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♪ hello, everybody. welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us. 6,000 plus dead. 6,000 plus. grief running over turkey and syria. hope, too, running out as rescue crews continue to look for thousands still lost in the rubble of a monster earthquake. plus, tonight, the president tells the country what hes done and where he wants to go advisers promise a classic joe biden speech. out but his state of the union ...

long it will take, remine giant questions. and day one on the job for britains new prime minister. liz trust making the track to achieve the queens blessing and rescuing her countrys economy from free fall. up for us first, the biden factor. the president huddles with his cabinet next hour. he does so facing what you might call a high wire challenge. to navigate a still to-do list while trying to defy midterm election history. nine weeks exactly until we count your votes, and the p...

study. >> did it work? what did they find? >> well, again, i want to say again, it is early, these are small studies, i think in some ways this was proof of concept, but look at some of the findings here. gamma waves, the shorter, high energy waves that were stimulating the front part of the brain, they found that that actually did improve overall longer term sort of memory. they were giving people lists of words, people were able to remember the earliest words better when they stimula...

its election day in america. voters across several states are heading to the polls with dozens of key offices on hot-button issues on the line. and the outcome could reveal the mood of the nation less than a year before the presidential election. actually, 363 days before november of 2024 to be exact. the ballot issues include abortion rights, marijuana legalization, taxes and foreign spending on elections. meantime, kentuckys democratic governor andy beshear is seeking a second term ...

For days now, Israel has signaled that its massed forces are poised to go into Gaza with the aim of eliminating Hamas as a military force once and for all, following its raid into southern Israel on 7 October.

The president always says, hes the brother of a labor -- he loses a guy here who actually was a union worker. >> yeah, you know, its interesting there was a moment earlier in the administration when we actually expected there to be a flood of departures. we never saw that coming. that never actually happened. and now, i think, were at a moment of transition, where after the state of the union, we will get more announcements like this. i think there are two factors for why we havent seen this mom...

Interview with charlie crist, and the last question was do you want joe biden to come campaign for you? and the answer was -- >> emphatic yes. >> yeah, i mean, look, i think so many races, especially midterms, are about getting the base excited. it is not going to do a lot of good for some of the candidates to openly snub joe biden and i also think they really need -- his answer to you, i thought, was interesting, hes talking about african american voters, for example. there are some factors in ...

>> we are awaiting the first results out of virginia in the red hot governors race, the main event on this election night. right now an early read of what the voters are thinking about as they continue to cast their ballots. david chalian is tracking the exit polls. what are you learning? what are they saying? >> well, jake, we should note these are preliminary votes and these are survey whether you voted early or by mail, and so this is going to be a exit poll that encompasses all of the method...

Interact with anybody? i think now he realizes thats over. that he is the front runner. that the democrats who hes competing against will come after him on all kinds of issues that are generational, that are ideological. so hes got to be ready. so the obvious thing to look for is can he square off against kamala harris and do a better job? i think elizabeth warren as has been said would be an interesting contrast. all of them pose important tests. but the biden factor, his ability to rebound is ...

Trying to do the spin, must be relieved that maybe it will be a woman and maybe that can make up for hillary clinton. >> right. two competing narratives here with the democratic party. its moving left, young, more diverse. but then on the other hand, theres been the faction of the party that says hey, we need to nominate somebody that represents this section of the party where the energy is. on the other hand, you have the more cautious side being like this is about who can beat president trump ...