virginia. a rising star in the gop hits the road to put his party over the top. virginia governor glenn youngkin joins me exclusively ahead. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is jittery, anxious about the economy and news overseas including north korea, iran and ukraine. the risk of, quote, armageddon, because of vladimir putin is the highest since the cuban missile crisis almost exactly 60 years ago. red russia suffered a major blow, a truck bomb slicing in half the only bridge that connects russia to crimea. this afternoon we ll ask a critical member of the senate foreign relations committee what happens now and a former amend about what he heard during his recent trip to moscow. with 30 days until the midterms, swing state polls reminding us that the economy remains the top issue for most voters. gas prices are going up. inflation is persistent. jobs numbers are strong as well. it s a complex midterm picture with plenty of races that wil
every virginia an when they go to the grocery store it s a gut punch, it s a gut punch. what they ve seen since thean beginng of the pandemic, the pandemic, is a 40% increase in the cost of groceries. every time they go to the gas pump it s a shock. laura: bidenomics is workingo we hear speech after speech,a fi media figure after media figure, why rent the american people feeling this, all this y good stuff happening. yeah,oo you can change theng words but you can t change thele way people feel when they go f t the grocerhey store, that s what virginia ans see every day, americans see every day, this is the issue. when you have credit ratings that are dropped, when you have 22-year high in interest rates when you have inflation that se been run awa, even own economists told him this before he let loosesp unparalleled spending, it s hurt all americans. you see folks who can t make it work anymore. 60% of americans live paycheck to paycheck because they can t keen
every action i can to protect life, unquote. if a six-week abortion ban came to your desk, would you sign it? let me back up. virginia ans elected a pro-life governor. i do believe in exceptions in the case of rape and incest and when the life of the mother is at risk. in this case where virginia was 22 months ago was debating on our general assembly floor that abortion should be extended all the way up through and including child birthed and paid for with taxpayer money. i said all along i disagree with this. this is extreme. that is really extreme. when the supreme court issued their final ruling, we felt that a good place for virginia to land, which was saving lives, because that s what virginians have said, we would like fewer abortions as opposed to more, is getting our legislators together and coming up with a compromise bill.
northam choose not to resign? look, i think governor wilder makes an important point. the choice of resigning is and he should be doing what s in the best interest of all virginia ans. what s in the best interest of not just his party, but the entirety of the commonwealth of virginia. i was at delaware state university this morning, speaking to young students at a leadership conference. if you are effective, strategic, ready. if you re willing to take on your adversaries? you can t be a good leader if you re not effective or strategic. governor northam is no longer effective. it s concerning for me to have to sit up here and listen to the
he spent $570,000 in legal fees, raised from private funds. cuccinelli used taxpayer dollars for his side of the fight. he did so to destroy and discredit one of the most prominent people in the scientific community. a scientist who is warning us what is happening to our earth, global warming. which is shown in this video covering the past few decades, all that s supported from temperature data from nasa. ken cuccinelli decided to wage war. michael mann from penn state university joins me. mcauliffe is leading over ken cuccinelli. what would you tell people? virginia ans have a very stark choice before them. on the one hand, you have terry mcauliffe who embraces science and technology, who recognizes that technological innovation is