top of a brand-new hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota. the house committee investigating the january 6th attack is questioning donald trump s former cabinet members. sources tell cnn the committee has a particular interest in conversations that trump officials may have had about re removing him from office in the aftermath of the capitol siege. a source says the committee is speaking with former chief of staff nick mulvaney this afternoon. it s possible they could speak with mike pompeo as soon as next week. pompeo talked about his interaction with the committee this morning on fox. we ve had discussions with them about potentially appearing before them, trying to make sure we understand what it is they re asking for. as i always did when i was in service to america, i m happy to cooperate with things that are fair and transparent and deliver good outcomes for the american people. i ll always do that. today you re a no. you mean i m te
The libyan red crescent described the scene as like a bombardment and earthquake at the same time. When the dams collapsed a wall of water weighing 1. 5 Million Tonnes crashed down the wadi derna river gouging out huge parts of the city before reaching the sea. To give you a sense of the power of that tsunami 20 centimetres of fast moving water is enough to knock adults off theirfeet here there was three metres of water sweeping away everything in its path. The human cost is colossal this man hasjust found his son and begs Rescue Workers not to touch him. Desperate scenes repeated again and again some people have lost 30, 40 50 members of their extended family. Live now to tripoli. Ahmed abar is a libyan activist. Hes been helping the residents of derna. What are people in the city saying to you . What are people in the city saying to ou . ,. , ,. ,. , to you . Unfortunately the situation is very bad. To you . Unfortunately the situation is very bad. For to you . Unfortunately the sit
the economy is and what people feel about the economy, that seems to be catching up. there s a you know, this benchmark university of michigan study of consumer sentiment that they issue monthly. it came out last week. there was the biggest one-month jump since 2005 in consumer sentiment, up to 72.2% from 64-point something. that s a solid indicator and must have cheered the biden administration, that people are starting to feel that, hey, things are getting better. people always feel that things are okay for me, but the economy in general is bad. people are starting to translate that feeling of things are okay for me, to things are okay for the country. jen, you ve done this white house communication thing. mm-hmm. explain this to me.
communication thing. they want to see more passion. they want to see more fire in the belly. when you ask them about certain policies, they like what he s done, though they don t think sometimes it s gone far enough, but they just want the messaging to be different. so that s how they re feeling right now. we ll keep checking back with them. always valuable. i enjoy these. in california, thousands of firefighters are battling the oak fire. when we come back, how the state is impacted by the bigger, didd deadlier fires we ve s seen. d y, and millions of otherr talented pros, right now on upwork.com [whistling] with technology that can scale across allour clouds. it s easier to do more innovative things. [whistling] hmmm. -good morning jen. shall we see how you slept? all right, sleep tracker, let s see the damage.
kat: i know. still going strong. this guys going to be doing organizational development. what is that? i have no idea. i know of those two words mean. i get that it s a communication thing but she hired two communications people. what she should do is maybe hire people that are going to help her do a better job rather than focusing on hiring people who are maybe going to help convince people that she s doing a better job than she s doing. doing well for this country should mean more than how she looks at her image. greg: hiring crisis management because she s a crisis. tyrus, should she start wearing khakis? tyrus: yes. i am trying to think of a point in my life when someone came up to me and said i know someone who can help you to my brother-in-law. it ended up being a good thing. the article is like, jen psaki s