Plus, there are fewer than 50 days until christmas and wall street is concerned about a retail apocalypse. We have the details about that, and later, its been choppy waters for Royal Caribbean the stock is cruising higher the ce will be here for an exclusive interview. Power lunch starts right now welcome toll power lunch. Im melissa lee. The major averages are recovering somewhat after falling in the red on reports of a delayed trade deal we have the dow and the s p 500 marginally higher right now. The nasdaq is down by a third of a the russell taking it the hardest. Lets get over to bob pisani for more theres been reports theres no clear deal yet over the terms of a phase one deal with china, or even whether president xi is going to come to the table on the deal industrials, theres your classic one, caterpillar, 3m, united technologies, theyre all down a bit today some of the semiconductors like micron also a little weaker as you mentioned, coming off their lows we had a buildup in c
live from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom president biden is set to mark one year since russia s war in ukraine. ukraine will never be evicted from russia. we saw another launch from north korea. the tests are in response to the joint military drills held by the u.s. and south korea. it s something, just a little town, i don t think ever expected to happen. i also notice i have this rash on my arm that was not there before i came here. corporate lobbyists have far too much influence in our government. and they see this as a result. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, february the 20th. 9:00 a.m. here in london. 4:00 a.m. in washington. president joe biden is set to depart for poland to mark the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. once there, they ll deliver remarks for continuing u.s. support for the speech in warsaw. the polish prime minister said he expects a very strong condem
andy scholes, thank you very much. new day continues right now. good morning, everyone. to our viewers in the united states and around the world it is wednesday july 27th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. this morning a criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection is moving closer to former president donald trump. cnn reports key witnesses subpoenaed by the justice department in recent days include two top aides of former vice president mike pence who were asked specifically about the fake electors scheme and the role of trump s lawyers. in addition the new york times and the washington post report that federal investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration including chief of staff mark meadows. attorney general merrick garland called the doj s january 6th investigation the most wide ranging in its history. he says they will go where the evidence takes them. criminally charging a former presiden
russia amid its continuing invasion. during a meet with america s top diplomat, secretary of state antony blinken said he warned if that should happen. blinken added they re already provides support. here s what he told nbc. china can t have it both ways, publicly, they present themselves as a country striving for peace in ukraine. but privately, as i said, we ve seen already over these past months, the provision of nonlethal assistance that does go directly to aiding and abetting russia s war effort. and some further information that we are sharing today and that i think will be out there soon, that indicates that they are strongly considering providing lethal assistance to russia. to the best of our knowledge that well, for more on this, we re joined by cnn s beijing bureau
chief steve jiang. and here in london, we ve got nick bonusson and clare sebastian as well. steve, first of all, what is beijing s view on this, in what they have been supporting in terms of weaponry and support to the russians in the united states perspective, at least? yeah, max, the chinese just formally pushed back on blinken s allegations with a foreign official saying china is not finger pointing or turning the taking on washington, it s the u.s. sending weapons to the battlefield so the u.s. is not qualified to speak on this issue. as you mentioned, actually visiting moscow, and meeting with russian officials and likely putin himself on the way of the anniversary. paving the way for xi jinping s