[sneeze] dude you coming? because the only thing dripping should be your style. plop plop fizz fizz with alka-seltzer plus cold & flu relief. also try for fizzy fast cough relief. john: a live look at lower manhattan where closing arguments are underway in former president trump s months long civil fraud lawsuit. one side the supreme court, the other a trump building at 40 wall street where just minutes from now the former president is expected to hold a news conference. we will bring you that live just as soon as it starts. new york attorney general letitia james says the rule of law is on her side but legal experts say the case is without any precedent. jonathan: she s a very political attorney general. none of us could find a single case like this one where james or her office sought these types of damages. john: hello, john roberts in washington. nothing happening this afternoon, sandra, if you want to go out for lunch, now is the time to do it. sandra: nothing t
that wraps it up for me. right now on andrea mitchell reports, president biden boosted by the fed forecasting rate cuts in the year ahead and the chance of curbing inflation without riing rates. vladimir putin closing the year at his marathon press conference, showing no sign of abandoning his invasion of ukraine, counting on international funding for kyiv drying up. translator: coming back to the goals, they remain unchanged. today ukraine virtually produces or manufactures nothing. they have been importing things for free freeloading. it will come to an end, sooner or later. national security advisor jake sullivan in israel today, meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet as the white house presses them to open a second gate for desperately needed aid into gaza. republicans backing the investigation of the president and his family s business dealings. republicans targeting hunter biden, who said he would testify in public but ignore
so i think again the president s economic policies are showing great results. what s your message to americans who are feeling this every day when they buy and use things? if you look at overall purchasing power people can buy as much as they could pre-pandemic, and they have $1,700 extra to spend. sandra: what? where did she get that number, robert, douglas, welcome. go, robert. you first. i mean, i was not surprised by today s number, you and i spoke the other day and said inflation is going to have a longer tail than the fed expects and i did not think they should be talking, or anyone talking about forecasting rate cuts yet. with respect to, you know, what lail said, wages have gone up, purchasing power is higher, but prices are still high for, you know, these kitchen table issues.