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lawmakers blocking efforts to fix flooding problems as the sea swallows parts of their districts. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper today. we start with our money lead and an economic record the united states did not want to hit. data out today shows a key measure of inflation climbed to a 39-year high last month. simply purt, americans are payig a lot more for everyday goods than they were at this time last year. gasoline prices up 58.1%. energy costs 33.3% higher. and groceries an increase of 6.4%. president biden this afternoon saying he thinks we re at the peak of the crisis right now and that lower prices are on the way. but as cnn s phil mattingly reports, this new date creates a major roadblock for the rest of the president s economic agenda. every other aspect of the economy is racing ahead. it s doing incredibly well. president biden trying to highlight the positive as a complicated picture of the economy emerges. but inflation ....
sean: and alec baldwin s gun just went off by itself. laura: anyway, i love your show tonight, hannity. sean: i like the new graphic grade i think it looks really good. laura: is very exciting after four and a half years. i was thrilled. look at it. sean: i ve been here 26 years. it s simple. take and i have avenue graphics package and you get one. laura: i kind of have is like an old tonight show kind of backdrop there. we need curtains to open and close. [laughter] all right, hannity. and the curtain is calling on you right now i have to get to this. i am laura ingraham and this is a the ingraham angle on a very busy wednesday. former white house chief of staff mark meadows he joins us tonight with all the breaking details, and there are many. plus nostalgic reboot. not just hot trend in entertainment. raymond arroyo explains how hillary is getting into the action as well. that is coming up in seen and unseen. but first, arsonists complain about fire ....
with the january 6th committee along with my colleagues ryan nobles and mike warren, we have learned that the committee subpoenaed short a few weeks ago. but that unlike some other trump officials, he s not fighting the subpoena. and, anderson, short s cooperation is a significant development because he is, as you say, a firsthand witness to so many critical events. he was with mike pence at the capitol on january 6th. he was also in the oval office on january 4th when former-president trump tried to convince pence not to certify the election results. so, um, all of these things our sources say add up to one thing. short s assistance signals a greater openness among pence s inner circle with one source telling me the committee is getting, quote, significant cooperation with team pence. just for context, short is considered one of pence s most loyal aides. it is hard to imagine that mark short would cooperate with the committee without pence s blessing. so, i mean, thi ....
with as many as 175,000 troops. ukraine s defense minister warning that would lead to a bloody massacre. it has been a crucial 24 hours as the president also infuriated china by announcing a diplomatic boycott of the beijing winter olympics. matthew chance live for us on the ground in ukraine with our top story. this is a hugely consequential day in u.s. foreign policy. matthew, can you hear us? all right. i think we re having, obviously, some technical difficulties. we re going to try to get matthew back up there from ukraine on what is a huge day for president biden. this phone call, this video con consequence call that he is going to be having with vladimir putin. january 6th was practice. donald trump s next coup has already begun. that is a warning in a terrifying report in the atlantic. quote, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. it will rely on subversion more than violence. if the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by ame ....
rules that are now taking effect? and an expansion of new york city s vaccine mandate. and the trump-fueled split in the republican party is worsening in georgia. an ousted u.s. senator and ally of the former president is now running against the top trump target. the state s gop governor. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s go straight to the white house and our chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny who is joining us right now. president biden is facing very significant new tests with both russia and china. and there are now new developments unfolding on both fronts. update our viewers. the white house is announcing a boycott of the 2022 winter olympic games in beijing. not for athletes but for u.s. diplomats. they are simply not sending a delegation to beijing next year, calling out human rights abuses. this is coming on the eve of a critical phone call bet ....