groundhog movie every time the weather man bill murray wakes up in that hotel he is staying at they are playing this song. come on in. ainsley: i wonder if more people watch it today than any other year. i haven t seen that movie in years. brian: the movie or janice dean who is going to be covering it. steve: that s why the connection. bill murray was a tv weather man and every year janice goes to punxsutawney out in pennsylvania. janice, this year, i think it s the coldest day you have been there. currently 14 degrees there and feels like 8. ainsley: what a cute hat. janice: you know it s all about the fashion, are guys. you know what? it may be 15 degrees but i m feeling the love and the warmth here in glob bler s knob. this is the first time i have been here. gets more exciting if that s possible. a town of 6,000 people. on this day 20 to 30,000 people gather on this small little hill in punxsutawney, pennsylvania to see the groundhog, the progress prognosticator
desperate measures to try to hold the front line. vladimir putin inspecting his troops and firing a rifle himself in a new wartime show of force. also this hour president biden is in the critical midterm battleground state of pennsylvania touting infrastructure spending as many voters are stressed out about inflation and the economy. i ll ask former treasury secretary larry summers for his up to the minute assessment of the recession threat. and new turmoil right now in britain after the prime minister liz truss abruptly announces her resignation after six short but troubled weeks in power. we ll get a read on the instability and what it means for the uk and the world. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. all right. let s get straight to the new developments out there on the battlefield in ukraine. we re tracking very fierce fighting in occupied territory, especially in the south, as moscow s
pitch their closing messages to voters. we ll have a slew of new polling numbers to see what, if anything, is getting through. also ahead, this week s jobless claims are in. what the new numbers on of the of another interest rate hike tell us about the state of our economy. professor eddie glaude jr. and jonathan lemire are with us. and joining us, nbc news national political reporter marc caputo and republican strategist and nbc news political analyst susan del percio. it s good to have you with us this hor hour. we have new polling out this morning. a hotly contested senate race in pennsylvania, the latest emerson college the hill survey finds mehmet oz with a two-point lead over john fetterman, within the poll s 3% margin of error. 4% remain undecided. let s keep it in pennsylvania. another new poll shows last week s debate between fetterman and oz appears to have had very little impact in minds of voters. 48% of voters telling monmouth university they will definitely
so this is the date that january 6th committee has circled on its calendar. tonight, in primetime, i m john berman, brianna is off, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. it is the morning before this primetime hearing. and committee members have said there will be more hearings potentially, one or two down the road, but nothing immediate. so it is kind of seen as the closing arguments they re going to be making. i think people will be watching to see how effectively the committee does tonight. and they want people to be watching tonight, which is why they re putting it in primetime. the committee s focus will be, we re told, on the 187 minutes from the end of former president trump s speech on the ellipse, on january 6th, when he sent people to the capitol, to his video asking the rioters to go home. those 187 minutes. they will say that his action or inaction during this time period points to a dereliction of duty. he was, they say, resisting pleas fro
244,000 people seeking unemployment insurance last week. as americans struggle with the rising costs of everyday goods. new details about former president trump allegedly trying to call a witness involved in the january 6th committee s investigation. we begin this morning with what appears to be a stark difference between the president of the united states and israel over how to deal with iran. during a joint news conference with israeli s prime minister in jerusalem, president biden defended his efforts to restart an international agreement aimed at preventing iran from building a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security to both israel and the united states. and i would add for the rest of the world as well. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. and we ll continue to work with israel to counter other threats from iran throughout the region. but the israeli leader said diplomacy will not work and that the international community