hello and a warm welcome to all of our viewers watching across the united states, live from studio 7 at the cnn center in atlanta. i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. well, there has been as we've been seeing dramatic changes in vote results over the past several hours in two key senate races in nevada and arizona, both favoring the democratic candidates. cnn now projects incumbent democrat mark kelly will win re-election in arizona against

republican challenger blake masters. hundreds of thousands of ballots still remain to be counted in the state. final results expected perhaps early next week. now in nevada that senate race virtually tied. republican adam laxalt has watched his narrow lead slip away with the democrat catherine cortez masto now less than 800 votes behind. approximately 68,000 ballots in the state are yet to be counted, and election official in the state's largest county says they are working to verify vote totals as quickly as the law allows. >> we're not purposely holding this process back, but we're doing everything in our power to move ballots forward just as quickly as we can. but the statutory deadlines we have in place, i can't do -- finish all the mail until it all comes in. that's a very small number, but, still, i can't finish until saturday even if i wanted to. monday we have the cured

deadline. i've got to wait for those voters to give them an opportunity to get their ballot cured. >> now, mark kelly's projected win in arizona will give the democrats 49 seats in the senate, and a win in nevada would secure democratic control of the senate. a democratic win in the georgia runoff would give the party an outright majority without needing the vice president as a tiebreaker as has been the case in the last couple of years. democrats have also picked up more house seats, though republicans only need seven more to retake control of the lower chamber. for more let's bring in cnn's manu m manu raju live in d.c. >> no question about it now they're just one seat away from keeping control of the senate. now, mark kelly was viewed as one of the -- as certainly a vulnerable democrat coming into this election cycle. republicans saw him in this state a republican leaning state, traditionally a more

conservative leaning state, someone who could be vulnerable given we're in a first mid-term of a new president and given the fact that the president's approval rating is underwater. inflation has been obviously a huge issue throughout this campaign season. they thought it would be enough to knock him down. he played in what turned out to be an underperforming candidate in the election. blake masters someone who'd been endorsed by the former president, donald trump who'd been propped up because of that trump endorsement but someone who never got the full support of the republican establishment. people are very skeptical in republican leadership circles that masters could ultimately beat mark kelly because of masters' own vulnerabilities. mitch mcconnell decided not to spend money late in that campaign to try to prop up blake masters instead spending money

in other areas, other races they thought would be more winnable. but now the focus is shifting squarely to nevada where catherine cortez masto, the democrat, has been cutting into the lead of adam laxalt, the republican challenger. after a day of vote counting they're within 1,000 votes right now with a number of other votes still outstanding there is hope among democrats that cortez masto could exceed laxalt, catch up to laxalt, ultimately ensure democrats have control of the senate going into the georgia runoff where they could potentially even pad their majority and have 51 seats, something virtually seen as unthinkable heading into tuesday when republicans believed they could take 52 or even up to 55 seats in the senate. so all shows going into this election on tuesday republicans had such high hopes, but they're walking away wounded, soul-searching and pointing fingers about what went wrong as

the senate could be now out of reach, and we'll see what happens in the house as their majority if they do get a house republican majority, much smaller than they anticipated. >> unthinkable just a matter of a cup of weeks ago. when you talk about tactics and what went wrong how much did, you know, abortion rights as an example factor in arizona, something mark kelly focused on. blake masters took a very conservative position on. and for that matter that goes across the board, nevada and elsewhere as well, right? >> no question about it it was such a huge issue. for masters himself he sort of tried to rewrite his position on abortion. he took a very strong position on anti-abortion stance during the republican primary, but he tried to recalibrate that stance during the general election as he was getting hammered on this issue. and you see this all across the country. republicans in nevada, in pennsylvania, georgia and elsewhere being hit hard by democrats who believe that this is an issue that could galvanize

particularly suburban women voters who are essential in all these key races. republicans ultimately decided for the most part to sidestep issues about this, instead believing that they put all their eggs in the basket over attacking joe biden, trying to tie the democrats to joe biden tying him to inflation, gas prices. it did not rank as high as economic issues. they gambled those issues would carry them across the finish line, but it appears they may have put all their eggs in that basket and just didn't pan out. >> and of course former president trump endorsed and campaigned for masters. i mean, in retrospect was that a good or bad thing for him? >> there are a lot of republicans today pointing fingers at donald trump for these late appearances not just in arizona but also in pennsylvania. he had a late rally with dr.

mehmet oz the republican nominee there who fell short in that race. that is more of a swingy state than arizona is. that move caught a lot of republicans by surprise when oz agreed to appear at that rally but trump also appearing in arizona. what republicans are concerned about when they look back at that is they see donald trump coming in and essentially changing the narrative, undercutting the case that the republicans wanted to make about joe biden, about the democratic policies in washington, not about donald trump. donald trump inserts himself late in this election cycle and all of a sudden it's a contrast election, a contrast between trump and biden, between trump and democrats. that is exactly what democrats had hoped for and a lot of republicans did not want. and at the end of the day perhaps that could have changed some things. maybe in arizona but certainly potentially in a state like pennsylvania. >> yeah, republicans had their hopes for the senate, of course, and now we're seeing some of that unravel. but i'm really curious about the

house. and you've wandered the halls of congress for a living and know how it works. the very fact that it could be as close as it could be at the end of it -- i mean it's not over yet. but if the republicans have a razor thin majority in the house, what does that mean for the potential of the biden agenda going forward? you'd only have to pick-off a couple of republicans but potentially. >> even if the republicans have a narrow majority it's going to come to a standstill because the republican speaker of the house presuming it's kevin mccarthy would have a say over exactly what legislation comes to the floor of the house. so it's only going to be what republicans want. but there will be things biden needs to get done and they need to avoid a debt default for instance next year. kevin mccarthy if he's the speaker needs to figure out how to do that. need to avoid a government shutdown, fund government agencies.

kevin mccarthy as the speaker needs to figure out how to do that even though he'll face push back and also contend with democrats in the white house and potentially a democratic senate. then a narrow majority will create such headaches for republican leaders because of the fact kevin mccarthy if he is the speaker has to deal with the right flank of his conference that will want to go take things to the far-right, and he'll have to deal with moderates and lots of moderates who won in swing districts, biden districts, districts that they're at risk of losing in the next election cycle. they'll want to moderate and not go as far as the far-right wants. he'll have to balance all those issues and he's got the initial problem. he's got to get the votes to become speaker to begin with. 218 votes he needs in the house. and if he only has a majority with 220 seats or 222 seats, that means he can only afford to lose a handful of seats when it comes time in january to pick the next speaker of house and already several of those are starting to vote against him

unless they extract some concessions from him. already we're seeing signs of real challenges of governing for republicans if they do take house majority. even if they can reign in the biden agenda to a degree and investigate the biden administration, they'll have a very difficult time legislating with such a narrow majority. >> and before i let you go because the whole right flank is such a fascinating thing. i mean the speakership is going to need that right flank, the freedom caucus, i mean the likes of margery taylor greene and so on. what could they demand for their loyalty to him, to get him into the job? what are they going to want from him? >> a lot of things they want is to essentially make him weaker. they want to empower themselves, empower the rank and file members and make the speakership a much weaker institution. one of the things they want some of these members say is a red line is to essentially make it

easier for them to force a vote on the house floor to oust a sitting speaker. now, that is something that mccarthy simply does not want to do because that -- they changed the rules after john boehner, the speaker of the house resigned his speakership because the speakers didn't want to make it easy to push out a speaker. those rules that made it easy to push out a speaker those existed when john boehner was speaker, and because of those rules that is why he stepped down because he was concerned he was going to be ousted by the right flank of his conference. so the right flank of kevin mccarthy's conference wants similar power over the speakership, and mccarthy is not willing to go there. so those are issues they have to negotiate behind the scenes. we'll get a first taste how this starts to play out next week when the house members return to washington. they'll have internal conference meetings, nominate their candidate for speaker, mccarthy will nominate that speaker but doesn't mean he'll get to 218 on

the house floor in january, that's 218 votes out of the full house. those are questions he'll have to sort out over the next few months winning over that right flank and not doing something that could make him even more vulnerable in the speakership. >> yeah, incredible day and another long day for you, manu. thank you so much for making the time, manu raju in d.c. >> thanks, michael. we want to talk about nevada now where about 800 votes separate the two candidates in that crucial senate contest. here's cnn's gary tuchman with our report. >> reporter: the u.s. senate race here in the state of nevada is so very close. let us tell you where the mail-in ballots are that still need to be counted in this state. first of all, in washo county, that's northern nevada where reno is located there's about 11,000 ballots still to be counted. and douglas county a small county in western nevada, the population is 50,000. it's very republican. that county hasn't elected a president -- a democratic

president since before world war ii. they have about 2,000 ballots outstanding. but this is the big pride, this building behind me. this is the clark county election department. clark county is where las vegas is. about three quarters of nevadaens live in this county. there's still about 3,000 mail-in ballots to in this county and an additional 15,000 ballots are provisional ballots or ballots need to be cured. what that means is some people don't put their signature on the ballot. as long as they put their signature on the ballot, it then gets counted. so that's a total of 38,000 more ballots. so there's still a lot of counting to do in this race that's really tight. this is gary tuchman, cnn in las vegas. the ukrainian city of kherson is enjoying the first full day of freedom after months of russian occupation. coming up after the break, celebrations under way after russian troops leave that strategic city.

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welcome back. a reminder of our top story this hour. democrats just one seat away from retaining control of the u.s. senate. cnn now projects incumbent democrat mark kelly will win re-election in arizona against republican challenger blake masters. now, this gives both parties 49 seats each with two races remaining. a city that president vladimir putin said would be russia's forever now firmly back in ukrainian hands, and its residents couldn't be happier

about it. now, that is how the people in the city of kherson welcomed ukrainian troops friday following months of russian occupation. hours earlier moscow announced it had pulled out from the west bank of the dnipro river conceding 40% of the kherson region to ukrainians including the city itself. ukrainian troops also swept through other towns in the area holding up their flags to mark the end of russia's occupation. at the same time they also displayed ammunition and other military gear that the russians left behind. that contradicts russian claims they took all their equipment with them. ukraine says russian troops did destroy critical infrastructure on their way out including at least seven bridges. president zelenskyy saying ukrainians endured harsher because they always knew the

russians would be driven out. >> translator: people of kherson waited. they never repudiated ukraine. they were right to pin their hopes on ukraine and ukraine always returns its own. i'm glad to see those people despite all dangers of repression and suffering inflicted by occupiers held onto ukrainian flags, believed in ukraine. >> cnn was quick to go into some of the newly liberated areas of southern ukraine. nic robertson, the first reporter to arrive in one town less than 48 hours after the russians left. he found the residents there overjoyed the occupation was over. >> reporter: their long-awaited liberation sweet, savored with the soldiers who gave it to them. moments for all those who survived russia's repressive rule in kherson to celebrate. a day like no other. putin's forces vanquished across the river. freedom like this coming in cities and towns all around.

arriving at -- on the road to kherson remnants of russia's rapid reverse under fire two days ago. lots of unexploded ammunition here, deadly mortar rounds, indications they could have fought longer if they hadn't been told to retreat. driving in everyone waving, so many feelings all at once, celebration, relief, and traumas relived. it was terrible, she tells us. the russians threatened to kill me, to smash out my brain. raw emotions everywhere. tearful relatives embracing, knowing each other survived. and those stories of survival bone chilling. a few days ago the russians kidnapped me, this 15-year-old girl tells us. they put a hood on me, took me to a house, asked me about the ukrainian troops, told me they would cut my fingers off. i thought i was going to be

raped. they behaved like animals in the last few weeks, she says. they took people away for interrogation and beat them, accusing them of being ukrainian spies. they stole cars and loot, too. at the bank the security doors ripped off, the cash, too. you can see inside here the bank is completely trashed, looted. there are money boxes there forced open. at the town square people gathered part in jubilation, part in uncertainty. the city without water and electricity for months. the newly arrived ukrainian administrator telling them humanitarian supplies are on their way. on the outskirts of town residents benefitting from russia's rapid retreat abandoned ammo cases collected for winter firewood. nearby the bridges to the south

destroyed. the russians blew these bridges up just two days ago trying to slow down the ukrainian's advance south towards kherson. the tactic doesn't seem to be working. ukraine's advance has been cautious, pauses to regroup and reenergize, but still relentless. >> translator: everything is happening according to the plan. russians are leaving so fast erthey're losing their boots on the run. we'll take kherson in two or three days. >> reporter: it may be even sooner. seconds after we talk they get the call to move forward. on their way it appears to join the liberation and celebrations in kherson. nic robertson, cnn, ukraine. control of the u.s. house still up in the air, but republicans are already making plans for a victory ahead their front-runner for house speaker.

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a reminder of our top story this hour. democrats just one seat away from retaining control of the u.s. senate. cnn projects that the incumbent mark kelly will win re-election against republican challenger blake masters. this will give both parties 49 seats each with two races remaining. democrats also hoping they'll keep their seat in nevada. right now pretty much a dead heat as you can see there with the incumbent catherine cortez masto trailing slightly to the republican adam laxalt. meanwhile in the house democrats have picked up more seats although republicans only need seven more to control the chamber. clearly no one, however, expected the senate race to be this close, but somehow democrats exceeded expectations. our cnn panel breaks down how we

got here. >> an extraordinary development, just that we are sitting here talking about democrats potentially retaining control but really what we're talking about them is the potential they could even expand a majority in the senate in part because this is a big piece of that puzzle. and when you think about mark kelly he has always been a target for republicans really from day one to take this seat back and put it back in republican hands. and he has been walking this tightrope as a senator trying to distance himself just enough from washington democrats, from president biden dealing with inflation as an issue, dealing with the border, which is a huge issue for him. but got a huge boost because he was running against a very trumpy candidate, someone who, you know, donald trump really inserted himself in this race. and i think both parties would agree there's no question that helped him in this race. >> mow, it absolutely did.

>> and when mitch mcconnell has talked about candidate quality much to the chagrin of rick scott he's talking about people like blake masters boosted by the billionaire peter teal, but there was a lot of infighting by mcconnell and others pulling out of the race because they didn't think he could win, and this is now borne out. and quite frankly this is one of those seats where mark kelly has won this term he could hold the seat for many, many years. this was really their absolute best shot of potentially putting this arizona seat in republican hands. but look at the map. if they win in nevada, that's it. the runoff in georgia doesn't matter. if cortez masto doesn't pull it off, it doesn't matter -- >> republicans were so bullish coming into tuesday. they thought they were going to take the majority, 52 seats. rick scott even said back in october 55 seats was even possible. now they're looking at the

possibility of losing a seat. it could be a 51-49 senate. that is a realistic possibility for the republicans. when you look back looking at this cycle it reminds me a lot of what happened to republicans in election cycles like 2010 and 2012 where they did nominate these candidates who turned out to be lackluster underperforming candidates in the general election costing them the clear chance of taking back the senate majority in those two-cycles. that is what senator mcconnell had been so concerned about, and that's happened with pennsylvania, what happened in arizona and concern it could happen in nevada as well. >> yeah, and we're talking about what this means on a national level and when it comes to the big picture in the senate. but i just want to take a moment also to note that the only reason mark kelly ran for office in the first place is because he got involved in politics with his wife, gabby giffords, who was the one people were looking at all those years ago because -- she was in the

house -- to potentially ultimately run in the senate. she didn't get to do that. she was shot, almost killed -- others were killed when she was just doing her job. she was meeting with constituents in her district in in tucson. it's important to take a moment and note he's only there because of violence against a politician who happened to be his wife. that's what made him want to run. >> very much so. you think about gabby giffords, she is now i think for the country a really beloved figure, just someone we as a country watched her recover from that horrible accident. and when we seesaw at the end of the campaign mark kelly really leaning into that story line, a lot of these currents are happening at the same time. democrats, remember were trying to make an argument to voters that you cannot trust the senate, you cannot trust the country to the other party. the argument was that they were

too extreme. and the problem if you were blake masters is that as candidate did almost nothing to push back against that argument. and i think that kelly who he is up against who blake masters was i think that was a huge contest. >> and this is one other example just to bring it back to where we started of the trump wing, somebody who was trying as hard as he could to kiss trump's ring -- to keep it clean -- >> literally on camera -- >> he didn't win and it didn't serve him well at all. >> and it was mark kelly who was embracing the legacy of john mccain. >> that's true. >> and i think it's important to not lose sight of. >> now another race we're following, a close one is the contest for colorado's third congressional district. republican incumbent lauren bobert barely edging out her democraticer. it is a much closer election

than many expected. >> reporter: that's right, this race taking a surprising turn. we could potentially be looking at the possibility of a recount, something that's not going to be more clear until at least next week in part government offices here are closed for veterans holiday and outstanding military and cured ballots have yet to be returned and counted. that deadline november 16th. but lauren boebert was trailing behind her opponent. as of friday afternoon she was ahead by roughly 1,100 votes. a mandatory recount in the state of california is triggered if the margin is 5 points or less. >> it's too early to tell. we need to be able to process the rest of the ballots and after that we will do a bipartisan risk limited audit which confirms the results followed by a bipartisan canvas,

and then only then do i certify the election and it's determined whether we go into recount. there's two ways to do a recount in the state of colorado. one is mandatory which you just mentioned, but then candidates can also pay for a recount if they so choose. >> reporter: but the fact we're talking about this race, the fact the margins are so very thin at least took political experts by surprise. lauren boebert entered this race in a strong position, the third congressional district she represents was made more favorable to republicans when its borders were redrawn last year. unlike most of the colorado delegation she entered the race with a sizable campaign war chest and also had national name recognition, making headlines as a staunch ally of former president donald trump, a major big gun rights advocate, which when she was sworn in she released a video of herself walking around capitol hill with a gun. she's promoted conspiracy theories, for example, about the outcome of the previous presidential election. and some analysts say one of the

reasons why this race became so close is in part because her opponent used her behavior against her. now adam frisch served on aspen city council and also asked voters if they wanted two more years as he described as her ender-tainment brand. she blamed the closeness of the race on a lack of voter enthusiasm for the republican candidates for senate and governor. but she did start fund-raising for a possible recount on friday. cnn, colorado. u.s. president joe biden says the climate crisis is a matter of human, economic, and national security and that the world must rise to the challenge. his remarks came at the cop27 climate conference in egypt on friday. mr. biden highlighting his administration's recent environmental victories as evidence that the u.s. is ready

to be a good partner in the fight. >> the united states is acting. everyone has to act. the united states government is putting our money where our mouth is to strengthen accountability for climate risk and resilience. >> mr. biden also met with egypt's president during his brief visit. he's now set for summits in asia and will have a meeting with the chinese leader xi jinping next week. our own will rippley in cam bonia where president biden will attend the asean summit of southeast asian nations in the hours ahead. good to see you there, will. an important trip for the u.s. president. what are going to be his priorities there? >> reporter: yeah, you know, he's really arriving here in asia on the heels of a much better than expected showing in the u.s. mid-terms where he really hammered in that message of preserving democracy in the united states. that's certainly a message that rings true here in this region where there's this growing

narrative of authoritarian countries ie china and the united states and at odds with each other. and here in cambodia this is one economy on the front lines of that because yesterday you had the cambodian prime minister eat wg the chinese premier. and i was walking around here yesterday, so much chinese investment. china announcing even more infrastructure investment in the coming years ahead. so they're pumping lots and lots of money and as a result you have cambodia coming out publicly and saying they support the chinese position on taiwan and president biden in the coming hours will be holding his own meeting with the cambodian prime minister. this gives you a sense of the economic geopolitics at play when you talk about the united states, china and their influence in the region. when president biden does meet with chinese president xi jinping face to face at the g20 it's going to be very important and of course this is the first meeting between the two since president biden has taken

office. before that happens in cambodia another important issue on the agenda north korea. and he'll be meeting with the south korean and japanese president here. we don't know when it's going to happen, michael. we thought it might be possible basically most of this year. it hasn't happened yet, but when north korea conducts a nuclear test the united states is hoping its allies have a plan in place to respond respectively. >> will rippley there. all right, well florida's governor becoming increasingly popular among republicans. ahead why his wife is playing a big role in his success. we'll be right back.

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and a reminder of our top story this hour. democrats just one seat away from retaining control of the u.s. senate. cnn new projecting incumbent

democrat mark kelly will win re-election for a full term in arizona against republican challenger blake masters. this gives both parties 49 seats each, two races outstanding. in three days former u.s. president trump is set to make what he calls a special announcement in florida. his team has hinted that he could declare a presidential run for 2024. but some republicans are urging him to hold off especially after the party underperformed in the mid- mid-terms. some conservatives say trump is to blame for their losses and want him to hold off the now unsment at least until the senate race in georgia. some georgia republicans also believe desantis could help them on the campaign trail citing his lopsided win last week. and the governor's wife is playing a big role in his success.

casey desantis has been working behind the scenes and in front of the camera to help her husband. here's cnn's randy kaye. >> reporter: long before she became the first lady of florida casey desantis was a fixture in many floridians homes. she was an anchor and reporter for two jacksonville, florida, tv stations. but she left it all behind to raise her children and help support her husband's run as governor of florida. >> i was going to take a break from the show. >> reporter: casey desantis was born in ohio as jill casey black. she's a golf enthusiast and equestr equestrian who graduated with an economic degree. she met desantis on a golf range at the university of california. >> i kept looking over my shoulder and ron is over there and he thinks i'm looking at him. >> was there an attraction to him? >> of course he was cute. >> reporter: the couple married

in 2009 at the walt disney world resort. in 2010 casey worked as a host for the pga tour appearing on the golf channel. a couple years later ron desantis was elected to florida's six congressional district, the startf his political career. ever since casey has reportedly been part of a tight inner circle relying on her tv experience and appear on campaign ads including this memorable one from 2018. >> build a wall. >> he's teaching madison to talk. >> make america great again. >> you want to know who ron desantis really is. >> reporter: more recently casey recorded this campaign ad for her husband, focusing on how he helped her after her 2021 diagnose with breast cancer. she's now cancer free. >> he was there to pick me off of the ground when i literally could not stand. he was there to fight for me when i didn't have the strength to fight for myself. that is who ron desantis is. >> reporter: when she isn't busy

with their three young children casey desantis can be found at her husband's side on the campaign trail. >> he's running for the right reasons not because he wants to be somebody but because he wants to do great things. >> reporter: in the aftermath of hurricane ian where the disaster relief fund she receives brought in upwards of $50 million. >> all i can say is our hearts and prayers are with people who are suffering which is why 24 hours ago we launched the relief fund. >> reporter: and this week as he basked in his glow of the re-election victory the governor spotlighting his wife. >> most important of all thank you to the greatest first lady in all 50 states for being a great wife, giving unwavering

support, being a tremendous mother to our three young children. she is remarkable. >> reporter: florida voters really seem to like the fact that casey desantis is no-nonsense. she's focused. she's driven, a devoted wife and mother and that plays well with florida voters certainly those in the desantis camp. she's also started this initiative called mothers for desantis where she's successfully signed up more than a million parents to keep the state of florida free in her words. and of course she's had this very public battle with breast cancer. she's been now a champion for cancer research in the state of florida. she's helped secure about $100 million in funding for cancer research in the state, and she goes around the state talking to patients and certainly is getting the message out about early detection. and that of course playing very well with women across the state of florida. that is a benefit for casey desantis and for the governor. randy kaye, cnn. donald trump has sued the

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