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hello, and welcome to "inside politics," im john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a brutal beating, conspiracy fodder, and public denial. paul pelosi is still in the hospital this day. his attack now the subject of ridiculous internet theories, and most republicans bob and weave when you ask if their election and january 6th lies are fueling our toxic political climate. plus, eight days until your midterm verdict. three embattled house democrats in virginia a...

Pete doocy in washington tomorrow, john. John looking forward to that. Before thanks, you guys from a good afternoon, everybody, im Mark Mcculloch and this is still the story. What is likely to be the crescendo of the prosecutions side of this case. Is now under crossexamination. Cohen is a convicted perjurer, guilty of lying to congress and to the irs. He was stripped of his law license. But cohen is there to convince the jury that trump knew all about the payment to daniels. The former preside...

. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone, and welcome, im phil mattingly with erica hill in new york. poppy is off today. right now, secretary antony blinken back in the war zone in israel. we are expecting blinken to speak in just moments after meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet. >> blinkens trip comes as one of the most intense nights. we watched rockets and missiles rain down live on cnn as flares list up the night sky. blinken, preside...

right now. an extraordinary new israeli offensive in the skies of gaza -- >> youre probably going to see a significant reenforcement of israeli ground forces did occur. >> israeli officials saying that they have encircled gaza city. >> cut the north off from the south. >> fears of a second war along israels northern border intensifying, the leader of hezbollah is expected to break his silence. >> hezbollah fighters saying their fingers are on the trigger. >> you have secretary of sta...

Luria and wekton are three interesting case studies of if virginia is -- theyre more educated voters, college-educated voters and other things, that will be interesting to watch if they can keep those seats blue. its totally different electorate probably than the governors race last year. >> right. you mentioned youngkin on parental rights, some people say he overdid it, but it worked for him especially in the northern virginia suburbs. all three of the republican candidates made a joint appeara...

However, i will say the difference between whats happening in virginia versus whats happening in other states is she stepped down. she resigned. >> right. >> in other states theyre trying to politicize the election boards. theyre trying to insert that partisanship. >> she would run for governor. >> exactly. and so the opposite is happening. and so i think that is noteworthy, that she was actually asked to resign. >> do you think that that is because virginia is a -- well, let me open this to the...

That -- thats my way of -- of doing this. no more -- no more -- no more -- until we get this thing passed and done. >> dana, i mean, obviously, you hear some frustration from james there. how much do you think the stalemate on capitol hill over the presidents agenda, lack of vi victory on those two major bills is hurting terry mcauliffe? >> well, i will just answer that by telling you what terry mcauliffe says. a lot. hes been screaming from the rooftops saying do this. that the dysfunction amon...

Local officials there after the election trying to sway them. i do want to ask about the comment we just heard jasmine wright play from terry mcauliffe, running for governor of virginia. he admits that president biden in this stage could be an issue for democrats during the virtual meeting. he thought it was private. he sort of said what i think a lot of democrats are thinking privately. how important is this virginia governors race in the grand scheme of things? is it going to be a litmus test ...

Forced her to perform oral sex as she was crying and gagging. she says she has no political motivations to come forward now, directly pushing back on something that the lieutenant governor has been saying over the last few days, shep. that whoever is behind this has political motivations to bring him down, shep. >> shepard: virginia. garrett tenney. thank you. back to the state department now where were waiting to hear from president trump. this is not president trump obviously. introductions ar...

After the latest black face bomb shell from the attorney general, a democratic state senator summed it up this way to "the washington post." its a mess. and it is. get this: if all three democrats are out, the governor, the lieutenant governor and the attorney general, the next in line to become governor in virginia is virginias speaker of the house. the speaker is a man named kirk cox. he got his job after a tie break for the house seat in virginias 94th district, a tie that was settled when on...