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good morning. welcome to "way too early" on this monday, october 10th. thanks for starting your day with us. and we'll begin the show with the war in ukraine. overnight, multiple explosions rocked the capital city of kyiv for the first time in four months. according to the mayor of kyiv, explosions went off near the center of the city in an area that includes the historic old town as well as several government offices. the number of casualties is not yet clear. ukrainian media is also reporting explosions in several other cities including a refuge for many people fleeing the fighting...

Eight district or a similar situation on the other side that reshuffled the map a little bit, and these parties are having to make in some cases very difficult last minute calculations about where their money is best spent. >> and speaking of fundraising, "axios" is reporting that democrats are bringing in huge amounts of campaign cash. where are they spending it? >> yeah, i mean, across the board you see on the senate side, democratic candidates have been good at small dollar funding. rafael warnock in georgia, mark kelly in arizona. and they're all really strong fundraisers. on the republica...

>> the supreme court always rejected that argument money isn't speech. in the case that upheld contribution limits they struck down expenditure limits on the ground the ability to spend as much money as you can to deliver a message is fundamental. >> i was going to point out we spent the past two year with the left griping about this dark money going into these independent spending groups. they should be celebrating because this is an opening for more of the money to be distributed more widely to candidates without affecting that base limit. also to give more money to the political parties whi...

They come out and say, thank god for the sun. otherwise it would have been bad. but always have a convenient weather excuse -- i'm not saying it's not justified. it's been a horrible quarter, but do you think they overdo it? >> well, this season i will cut them a break, okay? jc penney had 300 stores close wh activity was at its highest. wal-mart had over 200 stores close. so if you can't get to the store you can't buy anything, and when you get there you're seeing a lot of out of stock, and because of the bad weather they can't get the stock to the stores quick enough. if it's not there, you ...

Employees and pay them as little as the marngt allows. make republicans lining up against the unions is just ideologically motivated. democrats stand for the workers, republicans stand for the business owners. maybe that's all it is. but there's also this. in the 2010 election cycle, these were the heavyweight outside spenders across the country. these were the ten outside groups that spent the most money in that election cycle. most donated big time to the republican side. the karl rove american cross roads group, the u.s. chamber of mers, the american action network, just loads of outside mo...