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high interest rates are real bad for people who are buying stuff they don t pay for right away. that s my ba-humbug. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. it s friday. friday. we love our jobs but it is friday. i think i love friday. tgif. we made it guys. we made it. we made it. good morning, everyone. don lemon here. poppy harlow, kaitlan collins and it is friday and we are happy to be here but we re happy that it s friday and we get a couple days off, because next week is going to be a marathon. we have a lot going on next week. wait until you see how long we re on television. we have cots behind us we re going to be sleeping on. it s going to be a busy week. it is. and leading into next week there is an oprah size endorsement we have to talk about. it s in pennsylvania s senate race. will it make a difference? big one. hours from now thousands of twitter employees will learn if they are fired through emai ....
tonight. there s new cnn polling of likely voting in two key senate races in wisconsin and pennsylvania. wisconsin showing no clear leader in the showdown between incumbent republican ron johnson and democrat mandela barnes. pennsylvania with document lieutenant governor fetterman narrowly ahead of mehmet oz. we learned late today that former president obama will be campaigning there along with president biden on the final weekend before election day. a party official familiar with the planning telling cnn they ve got appearances scheduled for pittsburgh and philadelphia with the possibility of adding more. early voting is under way there and in 38 other states. so far turnout has been heavy on pace with the record 2018 midterms with nearly 7.3 million ballots already cast. with it, we ve already seen multiple reports of voter intimidation, including two armed men dressed in tactical gear sported at a ballot drop box in mesa, arizona, friday night. attorney general merr ....
weissmann who will join us in a few minutes, but we begin with the news that has made today one of those days that we will simply never forget around here. a global outpouring of grief after queen elizabeth ii passed away earlier today at the age of 96. the queen, who has reigned over the united kingdom and 15 other countries all over the world for 70 years die at balmoral castle, that s her summer home in scotland. all four of the queen s children were by her side in her final moments. these pictures show princes andrew and edward along with her grandson arriving at balmoral earlier today. her son charles is now the king taking the throne as king charles iii. he calls the death of his mother, a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family, adding this, quote, during this period of mourning and change my family and i will be comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect ask deep affection in which the queen was so widely held. it is diffi ....
want him to show up because he has to testify under oath, but i don t think he ll show up. i don t think he s man enough. we ll see. okay. i guess she said that. nancy pelosi challenges the former president, doubting he will give any testimony to the january 6th committee. i don t know if you heard, but at one point, she didn t think he was man enough to show up. we ll go through the time line in that investigation in just a moment. meanwhile, alarming details about what the fbi found at trump s country club, documents so sensitive they could endanger the lives of people who are helping u.s. intelligence. also healed, boris johnson. he wants to come back, right. he s a no go. like tom brady s comeback. he s a no go. this is going to end really well for everybody involved. he s no longer in the running to become the british prime minister. what? but a new leader could be named as soon as today. we ll go live to london for that. plus, joe, the pa ....
until the midterms. when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. and it s hard to recover. we have to walk away from politics as usual. it s a choice between two vastly different visions for america. with the economy and inflation top of mind for voters, president biden is also focusing on the u.s. workforce set to deliver remarks on that this afternoon. about the same time, we re expecting the fed s announcement of another interest rate hike going up three quarters of a percentage point for the fourth consecutive time. what their decision today means for your wallet. new details rounding the attack on speaker pelosi s husband, paul. the washington post and nbc news confirm a live camera feed was rolling on the pelosi home on the night of the attack and the post reports that while cameras captured the break-in, no one was watching the feed at the time. ahead, new questions about security. we are going to start with the president s remarks tonight on thr ....