Message to could-be candidates, particularly women, as she gears up for a tough midterm election season. today, president biden is ready to announce his plan to lower consumer prices. we ll take a look at what he s expected to say and how the markets are responding. there s also a remarkable story in this morning s washington post that details the lengths former president trump s chief of staff mark meadows took to keep trump in power after joe biden won the electoral college. we ll dig into that new reporting. we re also following the latest from ukraine and the new assessment from the pentagon on why the russian military is still not making much progress. they re a third grade army. there s that. plus, french president emmanuel macron dashes ukraine s hopes of an expedited path into the eu, while also proposing a, quote, new european community that ukraine could join. you know, he should if