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>> last night heated debates across the country the economy, crime, voting rights, now remember here, the senate is split 50-50 so every competitive race is crucial. cnn's political correspondent abby phillips joins us now. the senate and the big picture here. >> yeah, victor and erica, look, this is going to be a very close midterm cycle and every single race counts, here's why, take a look at where the balance of power stands here in the senate in terms of these are the races that are competitive in this cycle, look over here, just three seats, three seats are rated ass to-ups, tha...

No longer acceptable and that beijing was determined to pursue reunification on a much faster time line. >> cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier joins us now. good to see you this afternoon. when it comes to this faster time line, what does that say to you and i wonder, too, how the reaction to russia's invasion by ukraine by the u.s., by the west, could be figuring in. >> well the fact that the secretary of state decided to go public with this is a message to xi and china writ large, we see what you're doing and we're watching the moves of your military, your naval assets on the potenti...

Let's obstruct justice for the president. this is a great off-ramp. republicans and conservatives in good conscious need to say this guy says he believes vladimir putin over the entire american intelligence apparatus. this guy doesn't just behave like maybe he's compromised. right now in the eyes of mccabe and comey, who are serious people -- >> who are republicans! >> serious guys, you know, they're looking at all of trump's behavior that's public and the things they know in private that we don't even know about yet, intelligence intercepts, et cetera, and they're asking if vladimir putin isn...

Evidence, they take intelligence intercepts. they take clues and create an assessment, make a judgment on what they're confident happened. and by all descriptions, this is a confident assessment by the cia this happened either with the crown prince's knowledge or direction. the trump administration seeming to hold out the possibility that there would be some -- some clear, single clue that would make it incon tree veritable. what we saw today was even republican senators and senators who have supported this president at difficult times such as lindsey graham hearing that same assessment and sa...

Found evidence that the saudis were complicit, he could be required by law to impose sanctions. this could be a 70-year relationship. that persevered through a dismal human rights record among the worst in the world because of economic cooperation. they have a lot of oil and the united states wants a basin in the region after 9/11. that was one of the bases used to carry out the attacks and the shared rivalry with iran. there is a high bar to confront saudi arabia. does this meet the bar? this sounds and looks pretty awful. >> this president's position, he is not the that plants the flag. his ...