see you monday. cnn this morning have a good vacation. cnn newsroom is now. good morning, everyone. i m bianna golodryga. right now president biden is on capitol hill speaking moments ago at the annual national prayer breakfast and calling on republicans and democrats to unite in the wake of tyre nichols death as he makes a push for national police reform. it comes ahead of his and vice president harris meeting with the members of the black caucus. it comes after the vice president spoke about tyre nichols saying it is a moment that demands congress to take action. the republican led house is expected to vote on a resolution to remove ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. speaker kevin mccarthy said he has the votes to oust her. and going on the offensive. attorneys for hunter biden now calling for criminal probes into trump allies and others involved in disseminating his personal content from his laptop. first, let s go live to ukraine where cnn wa
minnesota. the house is about to vote to kick her off the house foreign affairs committee. she is speaking right now saying yes, she s a muslim, she s a refugee, she has said some controversial things but she s a proud american and her views should be considered by republicans and democrats alike. let s listen. and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. [ applause ] so take your vote or not. i am here to stay, and i am here to be a voice against harms around the world and advocate for a better world. i yield back. [ applause ] again, ilhan omar speaking a fiery address, a defiant speech on the floor of the house of representatives. the republican led house is about to vote to kick her off of the foreign affairs committee. she says it is retribution and unfair. she says it is unamerican. but it is no surprise to her. the republicans who said barack obama as president was secretly a muslim. let s get to our chief congressional correspondent manu r
spending. and let s begin in washington, d.c., where the federal reserve has just announced its latest decision on interest rates. economists predicted an eighth straight rate increase as the central bank tries to tamp down inflation without causing a recession. matt egan is inside the federal reserve. what s the decision? reporter: 25 basis points, the fed just delivered its eighth straight interest rate hike, lifting interest rates to the highest level since 2007, all part of the fed s quest to get inflation back down to healthy levels. but importantly, the fed is dialing back the pace of these interest rate hikes. going from 75 basis points this past summer and this past fall to 50 basis points in december, to this more traditional move of 25 basis points today. now, this was widely expected, widely telegraphed, and yet, it is a significant strategy shift, nonetheless. the fed is still trying to slow this economy to cool off inflation, but they ve gone from slamming the
homes of top current and former leaders. some blame the official, some blame the entire system. we ll dig into what is broken and how it might be fixed. and our exclusive reporting this hour on congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. could the conservative fire brand find her way on to the presidential ticket? she certainly thinks so. more on that in a moment. but we do start this hour with the major escalation in the support for ukraine and what it could mean for the war with russia. in just the last hour, president biden said the united states will send 31 abrams tanks to the battlefield along with providing supplies and training needed to operate them it s a complex piece of machinery ask it comes a after weeks of debate over whether the tanks would be effective and it s happening this the face of repeated warnings from moscow that the move would be seen as a dangerous provocation. putin expected europe and the united states to weaken our resolve. he want anded our sup
mcswain and businessman dave white. but we do have a projection to make in the democratic governor s race. and cnn projects pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro will be the democratic nominee for pennsylvania governor. shapiro coasts through uncontested. he will face the winner of the republican gubernatorial primary in the fall. dana bash, shapiro is counting on having a republican candidate, republican competitor whom he can easily paint as extreme. absolutely. he s already starting to do that. we should note that josh shapiro announced that he s positive for covid so i m not sure that we ll actually see him tonight. but jake is exactly right. he became a national figure during the time between november, the november election and when the inauguration happened because as the attorney general in pennsylvania, he was very aggressive about pushing back against gop efforts to overturn the election there. depending on who he has as his opponent, he might be fighting that