though is the championing progress being made not only on the economic front but numbers that he says are proving that the inflation reduction act is beginning to bear some fruit. there s a great deal of division over whether that is happening. this three-state trip, by the way, three strong blue states that he s going to is an interesting thing to do less than a month before the mi mid- mid-terms. want to keep you up on that and how this is playingout and the strategy of the white house with a little less than four weeks until the general elections. jacqui heinrich at the white house on what this strategy is. what do you think, jacqui? it s hard to say, neil, what exactly the strategy is. the press secretary was asked why the president isn t going to a more contentious state like arizona if he s going on a western swing. why not hit some of those areas where democrats vying for re-electioning are having a tougher job. but this event in colorado is going to be really a favo
not ones to write home about. 11.3% is the jump in wholesale prices from a year ago and came in lot steamier than economists predicted coming off the you know what it feels like when you buy things. consumer prices are up substantially. fastest pace we ve seen since 1981 back in reagan years. you have to go to art laffer to find that out. white house points out wages are up. here is the deal. wages aren t rising at the pace of inflation. you look at a pay cut of 3.6%. if you crunch the numbers inflation is costing the average american household $500 a month. setting on fire every single month because you aren t getting anything for that $500. bill: questions now including this how did we get here? many economists blame out of control government spending along the way. democrats are passed more than $3 trillion in new spending under president biden and they aren t taking their foot off the gas as they look to revamp build back better. let s go to mark meredith live f
iranian assassination plot in addition to former national security adviser john bolton. stand by for new details on federal charges against an iranian operative. later, i ll have a one-on-one interview with ambassador bolton. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. former president trump departed the new york attorney general s office just a little while ago, after he invoked the fifth amendment in a deposition in the probe of his business dealings. cnn s senior washington correspondent pamela brown is joining us with the late breaking developments. this follows the unprecedented fbi search of trump s florida home. yeah, what a week it has been for the former president, donald trump. he asserted his fifth amendment constitutional right today. he says in part because of the search on his home on monday by the fbi. and tonight, we re learning new details about why the fbi took that extraordinar
forecasted for the next few days are a major concern. so obviously with the higher temperatures that is going to increase a fire behavior and intensity of fire, the flames broke out on thursday prompting evacuations by friday afternoon. the community of will want to the campground will want a campground the golf course there. highway 41 on the south entrance coming from fresno has a hard closure to the rest of the park is still open and be a highway. one, 40 firefighters say one of the initial challenges was getting resources. there is fire in northern california resources kind of held out that fire is wrapping up. so we are starting to get those resources and obviously it is in an area where it is getting into wilderness. so it is getting into steep country as far as these giant sequoias are known for surviving fire. but wildfires burn hotter and quicker than ever before because of dry conditions. the sequoia trees are a fire, adapted tree so they actually need fire to repro
integration and they trash the populist opposition. donald trump is a populist and populism can be a very dangerous tool to ride the anger, not provide the answer. and that s the problem. the larger problem is a populist racist no nothing movement that is fundamentally inconsistent with democracy. but that was all wishful thinking from supply chain nightmares to food and fuel shortages to pointless wars, massive refugee crises. the wheels are slowly coming off. the globalization train. now, the media hate to report on this, but one of the big stories playing out over the summer is the rise of the free movement. i m talking about normal people around the world who are pushing back on the globalist agenda that s essentially dominated our politics since the 1990s. now, too often we re told that it s americans. they re the only ones who have concerns about globalization and what it means for our culture and our economy and our way of life. but around the world, working