badly. the data however paints a different picture. the us economy grew 2% in the first three months of this year. that is almost double initial estimates. consumers spend more, exports held up and prospect for the second quarter also look better with the housing market focused on recovery and subsidies for semiconductor and electric car parts beginning to kick in. the challenge for america s central bank is to keep inflation trending down. data due out later this friday from the us commerce department is likely to confirm prices are cooling. but with inflation still stubbornly hire, policymakers here as in many other developed economies are not done raising interest rates. susannah streeter is senior investment analyst at hargreaves la nsdown. susannah, biden is obviously on a re election campaign. but if we look at his economic track record as president, how successful have his policies been? well, the problem that the us has faced, as have other economies around the world
hello, everyone. i m dana perino along with jesse watters and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and new hampshire. and this is the five. we ve got here in the g.o.p. primary went down to 2. we are one day away from the primary and new hampshire. all eyes on donald trump and nikki haley nikki haley. the last candidate standing after a massive shake up the race florida governor ron desantis dropping out and endorsing the former president. it s clear to me that a majority want to give donald trump another chance. he superior to the current incumbent, joe biden. that is clear. i signed a pledge to support the republican nominee. i will honor that pledge. who is going to come out on top tomorrow? the latest polls show trump is ahead by nearly 20 points. the former president getting 57% of the vote compared to 38% nikki haley gets. here is president trump sounding up on the race. what are you going to do with the name? name is officially retired as of this mome
again i m stephanie ruhle. alongside my partner ali velshi, covering our breaking coverage of this historic friday as the government has unsealed and estimating devastating 37 count and i meant against former president donald j trump. also the leading tender for the presidential nomination for the republicans. he s accused of mishandling documents and blocking efforts to get them back for mar-a-lago. the charges against him included violating the espionage act, improperly retaining national defense information. within the indictment, photos of what the government says are boxes containing classified material. onstage at mar-a-lago, in the ballroom, stacked to the ceiling in a bathroom. let s take a look at that. there s a toilet or. they re in a bathroom, classified government documents, piled up inside a storage room and spilling out across the floor in another room. today, for the very first time, we heard from the special counsel himself, who has spent some six months
billion. now the fate of his controversial program is in the hands of the supreme court and we could find out any moment how the court has ruled on this. we ll bring it to you as it happens. the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway van der sloot is on his way from peru to the u.s. facing federal charges he tried to extort holloway s mother on information where her daughter was buried. her body has never been found. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: good morning, i m bill hemmer. joran van der sloot is in u.s. custody on a jet filled with f.b.i. agents heading for birmingham, alabama where he will remain in federal custody for the duration of the criminal proceedings held there and then returned back to peru to serve the remainder of a 28-year sentence for the murder of a 21-year-old woman in lima. dana: we spoke to the federal prosecutor who filed the u.s. charges against van der sloot is 2010. i ha