unpredictable, consequential events and passionate issues that caused the political football to bounce, the one big question remains. who s going to win? history would suggest that the incumbent president and his party will lose their majority in the house, especially with president biden s overall job approval number among likely voters at just 39%. when you look at strong approval and strong disapproval, signs of passion, you see the real trouble for democrats. 18% strongly approve of the job joe biden is doing. two and a half times that number, 45% strongly disapprove. yet the numbers are still too close to say it s a done deal. cnn s latest projection map of the house races has 18 labeled toss-up, which means it s still possible for democrats to control the house of representatives. the conventional wisdom is that republicans will take control. and in the senate, according to cnn, it s 49 republican, 48 democrat with three toss-up. according to real clear politics, the mo
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper in washington, d.c. a busy afternoon as we come on the air this afternoon, an historic and contentious day in court has just come to a close. moments ago we saw donald trump leave the courthouse in new york followed by the new york state attorney general letitia james who brought the civil fraud case against mr. trump and the family business. the former president spend the day on the stand repeatedly classing with the judge, the very person who will decide how much the trumps must pay after he already found them liable for fraud. we re going to go to the courthouse in a moment where this case could put trump at risk of losing his entire business operation in new york where he s accused of inflating financial statements. hs ahead, an astounding number coming out of gaza, the p.i.n. mrin stri of health which is controlled by hamas, the palestinian ministry claiming more than 10,000 deaths have taken place in response to the initial hamas
retaking all territory russia has seized since 2014 including crimea as you stated. do you see a difference if you re focused only on the easternmost regions, those that putin is laying claim to and says there was recently a refe referendum. is there a difference between eastern ukraine and the rest of the country? there absolutely is. one of the things we put out a map that showed people s perceptions on some of these metrics across the country. as you can guess, michael, in the east where the fighting is the hardest really on the front lines, people s fatigue is very evident. their lack of support relative to the leadership in kyiv is very evident. even in those regions, a majority of ukrainians share the views that you shared a minute ago. we also, michael, asked about whether ukrainians saw their country joining nato. a majority of ukrainians now expect their country to join nato within ten years, which is remarkable.