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his business ventures here. thank you for the reporting. thank you. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it s thursday, october 27th. and i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. nice to be back with you. it s great to have you here. john berman is off this morning. beginning with developments in ukraine where battle lines are being drawn in the southern city of kherson. ukraine says russia continues to move the occupation administration from kherson but is enforcing the city with newly mobilized recruits that ukraine s military suggests are being used as cannon fodder. more than 70,000 civilians have left the city as fighting increases. and a russian military strike in zaporizhzhia causing some damage, and power grids. cnn also witnessed a prisoner exchange, including the remains of an american fighter who traveled to ukraine to fight alongside the ukrainian troops. clarissa ward joins u ....
rights is inconsistent with who we are and who i am. still, the saudis are rejoicing at the meeting, and president biden s presence there at all, despite his campaign pledge to make saudi arabia a, quote, pariah, over khashoggi s murder. president biden in fact greeted mbs, the country s de facto ruler, with a fist bump earlier today. neither leader answering questions from the press at the very start of their meeting. jamal khashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? thank you, guys. a reminder, according to president biden s own director of national intelligence, quote, we assess that saudi arabia s crown prince, muhammad bin salman, approved an operation in turkey to capture or kill saudi journalist jamal khashoggi, unquote. among the reasons for that assessment, the dni notes, among the murderous thugs who killed the washington post columnist and then chopped him up with a bone saw, were seven members of mbs quote elite personal protective detail, o ....
really not lifting sentiment much because even if you are seeing some relief at the pump, which most americans are, you re not seeing it anywhere else. we re not seeing it at the grocery store, not seeing it practically anywhere else in your day, and that s reflected in the latest reading. americans remain quite sad about the state of things. but we also keep buying things. so is this retail therapy, is it something more nuanced? what is it? i think it depends on who you re talking about. we got retail sales data which shows a better than expected jump of consumer spending of 1%. the expectation heading into this report was an increase of .8%. but what you have here is a tale of two consumers. for americans who can afford it, who are still sitting okay financially, they re still spending. they re shifting where they re spending to services and experiences. for folks, however, who are struggling with inflation right now, they are shifting their spending. they re s ....
Arguments. he goes right up to the line of saying that donald trump is not a fiscal conservative. he goes right up to the line of saying, look, we spent too much during our administration, so, look, it s a challenging road for him, an uphill climb. he knows that but certainly a warm reception from here today. this is more of the andment wing of the republican party to the extent that exists anymore. but he ll be officially announcing on wednesday and, of course, having a cnn town hall that evening as well, jim. the former vice president trying to find a lane in this republican nominating process. jeff zeleny in iowa, where else would jeff be at this point in the campaign? great to talk to you. now to a new development and story cnn first reported. we told you that federal prosecutors obtained an audio recording acknowledging that donald trump knew he held on to a classified document. now in a new development trump s attorneys say they can t find them. cnn p ....
Election. investigators are pointing to meadows involvement with trump s call to brad raffensperger. take a listen. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. joining us now is cnn p political analyst maggie haberman. so great to have you with us this morning. first off, what the implications for this investigation now that the court has ordered meadows to appear? so we don t know yet whether meadows is going to try to appeal. we know his lawyers say they re looking at all of their options. should he testify he can provide key insights, not just into ....