the stage. today he will be in atlanta. he s at a dinner tonight. mr. biden sharpening the message. he warns what republicans will do if they control congress, including cuts to social security and refusing to lift the debt ceiling. they re determined to cut social security and medicare and they re willing to take down the economy over it. there is nothing, nothing that will create more chaos. cnn s jasmine wright is live in washington. good friday morning, jasmine.
entirety of his administration. president biden seizing on the latest numbers showing the u.s. economy growing after two quarters of decline and delivering a warning about putting republicans in charge. janet yellen says the news is good but we re still not out of the woods. reporter: as democrats scrambled to coalesce around an economic message to hang onto the majorities. i don t see a recession at this point. reporter: treasury secretary janet yellen sitting down with cnn to deliver her own. you have unemployment at a 50-year low. there are two job vacancies for every american who s looking for work. you have solid household finances, business finances and banks that are well capitalized and you ve been creating average 300,000 jobs a month. it s an economic scorecard
so the new york times reporting this morning that former fbi director james comey and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe are facing rare intensive irs audits, both men famously at odds with former president trump to say the least. and in a new statement to cnn, the agency says, quote, it is ludicrous and untrue to suggest that senior irs officials somehow targeted specific individuals for national research program audits. we spoke with andrew mccabe in the last hour. and here s how he responded. it is clearly not ludicrous. we re talking about a coincidence that really is almost impossible, statistically. i think it raises some very interesting questions about the irs, and about how they re administering this program. the americans need to be able to have trust and faith that the institutions they rely on are conducting their business in a fair and impartial manner. and there is an indication here that might not be happening.
pete muntean at reagan national airport. thank you so much. right now wnba star brittney griner is back in a russian courtroom for another hearing. she has been detained in a moscow jail since february after being accused of drug smuggling. yesterday cnn learned president biden and vice president harris spoke to griner s wife by phone. but other relatives of detained americans like my next guest are expressing frustration that the president s personal attention isn t consistent as they see it. joining us now is david whelan, his brother paul has been detained in russia since 2018. he was sentenced to 16 years in prison in a trial that u.s. officials denounced as unfair. thank you so-so much for being h us. can you tell us how your brother is doing? the sanctions have now caused the textiles and buttons and things they send to the labor camp to slow down. so there is not very much work. it is a pretty awful existence. what is your worry right now
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