angeles. and new day continues and new day continues right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the worldment of it s friday, july 15th and i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. the secret service denies doing anything malicious after a government watchdog report claimed the agency erased text messages from january 5th and january 6th and that it did so after oversight investigators had requested them. the secret service claims any lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not among those that disappeared. it s the latest example, though, of the agency assigned to protect the president coming under scrutiny for its actions on january 6th. joining me now is donald trump s former acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. he later served as special envoy to northern ireland but resigned from the post following the capitol attack. thank you so
The annual trucking celebration at the World's Largest Truck Stop is underwritten by fears and concerns surrounding the field of trucking and high gas prices.
this period of increasing rate hikes. the question is, how much longer can the consumer weather these rate hikes? we see it in bank notes quite a bit. the consumer is still sitting on quite a bit of cash, coming out of the pandemic, but with inflation being 9.1%, the question is, for how long? sort of a fingers crossed report out this morning, retail sales better than expected. rahel solomon, thank you very much for that. under way right now, a gathering of the americans who deliver the goods every day. we re talking about the trucker jamboree at the nation s largest truck stop in iowa. more than 40,000 truckers attended last year. cnn s ryan young is at the jamboree, and he s with us now. ryan? reporter: yeah, brianna, you know, you talk about all the numbers we just talked abwhen it comes to inflation, but the truck drivers, a lot of times, are considered almost like the weathermen for the economy, and a lot of them said during covid, they saw a boom, but when we talked to driv