it's a brands new hour of cnn newsroom and it's good to have you with us. i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm bianna golodryga. president biden is steering another $10 million toward the democratic house and senate campaigns with election day two weeks away. the muoney injection a sure sig of just how high the stakes are in this midterm election. tonight they are feeling extra pressure in pennsylvania. >> democrat john fetterman will debate republican mehmet oz.

this is perhaps the most anticipated debate of the election season. it's also the only chance for pennsylvanians to see the candidates side by side. they're debating just this one time. the senate is 50-50 and pennsylvania is crucial in the fight to either keep or gain control. cnn's jeff zeleny is in harrisburg where the debate is happening. jeff, what should people expect to see tonight? >> reporter: well, victor, i think people can expect to see fireworks as we've seen in debates across the country. more interestingly this has a unique element to it and that is because of john fetterman. of course he's the lieutenant governor of pennsylvania but he's been recovering from a stroke for the last several months. so this debate tonight is going to be slightly different. it's going to have a closed captioning system. john fetterman is still having auditor processing issues. he can't always hear and see things in realtime so he'll be using closed captions as many

americans do when they watch their television programs. but those words are going to be on a screen. the tv viewer at home will be able to see all of this so there are going to be two pretty large monitors on the stage with the two candidates. so all that of course sets the backdrop to answer this question. is john fetterman healthy enough to be a u.s. senator? his doctors say he is. he said he's just recovering from the stroke. and we've seen progress, of course, in his speech month by month. but mehmet oz was made famous as a television doctor. that adds another unique element to this. i'm told by his advisers that he wants to focus on the difference in issues. hitting crime has been one of the central themes of his campaign as well as the economy, inflation, other issues we've seen across the country. but this hour-long debate here in harrisburg, the first time the candidates have ever come face to face with one another, certainly is going to shape this race, which as we've seen is

very close. our new poll just out yesterday showed fetterman with about a six point edge but don't necessarily believe the numbers. both sides believe this race is very, very close going into the final two weeks. >> and we also know that president biden is heading back to the state, the commonwealth, this week. this would be his second visit there campaigning with fetterman. president obama will be joining now. are these visits moving the needle at all? >> reporter: certainly they are moving the needle on the governor's race. josh shapiro is running for governor here and he has a strong edge but the senate race is very close. president biden and vice president harris are coming this friday for a pennsylvania democratic party event. former president obama and president biden we're told are coming the final weekend of campaigning. it's one of the few places that president biden has been invited to on this midterm election campaign trail. many democrats simply do not necessarily want to stand with him. his approval rating is in the

40s or so, so not dissimilar from other presidents in power in midterm election races, but he will be coming back to pennsylvania. of course he was born here in scranton, he's from neighboring delaware now. this is sort of his home base, if you will. at the end of the day it is fetterman versus oz. it has more to do with them than the presidents of either party. >> jeff zeleny there in harrisburg. thank you, jeff. let's go to georgia now. more than a million georgians have already voted. the state is about to break another record for early voter turnout. we're learning this from the secretary of state today. now, of course that tight and contentious race for u.s. senate is a big draw. >> both raphael warnock and his republican opponent herschel walker are holding campaign events today. diane gallagher just attended one of walker's events in dawsonville, georgia. what's driving so many out early

this year? >> reporter: it may be the fact that people are so engaged. according to the secretary of state's office, again, that 1 million ballots cast already, that's in person early voting and voting by mail in the second week, talking about records. this looks more on par with a presidential cycle than it does a midterm election. even the secretary of state's office talking about just how astounding this year is already compared to 2018. >> in fact as we stand here today, we have crossed the threshold of 1 million voters. to put that into perspective, at this point in the last midterm in 2018, we stood at about 590,000 votes. that is nearly a 70% increase, comparing apples to apples. >> reporter: the secretary of state also discussing the climate around voting for the

past two years, talking about disinformation, warning people to be on the lookout for that, and also discussing the way that the office is trying to protect poll workers in the threats that they have dealt with since the 2020 presidential election, the tension, the fear that is there, setting up a texting system so they can alert authorities if they are intimidated or threatened in any way. we should point out brad raffensperger, a republican, running for re-election. his opponent appeared alongside democratic senator raphael warnock last night in atlanta as he begins his bus tour today in his hometown of savannah. herschel walker, the republican running for senate on this bus tour across georgia, hitting those two rural communities in north georgia. but something i noticed from the walker campaign today that i personally had not heard thus far was him asking the voters who attended his rally today

whether or not they had voted early and encouraging them to get out and vote early. that is something we have heard consistently from senator raphael warnock encouraging people to vote when they can, vote before election day in case something happens, you've got it out of the way. it's the first time i have heard herschel walker tell his voters to do the same. >> and turnout has been big, as we've been covering it. diane gallagher, thank you. also in arizona, another issue that is important for voters and that is the potential for voter intimidation. near ballot drop boxes has been reported by the justice department, two groups of arizona voters are now asking for a temporary restraining order against an organization they say is photographing and following people as they drop off ballots. >> the sheriff of maricopa county says that these people with guns that are seen watching the ballot drop box, you've got

to go slowly through there, they're not breaking the law. cnn's mae reston joins us now. how is that legal if we know that the ag is saying no voter will be intimidated? certainly somebody with a gun sitting next to the drop box could be intimidating. what more do you know? >> reporter: right. what the sheriff is saying is that there's no illegality here. you know, in an open carry state. while these people are wearing camouflage and masks and looking very intimidating, he said that they have a right to be there unless, of course, they were openly threatening someone. now, what you mentioned, though, is that there are obviously these voter intimidation complaints that we are following, and so that process is winding its way through the courts now. these two groups, one an association of retirees and another one voto latino are

seeking a restraining order against these folks saying that they are intimidation voters and this would be a violation of the law. what we're waiting to see here is both how that process will play out in court and also whether the department of justice gets involved here. the secretary of state has referred these complaints to the doj and so, you know, basically officials in arizona are really trying to bring the temperature down here and we'll see how this ends up in court and whether the doj gets involved. >> maeve reston with the reporting. thank you. a senior department of homeland security official gave a pretty stark warning to potential threats to voting systems, now two weeks away from when the votes will be counted. >> we know that there is a historical basis for violence associated with elections.

we are certainly very focused on what we consider to be an incredibly heightened threat environment. >> cnn's senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi director andrew mccabe joins us now. great to have you on. as we just heard, what are officials doing to counter that increased threat with election day just two weeks away? >> you know, bianna, this is a really tough situation for our friends in law enforcement. as we know, this is kind of the hangover of the big lie, the persistent claims by the former president and other people on the right about having had the results of the election stolen from them in 2020. there are many, many people who are convinced without, of course, any evidence of that claim, that that's the case. and so they bring that same sort of grievance, that same sort of

heightened state of potential violence into this election. what can law enforcement do about it? unlike traditional extremist threats, this is not the sort of situation where you can flood the zone with protective measures and law enforcement officers because of course that sort of response can have a chilling impact or intimidating impact on voters as they try to approach polling places. so state and local law enforcement have to be incredibly vigilant, they have to respond to complaints at voting locations and drop boxes and places like that, but their hands are somewhat tied in what they can do ahead of time before those complaints start coming in. >> specifically on what vinograd said there, this incredibly heightened threat environment, would a person in that position, would that be based on published reporting and of course the precedent we have from january 6th or would she have to have additional intel that justifies this incredibly heightened

threat environment, that there's something that she knows that she can't or won't say? >> victor, i would expect that that assessment is placed on the totality of information they have before them right now. some of that is historical, what we learned from january 6th, but some of that has got to be based on the -- what they're seeing online, what they're seeing in the same sort of chat rooms and social media accounts that had these indicators of violence before january 6th. i would expect that the department of homeland security and the fbi are watching the same sort of online conversations very closely. these are publicly available, they're not -- this is open source material that law enforcement can look at. they need to be taking advantage of that open source intelligence to understand the threat environment that they're dealing with. >> and law enforcement successfully thwarted any sort of external outside foreign state actors from interfering in the 2020 election as we saw

russia do in 2016. are you concerned at all about the scale of bandwidth perhaps that officials now have in making sure that we don't see a repeat of foreign actor interference, while also grappling now with the threat domestically? >> there's no question that the threat of foreign actors trying to meddle in our democratic systems goes on. this was not a one and done shot. and there are several foreign adversaries that are interested in not just influencing the results of our democratic process but simply sowing chaos and disunion here in the united states. so that threat persists. and to some degree our own political turmoil and the chaos around our elections provides perfect cover for some of those actors to get into the system to try to influence the way that people perceive the elections and the fairness of the elections or the possibility of

malfeasance in elections. so it's really a perfect storm of both domestic and foreign actors and the field is wide open right now as we get into the midterm elections. >> perfect storm. andy mccabe, thank you for the assessment. thank you. a russian court upheld american basketball star brittney griner's nine-year prison sentence. how president biden is responding. we've got that for you. after intense back lash, the head of the house progressive caucus now withdraws a letter sent to president biden urging direct diplomacy with russia to end the war in ukraine. a member of congress who signed that controversial letter is with us, up next. rty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! (limu squawks) he's a natatural. only pay foror what you need. ♪libertrty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪

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a russian court today upheld the conviction of american basketball star brittney griner keeping in place nearly all of her nine-year prison sentence on drug smuggling charges. >> at an appeal hearing today in jail, griner said waiting for her day in court has been traumatic for her mental health and for her family. >> i've been here almost eight months and people with more severe crimes have gotten less than what i was given. i want to also apologize for this mistake. >> cnn national security correspondent kiley atwood joins us now. what is the state department saying about this? we just heard president biden address it as well. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. basically brittney griner's hearing today means she is still guilty of smuggling these drugs into russia. there is really not a substantial change to her nine-year prison sentence.

maybe a few months that has been taken off of that, but not a substantial change. when you talk to biden administration officials, they were not expecting a big change out of this hearing today but they are going after the russian judicial system saying that it is a sham and saying that they are really doubling down, as they have been in past months, on their efforts through diplomatic efforts to try and get brittney griner and paul whelan, another american wrongfully detained, back home. the national security advisor saying today that the biden administration is working through essentially all avenues possible with all means available to them to try and secure a way to get brittney griner home. president biden also spoke to this earlier today about these constant efforts. listen to what he said. >> we are in constant contact with russian authorities to get brittney and others out. so far we have not been meeting

with much positive response, but we're not stopping. >> reporter: now, of course all of this is happening as russia continues to wage this war in ukraine. those are viewed as very separate issues for the biden administration, but it doesn't mean that they can be viewed in silos. of course the fact that that war is raging on does impact u.s./russia diplomatic relations. just in recent days we have heard russia alleging that ukraine is planning to carry out a dirty bomb in their own country. u.s. officials very clearly saying that those are false allegations. but the question that is now emerging is, is russia preparing to carry out its own false flag operation by making these accusations. president biden was also asked if he believes that they are preparing that false flag operation with these dirty flag comments earlier today. he didn't specifically comment

on that, but here's what he said about tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield. >> russia will be making an incredibly serious mistake to use a tactical nuclear weapon. i'm not guaranteeing you that it's a false flag operation yet, i don't know. but it would be a serious, serious mistake. >> reporter: we have also heard from biden administration officials that there would be catastrophic consequences for russia if they use a nuclear weapon on the battlefield as part of their raging war in ukraine, though they haven't been explicit about what those consequences would be. >> and russia has been known to use these false flag operations even in the buildup before the war. heightened tensions for sure. ca kylie atwood, thank you. a group of house democrats is now withdrawing a letter they sent to the white house. that letter urged the biden administration to shift his strategy on the ukraine war and

pursue direct negotiations with russia. but the message angered other democrats because they felt that it revealed new divisions within their party just days before the november midterms. well, now congresswoman pramila jayapal says, quote, the letter was drafted several months ago but unfortunately was released by staff without vetting. she went on to say as chair of the caucus, i accept responsibility for this. joining me now is a member of that progressive caucus, congressman ro khanna. thank you so much for joining us here on set. >> thank you. >> this has turned into a messy own goal on the part of your caucus. what happened? >> well, bianna, let me just say what i position is which matters. i have supported every package of giving aid to ukraine and i plan to support continuing to arm ukraine. all the letter said is that we at the same time that we stand with ukraine need to make sure that we're reducing the risk for nuclear war, that we're engaging in talks with the russians to make sure that the conflict doesn't escalate. we need to support ukraine with

arms and we need diplomacy, that's common sense. >> congresswoman jayapal seemed to suggest that this letter was a mistake, it was drafted, signed several months ago and she's rescinded it. do you not support that move? >> i don't. i think the letter was common sense. i support making sure we arm ukraine and provide arms to ukraine and continue to fund it, but i also believe that the president as he said, we are at a risk of nuclear war. don't you think our counterpart should be talking to russia? of course they should to be sure that it doesn't escalate. and you know my position is similar to what former joint chief of staff mullen has said, what other senior military leaders have said. yes, let's stand with ukraine but let's also support diplomacy. >> so you still support this letter? it was said to have been drafted and signed early this summer. when did you sign it? >> probably in the summer, around june or july. i don't remember the exact date. >> the reason that i'm asking is because i looked at the timeline of the war and what was taking place around then. so i just want to read off some of these events.

june 27th, russian missiles target a shopping mill in central ukraine killing at least 18 people. on july 17th, president zelenskyy says russia has fired 3,000 cruise missiles against his country. july 20th, in an interview, russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said russia departed from its original goal and now saying zaporizhzhia and kherson in the south were also important to take. subsequently they have illegally annexed all four. i'm just wondering what you and your fellow caucus members saw in all of this that gave you a sense that vladimir putin was serious about coming to the table and discussing a cease-fire given all that was going on at the time? >> well, bianna, first of all, i've been very clear that the war is brutal, it's unprovoked and the fault is russia's. after that i voted for packages to arm ukrainians precisely for that. what gave us pause is there's talk about nuclear war. what gave us pause is vladimir putin is threatening nuclear war. even at the height of the cold

war in this country, we had our military talk to the russian military, we had our leaders talk to the russians. we have a self-interest in making sure that that war doesn't escalate. and that is all that diplomacy says, it doesn't say that we don't stand with the ukrainians. that's what i vote for every time. >> you talk about the cold war. we're now in a hot war. not the united states, but obviously this is between ukraine and russia. vladimir putin has not only looked for an exit ramp, he's mobilized 200,000 plus soldiers, he is targeting civilian infrastructure in ukraine, he's shopping more weapons in iran. none of this seems to suggest that he is willing or looking to de-escalate. so only -- aren't you benefitting him by suggesting, because this is going on all through russian state media, that this looks like the u.s., whether it's from mccarthy suggesting that if republicans take over that they are going to stop giving out a blank check, and now this from your caucus suggests to russia perhaps that the u.s. support is not as strong as it was? >> that's not true.

our votes are for aid to ukraine and arming ukraine. but in this country, we have always had a tradition, which says that you debate and discuss foreign policy. and when you have senior military leaders, senior joint chiefs of staff saying we shouldn't be risking nuclear war, when you have senior leaders worried about the war escalating and thousands of people being killed as civilians, i wouldn't be doing my job as a united states congressman if i wasn't also supporting every effort at diplomacy while standing clearly with ukraine, while clearly condemning putin for an unprovoked illegal war. i believe that's consistent with what this president has done. i think the president has handled it very strategically and diplomatically. >> some of your caucus members have traveled on codels to ukraine since the start of the war. have you? >> no. >> and congresswoman jayapal also has not. what you hear from them is a determined ukrainian population

that despite everything coming at them from the russians, they are not willing to sit down at the table, the majority, with vladimir putin right now. don't you at least owe them a visit before you sign any document like this? >> no. i have stood with ukraine and provided them with support, with arms. i admire their courage. i have said that any decision in negotiation should be the ukrainian decision. but i think my job is to make sure i'm looking out for america's national interests and for our values. let me tell you, it's in our interests to make sure there's not nuclear war. it's in our interests to make sure this war doesn't escalate. it is in ukraine's interest and the world's interest to make sure we do everything possible to lessen civilian casualties. now, if someone wasn't voting for arms or someone was saying we're not going to vote for new aid packages, that's what leader mccarthy is saying, he may not vote for new aid, that's a

problem. when someone is voting for aid, someone is voting for arms, i get attacked all the time why are you supporting arms. we should also make sure we're having diplomacy. we can't have that conversation in this country? something is wrong when we have lost the ability to have nuance in america. president reagan who won the cold war was willing to have negotiations with the soviet counterparts. let's have common sense. let's stand with the ukrainians but do everything we can -- >> president biden said no decision on ukraine without ukraine. >> i agree with that. >> president zelenskyy has said he's not sitting down with vladimir putin since he's illegally annexed -- >> i said the american military needs to talk with the russian counterparts and any decision is something that the ukrainian people wanting. >> congressman, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. today a close ally of former president trump is meeting with the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack. details ahead. o help you remembr that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance,

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just into cnn, former trump communications director hope hicks is meeting with the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. >> cnn's paula reid joins us now. what more are we learning? >> well, bianna, this is very significant because hicks was one of former president trump's closest aides, including during that period following the 2020 election and on january 6th. and the committee has signalled that in this final phase of its investigation, they're really trying to drill down on the former president's efforts to overturn the election results and on what he was doing and where he was and who he was talking to on january 6th. now, according to multiple books that have been written about the final months of the trump administration, hope hicks was one of the people who even told the former president that she did not believe that the election had been stolen and she believed that, yes, in fact he had lost. and the committee has sought to prove through its entire investigation really in the public hearings, in public

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with just two weeks until election day, president biden is making his pitch to voters in a new op-ed on cnn.com. it puts the economy front and center. he writes the american people face a choice between two vastly different visions for our country. in the piece, the president touts the unemployment rate, which is at a 50-year low and warns that republican policies would make inflation much worse. he also writes this. over the past nearly two years, we have made enormous progress. my administration working with democrats in congress is building an economy that grows from the bottom up and the

middle out. mitch landrieu is white house add veers and implementation coordinator. always good to have you on. i think the last time that the president published or "wall street journal" published an op-ed about the economy by the president, you and i spoke about it back in may. joe biden, my plan for fighting inflation. back then the consumer price index was 8.3% for the month of april year over year. now it's 8.2% for september year over year. what do you say to the voters who say this is not changing quickly enough, i can't take the inflation at the current rate, it's time to pick a new team? >> well, there's no doubt that inflation is a trouble position for everybody in the country right now. as the president said in his op-ed, you're looking at a global problem right now, primarily caused by putin's war and the virus. the president has worked really, really hard to lower prices on behalf of all americans and people ought to contemplate what

it would be had we not taken all of the actions that the president has taken from lowering prescription drug costs to lowering health care premiums to reducing the debts on students as well. all of those actions are taken and the president continues to work very, very hard and he will continue to do so. i think what he said in the op-ed piece is that elections are really not referendums, they are actually choices. one of the questions people ought to be asking now is what the congressional republicans' plan is for reducing inflation. they don't really have a plan to do that. what they do have a plan to do is cut social security, cut medicare and medicaid to make sure they go after the health care premium reductions in the inflation reduction act and increase prices on prescriptioa increase prices on prescription drugs as well as letting folks with a lot of money off the hook, where the president wants everybody to pay their fair share. >> and the president has made that case for months now. so then what do you attribute this 15% margin of likely voters who say they still, considering all you just laid out there,

they still trust republicans to do a better job on handling inflation, 14 points on handling the economy. i'll point out here on inflation, as many people trust the republicans as they trust neither party at all, but democrats alone are 15 points behind them. >> well, listen, it's not unusual to be in that position in a midterm election. you can go back and look at every one for the past 30 years and you see presidents in similar positions. actually this administration is in a better position than other administrations have been. but on election day when the referendum is held and the choice is made clear, the president is trying to point out what his view is and what their view is appeared he thinks his is better. >> gas prices, the president announced the last 15 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve, there's not an analyst i've spoken with that has said that's going to last very long during the opec oil

reduction, so what's next? >> the president has all options on the table but as you said for the last three weeks gas prices have gone down. unfortunately, they haven't gone down as fast as the price of a barrel of oil as gone down and the president has called on big oil to do their part. he's going to continue to work hard. that release from the strategic petroleum reserve has been very aggressive over the past year and we'll continue to work on that until we lower the cost for the average american. >> this letter hthat was just withdrawn from 30 house progressives saying that the president in addition to the economic support, the military support, should be redoubling efforts to seek a realistic framework for a cease-fire, it's been withdrawn now, but was there damage done by even sending that message two weeks out from election day? >> well, as you said, that letter has been withdrawn. the democrats on the hill and the president are in line on what's going to happen with ukraine from a united states position.

>> the president says that he has 16 to 18 invitations that he's received to be out with candidates across the country in the last couple of weeks before the votes are counted. is he scheduled to be out with any? we've not seen any update where the president will be headlining any public rallies. >> i don't have the president's schedule in front of me, but the president has been traveling and is going to continue to travel across america to highlight the success of his administration. as i said, 10 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment rate. americans have more money in their pocket today. so the president will be out there all the time. he has been. he's going to continue to travel and i think with great success. >> mitch landrieu, always good to have you on. good to see you. thank you. >> thank you, victor. well, this just in to cnn. a 5.1 magnitude earthquake has hit central california near san jose. >> preliminary information shows

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>> former health commissioner wrote a "washington post" op-ed saying people are most vulnerable to head trauma when they are young. what should parents and coaches know? >> it's a good thing the nfl is continuing to revise their concussion protocols. if we want lifelong health consequences from football and other contact sports we have to start young. so there's a condition called chronic traumatic, cte, resulting in dementia and the risk of cte is associated with the total number of hits to the head as well as the number of years that someone is playing direct contact sports. so the experts i interviewed for "the washington post" piece talked about two interventions that would be the most useful. the first is delaying the start

of tackle football or hockey or heading in soccer until at least high school and then after that working with coaches to try to restrict live tackling in practice. can you tackle on dummies but try to reduce live tackling which is what the nfl already does. and so when you look at the fact there are over 2 million kids playing youth or high school football that are engaging in live tackling and doing things even the nfl does not do, there's a real chance to make a difference earlier on in a child's life. >> it's remarkable kids start banking that damage that eventually leads to cte before they even get to adulthood. doctor, let me ask you about this triple threat concern of the season. the respiratory virus, rsv, that has kids filling these pediatric hospital beds, rising cases of flu, fears of covid resurgence, is the medical community equipped, able, to handle all of

this at once? >> we anticipated this could happen, having a twindemic of covid and the flu but this year there could be a triple epidemic. we are seeing rsv cases overwhelm hospitals, flu cases on the rise. covid may be next. and so i'm concerned about what happens to our health care system because we know that it's not just covid patients or flu patients who could be affected. it's everybody else trying to come in for medical issues to be addressed. the best thing for people to do, get the flu shot now if you haven't already especially if you're over 65 or with chronic medical conditions get your covid booster and then do good hand hygiene and don't go into work or school if you're actively symptomatic. >> dr. leana wen, always good advice. thank you. the u.s. postal service is honoring the late supreme court

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