good monday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just moments ago, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy arrived in the united kingdom. he s meeting with prime minister risch she sunak who plans to announce hundreds of air missiles for ukraine as it prepares a corner offensive against russia. cnn s clare sebastian joins me from london. clare, zelenskyy on the german leg of that tour, he said he vowed to reclaim all of his country from the russians. what more are we learning about the support he s getting? yeah, christine, it s been a productive weekend for ukraine. he got the biggest ever pledge to date in his war to germany, $3 billion, and included another 30 leopard 2 tanks crucial for ukraine. france also pledging tens of armored vehicles as we hear the meeting gets under way at chequers outside of london. and the ukraine will be pledging more missiles attack drones with a range of 200 kilometers. this is som
andy scholes, thank you very much. new day continues right now. good morning, everyone. to our viewers in the united states and around the world it is wednesday july 27th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. this morning a criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection is moving closer to former president donald trump. cnn reports key witnesses subpoenaed by the justice department in recent days include two top aides of former vice president mike pence who were asked specifically about the fake electors scheme and the role of trump s lawyers. in addition the new york times and the washington post report that federal investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration including chief of staff mark meadows. attorney general merrick garland called the doj s january 6th investigation the most wide ranging in its history. he says they will go where the evidence takes them. criminally charging a former presiden
unprecedented step possibly, at least leaving the door open prosecuting trump saying no one is above the law. the federal reserve is meeting today. experts predict it could raise make its second significant rate hike in just six weeks. first, let s get more on the reports that the doj is asking questions about trump s actions around the january 6th insurrection. what more are we learning? reporter: good morning. what we re learning is from the washington post reporting that they ve asked a number of questions about trump s role. the department of justice and witnesses of trump s meetings, his pressure campaign on mike pence, as well as his role and knowledge of the fake elector scheme. this comes as doj has already interviewed key people in pence s orbit, two of his aides, mark short and greg jacob. those interviews before the grand jury occurred last week, a couple of weeks back for jacob. that s a significant step. it comes as garland, the attorney general merri
more on all of that later this hour. but first the critical decision set to drop soon from the federal reserve. and cnn business correspondent rahel solomon is here with us. walk us through what is to come in the next hour or so and why it really matters. so the expectation is that chairman powell will raise rates about three quurs of a percent. that is not one to one in terms of borrowing costs. we won t see borrowing costs raise 75 basis points. but it does influence all of the categories. so costs will continue to go up. and i want our viewers to enter understand what this really means for them, for their wallets. and i know you ve pulled a few examples. yeah, i ve been working the phones. let s start with credit cards. we ve already seen credit card rates accelerate quite rapidly this year. and right now the average rate is about 17.5%. according to bank rate, if you are holding a $5,000 balance which is the national average, you have a current ampt pr of 17.25%, if
Away from the embassy, to the centre south of tel aviv. To the centre, south of tel aviv. And earlier in the week, as you were saying, there are activists within the Eritrean Community they mostly reside in the south of tel aviv who had warned against hosting this. They say that the authorities didnt heed their warnings. Certainly, the israeli authorities the police, the hospitals as well seem to have been really caught by surprise with what happened here. There were attempts to break through police barricades. The Israeli Police then ended up using all of these different riot control methods, as they describe them, to try to push people back but you could see as well from some of the videos that have been shared on social media that there were actually also street fights going on and notjust with the police, but also involving Asylum Seekers who are against the eritrean regime and those who are in favour of it, and that has been something that weve seen in the past not on this scale i