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. >> joining me now, peter alexander and "wall street journal" white house reporter sabrina siddiqui. peter, to you. the big news from the president at the u.n. today, a number of issues, including artificial intelligence, global warming, very important, an appeal to the global south, an alignment against russia, importantly. also a lot on the middle east. >> no doubt. there are a lot of global challenges right now. ukraine is at the top of the list. the president only used parts of his remarks to focus on ukraine. president zelenskyy will be making his first in-person appearance here at the u.n. general assembly since the war began. the president described naked aggression right now of russia, saying it's critical the world community fights back against that naked aggression, to deter would-be aggressors tomorrow. that focused on china right now and the fear china could invade ukraine. he praised the brave people of ukraine. the president recognizes the need for a collective effort, not just on the issue of ukraine but on so many other issues, including food insecurity with food pric

white house reporter for "the wall street journal," sabrina siddiqui, come back soon. >>> we turn to capitol hill now. and in a bipartisan vote the senate advanced a stop gap bill to fund the government until november 17th. that measure includes roughly $6 billion in aid to ukraine as well as a separate $6 billion for emergency disaster relief funding for fema. but despite this progress, senator rand paul of kentucky has vowed to reject an agreement to pass the bill quickly, which could push any final passage until after the funding deadline has come and gone. the bill would still need to be approved by the house and signed by president biden. senate majority leader chuck schumer and minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday spoke to the importance of passing the bill in time. >> as i've said for months the only solution for avoiding a harmful government shutdown is bipartisanship. the extreme right and the other chambers say they actually want a shutdown. what insanity. this will avoid that terrible outcome. >> a government shutdown would be an unnecessary disruption of the importan

. >>> want to bring in david jolly, jonathan lemire and sabrina siddiqui.let's start with you. as you are looking at the numbers, they are shocking to see all together, especially in that head-to-head matchup between president biden and former president donald trump. is there anything that you think could actually shake those numbers for the former president? >> not really in the republican primary. i think at this point, we know the indictments and charges have helped him. they strengthed his hold of a lead. the one unknown is if he went on trial. it's not to suggest it takes him down. it might move him up. there appears to be no trial that would occur before he has the nomination secured in mid march. i would suggest one of the reasons is because it is very hard -- if all of the other republican candidates -- recall when they were asked, will you vote for donald trump if he is a criminal convict? they raised their hand. how do they say, i would vote for this guy but you shouldn't, you should vote for me? donald trump has this thing wire to wire in the rep

joining me now is garrett haake and sabrina siddiqui, barbara mcquade is back with us, and peter bakeryou pressed senator graham about why he cared so much about the election in 2020. tell us about that. >> this is instructive about why the grand jury -- the second grand jury might have chosen not to charge graham. here you have somebody acting as a politician at a time period when everyone in the republican party was asking similar questions about what was going on in some of the states. i asked him right in the meat of this, in the middle of november of 2020, why he found himself so interested in georgia. here is what he told me. did you or did you not ask him to throw out votes? >> no. that's ridiculous. i talked to him about how you verify signatures. i thought it was a nice conversation. >> why is a senator from south carolina calling the setting of state of georgia? >> it hangs in the balance. >> he made those calls and then he voted to certify the election on january 6 and has subsequently said that he does think joe biden is the proper president of the united states. his politi