will see you again tomorrow and now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening lawrence. we have mandela barnes joining us tonight. he s innocent the sickle tie in the senate race and wisconsin with ron johnson. so it is a really tight one, like so many of the senate races and we are going to hear from him about what his closing strategy is. it is a fascinating race, mandela barnes is really compelling candidates, and the ads that they have been running against mandela barnes are shameful. so you have a lot to talk about today lawrence. thank you alex, thank you! good show. thanks. i could not live with that champagne, in victory i deserve it, in defeat i need it! that is a quote from winston churchill. and it s from this 522 page book about winston churchill s illnesses. nothing but his illnesses. the name of the book is winston churchill s illnesses, written by two british physicians. the quotes about champagne come
current situation. boxing day sales begin in the uk but will the high streets be busy or will shoppers be cutting back as the cost of living crisis bites? and north america s deep freeze. severe winter weather claims 38 lives across the united states and canada. hello and welcome to bbc news. a russian air base hundreds of kilometres from ukraine has come under attack for the second time in less than a month. the russian defence ministry says the engels base in the southern saratov region was targetted by ukrainian drones during the night. russia says it shot down the drones, but that three of its servicemen were killed by falling debris. the airfield is believed to house russian long range strategic bombers. there has been no comment from ukraine. the bbc s russia editor steve rosenberg says the last attack on the airbase, three weeks ago, led to calls for tighter security. this is deep inside russian territory. when the first attack happened earlier this month that wa
we are now just five days to midterms with control of congress on the line. and here are the big named closers on the trail today, president biden flying to new mexico, vice president harris in new york and former president trump in iowa where he s kicking off four rallies in five days. we head to georgia first because power in the senate could come down to this race and the peach state yet again. cnn s eva mckend is in atlanta. you ve been tracking this key battleground tate for months. what do we need to know? reporter: well, ana, we ve gotten to the stage of the game where senator warnock, herschel walker are making their closing arguments, senator warnock talks a lot on the trail about his bipartisan work in congress. arguing that he is willing to work with republicans if ultimately it is in service to georgians talking about health care and his efforts to lower the cost of insulin. meanwhile, herschel walker working overtime despite his many scandals to tie warnock to
it s currently more than four miles long, with waiting times of up to nine hours. away from westminster, today s other headlines authorities in ukraine say they re investigating evidence of a mass grave in the city of izyum, which was recently liberated from russian occupation. disruption for thousands of british travellers today, as air traffic controllers in france go on strike. and it s farewell to one of the greatest tennis players of all time, as roger federer announces his retirement. good morning. it s friday september the 16th. you re watching bbc breakfast from westminster, where her majesty the queen has spent a second night lying in state. the queue to enter westminster hall is now stretching back 3.6 miles, as thousands more people wait to pay their respects. here are some of the images here at westminster towards the end of the queue. the queueing time changes hour by hour, but at the moment it is approximately nine hours for those people queueing to pay their
it s 6:00 a.m. on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. mike barnicle and jonathan lemire are still here. where did dr. oz come from? oprah. oprah literally brought him, you know, all of his fame. she lifted him up, she really, she really she s the one who brought dr. oz are you saying oprah winfrey. she s to blame for that? she created him. she s been very quiet during this campaign. i haven t heard from her during the campaign. didn t she get dr. phil, too? yeah. dr. phil and dr. oz. all the doctors. dr. oz should, you know, he owes everything to her. yeah, wow. quite a way to we ve got a lot to get to this morning, including the latest and didn t he get called in front of congress for all of his phony yes, actually claire mccaskill actually grilled him during that time he was being remember the weight loss pill. the weight loss pill that didn t work, to say the least. and a lot of other and then you would gro