zelenskyy s mission, impossible. ukraine s president visiting the capital to make a last-ditch effort to win military aid for his war against russia. but republican lawmakers appear to be willing to say no deal and leave for the holidays without passing a significant aide package. this as we are learning startling new details about russia s losses in ukraine. plus, strong words from president biden and an ally. biden says that israel is losing support in that it s offensive in gaza, and the prime minister netanyahu has no choice but to change his government. and exclusive cnn reporting. former president trump made to a former mar-a-lago employee. that employees know eyewitness amenities trials. those calls were apparently made for charges before the case was filed. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming up right here to cnn new central. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon, i m boris sánchez alongside rahel solo
put this in context, we expect them to raise rates even with reports like this. the reason why is because remember their inflation target is 2%. even with 3% on the headline basis, 4.8% on the core basis we are still far from their target. this other story, bank of america forced to pay 200 million in fines over accusations they double dipped fees with credit card awards and opened accounts without consent. this is the nation s second largest bank. federal regulators say that this took place over several years, affected hundreds of thousands of consumers, hurt the credit scores of some people. the consumer financial protection bureau says if you feel like bank of america owes you, they should be reaching out to you. the agency said they are going to put on the website later this month a bank of america point person so you can reach out if you have questions or if you want to proactively find out. i should say that bank of
political and on the legal front. and what happens on the headline basis, as you know at cnn as opposed to the way in which history and historians think about events afterwards are two very often very different things. explain. we weighed in on mccarthy. where we weigh in with robert mueller is still to be seen. what i would say, and i understand, i think, where trump s tweet was coming from is the question of what kinds of investigation joe mccarthy preside over versus the type of investigation that robert mueller is. i think we have to be careful here on another historical point to separate out joe mccarthy from mccarthyism. the term has come to refer to as you were saying, to make a wild accusation without evidence. that is a very different thing from what joe mccarthy did in his role as chairman of the permanent subcommittee on