hello and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your busy newsday with us. president biden hits the road as we hit 12 days till election day. a handful of key senate races are a toss-up. republicans increase will go i confident about capturing the house. early voting way up, some democrats do see some hope there. plus, get this quote, security is a joke. we have some new cnn reporting shows millions of your tax dollars earmarked to protect election workers have not been spent and it leaves the people who count your votes vulnerable to threats. and donald trump sets campaign closing rallies in iowa, in pennsylvania, in ohio and in florida. his election lies echo across this year's republican campaigns, a new snub 6 a potential rival. more proof trump is thinking 2024 comeback. >> and now in order to make our country successful, safe and glorious again, i will probable

h have to do it again but first we have to win a historic win for the republican party. >> we begin with breaking legal news involving donald trump. the former president, his lawyers right now inside a washington, d.c. federal courthouse. that part of a big battle with the justice department in a secret dispute stemming from that unprecedented fbi serving of search warrants at mar-a-lago. cnn spotted his lawyers and several justice department prosecutors known to be working on this case this morning. let's get straight to kaitlan collins. what do we know? >> reporter: this is really interesting, really what we don't know, you see the three attorneys going into this federal courthouse in washington this morning, jim trustee, lindsay haugen and evan hall ran, the three primarily handling the mar-a-lago document investigation and what's notable is where they are. they are in washington going into this for this sealed proceeding where they're in the room with justice department prosecutors and the chief judge

but typically we see them in court in florida, we have seen them in brooklyn. but have not seen them before based on my knowledge going into the d.c. courthouse and so it raises a lot of questions of what this secret proceeding means and what they are at dispute over in the courthouse right now which we believe is still going on. we have not seen the attorneys for the former president exit yet. they did not answer reporters' questions going in for why they are there today but it does come as we know what's still at the heart of this investigation which is the documents that trump took with him when he left office to mar-a-lago and the concerns that the justice department has made quite clear, they still have which is whether or not all of those documents have been returned to the possession of the federal government and have made clear they do not believe that they are and so they are in this proceeding right now. we are still waiting to find out what exactly is going on behind closed doors here, because we've seen other trump attorneys and trump former aides go into the courthouse, a lot of them talking to the grand jury about

this investigation that has been under way. we haven't yet seen this legal team that is the legal team of counsel of record when it comes to this investigation going into the d.c. federal courthouse. so a lot of questions raised by this appearance, john. >> a new twist in a secret proceeding. we will try to get more information as it plays out, appreciate the breaking news from kaitlan collins. cook back when you do learn more. the shifting debate, 12 days away your votes coloring in this map. president biden stirring the conversation headed to new york to celebrate some new technology jobs. watch for the president to deliver a blunt warning in his view giving republicans control of congress will endanger the economy. the president will make the case it will endanger your families' bottom line and embe in new york, a blue state, reminder democrats are on defense in this final stretch. now, if there is one source of hope it is the record setting early votes. but republicans say things are

trending their way in most places anyway. let's take a look andset the stakes. we will fill it in again 12 days from now. the current house, democrats have a narrow majority, 220-212. republicans increasingly confident they will not only take the house but take it with decent news. one of the ways we see the democrats on defense, if you look at the 78 races that cnn and our partner inside elections define as competitive seats, look at all the blue, 78 of them, 53 and 22, 75. three of these districts are new districts drowning up after redistricting but democrats on defense defending more than twice as many seats as republicans and if you look at these democratic seats look at the blue on this map. they're in new england, in maine, new hampshire, rhode island. a bunch in new york, you come to virginia, some out here in the midwest and even out on the west coast, you have democrats defending in blue state, two seats, in oregon democrats are defending back on their heels. look in california. it's among -- it's the largest most populous blue state of the

nine competitive districts out there. eight held by democrats there so in the house race democrats back on their heels and republicans thinking we might not win not only the 5 but maybe 15, 20, some are talking 25 or more as we head into the final days then you come over to the senate map. 35 contests in all and some key shifts. we're waiting to see the fallout from the big debate in pennsylvania the other night. democrat john fetterman against the republican, mehmet oz, that is a key contest. new developments today in georgia and among the new developments today, out here in arizona, this a seat where the democratic incumbent mark kelly running for re-election. the republican candidate blake masters, the respected cook political report moving this seat. democrats need to hold it to keep their senate majority. cook political report moving it from lean democrat to toss-up so another shift against the democrats. pro-republican in the campaign final days. let's discuss. with me in studio, cnn's dana bash, lee wootson and i showed

the competitive house races, more the democrats on their heels. now the cook political report moving it from lean to mark kelly to true toss-up in the final 12 days, republicans are feeling more and more confident. >> yeah, it's understandable given where we are right now with regard to the economy. arizona, i was just there actually came back yesterday was there, was in nevada this week and you can feel the anxiety on the ground. talking to voters, rather. it's palpable. it's not to say that other issues are not driving voters to the polls, still the abortion issue was actually kind of surprising to me given the state of the economy right now, how in arizona i was with a republican candidate in one of those toss-up districts and he was going up to voters just to say, please vote for me the way he should and he unsolicited, or he

solicited what do you care about and the answer from several of the women he talked to was abortion. and it's, again, not to say that the economy is not driving, but it also was an indicator and a reminder to me in these districts you were saying, the numbers, early voting numbers are high, democrats are saying, okay, well, maybe that's a good sign. it might be a little bit of a saving grace because they have this abortion issue. >> so that's why we would say 12 days out be careful. just be careful in the sense early voting did help the democrats in 2020. no doubt it d the question is will it happen in 2022? if you look at the fundamentals the president's approval rating normally the north star in a midterm, the poll of polls, approval, 41, disapprove, 56. that leads joe biden about where donald trump was, about where barack obama was, a little below where barack obama was and they both lost the house in their first midterm. you make a key point when you show the democrats defending in all house district, defending in some of these senate races now that that forces the money to go

to defensive race, not trying to get takeaways. >> yeah, i was just in north carolina, for example, with cheri beasley and democrats are begging, screaming, put more money in here. we can win if we have more money. defending in arizona which is now a toss-up, in pennsylvania or wherever else, that money is finite. you don't have that money to go to other races so defense has an effect on where that is going on but ripples. >> a number of interesting wrinkles. liz cheney is going to michigan next week to campaign for democrat elissa slotkin in one of those democratic districts. again, the fundamentals tell you it's trending toward republicans and get examples of things outside the box. >> slotkin's district is interesting. i went out months ago to look at how voters were feeling, back at that time, i would say she,

democrats on the ground there, wanted to hear more from the white house about the economy. you know, i've been trying to track this for the past year and there was a sense initially that the white house was a bit slow to respond. i think they have tried to be more aggressive on that front. we see that with the president today trying to portray this clear contrast on the economy. but the question is for a lot of voters, when you look at inflation the numbers aren't great. >> the about the president, a lot of pressure to focus more on the cost of living, stresses on people's lives. he has to say we've done some things but not lead with that but i share your pain to borrow a phrase, he will go today and talk about new technology jobs but the white house, our phil mattingly and white house team saying he will try to draw a sharper contrast. you might be mad at things but if the republicans run the house things will get worse. >> yeah, it's one of the fascinating things is that like gdp is up so he'll try to work that way into his speech or find a way to implement that

democrats give you a better future than republicans do. but by and large the voters i've talked to said they associate the negative, you know, economic numbers with biden over and over again and when you have so many voters that have already cast, you know, baked in their votes already, you know, is there really any way for that to continue to make sense. >> another one of the races outside the box because uncharted territory is the pennsylvania senate race, again, that's a republican incumbent not running for re-election so democrats hope can we pick that up? maybe we'll lose arizona or nevada. if we want to keep the majority we need to pick something up. john fetterman had a difficult debate performance the other night. he is five bhontss into recovery from a stroke. republicans see that as more evidence that race could trend their way. fetterman trying to assure voters last night, that was tough but i'm with you. >> doing that debate wasn't exactly easy. you know -- [ cheers and applause ]

knew it wasn't going to be easy after having a stroke and after five months, i may not get every, every word the right way. but i will always do the right thing in washington, d.c. [ cheers and applause ] >> we won't know for some time but it will be fascinating to see how the debate performance plays out in the sense he's in a competitive race, this sort of tug-of-war in the suburbs where this will be decided. abortion breaks for the democrats, crime for republican, inflation for the republicans and trump breaks for the democrats. you have this tug-of-war. how does the debate performance factor in? >> a lot comes down to the candidate quality. there are voters you hear from pennsylvania who have serious questions about mehmet oz's record, the republican running there for senate. i saw this in georgia similarly in the senate race there, as much as there are nationalized issues i kept hearing from split ticket voters which many thought were unicorns, an extent species

voting for the republican for governor but voting third party or democrat for senate because it came down to the specific qualities that they see in the candidate. >> and that's a critical point. i just want to point out these are senate race, georgia senate race outside the margin of error, pennsylvania stat race is a statistical tie, the nevada senate race is a statistical tie and wisconsin too. you're in the final 12 days, i've been covering midterm elections for a long time and this one may be different. we may get ticket splitters because you have them in new hampshire and georgia running for re-election seem okay. does that help candidates in their states? normally they break. they tend to break one way when they break late. that's in the rearview mirror. >> anecdote, my uber driver yesterday morning in phoenix was a ticket splitter. he was going to vote for the republican for governor and the democrat in the senate. and there could be more of that

because voters have become not that they weren't sophisticated before but in today's information age, even more sophisticated especially in states where they have been engaged in recent years like georgia, like arizona. and, but the question is whether the historical gravity is going to take hold. >> you make a key point that they're stressed. they're stressed about covid-19. they're stressed about inflation. it's been several years of stress and when voters have stress they go into the voting booth. you can take it out on incumbents or the party in power. democratic president, might be different, it's fascinating as we go forward. we'll continue to talk about it including up next the trump factor in the midterms. four rallies in the closing days as the former president aims to boost both 2022 candidates and, yes, his own 2024 standing. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [sfx: stomach gurgling]

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we now know donald trump plans a four-state rally swing to close the midterm campaign, iowa, ohio, pennsylvania and florida, on the former

president's schedule all four states have important senate contests, plus, some critical down ballot races as well and all four, of course, play into trump's intensifying 2024 planning as well. our great reporters are back with us and if you look at the map if we could put it back up, important senate races and down ballot races then you look at trump's new home state. left new york and he's now a floridian and having a rally he arranged with marco rubio and did not tell the republican governor ron desantis -- >> oh, he told him what he can do with the idea coming to a rally with him by not inviting him, the message was incredibly loud and incredibly clear. and first of all let's just talk about just for five seconds about the richness of marco rubio and donald trump. i mean, it wasn't that long ago that 2016 happened and we all remember some of those wild debates. >> the disparaging nicknames. >> disparaging in a lot of ways that are not appropriate for

noon eastern time, but back to this particular year, the fact that florida's shifted a little bit and marco rubio does need donald trump in florida for a whole host of reasons, but it seems to me that it's much more about donald trump wanting to make the point that he wants to go with marco rubio and not ron desantis than anything else. it's about 2024. >> to that point cnn reporting on trump spent the closing weeks of the cycle preparing his political operation for another presidential campaign including assembling campaign leadership and searching for a venue from which to launch his comeback. that will come after the midterms but before the midterms so essentially lay a marker that says, ron desantis, i'm running, go ahead, do it if you wish, but -- >> but in some ways i want to say, this is the biggest gift the democrats could ask for just a couple of days before election day, i mean, there is nobody who ryes up democrats and fires them

up in the way that donald trump does and, you know, one of the things i've been struck by talked about biden's approval rating. look under the hood. he doesn't have amazing numbers with young voters and doesn't poll as high with his own party as donald trump did in 2018 yet you throw donald trump into the mix and democrats get really energized and that is something that president biden himself cannot do for his own party and democrats are -- the ones i talked to were excited. >> great point in the sense trump is going, if you look at the map again, places that are relatively safe for him. does the national coverage stir up the suburban revolt, right now democrats are worried about inflation and crime playing against them in the suburbs. do those same voters see donald trump back on the stage and go, ooh and go the other way. one thing he has done for months republicans have been saying you raise all this money. why don't you spend some on the actual this election as opposed to saving it for yours. his super pac has come in late.

a relatively modest amount but spent 3 million in arizona, ads in the final month of the campaign, about 2.6 in pennsylvania, 2.6 million in georgia, 2.3 million in the ohio senate race, nevada, 2 million. michigan governor's race a million dollars. late to the game, it's a small slice of all the money donald trump has raised but finally at least he listened in states that are important to him. >> sure. and, again, look at the early voting numbers so very late. people have banked those ballots. they cast those votes already but there's also just this question of like whether trump's campaign apparatus benefits anybody that is not donald trump. if there are residual benefits t that's great but he's clearly laying down the groundwork for his own run or influence. >> can i add an anecdote to help bolster the point you were making? not just about trump riling up democratic voters but the fact that in, well, maybe this is the

same sort of idea, which is in swing districts i was in one yesterday, in arizona, arizona 6th, the republican there and he has not been endorsed by donald trump. i asked if that was a good thing and his answer was, basically i'm running my own race, smile, wink, nod. donald trump has endorsed everybody up the ballot and the republicans are wanted at the time. this is different because it's a tight district. >> it depends where you are and raises a fascinating question. you go to pennsylvania there are a lot of trump voters who aren't sure oz is one of them so trump gives himmal dags but does he then turn away people in the suburbs who are hoping that oz is more of a moderate centrist conservative? in ohio the same thing, is j.d. vance a trumpee? 12 days next. we go live to the campaign trail, the headquarters of a

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in georgia another allegation about herschel walker as big shots try to boost his senate campaign, plus, you might say all about the base, the closing messages in arizona's close -- wisconsin, excuse me, close senate race, first to arizona where the democratic nominee for governor had her campaign headquarters burglarized. katie hobbs placing it on kari lake. kyung lah is live there. tell us more. >> reporter: well, we're really seeing these accusations truly flying as you are talking about. kari lake has responded in kind and basically she is saying in regards to katie hobbs, blaming rhetoric from the kari lake campaign, she is saying essentially are you kidding me? take a listen. >> that is absolutely absurd and are you guys buying that? are you really buying that? this sounds like a jussie smollett part 2. >> reporter: and jussie

smollett, of course, is the actor who had according to what he was convicted by making up a complaint and then he has now been sentenced and has been spending time in prison because of that false police report so essentially she's saying that the hobbs campaign is making up a story about this burglary. john, i should point out there is a police report and pictures of somebody who they think did the break-in and here we are, back 12 weeks -- 12 days, excuse me, until the election day and these attacks are flying back and forth. john. >> new twist on crime and law and order i guess you might say in the arizona's governor's campaign. now to georgia, another woman accusing herschel walker of pressuring her to have an abortion. here is how he is addressing that. >> this is a lie and i have said it once and i moved on, my pain moved on because we're worried about what the georgia people

are talking about. if you're hesitant about voting for me think about what joe biden and raphael warnock have done in less than two years, given you high inflation and open boarder and men and women's sports, crime on the street. >> republicans with big names rushing to support walker despite this torrent of character questions. eva mckend is there. >> reporter: the whole establishment rallying behind him. senator ted cruz on the trail but we've seen senator marsha blackburn of tennessee, the powerful chairman of the national republican senate electoral committee, senator rick scott, the rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel and republicans really believe they have a good shot in flipping this senate seat from blue to red. that support that we're seeing at the national level also seems to be nearer here on the ground. when you talk to his conservative supporters they question the timing of these allegations and they also suggest some frustration.

they feel as though republicans are often targeted. now, something that i've noticed that walker has incorporated in addition to blanket denials, he's now also saying if they do this to me, imagine what can happen to you next. i'm curious to see how much he continues to make variations of this argument in the days ahead. voting already under way in this state. just a week and a half until election day. john. >> eva mckent. thank you. mandela barnes challenging ron johnson. they share an affinity for calling each other extreme. omar jiminez is on the ground for us. beautiful foliage and river behind you. beautiful day. the campaign is not so pretty. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, john, i mean each event these two do are very eager to attack the other and it makes sense, right? less than two weeks to election day. polls have shown no clear leader in the state and there is a lot

on the line, for starters johnson has characterized mandela barnes as someone who is soft on crime to which barnes has said he is anything but. barnes has criticized johnson for or characterized i should say johnson as someone who wants to bring wisconsin back to the 1800s, particularly when it comes to abortion while johnson has said he just wants that decided at the state level by the voters. take a listen to what they've said about each other over the past few days. >> you got one side of the political spectrum. they don't like it. it's why running again is our nation's imperative. >> when the dobbs decision came down he celebrated. he called it a victory and said 1849 criminal abortion ban, if they don't like it, they can move. in 13 days women in the state can help move ron johnson out of office. >> reporter: both candidates have been calling reinforcements in here. mandela barnes for one later today in green bay is expected to do an event with labor

secretary marty walsh as part of his win for wisconsin bus tour that barnes has been doing across the state and, of course, later this week president obama will be in milwaukee to campaign with barnes and wisconsin governor tony evers locked in his own too close to call no clear leader race with the republican challenger tim michels. he is expected to appear later, johnson, and the most important issue is economy followed by abortion and then election integrity as well and i can tell you after we've driven all across the state we've seen it reflected in voters we've spoken to. >> 12 days left, surrogates coming in to gin up turnup. omar jiminez, eva mckend, thank you so much. up next, we follow the map west to nevada and find the senate's most at risk democrat.

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nevada tops the list of democratic worries when it comes to the senate map. democrat katherine cortez mass to. rent and gas prices high. latinos growing to 20% of the elector yacht. could be bigger this year and a giant factor in democrats' success is that latino support. but republicans see a big opening, a giant opening even against the latina incumbent. dana bash was just in nevada for an up close as in door-to-door look. >> you're trying to get people to vote against the first latina

in the senate. >> uh-huh. >> she made history. is that hard? >> i wouldn't say so because i think a lot of these people feel left behind. they feel that they have maybe a latina representing them and they're latinos and not getting better outcomes. all these hispanic voters saying she may be hispanic but she's leaving us behind. >> reporters still at the table including dana bash. interesting. republicans see this, some building in 2020, they think in 2020 they can grow even more, build back their support with latino voters. that would be a huge flip. >> huge and this is a program called vamos, shameless plug, a piece at the end of "state of the union" sunday. i was in nevada in east las vegas in a place that is very blue but they're using micro targeting and going and finding hispanic voters who are either independents or what they call weak republicans, they don't vote in midterm elections and having conversations with them.

at least trying to do it. and in a place like nevada as you said where there is not just an already big latino or hispanic population but a growing one and people who don't feel like the republicans speak to them, they're trying. they're at least trying because they argue, democrats disagree, they argue democrats take those votes for granted. >> one of the places where democrats insist they're going to surprise us and say they're registering new voters in nevada including latinos and will surprise. if you look at the metrics including this is the -- look at the recent polling. cortez masto got 61% of the hispanic vote, the latino vote. recent cbs poll had her dropping to 58%. you might say that's a modest drop. in a 50/50 race a drop like that on the margins can and does make the difference. >> it does. i think that part of what's going on is in some ways i think unique to nevada. its economy is so driven by tourism, by the casino industry,

that shut down during the pandemic and slow to re-open and tourists to come back and talk about inflation in a macro sense. i think it is immediate and personal in nevada and the struggle that democrats have this is whether or not it is accurate or fair or right, biden administration and democrats have controlled all the levers of power. and republicans i talk to even some democrats say you are the party in power as inflation hit a four-decade high. now to be fair there's a whole bunch of factors for that happening but i think just on an instinct wall level people will point to the fact that the democrats have had the options and the opportunity to address the situation. >> politics is not fair as we all know from covering it. donald trump was president when the pandemic started and nevada was hit, the tourism industry was hit but adam laxalt focuses on that and says this state has taken a hit, please blame democrats. >> they understand after many,

many years now that the democrat policies do not help the working class in this state and if you want a chance at the american dream and to climb out and go into the middle class, which, by the way, we've always been in las vegas, you have to block the biden/masto agenda. >> it will answer two big questions, if democrats lose that seat, number one, if they're 50/50 so pick up somewhere else. if you lose that you better win pennsylvania or wisconsin or north carolina. and then again it was the 2020 growth for trump among latinos, was it an aberration or are republicans building back. >> one thing democrats have to sort of understand or have been trying to learn over the last two years is representation is not enough. like biden and democrats promised to build an economy that benefits the middle class and poor people and those people as inflation goes up and the economy tanks or whatever, are the people that are being left behind and if that happens you

will not win elections. >> it's also nevada is one of those states for the next two, three, four, maybe five cycles it will be pennsylvania, georgia, arizona, nevada, maybe wisconsin and michigan will be deciding presidential elections and the flip of the map. look how close it is. my years covering it you saw nevada was red, became purple. thought it was moving blue. obama wins by 6.6 in 2012, hillary clinton by 2.4. you talked about ticket splitting. look at that. senator rosen won by five points in 2018. that was the democratic midterm year. in 2020, joe biden carrying it again. highly competitive and may have been trending blue but now has hit the pause button. >> for all the reasons we were talking about. one thing i found interesting in going out to a lot of these states and talking to democratic candidates in particular is i've noticed the shift in how they're talking about the economy. at the beginning they weren't probably talking about it enough.

now they're doing some of it i feel your pain but then trying to pivot to the one thing that people can understand in the inflation reduction act which is the prescription drug part that will bring your prices down even though it won't happen for awhile but corporate greed. why are prices so high? is it that the prices really are that high or is it that these corporations are taking advantagy that is something they believe from focus groups and polling can touch a nerve with voters, unclear if it's enough. >> the unclear if it's enough is why we have 12 more days and that's what the president has been saying. >> yeah, biden is trying over and over again to hit home that like there are other factors in play, there's corporate greed. there's russia and its invasion of ukraine and all of that stuff but the fact of the matter is when you talk to voters, the people they blame for the economy are the people that are in power. there's a reason biden spent the weekend in rehoboth and not campaigning with democrats

because people by and large blame him for a bad economy. >> the argument that the white house is taking, the democrats are taking if you elect republican, if republicans take control things will get worse. the challenge is that is kind of like an amorphous reality that doesn't exist right now so the point to repealing the inflation reduction act or cutting social security but those are not tangible things people are yet feeling. >> we'll hear from the president later in new york. this quick programming note, don't just watch "state of the union" dana sat down with the second gentlemen, doug emhoff. how he navigates it. being the second gentleman airs saturday night 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. election security and red tape. new cnn reporting finds millions of dollars in federal funding set aside to help keep election officials safe, guess what, it has barely been touched. ♪ ♪

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please vote yes on 31. vote yes on prop 31. we want to share important new cnn reporting on election security with you now and sadly it includes this quote, our security here is a joke. that from a report that documents complaints from election officials who say the federal government is not delivering on promises to boost safety and security at the polls and read the reporting. it's a classic tale of bureaucratic red tape. millions remain untapped. we know this is very real. just in recent day, remember these picture, armed vigilantes seen patrolling drop boxes in arizona. seven battleground states account for nearly 60% of all threats of physical violence but in those states cnn identified only a little more than $1 million dedicated to physical

security for election officials. this report something done by cnn to share the details. what's the biggest issue. >> the big issue you've heard about fighting in the last war in afghanistan and ukraine but fighting the last election. what was the main concern coming out of 2016? russian interference with cyberthreats. fast forward to after 2020, we're talking about physical harassment of american election officials by our own citizens. election officials don't always know what they need until you need it then you're asking for money and it could be too late by then. i looked at two grant programs worth hong kong's hang sengs of millions the feds have tried to adapt to new urgent threats and i only found a little bit of uptake in seven battleground states which as you say account for the majority of threats and it's no coincidence they do, that's where the so-called audits and conspiracy theories

are blooming about the voting process. >> not a shortage of money. how much available? ballpark? >> over a billion in these grants. these grants aren't just dedicated to election security but a range of crime fighting programs. there are other programs that have funding for this but we took a look at how the federal government was able to adapt to threats and this is what we found a paltry uptake. >> you get complaints from state and local officials saying these programs, it's not clear, it's not clean, getting the money but you have the michigan secretary of state telling you it's also sometimes that maybe the states aren't doing a good enough job to find where the money is. sounds like a lot of red tape. >> the same reason our elections are spread out and run by state and local, that makes us more secure and that hacking or compromising one part of the system doesn't compromise the whole. that makes it a challenge. that same system is challenging to get money out the door and down into the hands of people who need it. so, yes, we found a lot of red tape in our reporting and talked to one gentleman this accounting in el paso county who wasn't

aware of the grant programs but had taken money from the dmv which he also oversees to pay for more physical security like cameras because they have received death threats in that office, john. >> the threats are very real. it sounds like you'll have to figure this out for the next cycle since it's too late to do much more in this cycle. sean, important reporting. go to cnn.com and read the full report. joe biden heading to new york including for a top democrat who finds himself in a very tight race. the first time your sales reached 100k was also the first time you hit this note...

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topping our political radar jill biden hitting the trail. she will make stops across new york includes for the suddenly embattled democratic congressman shawn patrick aloneny. mortgage rates topping 7% for the first time in two decades. more than doubled in the past year. the rapid increase, of course, fueled by the federal reserve's efforts to curb inflation. history today in new york city. the city's fire department swearing in laura kavanagh. bob menendez under federal investigation again. the new jersey democrat says he does not know the scope of this investigation. it comes five years after his

corruption trial ended in a mistrial. prosecutors back in 2017 said menendez had accepted thousands of dollars and luxury services in exchange for political favors. climate catastrophe. what countries have vowed to do versus what must be done. planes will reduce planet warming emissions in 2030 by less than 1%. that is incredibly far from the 45% reduction that was targeted. this quick programming note, don't miss this on sunday, join kyung lah as she talks with officials who fear violence in their districts. america's dangerous divide begins at 8:00 p.m. sunday. thanks for your time today on "inside politics." ana cabrera picks up our coverage right now. hello, i'm ana cabrera in new york. thanks