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turn out to see people already arriving here. to tell us a bit about what will happen here tonight, i mjoined by about what will happen here tonight, i m joined by david young. david is a former congressman for the third district and iowa, also former chief of staff to chuck grassley, the senior senator, so he knows his iowa politics. what ll happen here tonight? in iowa, we don tjust pick corn, but presidents, that s what we re but presidents, that s what we re doing tonight. first to say hi we re doing tonight. first to say hi to we re doing tonight. first to say hi to your viewers and in being say hi to your viewers and in being educated about what we do here, being educated about what we do here, it s being educated about what we do here, it s a being educated about what we do here, it s a very arduous process, here, it s a very arduous process, but it s also simple. candidates come in here and we kick the candidates come in here and we kick the tir ....
an explosion on a critical bridge linking russia to the annexed crimean peninsula, crippling a key supply route for russia. here at home, republican leaders doubling down on their support for embattled senate candidate, herschel walker, with two top gop senators heading there to campaign with the former football star tomorrow. and fresh reaction to remarks from tommy tuberville. they want crime because they want to take over what you got. they want to control what you have. they want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that. good day. as russia unleashes a barrage of deadly strikes across ukraine including kyiv, lviv and other cities. the explosions injurying civilians and infrastructure. people forced to take shelter in a key subway station. this for retaliation for damaging the only bridge connecting to crimea. a bridge to important to putin, he personally drove across it when it opened. on russian state tv today, putin saying he ....
These leaks coming from? you have all those people in the room but still don t believe him. thank you. democrats up in arms over reports of leaked intel but fox news contributor charles krauthammer is refreshing their memory, classified leaks involving their candidate. opportunism and reflex reaction particularly since the candidate spending classified information, for a year and a half and the democrats pretended it either wasn t a problem or should be ignored. something like what happened some years ago when there was a leak from the yemen branch of al qaeda and we learned they had advanced operations, blowing up airliners by leaking that, we revealed we had somebody inside ....
This is $9 million of outside spending versus about three and change of candidate spending. this really was a local race. if you read the press, there was no discussion of the local issues in that district. this was all about obamacare and medicare advantage and things look that. what are the takeaway lessons if you re a national democrat or national republican, what do you do come november? i think this is no doubt this was an extremely disparaging blow to national democrats, no doubt. but if i can play the contrarian here for a little bit, i did some reporting on this and talked to a republican consultant working on the race who told me the obamacare issues moved the base on both sides. it was critically important forgetting republicans to the polls to vote for jolly and getting democrats to vote for sink. however, what moved people in the middle was this notion that alex sink was a bad manager, she ....
Time now for my if it s tuesday takeaway. as we noted earlier, it s an unprecedented amount of money being spent in this one special election in one swing district in one swing state. outside groups alone have spent nearly $9 million on this race to replace the late congressman bill young. when you add in candidate spending, $10 million, now we estimate it to be $13 million and when all is said and done, it will probably be closer to $14 or $15 million spent in one house race. if this is the kind of money spent in every one of the house races this year, the total would be just shy of $600 million, not even touching senate races, and look how this compares in the average amount spent in successful senate races in recent years. i m talking about statewide races. in the 2002 midterms, i could show you here, the average cost of a senate race was $4 million for the winning senate ....