today, we re back to reality. and this is continuing a trend that the market has been experiencing for weeks, salami slicing away and what we re seeing today is wiping out yesterday s gains and getting back to where the market really is, and what we re seeing is exactly what policymakers intended. this was the goal. well, not in a in a brutal sense, yes. they need to bring down the economy to slow it down. that means asset prices, house prices, inflation, it means stock prices, that will probably has to come down and ultimately unemployment will eventually start to rise. on the question that s how it works. okay. on the question of a recession, because that s what a lot of people are concerned about, has the u.s. moved from possible to probable? according to the fed, no. they still believe they can do a soft landing. according to many private economists, absolutely. look, you can t have these this sort of dislocation, this sort of disruption. people seeing
an abortion a range of other decisions how you raise your child. the vice president of the united states camkamala harris a fiery speech blasting weaponizing the law against women. those republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women, will we say how dare they? how dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body? got a lot ahead on every aspect of this very huge story and we ve got more on the very latest results in some high p profile primaries that may tell us a lot about the former president s hold on his party. and as vladimir putin s war ranges on, a drone hit two military positions on russian occupied snake island where ukrainian troops famously cursed out russian invaders. one russian soldier saying to a russian warship go f yourself. this is the breaking story now. we re covering two stories tonight, the seismic change in the country, potentially coming from the supreme court but first, the news from john
absolutely got to thank the 45th president of the united states donald j. trump. ladies and gentlemen, they wanted to write a story that this campaign would be the death of donald trump s america first agenda. ladies and gentlemen, it ain t the death of the america first agenda. a source says the former president called vance to congratulate him, he was said to be relieved by vance s come from behind victory. trump won ohio in 2020 by 8 points. on the democratic side ten-term ohio congressman tim ryan easily won his senate primary and now will face vance in november. we will talk with tim ryan ahead. and the race for governor in ohio, mike dewine secured the nomination in his bid for a second term defeating four challengers, this was seen as something of a test or referendum on dewine s handling of covid. he is face off in november s general election with nan whaley, she beat former cincinnati mayor john cranley to win the democratic nomination. we have cnn s kristen
of the fact that americans are looking for action be it on the economy or inflation, and that is why you see the president holding events like this one today where he is touting some of the progress the administration has made as the treasury department is estimating the federal deficit will fall by $1.5 trillion. now, the president is also making a play for senator joe manchin with all this talk about deficit reduction as joe manchin has repeatedly said that any economic agenda that passes through congress must reduce the deficit. take a listen to how president biden describes some of the progress that s been made and how he believes his economic agenda will ease some of those economic pressures. the bottom line is the deficit went up every year under my predecessor before the pandemic and during the pandemic, and it s gone down both years since i ve been here, period. they re the facts and why is it important? because bringing down the deficit is one way to ease inflation
it s overturning of unkongs constitutional rights since the early 70s. huge story. no doubt you ll be covering for the next two hours. see you tomorrow. appreciate it. this is don lemon tonight. poli, i poltico obtained a draft wrote by samuel alito. it s an unheard of breach. we re covering all angles of this huge story tonight. we ll go straight to joan and jeffrey toobin and laura coats and pete. i want to begin with joan. good evening to you. this is only a draft opinion that we re looking at now. it is not a final unpublished a final published, i should say. if this does hold, it would be a seismic shift for this country. what more are we learning? absolutely, don. first of all, cnn has not i independently obtained a copy of this opinion or verified it but our own reporting is consistent with the fact that the five most conservative members of this court were ready to take roe down completely and chief justice john roberts was willing to say that the mississipp