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good morning, everyone, inn bianna golodryga. happening right now, west coast swing. this hour president biden departs the white house kicking off a multistate blitz just 27 days from the midterms. in focus this morning the president's exclusive cnn interview with jake tapper where he sounded off on a number of critical global challenges facing the united states and his administration today, including of course the war in ukraine. president biden calling vladimir putin a rational actor, while saying the russian president totally miscalculated his invasion. warning putin's mistakes could end in nuclear armageddon. our reporters, correspondents and guests are standing by to bring you the very latest. let's begin in morning with cnn white house correspondent mj lee. the president's interview with jake covered topics from russia to the economy to even questions surrounding his son hunter. walk us through what he said last night. >> reporter: you're right that this was a very wide ranging

conversation that the president had here in the white house with jake last night on everything ranging from, as you said, the economy to issues about his son hunter and even his 2024 plans, but some of the most striking comments that we heard from the president in this interview had to do with his assessment of the situation in ukraine and specifically we saw the president sort of get into vladimir putin's mind. you know, as we have been covering this war since the invasion began earlier this year in february, one of the key questions that we have seen this white house grapple with is the question of whether vladimir putin is a rational actor. you know, is there rhyme or reason, any sort of logic or predictability to his behavior, to his actions, and of course these questions have become more urgent recently as we have seen putin engage in more nuclear saber-rattling and as we have seen the fresh attacks in the last 72 hours or so across ukraine. last night jake posed that question directly to the

president. take a listen. >> i think he is a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly. i think he thought he was going to be welcome with opened arms, that this has been the home of mother russia and kyiv and he was going to be welcomed. i think he totally miscalculated it. he, in fact, cannot continue with impunity to talk about the use of a tactical nuclear weapon as if that's a rational thing to do. the mistakes get made and the miscalculation could occur, no one can be sure what would happen and it could end in armageddon. >> reporter: the president was also asked how the u.s. might respond if putin were to use any nuclear weapons. the president saying that of course those discussions have happened in his administration, but that also he thinks it would be irresponsible for him to engage in sharing sort of what exactly the u.s. may or may not do. bianna, as you mentioned, in just a little bit we are going

to see the president depart for the west coast for some work, california, oregon, colorado, but the interview last night is a reminder as he works to focus on these domestic issues these foreign events, these things that are happening abroad, still taking up so much space in this presidency, bianna. >> foreign policy definitely a top priority. mj lee, thank you. a new cnn poll out this morning shows just how critical of a challenge the economy is for president biden. 78% of americans rating economic conditions as poor, however, a silver lining, 40% believe the economic conditions will improve and be good in one year. president biden shared that optimism overnight, striking down the prediction from jpmorgan's ceo that a recession was likely in the next nine months. >> every six months they look down the next six months and see what's going to happen. it hadn't happened yet. there is no -- there is no guarantee that there is -- i don't think there will be a recession. if it is it will be a very

slight recession. >> cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins me now. christine, he has a point, that over the past year and a half we have had economists, we've had bank ceos warning of a recession on the horizon, six months from now, a year from now. that hasn't come to fruition, but at some point recessions are part of economic challenges that we've seen throughout time. what is the current situation look like, i guess? >> well, to be honest, and you're absolutely right, no one knows when the next recession is coming, what it will look like or how long it will last. that's just impossible to know, which is why we look at each one of these economic numbers that the fed is scrutinizing for any kinds of clues that could give us any insight. today we learned that factory-level inflation, the producer price index was 8.5% year over year. that's a number that's still too hot. it's down from 8.7% the month before. this is why the fed is raising interest rates. you look to the right of your

screen the month over month from august to september prices rose hotter than expected 0.4%. so showing that the fed still has work to do. so month over month i'm going to show you this bar chart we got a little excited because it felt as though the worst might be behind us but this pick up in month over month inflation is something everyone will be closely watching even as overall inflation, producer price inflation looks like it's it could be peaking. these are the numbers that come before consumer prices. the prices paid at the factory, those are wholesale level, those feed into what you pay at the grocery store and at the shopping mall. so we will be watching for those numbers tomorrow. but i think bottom line here we don't know when, if or how bad a recession will be, there have been a lot of predictions. in the meantime we just look at this data to see if the fed's work, its rate hikes, are beginning to slow the inflation make tour and at least on the producer level it doesn't look like it's had a meaningful impact just yet. >> and the fed has warned more hikes are still to come down the road.

christine romans, thank you. >> you're welcome. this morning russian president vladimir putin is speaking out at an energy forum. cnn correspondent salma abdelaziz is following all of this. putin did not respond to biden's comments last night to jake tapper but he is blaming the u.s. for rising energy costs and even suggesting that the west was to blame for the sabotaging of the nord stream pipelines recently. >> yes, bianna, this is a worrying aspect of the conflict. the weaponization of energy sources, if you will, by moscow, something that was on full display just a couple of hours ago when president putin was making this speech where he was essentially taunting european leaders saying it's up to you to turn the taps on, the ball is in your court. the eu before this conflict, bianna, was heavily dependent on gas imports from russia, over 40% of gas imports, over 40% came from russia into the eu, that's before the war started. of course, european leaders since the start of the invasion they've been trying to wean off of russian oil and gas, but

president putin took the first step in september by cutting off the nord stream pipeline. that all important supply route that brings most of that natural gas into europe. he cut that off in early september and then a few weeks later these very mysterious explosions under water struck at the heart of these pipelines, making them inoperable, cutting off that supply route to europe for the foreseeable future. president putin today trying to turn those accusations on their head, instead saying that it's the united states that stands to gain from this deliberate act of sabotage. european leaders agree it's a deliberate act of sabotage and they are investigating t they haven't pointed the finger at russia directly but that's the subtext here, moscow is suspected of turning this off. this is really important, bianna, because what this allows president putin to do, this card, this oil and gas card that he holds is it allows him to inflict consequences on europe for supporting ukraine,

particularly as they head into the wintertime. you're seeing a president putin taunting european leaders and trying to break their resolve, bianna. >> he has been weaponizing energy throughout this conflict. salma, thank you. part of that global economic puzzle the impact of energy prices. opec and its allies now defending their decision to slash oil production in partnership with russia. they argue it's in preparation for a potential economic downturn that would hurt energy demand. senior democratic senator richard blumenthal isn't buying it. he says saudi arabia has not only thumbed its knows, it has given us a gut punch. president biden now vowing the country will be punished. >> do you think it's time for the u.s. to rethink its relationship with saudi arabia? >> yes. and, by the way, let's get straight why i went. i didn't go about oil, i went about making sure that we made sure that we weren't going to walk away from the middle east. we should, and i am in the process when the -- this house and senate gets back, they're

going to have to -- there's going to be some consequences for what they've done with russia. >> joining me now to discuss axios white house reporter elena train. good to see you this morning. i guess the big question is what are those consequences going to be? we hear from lawmakers from both sides of the aisle that something needs to be done in response, i guess what will that look like? >> yeah, well, bianna, you know, his comments match the growing anger on capitol hill, especially from democrats who have been calling for a number of things, and biden did not specify in his interview with jake last night that what those consequences would be, but a lot of people on capitol hill are weighing in. we heard from the chairman of the foreign relations committee, senator bob menendez, he called for a freeze on all arm sales to saudi arabia, very powerful coming from the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. we also have seen dick blumenthal and ro khanna come

out with a bill trying to push a freeze in all sales for the next year to saudi arabia, all arm seals for saudi arabia. and then also i think there's been legislation floating around for some time now called nopac which would also alter the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia and a lot of lawmakers as well on board with that. so i think it's really going to depend on what biden and the administration wants. they have not laid out a timeline for when he will make a decision. i know that the press secretary karine jean-pierre said they're looking through what the consequences could be but i think it will take a lot of back and forth conversation between those on capitol hill and the white house and right now a lot of members are not in session, this he don't come back until after the midterm elections and so several weeks until we really see some real substantial action play out on capitol hill. >> this has been a relationship that goes back, a strategic relationship between these two countries that goes back some 80

years, 70,000 americans live in saudi arabia, we have about 3,000 troops stationed there. i know from your reporting you're hearing from a lot of democrats who are suggesting that this was a personal decision to inflict harm and pain on democrats here as the midterms are approaching. we've seen oil prices up 13% now in just the last few weeks. this would appear to be democrats' worst nightmare as they're going into the midterms. >> oh, it definitely is. i mean, gas prices is a huge issue that's going to be driving a lot of voters to the polls in november and of course massive concern for democrats and president biden. and, yeah, i mean, privately and i know we reported this and i've heard this from lawmakers myself from democrats, they think that this might be a direct attack from the saudis to interfere in the midterm elections on behalf of republicans and against democrats and really to shake up

the field just weeks before the midterms. but it's hard. the white house is not coming out and saying that just yet, but they are very frustrated. they've had top officials from the biden white house were just in saudi arabia just over, you know, two weeks ago to see if they could -- not just for oil, for other reasons, but definitely to see if they could continue to stabilize relations with the saudis when it comes to oil and potential oil cuts, and they've been very frustrated. they felt like they had to really go into overtime and try to turn this around and they failed to do that. so i think a lot of people are very frustrated with this and definitely concerned about the impact on the elections, particularly as inflation is on the rise. you saw those comments from president biden himself saying he doesn't think there will be a recession but if there is it will be a slight recession. that's not something encouraging a lot of democrats. >> the white house and president still standing by that decide to

go to riyadh in july to meet with mbs. thank you. >> thank you. still to come, another cnn exclusive, republican leader mitch mcconnell has no doubt that he can stay in power in the party. more on his outlook for republicans heading into the midterms, including georgia senate candidate herschel walker. plus nato secretary general calls russia's actions this week in ukraine the most serious escalation since the invasion began. just how long can russia maintain the barrage? and this hour in florida, jurors are expected to begin deliberations over the sentencing for the parkland school shooter. prosecutors want the death penalty. we will bring you the very latest up next. what will you do? ♪ what will you change? ♪ will youou make something better? ♪ wiwill you create something entirely new? ♪ our dell technologies advisors provide you with the tools and expertise you need to do incredible things.

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telling cnn he will become the longest serving leader ever and he has a plan to do it no matter what happens in the midterms

next month. i want to bring in cnn's manu raju who spoke with leader mcconnell. why is mcconnell so confident that he can have the record for leadership here? >> this will be the longest serving party leader in american history from either party. he will eclipse that next year assuming he has the votes and he told me, quote, i have the votes. behind the scenes he has been moving to lock down enough support from his own conference to ensure that he will get that top leadership position. so despite what donald trump has been saying along the campaign trail to try to push out mitch mcconnell as leader, that is not resonating within the senate republican conference. there is still some questions about mcconnell's future in the long term. he would not commit to staying as leader beyond the next two years. he said that i'm not going to go there when i asked him if he would stay as leader until his current senate term expires, which is in january 2027. he did rule out the possibility of potentially resigning the senate seat before his term expires, he said there is no question i'm going to serve out

my current senate term. that will put some of that speculation to rest. he said he had not made a decision about whether to run for reelection himself when his term ultimately expires. behind the scenes there is jostling and positioning but mcconnell making clear he is not going anywhere at least for the next two years. >> he's confident about his position as party leader, but how does he feel about the challenges for the party overall with just a month to go before the midterms? >> reporter: he said it's still uncertain whether or not this election environment will resemble the republican dee boxless on the senate side from 2010 and 2012 when flawed republican candidates emerged in the general election and could not win key races ultimately costing republicans a serious shot at the majority. i asked him about his concerns, he said that it's still uncertain whether or not these flaws from these candidates would be fatal or whether or not they will be able to push this through. one of the questions of course has been about herschel walker, he has had a number of problems

on the campaign trail, of course, most recently about an allegation that he paid for a girlfriend's abortion 13 years ago which he has denied. he told me that they are going to stick with herschel walker, he said i think we're going to stick with walker and all the effort we put in. i talk to him fairly often, i think they will hang in there and scrap to the finish. this is his first response to whether or not he had any concerns about balk walk, under kagts they plan to continue the serious investment with the senate leadership fund which has already spent through the election cycle roughly $60 million on tv ads to try to bolster walker. he told me about the reason why he has been going so aggressively to try to raise money on his campaign with his super pac is because of the weak fundraising of a number of these republican candidates. he said many of these general election campaigns have been woefully underfunded. not because of the nrsc that's the republican senatorial committee but because of the cand candidates' campaigns themselves. he said sfl has carried the

lion's share of the load. he is putting enormous investment trying to prop up these campaigns and all of these key states but he's still uncertain where weather his party will get there to pick up that one net seat next month. >> not necessarily a ringing endorsement of herschel walker there. it's rare we hear from mitch mcconnell, clearly he had something to say and said it to you. very interesting conversation about. manu raju, thank you. well, the justice department urged the supreme court on tuesday to reject former president donald trump's request that it intervene in the dispute over classified documents seized from trump's mar-a-lago estate last summer calling the records extraordinarily sensitive, the justice department said the supreme court should let stand a federal appeals court order that blocked the special master's access over those records while legal challenges play out. the doj writes, quote, as this court has emphasized, courts should be cautious before insisting upon an examination of records whose disclosure would jeopardize national security, even by the judge alone in

chambers. joining me now to discuss a well bert toe gonzales, former u.s. attorney general under president george w. bush. alberto, welcome to the program. so let's start with that previous case that the doj cited saying that courts should be cautious before insisting upon an examination of records whoses disclosure would jeopardize national security even by a judge alone in chambers. is that an argument that you think that this court would likely find compelling? >> i do. i think, you know, the special master was hired to determine whether privilege -- any kind of privilege claim might apply to some of the documents that are at question here and the department made the argument before the 11th circuit that with respect to classified documents, highly unlikely that any of those would be subject to attorney/client privilege or subject to executive privilege, and the 11th circuit agreed. you know, obviously the supreme court, justice thomas because he is the presiding judge over the 11th circuit will make the

decision whether or not he wants to make the call himself, that he will agree or disagree with the department, or he will refer it to the entire court. typically on a high-profile case like this it would be referred to the entire court, but we will see what happens. and of course the department is going to be waiting, as is judge thomas -- justice thomas -- on some kind of response from former president trump's team. i think that from my viewpoint the department has a better argument here and, you know, i think the department feels pretty good about its chances at the supreme court. >> but you're saying there is at least a chance that the justice thomas himself could decide this case? because i thought it would take up to five justices to respond to the president's -- the former president's request. >> no, on this -- on this kind of request to the court it typically comes up first to the justice who is assigned to the circuit, in in particular case

it is justice thomas. he could make this decision on his own, that often happens on routine matters like this. this is not a routine matter, however, and for that reason i think it's highly likely that he's going to refer to the entire court for the court to make a decision as to whether or not the desire or the objectives of the department of justice should be granted. >> delving further into the doj's response they're calling the roughly 100 documents with classified markings extraordinarily sensitive and argued that trump has not even attempted to explain how he is rep ra blee injured by the court of appeals partial stay which simply prevents disclosure of the documents bearing classification markings and the special master review during the pendency of the government's expedited appeal. what do you make of that argument. are they right of on that point? >> i think i really do believe that they're right on this particular point.

these documents, quite frankly, that the president has -- former president has no possessory interest in these documents by law as soon as the administration is over documents belong to the american people and the u.s. government under the custody of archivist of the united states of america. the notion that attorney/client privilege would apply with respect to some of these -- with these documents makes no sense. and executive privilege only applies with respect to communication -- if communications are sought by another branch of government, then executive privilege might apply to keep that other branch of government from gaining access to that communication, but in this particular case we are talking about communications involving the president of the united states, head of the executive branch, former head of the executive branch and the department of justice, also within the executive branch and, therefore, executive -- would not apply. so, again, i believe the department has a stronger argument in this particular case. >> we could hear from the

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defense secretary lloyd austin is vowing to support ukraine for the months and even years to come following a meeting with the ukraine defense contract group in brussels this morning. this after at least seven people were killed and several others injured as russia launched a third day of heavy strikes across ukraine overnight. joining me now is cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling, he previously served as general of the u.s. army europe and seventh army in europe. always great to see you, especially on this topic. let's talk about what we've seen launched by russia over the past few days, it's the largest barrage we've seen and attack into the heartland of ukraine since the start of this war. i'm just curious how long in your opinion this barrage -- this scale at least -- can continue. we had admiral kirby on our air say yesterday that the u.s. believes that russia's stockpile at least of precision guided missiles is running short. what do you make of that? >> i agree with admiral kirby,

bianna. good morning to you. it's good to see you. one of the things that i think is interesting is that one-day strike with 84 missiles and about 24 drones was the most that russia has produced in a long time. that was on monday. on tuesday that was drastically reduced. in addition to that ukraine had been able to shoot down, they claim, about half of those cruise missiles and other type of missiles that were coming into their area of operation. but the interesting factor about this is this was a scatter shot and it's more of the same from russia. they launched rockets and missiles at all parts of the ukrainian territory and truthfully i think that the combination of sanctions, the failure in their weapon systems, intelligence indicates about 60% of russian missile systems had failed in either launch or in guidance, and the attempt at trying to ramp this up for one or two days is just going to hurt them more than help them,

and none of those rockets and missiles were geared against military targets. so it's just, again, more of the same from russia. mr. putin is a one-trick pony trying to intimidate the civilians of ukraine. >> with fewer precision-guided missiles and more dumb bombs as they are called back from the soviet days you could see more civilians being targeted if this barrage does continue. kudos, we have to say, to the ukrainians for at least inter accepting half of them or nearly half of them, but you know president zelenskyy's ask and plea, all of this time, was for more air defense systems, more sophisticated air defense systems because though he's having to protect both civilians in major cities and those forces on the battlefield. what can the u.s. do more that it's not doing right now in your view? >> well, we are certainly -- the u.s. and nato forces are certainly supplying ukraine with a lot more air defense systems,

but, bianna, you know, president zelenskyy -- and i'm a huge supporter of the man and great supporter of ukraine, as you know, but his use of the term shield, missile shield yesterday, was really unfortunate. there is no country in the world that can provide a missile shield against incoming rounds like that, and it's an understanding of how air defense works. they are static, they are stable, they are on a certain point of the battlefield and they protect specific systems. what you saw in the shot earlier, and you see this on your map, the missiles went everywhere throughout ukraine. a country that is the size of the state of texas. in order to defend against all of those incoming missiles which, by the way, are coming from various directions and various types of launch systems, air, sea and ground, it's very difficult to get in a position and have high technology systems provide a shield. you just can't do it. it's impossible to do, even

advanced nations really protect certain things with their air defense systems. >> and we are in the u.s. has promised and pledged to provide two more systems over the next month and perhaps six into next year. germany pledged to provide three next year. is there anything, though, that can be done? are you concerned at all about the timing that there is a delay if for no other reason than production issues in getting them all of this sophisticated equipment that they need? >> well, it's a combination of production issues, some of those things were not in the pipelines, most of them are very difficult to make because they are precision-made weapons. they are technologically advanced. while ukraine is a very good army, it takes a lot of training to learn how to use these very advanced air defense systems. they are much more comfortable using the old soviet s-300, s-400s if some of those nato nations formerly part of the soviet bloc could give it to

them. you're showing an a himars system, it does attack ground splieds, the so-called ammo dumps that russia has been establishing. ukraine has been brilliant in using that himars systems to do that. but what really you're looking for an air defense systems are like the s-300, s-400s, the nasams which president biden said yesterday we are giving to ukraine, the irish ts that other countries are giving to ukraine, those can be incorporated very quickly but those are also short to mid-range rocket systems, they are not the long-range rocket systems that are even more advanced, more difficult to use, more difficult to train upon. >> and those nasams at least two should be arriving in the next few weeks from the united states. lieutenant general mark hertling, thank you as always. we appreciate your time. >> always a pleasure, bianna. thank you. the biden administration is now weighing a new plan to

better manage the flow of venezuelan migrants into the united states that mirrors a program actually implemented for ukrainians fleeing to the u.s. earlier this year. sources telling cnn that the idea is to encourage venezuelans to enter the u.s. at ports of entry rather than trying to cross the southern border illegally. cnn's priscilla alvarez joins me now from washington. priscilla, what more are you learning about this plan? >> bianna, ultimately the idea here is to reduce the number of unlawful crossings, especially venezuelans where there is florida has been annen flux of them. sources tell me this plan under consideration would have venezuelans apply to come to the u.s., they have to show they have a preexisting tie here as well as meet other criteria, and then they would be able to fly into the u.s. and en true through, say, a u.s. port of entry like an airport. now, this is very similar to what the administration did for ukrainians fleeing war torn ukraine. they also were able to apply and come -- and fly into the united

states to live and work legally for a temporary period, but this is all especially urgent because there are more than 6 million venezuelans who have fled the country because of deteriorating conditions there. they are moving about south america and many have come to the u.s./mexico border as conditions in south america have been deteriorated because of the pandemic. to give you a point of comparison, this past august 55,333 venezuelans, cubans and nick rag wans crossed the u.s./mexico border that's up 175% from august of 2021. it is a shift in demographics that the administration is dealing with here and the other part of this plan that we should note is that mexico seems willing to take venezuelans under title 42, an authority that allows officials to turn migrants away. again, we're waiting for details to be finalized. bianna. >> and you will be following those details for us. priscilla alvarez, thank you.

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a new interview revealed pennsylvania senate candidate john fetterman uses closed captioning to understand people in conversations. he suffered a stroke in may, which left him with lingers symptoms. the company insists the auditor issues are part of the recovery process and will improve with time. >> as limited assist i have captioning, i'm able to understand exactly what's being asked. even after the stroke, immediately after that, i was able to read everything. i have been lost any memories, it's just lingering issue i have. i feel like we have been veg transparent when our doctors have already given a letter

saying i'm able to serve and run. >> and respectfully, that letter from your physician, that was six months ago. don't voters deserve to know your status now? >> being in front of thousands and thousands of people, having interviews, getting around all across pennsylvania, that gives everybody and the voters to decide if they think that's really the issue. >> i want to bring in chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta to discuss. it was something to see that camera behind fetterman when you could seed clouds captioning that he was reading. what are your perceptions? >> it's interesting, when we talk about speech, we typically talk about your ability to express yourself, but also to receive speech, reception of speech. listening to him, he sounded like he was fairly fluent in hi speech, able to speak clearly. every now and then he would is a

a work mashup as he calls it. the stroke, which was on may 13th, so about five months ago, seemed to affect his ability to sort of comprehend or understand spoken speech, so what he seems to be doing, then, is sort of relying on his visual part of his brain, which is back here, to read the words. then he's responding pretty quickly. we don't -- as you heard there, we don't know what his medical records show. we don't know how much this affected him immediately after the stroke, and what his recovery has looked like so far, but that's what we're seeing here. that's not that unusual some someone who has had a stroke that affects that part of the brain. as he intimated as well. you can have recovery. recovery can go for some time, but 6 months, 18 months, whatever the time period may be, people may continue to have

improvements. >> it's the five months from his stroke. obviously you're not his physician or know him personally, but does he appear to be on a path to recovery? what does recovery look like? >> we don't know sort of what he was immediate immediately after the stroke. it sounds like it was a pretty serious event, meaning there was a blockage of blood flow to some of the blood vessels to his brain. that blackage had to be removed through a procedure five months ago. serious stroke, but yes, recovery is still possible. there's a scale called the modified ranken scale that gives you where people are. in his speech, where between a 2 and 3 on that scale, but, again,

the idea is people who are recovering six months, you know, which would sort of be another month from now, roughly, you should start to see a significant amount of recovery and it can continue that recovery for around 18 months. again, it's hard to say because we're at a disadvantage, knowing the trajectory of his recovery overall, but the quicker someone recovers, the better their overall outcome will be. so serious event, it sounds like, but yeah, significant recover is possible. >> he is recovering over the course of the past few months. dr. gupta, thank you .

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