administration s voice on the world stage. at the time he called her a proven deal maker and touted her joining his team. now she s the one candidate posing possible peril for trump and he s arguing she s so liberal no republican should pick her. we have an opportunity to get this right. i don t know that she s a democrat, but she s close. i trust you. i trust every single one of you. you know how to do this. you know iowa starts it. you know you correct it. she s far too close for you. trump s campaign is piling money into those attacks. he started paid ad weeks ago turning to personal attacks. trump s allies claim this race is over. beltway pundits repeat that same false narrative. the truth is new hampshire is where some campaigns take off and we re early in the process. candidates who lose iowa can find their footing in new hampshire. trump knows that because in his first run it was he, then candidate trump in 2016, who lost iowa and joined the comeback traditio
up next, the meat weekend. ext, the meat weekend. ,,. in the political world, is adjusting swiftly to the republican results out of iowa, which showed trump in the league. as we were covering that night with rachel. but half of that red electorate open to alternatives. the top two alternatives, which are two individuals separated by just under 3000 votes in iowa, are squaring off, there are high stakes in new hampshire. this is the more moderate, independent state that could favor haley. it s voters also will look more like the november electorate than the nominee, whr s ultimat, will have to face. new tonight, desantis is not campaigning in new hampshire right now, having given up on the moderate-leaning states, giving the quote, abysmal poll numbers for the new york times. and while it is january, we must remember the rest of the last political parts of the nation are probably a little bit exhaust at the thought of turning back to campaigns, and more focused on things
symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. here are some of the stories we are following today. americans are finally feeling better about the economy and they are starting to credit president biden. rod chopra, the director of the consumer financial protection bureau is here in studio. plus, the national security council john kirby on the growing unrest in the middle east, president biden s latest call with netanyahu. and new developments in the fight to remove donald trump from the ballot, mark lance joins us to grab your coffee, settle in, welcome to the weekend. we begin in new hampshire, where the first votes will be cast in the republican primary in just 40 hours. nikki haley is now belatedly taking aim at donald trump openly questioning whether who s mentally fit to serve as president. hey these comments come after trump seemed to confuse her with nancy pelosi at a recent rally. they re saying he got confused, they re saying that he was talking about something els
hovering around 2%. right now, it sits somewhere around 4%. that s certainly better than where it was last year. somewhere above 8.5%. but it is still not good enough. and it s why the fed chair jerome powell has said more interest rate hikes seem pretty likely. in may, the 12 month change in the cpi came in at 4.0% and the change in the core cpi was 5.3%. inflation has moderated somewhat since the middle of last year. nonetheless, inflation pressures continue to run high and the process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go. the theory is by making it more expensive to borrow money it should cool off the economy. and ten rate hikes later, that tactic seems to be working. of course, the danger is the us economy could fall into a recession. those hawkish comments by mr powell had certainly weighed on investor minds. the nikki index is trading flat as japanese investors look at what happened on wall street overnight aftermarket sales for a third straight on
republicans take grievance pollacks to the house floor censuring democrat adam schiff for his role in donald trump s first impeachment. and that comes as there s drama within the house gop with two of its more outspoken members at odds over how and when to impeach president biden. and also ahead the latest on the search for the missing submersible deep in the atlantic ocean as experts suspect the five people inside may have just a few hours of oxygen left. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the classified documents case against the former president donald trump is moving forward with yet another key development. a court filing issued yesterday reveals that special counsel jack smith has turned over his office s first set of discovery to trump s defense team. this includes materials supporting the prosecution s case against trump for allegedly mishandling the documents after le