since that does seem to be a premier issue. jacqui heinrich on what the latest polls are saying. she s at the white house. hi, jacqui. hi, neil. the first glass, today s gdp report looks good. considerable gain from the first and second quarters of negative growth. that 2.6% is driven in large part by government spending and increased exports. experts believe that those could drop off in the fourth quarter. also, another warning sign. if you look at all three quarters together, the growth is only .4%. which is extremely slow. more over, consumer spending is slowing down. that makes up almost 70% of the u.s. economy. so maybe not on the whole as good as it looks at first glass. the president thinks things look fine. great economic report today. things are looking good. despite that optimism that the job market is strong and a recession is not inevitable, voters are pessimistic. a u.s. a today poll shows 2/3s say the nation is already in a recession or depression. 10% say
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. it is always good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. today the country honors the civil rights champion dr. martin luther king jr. at an event in the nation s capitol, president biden highlighted what his administration has done to try to bring americans together and ensure racial equality, but his call for unity comes as he faces growing questions about the classified documents that were found at his home and his washington office. this weekend, the white house announced five additional pages of classified material that were found at president biden s house in delaware. that brings the number of classified documents in total found at his home and private office to about 20. let s bring in cnn s legal affairs correspondent paula reid. let s talk more about these five pages, what the president s attorneys are saying. well, victor, these five pages were among previously disclosed material located at the president s wilmington residence. i
complete, that s in addition to the ones joe said were secure in his garage, right here with the prized corvettes, adam schiff having a hard time defending, because it looks like the white house tried to cover this up. i m glad that there is a special prosecutor that has been appointed. you are glad there is a special prosecutor. to speak the classified documents are to be taken seriously, no one is above the law, so i am glad to see the justice department doing its work. it certainly embarrassing, right? i would like to see congress to its own assessments and receive an assessment from the intelligence community of whether there was an exposure to others of these documents, whether there was harm to national security. greg: you know things are bad when you lose adam schiff, even the media thinks that this torpedoes the notion that he is mr. confidence. this is very, very big deal politically. i don t think sitting down and hunkering down and just acting like it
seems like the whitehouse new about this but kept a tight lid on it. we re asking who knew it. we re with jacqui heinrich at the white house with what the administration is saying now and what aishah hasnie is saying that lawmakers want. wel welcome. welcome. this is neil cavuto. even with the markets closed, it s a busy day. we go to jackqui heinrich first is how the white house is handling docuworld. what we know is this was going on a full two months before the white house publicly disclosed it. that s after it was leaked to the press. critics are asking, what was the motivation to keep a lid on it and who made that call. who made that decision in ron klain make that decision? not to disclose? not to disclose. did ron klain make the decision? did the president make the decision to not tell the american people six days before the american election? another question, who had access to the material found in the president s garage. last night james comer formally ask
just a short time ago cnn s manu raju reported that there would be a republican conference meeting tomorrow morning. that, however, we understand has now changed. i want to go to cnn s melanie zanona at the capitol with the new reporting on that and mccarthy s frame of mind as well. melanie, what have you learned? reporter: well, things have not moved in kevin mckarth chriss direction since that third ballot where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for kevin mccarthy and his allies. we ve seen supporters going into his office. we re told he has been working the phones. he is still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i just spoke to a gop lawmaker, this is some breaking news here, this is a lawmaker who texted me, this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they had just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that member to flip. so