officials at the united state s central bank think inflation is going to remain uncomfortably high in america for some time. that s according to the minutes of the last fed meeting where monetary policy is set. the bbc s north america business correspondent samira hussain reports. if anyone thought most recent price hike which showed no inflation injuly was the new normal the federal reserve is here to tell you otherwise. the latest minute shows that the committee that sets monetary policy in the us was unanimous that prices are going to keep going up for months to come. that means everyone should expect more interest rate rises as well. the committee height interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point last month, another rate hike in september seems almost certain. the only question is by how much? the minutes show at least some on the committee thank that their efforts to tame inflation may be starting to have some effect. based on the market response that has
collins in washington. reporter: good morning, christine. we are now learning that former president trump and his legal team are considering releasing the surveillance footage from those several hours when fbi agents were at mar-a-lago conducting that search of course of his property looking for classified information that they believe he took with him from his time in the white house to when he went to mar-a-lago as he left the day he was inaugurated. there were major questions of course this entire justice department investigation over how this information was handled and what exactly was taken down there and we re now told that despite that day when fbi agents showed up and they asked the trump team on the ground to turn off the surveillance cameras, they did not do so and they are now in control of several hours of footage of them actually being there conducting this search. and we re told that they are now considering releasing it, though there are some inside the form
extraordinary dispute play out in south florida this afternoon. it s going to be a high stakes argument over what level of transparency the american public is owed when it comes to the justice department s investigation of sensitive documents that were stored at the former president s home. the doj does not want the affidavit released, claiming it could compromise their investigation. cnn has learned that some trump allies are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of fbi agents searching mar-a-lago. eric trump says his father will absolutely release the tapes at what he calls the right time. now, remember, this is the video of the search itself from the trump s own security cameras. this is not the surveillance video that had been subpoenaed by investigators and reportedly showed activity around the boxes that contained classified documents, activity so alarming to law enforcement that they pushed for the search warrant. katelyn polantz is live outside of th
involving the doj s investigation of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the trump team has one more hour now to officially weigh in on unsealing the documents before a judge hears the case this afternoon. the doj is opposing their release. various media organizations including cnn are requesting that they be unsealed. also happening this morning, the trump organization s former chief financial officer allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. the new york times reports that justice department has subpoenaed white house records in its investigation into january 6th. that s separate from the mar-a-lago search. and in georgia, rudy giuliani appeared before an atlanta-area grand jury for roughly six hours as the target, a target of the probe into efforts to subvert the election there. we want to circle back, though, to the case of the documents obtained at mar-a-lago. short time ago i spoke with donald trump s former impeachment lawyer davi
scheme, as he tries to avoid more jailtime. and also today, walmart, walgreen s, and cvs, all ordered to pay up in a multimillion dollar opioid settlement. where will that money go, as prosecutors claim they helped fuel a silent epidemic that left so many americans hooked and hundreds of thousands dead. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we ll start with our politics lead. major developments when it comes to learning more details behind the mar-a-lago raid. this afternoon, u.s. magistrate judge bruce rhinehart ruled he will unseal additional documents surrounding the search and left the door open for releasing parts of the actual affidavit, which lays out in detail why the justice department felt the need to take the unprecedented step of searching the home of a former president. the doj is against revealing that affidavit. they say it would provide a road map for their criminal investigation to possible future defendants. and they say it could chill future cooperation b