Underway. Campaigning for Kim Harris in michigan right now after the event, Shawn Fain will join us to discuss the importance of Union Support in this election. Another hour of velshi begins right now. Ns right now. 31 days until Election Day with voting underway in several states and both campaigns ramping up their efforts as we enter the final highstakes push to november 5th. Vice president harris is expected to travel to North Carolina to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Helene while Donald Trump alongside the Tech Billionaire Elon musk will be in butler, pennsylvania, returning to the site for the first time since the Assassination Attempt against him in july. Meanwhileag Bernie Sanders and Sean Fain are rallying Union Members in michigan. We will talk to Sean Fain later in the show. The month before the Election Day, mistakes could not be higher. Republican plans and agenda 47 to drastically alter the structure of the federal government and reshape the power around a man who
cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz joins us now, so, arlette, the president has not announced that he s running for election. but there s some expectation that this speech is going to have the tone of a campaign speech. reporter: well, victor, take a look at where president biden decided to unveil this election, that s in the battle ground state of pennsylvania which would be critical to the upcoming election look, the presidential advisers are aware that the budget as proposed is unlikely to go anywhere up on capitol hill. but it does offer the president an opportunity to really lay out what s at stake for both the policy and political battles ahead, especially when you think of the fight, the looming fight, over the debt ceiling expected to play out over the coming month. the omb director shalanda young calls it a healthy start to the conversation. and ultimately, it lays out what president biden values. taking a look at what this budget entails. the president is
you hear that? the herschel walker exception. republicans want to eliminate all access to abortion in america for you. but if herschel walker or any other rich republican or republican at all was involved in an abortion, well, we re just going to have to pretend it never happened. plus ron johnson s statement that january 6th was no armed insurrection, that did not age well. it was refuted in the on earth keepers trial the day before he said it. cori bush s challenges to make it to congress, and why the midterm afflictions five weeks have so vitally important. we begin the reidout with president biden and the first lady touring the damage florida today, one week after hurricane ian made landfall. the storm killed more than 100 people and left thousands without a home to return to. president biden met with some of those families whose lives were upended, promising to help them rebuild. today we have one job and only one job, and that s to make sure the people of fl
peril. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin in ukraine which has just cleared the first hurdle on the path to join the european union. eu and ukrainian flags flew side by side in kyiv on friday after the european commission recommended that ukraine should be given candidate status. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which could be years away, but president zelenskyy says it still brings ukraine a step closer to winning the war. the commission s leader says ukraine deserves to be in. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us, the european dream. now, the british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv on friday, his second since the war began. he offered ukraine a major military training program that he said would, quote, fundamentally change the equation of the war. new videos meanwhile appear to show two u.s. military volunteers wh
and with tourism roaring back to life across europe, italy seeing a two-wheeled invasion that many want curbed. what rome plans to do about the influx of e scooters. well, donald trump lashing out at the january 6th committee hearings, accusing them of doctoring video testimonies that cast him in a very negative light. yet both taped and live witnesses over three hearings have consistently shown trump illegally tried to overturn the 2020 election, culminating of course in the capitol riot. the next hearing on tuesday is expected to include two prominent georgia election officials who were pressured by trump to, quote, find nonexistent votes after he lost. and there are growing questions over the potential role of ginni thomas, wife of clarence thomas. the select committee has requested an interview with her which she has indicated she is willing to do. for the latest on trump s continued defiance and what lies ahead, here is cnn s jessica schneider. never called mike penc