prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
just into cnn, brand-new poll numbers that spell trouble for president biden s campaign in two key battleground states. plus, former president donald trump not testifying after all today in his civil fraud trial in new york. so what changed? and with time running out for aid to ukraine, a special guest will appear at the white house this week. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s monday, december 11th, 5:00 a.m. here in washington where we have new cnn poll numbers this morning in two critical battleground states. the news is not great for president biden and his campaign. the numbers show donald trump leading in both georgia and michigan. in georgia a state biden carried by a very narrow margin in 2020. registered voters say they prefer trump over biden by 5%. in michigan where biden carried in 2020, polls show trump ten points up, up 10% in each polled in each state say they wouldn t support et cetera candidate. t
outside the courthouse but, yesterday, the biden campaign held the surprise event there. i don t understand that. we will tell you who was there and dig into that campaign strategy. also ahead, the latest from gaza where israeli forces are moving into the city of rafah. it comes days after an israeli air strike ignited a deadly fire at a camp for displaced palestinians. let s dive in to our top story. after 21 days of heated testimony, the defense and the prosecution delivered closing arguments yesterday in donald trump s criminal hush money trial. nbc news laura jarrett has a recap. the first trial of an american president soon in the hands of seven men and five women. prosecutors closing their case arguing former president trump orchestrated a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election to pull the wool over voter s eyes, they say, by ordering the payoff of stormy daniels and covering it all up. they tried to establish a pattern of mr. trump damaging stories
see, and this is, again, ying and a yang of good news/bad news, you ve seen consumer spending moderate. the turquoise line at the top is actual dollars, but you really have to inflation adjust this to find out what consumers are really doing. as you can see in the red line i circled, the last month it did go down a little bit by 0.4%. first time since december that s happened. that is a sign that consumers are starting to pull back and are starting to spend less. again, a ying and a yang to this, we want consumers to spend money, have more times and enjoy their life, but we need there to be less spending to cool off this inflation. hopefully without tipping us into recession. so it is a number we watch closely. the interesting number, as you eluded to, to me, anyway, is on the right, which is the university of michigan consumer sentiment number. it s hit an all-time low. data collected since 1978. even in the depths of the
but we don t have a curriculum and teaching methods that unlock their brilliance and unlimited potential. the green new deal will do that. it would also rebuild the schools. it will also create rebuild the physical infrastructure and create grow your own job programs in the red line communities so that we can get teachers, guidance counselors from the communities that have the highest need and train them within our school system. more for title i schools and special needs students and creativity and innovation. you used to be a principal before you went to washington. thank you. joining me is former republican strategist and founder of relax strategies, rita shaw and podcast host danielle moody.