today after local prosecutors told giuliani s lawyers this week he is a target of their election interference investigation meaning an indictment is possible. in a separate investigation, cnn learned that two former trump white house lawyers were interviewed by the fbi about the classified documents seized last week at the former president s home in florida. let s get to it and begin with nick valencia live at the courthouse. rudy dgiuliani is still in the courtroom. you caught up with him. what did he say? reporter: defiant and computicom compcomexuding confidence. he asked for a continuance last week because of health concerns and ultimately a fulton county judge ordered him to appear today. on his way in to court, i p peppered him with questions including asking whether or not he lied before georgia lawmakers when he spoke to them at least three times in the wake of the 2020 election. mr. giuliani when you met with l lawmakers did you lie to them? we will not talk abou
schumer. cnn will bring you the president s remarks when they begin. let s start with the new gdp report. with me is matt egan. walk us through the report, the numbers, what you see. so broadly consumers were still spending. it is a slowdown for sure but overall that was a positive contributor to gdp. on the other hand, government spending slowed down. when we look at where consumers are spending, it s an acceleration of what we ve seen. we spent less on physical items. services, however, think airfare, which is why airports are so busy these days, hotels and restaurants, that really accelerated. business spending declined and inventories, which we have been hearing from a lot of retailers for sure but also other companies they are trying to move out their inventory, there has been a mismatch of what they have. that was reflected here, too. i think to put it simply, it is clearly showing a slowdown. matt, this is you ve written a lot about this. this is one of the big i
home. the wall street journal reports the attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve that fbi search. separately, sources tell cnn that trump white house lawyer eric herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. and in a separate investigation, georgia prosecutors have told rudy giuliani he is a target of a criminal probe into election interference. and in yet another investigation, long time trump organization cfo allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty in a tax evasion case. let s get to it, let s begin with katelyn polantz on the news out of the justice department this morning. so, what are you hearing from the justice department about this request to unseal the affidavit? reporter: the justice department does not want to unearth a lot more detail about what is going on here in that prompted the search of mar-a-lago and what is under criminal investigation here. in a court filing yeste
Lets face it. The big show is going to be the Supreme Court. And i think also the planned parenthood funding. Some republicans are squishy on that. One other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. Thats something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. Majority leader of the house, Kevin Mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. Paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying well worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. Trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. As president , you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. Does he carry through with some of those threats . I agree with karen. A lot of stuff is symbolic. We knew tpp was dead. A symbolic move. When we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and Supreme Court nominee and on doing things l
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