Yet been released. The question is when will they come home, and what are we giving iran in return. Joining me now, National Security counsel coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby. Admiral, thank you very much for being with us. I know that we believe, the United States believes those imprisonments and trials and charges were not true. And were happy to have these individuals back. When will they be on a plane back and out of iran . I dont really know right now. Were still working out the details and parameters here about eventually securing their freedom, and when that will be, what that will look like. But we dont really know right now. Were just really happy that theyre out of evan prison because the conditions there were just intolerable. Theyre in house arrest, but still in iran. Theyre not home yet, and we still have a lot of work to do to get them there. Have we been in touch with them directly . Do we know what condition theyre . We have been in touch with them t
Because we re no longer comparing it year over year to the worst part of inflation, that s perhaps one reason why the numbers ticked up, at least according to economists looking at the numbers. on a main street level, we have seen there are price increases for categories. food going up by .2% on a monthly basis. energy, gasoline prices have been going up in the last two months but shelter, this is the biggest component for most americans. rent and mortgage payments remaining high, up .4%, just between june and july. these are the threats we re going to have to watch in the inflation reports to come. what do we expect the fed to do with this? didn t i see the other day that the philly fed chair was saying that he didn t believe that any more rates were coming? the challenge is that there are fed officials who get to vote on whether or not they ultimately raise interest rates. the philly fed saying they re don t see the case for an interest rate hike. this overall figure, 3.2%, a lot