i'm christine romans. "new day" starts right now. >>> good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, june 15th. i'm john berman with brianna keilar. developing this morning, the results are in and donald trump exacting a measure of revenge on republicans who moved to impeach him, even as the january 6th committee presents evidence they suggest points to possible crimes by the former president. trump's political strength is still evident at the polls. >>> overnight south carolina republican congressman tom rice was defeated by a trump endorsed candidate. rice was one of ten republicans in the house who voted to impeach the former president and one of the first to face republican primary voters. another race in south carolina did not go trump's way, congresswoman nancy mace at times a trump critic survived a primary challenge. in another significant development republican mayor flores flipped a democratic house district in south texas, this is a pretty signif

i'm christine romans. "new day" starts right now. ♪ >>> good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, june 28th. i'm john berman with brianna keilar. morning intrigue surrounding the january 6th committee. a surprise hearing that was not on the schedule. we are told it is to plenty recently obtained evidence with at least one surprise witness who has been central to their investigation. it is cassidy hutchinson, a former top aide to trump chief of staff mark meadows. she has been in some of the most dramatic motels of videotaped testimony. she identified the names of several republican lawmakers she said were asking about pardons. she talked about conversations around the legality of the fake elector scheme. she reportedly confirmed accounts that trump reacted approvingly to the chants of "hang mike pence." >> we're also learning that the cell phone video of john eastman last week. you're looking at it as it's unfolding, eastman was there in order to overt

joining us chief cnn business correspondent christine romans and rahal sum la van. what's happening here? >> sorp s many, superlatsuperla. this is shifting into an era of higher inflation, higher interest rates and slower growth. investors have been addicted to bigger returns on fast-growing tech stocks, for example, they have to refigure their portfolios. that's what you're seeing here. the big thing, over the past 24 hours, i think, is the supporting that the fed is likely to raise interest rates, 75 basis point, not half a point. today, tomorrow, we'll find out tomorrow, for sure what it wants to do. it's behind the curve on inflation. >> we spoke last friday on this very set after friday's cpi report about whether 75 basis points or three quarters of a percent was on the table and i said it didn't seem that way because on friday it didn't seem that way. but so much has happened since friday. there's a feeling that the fed may have to throw out its playbook. 50 basis point was on the table for wednesday. we got that report on friday that showed inflation was not

christine romans, thank you very much. we'll let you walk over here. joining us, cnn business correspondent rahel solomon and john harwood. what do you make of this? >> no big surprises there, which is a good thing. to christine's point, in terms of what the fed wants to see, it wants to see some slight cooling. so we're starting to see numbers now being added in the 3s, 300,000, which is a positive sign when you consider for the last year the number was at least 400,000 per month. and so, you know, fed powell has spoken, fed chairman powell has spoken earlier this month saying he wanted to sort of see more of a balance in the supply and demand of workers. about two open jobs for every unemployed person. and so i think there are no big surprises in this report, wages not necessarily going up much more, that's perhaps a good sign for inflation as the fed tries to tackle the 40 year high inflation. >> no big surprise. it seems look a low bar. given where we have been the last few months, maybe welcomed. >> the economy has been very strong to say the leas

>> i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now. with john berman on this "new day." uk prime minister boris johnson could be out of a job by tonight, we are live at 10 downing street. >>> it was a deadly weekend in america from graduation parties to bars, mass shootings across the country leaving several killed and dozens more wound. what is congress prepared to do when they return this week? >>> a former judge in wisconsin gunned down by a man with a hit list. the two high-profile politicians he targeted next. >>> and the u.s. and south korea responding to eight missile tests by north korea with eight missile tests that have i remember own. what will kim jong-un do now ? >>> good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is monday, june 6th. major political news out of the united kingdom, in just the last couple of hours it is in within the realm of possibility that the leader of america's closest ally may be out of a job by tonight. it was just announced that later today british prime minister

here now cnn chief business correspondent christine romans. we thought this was coming but this is a big move -- attempt by the white house. >> he needs congress to get on board but this is the white house saying they want to give americans some breathing room, that's how they call it. a three-month suspension of that gas tax. it's 18.4 cents a gallon. the white house also calling on the states to do what they can to try to lower their gas taxes. on average 30 cents per gallon ranges everywhere from 10 to above 50 cents, 60 cents, but that's where the white house is. talking about the breathing room, a little extra breathing room. acknowledging it's not going to fix the fundamental problem of overall high gas prices but it gives people some space. here are the numbers from overnight, $4.96 a gallon, still just too hot for the average family budget to be able to absorb without some pain here and that's what's driving, i think, the politics of this no question. >> there are some questions which we will get into later in the show because we will

i'm christine romans. >>> i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now. >>> good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, june 2nd. i'm john berman with brianna keilar. and we do begin with the deadliest mass shooting in america since last week. four people killed in tulsa, oklahoma, this time at a hospital complex which, of course, follows mass shootings at an elementary school, a grocery store and a church. this is what we know, tulsa police say the gunman opened fire with a handgun and a rifle before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. fewer than ten people are wounded, none at this point we are told with life-threatening injuries. >> this is now the 20th mass shooting in america since uvalde just nine days ago according to the gun violence archive. this comes as we learn dramatic new details about the police response at robb elementary school during the standoff there. we will have more on that in a moment. >>> let's begin, though, in tulsa with the latest developments ther

i'm christine romans. >> and i'm laura jarrett. right now the president of the united states is in his final meeting with world leaders at the nato summit in madrid. he is wrapping up one of the most successful diplomatic initiatives of his presidency so far. his bold plan to expand nato ending in initial invitations to sweden and finland, somebody biden said was exactly what putin did not want when he invaded ukraine. then in a few hours the president will hold a formal news conference. kevin liptak will have more on that conference in a moment. but first to cnn's natasha bertran. good morning. what is the president doing right now? i know that he said some words just a short time ago. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, laura, so right now the president is meeting with members of the north atlantic council which is the main political and policy making body of nato. and of course in that meeting is turkey. and one of the biggest diplomatic achievements of this entire summit has been turkey's dropping of its opposition to sweden and f

i'm christine romans. >> and i'm laura jarrett. we begin with a revelation late last night, the identity of a key witness set to testify later today at a last minute hearing set by the january 6 committee. her name, cassidy hutchinson, she may be unfamiliar, but she is considered one of the committee's most consequential witnesses because she was an aide to trump white house chief of staff mark meadows. she was present during many critical events and conversations in the white house and we know that she's been cooperating with the panel already sitting privately for at least three different times. you can see her there. cnn reporter marshall cohen is live in washington, d.c. good morning, what do you think that we could learn from hutchinson today? >> reporter: good morning, guys. we could learn a lot. and you know the committee thinks that this is super important because they scheduled this surprise hearing. it was supposed to be, you know, a little break, a little hiatus after the july 4th break. not so

cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins me now. christine, in the last couple of months you heard administration officials and others, economists, nonpartisans, say we might begin to see the numbers cool down a bit. that hasn't happened. so what's behind this? >> well, you know, fuel costs, $5 a gallon gas. i mean, you look at jet fuel costs, that's raising the airplane fees and airplane fares. it is all feeding into everything at this point. look at the chart of where we are, 8.6%, that's just such an ugly, ugly chart. and what that basically represents is what every american already knows, that just about everything costs more right now, and their purchasing power is shrinking. let's look at some of the categories. gasoline prices up 50% over the past year. we know that. we feel that. if you're driving a sedan, you're paying $25 more to fill up today than a year ago. used car prices, still a problem. you got this big jumbled supply mess around the world, i'm sure the president will address later today. but we still have supply pr

i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin this morning with more swirling questions surrounding the embattled school police chief in uvalde, texas. we've heard little from him since 19 children and two teachers were killed at robb elementary school on his watch. and now we've learned that state investigators aren't hearing from him either. chief pete arredondo essentially gone radio silent, not responding to a request for followup interview with investigators there for days. that according to the texas department ofof public safety. chief arredondo made the decision of course not to send officers into that classroom while the carnage was still taking place. >> every key piece of testimony and evidence will help those families get answers. the last thing we need is silence in the face of a need for those answers. >> the chief has not responded to multiple requests from cnn for comment on this. >> we are also learning more this morning about the gunman a

i'm christine romans. nice to see you. the next public hearing of the january 6 committee set to start just hours from now. the committee plans to draw a straight line from former president trump's words to the capitol riot. aides say the panel will focus on trump's campaign to pressure the vice president into blocking the certification of president biden's victory on january 6. remember what trump told the crowd at the elipse hours before the attack. >> mike pence, i will tell you right now, i'm not hearing good stories. >> i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he is a great guy. of course if he doesn't come through, i won't like him quite as much. [ chanting ] >> trump's public push contributed to the riot which included threats against pence's life. and two pence aides will appear live this morning. counsel to the vice president and a retired judge and informal adviser. and also expect to see video from the deposition of marc short who appeared yesterday, t

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i'm christine romans. >> so chipper on a monday. >> it's all fake. >> i'm laura jarrett. i hope everyone had a very nice father's day. we start with this don't call it a comeback. elements of president biden's failed build back better plan could once again be on the table as part of new inflation-fighting legislation in congress. sources say senate majority leader chuck schumer and democratic senator joe manchin have been meeting to hash out

it is monday. >> it is. >> i'm laura jarrett. >> and i'm christine romans. we've got the first june weekend in the books. it was pretty nice. beautiful weather so here we go. we begin with a new week and with a heartbreaking number of mass shootings across the u.s. in a single weekend. since friday by cnn's count, nine mass shootings from philadelphia to phoenix. some 246 mass shootings now in the u.s. this year according to the gun violence

>> i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now. with john berman on this "new day." uk prime minister boris johnson could be out of a job by tonight, we are live at 10 downing street. >>> it was a deadly weekend in america from graduation parties to bars, mass

bumpy is the word of the day. >> thank you, christine romans. appreciate it. >>> the bipartisan group of senators working on gun legislation will meet this afternoon, again. top republican negotiator john cornyn says the group is working toward drafting the legislative text, but there are some sticking points still left to iron out. >> and cnn's lauren fox is joining us now from capitol hill. those sticking points, lauren, could that mean a delay? >> reporter: well, senator john cornyn warning just a few moments ago to our colleagues outside of the senate judiciary committee hearing that he believes that today is really pretty hard and fast in terms of a deadline for reaching an agreement, and the reason is because already the majority leader chuck schumer said he wants to put this legislation on the floor next week, before lawmakers depart for a two week recess. here is where things stand according to cornyn. right now he says they're in a, quote, good place when it comes to red flag laws, and incentivizing states to pass their own. that had be

. >> i'm christine romans. wall street this morning waking up to a growling bear market. a bear market is when stocks close down 20% or more from a recent high. that high was in january for the s&p 500. the reason for the slide, higher prices everywhere with and what the federal reserve may have to do to keep the prices under control. inflation hit 8.6% last month, the hottest inflation since 1981. the fed meets later today. fed funds futures markets are pricing in 0.75 point rate hike to curb inflation. the "wall street" journal reporting the fed is likely to make a move larger than the 50 basis point move a few days ago. a terrible day yesterday, a terrible two days. cnn's claire severe webastian i london. is there stability in europe? >> a little bit more stability today in europe and asia as they continue to sort of digest the falls that we saw those inflation fears out of the u.s. a mixed picture. asia is now closed. tokyo is the outlier there. that economy vulnerable to monetary tightening in the u.s. japan is doing the opposite to try to maintain inflation there. t

i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. late night last night for us. welcome to our virs iewers in t united states and around the world. he lit the fuse, that was the claim offered by the house select committee investigating the attack on the u.s. capitol. after nearly a year and a half of work, the panel opened it first public hearing last night in primetime accusing the former president of the united states of america of orchestrating a chilling conspiracy to remain in power. an intentional scheme that played out in seven different way, one that culminates in an attempted coup. >> all americans should keep in mind this fact. on the morning of january 6, president trump's intention was to remain president of the united states despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power. over multiple months donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. >> it is a bold claim she is making.

. >> i'm christine romans. thanks for getting an early start with us this monday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. >> nice to have you back on this big monday morning. we begin with life in america after roe vs. wade. the supreme court's landmark decision rolling back the constitutional right to an abortion already changing the fabric of american life. protests over the weekend animated, but overwhelmingly peaceful. as republicans celebrated the win, decades in the making, and now facing an uncertain political fallout from the decision. democrats clearly angry, but left without votes in congress right now. and without a plan of action. >> this court has lost legitimacy. they have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision. they just took the last of it and set a torch to it with the roe vs. wade opinion. >> several states are already working to protect abortion rights while others, at least ten, effectively banned abortion as of saturday night.

i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. and we begin with the economy and inflation. just hours from now, the federal reserve will make a move that it hopes, hopes, will tamp down these soaring price increases we've seen. here is how the president put it. >> inflation, it is zapping the strength of a lot of families. >> that inflation hit 8.6% last month, highest rate since 1981. majority of americans weren't even alive actually. u.s. families paying more for everything. gas, cars, food, housing, just to name a few. >> plane tickets, everything. and today fed is expected to rise rates three quarters of a point. so that means that people will pay more to get a car loan, houses and even college. that will taste bad, but the hope is that it cools down inflation overall. right now on wall street you're seeing a little bit of optimism here heading into this final fed decision here. in overseas market, mixed performance in asia and europe has opened higher this morning. this is a perfect day to talk to greg

i'm laura jarrett. >> i'm christine romans. thanks for getting an early start with us this monday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. >> nice to have you back on this big monday morning. we begin with life in america after roe vs. wade. the supreme court's landmark decision rolling back the constitutional right to an abortion already changing the fabric of american life. protests over the weekend animated, but overwhelmingly

i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now. >>> good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, june 30th. i'm john berman with brianna keilar. pat cipollone the former top lawyer at the white house has been subpoenaed by the january 6th committee. the committee clearly feels he is a central figure in their investigation. witnesses have testified that he pushed back on the fake electoral college scheme. >>> cassidy hutchinson testified that cipollone warned if trump went to the capitol, quote, we're going to be charged with every crime imaginable. cipollone did meet with the panel informally in april but has been reluctant to do more. now a source tells dana bash he might agree to at least a limited transcribed interview. >>> first on cnn, cassidy hutchinson stands by her testimony in the face of push back from the secret service. the former top aide to chief of staff mark meadows told the committee that trump was so determined to join his supporters at

i'm christine romans. >> so chipper on a monday. >> it's all fake. >> i'm laura jarrett. i hope everyone had a very nice father's day. we start with this don't call it a comeback. elements of president biden's failed build back better plan could once again be on the table as part of new inflation-fighting legislation in congress. sources say senate majority leader chuck schumer and democratic senator joe manchin have been meeting to hash out the specifics on this. biden aides and allies have been talking up key parts of the plan including prescription drugs, taxes and energy. >> lowering prescription drug costs is one piece. >> we can bring down costs burdening households like description drugs. >> pharmaceutical prices which will help health care and lowering the rate. >> long overdue tax reform. >> the parks repeal, not the full repeal, but the partial repeal of the trump tax cuts which would take some demand out of the economy. >> lowering utility costs by providing tax incensetives. >> the way in which we can assure reasonable energy expenses for households is to move

christine romans also. jeremy, to you, first, the president knows there are enormous political pressures here, including on his approval rating, due to the rising gas prices. does the white house -- is the white house convinced congress will do what the president wants here? >> it is a big, big question, jim. at best it appears difficult for the white house actually to get this gas tax suspension passed through congress. let me take you through what the white house is proposing here. they're proposing a three-month suspension of that gas and diesel tax, federal gas and diesel tax, 18 cents per gallon on gas, 24 cents per gallon on diesel. they're calling on individual states to remove their own gas taxes or suspend their taxes as well and calling on oil refiners to boost production capacity. now, all of these measures are not in the white house's hands alone. in fact, they appear to be largely outside of the white house's hands and the white house acknowledges that this is not an all in one solution to reli

. >> let's go to christine romans to discuss. so, i mean, it is really interesting and important that she said that. it is also really interesting what we heard from larry summers this morning about potential for recession, 4% rate hikes. >> let's talk first about the secretary yellen. she -- it wasn't just the white house that underestimated the impact of inflation last year. it was wall street economists, it was the fed as well, the federal reserve, folks at the federal reserve, some of -- most of the forecasters in economics and almost all of the, you know, the business media too. no one really had a good sense of how bad this would run. listen to secretary yellen in may 2021 when she said she thought maybe you would see inflation average out around 3%. listen. >> i don't anticipate that inflation is going to be a problem. but it is something that we're watching very carefully. >> and they have been watching it carefully. that is when she was having 3% target, you know, or over 8% right now. so you've seen the white house real

. >> cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now. tell us about the economic picture here, right. the job market remains remarkably strong, right, but inflation is still high. what does it all look like? >> when you look at the job market, it is still very strong, but it is starting to show signs of downshifting. and i think that's what you want to see in a mature recovery. we have been having 500,000 and more every single month, so 390,000 is a moderation of that pace, the lightest in about a year. still, well above the average from before the pandemic. in normal times, prepandemic, this would be a blockbuster number to be honest. 3.6% unemployment, it might have fallen a little bit, the unemployment rate, had you not had 330,000 people come in looking for work, right. so the labor force grew a little bit. that's the trend, you guys, over the past year or so. you now have 2.4 million jobs, more than that, even, added just this year. we're now shy since the pandemic of about 822,000 jobs. at this rate, in a couple of months, you'll b

. >> it is monday, and i'm christine romans. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. in a matter of hours, day two of the january 6 hearings will kickoff with a focus on donald trump's big lie, and the hot seat today, the ultimate trump insider, his former campaign manager, bill steppian. he will be testifying under subpoena. it plans to show the president peddled false claims of fraud even though he was told by his closest aides repeatedly, mr. president, you lost the election. daniela diaz is live on capitol hill daniela, do we know what bill steppian expects to say? >> reporter: we do not. he is testifying under subpoena. super notable he is appearing before the committee, and the second hearing that will take place later today starts at 10:00 a.m. we do also know was liz cheney said at the first primetime hearing that took place last week that this hearing will revolve around trump's effort to convince huge portions of the u.s. population that fraud had stolen the election from him despite the fact

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here with me cnn business correspondent rahel solomon and christine romans. romance, what exactly are we seeing here in terms of the challenges that flyers are facing? >> look, it is a really tough summer here for travel. you're seeing higher price and a lot of hassles here. you're seeing delays, you're seeing flight crews and operations staff at airlines and actually at the airports that are having covid staffing issues. you have labor shortages in general, transportation labor shortages, all of this means you've got all these millions of people rushing to travel again, who want to travel again, want to travel like it's 2019, it ain't 2019 so you need to plan for the worse. higher prices especially. >> i mean, should the airlines have seen this coming, rahel? >> i mean, i think there are certain factors that perhaps they could not have controlled, there are certain weather impacts we're seeing, maybe they can't control the weather but there are certain things that i think critics would say you should have seen this coming. when you look back at some of the c

. >> and i'm christine romans. we begin with hope for a bipartisan gun safety deal still alive in the u.s. senate. the key question remain what is are republicans willing to accept? still on the table boosting school security, more funding for a mental health including a juvenile record in background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds who want to buy those incentiveg laws. a source tells cnn that mitch mcconnell has privately expressed openness to raising the age to buy them but he won't say so publicly. >> it won't surprise you to know that i'm not going to sit here and try to negotiate the deal with all you guys. we're waiting to see if we can get an outcome that directly relates to the problem that brought the issue to the fore. >> daniella diaz is live on capitol hill for us. what are republicans concerned about, are there divisions among them on this issue? >> reporter: there is divisions about what they actually want to see on any sort of gun safety legislation that could pass through the senate. there is still th

cnn's christine romans has more now on these troubling new numbers and how wall street is reacting. >>> american consumers are still feeling the pain of higher prices for just about everything, but especially at the pump. look, the may consumer price index, that number up 8.6% from the year before. the fastest since 1981. and when you look at just the month, prices rose 1% from april to may, 1%, that's a big move in one month. core cpi, which they strip out food and energy which can be more volatile, that rose 6% from last year. prices across the board more expensive than last year. largely driven by shelter, the biggest yearly gain there since 1991. food up 10.1%, the first double-digit increase in had 1 years. and -- 41 years. and energy up 4.5% in the last month alone as prices hit record after record. this high pace of inflation means the federal reserve is all but certain to continue to aggressively raise interest rates when it meets next week. this is an inflation fire, the fed is the firefighter. there are some who are wondering whether the fire is raging too strongly for the f

. >>> chief business are correspondent christine romans was here with me. jimmy kimmel was joking that maybe the president should have a sharpie, the fact is the white house does not have a sharpie that can change gas prices. the white house is trying to suggest that the oil companies are making a lot of money and profit here. >> they are making a lot of money if you look at their profits in the first quarter, epic, billions and billions of dollars as these oil prices have risen, so have the returns for shareholders, investors in these companies. the president last night was really complaining about share buy backs, it's just not fair for companies to be buying back shares to enrich their shareholders at the same time when american drivers are really getting hurt so badly. you look at the share prices of the energy companies, the stock prices of energy companies, you can see it's gone up something like 65% this year, compared to the s&p 500 which is probably what's in your 401(k), down 13%, john. that's just -- that's the divide. that is the divide. the mon

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joining us now is chief business correspondent christine romans on these numbers. that is no relief in sight. >> no, stubborn. i mean, inflation has been stubborn and gas prices have been this thing every week, the real life economic indicator for families, you're spaying 40 bucks more to fill up an suv and overnight another 4 cents on gas prices, $4.96. you know, this is like up like a rocket ship in terms of how quickly these gas prices are rising and when you look at all the states that already have $5 a gallon gasoline, every night another couple of states are added to this list and we're expecting this year to continue. now, you've got to reach $5.40 a gallon to match inflation adjusted the high from 2008-2009 but with inflation on everything going up it just shows you why the american consumer is so frustrated here. goldman sachs in a note to its clients yesterday saying oil could hit $140 -- $140 a barrel this summer, and that is needed to actually incentivize more drilling and more production and start to get consumers and behavior to change a little bit. s

so, joining us now to talk about this is cnn chief business correspondent christine romans. christine, tell us what this would look like. >> sure. >> and how it would feel for us. >> well, let's unpack this. first of all, this is urgency at the white house. when you look at numbers, $4.97, holding steady below $5. a years ago, $3.07 for a gallon of regular. so this is something that's hurting american families every si single day. and it shows distress of public opinion polls. what is the federal government indicating? a gas tax holiday. that would suspend 18.4 cents a gallon if the white house decides to go this way. this is used to fund federal highway and infrastructures and state taxes on that as well. this is why you see gas prices all the way different across the country. and 58 cents, alaska the lowest at just 8 cents. that's why you see big differentiation in gas prices. 18.4 cents a gallon, a holiday would give drivers a little bit of a break. here's what someone who advises wall street with what's happening in washington. here's what he says, he says most experts c

i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin this morning with more swirling questions surrounding the embattled school police chief in uvalde, texas. we've heard little from him since 19 children and two teachers were killed at robb elementary school on his watch. and now we've lear

it is friday, june 17th, i'm christine romans. laura jarrett has the morning off. the january 6 committee using its third public hearing to detail the many ways former president trump escalated pressure on his vice president to join in his scheme to overturn the election. through phone calls, tweets, and his speech from the elipse on january 6. >> mike pence will have to come through for us. and if he doesn't, that will be a sad day for our country. if mike pence does

i'm christine romans. >> and i'm laura jarrett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin this morning with president biden now directly calling on congress to toughen up america's gun laws. in a rare primetime address surrounded by candles honoring the victims, president biden spoke to a nation that has seen many leaders call for action after mass shootings only to fall short. >> over th

. >> and i'm christine romans. we begin with hope for a bipartisan gun safety deal still alive in the u.s. senate. the key question remain what is are republicans willing to accept? still on the table boosting school security, more funding for a mental health including a juvenile record in background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds who want to bu

. >> and i'm christine romans. nice to have you with us. we begin of course with the absolutely stunning portrait of presidential desperation painted by former trump white house aide cassidy hutchinson. her two hour blockbuster appearance before the january 6 committee included testimony that the former president and top aides were warned that some supporters at the elipse were armed with weapons like knives, guns, bear spray, tasers. hutchinson had a unique vantage point critical to conversations never revealed before yesterday. she said that trump grew irate that the security screenings on january 6 were apparently deterring his supporters, his armed supporters, from joining the crowd. so furious that he ordered his aides to have the metal de detectors removed. >> another leading reason, likely the primary reason, is because he wanted it full and he was angry that we weren't letting people through with weapons. i overheard the president say something to the effect of, you know, i don't fing care that they have weapons. they are not here t

cnn chief business correspondent christine romans has more on the state of the recovery of the economy. >> christi and boris, recession fears are growing and inflation at 40-year highs. companies are still hiring. the u.s. economy added 390,000 jobs in may. that is slower than recent months, but a solid number. labor market is now just 822,000 job shy of pre-pandemic levels and unemployment rate at 3.6% steady. that is above the 50-year low the u.s. hit before the pandemic in february of 2020. where are the jobs? jumps in leisure and hospitality business services and transportation warehousing and construction. wages rose 2.5% in the last year. that is calming fears of overheating economy. it is not great news for workers. paychecks are not keeping up with inflation. remember, in april, consumer prices jumped 8.3% from a year ago. next week we get numbers for may. from the white house to federal reserve to wall street is hoping for signs the inflation has peaked. christine and boris. >>> thank you. schools are reviewing safety plans in the wake of the uvalde shooting. we will talk with

i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. late night last night for us. welcome to our virs iewers in t united states and around the world. he lit the fuse, that was the claim offered by the house select committee investigating the attack on the u.s. capitol. after nearly a year and a half of work, the panel opened it first public hearing last night in primetime accusing the former president of the united states of

. >> it is monday, and i'm christine romans. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. in a matter of hours, day two of the january 6 hearings will kickoff with a focus on donald trump's big lie, and the hot seat today, the ultimate trump insider, his former campaign manager, bill steppian. he will be testifying under subpoena. it plans to show the president

i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. and we begin with the economy and inflation. just hours from now, the federal reserve will make a move that it hopes, hopes, will tamp down these soaring price increases we've seen. here is how the presiden

i'm christine romans. >> and i'm laura jarrett. right now the president of the united states is in his final meeting with world leaders at the nato summit in madrid. he is wrapping up one of the most successful diplomatic initiatives of his presidency so far. his bold plan to expand nato ending in initial invitations to sweden and finland, somebody biden said was exactly what putin did not want when he invaded ukraine. then in a few hours the president will hold a formal news conference. kevin liptak will have more on that conference in a moment.

i'm christine romans. nice to see you. the next public hearing of the january 6 committee set to start just hours from now. the committee plans to draw a straight line from former president trump's words to the capitol riot. aides say the panel will focus on trump's campaign to pressure the vice president into blocking the certification of president biden's victory on january 6.

. >> i'm christine romans. wall street this morning waking up to a growling bear market. a bear market is when stocks close down 20% or more from a recent high. that high was in january for the s&p 500. the reason for the slide, higher prices everywhere with and what the federal reserve may have to do to keep the

i'm christine romans. >> and i'm laura jarrett. we begin with a revelation late last night, the identity of a key witness set to testify later today at a last minute hearing set by the january 6 committee. her name, cassidy hutchinson, she may be unfamiliar, but she is considered one of the committee's most consequential witnesses because she was an