Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
that is a huge increase. it s massive, and it really explains why some families having such a hard time getting by right now. inflation has cooled off considerably. we ve gotten two big inflation reports in the last two days, and both of them make that obvious. we re nowhere near those inflation levels of last summer, and yet inflation can be cumulative. there is a snowballing effect here of two years of price spikes, and so americans are spending a lot more in a lot of different areas including, of course, housing and anybody trying to buy or rent right now knows that. people are spending more at the grocery store, on recreation on things like streaming and buying tickets and also on cars, on buying cars and insuring them. both things can be true. inflation has cooled off and it s also done a lot of damage over the last two years. two things can be true at once very much. matt egen, thank you very much for that.