reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. time for this rat pack to pack it in. thanks very much for joining me this evening. i m jim acosta. we ll be back tomorrow night. good night. your way round the hill. and now the party bosses want a meeting. they have a proposition. they want you to take a shot at the white house. not eventually, but now. - think about it, will you? narrator: well, first you ll have to get past her, the senator with decades of experience and friends in high places, already at home in the oval office. and then you ll have to get past him, a senator and bona fide war hero backed b by a mean polititical machinine. [crowd chanting indistinctly] let s say you are ready. here s the real question. is america? [dramatic music] only one way to find out. [tense music] america, president george w. bush s second term. [chatter] at war in iraq and afghanistan, teetering on the brink of a global economic crash, disillusioned, divided, and despera
chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
the man has the luck of the irish when it comes to donald trump. because it s kind of a heads, you win heads, i win, tails, you lose thing for him. trump becomes the nominee, and we all have learned now over time, painfully, that the man can t win a national election. he can t win a popular vote contest against probably any democrat, but certainly not joe biden. and threading that running through the eye of the needle there in the electoral colleges is getting to be tougher and tougher when you re as unpopular with large swaths of the country as donald trump. donald trump at the top of the republican ticket is a golden pathway for re-election for joe biden. but the other scenario now vividly suggesting itself, and i want to go back to chris sununu. a very smart man, popular man in a swing state like new hampshire. a guy who a lot of people think has national potential.sununu, doing, saying i will support
politics, how important is the summit for rishi sunak and the image of the uk? he summit for rishi sunak and the image of the uk? , .,, ., , ., of the uk? he is obvious to etting back to the of the uk? he is obvious to etting back to the ux of the uk? he is obvious to etting back to the uk for h of the uk? he is obvious to etting back to the uk for the h of the uk? he is obvious to jetting back to the uk for the autumn - back to the uk for the autumn statement on thursday, that is going to be the event that will make or break as premiership, thread through the eye of the needle in terms of tax rises, spending cuts, keeping tory mps in sight, keeping the markets happy, and also not crashing us further into a recession. that s going to be very difficult, so that is the number one facing mr sunak at the moment, but this summer is one of his first big global events, he went to the cop summit in egypt last week, a very brief exchange, but now he is really getting a much more intense
amount. which might be lower. so that, it would be a complex mathematical analysis to compare the years, and the values, and the bank applications. but this is a man who has built his business on debt. he s the kind of business that the camel goes through the eye of the needle, to take a biblical reference. with trump, the biggest mistake he has, i think, is the arrogance. it remains to be seen if he s accurate that he can do whatever he wants. but the d.a. and a.g. are bearing down on him. i think he s met his match. the feds are sitting back, i would say, cowardly, because they have the goods. and they re not acting. i think they would like to have the state deal with it. i think the state may deal with it. and i think what is being presented to the grand jury, it s not so much an investigation as a presentation