time they hope weeks of handed shakes, stump speeches and rallies will translate to votes. it is time for the final push. live pictures from philadelphia where democrats are bringing out their heavy hitters as they try to hang onto slim majorities in the house and senate. president biden, and former president barack obama will make their arguments a short time from now. both have warned that democracy is on the line this tuesday, denouncing election deniers on the ballot. also in pennsylvania tonight, former president zelenskyy donald trump on a campaign blitz that has much to do with his own political future. his aides are eyeing the third week of november as an ideal launch for his next run as president. cnn is tracking key races. phil mattingly in philadelphia. an eager crowd is awaiting president biden and former president barack obama. they are trying to pull out the big guns, phil, here in this home stretch. yeah. it s something, jim, that underscores pennsylvania, fo
demonstrations in the coming days. people here are encouraged to come back tomorrow. all right. donee in d.c. let s head to los angeles where camilla is. we saw abortion rights supporters marching on the freeway there. what s the latest now, camilla? reporter: hey, don, we were on the freeway for about 15 or 20 minutes, but lapd officers sort of blocked the protesters from continuing to walk on the freeway and kind of push them back inside of downtown l.a. and that s where we are right now. the crowd is still fairly large as you can see. you can hear the cars honking. many people shouting. they are screaming and saying, you know, our body, our choice. they took a water break and just like in washington d.c. organizers here in l.a. also getting ready to do this all over again tomorrow. they are already organizing and saying they re going to gather in the afternoon and a lot of them just saying they want to call the attention to what is happening here in los angeles, in cal
states we are going to show you them shaded in purple on a map that the pro-choice gutmacher institute says are certain or likely to ban abortion based on currently in books or transient states but that is just the effect today of the supreme court s 5-4 decision. what happens tomorrow and months and years from this moment? that, we don t know. in fact, many democrats tonight are expressing concern that the decision could provide legal justification to overturn other rights, secured by supreme court precedent. including those covering contraception and same-sex marriage. and they have reason to be concerned after justice clarence thomas suggesting doing just that today as well. this is what justice thomas wrote in a concurring opinion, quote, for that reason? future case, we should reconsider all of this court s substantive due process precedence, including griswold lawrence, and obergefell. he continues because any due process decision is demonstrably erroneous. we have a
house republicans escalating probe into president biden. a couple hours from now, the full house will vote on formalizing a biden impeachment inquiry. the gop s probe has failed to show links between biden and his son s questionable business dealings. republicans think the resolution will give them more leverage. this morning hunter biden showed up at the capitol right outside as you see, offering to testify publicly in the probe. but republicans want a closed door interview first. so, now, they say they re going to pursue a contempt of congress referral against hunter biden. manu raju has been following this. you ve been a busy man on capitol hill today. what do we expect to see in the coming hours? reporter: we expect the republicans will get the vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry. the inquiry has been going on since september, when then speaker of the house kevin mccarthy announced this investigation would go forward. they don t need a vote to authorize the inquir
summer. the period in which presidential candidates kick their campaigns into full gear. but the start of this election year summer well it is anything like we ve ever seen before. in one week, president biden and donald trump will face off in a debate. to face voters to recon with the reality they re going to have to make sooner rather than later. today we got new details about how that debate is going to play out. independent candidate robert f. kennedy jr. officially failing to qualify for the debate leaving biden and trump to share the stage next week. biden will be standing at the podium on the right of the television screen. while trump will be the podium on the left. the same configurations as the two debates held four years ago. trump got to choose the order of the debate, he s going to go last giving him the last word. trump has opted for less prep sessions. and the president continues to hold rallies. allies of the candidates would be working to manage expectations.