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to -- >> yeah. zip it. >> that does it. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. and good morning, 10:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m. pacific. im jose diaz-balart and we are just five days away from the critical midterm elections with many key races neck and neck. president biden and former president trump hit the trail. we are live in two battleground states this morning. plus, the economy is top of mind for many voters as things like mortgages, credit cards, loan payments will soon be ...

I thank you so much for being with us this morn. i really appreciate your time. >> and joining us now, cnbc senior congressional correspondent ylan mui and brian chung, thank you for being with us. ylan, youve been watching how the issue of housing and homelessness has become a flashpoint issue in phoenix. what more can you tell us? >> yeah, jose. well, this area has the highest inflation rate of any major city in the country and a big part of that is housing. housing prices here have gone up 17...

Exercise, and i probably should try to start figuring it out. because as tim said, this is a bottom-up problem, essentially. but the kindling was all set for the match, right? it was going to, it was there. and its probably a combination of things, some resentments that built up over time, a lot of these sort of culture war issues that people have coalesced around. the biggest ones are abortion and guns. but also, you know, all of a sudden, you know, transgender athletics has become, like, you k...

Can read numbers just as well as he can and they see no reason to back down when it now it looks like theyre winning even more stronger than they have been before now my i mean in this chess day nancy pelosi has replied to trump on twitter saying that his address quote in the near future meaning that he would have to pass a house passed package to end the shutdown that he. will not flashpoint issue of border security and he likelihood of not. well as you said weve seen an attempt in the houses o...

Do here now theres several elements to this one of which is the polling right now very much puts the blame for this whole shutdown situation that weve been talking about for five weeks now on the president as much as he is trying to shunt the blame off to the democrats he appeared in a nationwide primetime address talking about why he had done this and why we needed money for this border wall he is still losing this fight and even though he has this tactic of digging in in order to get what he w...

A flashpoint issue in east africa how the house vote yes thats right can have very serious consequences when people fight over land of course when cattle are a lifeline and diplomatic tensions between kenya and tanzania threatening to flare up over postures for cattle belonging to the masai people who live on both sides of the buddha tanzanian president john martin freeze keen to implement a live stock ban saying his country is not a grazing land for the neighboring countries cowles and the stru...

Congress to deal with abortion. that number places at 14 of 15 priorities behind the economy, unemployment, health care, the deficit, social security, even within the tea party, which has propelled this effort for cuts, only 26% consider abortion a top priority. so very clearly the abortion fight, wolf, isnt even close to issue number one for most of this country. >> its going to be a fight. theres no toudoubt about that. >> its a flashpoint issue. >> has been for years and years and will be mor...