former president donald trump s name is taken off the ballot in a second state this. time in maine where the unprecedented decision is now threatening the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. hello, everyone, i m anita vogel in los angeles and bryan, as john roberts likes to say, happy friday to you. bryan: i m in new york, sandra and john are off today. 34-page ruling, maine s secretary of state says her unilateral decision to remove trump from the primary ballot is because he engaged in an insurrection. the trump campaign firing back with plans to appeal and calling it a hostile assault on american democracy. anita: the decision follows colorado s historic ruling last week and similar cases are playing out in more than a dozen states across the country. joe concha is standing by with reaction on this. bryan: lucas tomlinson is travelling with the president in st. croix. lucas, any reaction from the white house? bryan, no reaction from the whi
ukraine ukraine s door step. he said ukraine is unvowed one year after russian president vladimir putin sent tanks and troops rolling across the border in a war that is still raging. one year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i just came from a visit to kyiv, and i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important, it stands industry. two extraordinary scenes today of two very different leaders. president biden spoke just hours after his russian counterpart delivered his own address in moscow. during his peach, president putin blamed the u.s. for the war. he also announced he s suspended russia s participation in the new s.t.a.r.t. arms control treaty. cnn white house correspondent phil mattingly is in warsaw, poland. phil, president biden said the russian invasion was beyond ukraine. it tested freedoms and democracies everywhere. and says if there s one wore that stops these autocracies, that word is no. reporter:
we start with the latest fallout from what has been a recent wave of travel dirspution hitting the airline industry. the chief operating officer of easyjet has handed in his resignation after he oversaw a series of flight cancellations and disruption for travellers in recent weeks. this comes after thousands of easyjet flights have been cancelled some at short notice. so what are we talking about here? it s understood that roughly 10 thousand flights scheduled to run overjuly, august and september have been cancelled. thats s about 6% of easyjet s scheduled flights and the airline says the majority of its flights are unaffected with it continuing to operate up to 1,700 flights a day. but easyjet is far from the only business affected by widespread issues hitting aviation at the moment from staff shortages to industrial action. joining me now is travel expert paul charles chief executive of the pc agency. good morning to you, paul. specifically, easyjet, it was all a bit
Those rates. so, let me ask you about home depot, put together in the housing market and what we re seeing on wall street, home depot moving towards hourly workers, investing in those. what are they doing? good news for hourly workers, they saying it will be investing $1 billion not just with new, but those with the company. good news for workers, guys if you re a fed hearing this, yet another employer saying they have to hike wages, home depot is saying this is about retention, about keeping workers. it s a sign of the labor market. unemployment dipped to a 50-year low, 3.4%. that s what you re seeing. companies are trying to hold on to workers and incentivize workers with higher wages. and the issue is if home depot likes it that passes often to consumers in terms of inflation and it becomes a vicious cycle. it s just one of those periods good news is good news for some,