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
another day of upward trade, doesn t it? as you noted, stocks going on in the u.s. with quite a massive optic there. of course, there was a good set of solid results coming through as well with the numbers, some fears as well, creeping into the market somewhat, particularly the frustration or overly aggressive staunches of the sent travel bank which have been pushed to early low, this year. we may be seeing some uptick, particularly with the dow jones up 300 points. more than 300 points yesterday, more than 1% gain. that s a start to the earning season, signalling that perhaps the economy is a little better than some have expected particularly of late, with recession not being called necessarily, certainly not seeing what we had before. and there s been a lot of nervous chatter about netflix this year. but the streaming service snapped back the survive growth
jordan are no-goes. she did approval the other republican appointment. the speaker saying, with concern about statements made and actions taken by these members, i must reject the recommendations of representatives banks and jordan to the select committee. manu raju joining us live from the hill. what are you learning? reporter: the speaker makes it clear this is an unprecedented decision. she says the unpress depcedente nature of january 6th demands this unprecedented decision. this does not happen on capitol hill, a speaker rejecting an appointment of a minority leader s decision. jim banks, jim jordan, jordan in particular one of the staunches.
could be smuggled in undetected. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it s one of the more mundane documents americans have to deal with, but for president obama, the tax return is politically charged in this, an election year. the white house released his 2011 files today along with that of the vice president, joe biden and there are some surprises in both documents. as lisa sylvester has been carefully going after these tax returns, what do you see? first off, the obamas, like the romneys, gave generously to charities. the president s income, which was $1.7 million in 2010 was down significantly as sales of his book dropped off, but the focus was on taxes and more specifically, rates. there are some surprises there. who was taxed at a higher rate? the president, mitt romney or the president s secretary? it might surprise you, but it s actually the president s secretary. she makes $95,000 a year. the obama administration confirms her rate is is higher than t
it was an unprecedented move. the statements of jordan and banks over the election and they made about this investigation going forward questioning legitimacy of an investigation right now. those two among the staunches trump defenders. i did ask the speaker about her concerns that republicans would pull out of this i vnvestigatio. she made clear they are moving ahead. we have a bipartisan quorum, we can proceed. ha was it about jordan and banks? that was not the criteria as i told you yesterday. what was the criteria? read my statement. reporter: this reason why she says there s a bipartisan quorum is the selection of liz cheney. that was one of her eight picks. the republican from wyoming