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united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i'm christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden's aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration's decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now fro...

a remarkable turnaround today for the republican leader. mccarthy promised progress, he promised it tuesday and promised it wednesday, promised it thursday. today we finally saw it. even as he failed on his 13th ballot. 15 rebel holdouts today switched their votes in favor of mccarthy, giving him for the first time this whole week more votes than the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, but despite this break in the republican resistance, six hardliners remain and congress people matt gaetz, bob good, andy harris, elle crane -- andy harris is not one of them. it's a different individua...

us on that topic and a lot more coming up in just a few moments today. >> sandra: we begin, "america reports" with a shake-up across the pond as prime minister boris johnson announces officially that he is resigning amid a string of ethics scandal. and look who came back for more, hello, welcome, everybody. i am sandra smith in new york. happy to have you. >> i am bill hemmer and for john roberts today, the outgoing prime minister acknowledging defeat after months of defiance with 50 senior lawmakers left office in a revolt against their leader, the final straw for some members of...

and rea mitchell kicking off a special two-hour edition of "andrea mitchell reports" today. we are in washington as the focus on the classified documents seized from donald trump's mar-a-lago estate is going to shift in the next hour to a courthouse in west palm beach, florida. that's where trump's lawyers and the justice department are clashing over the former president's request for an independent master to go through the stack of files taken from mar-a-lago to see where any might have involved attorney/client privilege. the government says they have already done that and doing it ...

the questions swirling around the commander in chief from supporters, independents and now the media as the president shocks world this week with his own cancer diagnosis leaving the white house to clean up yet another mess. >> that's why and so many people i grew up with have cancer and why delaware has the highest cancer rate in the nation. maria: coming up, dr. ben carson on joe biden's capacity to lead amidst new worries over monkeypox and polio. plus, joe biden claims he will push his climate spending and tax plans through. coming up, california congressman ro khanna on who is t...