washington and our leadership. "the story" goes on. we look forward to see you back here tomorrow at 3 and then we go to pennsylvania after the big fetterman and oz debate, which is tomorrow night. we'll sit down with viewers and voters and how they thought ant john fetterman did the night before and whether it impacts their vote. "your world" starts right now. take care. >> neil: all right. we're following the lines on a lot of money. two weeks until the mid-terms. already half the nation has opened up for early voting to say nothing of mail-in ballot's which has been going on some time. turnout surging. so what can we tell from where the big money is going? we got you covered on all sides, all angles, all candidates. jonathan serrie with the latest on the early voters that are out in force and where that momentum might be going. bryan llenas in pennsylvania where senate candidates are

preparing to duke it out. connell mcshane on where both candidates are dolling out the cash. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world." wall street was surging today. some say because they're anticipating a republican romp in a couple weeks. let's not get ahead of ourselves. we'll be all over that. first to jonathan serrie in atlanta, georgia. jonathan? >> yeah, there's a lot of interest in these elections here in georgia. more than 837,000 georgians have already cast ballots in the form of mail-in absentee ballots or early in-person voting which is what is going on here. more than 18,000 early voted on sunday alone. doubling first sunday voting during the 2018 mid-terms. more than 79,000 voted saturday surpassing saturday voting in the 2020 presidential election

that is huge. state elections officials expected to surpass one million total votes by tomorrow. governor kemp says the report high voter turnout disproves democratic challenger stacey abram's clams that the voter i.d. law suppresses voting. abrams is doubling down comparing high voter turnout to adding more swims in shark infested waters. more swimmers may get across but the hazards are still there. today political says the voting righting nonprofits that abrams founded spent more than $25 million on legal fees including 9.4 million that went to the law firm of her close friend and campaign chair, allegra hardy. abrams left the organization in 2021 before announcing her second bid for governor. fair fight action tells politco that she was hired for her expertise. and herschel walker is trying to

unseat democratic senator raphael warnock. a well-performing libertarian in the mid, chase oliver, could prevent either candidate from surpassing the 50% threshold needed to avoid a run-off. if so, the senate campaign in georgia could drag on in to early december. neil? >> neil: oh, boy. all right. jonathan, thank you for that, i think. let's go to bryan llenas in harrisburg, pennsylvania. they have some important goings on today. a big debate and a lot of pressure. what is happening right now, bryan? >> neil, look, the bottom line is the big debate, the one and only debate in this senate race in pennsylvania will be tomorrow night. in a big part of the conversation, it's about the candidates and really their background and experience. we went to braddock, pennsylvania this weekend. john fetterman was the mayor of braddock for 13 years. in his political ads, he proudly proclaims that he rebuilt braddock. he still lives there. he has tattoos of the old steel

town's zip codes and the dates marking when someone was murdered in the town. the campaign points out there were no murders for five years. locals say he brought in affordable housing, investment and a community center. >> i was here when braddock was real down. yes, there was growth under his administration. >> he set up that program where, you know, kids can study to get their geds. >> it's not where we want to be but it's not where we used to be. >> yeah, the statistics tell a different story. under fetterman, the population of braddock dropped 40% to just 1,700 people. the poverty rate increased and the number of violent crime incidents went up. >> there continues to be more abandoned properties than vialable businesses here in braddock. some local residents and businessmen say they're conservative but gave fetterman a shot. he scuffed at the notion that he

rebuilt braddock. >> built back braddock? jobs? what jobs? what did he build back? i had a choice, i wouldn't come here. the renaissance of braddock coming back didn't happen. >> when he ran for mayor, hopes that he would bring it back. i think he just used it as a stepping stone. >> is braddock back? >> no. look. drive down the streets and look. it's not back. >> he's not been the solution. it's not his fault. >> a new cnn poll released today finds that fetterman is leading over dr. mehmet oz 51% to 45 among likely voters. ahead of the one and only debate tomorrow. i should say that this is a race that fox news has always said is a toss-up as all the polls show that this race has continued to tighten. neil? >> neil: these swings are beyond the pale. thanks very much.

bryan llenas following that. we're also following the money in these races here. that adds a lot to do with the outcome as you might know. where momentum or people are betting real money on that perceived momentum is being plunked down. connell income shane has more. >> it's always important to follow the money but especially when we zero in on the so-called outside money. the funds that come from big corporations, unions and the likes. that's why a headline out of new hampshire on friday caught our eye. seemed to speak to priorities on the republican side at least. the senate leadership fund, aligned with mitch mcconnell and the republicans pulled support from don buldoc in a senate race against maggie hassan even though the race is close. they pulled the support to spend about $5.5 million elsewhere. shift the priorities. so where is elsewhere? top three states that we came up when we looked at this money, the outside spending,

pennsylvania and certainly georgia and nevada as well. if you look at pennsylvania first, that's number 1. more than 130 million has been spent. 20.3 million in favor of the dems. 9 million pro republican. we look at negative spending, that's when the story starts to take shape. 56 million against the democrats. 44.5 million is anti-gop. then there's georgia. that's number 2 on the list. 105 million total. the similar breakdown, the pro numbers on a relative basis small. 6.2. 10.4 million respectively. look at the negative ads. they've been rolling in in georgia. once again, it's these republican groups with at least a small advantage. much closer than it was in pennsylvania, a lot of money spent on both sides. and then finally in nevada, that's number 3. the pro spending there is heavily in favor of the dems. you might say that's the party in power. they're trying to promote

policies to keep in power. the republicans putting big bucks in negative ads against the democrats. in nevada, it breaks down to 40 to 32 or so. the bottom line, neil, with all of this, when you talk to republicans, talk to strategists, control of the senate may come through pennsylvania, georgia and nevada. now look at the money and where the priorities lie. seems to back that up even more. neil? >> i'm thinking of some of these sums. used to be what presidential elections were. it's staggers. >> it's crazy. >> neil: thanks, connell. connell mcshane on that. this is a mid-term election year but generating the kind of interest and support and the volume of activity that we see in a presidential election year. doesn't sandra smith know it. she's been following this closely. >> sandra: i always follow the money. >> neil: she's like a dutiful later. you have your papers and details. >> sandra: this is for you, neil

cavuto. >> neil: what's going on here? >> sandra: massive spending across the board. this is certainly going to be a record, most expensive mid-term race ever shaping up to be 2022. billions of dollars being spend on tv, radio, think about the digital space for these ads. i mean, it is everywhere. if it's not about the economy, it's about crime, the border. parental rights is a huge part. go to the pennsylvania senate race, this is one of the tightist in the nation ahead of the debate that we'll watch tomorrow night. 130 million poured in to this senate race against the democrats. if you follow the money, you clearly see where dr. oz has been able to pull ahead and shrink the margin there. $57 million spend against the democrats in that race. look at control of the senate coming down to georgia and nevada. those senate races there, it's something to see.

you follow the money, you see a majority of the $100 million spend in the georgia race went against democrats. $43 million spend there. against democrats in nevada, $40 million. wisconsin race to watch as well. over $40 million spent against the democrats there 80 million almost in total. arizona senate race, which we know according to our latest rankings, more money has been spent against the republican party. 27 million. that will be interesting to watch in the four key toss-up races that we have in our power rankings, neil. >> neil: you always talk about a last minute surge. i'm old enough to remember 1980. i mentioned this once or twice. the crew is sick of it. ronald reagan and jimmy carter were tied going in the weekend before. something happened. there was a wave that is now the historic landslide it was for

reagan. even with the republican gains in the mid-terms in 1994, they were expected to get 30 to 35 seats. they got 54. is there anything you're getting in your research or the people you talk to and you're everywhere on this, that hints of something like that happening? >> sandra: you know what really speaks to me? the folks up in the northeast part of the country that are talking about their home heating bills and not being able to afford them this winter. these races are coming down to really tangible basic economic stuff in a lot of cases. that particular raise, the pennsylvania senate race, crime is a big issue there. philadelphia's homicide rate has been sky rocketing. when it comes to these tangible economic issues, when it comes to basic necessity, i spoke to one woman that works for a nonprofit up there in maine where it gets really really cold. she said folks in the northeast are talking about sacrificing groceries for heating bills. okay? choosing between the two. taking on a second or third-time

job. this is happening across the country just to pay the cost of inflation. you have to think that going back to your reagan reference, there's a lot of folks asking themselves as they head to the ballot box, am i better off than two years ago. people are finding their financial situation is in peril. they don't feel safe getting on public transit. it's happening everywhere. they're asking themselves the basic questions. it could come down to final well-being and personal safety for a lot of people heading to the ballot box that will come down to republicans and democrats asking themselves that question. you could have the switch-over voters. have people decided? one would assume as you know. most people have already come up in their head how they're going to vote. >> neil: maybe if they see that utility ball and natural gas prices, they doubled. some cases tripled. so they know what the they're facing that might be the deal

clincher. >> sandra: the president took a trip to the dnc today, delivered a message there. we listened to a bit of it. his pitch seemed to be to the staff and the messaging for his party, this inflationary situation is not just happening here at home. it's happening globally. that doesn't comfort anybody. that doesn't -- >> neil: yeah, to say you think we have it bad, they have it bad. we don't like having it bad. >> sandra: yeah and we want to be the best. >> neil: this is not the best that we wanted. you're right. they're coming back to haunt the party in power. we'll see if there's that swing. sandra, if you can work harder. we appreciate it. going around the clock here. a quick mean in the corner of wall and broad. we had run up today. a lot of this is on the belief that we're through the worst of it. the same thing last week. i don't buy it.

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>> neil: all right. 15 days until the big election. already record numbers to report on what is happening at the border. close to 2.378 million that have crossed the border to the end of the fiscal year. signs with 500,000 got-aways, we're talking about 3 million. could be higher than that when all of those ts are crossed and is dotted. jacqui heinrich with more. jacqui? >> it's unclear if they're looking at this. the administration has shifted its messaging and focus on big

issues that are important to voters like on the economy. he even dabbled in the discussion of crime. he tack a question on that from peter doocy. we haven't heard anything from the president or the white house on the border. even though then't said last year that he should probably get down there. listen. >> do you have plans to visit the southern border? >> i've been there before. i haven't -- i know it well. i guess i should go down. but the whole point of it is, i haven't had a lot of time to get down. >> the president said he hasn't had time to get to the border. we tracked him going to delaware 50 times since taking office. the department of public safety is taking issue that this administration has not admitted there's a crisis at the border. the new numbers show the u.s. closing out fiscal year 2022 with 2.4 million encounters, the highest ever, including 600,000 got-aways. quadruple the previous five

fiscal year. the press secretary was asked to explain how that happened. here's what she said. >> this new migration challenge is driven by people that are fleeing, falling regimes and economic collapse as you know, in venezuela, nicaragua and cuba, its impacting the entire western hemisphere. while we're trying to deal with the challenges as you know. you have republican governors using these folks trying to flee communism, falling regimes and economic collapse. >> a different between theish 82 that people want to hear about and the root causes. you're hearing democrats running for re-election trying to square the circle. listen to henry cuellar. >> the border is not secure. you have 1. 7 million last year and 2.7 this year. over 4.5 million individuals at the border. and at the get-aways, that's

over 5 million individuals in just two years. >> so you've got a democrat in texas saying that the white house is not admitting there there's a crisis when there's in fact a crisis here that is feeding in to criticism from republicans. the rnc says this is a failure. joe biden and the democrats created a crisis at the southern border that worsens but yet they can't be bother to fix it. democrats turn a blind eye at the devastation that they created and deadly fentanyl pours in and crime surges across the country. by and large, neil, more of what we've heard in the past on the issue of the border, which is the white house saying that they want to address this, but republicans are not helping them do that. really punting the issue to congress. neil? >> neil: thanks, jacqui. jacqui heinrich at the white house. thank goodness for bill melugin. he was on top of this and still

is. he's in eagle pass with the latest. bill? >> neil, the thing ant this was that the federal government decided to wait until three weeks in to october to finally release these september border numbers. when they did it, they did it at 11:15 p.m. on a friday night going in to the weekend. it was an obvious news drop. the other data, take a look at this graphic. the numbers show that fiscal year ended with 98 border patrol arrests that were on the terror watch list. 98 is more -- almost quadruple the previous five years before that combined together. another way to put it in perspective, when president trump was in office, the highest year were six in 2018. we just had 98 in fiscal year 2022. take a look at this video here in eagle pass earlier this morning. more and more groups continue to cross as the sun comes up every

day out here. there's a group of well over 100 crossing illegally. the new fiscal year picked up where last year left off. in the first three weeks of october alone, there's been more than 29,000 illegal crossing. that represents a 50% increase over the same time last year. take a look at this video given to us by a source in the rio grande valley. showing a group of drug smugglers in broad daylight carrying drugs that they just brought across the rio grande. they go to a waiting vehicle in a parking lot. they load the vehicle up with the drugs and they go back to mexico. the vehicle drives off. texas dps tells us that they later got in a pursued with that vehicle and arrested the driver. take a look at these photos. once they popped up the drunk, they found ten bundles of marijuana. they arrested the driver that wound up being a 18-year-old u.s. citizen smirking at the camera as they took a photo of

him. a human smuggling stash house bus in casa grande arizona. border patrol in the tucson sector coming across the stash house and finding 46 illegal immigrants being held there. that stash house is dangerous. they're obviously used for drugs, for moving migrants further inland in to the us and dangerous for those migrants. neil, some sad news to report. fiscal year 2022 was the deadliest year to report with 856 migrants that died at our southern boarder in fiscal year 2022. again, the highest recorded. back to you. >> neil: staggers. thanks, bill melugin. to hector garza, the national border patrol council president. you keep telling us about this and bill melugin keeps reminding

us about this. very little action on the part of anyone in washington to do something about this. what do you do? >> it's quite clear that the flood gates at the southern border are wide open. the solution here is it's a brand new presidential administration that has the will power to actually secure the border and save american lice and save lives of the migrants coming across illegally. quite frankly, it's out of control. we're tired. i don't know how much longer we can go with this crisis. >> neil: i just wonder -- it's gotten increasingly bold. you were the first to remind me how bold it gets. you can see the drone footage looking at cameras and drones. the march goes on. it's unabated. i'm wondering where you see this going. we have 2.4 million, maybe up to three million including got-aways and illegals through the country.

where does this number go? >> it's rising. i want to point out, even though the cbp have reported 600,000 got-aways, those are illegals that cross over illegally and evaded capture. those are the numbers we know of. we know the boots on the ground the numbers is almost double that. we know we have areas along the border where we have agents on the border. talk about the northern border, the coastal border. we have very, very limited manpower. we know that the got-away number is sky rocketing as was higher and double than what is being reported. there's no end in sight. american lives are being lost. unfortunately this will continue to happen until we get a new administration. somebody that cares about the border and cares about migrants and the american people. >> neil: hector, we'll watch it closely. meantime, we are also focusing on other developments, including

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>> neil: a trans atlantic difference. britain has a new prime minister, 42 years old. we have the oldest president on record on route to becoming 80 years old. is it a trend that ends? after this.

>> neil: you know, i think in bri britain, it's the first time that the guy at downing street is worth more than the guy in buckingham palace. the new prime minister is super wealthy and very young. alex hogan on the big changes at

ten downing street. alex? >> hi, neil. rishi sunak will meet with king charles iii before he steps in to the role. members of the conservative party that came up the ranks. seven years ago he became a member of the parliament. he's the former finance minister. earlier this summer, sunak lost the conservative party leadership race against liz truss. he's worth more than $830 million. today sunak vowed to serve. he's focused on the economy, saying it's a great honor to be tapped as the next prime minister of britain. >> we now need stability and unity and i will make it my utmost priority to bring our

party and our country together. because that is the only way we will overcome the challenges we face. >> he is the youngest prime minister the country will see and about 200 years and also the first minority prime minister here in the u.k. it was a very nerve biting type of end to this race because there was that one other candidate, penny morgan. she pulled out just minutes before because she was not able to get enough support. same thing with boris johnson. he said he had enough support. he said it was not the right thing to do. >> neil: a lot shorter than the last go-around. interesting, alex. thanks. well, there's a generational shift going on if you include the new prime minister of italy that is 45 and the incoming british prime minister all of 42 years old. if you take both of those ages together, you're almost at where joe biden is now. then't acknowledged it.

as an issue, it should be an issue. >> it's a legitimate thing to be concerned about anyone's age including mine. the best way to make the judgment is to, you know, watch me. am i slowing up? am i -- i don't have the same pace? >> neil: all right. that will be the ultimate judge. we've had older presidents before who have been facing the same question. >> none as old as joe biden. we have more on the significance of that. you can't time these things, but it is interesting that britain has a new leader coming in who is rough live half the age of president biden. not that that should matter but of course it does get back to this issue of some countries going younger and we have had at least the last couple presidents on the older side. what do you think? >> well, that's for sure. i think a lot of times though the issue is not so much the

person's age but the confidence that the person reveals. there's been some challenges to president biden on his cognitive skills. if you look at it, for example, winston churchill was prime minister when he was 80 years old. mitch mcconnell is older than joe biden. although people are critical of him, not necessarily for cognitive decline. so i think that's the key thing. of course, people live longer than they did 20 years ago. president reagan may have broken the barrier on this. he did very well in his 70s. in a debate when the age was the issue in 1984, you may well remember, that he was asked about his age. he said i promise not to use for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience against him. >> neil: walter mondale laughed

at that. you knew the game was over. ronald reagan went to win in a landslide. there's been times in this country, too, where not that that was the goal, but i'm thinking after the two terms of dwight eisenhower, the country turned to a young senator, 42 years young, john f. kennedy. i'm not saying that the same environment exists but you think there's a point that people say we'll try younger? >> right. well, remember that kennedy defeated richard nixon, who was also in his mid 40s. both parties went to a younger candidate. again, the issue of age and the confidence became an issue there because president eisenhower had a severe heart attack at roughly 65. that race questions on age and the presidency which made it atidvantageous to go with young candidates in the next election.

>> neil: that's true. people forget nixon was very young. that was then. we'll see what happens the next go-around. burt, always good seeing you. i appreciate it. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: a half a world away, taking a look at ukraine, russia getting nastier and more hunts of nuclear activity but being coy about that. the latest with trey yingst in kiev. trey? >> neil, we spoke exclusively with ukraine's defense minister. he gave us information on where iranian forces are in this war. more after the break.

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lost in the weeds. trey yingst has more. >> we asked the defense minister from ukraine about the allegations that russia claims without evidence the ukrainians plan to use a dirty bomb. >> it's absurd and absolutely fake. it's the next stage of russia information campaign against the civilized world. they are trying to stop the delivery of packages of support or help. also they are trying to organize the next kind of pretext for using by their side some kind of nuclear threats. >> the types of threats against ukraine are changing. we've seen iranian made weapons on the battlefield. what do you need in order to

stop these drones from targeting ukrainian cities? >> the priority number 1 for ukraine is air defense systems. with difference types short range, middle range and long range. >> there's reports that iran has military personnel in crimea. >> that's true. >> what about belarus? >> i'm sure they have in belarus. because iranian drones that they use from two main directions from the south, from crimea and from the north from belarus. they use belarus. >> do you know how many? are we talking dozens? >> it's an issue of our intelligence. so it doesn't matter. 10 or 20. just one is enough. >> you can confirm there are iranian military personnel in crimea and belarus? >> according to our intelligence, it's true. >> i asked him about reports indicating the israelis are

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>> it's likely the nation's report card will show horrible, horrible situation of decreases in learning, particularly with low income students, years of efforts to try to improve rising students achievement, actually could be blown up. >> neil: all right. jeb bush was right. he had an advanced notion that that nation's record card would have bummer grades for us. a remindser that we have to do something and fast because post covid, we're not back, not close to being back where we are. jeff flock following it from philadelphia. this is something that we expected but not expecting this bad. >> this is one of those report cards, neil, that if you brought this one to your italian father when you were a kid, he would spank you. take a look at the numbers. it's not pretty. math and reading. fourth graders and eighth

graders tested. in no instance in any state in the union was there an improvement. all the scores were down. 2019 compared to now. if you drill down a little further, for example, eighth graders, math, it was 34% proficient. a third of students proficient in math in 2019. it's now down to below 30%. a lot of people blame the pandemic lockdowns and the length of them. the education secretary today responding to that. miguel cardona. >> this is not a red and bluish you. we know what to do. day one, i said let's get our schools open right away. >> unfortunately that didn't happen, particularly in high poverty areas. 22 weeks of lost learning in high poverty areas, low poverty

areas just 13 weeks. they tended to do better. i leave you with one more bleak statistic. one school in philadelphia in the inner city, in the james rhodes elementary school, 5% of students there proficient in math. the pennsylvania average, 37%. neil, as the governor pointed out, if you don't do something about this, we have failed an entire generation of students. that's going to hurt everybody. >> martha: . >> neil: it all right is. jeff flock never had a bad report card. straight as all the way through. the challenge for me, put a number in front of the decimal point and you'll be off to the races. off to the races in colorado where there's a difference in a big one between powerful republicans, whether they back the republican candidates or not. some are calling it the ron and

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>> neil: all right. they're calling it "the ron and done show" as in ron desdesantisand donald trump. ron desantis saying america

needs strong leadership, and desperately so. donald trump saying it's a big mistake, writing on truth social, that it wasn't a republican, but a republican in name only, a rino. david, this is unusual to put it mildly, but two very different views on a republican candidate that normally get the backing of the hierarchy of the republican party. is this much ado about nothing, or how do you define it? >> it's kind of a fun story. normally we don't pay attention to differences between republicans. they have different ideas, but these are two heavyweights, and we're paying chose attention. ron desantis piling on trying to win a senate majority, make it

as big as possible, endorsing a viable candidate in a state that's a bit of a reach, but could be possible in an environment like this. he did so after donald trump essentially told the republican base in colorado to ignore o'dea. why did he do that? because o'dea has tried to put distance between him and donald trump, the only way to win in a bona fide blue he's taking the best he can get under all circumstances to grow the party. donald trump has always been interested in doing what's best for him, not necessarily what is best for the party, even though in so many instances he's helped expand the party's reach-in states where the republicans were not always as competitive as they are now. >> neil: it might be a moot point in this notoriously blue

state, but president trump said there's a rino character, joe o'dea, running against the incumbent for the u.s. senate, having a good old time saying he wants to distance himself from president trump. again, all this comes from president trump. and other slightly nasty things. maga doesn't vote for stupid people with big mouths. good luck joe. then enter governor desantis backing joe. that's as opposite as you can get. >> really is. it shows you the difference between the two politicians, right? one is interested in loyalty to him. the other is interested in growing the party. at least if you take the action surrounding joe o'dea at face value, and look at them for what they are. you're never going to be able to grow the party in a state like colorado if you hug trump type. it's just not possible in the tribal political era that we live in. and if you want to gain seats in a favorable political environment for republicans, you

try and take good candidates who do what it takes to win in these states. this is not much different than what trump has done in other states this cycle. he endorsed a candidate who can't win for governor in maryland, for governor in massachusetts, scaring off governor charlie baker, endorsed the candidate who can't win in pennsylvania and can't win in illinois. some of his endorsed candidates, will win, will make it to washington this fall, but in in many instances where candidates were not with him, he went against him, even though they would have put republicans to an advantage in political wins. >> neil: president trump said it would be disloyal for other republicans to run for the white house if he is. i'm cutting to the chase here. i think that was the gist of it. >> yeah. >> neil: what did you think of that? do you think that a governor desantis would honor that? in other words, not want to mess with donald trump and wait to

see what he does? >> well, that's a big question. look, there's a sense in politics that when somebody brings you into the fold, like trump did with some republicans, when you look at his cabinet, that the loyal thing to do, the sort of proper thing to do in terms of political etiquette, wait to see what that individual does first before you decide to run. we live in an era where donald trump himself has not made attention to political norms or forms of etiquette, and other republicans are taking cues from him. so i don't think you can expect republicans to necessarily not run just because he's run regular. they may make political calculations that running against him in a republican presidential primary would be futile, but i think where there's an interest to run and where there's a belief that they might be able to make some headway, you will see them run anyway. i think that's how governor desantis is likely to look at it, is there a path. >> neil: even phil graham,

former texas senator, saying that argument doesn't hold up, that it's a busy open season of runners. we'll see what happens. david, thank you very much. >> thanks, neil. >> neil: russia plans to raise at the un security council that it's ukraine planning to use a dirty bomb attack. ukraine says it's the opposite, it's russia doing that. here we go. here's "the five." ♪ ♪ >> i told you. hi, i'm greg gutfeld, along with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jr., jesse watters, and her version of uber is holding on to a helium balloon, dana perino. this is "the five." with 15 minutes to go until the midterms a huge swing in momentum for the gop has democrats we get their pants. sorry, harold. yes, we are officially on a red tsunami watch, but it li