democrat on house foreign affairs i might add, said the president yeah, could have mentioned china sooner. he said almost nothing. no specific talk or acknowledgement of the balloon. no plan to counter it. still think he should have started with the domestic agenda and could have identified china earlier. most democrats are defending the president. he was tough on china and but his hope is the main focus is where it should be, on the average working family. he said that he warnted to be strong against china. i think the you know, the balloon is only one aspect. senators get a classified briefing tomorrow with the gang of eight getting their classified briefing sometime before then. dana. dana: a busy day there. bill: 50 minutes from now on the hill the first high profile
threat level against her has actually meant that she can t have large events for her re-election campaign, because the security concerns there. i mean having a security detail and working in a high threat environment, can really change how these members of congress have to live. do you know anything about how they re coping with the fact that their lives are going to have to be sort of overturned by these new security measures? look, every member of this committee is up for re-election this year, right? it s the house. it s every two years. and there are some of them who are in quite competitive race, representative luria of the virginia beach area of virginia where i live is on the committee. she s going to be one of the co-presenters in the final hearing we think, which is supposed to focus all on trump s actions, and his culpability for what happened on january 6th. there s no doubt in my mind that that high profile hearing, which is supposed to, at the moment is
worse, did, for example, fiscal policy sending almost all americans checks, for example, including those who didn t need them, didn t lose jobs, et cetera, how much did that contribute? how much did the fact that the fed was kind of behind the curve and didn t start raising interest rates sooner was still leaning into expansionary monetary policy until recently. how much has that contributed. it is a confluence of factors. the administration is right. it is not unique to the united states, but it does look like it has been worse in the united states, at least if you strip out energy, for example. by a third. by about a third. and that does seem linked to policy choices we have made. even if those are not the sole reason behind this painful level of inflation we have. well, lessons for everyone to learn as we move forward. thank you, catherine. good to have you. the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection is preparing for the next high profile hearing, previewing to
sites and released toxins that made troops sick. the bill moves to the house and then to the president s desk for signing. this quick programming note. join some of the biggest stars as they lift their voices for juneteenth. that s live sunday night at 8:00 p.m. only on cnn. thank you for your time. i hope you have a peaceful weekend. ana cabrera picks up coverage right now. hello. thank you for being here on this friday. i m ana cabrera in new york. who is next? the committee investigating january 6th is making its case against the former president. and now it is working to nail down the witnesses for another high profile hearing which will focus on former president trump s efforts to use the department of justice to push election lies. we now know stunning new details about just how close former vice president pence came to the
and in terms of what they want to focus on. one of the challenges they have going forward, is convincing the public they are learning something new, changing the viewpoints on exactly what happened here. you can recall some high-profile hearings past that kind of floundered. whether it s robert mueller going before the house judiciary committee committee in 2019, when the democrats were interviewing him in relation to donald trump s efforts to obstruct the russia investigation. or the republicans going after the benghazi investigation going after hillary clinton. that was a high profile hearing that didn t amount to much. can they clear that high bar? will they present the new information that will change how people perceive what happened, as the american public is divided over the topic? this isn t just the first hearing. they will be laying out a