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The firing o james comey. Also more unflattering stories out today in the New York Times and Washington Post. They detail trumps tense relationship with the former fbi director, with tales of unpleasant hugs. Lets start with Peter Alexander at the white house. What is the white house hoping to get out of this first stop to saudi arabia . They cast this as a historic opportunity as this official described it to me. Its an opportunity, this trip is, with stops at the vatican, israel, and saudi arabia to try to unify the worlds major religions as they describe behind a common objective, saying it...

Crystal ball to tell us the answers. >> i wish. >> right? always good to have you put it in perspective for us, catherine. >> thank you. just ahead, explosions rocked jerusalem. a teenager is dead. we'll take you live to israel on this developing story, next. in fact, subaru is t the largest corporate donor to the aspca... ...and the national park foundation. and the largest t automotive dor to meals on wheels... ...and make-a-wish. get a new subaru during the share the love event and subaru and our retailers will donate three hundred dollars to charity. 'twas a wintry day, and at ihop quite...

>> i don't cut back at christmas. >> reporter: how many more stores? >> maybe five more. >> reporter: five more? shoppers are certainly looking for a holiday deals. they will find big savings this year. sales will run a lot longer. that's because retailers are trying to off-load excess inventory. if you remember last year, retailers had a hard time getting nevin tower behave supply chains. one major change coming to retailers this year, is they're doing away with free return shipping. that is because, along with consumers, retailers are also being affected. they're trying to save a bit with th...

Federal reserve just raised interest rates for the first time since 2018. the quarter of a percent increase increase marks the end of the fed's near zero rates seen during the height of the pandemic. >> let's join matt eagen and catherine pell. >> we know inflation is on fire and the good news is as of 2:00 p.m. today, the firefighters has arrived on the scene to try to put this blaze out. the bad news though is that it feels like they're pretty late. inflation has been really hot for a while now and it's going in the wrong direction and the further that inflation gets away from healthy levels...

Seen oil prices go up, sorry, come down by more than 20%, yet gasoline prices have actually gone up a little bit. now energy experts i've talked to say that's going to change. we should see the national average come down 20, 25 cents a gallon, but it's going to take some time. i think the fact that the president is tweeting about sort of the intricacies of how energy markets work really says a lot about how closely they are following gas prices. how much frustration they have with this energy issue and also how important this is to inflation because the longer that gas prices stay high, the wo...