you have no idea how good you ve got it. huh? what a time to be alive. introducing the next generation 10g network. only from xfinity. the future starts now. very good friday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. former president trump has been invited to testify before a grand jury all in relation to the hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels, and we will look into whether this invitation means that criminal charges are on the horizon. and republicans are descending on iowa, and it is of course a must stop on the possible road to the white house. former governor ron desantis is set to speak with the iowa governor in a few minutes. cnn is there on the trail. in major economic news this morning, it is good. employers added 311,000 new jobs, and it beat analysts expectations by a long shot. what does it mean? marty walsh is going to join us to talk about it. and we begin with the manhattan s attorney general inviting donald trump to talk to the grand jur
top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Came out and supplied South Koreans with a number of those in his own administration by the fact he would meet with kim jongun. The parallels go on and on. The Secretary Of State just hours later came out and said there would be preconditions for President Trump meeting with the president of iran. But this comes against the backdrop of the president and a number of his top aides really escalating the rhetoric. Threatening to impose new sanctions. To criticize iran sharply for its acts of terrorism. The president of iran not responding to the president s offer for a meeting. Instead, he decried what he called United States illegal pulling out of its ran nuclear deal. The stakes for the president couldnt be harder. Because the president really railed a number of allies. Lawmakers on capitol hill when he pulled out of the nuclear deal. A lot of those people saying look, that is what was holding iran to account. Keepi