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>> there was a lot of effort to make it look like everything was kumbaya. but the parlor game of who's going to be the king continues to play out. >> good morning, mr. murdoch. you're going to retire soon, finally, huh? and have a good life? >> no way. and a warm welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. ahead here on "cnn newsroom," tracking ian. florida bracing for major hurricane. florida's governor urging people to make preparations now. fleeing russia. putin's mobilization efforts off to a chaotic start as cars line up at the border full of people trying to avoid fighting his war. will biden and trump talk their tickets again in 2024 the new polling tests the appetite
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for a rematch. and we begin this hour with tropical storm ian, and that's churning in the caribbean and getting stronger as it heads north towards cuba. now, ian, is expected to reach hurricane status monday before hitting western cuba. officials say they're expecting strong winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surges. now, ian then expected to turn into a major hurricane tuesday and forecast to hit the florida coast some time later this week. now, people in florida as you can imagine already preparing for ian. florida's governor has activated 2,500 national guard troops. tampa residents, meantime, are filling sandbags -- you see them there -- to try and prevent that flooding.
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and emergency management officials preparing for storm surges. >> we are loading and by the day we would have loaded 360 trailers and more than 2 million meals and more than 1 million gallons of water ready to be sent into impacted areas. you need to be prepared for sheltering in place. you may lose power for multiple days. make sure you have enough food and water that you can prepare while you're sheltering in place. >> now, a tropical storm watch is in effect for the florida keys, and officials are urging people to stay prepared. >> if an evacuation order is given, please heed that warning. you don't want to be that family or that individual that calls for help and us and our partners, first responders can't get to you. >> all right, let's bring in cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri. and there's always that
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uncertainty, right? where will this storm make landfall in terms of where it may hit florida? >> paula, it's a great question and so many variabilities in this forecast and the storm system we think for the last few hoirs here going to remain a tropical storm and by the time we get past sunrise a hurricane and certainly stays there and intensifies in the coming several days. i want to show you what exactly is slated for this storm system because as you noted we do have hurricane warnings, and the system is slated to go over the warmest oceanic content in all the atlantic ocean here in the next few hours. so we know strengthening is going to occur as a result of this, and storm surge is going to be significant across portions of of western cuba. as much as 14 feet later on and later as it emerges past the eastern part of mexico. storm surge could get up to 4 to 7 feet across southwest florida, and notice the storm intensity. by tuesday evening possibly a
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major category 3, wednesday morning up to a category 4, and that's when the storm gets extremely dangerous because forecast guidance has brought this a little closer to western florida. and the last time a major hurricane directly impacted the tampa bay area was back in 1921. so 101 years since they've been impacted. seeing quite a bit of activity, of course, across the state of florida in recent day decades. but a storm of this magnitude impacting that region would be significant. just to show you the variability between these models from one day to the next they've shifted. looking three to four days typically there's a margin of error about 125 miles, so that really speaks to how much could change in the coming days. that initial landfall in cuba tuesday morning and approaches a hurricane in tampa some time wednesday afternoon, thursday morning. that's one model that pushes it inland eventually bringing heavy rainfall.
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and the secondary one shows you the significant spread here, possibly bringing it near the panhandle some time thursday. so we're going to be following this to see exactly where this storm system ends up. >> the margin of error more than a hundred miles. we know you'll stay on in the cnn weather center and continue to get your updates. now we go to the aftermath of hurricane fiona. a body that was washed out to sea in canada has now been recovered. now, new images from eastern canada are showing the trail of destruction left behind after fiona swept through that region. officials say the priority now is trying to restore power and clearing roads right across the province. several homes were washed away the dramatic fashion by flood waters due to fiona, one of the strongest storms, remember, that hit -- strongest storm on record in fact to hit canada's atlantic
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coast. meantime more than 50% of puerto rico now has electricity finally nearly a week after fiona slammed into that island. the storm's initial hit knocked out the island's entire power grid. puerto rico's government says now 825,000 customers and nearly 80% of its hospitals have regained power once again. and to the philippines now, which is still reeling after being slam by a super typhoon sunday. noru has since been downgraded to a regular typhoon, but catastrophic flooding has filled streets right across the country destroying homes and making cleanup increasingly hard for residents. at least five rescue workers have reportedly died due to the storm. on sunday the storm battered the philippines with high waves amid that downpour. the philippine national weather service says it's the strongest typhoon the region has seen this year. heated protests have erupted in some of russia's ethnic
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minority regions over the government's mobilization order and the war in ukraine. now, the video from the capital of predominantly muslim region about 1,000 miles from moscow shows women arguing with police and questioning why their children are being drafted. in other confrontations police responded with force. arrests have been reported, and this video the one you show there shows officers you can clearly see it, aggressively pushing back anti-draft demonstrators. also saw big demonstrations at this anti-conscription rally in the far eastern republic that's more than 3,000 miles from moscow. authorities there have acknowledged some residents have been enlisted by mistake. in the meantime many russians are trying to evade conscription by just fleeing the country. at the border with georgia hundreds of cars have waited in line to get out of russia. one man spoke about the challenges he faced getting through the last major russian
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city before hitting that border. >> translator: there's wild corruption, just incredible. you need to pay police to enter. this happens through mediators or so-called fixers who solve the issues. you pay money and get through to a checkpoint, which is said to be setup to decongest the border. so you pay money to get there and then you need to pay more to get out. >> more now from our claire sebastian who's standing by for us and following all this. claire, there is a clear strategy from the kremlin, right, at work here. recruit from the regions, from minority populations, and yet this has also proven to be a risky bet, right? it seems to be backfiring at the moment. >> there is some strategy here. don't forget when president putin returns to the presidency in 2012 he was sort of accompanied by some of the biggest protests in russia since the fall of the soviet union
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mostly concentrated in the big cities. clearly evidence by the way he governed since then he was rattled by this. so clearly they want to avoid this. they've also been cracking down on things like desertion and evading the draft. putin signed into law amendments to the criminal code adding penalties to those over the weekend, so they are obviously anticipating some backlash, but these ethnic minorities already dissatisfied by the fact they feel some of their rights are being eroded by the kremlin, and now not only victims reportedly of the mobilization echds shows but also of the chaos around the mobilization. in this republic which you mentioned the head of the region said many of them have been erroneously drafted in. they don't have military experience and he wants them returned. so that's not going to improve morale or patriotism. around this as to whether it'll backfire, the jury is still out on this one. it's still early days. it seems at this point russia will be able to bring men to the
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front by force, by threat of imprisonment. it was trying to shame men into leaving the country saying how you can abandon your motherland, why don't you want to defend your state and your president. so i think there is concern, and i think this is part of the big gamble that this mobilization was for president putin. >> and still having to capitulate even on trying to draft white collar workers. there seems to be some success at least for now that they can stay behind. ahead here on cnn for us, a new poll shows nearly half of democrats and democratic leaning independents want to nominate someone other than joe biden for president in 2024. we'll have a closer look at that
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wednesday will be a pivotal day for the january 6th committee investigating the capitol riot. members plan to hold what may be the last public hearing on capitol hill before the committee releases its final report. the hearing is expected to expose new details about the probe. members are being tight-lipped for now about what they plan to reveal. >> there's actually going to be significant new information in this hearing? >> i mean, i suppose that will be in the eye of the beholder. >> we're not disclosing yet what the focus will be. the public will learn things it hasn't seen before but also understand information it already has in a different context by seeing how it relates to other elements of this plot. >> ron brown at the scene is a cnn senior political analyst and senior editor for the atlantic, and he joins me now from los angeles. ron, look, january 6th, again, it seems like ages ago when that was a prime time event. so much has happened since then.
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what kind of impact do you think those hearings could have this week? >> look, i think there are two separate tracks here. one is the track of ultimate legal liability for former president trump. i mean the committee has unearthed a great deal of evidence that points the way toward a potential indictment for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election, and that could be the biggest long-term ramification. in the near-term i think there's no question that the january 6th hearings are part of the confluence of events that have changed the fundamental frame of this election. earlier in this year when voters were focused solely on inflation and crime and the border there was discussion of a big, red wave. those issues haven't gone away. those vulnerabilities for democrats haven't gone away, but they're no longer the only issues on the horizon. and now you have, obviously, abortion, gun violence, and also the question of trump and the threat that many americans see him posing to democracy, and that's created a much more competitive environment. in the mid-term.
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>> and getting to that mid-term period now where a lot of people will be making decisions on this a little bit more than six weeks away. let's take a look at the polls. a lot of the polling intentions surprise me basically because it is a split decision. republican candidates 47%, congres congressionally, democratic candidates are favored by 46%. how important is the ground game going to be given the fact we're basically evenly split? >> first, it tells us that the lines in division in american life and american politics and reelly deeply engraved. i mean, we see an election in which the basic contours of the two party support look very much like what we have seep in 2016, 2018, and 2020 with relatively small changes around the edges, probably fewer changes than you
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would have expected with the biggest inflation in 40 years. republicans are still favored to win the house. they only need to win four or five seats, and the republican party has lost seats in all but four mid-term elections since the civil war. kevin mccarthy was talking about a 50 seat gain, now people think there may be a single digit republican gain. and the democrats chances of holding the senate look better than 50-50. >> a few more interesting poll numbers here. there was a survey that found 60% of democrats said they'd like the democratic party to nominate someone other than biden. ron, i'm going to put you on the spot. do you think joe biden will run? >> if he thinks donald trump is running, he is going to run, i believe, yes, flat out. i don't see any way that he
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steps aside if his health allows, if he believes trump is going to run because i think he believes it is his final mission after a half century in american politics to prevent donald trump from becoming president because he like many americans probably like a majority of americans at this point believe trump and his movement is a threat to democracy as we have known it in the u.s. so whatever the polls say in terms of the enthusiasm, and there's a palpable desire in the democratic coalition for a generational transition. biden himself talked about that. as you remember in march 2010 in the final event before everything shutdown in the world he said he was going to be in michigan. he said he was going to be a bridge to the next generation of democratic leaders. but if he thinks trump is going back for it, he's boack as well. >> republicans and republican leaning inindependents, 46% say the party should nominate someone other than trump. but as you see there 47% actually still want him. what does that tell you about
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what people are calling, still, trump's party? >> i think it is trump's party based on everything we've seen in the primaries this summer when his candidates have consistently beaten candidates promoted by more centrist or establishment republicans. and what that tells me is this is incredibly like what we saw in 2016 when he won the nomination. you know, donald trump did not reach 50% of the vote in any primary in 2016 until he got to his home state of new york in late april. but by that point he had already run away from the field and was the presumptive nominee even though his total share of the vote was lower than that poll. it was 40% by april when he essentially clenched the nomination. and the reason is the republican rules are much more oriented in the primaries to the winner take all processes that gives a real advantage to whoever who has the biggest chunk and of all the signs of vulnerability that poll showed, it also underscored that
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trump has the biggest piece. 47% would make him, you know, impregnable as the nominee. >> ron, thanks so much. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. in italy, meantime, exit polls indicate voters have just elected the country's most right-wing government. the coalition are on track for victy as the official results are still awaited. she'll likely become the country's first female prime minister, and despite her political leanings she told supporters she is ready to unite the country. >> translator: it's important to understand that if we will be called to lead this country we will do that for all. we will do that for all italians. we will do that with the aim to unify this people. to underline what unifies it rather than what defines it.
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>> it's been fascinating to watch quite a roller coaster, and it is still going on right there, counting votes trying to figure out what, you know, this coalition will look like. can you explain to us at this moment in time the appeal of ms. meloni to those italian voters right now? >> well, it is very interesting indeed. she was able to create her own political career without having help, no quota, no opportunity in politics. and this for her is a sign of strength without network. the second thing very attractive for italian women is the fact she can rule over men. she has all around her the members of her party, people of
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the government. they're all men and she is the one like a queen. so there is this identification with power and with the reaction against a tradition male oriented. >> as we said the votes still have to be counted. they have to come up with a coalition government. this could take a very long time and be incredibly messy, but if we look at that far-right coalition as it existed the day of the vote, they certainly have positions even further to the right of ms. meloni, and could she make the argument that the more votes she has gotten in terms of expectations, that if she is in command of a stronger position she can be more centrist, she will be more moderate? is that something the eu believe from her? >> if she tries to make this claim the fact is that she's so
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superior to allies three times more than them that they can be very, you know -- very concerned about her power. so i think that this coalition precisely because her party is so strong, the coalition may be weak. and this may influence -- may push her to be more centrist and less radical. she's not as radical or as far right because she cannot use this space to do what she wants. there is no room for that, so she cannot really do what she wants in any case. but particularly now the perspective is not a strong government and perhaps a difficult government to be -- to
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be put together in my view. >> and how does this work in terms of the complexion of governments across europe? we've certainly seen the tilt right now in italy, but we've had it in hungary for a while. we're beginning to see that in sweden as well. when we think about europe and italy's place in it, do you think there'll be more pressure to hold more right and center opinions and more radical policy positions maybe on ukraine? already come out as if trying to excuse putin's behavior? >> yeah, this was already there before this election. the position toward putin in italy is very complex. it's not black and white both in the left and in the right. but there is a kind of conservative wind in europe because of the crisis of energy,
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which means more economic problems. so this in some sense it's in decline. now the sense is that the states -- nation states they want to have more power. they want to have more ability to make decisions, and they want to have europe helping them in their autonomy, in their sovereignty as they say. i suspect this is not an italian issue but is going to be in the future, months or years, a -- of the entire continent. >> professor, thank you so much. really appreciate it. >> thank you. demonstrators gathered in paris sunday to stand in solidarity with iranians
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anti-government protests continued in iran sunday despite a security crack down, arrests and infinite disruptions. now what started as demonstrations over the death of 22-year-old mahsa amini in police custody now include protests against the regime itself. dozens have been killed, but cnn has been unable to verify exact
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numbers. people around the world meantime are showing their outrage over amini's death. rallies were held sunday in paris and londonch but there were also demonstrations sunday in tehran and other cities in support of the iranian government and condemning the recent unrest. cnn spoke earlier about the situation in iran with a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for national peace. >> i think this is a reminder that the islamic republic of iran is incapable of reforming, and it's incapable of changing its ideology. there's really three ideological pitters left of this revolution. death to america, death to israel and the mandatory hijab for women, compulsory. and the hijab is really the flag of the islamic republic, symbol of islamic piety, and it's
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really the weakest of these three pillars because not even iran's anti-imperial allies in moscow, pyeongyang or caracas are going to support the idea that women should be beaten for showing too much hair. >> meantime secretary of state antony blinken isn't optimistic about a return to the iran nuclear deal. during an interview with "60 minutes," blinken said he didn't see any way that the parties could come to the table in the near future, and he's blaming the problem on new demands from the iranians. >> iran has continued to try to add extraneous issues to the negotiation that we're simply not going to say yes to. we will not accept a bad deal. the response they've given to the last proposals put forward by our european partners have been a very significant step backwards, and so i don't see any prospects in the very near-term to bring this to a conclusion. >> so the u.s. withdrew from the previous agreement in 2018 under
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then president donald trump. the biden administration has been pursuing efforts to try and resuscitate the deal for months. japan is preparing to say good-bye to assassinated former prime minister shinzo abe. but some people in the country say he shouldn't have a state funeral. a live report from tokyo next.
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just moments ago u.s. vice president kamala harris arrive in tokyo to attend the state funeral of former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. leaders from around the world will be attending the ceremony tuesday. abe you'll remember was assassinated during a campaign speech in july, but some in japan do not believe he should be getting a state funeral. cnn's blake esk joins us from tokyo. it's been shocking to see such an act of political violence and now a state funeral has galvanized no many against the
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government. tell us more. >> paula, when it comes to the celebration for a man who was equally revered and criticized here in japan, i can tell you that for many different reasons including the cost, abe's connection to it controversial unification church, and the decision making process behind holding tomorrow's state funeral, that this remains a very divided nation. that being said about 4,300 people are expected to attend the event including roughly 700 foreign dignitaries, among them several heads of state and as you mentioned that includes u.s. vice president kamala harris who arrived in tokyo just within the last hour. now, while the government says tomorrow's state funeral is meant to honor japan's longest serving prime minister, simply hosting tomorrow's event has instead created controversy. across japan, the feeling of shock, sadness and disbelief continues it be felt nearly two months after former prime
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minister shinzo abe was gunned down on the street while delivering a campaign speech. in the days that followed japan said its final good-bye to its longest serving prime minister. but as messages of condolence came pouring in from around the world, the current prime minister fumio cusheeda, made the decision to further honor his diplomatic legacy by holding a state funeral. >> translator: by conducting the state funeral we are mourning former prime minister abe and showing our country's determination to resolutely defend democracy and not give in to violence. >> reporter: that decision that opposition lawmakers say was made without consulting japan's parliament is expected to cost taxpayers more than 1.6 billion yen or nearly 12 million u.s. dollars. >> translator: prime minister kishida made this decision by himself. he didn't make a proper effort
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to reach a consensus that involved the parties and opposition parties. >> reporter: as a result public opinion against holding a state funeral continues to mount. in fact, according to the latest poll a slight majority of the public stands in opposition. while recently one man reportedly told police he was so against the event he set himself on fire outside of prime minister kishida's residence. gathers like this one protesting former prime minister's shinzo abe's upcoming state funeral. although the specific reason for each person here varies, the underlying message remains the same. >> translator: i'm against the idea of holding a state funeral for anyone. >> translator: many people can't even eat right now. instead of spending billions of yen on this funeral, they can help the lives of many people.
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it's outrageous they chose to use it on something like this. >> reporter: while many people including thousands gathered here at this event don't think it should happen, others say a state funeral is appropriate to honor abe's legacy. >> translator: i support the state funeral. abe was an international statesman who attracted more people to japan. >> translator: his legacy is reflected in the way he raised japan's global profile, having been able to implement a new security law while facing hung opposition and how that law has now become essential for maintaining peace and security. i think his past achievements for japan makes a state funeral appropriate for him. >> reporter: despite the public backlash, appropriate or not, a state funeral for abe will take place. a polarizing figure in life and even in death as deep divisions about his leadership haven't disappeared. in less than 24 hours when the state funeral is held a divided nation will once again be on
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display with areas setup for mourners to gather and lay flowers while at the same time, paula, multiple protests will be held. >> yeah, extraordinary given the event and the fact so many dignitaries are coming from all over the world. and as you pointed out still a slight majority are against this state funeral. thank you so much for that. appreciate it. and i want to thank you for joining us. for international viewers "world sport" is up next. for everyone else don't go anywhere. i'll be back with more news. t t. apple business essentials with apple care+ is incncluded so you can easily manage your team's devices, here, and here. all on the network with more 5g coverage. it's the ultimate business trifecta, with the new iphone 14 pro on us. only from t-mobile for business.
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tropical storm ian is churning in the caribbean and getting stronger as it moves towards western cuba. now, it's forecast to become a hurricane monday and strengthen further on tuesday. and a tropical storm warning is being issued for the florida keys as ian is expected to impact that area. cnn's carlos suarez has more now from tampa. >> reporter: ahead of a possible impact with ian city officials here in tampa opened three distribution sites on sunday, and the line at each location
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was quite busy. officials echoed florida governor ron desantis' declaration that folks need to prepare now and not later in the week. at a briefing in tallahassee the governor said that 2,500 members of the florida national guard have been call up, and he no noted the entire state of florida is under emergency declaration. you need to have your hurricane supplies now. >> this really is important to stress the degree of uncertainty that still exists, and so anybody from tampa bay all the way to ascam bia county, there are different tracks to those places. and even though you're not necessarily in the eye of the storm there's going to be pretty broad impacts throughout it state. you're going to have wind, water. there could be flooding on the east coast of florida as a result of this. it's a big storm. >> reporter: city and county officials here have left open the possibility of an
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evacuation. all of this depends on where ian tracks. cnn, tampa, florida. more details now on typhoon noru as it churns through the pacific. now, the storm originally hit the philippines has a super typhoon sunday but was laeft downgraded. it's now making its way toward vietnam leaving a path of destruction in its wake. cnn's michael holmes has our story. >> reporter: a siren wails in manila, a warning sign for these residents it's time to move to higher ground. thousands of people were evacuated across the main island of luzon in the philippines ahead of the powerful storm of noru. evacuation centers quickly filled up, a lesson some people heeded from the past, don't let a storm hit you while you're sleeping. one official says many people live on the riverside, and their homes are made from light
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materials. so when the rains come, they are the first to baffected. noru made landfall in the philippines at full fury, super typhoon status though it's since been downgraded. officials say strong winds combined with heavy rains in low-lying areas in the philippines could be perfect for catastrophic flooding. half a world away parts of the eastern sea board of canada cleaning up from a different devastating storm. this one named fiona, no longer a hurricane but leaving a trail of destruction through nova scotia and other provinces. >> the prediction was for a massive storm, historic storm. fiona definitely left a mark on the province. the damage is pretty heart breaking. >> reporter: the scale of the damage still unfolding, but with the storm sweeping some houses into the sea and flattening others into scraps of wood,
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officials say it'll be a long road to recovery. canadian troops are being deployed to help clear debris to make way for emergency crews to try to restore power to some hard hit areas. further south in the atlantic all eyes are on a system called ian. the national hurricane center predicting it could reach category 4 status in the next few days. michael holmes, cnn. all right, here's a look at the markets. we are waiting to see how the dow opens in the coming hours after a disastrous end of trading on friday. it closed down nearly 500 points. the levels on friday were the dow's worst since november of 2020, stoked by investor fears of inflation and corruptive action by the fed to try and control it. now the economy is going to be crucial in u.s. mid-term elections later this year. in a brand new cbs ugov poll out
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today 50% of voters say they feel their financial being at is stake in the upcoming elections. and some feel that as well. john tester spoke with cnn's jim sciutto about the move to try and reduce inflation. >> inflation is real. everybody's concerned about it. and whether it's the inflation reduction act, which by the way is going to reduce inflation over the long haul, or whether it's the chip act which will bring manufacturing back and chip builds here, we've done a lot of good things. are there more things we could do, jim, absolutely. we could do things to make child care more affordable. we can do some things with a comprehensive immigration package which would help get more workers in, which would help reduce inflation. >> i want you to have a look at the british pound. it keeps losing against the u.s. dollar falling to a record low of just over $1.03.
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you see there it has gained some ground, but before 1.03 was on the board. there are fears in the u.k. sterling believe it or not could slide to parity one-to-one with the u.s. dollar. that's not stopping the tax cut aimed at saving the economy. cnn sat down with liz truss to find out what kind of effect this would have. here's part of their exclusive conversation. >> your government just unveiled a new tax proposal this week that would reverse plans to raise the corporate tax rate. you've also proposed lifting the cap on bonuses for bank executives. in the u.s. president biden is taking a very different approach, and obviously he has a different view on economic measures such as the one you're proposing. he tweeted this week, quote, i am sick and tired of trickle down economics. it has never worked.
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we're building an economy from the bottom up and middle out. so president biden's in essence saying he thinks your approach doesn't work, the opposition in parliament says you're recklessly running up the deficit and turning your back on so-called compassionate conservative. >> i don't really accept the premise of the question at all. the u.k. has one of the lowest levels of debt in the g7, but we have one of the highest level of of taxes. currently we have a 70-year high in our tax rates. what i'm determined to do as prime minister and what the chancellor is determined to do is make sure we're incentivizing businesses to invest, and we're also helping ordinary people with their taxes. and that's why i don't feel it's right to have higher national insurance and higher corporation tax, because that would make it harder for us to attract the investment we need in the u.k.
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it would be harder to generate those new jobs. and i want the u.s. economy to be successful as well. i want the european economy to be successful as well. i want freedom loving democracies to succeed. one of the things we're doing here in the u.k. is moving forward on our infrastructure programs, road building, broadband, mobile telephone. so i know that is what the administration in the u.s. is doing as well. but, of course, we all need to decide what the tax rates are in our own country. but my view is we absolutely need to be incentivizing growth. at what is a very, very difficult time for the global economy. we've also put in place a package of measures to support consumers with energy prices, to make sure that nobody is something to pay more than 2,500 pounds on their bills, which is very important as well. >> here in the u.s. conservative
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lawmaker liz cheney is drawing a line in the sand if republicans nominate donald trump for president again. she says she will leave the party and campaign for rival democrats. cnn's diana diaz has more from washington. >> reporter: in a wide ranging interview sunday night congresswoman liz cheney dodging questions about whether she plans to run for president in 2024, and most notably saying that she would leave the republican party should donald trump receive the republican nomination in 2024. take a listen to what she said. >> i'm going to do everything i can to make sure carrie lake is not elected. >> so -- does that include campaigning for democrats if that's what it takes? >> yes. >> it does, okay. >> incredibly strong comments coming from cheney who was once seen as a rising star of the
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republican party. she was the gop conference chair in the house, of course the daughter of former vice president dick cheney and a conservative. now she's been shunned by her party because of her comments on donald trump saying that the election was stolen from him, calling out those lies repeatedly and joining the january 6th house select fit committee to investigate what happened during that capitol riot. she also said that she would campaign with democrats if it would mean stopping candidates who continue to push donald trump's lies about the election, specifically mentioning arizona gubernatorial candidate carrie lake, who is of course backed by trump. she's that former television journalist who's become a leading voice behind trump's lies about election fraud. when asked whether that would mean stopping carrie lake in that election campaigning with democrats, congresswoman liz cheney said yes. but she would not go as far
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saturday night in that interview saying she wants democrats to keep control of the house. she said she believes there's still a lot of, quote, bad policies in the biden administration. but she added she wants voters when they turn out for the election in the 2022 mid-terms to be aware who they're voting for and whether the candidate they're supporting is also pushing those lies that the election was stolen from former president donald trump, calling out those candidates and saying not to support them. daniella diaz, cnn, washington. >> now before we ego the performer at the 2023 super halftime show will be -- ♪ >> rihanna confirmed the nfl's announcement with this simple tweet showing her holding a
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