really happy to have you here. we are less than 30 days out now from the elections. we are going to be joined in just a moment by the man who was in charge of the democratic party s efforts to hold the united states senate. and that is quite a job this year. the polling averages right now show that the prospects for both parties in the senate are equal as of today. literally, if the polling says today ends up matching the vote on election day, it will be 50/50 in the senate. so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip
so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip out on. this election will be very tight and very, very interesting. and very consequential. again, if the polling bears out. and election day looks anything like the polls say it will lookh today. we ll be talking with the man in charge of the democratic party s efforts in the senate in just a moment. obviously, a super high stakes job. a super difficult job. still though, who would you rather be? would you rather be the senate guy for the democrats right now? or would you r
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Built bridge to crimea. crimea, of course, another part of ukraine that russia took over several years ago. the attacks by russia today were not carried out by russian troops making ground advances. the ukrainian military has been pushing russian forces back and retaking the parts of ukraine that russia had invaded. what happened today all over ukraine including in the capital city, in western ukraine far from the front lines. what happened today were these long-range russian air strikes on population centers, on cities including the capital city, on civilian infrastructure. and that poses a big question for us, for the united states. as of now, one of the items on ukraine s wish list that we have not given them are long-range missile systems so they could answer russian long-range air strikes in kind. hours after russia launched these attacks today, the u.n. general assembly started