welcome to our viewers this thursday morning. i m christine romans. donald trump giving us a review of what his 2024 campaign will look like and sound like. the 45th president and republican frontrunner for the white house taking questions last night from gop primary voters at a town hall. trump wasted little time in airing his same old grieveness as. he repeated a core lie to kaitlan collins that he won the 2020 election. polls show that you were dominating the republican race but also under active federal investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. your first term ended with a deadly riot at the capitol and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. why should americans put you back in the white house? because we did fantastically. we got 12 million more votes than we had as you know in 2016. i actually say that we did far better in that election. got the most that anybody has ever gotten as a sitting president of the united
pace since june. and that could have major economic and political fallout. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with more on this. lucas. reporter: jon, jp mayor began ceo jamie dimon thinks the fed has lost some control over inflation. a chemming contact congressman representing joe biden s home hometown in scranton responded earlier on fox. i wouldn t go that far, but what i will say is i think they got a late start. i think they should have started ticking interest rates up a little bit much earlier, maybe six months earlier than they did. reporter: new economic data shows inflation is getting worse. the personal if consumption execs pendtures price index, the fed s preferred gauge for inflation, rose .6% in january. the annual inflation rate also rose to 5.4%, the first increase since it peaked in june making some wonder if the fed is behind on inflation. president biden reacting to the economic news in a statement which read in part: annual inflation in janua
the damage of documents recovered from former president trump the property, sharing new details what its filter teams found in the materials. begin this hour with a major new development in russia s war on ukraine. senior u.s. officials tell cnn that ukrainian forces are now launching a significant counteroffensive. go right to cnn jim sciutto who broke the story. what s the latest from the plan from ukraine and how do we expect it to play out? reporter: the latest, the much anticipated counteroffensive, ukrainian officials hinted at some time. saying they have confidence they can carry it out, has now begun. u.s. officials began to see signs of shaping, as you mentioned, shaping means basically preparing the battlefield for a wider offensive. in this case, it means artillery, rocket, air strikes on things like weapons depots, air defense systems, ammunition dumps, et cetera. to then allow a combination of ground and air forces to move in and attempt, at least, to regain
how the culture wars are driving teachers out of the classroom good evening we may be closer tonight to getting a peek inside the government s rationale for its search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. a florida judge suggesting some of the information can be publicly released and giving government lawyers a week deadline to figure out what they believe must be redacted. it s an apparent setback to prosecutors who want the affidavit and what it might say about their suspicions of the ex-president to be kept under seal at the center of the case, highly classified documents investigators seized from the trump property it was a big day on the legal front for mr. trump as a long and loyal associate of his pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges and will be heading to a new york jail. the one-time cfo of the trump organization taking a deal from prosecutors that does not require him to provide information on the former president kristen welker now with late details. reporter: t
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 19th. friday, folks. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the federal judge deciding whether to unseal the affidavit in the unprecedented search of mar-a-lago appeared to stake out the middle ground yesterday. saying he is inclined to unseal it, the magistrate judge gave the justice department until next thursday to submit redactions. in a written ruling, the judge stated, the government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. the judge said he would review the proposed reactions and then, redactions and decide if he agrees. he could not give a time line beyond next thursday saying quote this is going to be a considered careful process. the the government had argued against unsailing the affidavit laming it would jeopardize its investigation, and because it contains quote substantial grand jury information with national security over