and houston rushes out. the country that put the first man in space is quitting the international space station. the impact on future missions just ahead. but first, your money and cnn business reporter matt egan is here with us. today s consumer confidence report was the first major data point in this critical week for the u.s. economy. what did it show? simply put americans are not happy with this economy. consumer confidence dropping for a third month in a row in july. to put this into context, the lowest level for consumer confidence since february of 2021. not only is confidence well below the peak of last year, it s not even close to the pre-covid levels, closer to the covid lows, which is pretty amazing. this is a telling stat despite the very strong jobs market, just 17% of consumers said business conditions were good. 24% say conditions are bad. now this is a big deal because consumer spending is the biggest driver of the economy. if people slow their spending, a
we ve been telling you, has been and remains predetermined. it s been that way since day one. instead of honest hearings on how to protect our institutions, our elected officials, to protect the people s house, the capital. instead of ever allowing riots that those that occurred in the summer of 2020 from ever, ever happening again, we see nothing but blind, never ending rage, what is seemingly an obsessive-compulsive cult like rage against donald trump. it never ends. clearly trump haters, for them, january 6 this just another excuse to smear donald trump, anyone who supports him. this is not about safety and security and securing the capital or get into the truth. this is never been about having a fair and serious hearing and proceeding so we can come up with solutions. today we heard more rumors, a ton of hearsay, and, wow, a lot of impeached testimony that we will get to in a second and this why hearsay is never admissible in a court of law, including this wild claim numb
they said they wanted to come home safely and share their military skills with other fighters. the news continues. let s go over to laura. thank you, anderson. i am laura coates and this is cnn tonight. it seems that everyone told trump that the emperor had no clothes on, even behind closed doors but the vice president counsel, the vice president, they all told him that the plan to have vice president mike pence not certify the election was an american. in the words of the prosecutor, illegal. even the top prosecutor, attorney general bill barr could not support the play to stay in office. tonight we have two former attorneys general here. both are going to give us their take on whether the emperors wardrobe might be treated for prison guard. it is being watched very closely and we are wondering what his predecessors think and what might they have done differently. day three has had quite a theme. it is called pressure. persistent, relentless, unyielding pressure. all targe
new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, june 13th. a man on the inside set to testify in this morning s second january 6th hearing in a surprise move by the committee. donald trump s 2020 campaign manager bill stepien will appear under subpoena to it s a question just how much of a cooperative witness he will be. what does stepien know and what is he willing to tell the committee and the country on live television? the focus today the committee s case that trump s lies about election fraud helped fuel the mob that attacked the capitol. the committee says that trump knew the allegations were bogus. joining me now ellie honing cnn senior legal analyst and a former federal and state prosecut prosecutor. when we saw this witness list come out one name jumped off, bill stepien trump s former campaign manager. what could he testify to? here is the thing, we don t know. this is going to be a surprise to s
kavanaugh. remember when ma shoe through mcconaughey you ran for office? oh, he didn t run for office. i have no doubt he was sincere. if you have seen top gun: maverick, you may wonder how they make those nieg scenes so real. spoiler alert, they are. remember the movie signs. the kid in the movie sees the signs. everybody thinks he s crazy. but they shouldn t have laughed. because in the movie he turned out to be right. people read signs in real life, too. one of the things that make these people great leaders is their ability to see around corners. to see signs other people miss and translate them into what will happen. it doesn t mean they can predict future. it just means they can predict the future better than the other guy. if he s elected the stock market will crash. this is the kind of transsphrition a historic economic recovery against steady, stable economic growth that works for working families. if biden got in you will be paying $7, $8, $9 and want to g