they were being too fickle. for us to question every element, no, we re not doing that. she made a great point that when she was a republican she did not see that. they did fall in line more, she said. they showed up and they just voted for an r. democrats, you know, dissect and analyze. there s a color coded chart of where you fit. a flow chart and figure how it can be better. tomorrow when you tune in, you re going to hear who they would like to run in 2024 instead of joe biden. so tune in for that. it s the top of the hour with cnn newsroom, i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. flashing red warning signs suggest the risk of federal prosecution may be increasing for former president donald trump. the department of justice has escalated its probe into january 6th. the washington post reports that the doj is directly investigating trump s actions. federal prosecutors are now targeting high profile players in trump s inner circle. they ve questioned two top aid
reporter: the federal reserve just made history announcing that they re raising interest rates by 3/4 of a percentage point for the second meeting in a row. we haven t seen anything like that in back to back meetings in modern fed history, but we re not in nor times. we re dealing with the worst inflation inflation prices in 40 years. inflation remains elevated due in part to russia s invasion of ukraine and very high food and energy prices. so the fed is stepping in and acting like the firefighter. they re trying to put this inflation fire out. the goal here is to raise borrowing costs and try to cool off red hot demand, and that should hopefully allow supply a chance to catch up. but you know, officials also signaled that they re not nearly done with rate hikes. they said it would, quote, will be appropriate to continue raising interest rates. and here s the problem. they re raising rates into an economy that is already showing cracks here. in the new statement today, the
or you re not sufficiently moderate enough or whatever, i never saw that on the republican side. never. we never talked about politics on the republican side. there was no need to research candidates. you simply showed up on election day, and ryou voted for all the r s. i think that what biden could do more than anything is use his bully pulpit and say this is insane what we re seeing from conservatism, and from republicans. this is outrageous. isn t he saying that? isn t he sounding the alarm? he isn t doing it forcefully enough! okay. so show of hands, how many of you wish that president biden would be angrier and just show more anger i wouldn t say angry. i was going to say, i don t know that anger, fire in the belly. joe biden needs to step up his game and be a little bit stronger and lead his party. the buck stops with him. fascinating. the point that no one thought