midterm vote count. how you feel about the president, the economy, how excited you are to vote spells giant trouble for the democrats and giant opportunity for republicans. plus, some new cnn reporting on the behind the scenes battle between senators mitch mcconnell and rick scott over who should get more credit or more blame for how the senate shakes out after the midterms and an interrogation. other targets, new horrific details about the assailant who bludgeoned the speaker of the house s husband until he was unconscious. mr. pelosi asked to go to the bathroom which is where he was able to call 911 from his cell phone. the defendant realizing that mr. pelosi had called 911 took mr. pelosi downstairs near the front door of the residence. two police officers arrived at the front door two minutes after that 911 call. up first for us, though, a final snapshot of the midterm climate and it is beyond bleak for the democrats. let s set the stage, remember, republicans need on
past 18 months over the course of the biden presidency so far. that came from the heritage foundation from analysts there that compares it to what is basically taking the titanic into an iceberg. art laffer, the economist that helped turn around this ship under reagan said this in reaction to this report. this inflation number is accelerating. it s not toning down or topping out. brit hume joins us in moments on the political blowback for president biden and what that looks like as we head to the mid-term. first, let s bring in jackie deangelis and mark tepper. thanks for being here. $6,800, jackie, is the bite that s been taken out of people s income if you have mom and dad both working in the home. how does this shape up? first, it was 3,500 and then $5,000 and now it s $6,800. it keeps going on. my biggest problem today even though they re trying to explain it away saying it s backward looking, that doesn t mean it didn t have an impact on people. they re paying more
us on that topic and a lot more coming up in just a few moments today. sandra: we begin, america reports with a shake-up across the pond as prime minister boris johnson announces officially that he is resigning amid a string of ethics scandal. and look who came back for more, hello, welcome, everybody. i am sandra smith in new york. happy to have you. i am bill hemmer and for john roberts today, the outgoing prime minister acknowledging defeat after months of defiance with 50 senior lawmakers left office in a revolt against their leader, the final straw for some members of parliament coming after report saying that johnson knew about an investigation of sexual misconduct to a lawmaker that he had promoted. sandra: protesters gathered outside tenth avenue to give the prime minister a noisy send-off as they look for a replacement to lead the conservative party in the country now begins. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live on this from london for
prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
trump also getting thumbs down from the majority of voters or 61% saying he should not run again either. let s bring in mark penny s chairman of the harris poll served as an advisor to both bill and hillary clinton. mark good to see you. so first i want to talk about this wrong track number, 70%. have you ever seen at that bad number one? ns is all about economics, the economy, inflation or something larger going on? and split about economics. liberal rarely seen 70% say they re on track. i have never seen bigots personally, economically worse off today. you may member the famous reagan question are you better off today? and when you look at this this is far greater a percentage saying they are worse off then during the economic dislocation of the pandemic. so the inflation, recession, high interest rates olivet has combined to create a very, very unhappy electric who sees gas prices and food prices skyrocketing and making them fall behind. are not even in a recession for r