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democracy itself is on the ballot. plus on the trail, former president trump stumping across several states in the final days of the race, hitting ohio, florida, pennsylvania and iowa. we'll take you there. a cnn exclusive. new 911 audio in a uvalde student trapped inside the classroom as the gunman continued his rampage in the school. what her parents want us all to hear now. let's begin this morning with president biden's stark warning. cnn white house correspondent m.j. lee is on the north lawn. m.j., walk us through president biden's closing election. five days before the midterms he had some very harrowing words. >> reporter: yes, jim. president biden saying he thinks we're at a generational inflection point, that what we're confronting right now is so much bigger than politics. he said this is not about me, not even about the last election or the upcoming midterm elections. he said this is all about the

future of our country. he began his remarks notably by talking about in some graphic detail the violent attack against paul pelosi which of course now we know authorities have said was politically motivated. he said the alleged words from the suspect who attacked paul pelosi saying where's nancy, where's nancy, that those are the same words that some of the members of the mob who went into the capitol on january 6th used. take a listen. >> there are candidates running for every level of office in america, for governor, congress, attorney general, secretary of state who won't commit, that will not commit to accepting the results of elections that they're running in. this is a chaos in america. it's unprecedented. it's unlawful, and it's un-american. >> reporter: there is no issue right now, though, that is more top of mind for voters than the

economy and inflation. when you take a look at polls, the issue of voter integrity and voting rights, that tends to rank far lower as we talk about sort of the top priorities for voters heading into next week. now, in this final stretch the president today is headed back out west. he will go to new mexico to campaign for governor michelle lujan grisham who is in a tight race. this midterm we have talked a lot about house races and senate races and the question of whether democrats will be able to keep control of congress. but this trip is a reminder that democrats also care a whole lot about whether governor's mansions can stay blue. remember, these governors are the ones who can help enact and implement the president's agenda heading into the next two years. jim. >> no question. m.j. lee at the white house, thank you. today former president donald trump is stumping in iowa, the first of several stops ahead of next week's midterm. cnn's chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is on

the trail in sioux city, iowa. we expect to see trump with senator chuck grassley. it's a finite amount of time before election day next tuesday. why did trump decide to stop in iowa, and i wonder what you're hearing from voters there? >> reporter: iowa is hardly the hottest battleground of 2022. the former president will be here in sueioux city later toda trying to shore up the base for senator grassley who is running for his eighth term in the u.s. senate. he's having a closer-than-expected race. still this is a republican part of the state and largely viewed as a republican year. not much worry from republicans about senator grassley. a bigger reason that former president donald trump is coming here to kick off four rallies in five days going into the election. of course, it's all about the next election down the road, 2024. we've seen the former president inch closer and closer to saying he is going the seek a third bid

for the presidency, and he clearly wants to make his mark starting here in iowa, of course, the beginning of every presidential race. clearly, as republicans are sensing optimism, the former president wants to claim some of that early victory. one advisor actually described it as something of a pre-victory lap. we should also point out, jim, there have been many republicans spending a lot of time here throughout the year already. former vice president mike pence has been here several times. we're also learning florida governor ron desantis who is facing his own re-election next week and has 2024 ambitions of his own, is also eyeing a trip here post election. the shadow 2024 contest is about to jump out a bit. clearly republicans focused on next tuesday with an eye looking even farther ahead. jim. >> no sooner do you embark on one election that we all start talking about the next one. jeff zeleny, thanks so much.

also this morning, republicans on capitol hill are previewing what they plan to do if they take back congress. ohio rep jim jordan putting the doj and fbi on notice with a letter spelling out potential investigations. cnn's melanie zanona on capitol hill this morning. melanie, you read this letter. what are the targets? >> reporter: republicans are ready to hit the ground running with their investigative plans if they take back the house. they have been laying the groundwork for those investigative priorities for months. that includes yesterday when jim jordan sent these letters to a number of biden agencies requesting documents and other information. to the faib jordan is seeking information about the search warrant on trump's residence in florida, mar-a-lago. to the doj they're seeking information about the probe into project veritas. that is a conservative group known for its undercover sting operations and also seeking information about the agency's

enforcement of an access to abortions clinic law. i want to read you a quick key line. jordan writes that committee republicans intend to continue to examine these matters including into the 118th congress if necessary. clearly they are putting these agencies on notice and making crystal clear that republicans plan to use their subpoena power if they have it in order to obtain these documents. remember, jim jordan is poised to chair the powerful judiciary committee if they win power. that will have jurisdiction over everything from abortion, immigration, guns, potential impeachment proceedings. jim jordan is a very powerful figure. he's close to donald trump, to kevin mccarthy, the likely speaker. he's close to the conservative wing of the congress. >> we haven't seen our last congressional subpoena i'm sure. melanie, thanks so much. joining us now to speak about the midterm messaging, what it means for this coming tuesday, cnn political commentators bakari seller and

alice stewart. back carry, i wonder if we can begin with the president's message, not dissimilar from what we heard on december 4th. he's generally concerned about the threat to the democratic process. politically is this a winning message going into these midterm elections? >> i think it is. i think last night he was extremely presidential and he wasn't partisan. it was, of course, a political speech focused on democracy. it wasn't a speech catered towards republicans or democrats, per se. i think it was catered towards those individuals in the middle of the country. ron brownstein says this often and i'll repeat it until i'm blue in the face next week, this is an election of double negatives, where people don't have an appetite for either party or either candidate. what donald trump did was give those voters something to hang their hat on. if you're an election denier and don't want to promote and ensure the stability of democracy, you can't be elected to the united states senator united states house of representatives.

that was his message last night. it was giving those voters, particularly those in the m middle, not to the far left, the far right, a reason to vote. it was very profound. >> alice stewart, we showed what voters say their decisive issues are, economic issues at the top of it. do you agree that's an impactful message from the president? >> look at those numbers. the economy is 51%. voting and election concerns are down in single digits. we're hearing from even democrats with concern over the president's speech last night, not just in terms of the message, but the messenger. his message that democracy is on the brink is not what's top of mind with voters. voters are concerned with money in the bank, not democracy on the brink. he would have been better served to focus on economic issues as well as inflation, but also the messenger. we've heard "new york times" peter baker this morning, he said many democrats are trying

to distance themselves from president biden due to his low polling numbers. our colleague david axelrod said the same, that democrats prefer to run their own race. i think that's where the trouble lies. five days out from the election, not speaking about the issues that are top of mind for voters, that's a big concern. >> bakari, a tight race for the senate in ohio. hear what he said about not wanting national party support in this race. have a listen. >> the national democratic party has never been really good at strategic political decisions. it's not a surprise here. thank god i've had enough experience that i've built this campaign not needing them and we really don't want them at this point. we've built a robust machine here in ohio that doesn't need the national democratic party. it's going to give me a level of independence that most senators

don't have. >> wow, doesn't want them, doesn't need them. quite a stark message from a democrat. >> not a stark message. it's a candidate that wants to win. tim ryan has run a hell of a race, he's doing what's best for the citizens of ohio. we have to look at it from the prism of you run races to win them. tim ryan is running a winning race. he has a coalition of rural voters, black voters. he has them in the city, in the suburbs, college educated women. we's giving himself a fighting chance. democrats haven't had a fighting chance in ohio since barack obama. if you follow any races in this country, you have to follow pennsylvania because i believe fetterman is still up in every poll since the debate. the two races that will be of the utmost import that people are not talking about because they're not nationalized races are ohio and north carolina. no, we don't need the dnc in particular in those races because cheri beasley and tim ryan are doing what's best respectively for ohio and north

carolina and running damn good campaigns. >> i do want to ask about republican messages going into this race. playing on the economic issues. they're talking about investigations. you know there can be a limited amount of patience and enthusiasm for those. specifically on commission, do republicans have a plan to address, for instance, inflation? what is that plan? >> certainly. you look at the commitment to america that kevin mccarthy put out. if republicans do win, he would certainly be one to set the agenda. key priorities are certainly on addressing inflation, and a large part of that is by reducing regulations and strengthening the economy and doing everything we can to support businesses to not only provide jobs, but also to have jobs with higher pay and implement some pro growth tax policies that will help people across the board. also, the commitment to reducing crime and addressing the crisis at the border are key priorities for republicans as they are

poised to take over in just five to six days. >> bakari, your response to that plan? >> that's not much of a plan. that's more 50,000 could-be things. we do know republicans want to cut social security. rick scott has been talking about this. this is a major issue for voters. yes, inflation is not just a problem here in the united states. it's a global problem because people fail to realize we just emerged from a pandemic. it's a serious issue, pocketbook issues are serious, the borders are issue, crime is definitely a serious issue. these are all issues my family talks about. there is no plan, republicans have no plan and democrats actually have solutions. we just have to see if they work out. >> they're at the center of the debate here. bakari sellers, alice stewart, thanks to both of you. >> thanks, jim. coming up next this hour, more chilling, heartbreaking audio from the 911 call that cnn exclusively obtained from the uvalde school shooting.

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the shooter opened fire again. cnn crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz has the latest. simone, these parents verbally crediting your reporting for many of the answers that have come through here and they also wanted to share this call. i'm curious why. >> they're hoping for transparency in the end. the ultimate thing is accountability. they still live in this community. the same police officers, the same sheriff's deputies are still patrolling the streets. their kids hope to one day go back to school. the kids are too afraid to go back to school. it's about accountability, transparency. also, jim, they're trying to get a better understanding of what happened inside that classroom. these calls are giving them the understanding because their kids are continuing to suffer, continuing to have questions. they're hoping that by listening the these calls, they can get answers to those questions, and they feel it's important to get this story out there.

so they agreed to allow us to air these videos -- audio tapes i should say, of their kids being trapped inside the classroom. the latest one is from mia. as you said, mia is inside this classroom. she gets on the phone with the dispatcher. what's so striking there is the fact that there are gunshots, the dispatcher could hear the gunshots, the officers hear the gunshots, but yet they wait almost another 30 minutes before they go inside that classroom. take a listen. you will see in the video officers in the hallway as mia is on the call with the dispatcher. here you go.

>> jim, we don't air the gunshots out of respect for the

family. you see we noted where it was. you can see the officers advancing. again, they wait and wait and wait. the other thing you can tell from that audio is that they can hear the officers outside at some point, they hear them there. i think what's going on is they're just wondering why aren't the officers coming in. these are questions they have repeatedly have had for their parents, jim. >> goodness, i can only imagine being that little girl's father or mother, just heartbreaking to hear. shimon, stay with us. i want to bring in retired lapd sergeant cheryl dorsey for more. sergeant dorsey, as you listen to that, as an officer of the law who has put your own life in danger, was this a failure of communication and leadership? or as you listen to that -- i should note to viewers the video outside the room is, i understand it, synced up with what was happening as the little girl was making the call. in your view did those officers

place their own safety above that of the children? >> clearly we know this was a failure of leadership. we know the police chief was right there outside the door. we saw him pleading and begging with the suspect to come an out and show us our hands, we want this to end reasonably well for you, sir. which is nonsensical in the midst of an active shooter. why the officers didn't super seed the guy, clearly if sense were common, everybody would have it. the chief didn't. the officers didn't. this was a complete failure from top to bottom. >> failed that little girl. shimon, as this has come out, you've been hearing reaction from, beyond the family, or members of the public there in uvalde, texas. what are they saying? >> people are certainly, jim -- i guess the best way to put it is just stunned. i don't think they realized how bad this was until they hear those kids in the classroom.

i spoke to one official last night who had not heard this call before, was aware of it, but has been unable to listen to it. there's an investigation going on and certain people have been precluded from doing anything, which is really a problem there for the officials, but they couldn't believe just the brutality and what transpired here. in part they're very thankful for our reporting and that this is coming out this way because they think it's important. i'm just shocked at the fact that the people who need to know what happened inside that classroom so they can make decisions about officers and who needs to be fired and who needs to be suspended and what training needs to change and what changes need to be made have not been able to listen to this call, have not been able to get the information so they can start making the changes. so we're months away, months, if not a year away from seeing any significant action, and yet these parents are going to have to deal with this from month to

month to month as more information comes out, jim. >> sergeant dorsey, after columbine, one of the takeaways, one of the lessons from that was don't wait, go in. that lesson was not followed in the case of uvalde. as you look at this as an officer of the law long serving, what lesson, if any new lessons or even nold lessons do you thik need to be learned? >> we've been debriefing this for quite some time. what needs to happen is a complete doover of this police department and those who responded to this call. these officers who were there and did nothing, neglected their duty to act should be decertified. that would be accountability so they can't move around like chess pieces from one agency to another within that state. this could be a recruitment tool for those parents, for families of those parents. get on that police department. part of the change they want will come from the inside, and

they need to be on that police department so their voices can be heard externally and internally. >> i always think of those poor families. sergeant dorsey, thanks so much, shimon for your reporting as well. we're moments away from the opening bell on wall street where stocks fell yesterday after another big rate hike from the fed and the chair's suggestion that that hike won't be the last. we'll have move on that coming up. ...an inindependent organization that sets stririct quality and purity standards. nature madade. the number one pharmacist recommemended vitamin and supplement brand. two new ihop lunch and dinner menu items for twice the goodness, twice the flavor, and twice the choice. sioin salisbury steak and all-natural salmon. perfect for luh or dinner. only at ihop. download the app and earn free food with every purchase. back when i had a working circulatory system, you had to give your right arm to find great talent. but with upwork, there's highly skilled talent

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after yet another aggressive rate hike, the fed has signaled that more are to come. let's take a look at how the markets are reacting as they open. there you go, down nearly a percent, 240 points. this follows a slide yesterday after the fed announced it was hiking rates .75 percentage point for the fourth straight time. for more on this, also crucially what's ahead, when was this stop, we turn to chief business correspondent christine romans. christine, first of all, what's the reality today, the initial reaction here to this latest rate hike? >> that higher rates are theer stay and that the fed will continue to crank them up because inflation is not under control. that affects everyone. you can see it in the stock market. already we're on track for the worst year in 2008 since the stock market.

retirement has taken a hit here. caused higher borrowing costs, mortgage rates topped 7%. in 29 minutes we'll get a new reading on mortgage rates. i'm pretty sure they're still going higher here. then you're talking about credit card rates, car loan rates, home loan rates, all these things are real money for real people. if you look at a $400,000 mortgage, for example, that will cost just about $1,000 more for the same mortgage this year. >> good to put it in those terms. percentages don't speak to folks until they look at the bottom line. one thing i noticed in the fed chairman's comments were him saying in effect that the path is narrowing for a soft landing. rate hikes that bring down inflation without sparking a recession and almost seeming to signal, you've got to live with it, right? how are folks responding to that? >> so here is the sad truth.

the inflation we're living through right now already feels really bad, and a lot of people in this country already feel like it's a recession. he's got to kick that. he's got to get rid of that. that may mean you spark a recession which isn't -- honestly wouldn't be as bad as what we're living through right now. you can see that often when the fed goes on a series of tightening cycles, rate hikes, a recession can follow. it has happened not every time, but it has happened in the past. the fed chief, you picked exactly the right sound bite you were talking about there. the inflation picture has become more challenging. to the extent that rates have to go higher and stay higher for longer, it becomes harder to see the path that avoids a recession. that's what he warned people yesterday. >> not comforting to hear. christine romans, thanks very much. >> you're welcome. with just five days to election day, concerns are growing about threats of political violence in this country. the latest incident involves a

chicago man charged with making death threats against state senator derrin bailey, republican candidate for governor of illinois. in a voice mail he said he would, quote, skin darren bailey alive. cnn correspondent whitney wild joins me now. this, of course, follows the attack inside the house speaker's husband. is law enforcement seeing a measurable increase of such threats and are there responses to respond? >> the answer to the first question is yes. look at the capitol police data point. this has skyrocketed. last year they tracked around 9,200 threats, up from just more than 8,000 the year before. in 2017, 3,400. this has exploded. the reality for resources is it's challenging. we'll get to a little more of that in a second. what the illinois case really highlights is this has spread

across multiple levels of government. it has spread across parties. it's just a challenge for really anybody in government, from the local to the federal level right now. here is just a brief quote from that very frightening voice mail. here is what this person said. i'm going to skin darren bailey alive making sure he's still alive and screaming in f'ing pain. i know where he lives. i know where he sleeps. i know where his kids sleep. yeah, that's right. he better kill himself. if he doesn't, i'm going to try to kill him. capitol police are trying to expand protections. some of the ideas under consideration are things like 24-hour details at leadership's homes as well as security for the spouses. lawmakers, though, before they're really willing to green light what could be a pretty expensive package, is they want to know how this happened and what capitol police is going to do about it. they're really issuing a

blistering letter to capitol police with questions like this. they want information on uscp's strategic plan for protection, more information on how the details are supposed to work. what lawmakers told capitol police is you've known for years that threats to lawmakers were increasing. you always tell us house speaker nancy pelosi gets the most threats, how did this happen? answers to those questions will factor into whether or not they feel comfortable supplying more money. in the end it's going to come down to a resources issue. they're, again, asking a lot of very direct question. >> there was discussion of this after january 6th, proposals for protection of members in their homes. some of those steps were not implemented. we'll see if this sparks new action. whitney wild, thank you. former president trump makes his case to shield the trump organization and documents from the new york attorney general. we are outside the new york courtroom. that's coming up.

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i wonder what we expect to see today and how long we expect this to play out. >> reporter: good morning, jim. this is the first time both attorneys from the new york attorney general's office and the trump organization will be back in court since the lawsuit was filed this summer. new york attorney general is seeking a preliminary injunction to block the trump organization from moving assets around without court approval and wants to impose a corporate monitor to oversee the financial statements. these are the financial statements she alleged are fraudulent. she doesn't want them to continue to go out to lenders and insurance companies. lawyers for the former president says they have no intention of moving assets. this comes as the former president filed this lawsuit last night in florida. he's trying to block james' office from obtaining any records related to his personal trust. this is the trust that holds the ownership of the 500 or so entities that make up the trump organization. he's trying to block her access to these records under florida's

privacy laws saying she doesn't have a right or even the jurisdiction to get them. james's office is saying he has tried many times to block her fashion, that they will continue to pursue and that no one is above the law. today this case here, we can expect the judge -- he might make a decision. he has generally moved pretty quickly in these instances. james' office saying there's a need to do this now because they don't want assets to potentially leave the seat. if they have a judgment, they want to be able to collect whatever assets there are. of course, this is the latest effort by trump to try to change who is overseeing this case, a new lawsuit in florida. he tried yesterday again to try to move the case away from the judge overseeing it today. that was denied, jim. >> kara scannell at the courthouse, thanks so much. joining us to discuss, elie hoenig, former district attorney for the southern district of new york.

elie, good to have you on. one of several court cases that relates to trump, but on the specific one and the issue of imposing a monitor to oversee the trump organization's financial dealings, why does the new york attorney general want to do that? what does she hope to achieve? >> jim, a monitor is essentially a more sophisticated version of a babysitter. the new york attorney general is saying the trump organization can't be trusted to run its own business. we need to have a neutral, outside, independent person who comes in and keeps an eye on things, makes sure they're not falsifying their documents and also make sure they're not die vesting themselves, getting rid of their money, spinning it off to other companies in anticipation of possibly losing a big judgment on this case. the ag's office is asking for an insurance policy here. the trump org's response is that's not necessary. it's not justified by the facts and only based on the ag's own accusations to this point. >> okay. another case. we always throw a lot at you.

this is the case of kash patel, a federal judge on tuesday ordered him to testify. but we also learned he's being granted immunity if and when he does testify. i wonder what the significance is of that in your view. is that standard? does it show where the investigation might be going? >> this is a fairly common move, if prosecutors believe a person's testimony is going to be valuable and they see that person as a witness. the deal with immunity as we're seeing with kash patel, you're going to the grand jury, you have to testify under oath. your testimony will not be used against you and becomes all but impossible to prosecute that person urnless that person lies under oath. if that person lies under oath, then they can be prosecuted for perjury. this tells me the doj sees kash patel as a witness of sorts. it's important to note, if people believe kash patel is going to be the key witness that

takes down donald trump, i think they need to reconsider that seriously. kash patel is a longtime trump loyalist. he said publicly donald trump declassified these documents. if he goes in to the jand jury and says they weren't declassified, he'll get torn apart on cross examination because he's lied one way or the other. >> you're a prosecutor and you know how it works in the courtroom. elie honig, thanks so much. coming up next, cnn on the ground in newly liberated areas of ukraine, and the destruction russia left behind just remarkable to see. police say they are also uncovering new evidence of a hidden crime. >> translator: do not tell anyone anything or it will be worse. that's everything he told me, and then he left. ice the choice. sisirloin salisbury steak and all-natural salmon. peperfect for lunch or dinner. only at ihop. download the app and earn free

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but ukrainian investigators are looking for cases of a hidden crime and that is sexual assault by russian troops. clarissa ward reports. some of what you are about to see and hear may be disturbing. >> reporter: day after day, they go house-to-house. a team of investors dispatched from the capitol. these men are tasked with looking for cases of sexual violence. no one was assaulted in this village, these women tell them. but every home has suffered. when russian forces were pushed out of this area earlier this month, they left a trail of misery behind them. down the road, an elderly woman inconsolable asked for help. i don't know where to sleep now. there are no windows or doors, she tells the policeman.

71-year-old vera's son was injured fighting on front lines. she is alone and afraid. she wants to invite us in to see how she's living. this is what remains of her home. only her precious eicons are untouched. oh, my god, oh, god's mother, she said, please keep my son alive and let me see him again. in town after town throughout the kherson region, this is what victory looks like. and it is grim. almost every house has been destroyed by heavy fighting. and the people scarred by months of russian occupation. in the next village, the investigators talked to

56-year-old at the anna. we have agreed tonot to show he face to protect her identity. she takes us to her brother's house where she was raped by a russian soldier on august 26th. >> he pinned me against the wardrobe and groped me. he ripped my clothes off and i was caught in his grip. it was very hard and painful for me. i was crying, begging him to stop but with no success. >> reporter: and did he say anything when it was over? >> translator: do not tell anyone anything or it will be worse. that is everything he told me. and then he left. it is very hard for me. >> reporter: did you tell your husband what had happened? >> i didn't tell my husband right away. but i told my cousin and my

husband overheard. he said you should have told me the truth but you kept silent. i was very ashamed. very. >> reporter: the shame is on him. >> translator: he's probably not shamed. if he's still alive. i wish that he and all of his kin were dead. >> reporter: it's coming to the end of a long and emotional day. the men visit the last village on their list. tomorrow they will head back to kyiv to submit findings. these recorded six allegations of rape in the two weeks here. >> it must be a hard job? >> it is psychologically

difficult. you understand every victim is so distressed, alexander said. but this is important work. most cases, they say, go unreported. like so many of the horrors that took place under russian occupation here, they remain hidden in the dark. clarissa ward, cnn, kherson region, ukraine. just an alarming story. thanks to clarissa ward for that report. cnn has reached out to the russian military for any comment and they have denied committing war crimes in ukraine. still ahead, we'll be live on the ground in multiple battleground states here in this country as both republicans and democrats push the last-minute messages they hope will get their voters to turn out and vote. did the president strike the right tone last night for democrats? we'll have more. stay with us. anticipatory chewing,

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