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li on the difference in 24 hours. susan? >> a new reality that inflation is higher and may stay elevated for some time. todays wholesale prices are the inflation that producers pay still much higher than a year ago. sure, coming down from the previous month. couple that with yesterdays consumer price jump and were close to the 40-year highs and thats more than four times the way the federal reserves thinks is healthy for the economy. close to a third predicting a full 1 percentage poin...

were already looking at this material, and we have got a process in place to protect it. >> reporter: in a new court filing, doj says it has identified a limit set of materials that could contain attorney/client privilege information. the progress report coming after former president donald trumps team asked a judge for a special master, to oversee the evidence uncovered in the search. >> we have a lot of problems accepting everything in face value thats coming out of doj these days. i...

we have a lot for you this hour, and were following several major stories. >> president biden is about to sign a pact act, a major piece of legislation aim at expanding resources and benefits for millions of benefits exposed to those burn pits and other toxic substances. well take you live to the white house in just a moment for the signing. >> and it is just an extraordinary legal week for former president donald trump as he faces several major investigations. right now former preside...

to the governments case as well as reveal the identity and compromise the safety of some witnesses. lets go to mark meredith. hes outside the courthouse in west palm beach. hi, mark. >> good afternoon. quite an afternoon here as you mentioned. we just got done with this hearing in which the judge said that he would possibly leave some portions of this affidavit redacted. however, hes going to give the gift a week here to figure out what needs to remain private and what could be allowed...

be a number more than 2,500 is putting a strain on the department, and thats not counting people who committed crimes outside or people involved in the fake elector scheme or people who were and former president trump. and the pace of information is not slowing down. its growing. last night a spokesman for the 1/6 committee said they decided to begin sharing transcript interviews with the justice department. 20 at first but there may be more to come. thats because were seeing more memb...

cooperate. >> weve had discussions with him about potentially appearing before them, trying to make sure we understand what it is theyre asking for. as i always did when i was in service to america, im happy to cooperate with things that are fair and transparent and deliver good outcomes to the american people. >> weve learned the committee has already spoken to treasury secretary steve mnuchin. both pompeo and mnuchin discussed using the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. and...

many are still missing good morning, welcome to "way too early," speculation is swirling after the abrupt announcement from the january 6th committee that it plans to hold its sixth public hearing today. the only thing the committee has revealed is the hearing will quote present senior committee staff have been kept out of the loop. three people tell the post that the secrecy is due in part to a credible threat against the witness. the committee announced last week that it was taking...

>> john: begin "america reports" with form president trump under investigation by the justice department as the agency appears slow to act on the current presidents son, with one republican senator now alleging a cover-up. john roberts in washington. good to be with you again. >> sandra: we made it to wednesday. im sandra smith in new york. "washington post" reporting the justice department is looking into the former president as part of a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020...

incredibly important for policymakers and for washington. look, weve got consumer confidence numbers tomorrow, i mean, they could be really rotten. we know that people feel terrible about where the economy is going, a lot of people feel like they are already in a recession already. terrible consumer confidence. we will get those numbers. on wednesday we have a federal reserve interest rate hike expected, we are expecting another 75 basis points. thats big. we saw that in june, 75 basis...

and stolen. that view was wrong then and it is wrong today. that comes as the justice department is ramping up its criminal investigation into the fake electors scheme that was concocted by trump and his allies with federal agents delivering grand jury subpoenas to at least four people yesterday. >> this is at a scale that we had not seen before from doj. it raises questions about how deep they are in to the fake elector scheme with their investigations. we will have much more on that ...