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good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world it is tuesday, july 26th. i'm brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. we're beginning this hour with new cnn reporting that takes us behind the scenes revealing just how close the supreme court came to saving roe v. wade. according to multiple sources chief justice john roberts fought to the bitter end trying to convince his former conservative justices to preserve the constitutional right to abortion. but it was the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing roe that may have have doomed roberts' efforts. ...

plus, more evidence of an economic funk. a new data point shows american consumers are getting even more pessimistic, and it's because of inflation. and a split screen day for republicans. trump in washington. so is pence. competing speeches put their rift in the wrestling match for control of the republican party front and center. up first for us, though, a federal grand jury, its highest profile witness, and what it might mean for donald trump and those who helped him try to steal the 2020 election. a former mike pence cheech of staff, marc short, confirm last night here on cnn, th...

and houston rushes out. the country that put the first man in space is quitting the international space station. the impact on future missions just ahead. but first, your money and cnn business reporter matt egan is here with us. today's consumer confidence report was the first major data point in this critical week for the u.s. economy. what did it show? >> simply put americans are not happy with this economy. consumer confidence dropping for a third month in a row in july. to put this into context, the lowest level for consumer confidence since february of 2021. not only is confi...

president mike pence has confirmed he testified before a grand jury investigating the attack on the capitol, a potentially major development. >> i can confirm that i did receive a subpoena for the federal grand jury, and i complied with that subpoena. but under advice of counsel, i can't say much more than that. that was my only appearance before the grand jury. i'm not going to comment on what others had to testify or not and what they testified to. >> he's the highest profile witness known to have testified and signals prosecutors are moving beyond the rioters into looking into the...

he left town in disgrace following the capitol riot and his election loss. he will be speaking to a group of conservatives and we're told that he plans to focus his speech on law and order. >> trump returns to washington amid a widening probe by the justice department into the capitol insurrection that now includes testimony from high ranking officials in his administration. mark short, the former chief of staff to vice president mike pence says that he testified under subpoena before a grand jury a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. short's former boss also in d.c. t...