just ahead. we will continue to bring gas prices down. they know the economy remains top of mind for voters. the president. hi, bob. my whole life has been deals. it is trump unvarnished, blunt, profane. it will not surprise you that he attacks people he doesn t like. we haven t seen something like this in new york city for nearly a century. these are human beings being shipped all over. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, october the 19th. 9 a.m. in london. 4 a.m. in washington. in the coming hours u.s. president joe biden will address voter anxiety over energy prices less than three weeks ahead of the mid-term election. mr. biden is expected to announce that 15 million barrels of oil will be released from the u.s. strategic petroleum reserve in an effort to ease oil prices. it s at the lowest level since the 1980s. despite gas prices going down, crude prices have been rising after opec plus announced plan
no announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news, a federal judge a few moments ago ordering the release of emails from john eastman. cnn senior justice correspondent is working this. walk us through what happened. this is a ruling from judge david carter in california, wolf. he is ordering the release of emails to the january 6th committee. john eastman, who worked as a lawyer for the former president in those weeks as he was trying to stay in office has argued they should be shielded under attorney client privilege. the judge is rejecting that saying that they may be evidence of a crime so therefore they fall under what s known as the crime fraud exception. i ll read you part of what the judge wrote in his order. he says the emails show that president trump knew the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tote those numbers both in court and to the public. the court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in watershington. we are two weeks out and tonight a one-night only event in a pivotal senate race, john fetterman versus mehmet oz on the debate stage sgl. plus, progressives push president biden to push russia to end the ukraine war. and diary excerpt. a broken promise from a supreme court justice. a new book digs into the life of senator ted kennedy. up first, the midterms. we count your votes two weeks from today. already upwards of 9 million ballots cast across 40 states. big debates tonight remind us the consequences are enormous and many of the key races are remarkably close. 36 governors races. always important but all the more so because of the new politics of abortion rights. all 435 house seats up. republicans now confident they will seize the speaker s gavel from nancy pelosi. and 35 senate contests including a race that s absolutely crucial. john fetterman and mehmet oz square off. it is their one and only
on capitol hill and washington, d.c. and leading more than half of the states in our nation. democratic lawmakers trying to save themselves in the house and senate by putting up the party s only rock star working him overtime at this point. former president barack obama has to clean up all the policy weakness on crime, the border, inflation and he has to find a way to get the base excited about next tuesday. something they clearly don t think the current president, joe biden, can do. voters apparent lack of enthusiasm for the current president was on full display at this event. come on, people. let s wake up. we have the president of the united states in the house. come on now. i know you got a little more energy than i hear, okay, thank you very much. that s the crowd i know. those are the people i represent. okay. just wanted to make sure you were still here. harris: she couldn t tell there were people in the room. wow, that s debbie wasserman schultz. fa democrats are
korea? plus mourning the mighty mississippi. the concern over his conditions spreads way beyond its banks. we can dredge it to a certain point and then mother nature wins. and later, taking wane. look at that. the children leading the fight to save the monarch butterfly. this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening, and thanks for joining us on this sunday. tonight, we are learning new information about the attack on paul pelosi, he s the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi. cbs news has confirmed that investigators have determined that the suspect had a list of the people he wanted to target. the suspect had a bag of zip ties. along with the hammer he brought to the home. the speaker says her husband is making progress. the suspect meanwhile will be officially charged tomorrow. he s expected to be arraigned on tuesday. jonathan vigliotti. nancy pelosi says her family is heartbroken and traumatized. meanwhile tonight, her hu