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top of the hour. i'm jim sciutto. crucial midterm elections less than a week away and president biden sounding at alarm, warning that democracy itself is on the ballot next week highlighting the threat from election deniers. today biden made two notable appearances. campaigning in new mexico and california. other big names on the trail, vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump. he's stumping across several states in the final days of the race hitting iowa, ohio and florida. however, it is pennsylvania that is gaining a lot of attention from several surrogates. a...

parents stressed. in ukraine, another setback for russia's troops. reports they are withdrawing from the second largest city car key, amid the first war crimes trial of a russian soldier. the 21-year-old is accused of killing an unarmed 62-year-old ukrainian civilian. i will speaking to retired general david petraeus and ukraine's ambassador to the u.s. first, morgan chesky in louisiana and julia ainsley and nyu law school professor alyssa murray. morgan, what's happen agent the court? is this an injunction that was putting title 42 on hold? what's going to happen? >> andrea, all e...

Issue and even though it is. so in the final days it is very clear that biden, to your point, dana dana, is making this democracy push and he really feels this. the historians that i've talked to that consult with the white house, biden thinks this is a moment for him to insert himself because he sees that in past other presidents have inserted themselves at inflection points like that. like lincoln, like fdr and he's looking at that as a potential model. >> could i add one thing to that. it is that voters, maybe even if they understand this is a global problem, they don't care. and i don't me...

Was the cost is the question. >> i would fully agree. but at the same time, there are those who argue that what we did in afghanistan and in iraq are producing some of the results or some of the activity in other parts of the middle east. the question i would ask, do you agree with that? i don't necessarily fully agree with that. i'm curious if you agree with that. >> i agree the combination of george w. bush's democracy push and barack obama -- >> and hillary clinton. >> and hillary clinton's speech. it's all worked together and that's great. another man or woman dieing in afghanistan doesn't...

Him? >> again, i think that outreach is ongoing. >> the egyptian government in the past has conveyed to the obama administration and to previous add main straiministrat expects that the democracy push from the u.s. might result in something along the lines of what we've seen in gaza, that is an islamist group being elected and gaining power, in this case the muslim brotherhood. how much does the obama administration agree with that assessment? >> well, look, i think that, as i said here last week, it is, from what we can see, not accurate to say that those protesting are made up of one particu...