plus, breaking news. a trump employee told federal agents about personally moving documents at mar-a-lago, the order to that employee came directly from donald j. trump himself. and that is after he got the subpoena. oregon hasn t voted for a republican governor in 40 years, so why is president biden worried enough to go there in the final days of this campaign? let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin wants revenge. russian authorities tonight announcing they ve arrested eight people in connection with the bombing of that crucial bridge linking crimea to russia. the only way to get from crimea to russia is that bridge. that blast cutting off a crucial supply route for russian troops inside ukraine. the eight people we know to be in custody are these, five russian citizens, two ukrainians, and a national of armenia. the fsb is claiming that all these individuals helped ukrainian spies to transport 25 tons of explosives to the bridge
good morning. buenos dias and welcome to your new day. i m boris sanchez. good morning, boris. i m amara walker. with the final push to election day till the midterms, president biden makes a final pitch and now the student debt relief program has hit a roadblock. we ll tell you what it can mean for millions of people across the country. plus, an alarming surge in respiratory viruses among kids leaving pediatric wards overwhelmed. what is behind the spike and what does it mean heading into flu season. and the january 6th committee hands over a s&p to former president donald trump. will he comply and what s next. ukraine s infrastructure and forcing rolling blackouts. we re going to take you to ukraine for the very latest. take a nice big deep breath. it is the weekend. saturday, october 22nd. we re so grateful you are starting it with us. great to be with you, amara. great to be with you as well, boris. good morning and happy weekend. as we were saying this mo
cast with 17 days to go until election day. at stake, control of both champ pwers of congress. the democrats have control now, but whether they can hold onto power is still in question. president biden says he s not going anywhere. at least he doesn t intend to. the reason i m not making a judgment about formally running or not running, as soon as i make that announcement, a whole series of regulations kick in and i have to treat myself as a candidate from that point on. i have not made that my formal decision, but it is my intention to run again. and we have time to make that decision. before that, his party needs to weather the midterms while acknowledging many are on shaky political ground. here s what i think. it s been back and forth with them ahead, us ahead, them ahead. pwaorlgt. and the polls have been all over the place. i think that we re going to see one more shift back to our side the closing days. part of his carefully crafted midterm strategy, tactically
before the midterm elections. and we are in the final stretch, as candidates work to reach still undecided voters. in the senate race in pennsylvania, it s all about swing voters in the suburbs. democratic lieutenant governor john fetterman is up against republican mehmet oz. the outcome of the race there is critical, if democrats want to keep their razor-thin majority in the senate. cnn national reporter dan meriga is live for us in philadelphia there today. how tight is this race this weekend? it s remarkably tight. you ve seen the lead, the polling lead that john fetterman had over the summer has narrowed in recent weeks. and both campaigns, democrats and republicans acknowledge, there s a smaller and smaller sliver of undecided voters in this contest. that s what they are seeking to reach. dr. oz has been off the campaign trail today. he appeared on fox news this morning. he spoke about crime and the importance of the debate on tuesday. that s the key date in this conte
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