between the u.s. and russia and how soon paul whelan and brittney griner could be home as we go one-on-one with national security spokesperson john kirby. i m hallie jackson in washington on this thursday afternoon. carol lee over at the white house, jake ward posted up for us in san francisco, our business reporter. carol, let me start with you. this is time number two we re hearing from the president today on the economic news of the day. reporter: that s right, hallie. what you re seeing is not just the president but across the administration, a number of officials are out talking about the economy today addressing these gdp numbers. this is an effort to try to shape the narrative. part of what you re hearing from the president, you might be hearing bad news about the economy, but it s not that bad. he s also saying this is no surprise, that the economy was always going to slow down as the fed steps in and tries to address inflation. he s pointing to things like a strong
plus, more evidence of an economic funk. a new data point shows american consumers are getting even more pessimistic, and it s because of inflation. and a split screen day for republicans. trump in washington. so is pence. competing speeches put their rift in the wrestling match for control of the republican party front and center. up first for us, though, a federal grand jury, its highest profile witness, and what it might mean for donald trump and those who helped him try to steal the 2020 election. a former mike pence cheech of staff, marc short, confirm last night here on cnn, that he did receive and did comply with a grand jury subpoena, his first appearance before the washington, d.c., grand jury. marc would not discuss the content of his testimony. but a witness to a long list of episodes including the senior circle of trump allies who pushed a scheme with the home that vice president pence would then refuse to certify the real biden electors. multiple reports say greg
he left town in disgrace following the capitol riot and his election loss. he will be speaking to a group of conservatives and we re told that he plans to focus his speech on law and order. trump returns to washington amid a widening probe by the justice department into the capitol insurrection that now includes testimony from high ranking officials in his administration. mark short, the former chief of staff to vice president mike pence says that he testified under subpoena before a grand jury a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. short s former boss also in d.c. today. pence delivered a speech and appeared to distance himself from the former president. so i don t know that our movement is that divided. i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. i truly do believe that elections are about the future. and that it s absolutely essential at a time when so many americans are hurting, so many families are struggling, tha
climate change. capitol police arrested several staffers, progressive members. staff growing new members from the southern border tonight revealing the number of migrants coming into this country would never get caught. a troubling update tonight on the texas mom or disappeared earlier this month on her way to work. authority is not try to piece together what happened, and law enforcement panel joins us live to discuss. but first, the gross domestic product gdp number comes out this week. critics say the biden team is trying to get ahead of that by essentially changing the definition of what a recession is. corresponded matt finn joins us from our west coast with more. on thursday, the latest gdp numbers are scheduled to come out, and if we had a second consecutive quarter of negative gdp growth, we ll be in what s considered a recession, but the white house is trying to downplay the economy or even redefine recession. on monday, president biden who has covid was asked virt
the pair were on separate stages in arizona. and no sick days for president biden at the white house while recovering from covid. we ll have the latest on his health. a very good morning to all of you. welcome to way too early. on this monday, july 25th. we begin this morning with the latest developments from the january 6th select committee over the weekend. vice chair liz cheney one of only two republicans serving on the committee went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work, she exposed the network s audience to former president trump s role in the capitol riot, even noting a key editorial from the right wing new york post which is the same owner as fox, slamming trump as unworthy to become president again and pushed back on a talking point some republicans have been using to shift the focus on the law enforcement response to the riot. questioning house minority leader kevin mccarthy s motives and placing the blame squarely on trump s role that day.