Today on inside politics, the United States investigator vus donald trump. The grand jury meets again and the nation is on pins and needles. Plus a new National Poll shows donald trump and Joe Biden Running even and as of now, criminal indictments have not tanked trumps chances of become ing the once and future president if hes on the ballot. And its the Vice President on the line. A former Business Partner tells congress that hunter biden put his father on speakerphone 20 times. Democrats say it was part of an illusion. Republicans see it as a biden lie. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, we are closely watching for any indicators that a federal indictment against the former president is coming. The grand jury that will make that decision whether or not to charge donald trump with january 6 related crimes is back in today. Cnns Katelyn Polantz is live outside the federal courthouse here in washington. What are you seeing there at this hour . Repo
Pain it also causes. The background to this is high inflation, we have a sequencing that Around The World, particularly sticky, or at least has been here in the uk. That is why the bank has been increasing Interest Rates to try and curb the spending and get that Inflation Rate down. Should they continue to do that today, on the one hand, we have an Inflation Rate in the uk that has been easing a little, and when you dig into some of the details, to look at Producer Price inflation, thatis look at Producer Price inflation, that is further down the supply chain, that is the price is that manufacturers and factories might be paying, suggestions are it could be coming down quite significantly now. On the other hand, headline inflation, 7. 9 , still four times the Bank Of Englands 2 target. When you strip out energy and food, which can be equally volatile core inflation, they are still not falling by enough, wage growth remains quite high as well, and then there are wage comparisons, and in
Inflation the worlds biggest economy last month dampened expectations. That decision comes a day before Second Quarter gdp figures are released and many economists are expecting the us economy likely remained in expansion during the april to june period. Rounding off the week will be the bank ofjapan. Last month they saw core consumer prices, excluding food, rising higher than the banks Inflation Target so that put extra pressure on the central bank to tweet its altar easy monetary policy. I earlier spoke to naim aslam and he told me how he expected the fed to go. I think the Federal Reserve isnt under immense pressure, as they were before the inflation data, as you rightly pointed that out. Because inflation is sitting at 3 and im speaking about the headline inflation, which is not that much farther from the Federal Reserve s target of 2 and especially if you compare what this number was. It wasnt too long ago when we saw this number in double digits and falling all the way to 3 . Whe
Inflation the worlds biggest economy last month dampened expectations. That decision comes a day before Second Quarter gdp figures are released and many economists are expecting the us economy likely remained in expansion during the april to june period. Rounding off the week will be the bank ofjapan. Last month they saw core consumer prices, excluding food, rising higher than the banks Inflation Target so that put extra pressure on the central bank to tweet its altar easy monetary policy. I earlier spoke to naim aslam and he told me how he expected the fed to go. I think the Federal Reserve isnt under immense pressure, as they were before the inflation data, as you rightly pointed that out. Because inflation is sitting at 3 and im speaking about the headline inflation, which is not that much farther from the Federal Reserve s target of 2 and especially if you compare what this number was. It wasnt too long ago when we saw this number in double digits and falling all the way to 3 . Whe