top of the hour here on "cnn newsroom." >> the countdown continues to the midterms. 22 days left until election day determining who will control congress, and a new poll from "the new york times" shows that republicans have a slight edge here. 49% of likely voters say that they plan to back the republican candidate for their house district compared to 45% for democrats. now this poll also found it combined 44% of likely voters are most worried about the economy or inflation. now today, early voting begins in the battleground of georgia. >> and the race for senate there, one of the tightest in the nation, democratic incumbent raphael warnock casting his ballot you see there. there's also a new twist there in the drama engulfing his republican rival herschel walker

who's been denying allegations he paid for an abortion for his ex-girlfriend years ago. well, today walker confirmed the check in question was, in fact, his, but then doubled down the denials in terms of what it was for. there in georgia, give us the details. what more is walker now saying about this check? >> reporter: well, walker is still denying the core allegations here for paying for this abortion. when he sees the check, he is acknowledging he did, in fact, pay, that this is his handwriting and he did, in fact, issue this check to this woman. take a listen to the exchange. >> this is still a lie because she's the mother of my child. so you're going to say somebody giving a check, it's a lie. >> do you know what this $700 check is for? >> i have no idea what that could be for. >> is that your signature on the check though? >> it could be.

it doesn't matter whether it's my signature or not. yes, that's my check. >> so while there is a lot of tension to walker's many controversies, i want to note that i was outside of a polling location this morning speaking to voters voting there today in georgia. it's the first day of early voting and they weren't really mentioning the latest sort of walker saga. they were talking about other issues, concerned about public safety, abortion access, the proliferation of guns in georgia, frankly. i'm actually a georgia public broadcasting now because another highly anticipated race in this state, the governor's race, governor kemp and stacey abrams going to be debating here tonight. >> all right. we will certainly be watching out for that. let's go to omar now and the ohio senate race. democrat tim ryan is up against j.d. vance who was endorsed by former president trump. what should we be watching there? >> yeah, well, victor and erica, this is the second of two times these two will debate in this

election cycle less than three weeks or just about three weeks to election day. now this first time around, it was pretty contentious. of course, they hit on the major issues of this race like the economy, abortion, law enforcement, and more, but also they talked directly at each other at points. moderators were trying to jump in. at one point tim ryan tried to use j.d. vance kissing up to donald trump against him saying, and i quote, ohio needs an ass-kicker, not an ass kisser, especially when it comes to president trump. here's a little bit more of some of their exchanges. >> this is the crowd that j.d. is running around with. the election deniers, the extremists. he's running with an extreme element here that's very, very dangerous. >> i find it interesting how preoccupied you are with this at a time when people can't afford groceries, people can't afford to walk down the streets safely.

let's focus on the significant issues right now, tim. >> so we'll look for a lot of those same issues to come up. tim ryan also doubling down on his want for president biden not to run for a second term saying he wants to see a generational change on both sides of the political aisle, but as i mentioned, we're about three weeks to election day, and this, tim ryan, and the ohio senate race is one of the eight most competitive senate race where democrats have out-raised republicans from july until september. in this case, tim ryan's over $17 million to j.d. vance's around $7 million b you the interesting part is that national republicans have put a lot of money into this race, much more so than national democrats into tim ryan's side. so from now through election day, j.d. vance will actually out-spend tim ryan by about $11 million to ryan's around $3 million. we'll see if it makes a difference, or if this second debate moves the needle at all.

>> omar jimenez, veeva mckenld. thank you. >> we have a former communications director for ted cruz, and ana navarro. nice to see both of you. if we move -- let's move to georgia to start first. there was so much discussion and a lot of anticipation ahead of the debate on friday night. herschel walker of course, weeks ago setting the bar very low as victor are i minded us with the sound you played on friday about that. i'm wondering, there's so much talk the morning after about how he did. eva just said they're talking about outside the polling places and they're talking about issues. did georgia voters get enough focus on issues do you think? >> listen. part of the question is how many people actually watch the whole debate and how many people form an opinion based on the clips. the clips that i think are making the rounds, the clips that we're all seeing are the ones about the badge which ibrig

a chuck. at least it wasn't the badge from "toy story". he admits this was his check and it's the mother of his child. let us remember that for two weeks he has been, like, the senior shaggy. it wasn't me. it wasn't my check. i don't know who this woman is, and now all of a sudden, that story changes. so the one thing that is confirmed throughout all of this is that herschel walker is a liar. there are people who are okay with that because as long as he is a republican liar and the liar has an "r" behind his name, that's all they need in order to vote for him, but that's been the confirmation that came out of this debate and this more recent interview. >> alice, eva just reported on the check, so i want to move to this bizarre moment with this sheriff's badge during the debate where herschel walker held it up in response to a

challenge from senator warnock saying that at least i never pretended to be a member of law enforcement. here is the exchange with kristen welker this morning on nbc about that badge. >> if anything happened in this county, i have the right to work with the police and get things done. >> does that have arresting authority or is it an honorary badge? >> it's an honorary badge, but they can call me whenever they want and i have the authority to work with them on things. >> an honorary badge is, quote, for the trophy case. why make the decision to flash it at the debate? >> that is totally not true. >> he says he carries it around badge, herschel walker also said that he had military career. he did not. he said that he went to quantico and he was an fbi agent. he was not an fbi agent. why continue to make these claims and do they matter to you? >> look. i speak with friends and family back in my home state of georgia, and they're not

preoccupied with the badge and the latest story concerning the check. they're focused on the issues. i don't think the badge is a great idea. i don't think he should have pulled it out at the debate because it took the focus off of the issues that are important and put it on a gimmick that he's trying to promote, but the goal for the campaign is to put an emphasis on crime and make sure that voters understand that he wants to defend the police and not defund the police as some on the left want to do, and put an emphasis on the work he has done, talking with law enforcement officers across the state of georgia on mental health issues. look. herschel walker is a flawed candidate, but people in georgia are looking at this now as a binary choice between the policies that he will implement moving forward in washington versus the policies that raphael warnock will implement moving forward and they're looking at what -- what policies will help them in the future, not what herschel walker may have done a decade ago, and they're looking at his emphasis on fighting

crime, working on reducing the inflation, helping the economy, and also supporting our military, and republicans i speak to in georgia are looking more at the issues than the int intricacies of what happened a decade ago. >> i want to stick with you on this one. kari lake was on over the weekend with dana bash. she claims she is all about fair, accurate elections, but as she's doing that, she's continuing to push -- continually pushing american lies. she's feeding her own misinformation loop and sadly pretty effectively. she's also refusing to accept a loss if, in fact, she did not win. she was clear in not answering that question. why is that still okay for the party, alice? >> i don't think it should be, erica. i've said ever since this first came up, we should do everything we can to instill confidence in our election process. the same election process that donald trump won is the same one that he lost, and he needs to embrace that fact, and i'm really disappointed that kari

lake didn't take that opportunity to tell the people of arizona that our elections are fair, and they are free and fair for people on the left as well as those on the right, and she was -- she thinks she might have been careful not to answer the question directly by saying that she thinks she's going to win and she's going to accept those results, but having served as deputy and secretary of state in arkansas before, i have confidence in our election process and anyone who's running for office should do everything they can to encourage them to vote and not discourage them by continuing claims of false and election fraud. >> ana? >> the reason it's okay with so many republicans is because there's what? 400 election deniers on the ballot. if you start saying they're not okay, you're voting against those 400, and the reason they stick to this story is because that's donald trump's story, and many of them owe their nomination to donald trump. kari lake owes her nomination to

donald trump. mehmet oz owes iz had nomination to donald trump. j.d. vance owes his nomination to donald trump. herschel walker owes his nomination to donald trump and like so many, and they don't want to antagonize donald trump. they don't want to lose that trump support. that's their story, and they're sticking to it, and i think republicans -- many, many republicans have made the decision that we don't care if he paid for an abortion and lied about it. we don't care if he's, you know, what they're lying about. we don't care if they're denying the elections. as long as they are republican, it's binary choice as alice just articulated, and this is our choice. everything else goes out the window. >> alice stewart, ana navarro. always good to talk to both of you. thank you. >> thank you. this just into cnn, the house oversight committee said the trump organization charged exorbitant rates while agents were protecting the trump family. how much did they charge

allegedly? >> reporter: well, victor and erica, according to the house oversight committee, the trump organization charged as much as $1,185 per night. they say that's one of the exorbitant rates they charged the secret service despite eric saying and doubling down again today, that the rooms would be provided either at cost, heavily discounted or for free. now according to the house review of these records they obtained from the secret service, they say that the trump organization was paid about $1.4 million. that was from the secret service, so basically u.s. taxpayers from the period from 2017 through september, 2021. in addition they also said -- they gathered from their findings that the trump organization charged rates that were above the going government market rate. >> we're going to have to interrupt you. we have to go to the white house here. president biden is holding an event about the opening now of

the student loan forgiveness portal. >> i'm announcing how millions and millions of people, working and middle class folks can apply to get this relief. it's simple, and it's now. it's easy, it's fast. at the end of my remarks, i'm going to officially launch this new application site at studentaid.gov. studentaid.gov. you'll be able to fill out your name, social security number, date of birth, and contact information. no forms to upload, no special login to remember. it's available in english and in spanish on desk top and mobile. it takes less than five minutes, and if you have any questions, you follow up -- we will be able to follow up with you. this is a game changer for millions of americans. we get moving, and it took an incredible amount of effort to get this website done in such a short amount of time. we want to thank the secretary of education. there he is. the secretary of education,

cardona who is here with me today. he and his team led a talented group of data scientists and engineers across the federal government, built it and tested and launched this new application in just weeks, and the secretary insisted that it had to be tested over the weekend. it landed and handled more than 8 million applications without a glitch or any difficulty. we had over 10,000 people contact the white house, either sent us letters or calls th thanking us. it means more than 8 million americans are starting this week on their way to receiving a life-changing relief they're looking for. it started today with millions more. we're going to have the opportunity to do it as well. as millions of people fill out the application, we're going to make sure the system continues to work as smoothly as possible so that we can deliver a student loan relief for millions of americans as quickly and as efficiently as possible. my commitment was if elected president, i was going to make government work to deliver for

the people. this -- this rollout keeps that commitment just as i'm keeping my commitment to relieve student debt as borrowers recover from this economic crisis caused by the once in a lifetime pandemic. i hope god forbid i say once in alive time. that gets me to another issue. we need more funding for this, but anyway -- forpandemics, but be clear who's going to benefit the most. working people, the middle class. few earn less than $125,000 a year, you'll get up to $10,000 knocked off your student debt. if you earn less than $125,000 a year and you received a pell grant, you'll get up to an additional $10,000 knocked off that debt, so $20,000 in relief. in total, more than 40 million americans can stand to benefit from this relief, and about 90% -- 90% to of that relief is

going to go to people making less than $75,000 a year. let me be clear. not a dime will go to those in the top 5% of the income bracket, period. now let's talk about who is against helping millions of hardworking middle class americans. republican members of congress, republican governors are trying to do everything they can to deny this relief even to their own constituents. as soon as i announced my administration's student debt plan, they started attacking it saying all kinds of things. their outrage is wrong and it's hypocritical. i will never apologize for helping working americans and middle class people as they recover from the pandemic, especially not the same republicans who voted for a $2 trillion tax cut in the last administration mainly benefitting the wealthiest americans and the largest koe corporations and didn't pay for a penny of it and racked up a deficit. i don't want to hear from republican officials again who

had hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions of dollars in pandemic relief loans, the ppp loans, but who now attack the working middle class americans for getting relief. these are members of congress who received those loans. they didn't do anything wrong, but they qualified. they qualified for up to -- in one case, $2 million. and despite what the republican officials say, we can afford -- we're able to afford student loan relief. it's because of our historic deficit reduction the republicans voted against. on my watch, the deficit fell by $350 billion last year, and we're on track to reduce it by $1 trillion this fiscal year. we're also set to reduce another $300 billion over the next ten years because of the medicaid being able to negotiate drug prices, but that's not all. in relieving student debt, we're also resuming student loan programs -- the student loan program we paused during the

pandemic. come january, folks have to start to repay their student loans if they don't qualify their this relief. that means billions of dollars a year will start coming into the u.s. treasury. my administration's plan is economically responsible on course to ensure a smooth transition to repaying and preventing unnecessary defaults. i'm also focused ongoing after frau fraudsters who call people, and i tell everyone trying to qualify for these loans, if you get a call from the government pretending to try to help you with your loans, let's be clear. hang up. you never have to pay for any federal help from the student loan program. you're going to get calls if you do this and pay that, you can get relief. that's fraud. if you get any questionable calls, please tell us by going to reportfraud --

reportfraud.gov. if you are looking to cheat the american people, don't do it. we're going to hold you accountable. let me close with this. today marks a big step among others that my administration's taking to make education a ticket to the middle class that folks can actually afford, but don't take my word for it. as i said, we received nearly 10,000 letters from across the country. a woman in colorado wrote, she grew up, she said, on a food lunch and food stamp programs, started working at age 13, and on her way to college to a good job until she was injured in an accident and couldn't find full-time work. she said her student loan debt was weighing her down, but now she can, quote, breathe again. a mom in california wrote, how she received a pell grant to become a nurse. she just had her fourth child and the stress of the pandemic pulls the weight of the student loans on her even more heavily,

making everyday life really hard, but now she says that weight is lifted making life easier for her. something we don't talk about very much, a lot of seniors still carry the burden of student debt whether for themselves or for their children and grandchildren. a retiree wrote how she never missed a payment and says, this relief, quote, means the world to her. that's what today's announcement is about. so let's get started. the new student loan application is now open. if you have federal student debt, please visit studentaid.gov. it's easy, simple, and fast, and it's a new day for millions of americans all across our nation. may god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. i'll be happy to answer the question. >> could litigation get in the

way of this program? >> yes. well, that's what's going on right now. litigation is under way, and i don't think our legal judgment is that it won't, but they're trying to stop it. >> how many people have already applied through this beta testing website? do you know? >> 8 million. >> will people who have privately held loans, will they at some point become eligible for this forgiveness because they no longer are? >> we are working to support those, but we're moving as quickly as possible to provide relief with as many people as possible. >> can you offer assurance they will -- >> okay. trying to get some answers for us there, our colleague, when it comes to privately held loans. let's bring in phil mattingly who is at the white house. the president wanting to tout that the website is now open. they did sort of a soft beta launch over the weekend to check things. it's also important, interesting timing if we look at what is

happening 22 days from now, phil, which we can't ignore and that's an election. >> reporter: yeah, and it's not -- it's not something that shouldn't be considered here because through a lengthy and arduous policy process in the white house, everybody was cognizant of the political effects among some groups that helped the president win the white house. it helped democrats win majority in the white house and senate, but had fallen off in terms of their energy or willingness to vote and i'm speaking primarily about youth voters. a couple of things we heard from the president, first and foremost, the web silent to apply for student loan forgiveness is now officially open and launched. over the weekend as you noted, it was online and taken offline. the reason why is you don't need to think that far back to recognize the websites and big programs have been problematic. many who have served in this administration, including the president who was vice president at the time when the obamacare

website launched. the fact that 8 million people were able to move through the beta process according to the president without any glitch is certainly a good sign for an administration that behind the scenes for several weeks has been pressing hard to reach this moment. up to 42 million borrowers could qualify according to administration officials for this student loan forgiveness. that website is now launched. the other element the president was asked about is ongoing litigation. we've seen lawsuits from republican attorneys general of several red states, other lawsuits as well. those will be moving forward and obviously create some uncertainty here, but one thing we do know, this program is now launched. tens of millions of people qualify. the website appears to be working through the beta launch system. we'll see how this goes in the midterms as well, guys. >> phil mattingly, appreciate it. thank you. a new wave of attacks in ukraine kills at least four. how the u.s. is responding to putin's latest deadly assault. thanks next. later, biden surpasses his

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the u.s. says russia's use of the drones will now factor into future decisions on how to best support ukraine itself. cnn's fred plieitgen is in ukraine. good evening. >> reporter: hi there, erica. it's absolutely chilling video that you see there from kyiv with those attacks today, especially the sound when you hear those drones going into that dive bomb mode and it sounds like a moped crashing into buildings. that happened earlier today, in kyiv with those drones circling overhead and then coming down. four of them actually hitting their targets. the ukrainians as you mentioned saying that they shot down 36 of the 42 that were launched towards ukrainian ter toritory,t some of them did hit some targets. one was a power plant in kyiv that was seemingly the power plant that was also hit in last

monday's strikes and the residential building where those four people were killed. ukrainians calling for better air defense systems to take out these drones because the ukrainians are saying what the rus russians are doing are making these iranian-made drones to attack in swarms. they launched toward ukrainian territory, and they all came from the south, all areas to the south of ukraine. they're able to take many of them out, but certainly not all of them because simply because of the amount because of the quantity of drones that are launched, they simply overwhelm the air defense systems that ukraine has, and therefore they say they need more effective ones to fight against these iranian-made drones, guys. >> the u.s. says as we said at the top, they're going to take that into consideration on what's happening next as it relates to the support. let me ask you, fred, about this russian fighter jet that went down inside russia, but near ukraine. tell us about it. >> reporter: yeah. well, when we say near ukraine, this is -- this place was -- you can see it from ukraine. it's a place in the so-called

nodar region of russia, and when you are standing in mariupol, you could actually see the air base and see the town where this was coming from. this happened shortly after takeoff when there seemed to be a fire on board the aircraft coming from the engine, and it then immediately afterwards crashed into a residential building. it seems as though the pilots were able to eject, however four people were killed, and if you look at the picture, it's hard to believe that many people would have survived that. apparently 17 apartments in that large building were damaged so far. obviously this is something that is going to require a very long time to investigate by the russians. this was by the way, an su-34 fighter bomber aircraft, however, the russians say it was only on a training mission at the time. >> fred pleitgen inthank you. we have a staff writer for "the new yorker," and author

of "the divider: trump in the white house," good afternoon to you. when we look at these attacks and these iranian kamikaze drones being used, it was interesting we had reporting from barbara starr at the pentagon that the d.o.d. is trying to accelerate these missile to air systems, as we look at what's going into these decisions. how much speed do you think this is adding to this process? >> putin is backed into a corner by the reverses that his forces have suffered on the battlefield, it made it clear he's attacking civilian targets in ukraine cities that are not on the front line. that seems likely to continue for the foreseeable future despite i noticed putin did make a statement the other day saying, oh, well we've done enough so far, but then launched this salvo of attacks anyways. i think it's quite urgent for the pentagon. i'm also noticing more reporting

and more pressure on israel for example to join in and supplying ukraine with this as well. iran is israel's greatest security threat in its own region, and it looks to me like they're testing out the effective kind of tactics for the future of war here in this assault on the capital city of ukraine, kyiv, in a way that must be very worrisome to leaders in tel aviv. >> susan, an adviser to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says it's time for the g20 to expel russia. considering some of the allies that russia has in the group of 20, is that likely to happen? >> well, i think it's important to keep the pressure on ukraine -- sorry. ukraine to keep the pressure on russia diplomatically as much as possible, and, in fact, you saw last week it was at the u.n.

general assembly a very big vote against russia including more or less everyone in the world except north korea, belarus and oddly, nicaragua. so i think this is part of the broad pressure tactics that ukraine is using diplomatically. what's amazing is it does expose the bankruptcy to a certain extent of international institutions. russia right now is a permanent member of the united nations security council and yet it is launching, you know, outrageous drone attacks on civilian targets in the capital city of another country. obviously not very much a guarantor of nuational security is russia. >> yet it doesn't seem there will be much change to that. >> no. >> we were talking to fred pleitgen just in the last hour, and he was talking with us about russian troops and concerns about the belarusian border and

whether ukraine is in a position to deal if there are threats coming from that northern border to also deal with that potential threat. how much is that do you think a consideration at this point? >> yeah. i think that it's been a constant worry. again, vladimir putin has very few allies at this point, even those who historically supported him. other leaders in central asia for example have started to criticize him publicly in ways that are surprising. the leader of belarus is more or less one of the only other world leaders who has stood by putin's war of aggression against ukraine, and with putin under pressure on the other front, there is the concern that if they use belarus as a staging ground, they could relaunch an attack in the center of the country moving directly toward kyiv which is not that far with the border from belarus, and i think that's going to remain an active worry, and every time there's movement that suggests russian troops in belarus, you

see a new round of this anxiety sparking up. >> susan, let me get your thoughts on the latest round of prisoner swaps between the russians and the ukrainians. more than 100 for each. now this is one of the few, if not, the only areas of cooperation between the two. explain from the russian side of the equation. there is no huge, like, headline name in this exchange, why they continue to cooperate with the ukrainians on this front. >> well, you know, look. this is generally speaking, this is pretty common in war fair, and i have to say there was a photo leased by the ukrainian government, many of those who had been swapped, ukrainian women walking together back across the border and into ukraine. it was a very moving photograph. again, this is pretty much standard practice. what's been striking so far is how much russia has generally

flouted the laws of war and flouted what is seen as acceptable standards of conduct and so it's interesting that in a military to military level, they're still able to accomplish something like this, but i wouldn't call it a, you know, a major indicator of anything except incredibly good news for those families, you know, of the prisoners on both sides. >> susan glasser, appreciate it. >> thank you, susan. a shocking rise in violence against law enforcement, including an ambush attack this week where police say a suspect fired more than 80 rounds at police, and killed two officers. wounded a third. we take a look at what's behind this increase in violence, next. (vo) get the new iphone 14 pro on us. right now t-mobile is including apple business essentials so you can easily manage your team's devices. on the network with more 5g .

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two police officers in bristol, connecticut are dead. a third seriously injured after investigators say a gunman ambushed the officers and fired over 80 rounds. i do want to warn you the following audio which was captured on one officer's body camera is disturbing.

state police officers -- state police rather say the officers were deliberately lured to a home on wednesday night, and that as soon as they arrived, a man began firing at them from inside the house. >> law enforcement leaders say wednesday's ambush is just one example of an alarming but growing trend across the country. cnn's security correspondent josh campbell is here with more on these attacks on police. josh? >> reporter: yeah, victor and erica. 12 police officers shot in america in the last week alone. some of them were out on patrol. others responding to calls. some of them believed to have been specifically targeted because of their profession. as you mentioned, this is part of this pay alarming trend. the statistic so far from this year appeared to be on track with what we saw in the grim figures from 2021 when the fbi said that more police officers were killed in the u.s. than a single year than the terrorist attacks of 9/11. >> i'm shot, and my partner is shot in the leg. >> reporter: three philadelphia s.w.a.t. officers shot last week in the line of duty.

so far 2022 has been an especially violent and deadly year for law enforcement in america. >> i'm outraged. i'm disgusted. i'm wondering where the level of outrage and upset is outside of the law enforcement community. >> reporter: danielle outlaw is philadelphia's police commissioner. >> right now things are wrong because the level of violence we're seeing against our law enforcement officers is just beyond outrageous. >> reporter: across the country, there have been 252 officers shot in the line of duty through september of this year according to the national fraternal order of police. 50 were killed. it's a continuation of a rising violent trend. according to the fop, 44 law enforcement officers were killed by gunfire in the line of duty during the same time period last year. adding up to more officers being fatally shot more often than once a week during that time. in california, a suburb of los angeles, two officers were killed this summer as they responded to a call about a stabbing. >> they were acting as a first

line of defense for our community members when they were essentially ambushed. >> reporter: in fact, there have been 63 ambush-style attacks on law enforcement through september this year according to the fop. at least 93 officers were shot during those onslaughts. 24 died as a result. in bristol, connecticut last week three officers were allegedly ambushed and shot. only one survived. the gunman may have lured them there by making a false 911 call according to investigators. >> shots fired. shots fired. more cars, send everyone. >> he's down. one down. suspect down. >> reporter: in 2021, data from the fbi showed the highest number of law enforcement officers were intentionally killed in the line of duty since the september 11th terrorist attacks 20 years earlier. the data mirrored a rise in gun violence in the country in recent years. now rising to levels not seen since the mid 1990s.

a teenaged gunman killed five people in raleigh, north carolina last week. a responding police officer injured in the shooting. the increasing violence against police has law enforcement leaders around the country sounding the alarm. >> three of your officers have been shot. what's that like? >> it's a pit in your stomach. these are folks that answered a call to serve. they want to give back. we sign up to do this, understanding the risk, understanding the danger, but we did not sign up for these jobs to be murdered. we just didn't. >> reporter: now victor and erica, i'm here in dallas where police chiefs from across the country have been meaning to discuss key issues facing the profession, and the officers i have been talking to, they say this violence is concerning not only because they worry about their own personnel, but they worry that this could negatively impact recruitment and possibly dissuade people from in the future signing up to become police officers. that could have negative impacts on public safety for years to come. >> that's sobering. for sure, josh. appreciate it. thank you. president biden is now

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against him are untrue. a new cnn analysis finds president biden has spend more than a quarter of his presidency working from his home in delaware and outpacing the amount of time that trump spent away from when the white house. kate bennett joins us on this. >> reporter: so we've tallied the numbers and counting today about 175 days for president biden, 174, 175 days in delaware. that is about a quarter of his presidency and significantly more at this juncture in this term than it was for donald trump going away. now we're gist counting time spent at his home in delaware and for trump the analysis was about mar-a-lago and bedminster so we're not counting foreign or domestic trips. but just being away from the white house. a lot of presidents say living in the white house is luxurious but it could be the gilded cage. so joe biden has been amtrak joe

and goes home a lot and a president could do their job from anywhere. we said the same thing about donald trump. they travel with a mobile oval office. and quite frankly, our ideas and norms about workplace, work from home have changed since post pandemic. maybe joe biden just had a better idea of how to model that before we all did. he certainly has enjoyed working from home in delaware for most of his career, not just his presidency. but at this pace he is probably going to break the record for modern day presidents who have been in office for spending time at home. that includes ronald reagan at his ranch and george w. bush at his ranch. president obama or clintont didn't go home very much. and joe biden loves delaware and he likes to get out of town and out of washington. guys. >> kate bennett, thank you. >> thank you. tom brady had some choice words for his teammates during the game against the pittsburgh steelers on sunday.

his team was trailing and the quarterback was seen on the side lines, look here. venting to his offensive line saying, you're so much better than you're f'ing playing. >> social medias with quick to point out the timing, about the recent divorce rumors with his wife gisele bund clean. but i'm more excited about the football story. after football fans made the decision to storm the field to celebrate the volunteer's big win over alabama on saturday. stormed the fields and tore down the goalpost and then what does one do, they dump them in the river. >> i still don't get this. >> that makes two of us. >> it is expensive because the school has now been fined $100,000 by the conference for letting the fans go on to the field. and then the team is now asking for donations, we need to replace the goalpost. so far more than $145,000 raised online. >> we were checking it.

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