previous reluctant witnesses. one is the secret service. according to new cnn reporting, investigators have identified potential missing text messages on the phones of ten agents. messages from on and around january 6th. committee vice chair liz cheney calls the developments regarding the agency deeply troubling. i have just tremendous respect and admiration and real affection for members of the secret service, particularly those who were with my family on 9/11 and in the aftermath of 9/11. but i also know that what we saw in terms of what s happened over the course, what we ve become aware of over the course of the last several weeks is deeply troubling. we will get to the bottom of it. cheney also tells cnn the panel is still interested in speaking with steve bannon, who was convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the committee s subpoena. we ll join steve bannon s attorney for his first interview. they say they could also subpoena begiginni thomas.
incredibly important for policymakers and for washington. look, we ve got consumer confidence numbers tomorrow, i mean, they could be really rotten. we know that people feel terrible about where the economy is going, a lot of people feel like they are already in a recession already. terrible consumer confidence. we will get those numbers. on wednesday we have a federal reserve interest rate hike expected, we are expecting another 75 basis points. that s big. we saw that in june, 75 basis points that was the biggest move since 1994, we re expecting that again. why? because the fed is trying to tamp town on inflation. that s going to be incredibly important to watch. we will get the first reading on second quarter gdp that comes thursday and that s expected to be negative again and that would mean as you guys just said two quarters in a row of negative growth. that s a big slowdown from where we saw at the end of last year 6.9%. but gdp alone is not the only gauge of whether we
temperatures, hitting record highs across the country, at the same time they are trying to battle this. plus, troubling signs for the u.s. economy. second quarter gdp, how much the economy grew and it s expected to shrink as president biden faces several economic challenges. inflation, continued supply chain issues, gas prices high but coming down. all of this overshadowing a 3.6%, very low unemployment rate. several key economic indicators expected this week. we ll talk about what s ahead. and republican congressman and january 6th committee vice chair liz cheney says a subpoena for ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, is not off the table. anxiety is growing among republicans over the committee s revelations about former president trump and many in the party are now encouraging other republicans to jump in the 2024 race for the white house. let s begin with the wildfire in california. our national correspondent camilla is at the scene of the fi
meeting face-to-face with the saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman, the very man the u.s. intelligence determined likely approved the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. while in israel president biden stopped short of saying that he would raise the killing with the crown prince though saying that he will as he always says he will raise human rights with the country. as a presidential, biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah for their atrocious human rights record. there is a lot at stake in this stop on his middle east tour. joining me now, wolf blitzer and kaitlan collins live in jeddah, saudi arabia. the president will be meeting with the crown prince shortly. he is leaving the plane and the meetings begin. this is the most complicated meeting of the entire trip. set the stage for everyone. it is the most complicated because the u.s. intelligence community concluded that mohammad bin salman the crown prince was directly involved in ordering for all practical purpos
capitol since the war of 1812. meanwhile, the committee is debating whether or not to rerve the former president trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. last hour we spoke with a member of the committee, congressman adam kinzinger who seemed open to that idea. i can t do the doj s job. as a nonlawyer, there is all kinds of threshold questions. but my belief is this. we never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations because that is what failed republicans, failed democracies do. but if a failed coup and an obvious coup attempt and a president that didn t just choose not to act, but willfully watched to see where the mob would go for three hours on january 6, if he is not held accountable through law, i actually fear that that is a far worse president far worse precedent, to make the determination, if they can and should indictment. if we just wash this under the rug and say for the sake of the country, let s put thi