[ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please receive this benediction. gracious and everlasting god, as we depart this had ceremony inspired by the create can jous actions of colonel davis, help us to follow his selfless example as we serve our nation s people. hay our participation in today s ceremony couple with the strength and shaping of your spirit to compel us to live lives of integrity and valor for the good of the nation, for the gad of our families and the good of human kind around the world. bless and protected our armed forces as they preserve our freedoms. keep the lamp of liberty burning bright on the united states of america and our allies around the world. and grant us all your grace to meet the challenges ahead, the strength to overcome every obstacle and um part the wisdom and will to do justly and walk humbly before you all the days of our lives. it is in your most holy and precious name i pray, amen. you re watching a simply remarkable moment there at the
nevada, you have up and down the ballot some election deniers there, same goes for arizona. a lot at stake out west and across the country. nobody s going to sleep on the west coast tonight, back east, because, man, some of the most important races taking place. control of congress is up for grabs. republicans are favored to win the house, where they need a net gain of five seats. the smallest number of seats the out of power party has needed to flip the house since 1932. michael, let s put perspective on this again for our friends joining us on the west coast right now. in 2010, how many seats we picked up 63 house seats, which was the most the party picked up since 1928. and that was after barack obama had a massive landslide victory. right. bill clinton won in 92. 73 republicans get elected that year. and in 2018, you actually had, when donald trump was president, democrats didn t do quite as well, but they had 40 seats. so it s going to be really interest
a full report from idaho is just ahead. biden intends to visit the southern border for the first time since he left office. take a look at what biden said in the past about the border visit and the common sense department is wondering what changed. we begin in the nation s capital where they adjourn without electing a speaker for a second straight day. kevin cork is live in dc with the latest. three more failed votes today. a round of closed door talks to boot. and congressman-elect kevin mccarthy looks no closer to securing the speakership that s speaker of the house, if you haven t been watching. the battle continues tomorrow at 12:00 nooning. we i think this is interesting. i crawl before i walk, before i run. a bit of optimism, perhaps, for kevin mccarthy. see if that s warranted. in all, the californian has fallen short in six, count them, six, votes over two days as a group of 20 conservatives who have deemed him i d logically unreliable, i would say, have refused t
ago and that of cast an election is frankly very rail. let s discuss all of this with our political panel. karen finney great. great to have all be with us tonight. and there s so much to talk about in terms of the chaos that could happen with the midterms. let s start with election deniers. so, as you know, the place allows you with them right now. particularly places like arizona. then, today, ted cruz went on the view and could not answer the question as to whether or not he basically joe biden was legitimately elected. he pivoted, carrying the city, because it s the new talking point that i hear all the time now from republicans. when they get uncomfortable about the election denying. they pivot, immediately, to the past. so let s listen to this. what is biden legitimate elected because half the party thinks that he wasn t and will be very painful for you to tell the truth? biden is the president today. there is a lot of folks in the media that, i m exactly as a
ukrainian tactics designed to make every step forward come at a heavy price. despite the battle nearby, this sol soldier is certain of how the war will end. to be honest, in the first days i had some doubts, because according to the news, russia has the strongest army, he says. but since we pushed them back from kyiv and kharkiv, i m confident we can win. for the few remaining civilians near soledar, exhaustion. nine months it s like this, says valentina, flying back and forth over my head. with conflicting rumors coming from the town, paulina said her family is leaving. the soldiers are surrounded, she tells me. my sister, who is pregnant, decided to leave, so we ll follow her. late afternoon and ukrainian marines prepare a prefresh salvf rockets. the battle for soledar is not over yet. and for an army that s on the defensive, what we saw was that the ukrainian troops are pretty well dug in, pretty well organized and morale surprisingly high. now, it seems the russians are r