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and i've agreed with brady, the chairman of our back bench mps, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now. and the timetable will be announced next week. and i have today appointed a cabinet to serve as i will until a new leader is in place. i've tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to deliver when we're only a handful of points behind the polls even in midterm after quite a few months of relentless sledging and when the economics scene is so difficult domestically and internationally. and i regret not to have been successful in those argumen...

schumer. cnn will bring you the president's remarks when they begin. let's start with the new gdp report. with me is matt egan. walk us through the report, the numbers, what you see. >> so broadly consumers were still spending. it is a slowdown for sure but overall that was a positive contributor to gdp. on the other hand, government spending slowed down. when we look at where consumers are spending, it's an acceleration of what we've seen. we spent less on physical items. services, however, think airfare, which is why airports are so busy these days, hotels and restaurants, that rea...

Exclusively reported details on yesterday. the u.s. is offering to release a russian arms dealer imprisoned in the u.s. named vickor boot in exchange for brittney griner and former marine paul whalen. natasha, what are you hearing now? >> reporter: we are learning that the biden administration is deeply frustrated that russia has not responded in a substantive way to this offer that administration officials believed they would jump at of course because victor boot, an international arms smuggler is someone russia has wanted back on russian territory back since before he was even convicted here...

The russians have made it critical clear what they want. they want a trade. they want a guy, his name is victor boot. even when i was ambassador almost a decade ago by now, we were already in discussions about a trade for him. they just recently did a trade, remember, to get trevor reid out of jail and now the russians want to repeat that. so i think that is going to be the deal at hand and it will be a tough call for the biden administration to try to do that or not. >> so, ambassador, vickor boot also know as the merchant of death for his widespread international crimes drawing an equivalent...