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viewed justice clarence thomas as key to stopping the certification of the election. the former director of national intelligence is my guest tonight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, biden s major speech this hour, with just six days until election day, president biden any moment now will deliver a major speech. the topic is the threat to democracy, and it comes on the heels of a violent attack on the house speaker nancy pelosi s husband paul. biden betting this will turn the tide of the midterms. but as he prepares to speak, only 9% of likely voters say voting rights and election integrity are the most important issues to them. 51% say the economy is their number one concern. 51%. and today that issue was front burner. the fed raising interest rates by another three-quarters of a percentage point. rates have been rising at an unprecedented pace with mortgage rates above 7% for the first time in 20 years. you can see the ....
protecting our democracy. the president is expected to address threats from maga republican election deniers to not accept the result thofs year s vote. and the growing embrace of political violence in the aftermath of the hammer attack on house speaker pelosi s 82-year-old husband. joining me for the hour are jen saki, matthew dowd and david plus. jen i start with you. you ve been talking to white house officials. what should we expect to hear from the president? joy, it s six days until the election and this is the big closing argument for the president. there he s doing this because at this point it sless about convincing people that you have a better plan. it s about lighting a fire under those democrats and people who are going to support democratic candidates to get them out. the other piece they are focused on is saying to democratics and other people voting for candidates hang with us. it may be a long week. it may take time to count the votes but stick with u ....
Time in 20 years. you can see the stage there where president biden will be speaking just moments from now. phil mattingly is outfront live. this is an important speech. they have put a lot of time into this. [ applause ] reporter: that s right. and he s actually walking up right now so i m actually going to turn it back over to you and the president of the united states. he is going to begin speaking here. now let s listen to president biden. thank you. good evening, everyone. just a few days ago a little before 2:30 a.m. in the morning, a man smashed the back window and broke into the home of the speaker of the house of representatives, the third highest-ranking official in america. he carried in his backpack zip-ties, duct tape, rope, and a hammer. as he told the police he had come looking for nancy pelosi to ....
Candidates hang with us. it may be a long week. it may take time to count the votes but stick with us and that s vital at this point. let me go around the horn. matthew, that pause that we re going probably see between election night and wait a minute. i m going to pause more. here comes president biden. he s walking up to the podium. let s take him live. good evening everyone. just a few days ago, a little before 2:30 a.m. in the morning, man smashed the back window and broke in to the home of the speaker of house of representatives, the third highest ranking official in america. he carried in his backpack zip ties, duct tape, rope, and a hammer. as he told the police he had come looking for nancy pelosi to take her hostage, to interrogate ....