investigate vote fraud essentially, and so he was one of the persons who was at that what people call an unhinged meeting in december of 2020, and he is obviously s ly somebody ws sympathetic to this idea that the former president was not being served by his lawyers, by people inside the white house who were telling him this is not legal, this is not how you do things. finally, breaking a few minutes ago, business insider issued a freedom of information act request to the pentagon and found out that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was finding out about the attack on the capitol from tweets being sent by me and phil mattingly and manu raju, that that was how the chairman of the joint chiefs was finding out about the attack on the capitol. you tweet well, so that s good. but this is not how the joint chiefs of staff should be getting information, and it s clear from these records that were released to business insider that there s a lot of emails and messages that
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a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u.s. and all around the world. i m max foster. bianca is off dotoday. just ahead jim jordan knows he has his work cut out for him. he s been trying to win over the moderates and part of his pitch i m told is that he is in the best position to try to unite the conference. you never expect it out of a president. he is giving secrets to people and carrying secrets into his home. the biden administration announcing that it is waiving 26 federal laws in order to green light the construction of a border wall in south texas. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, october 6, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. washington, d.c. where the house speakership took a surprise turn in the past few hours with former president trump endorsing congressman jim jordan for the post. jordan and fellow republican steve scalise are the only two lawmakers who have said that they will seek the lea
that s the highest since the launch of the euro more than 20 years ago. and it s worth putting into context that as recently as last year, eurozone interest rates were negative. the reason is that inflation is proving harder than expected to control. for the 20 countries using the euro, inflation was 5.3% in august that s half the 10.6% that it was a year ago. but as the ecb says today, it is still expected to remain too high for too long. earlier we got the view from the economist katharine neiss, she explained the background to this latest move. the ecb told us today through their actions they are still concerned with inflation being too high. i think in particular they are concerned that underlying inflation could become embedded in the euro area economy, making it harder for policymakers to get inflation back to their 2% target. widely perceived this could be the lasting increase, we heard from the bank s president that there was, the decision was not unanimous, there w
and this just in, israel says it is trying to see whether there is a possibility to extend the truce with hamas beyond today. that is from senior israeli official to cnn. the word from the qatari foreign ministry which has helped broker these agreements, they are hopeful and they say they re optimistic, even that the truce can be extended. that s what all of the families are hoping for. yeah. that s right. here s what we know hangs in the balance of the talks right now. the fate of 161 hostages still being held in gaza. here s how the israeli government said that number breaks down. four of the hostages are children under the age of 18. another four hostages are 18 and 19 years old, ten others are 75 years old and older. while families wait for word on what tomorrow brings, other families are also waiting for what happens today, a sixth group of hostages are set to be freed and we re standing by for that. the white house saying it believes that nine of the hostage