This hour with Pocket Book politics. The economy is the top issue on most voters minds. And the Trump And Harris campaigns are both going on offense. And just about an hour from now, former President Donald Trump is expected to talk about the economy at an event in North Carolina. Meantime, the Harris Campaign is touting a new report that shows inflation on everyday items that shoppers buy is significantly cooling down its lowest level in three years, Vice President harris is also expected to roll out her economic plan in North Carolina. But on friday, lets take you now live to asheville, north North Carolina with cnns Kristen Holmes. Kristen, what can we expect from these remarks from former President Trump boris, this is part of a larger effort from the campaign to keep Donald Trump on one of the things that the campaign believes is that fundamentally at the end of the day, they can use same Talking Points they used against president Joe Biden when theyre running against Vice Preside
People now have a fuller picture. And it confirms what i said last week, which is that this is a situation that escalated very quickly. Its a very violent situation, issues on both sides. The key now is that we allow the two investigations, the two parallel investigations to complete their work. So there is one investigation ongoing into a number of assaults. And that is a Police Investigation for people who are on police bail. And there is a second investigation into police conduct. So its really important now, you know, lots of people have had their say on this very complicated situation in recent days. We understand that. But its now important that we we go forward from here with those two investigations. So all of the right actions can be taken as a result. Its an absolutely fair point to allow the investigation to run its course. But people want answers. There are tensions as a result of this. When will we know . When will the investigation give us answers as to what happened . So
the numbers getting worse, a public safety issue and political one. plus another decision day from the supreme court. 12 cases left, gang, including several on voting rights and freedom of speech, as always, we have our team ready to go for any breaking developments as we get them sometime in the next couple of minutes here. good morning. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill and kel i-o donnell at the white house. this is a new day in d.c., right? the path forward on voting rights seems very difficult. it seems like there might be some movement on infrastructure although even that is facing some hurdles. and the biden agenda, the democratic agenda really on the line. that s absolutely right, hallie. it will be very difficult for democrats to clear the issues they re trying to get through congress and the congress of course is the road block. the voting rights vote failed last night. democrats are continuing to say
and slowly coming back. much-needed aid trickling into tonga a week after that volcanic eruption and tsunami. big challenges lie ahead for the pacific island nation. and dangerous conditions. a plane skids off a runway as an arctic blast brings snow and ice to tends of millions of americans. what s next as the huge storm moves up the eastern seaboard. the u.s. and russia have agreed to keep talking for now amid growing fears moscow might be preparing to invade ukraine. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met for 90 minutes in geneva on friday to discuss the crisis. they left open the possibility of president biden and putin speaking again about the situation, but nothing definitive. meanwhile, the u.s. embassy in kiev says 200,000 pounds, that s 100 tons of, quote, lethal aid, has arrived in the country including ammunition for ukraine s frontline defenders. we have more on friday s high-stakes meeting in geneva. reporter: w
to answer questions about a missing tennis champion who is accused of communist party leader of sexual assault. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. hello, everyone. it is friday, november 19th. and we begin with u.s. president joe biden s sweeping plan to fight climate change and expand the social safety net for americans. the u.s. house of representatives were supposed to vote on it last night. but a marathon speech from republican leader kevin mccarthy went well into the early morning hours. in fact, it s still ongoing. democrats say they didn t want to vote on the bill in the dead of night, so they ll do it this morning. but mccarthy just kept talking. take a listen. you know, when i look at this bill, it angers me. we are so better than this. you are spending so much money. never before. we spent less, defeating hitler, mussolini and japan than you re spending tonight. we spent less! but it cost us lives. and you re celebrating it.