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The highly contested state features a critical Senate race in the battle to try to control Congress in Trump's final years in office.

CNN's Kevin Liptak is over at the White House for us.

Kevin, some Democrats say if they flip the House and the Senate, they will launch impeachment proceedings against the president.

How is Trump responding to that threat?

So not clear exactly what he meant by that, but I think all suggesting that this could be a very contentious final two years in office if Democrats do take the majorities in November.

All right, we'll see what happens on November 3rd, the midterm elections.

Kevin Liptak, thank you very, very much.

Also happening now, with less than a month until Election Day, President Trump is trying to sell his economic message while he's out there on the campaign trail, and he's taking aim at former President Biden.

The use of the GBU-43B massive ordnance air blast bomb, the largest non-nuclear U.S. bomb, for the first time would mark a significant escalation in the war.

Zachary Cohen, Haley Britsky, and Kevin Liptak report.

Iran War.

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One of the biggest questions that we've gotten asked and that we've asked our sources ever since the president announced that he was banning CNN, MS Now, and Politico from covering his administration on Friday was, why now? The president has complained about negative coverage for decades, long before he was in political office, so why is he taking this step to block outlets whose coverage he doesn't like from covering him? Well, our sources tell my colleague Kevin Liptak and I that last week, the president's close aide, Natalie Harp, who is often seen with him in the Oval Office or on Air Force One, showed him graphics of negative coverage from Politico.

Between that and coverage TV clips that the president also saw, he was infuriated, which is what we're told led him to ban these outlets from covering him on Friday.

It's a move that actually caught a lot of people in the West Wing off guard, and they were surprised themselves when the president announced that he was banning those outlets.

Betsy Klein is in Bullhead City, Arizona, where the president's speaking now.

Kevin Liptak is in Montana, where the president is headed later this evening.

Betsy, what more are you hearing from not only the president, but from Arizona voters?

president and his policies here in Bullhead City.

He said that people are pissed at Democrats.

He used that word, but he also said that he didn't think President Trump's visit here would help all that much.

All right, Kevin Liptak in Montana, Betsy Klein in Arizona.

Thanks to both of you.

This morning, President Zelenskyy says Russia has already violated that surprise ceasefire, if in fact it's a ceasefire, by launching new strikes, hitting a power plant in the Kharkiv area of Ukraine overnight.

Joining us now is CNN senior White House reporter Kevin Liptak and CNN political and global affairs analyst Barak Ravid.

Kevin, you first.

Uh, what is the White House saying about all of these dramatic developments?

One of the reasons that they are so frustrated by it is that these, uh, allegations emerged as Marco Rubio was in Greece, uh, delivering a speech about democracy from the Acropolis, and I'm told that Rubio will be involved, uh, in the decision on whether to dismiss her from this job.

We'll see how long she s- lasts, if she, in fact, she lasts at all.

Kevin Liptak reporting for us, thank you very, very much.

Still ahead, attorneys for the man shot by ICE agents in New York say he's enduring, quote, "horrific conditions" while in detention.

This morning, President Zelensky says Russia has already violated that surprise ceasefire, if in fact it's a ceasefire, by launching new strikes hitting a power plant in the Kharkiv area of Ukraine overnight.

Joining us now is CNN senior White House reporter Kevin Liptak and CNN political and global affairs analyst Barak Ravid.

Kevin, you first.

What is the White House saying about all of these dramatic developments?

And I'm told that Rubio will be involved in the decision on whether to dismiss her from this job.

We'll see how long she lasts, if in fact she lasts at all.

Kevin Liptak reporting for us.

Thank you very, very much.