jon stewart sounding off on senate republicans after they blocked a bipartisan bill aimed at expanding health benefits to veterans exposed to toxins in war zones. the question is, why did 25 republicans who supported a previous version of the bill change their vote to know? stuart, an outspoken advocate for military veterans will join us later this morning. we are following new developments with the january 6th committee. top aides to former president donald trump testifying between closed doors, including one official who resigned the day of the attack. we will tell you who that is. and more text messages from the time of the attack disappear. first from the secret service, now the washington post reporting texts between members of trumps homeland security team are missing as well. good morning, welcome to morning joe. we have the host of way too early and the author of the big lie , jonathan lemaire. gentlemen, good morning. let s start with the texts that have been del
very good thursday morning to you . i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. this just in to cnn, important news for the u.s. economy, the nation s gross domestic product, how much the economy grew or shrank, declined less than previously thought in the second quarter of this year. revised up from negative .9% to negative .6%. it may not sound like much. it shows our economy is shrinking. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now with more. we often have seen revisions like this, with jobs figures, sometimes in both directions, sometimes in a positive direction, what is the significance of the revision here? it means the economy is less lousy in the second quarter than we thought, and in fact consumer spending and corporate profits were stronger and that is an underpinning here of the u.s. economy. you look at quarter by quarter by quarter, you see two quarters in a row of a shrinking u.s. economy. but shrinking much less in the second quarter than the fi
u.s. and china deteriorated to their lowest point in decades. real tension, particularly over taiwan. secretary of state antony blinken speaking today with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov. as cnn learned exclusively of plans under way for a prisoner swap, trading convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout for detained wnba star brittney griner and marine veteran paul whelan. we re watching that closely. let s begin with the new gdp numbers, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is here with more. christine, break down, a lot of numbers not just you but economists follow, this headline number is not good. this is gdp gross domestic product. it is the largest gauge of the size of the economy and it this rank 0.9% in the second quarter. this is a rear view mirror looking picture, and that s after the economy this rank 1.6% in the first quarter, that first quarter was blamed on the omicron variant and how much was going through the economy with supply chain pro
well, good morning to you, to your new day, i should say. saturday, june 25th. and i am not alone! look at us, here in the studio together. it s great. it s fantastic. great to be with you, christi. it is so good to have you right here, right where you are right now, especially with all the news we have to talk about today. so much going on today. demonstrators taking to the streets across the country, following that u.s. supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion. a moment that antiabortion rights activists are describing as a victory that s been decades in the making. abortion rights groups plan more dmgss today. take a look at what was happening as protesters yesterday were in major cities around the country. and let me tell you about what happened in phoenix, arizona, of course. the demonstration got rowdy. people were banging on the class doors of the state senate building. look at this. we re told troopers yo
what do we wall greed the day before an indictment? i m afraid recently we ve called it success. the u.s. economy, which used to be the envy of the world, is in the most serious trouble since the great depression. inflation is rising, while the standard of living is declining. there was tremendous inflation, and not much growth. the country was not in a great depression in 1980, but the united states was in the dumps. on wall street, it was cold, gray, wet, and miserable. there was no comfort to be found outside. and for investors, there was not much inside either. the tickers carried almost nothing but bad news. we d come off a terrible decade for investing. people were skeptical of the stock market. it was a very sleepy wall street back then. most economists expect a serious recession, with at least 2 million more americans losing their jobs. i regret to say that we re in the worst economic mess since the great depression. literally from the