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top of the hour. im jim sciutto. crucial midterm elections less than a week away and president biden sounding at alarm, warning that democracy itself is on the ballot next week highlighting the threat from election deniers. today biden made two notable appearances. campaigning in new mexico and california. other big names on the trail, vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump. hes stumping across several states in the final days of the race hitting iowa, ohio and ...

parents stressed. in ukraine, another setback for russias troops. reports they are withdrawing from the second largest city car key, amid the first war crimes trial of a russian soldier. the 21-year-old is accused of killing an unarmed 62-year-old ukrainian civilian. i will speaking to retired general david petraeus and ukraines ambassador to the u.s. first, morgan chesky in louisiana and julia ainsley and nyu law school professor alyssa murray. morgan, whats happen agent the court? ...

Issue and even though it is. so in the final days it is very clear that biden, to your point, dana dana, is making this democracy push and he really feels this. the historians that ive talked to that consult with the white house, biden thinks this is a moment for him to insert himself because he sees that in past other presidents have inserted themselves at inflection points like that. like lincoln, like fdr and hes looking at that as a potential model. >> could i add one thing to that. it is th...

Was the cost is the question. >> i would fully agree. but at the same time, there are those who argue that what we did in afghanistan and in iraq are producing some of the results or some of the activity in other parts of the middle east. the question i would ask, do you agree with that? i dont necessarily fully agree with that. im curious if you agree with that. >> i agree the combination of george w. bushs democracy push and barack obama -- >> and hillary clinton. >> and hillary clintons speec...

Him? >> again, i think that outreach is ongoing. >> the egyptian government in the past has conveyed to the obama administration and to previous add main straiministrat expects that the democracy push from the u.s. might result in something along the lines of what weve seen in gaza, that is an islamist group being elected and gaining power, in this case the muslim brotherhood. how much does the obama administration agree with that assessment? >> well, look, i think that, as i said here last week...

Is ongoing. >> the egyptian government in the past has conveyed to the obama administration and previous administrations that it suspects that the democracy push from the u.s. might result in something along the lines of of what weve seen in gaza, and that is an islamist group being elected and gaining power, in this case the muslim brotherhood. how much does the obama administration agree with that assessment? >> look, jake, i think that, as i said here last week, i think that it is, from what ...

>> the egyptain government in the past has conveyed to the obama administration and previous administration that it suspects that the democracy push from the u.s. might result in something along the lines of what weve seen in gaza, that is, an islamic group being elected and gaining power and in this case the muslim brotherhood. how much does the obama administration agree with that assessment? >> i think -- as i said last week, i think that it is, from what we can see, not accurate to say that ...