oregon. dan. reporter: yeah. hey, rich. as you know, very few democrats have chosen to campaign with president biden this year, but when he asked if he could come out to oregon and help with the run for governor, tina said come on out. biden s three-state western spring began in colorado where he appeared with senator michael bennett who looks to be pretty safe there. he attended fundraisers in california and now he finishes up in portland. he gives a speech on lowering cost for american families. cotech is locked in a three-person race, and it s been locked up for months. betsy thompson, most believe is taking more support from the democrat than from the republican. she attacks cotech relentlessly over the dual crises of homelessness and crime. in a statement she said, quote, i hope biden comes more often so that portland will clean up more of the trash and tendencies that tina s created between the airport and downtown portland. kotek has been pretty much in lockstep with
her predecessor, borisjohnson, left downing street earlier this morning. we have some in depth analysis of the claims he made in his final speech later in the programme. in that final address at the downing street podium, he also urged the conservative party to unite behind his successor. it s time for politics to be over, folks. it s time for us all to get behind liz truss and her team, and her programme, and deliver for the people of this country. and behind me, here on downing street, we ve seen ministers we see brandon lewis going into number ten there. we heard boris johnson earlier, calling for conservatives to get behind liz truss and her team. and we re learning more about what her team is as the evening goes on because liz truss is in the process of appointing cabinet, that s why we re seeing a range of conservatives going in through the door and bit by bit, we are learning who liz truss s top will be. top team will be. we are getting details all the time of liz t
net gain of 23 seats. for the democrats to hold onto power they would now need to win all 26 toss-up races. the best case scenario for democrats right now not so great. a small majority for republicans. the best case for house republicans 249 seats to democrats 186. that s the kind of shift which could be very meaningful. it s clear that republicans have the political-momentum one week before election day. biden districts are moving in the lean republican category. the govern majority for republicans. not a squeaker night where then you have to find a couple democrat votes to pass anything. a larger governing majority than speaker pelosi has had for the first two years on the biden presidency. races in georgia, arizona, nevada and pennsylvania for the senate are toss-ups. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more from d.c. good morning. the republican map expands significantly in this fox news power rankings forecast. in new york where crime is the number o
mind? that s really the subtext of all the conversations about whether the russian president is actually willing to drive humanity to the brink of a nuclear disaster. i bet it s keeping president biden up at night. how about you? how are you sleeping since president biden used the word armageddon ? i ll ask how close he thinks we are to the brink and what options are on the table in our exclusive interview. as biden noted n ukraine, putin s choices, his options are narrowing. translator: we will defend our land by all means at our disposal. we ll do everything to ensure the security of our people. breaking ut our putin-english, english-putin dictionary, what he means by land is ukraine. our people, he means the ukrainians who have taken up arms to stop him. when he says about the by any means at our disposal, that s rhetoric that has gone nuclear. translator: is u.s. is is the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons on two occasions, resulting in the des
richard walker. former cabinet minister andrea leadsom. and the bbc s deputy political editor, vicki young. the chancellors day began like this. this 45p rate was simply a distraction in our mission to achieve higher growth. a u turn on the scrapping the 45p top rate of tax a policy he d announced in his mini budgetjust 10 days ago. now, in a little under 15 minnutes he ll be addressing the party faithful to persuade them that he is the man to be trusted with the economy through turbulent times. welcome to politics live in birmingham. andrea led some, after the market turmoil following the mini budget on the 23rd of september by kwasi kwarteng, and then the dramatic u turn overnight and this morning, on a central plank of that budget, and the economic perspectives of the government, how damaged is kwasi kwarteng s authority? i damaged is kwasi kwarteng s authori ? ~ ., , authority? i think it was really important authority? i think it was really important that author