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effectively cuts off any democratic path to victory. >> bill: for democrats to hold onto power not chamber they would need to win all 26 toss-up races and pick up another six districts republicans have the advantage. an extremely tall order. >> dana: the house may be slipping away but the senate is still anyones game. it is expected to be decided by four key races, all of those in a dead heat with one week to go. >> bill: democrats separate to try to keep the upper chamber banking on f...

days from today. were seeing key developments here in the final stretch shaking up the battleground states with power in the senate hanging in the balance. well watch day-by-day as we get closer. new hour starts right now. dana is off today. back tomorrow. im bill hemmer. good morning at home. >> sandra: cruised through the first hour. im sandra smith. election day is now just five weeks away. democrats are losing ground in one key state, pennsylvania, where the senate race is getting ...

we have several developing stories as we come on the air, the new microscope for the white house, a magic number in the santos saga, and the dow up, inflation down. lets talk about what is happening right now at the white house. you see it on the left-hand side of your screen. were expecting to hear from the press secretary, taking the podium any minute, after that news out of the department of justice, yet another special counsel now getting to work, this time on an investigation into...

to donald trumps lawsuit requesting that a special master review documents retrieved from his palm beach home. donald trump sued the justice department last week to stop the review of those documents, in a move many are seeing as a delay tactic. in that lawsuit, trumps lawyers claim that he always gave the government complete cooperation. the justice department has until midnight tonight to respond to those claims, and by all accounts they sure have a lot to say. yesterday, the departm...

♪ ♪ ♪ the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? im not here now,...

you got that sense talking to secretary mcdonough just how hefty this is, this task that is ahead of him but he says the va is ready to do it. >> im glad you shined a light on the work that is done here. its wonderful that its happened, frustrating it took so long. >> certainly is. "new day" continues right now. ♪ good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, its thursday, august 11th. im brianna keilar with john berman. there are some new revelations about the f...

dividing line. >> when police officers dont show up to work, they get fired. thats how it should be for senators, too. as chief, i showed up every day and rereduced violent crime by 40%. marco rubio is one of the worst at showing up. and when he does, he hurts florida. >> instead of voting to condemn radicals who want to abolish police, demings refused. >> thats not just wrong. its dangerous. >> maybe she used to be a cop, but in washington val demings is just another radical rubber st...

>> from behind the hospital walls. he >> turned to her and said, will you marry me? >> secrets from his diary uncovered by dateline. his obsession with actors, jody foster. >> the letters were sent to -- >> and the most controversial question of all, is hinckley really fit to be free? >> hes a potential k -- dangerous character. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, welcome to dateline. he shot a president and shook the country. since that day, more than 40 years ago, gunman, john hinckley jr. has rem...

as the streets were filled with people. ukrainian officials describe it as a precision strike aimed at a particular civilian target from the actual fighting. cnns scott mclean is on-site for us to walk us through what you are seeing there right now. >> reporter: i just want to quickly point out, this is across the street from one of the streetcars that would have been writing at the time when this went off all of the windows were blown out. let me take you over this way and show you th...

>> welcome to "the lead." im dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. donald trump today invoked his fifth amendment right in a deposition with a new york attorney general who is investigating the trump organizations finances. this deposition lasting more than five hours. in a lengthy statement, the former president claims he had no choice, saying hes the target of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt. this from the man who once asked if youre innocent, w...