a fiber freelancer. former vice president mike pence joins wolf blitzer, cnn primetime tonight at nine. top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. great to be with you, jim. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean. and any moment now, officials at fort campbell in kentucky will be giving everyone an update after two blackhawk helicopters collided overnight, killing nine u. s service members that is, according to an army official. we re standing by for that, and we ll bring it to you live as soon as it happens. the governor among those who will speak their plus russia has now arrested an american journalist, it says on suspicion of espionage. even draskovic, a reporter for the wall street journal, detained in a small town east of moscow, the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter, the kremlin says. he was caught red handed, refuses to offer any details their track record on this kind of thing. begs a lot of questions. we re going to have details ahead. we begin this
testify next week and the role the white house supreme court justice plaidyed in overturning the election. the key moment in the fight against coronavirus. the cdc set to vote on recommending vaccines for young children. . good morning, it s saturday, june 18th. we are grateful that you re starting your weekend with us. it s always a pleasure to be with you. good to see you, too, boris. let s talk about the new fears that we re learning about about the u.s. economy and it is headed towards a recession. friday marked the end of a rocky week after the federal reserve announced the largest interest rate hike in decades in an attempt to tame inflation. the dow down, the s&p slightly higher but still the worst week since 2020. we also learned that wages in the united states are climbing at their fastest rate since the mid 1980s, but inflation has climbed up so quickly that workers have been been handed a pay cut. america is in a stronger position than any other nation
he is the only person to be secretary of state and world leader. he didn t seem to mind. his greatest concern was that the influence of the united states would collapse as a super power. he was concerned that the united states had to get out of vietnam, so he designed this structure with nixon, and it continues to influence us to this day, and as we are controversial with china, the foundation was begun with henry kissinger and richard nixon. he loved to be the limelight and on the world stage and other stages, too. he was perfectly adept at charming those who entinteracte with him. he was not a retiring professor. he was a professor who loved theater. lashing out, deflecting and denying. george santos is speaking on capitol hill as he is staring down the possibility of being expelled, and what is to happen in the house. and what the former president said that he was told and absolutely understood that failing to comply with the subpoena of the justice department would
president s advisers, or, um, officials doing is he s trying to go around and not through the former president and in order to defeat him one day, that s that s what s going to happen happen. you re gonna have to go through. you re gonna have to take that. that knockout punch. francesca i want to talk about some polling a new fox poll showing trump is gaining ground among republican voters. 56% say they want trump as their 2024 nominee. desantis is at 24% you can see that polling now on your screen. trump has doubled his lead on to santa since they took that same poll in february. and this is happening at the same time as trump has been really sharpening his attacks on desantis. do you think that there is a correlation there or do you think it s also having to do with the fact that desantis is more in the spotlight now? republicans would say the latter who i ve spoken to that desantis is in the in the spotlight, so he s taking some hits. but if you look at a quinnipiac
former trump white house trade adviser peter navarro as well pleading not guilty to two charges yesterday after he refused to cooperate with the january 6th committee. if convicted he d face a sentence of a month, i think, and as i understand it, they re looking at a november trial date for him. his lawyers are arguing the trial should be postponed until next year because he has a book coming out. joey? yes. what is happening? not really a good argument to be making to the judge. if you look at it, how ironic. because we re talking about contempt of congress. there s you not appearing before the select committee who s looking at and evaluating what happened that led to the january 6th insurrection, what led up to that, what were decisions made, what were the officials doing, and you not appearing, right, because you don t think that you