time for the midterm elections. white house is calling opec s decision short sighted look at alternatives to wall street to reporting the administration is preparing to ease sanctions on venezuela and its dictator nicholas in an effort to increase the supply of oil on the market. let s bring in our panel also journal columnist kempster also, editorial board members kyle peterson. so why did saudi arabia make this a judgment after all the president had gone to the country earlier this year to try to persuade the crown prince there to produce more oil. now they are going in the opposite direction, what happened? from saudi arabia s perspective you have to consider they are looking at two factors. once the long-term alliance with the united states and hopefully try to keep that altogether. but they also have to look at their bottom line. and frankly, if you look at the signal sediment coming from all corners of the economy recently it looks like a 20 a pretty major slowdown la
join such a tremendously and successful philanthropic group of people. congrats to bret. thank you for watching special report. i m trace gallagher. the the angle starts right now. laura: i m all of your preparations so you know what to do if you start to feel any trembling. it s been 139 years since we ve had anything like this in the greater new york city area. around 240 years in new jersey. i just want to show you the difference between east coast and west coast earthquakes. west coast in 2004, there was a 6.4 earthquake. you see the area that felt that. in 2011 we had a 5.8, in central virginia. look how much land mass felt it. it s just the way the ground is built across much of the eastern seaboard. 4.8 earthquake earlier, 14 states had people who felt this. you can see the intensity in parts of new england, down across parts of the central atlantic. obviously the worst in new jersey. they experienced strong shaking. no significant reports of any kind of big damage
that, say, someone like john hickenlooper could win the senate race in colorado because usually a high turnout of democrats in down-ballot races would only help with a strong candidate at the top of the ticket. yeah. he s won twice there statewide in colorado. popular governor there. at the time. matt, i want to get your take on the state of maine. republican senator susan collins still has not announced her re-election bid. and some late polling recently has taken maine from lean republican to tossup. what are the chances that he does try to run again for re-election or decides not to? yeah, i think they re pretty good. i think senate republicans are expecting her to run again. look, i think she was shaken up is she vulnerable? well, look, maine is obviously a tough state. i don t think she s vulnerable. she s been able to have tremendous electoral success in
washington, d.c. you just said something that i did not say and attributed it to me. what did you not say? i m not going to repeat the slander and the mis characterization. you re not going to say what you did say? no. this is your trick in the trade, to confuse and to incite based on fear and not to speak the true. this is a very serious issue and it washts trrants the truth and facts. just this week, the cook political report changed the rating on that race from leans republican to tossup. my panel with me once again to discuss. you re republican. i want to get your read on this race. looking at the most recent polling here, ted cruz is still in the lead by a few percentage points here, but this is a narrower race than many thought it would be. should not be a close race. this is red meat red texas. i think the reason it s happening is because of the ted cruz s personality and his likability factor and the fact
some in any rankings releasing right now remind us it s a make to focus only on the question of whether democrats with take back the house. the democrats have a narrow path to retake senate control but quite possible given the competitive nature of this republicans could add a seat or to to their majority. here is what we woke up today. if you take the solids and likelies and leans we have as of this morning, 49 leading and solid republican and 44 for democrats and 7 tossups there in yellow. our new ray rankings changed the overall math just a little bit. becomes improving 1, 49 for republicans and 45 for democrats and six tossups. what are the steps that make this a little bit more for the democrats? we are moving the tennessee race, open race held currently by a republican from lean republican to tossup. west virginia, a tossup, and now move it to lean democrat. texas, this is a great race. ted cruz versus o rourke.