6-3 and half game behind buffalo in the afc east. what is going on with aaron rodgers and the green bay packers? one of the biggest questions in the nfl. hutchinson intercepts rodgers in the game. the lions came to play. aaron glen's defense stellar. kirby joseph two interceptions off rodgers. the packers did have one shot left with 40 seconds to go but rodger's pass lands in no man's land. lions win 15-9. the packers are 3-6, having lost five in a row. nascar's cup series crown on the line in phoenix yesterday. 32-year-old joey logano finished in the top ten eight times over the previous ten seasons with only one championship to show for it in 2018. but now he gets his second. what a year for him and for team owner roger penske winning the nascar and indy car titles. finally, the astros will have their world series parade this afternoon in houston,

christine. they won their second title in six years saturday night. this is video shot by our very own andy scholes in the clubhouse after the win. i believe andy is with you tomorrow, christine. you need to be sure to bring this out of him. the passion was oozing from him all weekend long. it was something to see. >> i will. i will ask him for sure. i'm sure he had a great time covering that. nice to see you, coy. >> you, too. thanks for joining me. i'm christine romans. "cnn ♪ good morning, everybody. monday comes at you fast, don't you think? >> i feel good this monday. we have a busy week. >> are you sure you feel so good? >> i have no idea what you're talking about. >> tide --

>> we'll get you there by 9:00 a.m. good morning, everybody, don lemon, poppy harlow and kaitlan collins. it's election eve. i voted early. >> i'm an election day, i'm going to vote on tuesday. >> i thought you were going to say i'm an election day denier. >> it's such an exciting time, so much going on. a lot to wait and see what voters decide tomorrow will be exciting to watch. >> the candidates are out there. >> we're in a new home. this is the election center. >> election headquarters. there's the capitol dome behind us. candidates are making the final push into the weekend. doing it now. what is the closing argument for both parties? live on the ground for you. >> also new nicknames and a potential presidential show down. why trump is elevating his rivalry with florida governor ron desantis before election day. plus this. >> will there be an immigration

bill on the floor if the republicans win the house? >> i think the first thing you'll see is a bill to control the border. >> we have a new cnn exclusive interview with house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, his plans if the gop takes the house on tuesday and what that could mean for congresswoman marjorie taylor greene and what committees she may sit on. >> we begin with the voters. polls open in about 24 hours in this major midterm election with control of congress on the line here. tonight, president biden headlines a rally in maryland where democrat wes moore is trying to become the state's first black governor. former president trump will be in ohio where he endorsed jd vance in the race against tim ryan. >> more than 40 million have voted already ahead of the 2018 pace. texas has the most early votes with more than 5 million ballots

cast, followed by california, florida, north carolina, and georgia. the number in north carolina setting a new state record in a midterm election. >> almost looks like a presidential election. the balance of power for both chambers is on the line. in the senate 35 seats up for grabs, republicans need a net gain of one for the majority. let's go to harry, who's been watching this tomorrow. the senate is what everyone has their eyes on. what races are you watching in particular? >> let's start with three races we talk about. democrats likely need to win three of the four. let's talk about arizona first. this is a hot race. mark kelly barely ahead of blake masters, 50%, 48% over masters. this is a race where kelly once had a large lead but masters has been closing, closing. the race is within the margin of error, though.

let's jump to nevada, a race in which the incumbent is slightly trailing the republican at 49/48 but well within the margin of error. nevada is a state that although democrats have won, trump was able to improve upon in 2016 and 2020. let's look at pennsylvania. pennsylvania is a race that i think everybody has been watching. the incumbent pat toomey decided to retire, john fetterman against mehmet oz. oz was well down in this race but he has been closing, closing, and right now this race is dead even just before election day. >> you saw president biden, president obama, and president trump all in pennsylvania this weekend. what about georgia because of course we know we have a close race there between herschel walker and raphael warnock. >> a candidate needs a majority

of the vote on election day to win the race. if you're leading but don't have a majority, you get to a runoff in december which could ultimately determine senate control and right now the forecast is for that runoff. both herschel walker and raphael warnock 49%. we normally don't talk about libertarian candidates but because he could keep the winner from reaching the 50% mark chase oliver's name is important. what is the chance each side has, it's basically break even at this point. republicans perhaps have a slight chance of winning control of the senate. a slight edge. 55% to 45%. democrats probably need to win three of the four races we went over to maintain control. >> waiting to see what the numbers look like, especially pennsylvania and georgia. let's get to the ground in georgia. herschel walker invoking a higher power and president biden in his final pitch.

the republican senate candidate referring to himself as a warrior of god who will deliver his state to the promise land while calling president biden the biggest threat to democracy. jeff zeleny is on the trail for us in atlanta. good morning to you. how are candidates making their final push toward election day there? >> reporter: democratic senator raphael warnock is trying to fend off the aggressive challenge from republican herschel walker. georgia is the path to control of the senate. but also one person who has not been on the ground here for months who's at the center of the race, that is president joe biden. we see that in state after state across the country. republicans trying to make this a referendum on the biden administration, the biden policies. walker was even questioning how president biden has been sounding the alarm on democracy.

>> you heard the president, the biggest threat to democracy, to vote for someone in the republican party. is it crazy? the biggest threat to democracy is to have him in the white house, is it not? >> and walker has been, of course, trying to make this about president biden. but raphael warnock for his part has been trying to say that herschel walker was a good football player, which of course resonates here in georgia after their big win over tennessee but he's not prepared to be a u.s. senator. but voters get the final say on that. and the final day of campaigning here, don, this race is as close as many in the country. >> you know it's been interesting to see how many people have cast ballots already in early voting. is it because of that senate race, is that the driver? >> reporter: without a doubt. there's also of course a tough governor's race here. 2.3 million georgians have already cast their vote. the key now is who else will be

voting? democrats are trying to make this about control of the senate. as i was talking to voters throughout the day here, that's what the race is about. people are voting for herschel walker if they are, because they like him but also believe republicans should control the senate. the question for democrats can they get voters out in the final day and add to that total? this race could go into overtime. that runoff is december 6th if it comes to that. >> jeff zeleny early this morning in atlanta. appreciate it. see you soon. let's talk about pennsylvania, john fetterman and mehmet oz are neck and neck in one of the most critical battles this election cycle. so we went there. cnn spoke to voters on the ground, what they're thinking about, what's top of mind. listen. >> i'm not a fan of dr. oz, i am not a fan of fetterman. my vote would be i'd like to see the democrats hold or win the senate. >> health care should be number

one on the list for the people of pennsylvania and i think john fetterman is the man to do it. >> fetterman is the best man for the job. i think his message should be right now to vote, vote, vote like your life depends on it because it does. >> for the issues that we're unhappy with, the economy failing, the crime, and lack of freedom of speech. so hopefully with the winning of republicans we'll get all those. >> i'm going to vote for the doctor in the senate race, dr. oz. i think fetterman is probably a reallyunintelligible at the debate. >> there are the voters. wisconsin, republican senator ron johnson made it clear he may not accept the results of tomorrow's election and now he is injecting racial division into his closing campaign

message. let's go to omar jimenez on the trail this morning. what is he saying on top of the troubling fact that a few days ago he, you know, said he doesn't know if he can trust the outcome of the election. >> reporter: yeah, so these are things he said at nearly every campaign stop we've been to. on the racial division part of things, he specifically brought up comments that mandel barnes made in a previous interview, talk about how institutionalized racism might be scarier than what some believe is traditional racism, because you can't see it, he coined the term concealed carry racism. and comments that johnson jumped onto with an audience that's typically white. saying this is proof he hate this is state and the people in it. listen to some of the comments he's made at these stops. >> he's talking about racism in

wisconsin. says it's actually scarier than down south because we institutionalized it here in wisconsin. we just configured out how to conceal it, called it concealed carry racism. that's what he thinks of you. makes you scratch your head, why would he want to represent people who institutionalized racism. >> reporter: ron johnson ran a completely negative campaign because he doesn't have a record to run on. >> reporter: barnes believes the framing by johnson is ridiculous and called him the worst senator this state has seen since joe mccarthy of the '40s and '50s. touting himself as a true son of wisconsin, as the son of a teacher and union worker. he would be the first black senator in a state that's nearly 90% white. >> it's very close. we'll see. thank you very much. we have an exclusive cnn

interview for you this morning, a one on one with house minority leader, kevin mccarthy who is poised to potentially become house speaker if republicans win control of the house tomorrow. melanie sat down with kevin mccarthy on the campaign trail. what did he tell you about what a republican majority was going to look like, what their plans are if they do win the house tomorrow? >> reporter: i met up with the house minority leader here on the texas border where he is rallying for a number of hispanic republican women candidates. and i started by asking him why he chose to be here in the closing days of the campaign. >> i could be anywhere in the country right now. but when you think about it, these are very competitive races. maya flores, which shocked the world, no one thought she could win the seat and won it in the primary. competitive race. she's the first mexican-born woman elected to congress.

monica de la cruz, came so close last time. and casey garcia, what a trio of three ladies that are remarkable. we want to give them all the support they can. they represent the district well and you see a change in demographics. when maya won her district was 84% hispanic and shows republicans can compete anywhere in the country. not only is the party expanding and moving forward. these candidates i think will inspire so many young women across the country. they err going to look up and say that could be me, i can get elected to congress. and we're going to see more and more republican women from all different backgrounds running for congress. >> on the border, if you're speaking, what will you do to secure the border? >> a number of things. stay in mexico, you have to right off the bat. you have to stop the cartel's control of the border. you have to stop fentanyl from

coming across. fentanyl when you think about it is a chemical of mass destruction. it's killing our next generation. it's the number one killing of americans between the ageso of 8 and 45. those are the individuals who enlist to defend our nation, the age that's most productive in the workforce. it's destroying this nation as coming through this border, the poison from mexico into the cartels. and 300 americans are going to be poisoned and died today. 300 tomorrow. >> how do you stop that? >> the white house has done nothing. you do it a number of ways, do a frontal attack of china to stop it from coming. you control the borders here. you provide the resources the border agents need. but also provide to make sure the cartels aren't controlling the border in the background. there are a number of provisions we have that we move forward on. and then make sure that fentanyl

in time anybody who wants to move it you can prosecute them for the death penalty. >> will there be an immigration bill on the floor if the republicans win the house. >> i think the first thing you see is a bill to control the border, first. you have almost 2 million people this year alone coming across. but the part that hasn't been written about, when i came here a year and a half ago it's the first time it got mentioned. the people catching on the terrorist watch list, there's been 98. it's difficult to get on that. we caught them coming across the border this year. in california we caught a number of individuals coming from yemen on the terrorist watch list. those are just the ones we caught. what about the individuals we have not caught that are roaming through our country. >> two other issues that republicans have talked about, crime and inflation. what would republicans specifically do to bring those down? >> we came out with a commitment

to america. first thing we're going to do is make sure an economy that's strong. >> what specific bill would that be? >> why do we have inflation, right. even larry summers warned the democrats not to pass the american rescue plan. a billion dollars of hardworking taxpayer money to prisoners. you have to curtail government spending. the next thing you have to bring greater productivity. incentivize people to go to work, not stay home. you have to make sure the new regulations adding to inflation are getting curved back. and make sure america is energy independent. that is a very big mark to start with. it creates more american jobs, make us less dependent in other areas but makes america stronger and higher paid. after we get done doing that. we look at how do we make sure a nation is safe. one is securing the border,

another provision is not to defund the police but fund the police. we'll provide more grants to give more recruiting opportunity for officers to come and train. and we'll look at all the prosecutors to see if they're prosecuting to uphold the law. we find in new york and oregon, they went prosecute. we heard the devastation in new york of a young woman being raped by a serial criminal, arrested 25 times. and create that training throughout. >> as another policy issue, the debt ceiling. are you willing to risk a default using this as a bargaining chip? >> you don't risk a default. >> not raising it would be a default. >> sit and pause for one moment. we're not going to default but think for one moment here. >> under your watch there would be no default here? >> let me answer the question.

people say you put in a default. a debt ceiling is you hit a limit on your credit card. if you give a person a higher limit, wouldn't you first say you should change your behavior so you don't keep raising it all the time. i think we need to look at the waste, fraud, and abuse. washington has so much wasteful spending we can curb that and that's what we should look at from day one. you see right after the election next week i will come out with a number of provisions to get our house in order financially and do it in smart manners and really look across the nation, not just inside congress itself but some of the brightest minds across the country that can help us with this. those that have turned around companies before. how do you eliminate waste? more productivity. how do you eliminate duplication, you shouldn't say i'm going to let you keep spending money. >> republicans did raise the debt ceiling under trump.

>> and the democrats spent $10 trillion that got us into this problem, hit a debt ceiling. do you want to continue that pattern? don't you think it's a responsibility to taxpayers that we curb that, eliminate waste, eliminate what is going on on all this spending and those are the things we'll look at. >> besides legislation, republicans have made investigations a huge priority. you said not going to determine the outcome but is impeachment on the table? >> you know what's on the table, accountability. shouldn't we know where the origins of covid started? we didn't have one hearing. shouldn't we know what happened in the last 60 days of afghanistan so we would never repeat that again. we vowouldn't have 13 new gold star families. shouldn't we know why the doj would take it upon themselves to go after parents that would go to school board meetings. shouldn't we know where the taxpayers' money is being spent.

i call that accountability. that's a responsibility for congress regardless of whose ever party is in the white house. >> some of your members are calling for impeachment, what do you say to those members? >> one thing i've known about the land of america, it's the rule of law. and we will hold the rule of law and we won't play politics with this. we'll never use impeachment for political purposes. that doesn't mean if something rises to the occasion it would not be used. at any other time, it doesn't matter if it's democrats or republicans. but the idea of what democrats have done, what adam schiff has done, treacherousy. what he put us through, we're better than that. we need to get our nation back on track. that's what the commitment to america does. it's plan for a new direction, an economy that's strong, a nation that is safe, a future built on freedom and a government that's accountable. that is our focus.

>> marjorie taylor greene said she wants a seat on the oversight committee. are you okay with that? will you support that despite her remarks and denying the election. >> if she gets elected she has committees to serve on. >> on oversight? >> she'll have committees to serve on just like every other member. and every member goes through a steering place to see the best place to serve. >> you're on the steering committee, would you support her going to oversight? >> i'm one person. >> it has more weight. >> but marjorie greene is going to have committees. she's elected by her district. >> you have no red lines in terms of what committee she gets? >> no. she can serve on a committee like any other member of congress. >> i asked about the members of

his own party who have been mocking and spreading conspiracy theories about the attack on nancy pelosi's office. >> i know you have questions on him running for house speaker what that's going to look like. we'll get back to you with more on this kevin mccarthy interview. >> there has to be more he misled people about fentanyl. we have to fact check what he said. fentanyl is not the number one cause of death. but i think it's important to have kevin mccarthy on, but it needs to be fact checked. a lot of what he said in the interview was not factual. >> the next part of the interview is really interesting because it talks about him becoming house speaker, he is poised to become it, whether or not he feels he has trump support and he's going to make crucial decisions like coming to marjorie taylor greene, stripped of her assignments last year for the comments she made

previously. >> you were in washington covering all of this, the tone, the complete reversal that kevin mccarthy has had in his position on marjorie taylor greene is fascinating. >> he's in position he has to accommodate her because she's powerful because she's one of the loudest members of his caucus. so it'll be a challenge for him if they do win the majority tomorrow. >> we'll talk about all that coming up. tensions between two of the biggest stars of the republican party, former president trump and florida governor ron desantis were center stage this weekend as the two held dueling rallies in florida with the name calling and the rift intensifying. plus. >> a lot of people are saying why does president biden come to new york so much? >> new york governor katy hochul hoping one last visit from the president can help her keep her job.

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>> good morning. >> ron desantis is running and republicans are really ticked at the former president for calling him out. do you think this is going to have any effect in florida? >> first of all, i mean, florida, desantis is doing really well right now. he's expected to win, because he wants to, because he won so n narrowly in 2020 and getting a nickname from trump is respect. and someone saying lay off. so he's aware. people are asking why is biden in new york, why is trump in florida? people are going where they wanted. i think trump got ahead of himself a little bit. >> it's obvious he's concerned about desantis. >> he's putting a poll up on the screen at his rally in florida which desantis was not invited to, i should note, they're holding separate rallies in the

state. showing how much more popular trump is. >> while he's mired in defending himself in various legal battles and dealing with the january 6th committee fallout. desantis has been out there talking about education, culture war issues, and basically leading in a trump space without the trump baggage. >> you mentioned president biden here in new york, let's talk about it. president biden was here, katy hochul who wants to remain governor is in a tight race over lee zeldin said this over the weekend. let's play it. >> a lot of people are saying, why does president biden come to new york so much? he's here tonight because he knows there's no place better than the united states of america than new york. who doesn't want to come to new york? >> it is. i agree that it is. >> i'm not sure that's why. >> i don't think that's why. why did she bring it up even? >> because you're asking.

the question is out there and it's good to acknowledge things out there. democrats have had to defend some places in some seats they didn't expect to with vigor they didn't expect to. it's interesting because we've talked so much about candidate quality on the republican side like is this person a problem, is this person a problem. but the democrats have their own candidate quality issue, some is charisma, some is message delivery, some not being able to be on defense and offense the way their voters would like. i think some of that is surfacing in this particular story. >> if you look at the dark money and the money from billionaires coming into these campaigns -- >> yeah, but democrats raised a lot of money. they did well. and for a while we were running stories saying they're doing so much better than republicans, what does this mean. some of it does have to do with messengers and how do you defend both the accomplishments and achievements of an administration. i'm not sure in every place

people were able to do that the way democrats would like. >> one question i have for tomorrow is whether or not governor hochul's standing if she hurts other democrats on the ballots in the key house races. >> i want to ask about melanie's interview with kevin mccarthy. because if he does become house speaker, right now he is poised to do if they take control of the house. he faces issues like what assignments marjorie taylor greene is -- what committee assignments. those are really powerful positions. he's on the steering committee. that's powerful in deciding who gets what assignment. she was kicked off and stripped of her assignments by a democratic majority house. he said she's going to get on a committee, i'm not sure which one. >> big picture, he's seen this movie three times before, under newt gingrich, mccarthy is out with his commitment to america. he watched paul ryan ryan and

john baner fall apart. he's seen it with the tea party and now he has his chance to try to lead a caucus that has voices that are singularly powerful because of their influence in the media. he does understand what he's up against. in the line of questioning there it was why would you put her on this. oversight is a very powerful position for congress. it's been weaponized in a lot of ways. so do expect if there is a republican-led house many investigations, do expect attempts at impeachments that we know will not go anywhere because the senate does not often convict. there's a lot of this we have experienced in the last four or five years. and the commitment to america, most of the policy details could fit on a card in his suit pocket. so he has to flesh out more what it means to have republican

leadership. so the democrats are the throw at the bones attitude and energy. >> you're right. speaking to a democrat who's on the ballot in new york on tuesday. saying i believe -- referring to hochul -- she wins but the margin is the race for the ticket. >> and then a lot of sad emojis. kevin mccarthy smart man, really slippery, one day after the insurrection he said one thing and went and did another thing. on the interview when he talks about fentanyl being the number one cause of death, it's not. heart disease, cancer covid, fentanyl is a big problem. >> and it comes in through ports of entry, that's where the security issues have been. there's a lot going on there. republicans also raised the debt ceiling multiple times under trump. >> which melanie pointed out. >> but funding for customs and

border control have been stable from trump to biden. democrats have had criticism for biden for holding certain policies that trump did. none of that matters in the messaging going to the election if your singular focus is there's a lot of crime, be afraid of the crime and know who's the problem and caused the problems. >> and immigrants commit crime far less than actual american citizens commit crime. and also when it comes to catching people bringing fentanyl across the border, the seizures are up. it says it doesn't exclude -- it's a scary sound because people who bring the fentanyl over, the people bringing the fentanyl over the border are u.s. citizens bringing it over. not necessarily immigrants. >> the most important part of the interview is language around latino voters. there's a sense if you're

bashing immigrants too much, you're going to annoy this latino electorate, hispanic electorate and the democrats enjoying the destiny argument are going to prevail. now in nevada you have a democrat senator who it's not clear she's going to capture the majority of the latino vote. and you heard the energy in the kevin mccarthy interview of the energy, hey, we may be able to appeal to latino men specifically. we may not have to compromise our own principles on security at the border in order to do it. >> that's why he's in texas. >> exactly. >> where the interview was. >> yeah. so there's not this idea. i think democrats thought you could say, look at these bad policies that hurt immigrants, particularly immigrants of color, latino immigrants and that would be enough to say to voters, this is not good for america.

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all right. so you'll remember it was just a few days ago that elon musk's twitter laid off thousands of employees by email. now email is asking some of them

to come back to work. this is according to a new report from bloomberg news. will those employees return after a chaotic week since the musk takeover. let's bring in a held solmen. is this for real he's saying we can't operate without some of you, come back. >> that's what we're chasing and trying to figure out. chaotic i think is a decent way to explain this last week at twitter. to restate it on friday is when we learned that elon musk and twitter was letting go half of their staff. it is now monday morning and we're talking about the fact they're saying we need some of you to come back. so we're trying to figure out who is asked to return, were they meant to be laid off to begin with or is this a woops we really need you come back. we have reached out to twitter, the communications team. the people we have talked to before. the emails are bouncing back.

>> really? >> yeah. implying they're not with the company anymore. so presumably the layoffs impacted the communications department. it is a fast moving story. elon musk for his part tweeted out unfortunately there's no choice in terms of these cost reductions, these job losses, unfortunately there's no choice when the company is losing 4 million a day. >> when people say why didn't you do this, then you sit in this chair, holy you know what this is harder than i thought. or you become president -- >> these are people's lives, their livelihoods providing for their families. >> don't you think it's harder for elon musk when he's sitting in the chair, saying this isn't as easy as i thought. >> the thing that gets me is the

verified. you can say whoever you want on twitter. this became an issue on twitter over the weekend. because people were mocking him and impersonating him. he tweeted going forward any twitter handles engaging in impersonation will be permanently suspended. this matters because they're delaying it until after the midterms because it could cause issues with people impersonating lawmakers. >> this is another example of something rolled out at twitter within the last week perhaps prematurely. critics would say prematurely. celebrities were trying to make a point over the weekend. this could have unintended consequences. so to make that point they started to impersonate elon musk, some who have been suspended already, like kathy griffin. it's just really fluid is a way to put it. >> we didn't get to the fact that big companies are pulling

advertisers off twitter because of what's going on. that hits the bottom line in a major way. >> people are scratching their head, what's going on. >> interesting, not as easy. >> the other companies he's run he founded. this is interesting. this is a company he's coming into. >> taking over. two big cnn interviews, first new jersey democrat tom malinowski is here. he doesn't think his party can hold the house if he doesn't win the race. >> we have republican meikle lawler, who may beat the democrat in new york. we'll tell where that race stands ahead. ♪ hit it!♪ ♪it takes two to make a thing go right♪ ♪it takes two to make it outta sight♪ ♪one, two, get loose now! it takes two to make a-♪ get double rewards points this fall.

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in the 2018 midterms, new jersey democrats flipped four congressional seats blue.

now republicans are trying to turn the tables and one of the seats they're targeting is in the seventh district, a crucial set held by tom malinowski currently, in a tight match with the senator he beat barely in 2020. joining us now is congressman tom malinowski. thank you for joining us. you told manu raju that you don't think democrats can hold the house if they don't hold your seat. if tomorrow comes and you don't win, who is responsible for your loss? >> well, i think i'm going to win tomorrow. we have an incredibly energetic campaign over close to 1500 volunteers this weekend going out, knocking on doors, which is more than any other democratic campaign for the house in the country. we have a strong message. i think a fairly weak opponent. and i think we are going to hold

this seat, and, therefore, we have a chance to hold the house tomorrow. >> do you like how democrats nationally have been spending their money, where they've been spending it? is it effective when we look at the numbers tomorrow night? >> we have less money across the board in the big democratic super pacs than the republicans do. there are not as many billionaires writing multi-million dollar checks as the republicans have. we're actually outraising republicans significantly in terms of contributions from grass roots donors, individual donors. in my race we're pretty much even, except the difference is my opponent is getting his money from the big as yosuper pacs an financing my campaign from real people who support me. >> since you mentioned it, you talked about it, billionaires that's an issue from democrats.

they're calling it dark money. if you look at new york and new jersey you have billionaires giving tens of millionso of dollars to republicans. does it hurt democrats and politics overall how people are elected? does it drown out the people so to speak? >> i think it's a terrible system. it's terrible in the fact that you can't trace a lot of this money some of the time. it is something that is very disturbing to a lot of voters in my district. look, one of my selling points over the last four years that i was elected is that i don't take money from corporate pacs. i only take money from individuals. and i think a lot of people support me, even if they don't necessarily agree with me on every policy issue because they see me as independent from dark money, from corporate special interest money. we obviously need to reform the system. it's tough because of the

supreme court's decision a new years ago. we've been trying. >> congressman, you're right. citizens united is not in jeopardy at all in the court. but on the issues, outside of the money here, i wonder if you agree with some of your fellow democrats in very tight races across the country, like congresswoman alyssa slotkin who we had on last week who thinks many democrats have blown it when it comes to the economy and inflation, and addressing it. she said the truth is the democrats have done a poor job speaking to economy and inflation. if you can't speak to the people directly you're having half the conversation. do you agree with her? >> i agree that's what we need to talk about. and i believe members like alyssa slotkin and myself have been doing a good job talking about those issues, which is why we'll be re-elected. these races are not just a

national referendum. voters are voting for and against individual candidates and individual districts. from the very beginning, i've been talking about inflation, about the economy, about jobs, about fixing supply chains. i've always been talking about a woman's right to choose and protecting our democracy. most of the voters i speak to are not single issue voters. they care about the price of groceries, they also don't want to lose their rights. what i try to argue is democrats have a plan to protect you on both of the issues, republicans do not. >> on the issue of inflation, what would you do if you do get another term, specifically in congress to lower inflation. what would you do differently than the biden administration right now on inflation? >> we've done a lot. the chips and science act, for example. bringing the supply chain back

so we are not reliable on china. i would do much more than that. we do have legislation that would invest tens of billions of dollars in reshoring manufacturing of all kinds of critical industries in america that will make cars less expensive. make all kinds of consumer products less expensive. one issue i've had with president biden on gas prices, oil, is that i think he made a bit of a mistake going to saudi arabia this summer and trying a nice approach with a so-called ally that's trying to deliberate hurt the united states right now. i think we, and he, learned a lesson when saudi arabia acted to raise gas prices to help russia, to hurt us, a couple of months ago i had legislation in the house to require withdrawing our troops from saudi arabia as a consequence of that decision. >> congressman, quickly before we let you go.

i know you're on the house foreign affairs committee. on that front you said you would like to see the biden administration punish saudi arabia. they have said they're reevaluating the relationship. are you confident that president biden will actually punish saudi arabia for this move? >> i don't think he should wait for congress. he said the right words, congress, we're all campaigning obviously for the election tomorrow. i think he should have acted much more quickly to start withdrawing military equipment. we have patriot missiles in saudi arabia, for example. i know of another country that needs patriot air defense, and that's crukraine. i would have acted right away that we don't help a country pretending oto be our ally. i want us to do more to help

ukraine. it may not be number one in this election but it's important to understand with a republican house, if kevin mccarthy is speaker and marjorie taylor greene and the dozen other marjorie taylor greenes we're going to have to fight over aid to ukraine and i am worried about that. >> we will talk to that in the next hour with a republican candidate for the house. thank you for your time. >> we see you wearing the ukrainian flag there. thank you. we appreciate it. good luck. come back and talk to us regardless of what happens. appreciate it. ahead on cnn, we are going to speak -- cnn speaks with an election denier now in charge of his county's voting tomorrow. plus a suspicious white powder found at the campaign office of kari lake. we're live w with that story straight ahead mp heart-poundiding design.

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