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speech when it happens. and andrzej duda bringing the president to the capital amid the ongoing war next to his country. >> and as i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, ki proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. >> this is hours after vladimir putin delivered his own state of the union, state of the nation speech trying to blame the u.s. somehow for the war in ukraine and you remember of course, it is russia who invaded country a year ago to...

christina coleman has more on what we are finding out the day after. christina. >> hi, neil. yeah, paul pelosi suffered a skull fracture and serious injuries to his arms and hands, but fortunately is expected to make a full recovery and underwent successful surgery yesterday to repair the skull fracture. house speaker nancy pelosi arrived at san francisco general hospital to be with her husband last night. and she flew in from washington d.c. after the attack. the suspect 42-year-old d...

make clear what laws the fbi thinks he may have violated and he could produce that receipt for what they took from his home. so why hasnt he? that remains a major question. and in the meantime, inside the justice department, there is some frustration that so far the department said nothing about the search, while trump and his allies portrayed it as a siege, even suggesting without any proof that fbi agents may have planted evidence. joining us now is former trump white house acting ch...

speech is the reason she lost. >> two years ago, i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trumps lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that in-abl enable his efforts to unravel our system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. >> so cheney will be out of office come january. until then, she continues at...

Determination of the fed hikes? >> they look at thousands of things, and right now, they are looking at the job market which is very, very strong, and the consumer numbers are peaked, but they are holding up there given how much the fed has been raising the interest rates, and those are the two areas that the fed is looking at, but the housing market is the two places in the economy without any doubt, you are seeing the high mortgage rates affecting the housing market, but the rest of the econom...

To your points of october and typically a rocky month to use your words, this october looks pretty smooth and i think its because of the fact that the market has gotten ahead of itself when it comes tt negativity in the economy. so one of the things out there, too, neil when it comes to consumer numbers and susan lee talked about it in the package there, some of the big tech spenders and advertising dollars that are flying up. the economy has 99 problems and i think the consumer is definitely on...

Have to be closer to 4%, 4.5% i think in terms of interest rates for quite a while to achieve that goal. >> and the fed is fighting inflation and we were watching these consumer numbers, retail earnings trying to see what is happening to the consumer. the consumer still pretty resilient here. changing what they buy. for example walmart saying that people were switching from deli meat and beef to hot dogs and canned tuna and stuff like that, cheaper items like that, they are changing what they ar...

Making -- making goods. we also have jobless claims that came out just for a quick real feel indicator of layoffs in the american job market right now. 262,000, last week revised down. these are still historically low numbers, but they have been ticking up a little bit. we have been watching that closely to see any sign of strains of what has been a very good overall labor market. the inflation story again, a reprieve for factory owners and factory producers, just like yesterday we saw the consu...

Are benefiting from deregulation and decreased taxation thats been part of this administration. i think we will continue to see this happening to 2020 and companies trickle down those profits to consumers, which is why we have some of the strongest consumer numbers in the past 15 years that we are seeing. >> is cody is speaking we are running some of these full screens. we just had retailers trend of the consumer but we also have chip names up there. we have moved to the heights phase of technol...

Just a piece of what weve been seeing, which is that the consumer is really driving things forward. it seems like everyday households feel very comfortable opening their wallets and going out and buying restaurants and services and all sorts of things. >> 76% of americans saying they feel the economy is strong. thats a huge number. this is the best weve seen in 20 years and its really a sign that if they see the economy as strong, theyre feeling it, right, on this very personal level. what do yo...