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Today for the slowly cooling american economy. monthly inflation was down in december, down for the first time in three years. consumer prices continued to decline. the president this morning saying the united states continues to head in the right direction. >> when i came to office almost two years ago, the economy was flat on its back. two years in, it's clear, clearer than ever, that my economic plan is actually working, and we still have more work to do, though. but we're clearly moving in the right direction. >> cnn's matt egan joins us live. walk through these new inflation numbers. is i...

On something he knew was a scam, don't you feel duped at this point? you either went to prison or gave up a bunch of your money for a lie. >> the problem is, to feel duped, you have to have some self-blame, that you were stupid enough to go along with this nut. i don't think that that kind of reflection comes easily for folks. you know, it is fascinating to me, there's a couple things about that that really struck me. the first is, can you imagine how different history would have been, how lives would have been saved, how we wouldn't have this really inflection point in our democracy, if all o...

The arguments for it. i don't like the suggestion that we need to tax businesses harder to help support poor and, you know, to help support poverty in the country. that's a governmentjob. so we should tax individuals more so that there can be more cash hand—outs for the vulnerable to help them with their bills, but we shouldn't tax businesses more to do the same thing? i don't think we should all of a sudden turn round and say to a commodity company, "oh god, you've had a good month. "oh, let's take a little." but you can turn round to me and say you can pay more tax, the less well off. but ...

To a commodity company, "oh god, you've had a good month. "oh, let's take a little." but you can turn round to me and say you can pay more tax, the less well off. help the less well off. but i don't think we can turn around to you all of a sudden and say, "adam, you've got a bonus from the bbc in december..." if only! probably a bad analogy. chris, you got a bonus from... ooh, right. i didn't know that. god, that's pretty amazing. do you mind if i take that back? no, i'm just saying. but you know the point i'm making. and that's that these things have to be funded out of general taxation. whic...

In December, there was much debate on whether Spider-Man: No Way Home would be granted a then-coveted China release, which didn't happen and we now have details on what transpired between Sony and China.