very good to be with all of you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. charges against paul pelosi s attacker could be in any minute as the speaker s husband recovers from surgery in the icu. a source says paul pelosi is awake and has cognitive function and remembers everything. david depape faces a string of charges including attempted murder and a parallel investigation into the friday assault. there is a lot we still don t know, though, but law enforcement officials have confirmed the suspect was looking for nancy pelosi, zip ties were discovered at the scene, blog posts are being investigated in connection with the situation, and a range of contradictly political views including liberal anti-establishment and more recently far right extremism. it raises questions about the most powerful women in politics and one of the most threatened members of congress in the country according to a report today in the new york times, not to mention what happened on january 6th and these scen
the balance of power in congress. we have team coverage. charles watson is live in atlanta, rich edson live in pennsylvania. and. selena zito with reaction in just a few minutes. trump backed mehmet os has narrowed the gap in pennsylvania. in harrisburg we find rich edson right now. reporter: this is a full day for john fetterman. he finished a rally in front of union members. he is pushing his campaign promises. says he wants to raise the minimum wage. protect abortion rights. and he knocked his republican challenger mehmet oz. mehmet oz hasn t forgotten a day that i had a stroke. in january i will be much better but he will still be a fraud. reporter: oz and republicans nationwide have been campaigning on inflation, making the case democrat stimulus spending and turn away from fossil fuels raised costs across the country. the oz campaign s communication director said pennsylvania cannot afford more of the same with his dangerous ideas to put criminals back on our streets
putin responsible for recent attacks in ukraine. but how? the lead starts right now. a global response as russia bombards ukraine with mass missile attacks for a second straight day. what the president just said about the aggression in an exclusive interview with jake tapper. also this hour, another cnn exclusive, one on one with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. his take on republicans chances of winning a majority in the midterms, plus the one question he refused to answer about donald trump. and the worst is yet to come. the new recession warning as top economists also predict exactly when the economic downturn will hit. hello and welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. we begin with world leaders pledging to stop russian president vladimir putin s reign of terror in ukraine. an emergency debate today at the united nations and the g7 heads of government including president joe biden on an emergency call with ukraine s president today, vowing
with more missiles and other weapons after widespread strike killing 19 people. the united nations calling the attack particularly shocking and amounting to potentially war crimes. testimony has begun in the trial of a russian national who is accused of playing a major role in the fabrication of a document. used in the trump-russia probe. igor is accused of making false statements to the fbi. remember that this is the john durham investigation. stocks were mixed today, the dow gained 36 common s&p 500 and the nasdaq fell with a technology lead retreat on fears, the s&p down 24, the nasdaq lost 116. it is a midterm watch four weeks from tonight, and we have a new round of power rankings with ships benefiting both parties as we look at the governor s races, the one shift we have in the governor s race is maine. moving to lean democrats, a battle between income and democrat mills and the former republican governor paul lepage, if we take a look at the shifts in the house, th
contacted by world leaders. my conversation with star wars star mark hamill, on his new role, helping ukraine. and rachel maddow on a forgotten streaming relevant part of american history. when we get to from that is a not see blot to distribute german government flop propaganda and the united states through the u.s. congress. that happened. when all in starts right now. good evening from washington, d.c.. i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. there is always been a racist white supremacist fringe to the modern republican party. it hasn t always been overt, but it has reared it s head from time to time, going back decades. republican leaders, even presidents, have indulged it. for example, takes from the nixon era show the president engaging in blatant antisemitism. all of it which families are close, but there is this strange malignancy now that seems to creep among them. i don t know, the radicalism. the jews are born spies. you notice how many of them are? t