president biden makes a promise on abortion rights, as well as another widely supported issue, if democrats can keep control of congress after the midterms. plus, we ll have the big moments from a fiery senate debate down in florida. as marco rubio and val demings go after each other s legislative records. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. the russian forces are now more focused on civilians than soldiers on the battlefield. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this wednesday, october 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. it was a fiery debate for the u.s. senate in florida last night. between republican incumbent marco rubio and democratic congresswoman val demings. they clashed over inflation, abortion rights, immigration and guns. demings who has consistently trailed in the polls was on the attack for much of the night. so a senator who has never run anything at all but his mouth. the senator has obviously resorted to ly
florida governor ron desantis is ranged to fly 50 people from texas to martha s vineyard off the coast of massachusetts. this is all part of the campaign to protest the biden administration s immigration policies. but the white house says she s governors are using the migrants as political pawns. those taken to martha s vineyard are receiving shelter and help at a u.s. military base. miguel marquez has more on their journey. referee: after less than 48 unexpected hours in martha s vineyard, nearly 50 venezuelal migrants were given a warm sendoff, embracing each person as they boarded buses. then ferries and onto the next part of their long journey. their unannounced rival wednesday all part of a campaign by texas governor greg abbott and florida governor ron desantis to send them to sanctuary cities by surprise. free to the alien but certainly not mandatory. and that way they re able to go and these sanctuary jurisdiction cans put their money where their mouth is. r
the washington post could explain the fbi s sense of urgency to do this search. the post reports that federal agents were looking for classified documents related to nuclear weapons. cnn hasn t independently confirmed that. this is a fast-moving story. we re covering it all. let s go first to cnn s katelyn polantz with more on this deadline. trump said release the documents, and i m quoting there. this was after the attorney general said, and i m paraphrasing now, tell the judge you want them released and they can be. so what is trump s team waiting for? that is a great question. we too are waiting to see what is going on, clearly everybody is in a wait-and-see position right now. we re keeping an eye on the court record to see exactly what formal position donald trump and his team will take in court. it very well could be different from what he s saying on social media. but we re also watching the time here. there is a deadline set by the judge of 3:00. that is the tim
classes will be held again there. and we are watching a tropical system closing in on florida. the timing and potential impact. your forecast coming up in a few minutes. so grateful to have your company in the morning. 6:00 on saturday, june 4th. thank you for being with us. a pleasure to be with you, christi. we begin with a setback for the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. the justice department saying it will not indict two feormer trup officials. the committee says the decision not to prosecute the two puzzling. this comes as the committee is getting ready for the public hearing next thursday when new evidence and witness testimony are expected to be unveiled. let s go to cnn reporter zachary cohen. he is here with details. zach, walk through the decision against prosecuting meadows and scavino. how could this impact the investigation? reporter: good morning. the committee is frustrated by the decision not to prosecute dan scav
this is the fourth debate, the fourth debate that you would be voted in the first 20 minutes as the most on obnoxious blowhard in america, so shut up. 25 minutes into the debate, he has insulted nikki haley s basic intelligence. not her positions, her basic intelligence. she doesn t know regions. she wouldn t be able to find something on a map that his 3-year-old could find. look, if you want to disagree on issues, that s fine. nikki and i disagree on some issues. i ll tell you this, i ve known her for 12 years, longer than east even started to vote in a republican primary. while we disagree with issues and disagree about who should be president of the united states, what we don t disagree on, this is a smart, accomplished woman, and you should stop insulting her. republican presidential candidate chris christie saying i think what everyone is thinking, attacking one challenger while coming to the defense of another. we ll have more from the fourth gop debate, the final o