his business ventures here. thank you for the reporting. thank you. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it s thursday, october 27th. and i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. nice to be back with you. it s great to have you here. john berman is off this morning. beginning with developments in ukraine where battle lines are being drawn in the southern city of kherson. ukraine says russia continues to move the occupation administration from kherson but is enforcing the city with newly mobilized recruits that ukraine s military suggests are being used as cannon fodder. more than 70,000 civilians have left the city as fighting increases. and a russian military strike in zaporizhzhia causing some damage, and power grids. cnn also witnessed a prisoner exchange, including the remains of an american fighter who traveled to ukraine to fight alongside the ukrainian troops. clarissa ward joins us from
family and my livelihood. i m no coward. but i am a realist. and i choose to protect my identity to protect those i love. herschel walker is a hypocrite. and he is not fit to be a u.s. senator. we don t need people in the u.s. senate who profess one thing and do another. there is another woman now claiming that georgia senate candidate pressured her to have an abortion. we ll take you through the details of this new accusation in just a moment. president biden s canal pain calendar is looking light tw just 12 days left until the mid terms. there is growing anxiety inside the white house about keeping control of congress. and also ahead, the latest from iran, where protests continue 40 days after the death of a young woman detained by the country s so-called morality post. good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, october 27th. i m jonathan lemire. we ll begin today with the new allegation against herschel walker. another woman has come forward accusing th
accuser also apparently has receipts. we ll have the latest on that development. plus, president biden and key members of his cabinet hit the road to play defense on the economy with election day now just 12 days away. we ll have more on their message and the new polling that shows things may be swinging back in democrats favor. it s tight, though. and donald trump is set to hit the road ahead of election day, including a stop in florida. one key republican hasn t been invited to that event. the governor, we ll have reaction from allies of ron desantis who are not happy. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, october 27th. joe is off, but along with willie and me, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and willie, as we get closer to election day, things are getting a lot tighter and it seems like democrats might be working to diversify their mess
his business ventures here. thank you for the reporting. thank you. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it s thursday, october 27th. and i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. nice to be back with you. it s great to have you here. john berman is off this morning. beginning with developments in ukraine where battle lines are being drawn in the southern city of kherson. ukraine says russia continues to move the occupation administration from kherson but is enforcing the city with newly mobilized recruits that ukraine s military suggests are being used as cannon fodder. more than 70,000 civilians have left the city as fighting increases.
days after the death of a young woman detained by the country s so-called morality post. good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, october 27th. i m jonathan lemire. we ll begin today with the new allegation against herschel walker. another woman has come forward accusing the georgia republican senate candidate of pressuring her to have an abortion. the woman appeared anonymously yesterday with her lawyer. she claims she became involved with the former football star while married and became pregnant with his child in 1993. she says he encouraged her several times to have an abortion. and she eventually went to a clinic in dallas to have the procedure but didn t go through