maria: good morning, everyone, i m maria bartiromo. today, president biden responds to the house oversight committee allegations of bribery. can you explain to americans why you interacted with so many of your son and brother s foreign business associates? i m not going to comment, i did not, and it s just a bunch of lies. reporter: you didn t interact with they re lies. i did not. they re lies. maria: the ed and the impact with florida congressman and oversight committee member byron donalds coming up. plus, the national security threat of not holding china accountable for anything. the covid cover-up, surveillance balloon, a propaganda war, so much somewhere. key senator rand paul on the covid cover-up and whether another one is on its way over. plus, record apprehensions at the southern border. senate romer marshall on the battle over policy change at the u.s. border versus money to protect ukraine and its border. then, anti-semitism surging across the country wi
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welcome news when it comes to your wallet. a key inflation report shows that price increases went to zero last month. the markets are like what will the fed in the next hour we re said to get an interest rate decision from chair jerome powell and president biden back on the world stage. he s headed to it believe for a highly anticipated summit with a lot at stake. but casting a shadow over the trip. yesterday s conviction of his son, hunter, on felony gun charges happening now, house republicans moving forward in their planned to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress for violating subpoena requests. now, an uneasy feeling filling his growing among gop lawmakers. do they have the votes were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central we start this hour watching stocks rally after a new report shows inflation cooling down in may, the gains have been a bit in afternoon trading, but the dow roared o
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. A lot to get into. Stay tuned, its time for our breaking news opening monologue. We are going to start, we are going to go very slow tonight because a lot of new information. Robert mueller and his team of partisan investigators, they want to face off with the president of the United States number but today President Trumps attorneys flatly rejected, rightly so, muellers interview terms. They have countered with a proposal of their own. In a statement, the attorney for President Trump, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani wrote we are restating what we have been saying for months, it is time for the office of the Special Counsel to conclude its inquiry without further delay. The former mayor is not predicting that the investigation could be over by september 1st. He will be right here on the show with more details in just a few moments. Without a doubt, President Trump should be aware. Mueller, his merry band of antitrump deep
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Cut off all ties with Christopher Steele because he was leaking and lying about potentially classified information to the media again to peddle his lies to influence the outcome of our election. This all comes on the heels of last nights shocking report that showed that Christopher Steele was working closely with bruce ohr before and after the 2016 election, again to spread the lies from his dirty dossier. He had no faith in those lies. Throughout the highest levels of what is supposed to be our fair and unbiased justice system. Equal justice under the law, equal applications of the law. At the time, the fourth highest Ranking Member of obamas department of justice, he has since been demoted because of his unethical ties to steal and fusion gps. Sara carter, john solomon will be joining us in a moment with more details. These are shocking new developments. It is far worse than we ever thought. But first we are also currently
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