the secret service said it was a mistake not a cover-up, keep text from january six were deleted, the agency said it reset the phones and didn t backup the data. the biden agenda shrinks from bold to bare-bones. senator manchin says no to new climate initiatives and says no to higher taxes on the wealthy. it s another family feud as democrats failed to deliver on promises and worry that voters will punish them for high inflation. we begin with the consequential day for president biden. he s meeting with mohammed bin salman at the royal palace in jeddah, moments ago, mbs greeting the president with a fist bump. the president says the saudi s are critical players. biden himself remember label the kingdom of prior after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi and the president ordered the public release of intelligence assessment that said the crown prince orchestrated the killing because of 10 it s reporting on human rights issues. now they acknowledge the difficulty of th
administration down playing the recession call. there s semantics. what is a recession, how do you technically define it. no matter what, there s widespread agreement no matter who you talk to. that is that economic growth is slowing. the treasury secretary, janet yellen acknowledges as much. but then she maintains that that does not mean a recession is inevitable. this is not in an economy that is in recession. but we re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing. and that s necessary and appropriate. we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace. yellen says the job market is still strong. she says a recession would have to be a broad-based economic contraction. consumers are still spending. household balance sheets are still in good shape. all of that said, the economy did contract the first quarter. economists think at beast we ll see slow growth when the numbers release thursday. the white house insists even if that number does go negative and some
service disputing the inspector general s claims saying a reset of the agency s mobile phones and a system migration where some data were lost began more than a month before the request to save them. those messages would be critical evidence about january 6th committee testimony that the president got physical with his protective detail for not letting him join the rioters at the capitol. moments ago, president biden and crown prince mohammed bin salman meeting each other with a fist bump after more than 18 months of tense negotiations and more than two years after then candidate biden said he would be making mbs and saudi leaders a pariah for their role in the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. i ll be joined by dr. ashish jha to learn more about the hypercontagious ba.5 covid variant sweeping the country, when the next booster shot is approved for people 50 years of age and whether monkeypox is a pandemic. we begin with pete williams. pete, the letter from the off
our house and coming our way really quickly. forced to flee. thousands of acres burn outside yosemite park. firefighters try to beat back the flames. and deadly heat continues to punish the country. 90 million people are suffering in scorching temperatures. many areas hitting the triple digits. newsroom starts now. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with new developments in the january 6 investigation. today republican liz cheney, the vice chair for the committee, not only put ginni thomas, the wife of u.s. supreme court justice clarence thomas, on notice that she could be subpoenaed to testify but cheney also accused former president trump of serious misconduct and dereliction of duty and says the committee is not ruling out recommending criminal charges against him. do you believe that your committee has successfully made the case that donald trump committed crimes and, if so, which ones? we
good evening to you, president biden continuing as he continues through covid. his main symptom his position says is a sore throat and others have diminished. his doctor because that encouraging that assigned his body is clearing the virus his voice remains bit deep but his lungs are normal and clear he has completed the third day of the anti-viral paxlovid as planned he has an inhaler and he will continue the treatment not seen the president at all this weekend and it concerns about the 79-year-old s diagnosis who white house has not made biden s position available for questions official speaking on his behalf say the president is fully vaccinated, twice boosted in experiencing a mild case. he will continue out his duty of isolation that remains through tuesday ahead of the gdp report, the white house and bracing for a second consecutive quarter of negative growth, commonly referred to as a recession but don t expect anyone in the biden administration to start using the r