looks to have moderated a little bit in the month of july, we have producer price inflation, that is a factory-level gauge of inflation that comes out at 8:30 this morning. i will certainly take it if it s going to be, what, $3.70 versus $5 a gallon in the near future. thank you for that. the other major news this morning, reports that point to the possibility of someone inside donald trump s orbit raising concern about possession of classified documents. the wall street journal reports this morning that sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. so who could
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