about this bill it will not lower inflation. we re now one step closer to enacting this historic legislation into law. indiana becoming the first state post-roe to pass a law banning nearly all abortions. people are demanding that their voices be heard by this legislature, to demand equal rights under the law. me and my sisters we are not murderers. we just took control of our own bodies. if your pro-life you can t be happy. if you re pro-choice you can t be happy. all i know is people need to go out and vote in november. reporter: the fallout from u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan continues with china ramping up its military and diplomatic backlash. there is no justification for this extreme, disproportionate and escalatory military response. some sort of military escalation and the possibility of open conflict, a higher probability than it was just a few days ago. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. and we be
fights criminal contempt charges. and summer sand and shark infested waters. enhanced technology is on the hunt where sharks have been on the attack. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with breaking news in our politics lead. president biden s approval rating hitting a new low in cnn polling. take a look. only 38% of people approve of the way joe biden is handling his job as president. 62% disapprove. this dismal number comes as president biden returns from his middle east trip. the white house touting the trip a success, saying the president renewed support for the region and set expectations that gas prices could steady in the coming weeks. but those successes in some quarters being overshadowed by this moment, biden fist bumping saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, who the u.s. says is to blame for the slaughter of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi in 2018. biden trying to brush it off from reporters upon his return to the white house.
what do we wall greed the day before an indictment? i m afraid recently we ve called it success. the u.s. economy, which used to be the envy of the world, is in the most serious trouble since the great depression. inflation is rising, while the standard of living is declining. there was tremendous inflation, and not much growth. the country was not in a great depression in 1980, but the united states was in the dumps. on wall street, it was cold, gray, wet, and miserable. there was no comfort to be found outside. and for investors, there was not much inside either. the tickers carried almost nothing but bad news. we d come off a terrible decade for investing. people were skeptical of the stock market. it was a very sleepy wall street back then. most economists expect a serious recession, with at least 2 million more americans losing their jobs. i regret to say that we re in the worst economic mess since the great depression. literally from the
and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn t have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn t have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. let s bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every single thi
doocy at the white house with the latest. peter? here at the white house, they think this jobs report is not a reason to worry about a recession. that phrase, make it in america, the cornerstone of my economic plan. today s report proves making it in america isn t just a slogan, it s my administration. but former obama economic adviser jason furman writes uncomfortably hot jobs report. 528,000 jobs added and unemployment rate falls to 3.5%. what worries me is average hourly earnings were up at 5.8% in july. june revised. the wage moderation that we all discussed last month was wrong data. white house officials are shrugging off the fears saying they still trust the federal reserve to adjust rates to address inflation. they claim there s more good news. in 50 straight days of gas prices falling even though they re $1.72 a gallon more than when president biden got here. you want to talk to a nurse or a teacher or a firefighter? having that little britt of breathing room