To brace for the trickle down effect of that. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Good morning again. Bill its been a week, huh . Dana or two in one. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. Americans are hurting. Overall inflation increased nearly 20 under bidenharris. Check this out. Food and housing and shelter, energy and electricity, Auto Insurance Way up. Feeding your Dog Or Cat or fish or whatever you have at 23 . There is no doubt it affects the economy. Markets recovering this morning after taking a bit of a Dip Yesterday and now we are down again about 200 points 30 minutes into the day. Dana and even harriss usual supporters say she has no way to defend the state of the current economy. Watch here. The first question she was asked, are the american people better off today than they were four years ago . She didnt definitively say yes. The reason is, its complicated. You just said it. Housing is still expensive, insurance, car insurance, insuring your home h
Hi there. Its 4 00 in new york. Buckle up. Witness number nine in the people of the state of new york versus donald trump was unlike any moment of this trial weve seen so far, unlike any witness in this trial weve seen. This is a trial thats seen twists and turns and drama. On the stand today, hope hicks, the Silent Trump Insider who was by Donald Trumps side for years from before he ascending down the Escalaors At Trump Tower and during the president s time in white house. A visibly and nervous hope hicks who began to cry as crossexamination began. Hope hicks described the Meltdown Inside Trump world over the release of the access Hollywood Tape. She was the first person in the campaign to know about it when she got an email from a reporter with the Washington Post. He was seeking comment from her. Hicks sent the email to other staffers including Kellyanne Conway and steve bannon. One, need to hear the tape to be sure. Two, deny, deny, deny. Hope hicks said there was consensus the tap
Was, i think, shortly after it was publishing a piece about ben carson. I overheard a Conversation Congratulating him on the great reporting. It was about medical malpractice. There is the direct link between what hope hicks heard, not what she thinks she heard, but what she heard and pecker and trump. Thank you so very much. That wraps up the hour for me. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york. The trump trial is underway. Right now, the former president s close aide, trusted advisor and former White House Communications director, hope hicks is on the stand. She no longer has an official role in trump world. Has testified to the january 6th house select committee. But hicks was by trumps side throughout his 2016 campaign and for a time when he was serving as president. She potentially has a firsthand account of the alleged crimes her former boss is now charged with. We begin with P
White House Press Secretary under president obama and msnbc political analyst. Adam pollock, and charles coleman, an msnbc legal analyst. Vaughn, i want to start with you. You have kind of lived all of this from the beginning to the end. As you watched what unfolded today, help us understand it, but also put all of that testimony by Hope Hicks Which was pretty dramatic in the context of what we knew at the time. Reporter exactly, its dramatic because hope hicks was somebody who testified today that she was intimately involved with donald trump in what was a very Small Campaign brass that included keith shiler and Corey Lewandowski and Michael Cohen, the outside personal lawyer voice who maintained a quasi role with the campaign, representing donald trump. In this, for hope hicks and for the jury here, is a key, crucial witness that knows donald trump so well, but also was a trusted adviser and aide, somebody whose words were never really highly scrutinized, somebody who donald trump ha
Well sort them out. Also, were tracking issues inside the Trump White House from the departure of key aides to the reports of friction within the family. The Justice Departments Second In Command Playing Defense for his boss after criticism from the president. Not much happening. Lets get to it. Trade wars are good. So says the republican president of the United States. First from the fox news deck this afternoon, President Trump says the United States will win big in a trade war. But his plan for new taxes on steel and aluminum imports had stocks taking a dive the second day. President trump tweeted when the u. S. A. Is losing billions on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good and easy to win. Example, when were down 100 billion with a certain country
the president s allies are castigating the idea of tariffs. Listen to what marcy captor said. We dont want to wait for the Steel Industry collapse as happened to the auto industry. We cant afford to