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top of a new hour on "cnn newsroom." i'm victor blackwell. it's good to be with you. president biden is in pennsylvania again giving remarks against the backdrop of a crumbling bridge. now undergoing repairs. the president said it's just one of the examples of how his administration has improved aging infrastructure across the country. >> as a result, pennsylvania has been able to repair fern hollow bridge in less than a year and by christmas god willing, we'll be walking. i'm coming back to walk over this sucker. although my staff said to me, do

you realize how many times you have been to pittsburgh? i said, no. they said, 19. i said, bobby, don't tell them scranton. >> the president is now heading to philadelphia for a private campaign event with john fetterman who is locked in one of the nation's most contentious midterm races. cnn's senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is at the white house. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is in philadelphia. all right, phil. you're up first. have you reported that biden's schedule of events this week really underscores how they're triaging their message around the economy. explain. >> yeah. if you look through the course of the day by day schedule of the president which seems maybe boring or rather benign, it's a good roadmap of what white house officials and their democratic campaign counterparts are looking at right now. there is a reality. the president's approval rating remains low. there are avenues where democrats feel like they have an opportunity to boost democratic turnout. boost democratic enthusiasm. you saw that with the president

really trying to elevate the focus on abortion early they are week. you'll see that again on friday when the president really does his first major effort to highlight the student loan cancellation executive order he put into place as well. when it comes to the economy, you've seen him take the approach of turning to small rallies and things that underscore the very real legislative achievements they have. the infrastructure bill showing up at that bill right before that collapsed in pennsylvania in january. you've seen events related to infrastructure, related to their major semiconductor manufacturing legislation as well, kind of across the board. they're not huge. they're not thousands of people, but they are really focusing on what has been delivered in a somewhat small scale, and you also heard while they may not be major campaign rallies, you have opportunities to catch the president in what's known as off the record stops. stopping at a sandwich shop with john fetterman, with bob casey, and the governor as well, and the reporters threw some

questions at him and it raised another concern about what might happen if republicans win. take a listen. >> are you worried about ukraine? >> we are worried about them because they said they'll cover. >> do you have any plans to go to nevada or georgia in the coming weeks? there p >> pardon me? >> nevada or georgia? >> i will be able to get out to nevada, and georgia asked me to come down. i'm trying to work out out now. >> are you going to go next week? >> those are the two pieces there. the ukraine aid has become a big issue over the last several days. it's no secret that dozens of republicans have voted against that aid over the last several months, but punchbowl news reporting potential next house republican speaker kevin mccarthy raising questions about future aid as well. that has raised serious concern and said the white house and across washington and in terms of the schedule, it's pretty obvious the president hasn't gone to a lot of battleground states like pennsylvania, georgia and nevada, noted there seemed to indicate he has had invitations and may be going

there soon. we'll have to see if that actually happens, victor. >> we'll stand by for those. phil, thank you. jessica, to you now. some democrats as we heard a bit of the questioning there at the sandwich shop about invitations to the president, some are distancing themselves from the president. how is john fetterman handling this? >> you are seeing john fetterman with the president all day long. sources say he will fly on air force one with the president from pittsburgh here to philadelphia later today, and this represents an opportunity for fetterman to really present himself to voters as how he would look as a senator. we see him in a suit, which is not usually noteworthy when it comes to senate candidates, but for john fetterman, it is. he's typically in shorts and a hoodie. that's his signature look. he is in a suit today traveling with some of the pennsylvania delegation, and then along with the president, and look. they are coming to philadelphia. that's not surprising. during the 2020 election, victor, we came here with then-candidate biden over and over and over again.

it is a state that really clinched him in the 2020 election. they know this, and this is an ever-tightening senate race, and pennsylvania once again really going to hold biden's political fortunes in terms of what he's going to be able to do over the next two years because it's very likely this race will determine whol who controls the u.s. senate, and there has been a lot of talk about his stroke and his recovery from the stoke. that has been covered widely. it has been something that has spread all over online, but here on the ground we have been talking with voters all over the state for the last several weeks, and really what it comes down to, they are focused on three key issues that we hear again and again and again, and that is the economy, its crime, its abortion rights, and so what the democrats really need to do is really turn up the score, run up the score here in philadelphia. of course, a democratic stronghold, so they want to get as high of numbers out of here as possible, and then in the last couple of days we've really been around the collar counties,

the suburban counties that surround philadelphia, and they're some of the most independent voters. they can really sway an election, and so we are seeing fetterman going to these areas, really trying to target that, and again, this is a place where the president remains relatively popular. it is a democratic stronghold here in the city of philadelphia. so not surprising that we see him here today, but of course, victor, as we continue to see this race is incredibly tight and we're seeing the closing messages kind of beginning to take form. we're seeing the republican challenger mehmet oz just releasing an ad talking about moderation, being a political moderate, how he wants to be a political moderate when he goes to the senate, and of course, we're seeing john fetterman closing arguments about abortion rights, especially in this area and again, those surrounding suburban areas. victor? >> all right, jessica dean. the oz/fetterman debate coming up. the federal judge says

donald trump knew his voter fraud claims were wrong, but continued to push them not only to the publics but to the court. this was in a ruling ordering trump's ex-attorney john eastman to turn over more emails after the siege on the capitol. kaitlyn polance is with us. the one committee will be interesting. he said that john eastman's emails show evidence of a crime to e potentially. what do you know? >> reporter: this is a monument. ruling in a lot of ways from a federal judge sitting in california who has gone through essentially the evidence that the house select committee has wanted to obtain for many months now, and that other investigators including the justice department may also be interested in obtaining, and what's so monumental about this is that the judge spells out emails that he has seen, eight emails in particular that he believes could speak to evidence of a crime, and believes that those should be released to the

house select committee made public. john eastman's election attorney should not be able to keep those confidential any longer. what the judge writes here is he's saying that hthese eight emails, they speak to possible crimes. one email regarding part of a case that was going in georgia that the trump lawyers were filing looking at potentially taking it to the supreme court, he writes, this email read in context with other documents in this review make clear that president trump filed certain lawsuits not to obtain legal relief, but to disrupt or delay the january 6th congressional proceedings through the courts. the court finds that these four documents are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of obstruction. he not only highlights obstruction of this crime these emails could support, but also believes these could support a case of fraud. >> we're also getting this just

in to cnn that the former president donald trump is preparing for that suspected subpoena from the january 6th committee. what are you learning about that? >> reporter: right, so we have a new lawyer added to donald trump's legal team. my colleague gabby orr was just able to confirm that the lawyer is a prominent republican lawyer dylan out of california, and a lawyer who's well known to the house select committee already. she's going to be one of the people that is handling this subpoena expected to be issued to donald trump for testimony before that committee, before they end potentially their tenure with the turnover of congress, and why dylan is so known to them is because she and her firm have done quite a lot of work already for other witnesses, including challenging house subpoenas. we know they have been in court, working on behalf of michael flynn. we know they also are representing women for america

first, that group that was behind the rally of the ellipse on january 6th and acknowledged working with the justice department or receiving a subpoena with the justice department as well. this is another person added to the constellation of lawyers around the former president right now. thank you. >> thank you very much. scott jennings is a former assist ant to george w. bush. natasha crawford. welcome to all. we have a lot to get to. let's start with you, natasha because you're right here with me. and president biden asked about these big rallies, why he's not having them. we're seeing the first lady there in florida, former president obama, president trump as well. his answer is, yeah. i'll get there. why aren't we seeing it? >> i think the president has to play the best hand he has right now, and that role is to be a team player. we know that he has historically

low approval ratings. no matter when he's done, and so i think that he's able to emphasize the larger policy wins, you know, infrastructure, things that are not controversial. bridges are not controversial, that benefits are red or the blue in america, but at the same time, he understands that his name is a liability. we saw the herschel walker mentioning joe biden every two seconds in that debate with raphael warnock. so it makes sense for him to fund-raise, focus on the larger accomplishments, and then make promises about what would happen if democrats can maintain power. you know, codify abortion rights, you know, create more jobs in the economy. that is what he is trying to do to keep that hope still alive. >> scott, we focus on what the president is not doing, but you think it would be a smart strategy for donald trump to go into georgia right now or for donald trump to go into pennsylvania and campaign for oz when they're trying to get to a moderate center? we saw herschel walker shifting

his views on exceptions to an abortion ban. >> yeah. it's remarkable i think in both of the states you mentioned, victor. both biden and trump are probably underwater in terms of their overall image. so, you know, do i want donald trump to campaign in these states? it probably doesn't help. maybe it hurts among some people. you know, is the benefit big enough to ask for it? i would say probably not. his new superpac is spending money in these states, not a ton, but a little bit of money, but finally he's released some of the money he's raised to help, and that's moderately helpful, but it feels like the general wind is blowing in the republicans' direction and when that's happening, you don't want to do anything that could change that or get in the way of that, and you have to ask yourself, would trump's presence there, you know, interrupt whatever moment up you might have? same for biden. if he makes a splash, there might be people who hold him responsible for economy that are

reminded about why they're switching back to republicans this year. >> on this reporting from kaitlyn, the new lawyer for the president on the january 6th subpoena, what do you see and hear there? >> it's interesting, victor. she's aggressive, but she has real chops in a way that a lot of the trump lawyers don't neces necessarily. the latest report from cnn, in fact, was that chris kiez who was the last sort of eminent la lawyer they brought on was getting his purchase and being somewhat conciliatory. i have appeared with her both on cnn and fox. i don't think that's her likely style and, in fact, it's interesting because the time is going to run out on that subpoena very quickly when the congress ends at the end of december. so it's -- this suggests that maybe trump would be fighting it whereas if he just sort of were passive about it, nothing might

happen. so i think it's a noteworthy development and suggests more than at least we thought before. he may be in a fighting mood. . >> natasha, let me come to you on a fascinating poll that found that 73% of black voters named inflation and economic issues as their top concerns ahead of the midterms. now black voters obviously a core part of the democratic coalition, but this poll -- survey went beyond just democrats. is this enough to shift some democrats to republicans this cycle? >> so it's very interesting. this is a first ever partnership with the family foundation that they did, so very important poll that we've done. i think what i found when i spoke with the voters, i spoke with lifelong, black, conservative republicans for example, and those images of january 6th just stick with them. they think about the violence.

they think about the double standard that that day represented, and so they have trouble with, you know, the relationship of the republican party to donald trump. even lifelong republicans, and so i think that if you have those republicans in that situation, i'm not sure that a bunch of black democrats are going to be ready to make that switch, but they are saying what is next. >> yeah. >> what's next for the party? what's the new jgeneration of leadership? they match the rest of the country's polling in term of saying, all right. we don't want the same nominee. who else is up next? yeah. very interesting. >> scott, on this response that's getting a lot of attention from the former vice president on if he would vote for former president trump in 2024, let's play what he said. >> well, there might be somebody else i would prefer more. you know, what i can tell you is i'm -- i have every confidence that the republican party is going to sort out leadership. all my focus has been on the

midterm elections and it'll stay that way for the next 20 days. >> depending on what you are listening for, he either said nothing or he said a lot. what do you hear? >> i heard a couple of things. number one, i think mike pence wants to run for president and probably will, and so of course, he wouldn't want to commit to donald trump or anyone else because he thinks he's going to be the best candidate. number two, you know, donald trump did send a mob to the capitol to murder mike pence or at least they were chanting they wanted toenin hang him. i understand why you might not want to understand why he might not want to support him. i don't know what lane exists for him. half the republicans want trump, and the half that want somebody else, desantis is the front runner on that side. mike pence did his duty, and he has a lifetime of service to the republican party. i expect him to run. i don't know how far he's going to get, but he's a good man, and in that speech, victor, he gave a forceful speech of

conserv conservativism and a bit of denunciation of populism. >> we'll see where his space is in the party if trump runs in 2024. scott jennings, harry lipman, natasha, thank you. >> thank you. another prime minister comes and goes. liz truss announces her resignation after 45 days on the job. what now? that's next. and the pentagon now confirmed that iranians have been on the ground in ukraine to assist russia with drone operations. what these developments could mean for the future of the war. g at amazon, she was ready for those... uninvited guests. [g[growling] shop legendary deals at amazon.n. it's the subway series menu! 12 irresistible subs... like #6 the boss. pepperoni kicks off. with meatballs smothered in rich marinara. don't forget the fres. don't you forget who the real boss is around here.

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truss resigned today. >> given the situation, i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. i have therefore spoken to his majesty the king to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. >> now this follows a tumultuous few weeks of economic uncertainty and her now scrapped financial plans sent the pound into an all-time low to the u.s. dollar. we have christiane amanpour. good to have you on this specifically. you have seen prime ministers come and go, but what made truss' situation so different? there have been unpopular financial plans before, but she's lasted 6 1/2 weeks. >> reporter: you're right, victor. 45 days precisely which makes her the shortest living ever british prime minister. i mean, it is really a beggar's belief because what happened is exactly how you laid it out.

she provided this economic plan, just her and her chancellor. it just didn't go through any of the road at thtesting of the independent or fiscal analysts. in fact, they said no when they were offered a road test so to speak for the plan that they had cooked up. then that just created a huge chaos abroad, in the markets and in this country. you know, interest rates have had to go up to stabilize, and that affects uk mortgages which is a very different situation to the u.s. in the u.s., you have 15, 30-year mortgages at fixed rates. that's not the case here. they are variable or fixed but only for a very, very short time. that in short sent panic through ordinary people and the pressure on politicians and from her party then became intolerable, and they just made it clear to her that she was not going to be able to survive in office. so that's what happened. >> so what's this mean for conservatives there? because polling shows that the

labor party has pulled ahead a significant distance. >> yeah. >> can her party survive this? >> reporter: well, again, that's a very interesting question. i mean, if there was an election today, no, and it's not just because of truss. even under boris johnson, the labor party was moving ahead because of all the shenanigans under the johnson administration and you know he was tossed out for a variety of misdoings including the famous partygate sleaze and all those kinds of issues, and they are trailing very, very, very significantly. however, because sit a parliamentary democracy, there is no rule that says the conservatives who are in power now with a parliamentary majority have to call an election, and as one of the labor opposition people said if they did, it's like turkeys voting for christmas. so it is possible if they choose a fairly competent, more

moderate leader that they could spend the next couple of years of their term trying to right the ship. obviously the labor party would love to have an election right now. >> yeah. you spoke with the mayor of london, sadiq kahn about this whole mess. what did he say? >> reporter: i put it to him because he was joining me from bay buenos aires. they have had to take up the burden on climate change because many governments haven't got the right legislation in police, so local mayors are doing it, and he was saying he was being inundated by all these fellow mayors there, asking what on earth is going on in britain at this time. listen to what he told me. >> we are a laughing stock. our reputation is being diminished every minute liz truss has stayed in office, and people here this morning have been asking me, what is going on in your country?

on the one hand, you know, you're showing global leadership for london, but on the other hand you're a of laing stock for you your country, and people used to look upon the uk as providing certainty and calm. we look to you for moral leadership, and we are a laughing stock. >> so you see, victor, he just put his finger on it. i mean, keep calm and carry on, you know, britain. it's always stood for a certain stability, a certain conventional politics, and now it's all being upended. the french president macron said we just hope here in europe for stability as soon as possible from the uk, and you know, the biden administration is looking very carefully and with concern at the turmoil here because britain was a key member of the transatlantic alliance. >> yeah. the mess there, the scope extends beyond the uk and to its allies around the world. christiane amanpour, always good

to have you. >> thanks, victor. last hour, pentagon confirmed that iranian military, they are in crimea, and are training russians to use their drones. >> yes. we do assess that iranians have been on the ground in ukraine to assist russia with the drone operations there, and so in terms of that what means obviously again we continue to see iran be complicit in terms of exporting terror, not only in the middle east region, but now also to ukraine. >> now this confirms earlier cnn reporting that iran is there, but this is the first time that we're learning that iranian military is assisting russia in using the weapons to target civilian infrastructure in ukraine. john kirby said that this signifies iran's direct

engagement with the conflict. let's stay in ukraine. the country's state energy supplier says it's been forced to restrict power in kyiv and in central regions and it's because of increased consumption following russia's devastating attacks on their equipment. cnn's fred flpleitgen is going . you and your team recently caught in the middle of these attacks. tell us what happened. >> reporter: hi there, convicter. we're among the most active front lines here in ukraine in the east near a town under constant shelling by russian forces and the russians want to take this town so badly, victor, that they've put some of the most brutal forces in command of the offensives that are going on in that town. they're called the wagner private military company. a lot of them battle-harden people. there's also air strikes and we managed to get into that town yesterday, and came under fire after a couple of second of being there. he's what we witnessed. we're taking cover here because we had incoming artillery fire.

we're going to wait so there's not any hits anywhere close to us. so that was just one of the shells that landed there. there were several other shells that landed nearby our position as well, and we were pinned down there i would say about 20 to 30 minutes before we were able to move away because you can't move around when the shells are raining down, but you can see there what's going on in those places and how the people and the few people that are still there are witnessing all this. ukrainians say they've come under fire several times a day from the artillery, and i got an update a couple of minutes ago, victor, that the ukrainian military command said the russians are still trying to take that town. there have been several air strikes today. it's definitely a key focal point for them and the ukrainians say they're going to do everything to hold it, but, you know, with all those reports that we keep getting out of ukraine, the ukrainians making headway in the south of the country. in some places of the east of the country, it is difficult for them and i can tell you from

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there's a new study finding that disturbing enequities in how heart failure patients might be treated based on their race. according to the findings, white patients are twice as lakely as black patients to receive mechanical heart pumps or transplants. jacqueline howard joins us now. it feels like every day we've got a story about how black people are underserved by the medical community or there's another disparity. tell us about this study. >> yeah. that's so true, and this study just adds to our understanding of those inequities when it comes to medical care, and for this particular research, researchers looked at 377 heart

failure patients. they were around the same age, had similar conditions, and among those patients when it came to the advanced therapies that they received, 11% of black patients received advanced therapies like heart pumps or heart transplants, but that's in comparison with 22% of the white patients. so you see there the white patients were twice as likely to get these advanced therapies, and cardiologists i talk to, especially black card yiologist say they're not surprised. they've seen these inequities before and they're not surprised by them. they say they didn't have to do the type of care patients asked for or they preferred. instead the researcher said this. quote, the residual inequity may be a consequence of structural racism and discrimination or provider bias, impacting decision-making. so just to translate, it was the provider's decision when it came to giving advanced therapies and the researchers say it's

provider bias that might drive some of these inequities we see with maternity care and pain management. we tend to see these ineck quii rise, and researchers are trying to raise awareness around this. >> certainly, but to do more than raise arwareness, but effet some change. >> yes. >> thank you so much. president biden is shifting strategy in an effort to get down gas prices, but will this move be enough to hand down a victory to democrats next month? that's next.

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president biden announced the sale of 15 million barrels from the petroleum reserve. this comes less than three weeks before the midterm elections. congressman ro khanna of california joins us now. it's good to have you back. let's talk about the decision here. opec's cut of production of oil is going to be about a million barrels a day or so. so 15 million barrels to offset last, what? two weeks, what's the longer term strategy you think this administration should employ? >> victor, you're right. it's a short-term solution, but we need to be far tougher on the saudis and demand that they reconsider their decision. we supply them with all their weapons. they are basically being ungrateful and slapping american

consumers on the face. second we need to ban and export g gasoline to our european allies. >> you have been talking about the sales to china for months now. are you getting any engagement from the white house on this? >> victor, we finally are. they're saying they're open to locking at the proposal and they're saying there's going to be consequences for the saudis and i think it's time to act. i have called on the president to give a prim jetime address o what we will do, and two things are an export ban and also being tougher on the saudis. >> i want to talk about the consequences for the saudis and your bill in just a moment, but more on the spr, it's now at its lowest level since 1984. should the president tap into it again to keep prices low? >> yes, victor, but i had written an op-ed in "the new york times" in june saying that

the government should be buying at the dips, and this would have been replenishing the supply when oil was at a low price. so if we're going to now tap it further, we need to have the government also engage in the purchasing of oil when oil is dipping so that we're not depleting the reserve. >> the president says that will happen once oil hits about $70 a barrel. let me ask about the consequences that you want to see for saudi arabia. you've introduced a bill which mirrors the one in the senate introduced by senator blumenthal which would call for a freeze of arms sales to saudi arabia for at least a year. i want to you listen to the former ambassador for the u.s. to saudi arabia, what he thinks about that idea. this is robert jordan. >> that'll probably be the greatest gift we could give to iran. i think it makes no sense at all to pause arms sales that are legitimately needed. if these were just decorative items it would be another

matter, but obviously they've made some determination they have a need for the weapons. we have to maintain their security. they need to be responsible for more of their own security, but it doesn't help us if they're going off to china or russia to buy arms and we're not going to sell them to them. >> what's your response to that? >> with all due respect to ambassador jordan, he has been responsible for our failed policy with the saudis. the saudis blatantly murdered cha khashoggi, a "washington post" journalist. they can't go to china and russia and anyone who knows national security knows it would take them ten years to get that, and all the folks on the national security really understand the issue and know that it's u.s. technicians that are responsible basically for flying the saudi planes. this is calling for strategic pause. it would do nothing in terms of having a tough relationship on iran and, you know, frankly people like ambassador jordan have been responsible for the failed policy to the saudis over

the last decade. >> let's move onto some of the other issues that are top of mind ahead of the midterms 19 days away from the vote. the president says that if democrats maintain control of both chambers, that the first bill he'd send over would be to codify roe, specifically on abortion rights. do you think that that should be the first priority for congressional democrats? >> yes because it's a matter of human rights, and right with the second priority and that is on the economy. we have to have policies, one that are going to go after the price gouging of corporations that are charging too much for food or gas, and we need to be bringing manufacturing home to tackle inflation. i have been pretty candid that i think the democrats have not done enough on making the economic argument. we have to have legislation on the economy as well. >> you know who agrees with you is senator bernie sanders.

he was on with anderson cooper last night. let's play a bit of that. >> i happen to believe that a woman's right to control her own body is absolutely what would be a supreme court decision and was a total disaster, but i also happen to think that given the fact that the last 50 years, real wages for american workers are lower today than they are 50 years ago, that people can't afford health care. they can't afford prescription drugs. i think those are issues. >> i hear you saying that democrats are not spending enough time making the economic argument. do you believe that there will be a price to pay, that there will be a consequence in these races for not making that argument over the next 19 days? >> well, victor, we still have 19 days to make the economic argument. senator sanders is exactly right. we have to talk about how wages have stagnated. what are we going to do to put

more money in the pockets of working families and bring more jobs back, and president obama made the same exact point on pod save america. he said we have to be talking about pocketbook issues, gas, the cost of groceries and he had two smashing victories and won many red states. so i think absolutely let's codify roe versus wade when we have the majority, but we have to have bill number two, three, four, five about what we're going to do on the economy. >> congressman ro khanna, always good to have you on the show. thank you. >> thank you. brace yourself. winter is coming, and the forecast shows it'll be even colder than years past. stay with us. customizes your home insurance, here's a pool party.. ♪ good times. insurance! ♪ onlyly pay for what you need. ♪ libiberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ what should the future deliver? (music) progress... (music) .innovation...

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