u.s. and china deteriorated to their lowest point in decades. real tension, particularly over taiwan. secretary of state antony blinken speaking today with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov. as cnn learned exclusively of plans under way for a prisoner swap, trading convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout for detained wnba star brittney griner and marine veteran paul whelan. we re watching that closely. let s begin with the new gdp numbers, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is here with more. christine, break down, a lot of numbers not just you but economists follow, this headline number is not good. this is gdp gross domestic product. it is the largest gauge of the size of the economy and it this rank 0.9% in the second quarter. this is a rear view mirror looking picture, and that s after the economy this rank 1.6% in the first quarter, that first quarter was blamed on the omicron variant and how much was going through the economy with supply chain pro
and criminal investigation, the filing argsing the disclosure would likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose tennessee assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses as well as in other high profile investigations. in other words, this may not just be about retrooefg docu documents. separately, the department of justice unsealed charges against a pennsylvania man accused of threatening to kill fbi agents after the search. and the former president speaking to fox promised to help cool the climate of violence even while inciting it some more, calling it, quote, a very dangerous time, he said, quote, i will do whatever i can to help the country. he also said this, quote, and then they break into a president s house, a sneak attack where it was totally no one ever thought a thing like this would happen. he went on to again suggest the fbi planted evident and said, quote the people of this country are not going to stand for another scam, fire meet gasoline. al
now in custody. police called the attack random and intentional. it is difficult, but important to hear the moment that gunfire erupted to begin to understand the terror that people faced. i ll warn you, the video we re about to see is disturbing. lord help us. personally i witnessed bursts of gunfire like that before, but only from u.s. military firing positions, while embedded with u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan. that was on an american street. yeah. and those bullets left a number injured as we mentioned, and dead. the injured ranging in age from 8 to 85 years old. dr. david baum was there as the gunfire erupted, saw the immediate aftermath, and jumped in to help. the people who were gone were blown up by that gunfire. blown up? blown up. blown up. the horrific scene of some of the bodies is unspeakable for the average person. those are war time injuries. those are what are seen in victims of war, not victims at a parade. now sadly they are seen in victims
bolduan in for erin burnett, tonight, witness tamperings. cassidy hutchinson said someone in trump s world tried to influence her testimony to the panel and we know now, one of the two examples of possible witness intimidation presented to the committee in that block buster hearing was in fact sent to hutchinson, mark meadow s former aide. what they said to me is as long as i continue to be a team player, they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know i ll continue to stay in good graces in trump world. and they have reminded me a couple of times that trump does read transcripts, and just keep that in mind as i proceed through my interviews with the committee. here s another sample, in a different context. this is a call received by one of our witnesses. quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do th
but now to florida were seen and projects help demings will win the democratic senate primary. and challenge incumbent, marco rubio. then things is a former police chief of orlando and has served in the house since 2014. and singer landa they protect that charlie crist will, be the democratic governor in nevada. he will face incumbent around the sides in november. and now to st. petersburg florida. quite a bit of celebrations tonight from charlie crist, camp here in st. petersburg. declaring the victory and the democratic primary for the governor s race to the general election in november. now, i gotta tell, you i ve got an interesting exchange with one of the staffers. who said i don t plan to get any rest tonight. because, now, the real work begins. as they go head to head with governor ron desantis. so a rising star for the republican party that has widely seen at the potential gop presidential nominee. so, it did not take long for chris to go after desantis when he hit