we are following that news. plus, a first on cnn, we re learning new information about a potential january 6 committee witness who the panel says got a call from former president trump. details on what he or she may know that could be key going forward. and right now, president biden in jerusalem, day two of a critical trip to the middle east. at this hour, he meets with the israeli president isaac hertzog to expand security ties to counter iran s nuclear threat. we mean what we say. to have an opportunity to accept this agreement that s been laid down. if they don t, we made it absolutely clear, we will not let me say it again we will not allow iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. so, let s begin this our with our wolf blitzer and kaitlan collins joining us again from jerusalem. wolf, to you first. what stood out to you most in the comment, especially from the president there, on countering iran. i thought your interview with david sanger following the press confere
despite the biden administration really trying to do what they can on inflation, another key measure of inflation shows how high it is soaring. the producer price index which measures the prices paid to producers of goods and services jumped 11.3% year over year in june. this is all after what we pay for things, showed inflation at a 40-year high. the white house says congress has to pick up some of the slack. some of the most significant steps we can do right now are things he needs to partner with capitol hill on. there are steps congress could take to reduce some of the big tickets facing families and that legislation has been languishing over there. joining me now is the chief u.s. economist and managing director of fs investments. thanks for the time and good morning. good morning. so let s begin where the white house just left off there. they are saying there s more we can do. one thing is a gas tax holiday. there was a piece that highlighted carter administrati
double-layered button downed shirt aficionado, the leaked audio is just a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit and remember with me, a couple of months earlier, steve bannon had been arrested on charges that he had been bilking unsuspecting donors out of their money by telling them theirct donations were goi toward building a wall on the southern border when in fact, the money was going to steve bannon s pockets. bans was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut,ry belonging to an exiled chinese billionaire kind after patrongi of bannon. bannon out on bail is at a meeting with a bunch of the chinese billionaire friends, fine crew of folks who work on a sprawling online network peddling far right disinformation and an activist meeting a few days before the presidential election, bannon is filling themes in on how electi night is going to go down. what trump s gonna do is just declare victory, right? he s gonna declare victory.
when biden ran for office in 2020 he vowed specifically and some would say correctly that we make a pariah of the saudi crown prince for his murder in the vicious murder of the washington post writer khashoggi. and a report concluded that the crown prince himself personally approved khashoggi s murder. and before he makes it to saudi arabia, officials from the administration are depending off questions about whether the trip is really about getting hem from help from saudi arabia on oil prices, telling the new york times that quote while no explicit deal is expected to be announced on raising saudi oil production, out of concern it might be coming across as unseemly, a reward for the crown prince s return to the diplomatic fold, that may come in a month or two. as for iran, a large part for the reason biden is in jerusalem today is to try to get buy-in
nobody wants to let it go. it s clearly not ready for prime time. the israelis don t have the political power given the coalition constraints. the palestinian national movement is in extreme dysfunction. and the biden administration. the biden administration has other priorities, and they are not prepared and it s understandable to expend the kind of political currency when the gaps on the issues, jerusalem, are as wide as the grand canyon. and so on this one, biden will pretend to be interested and mahmoud abbas when they meet will pretend to listen politely. i don t see much, if anything, coming out of this on the israeli-palestinian issue. the gaps get wider. aaron david miller, good to have you on. take care. thanks so much. still ahead for us, live to