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hey yeah. as evan waits for his next day in court, his parents say they understand the conviction rate in russia as just about 100% so they don't have a lot of hope right now that he will be freed anytime soon, but they were given some relief when they got to physically see and speak with evan at his last pretrial detention hearing. it's even harder now to leave him there. then it was the first time trying not to think about anything. it's just very hard. that was part of a new interview evans family did with the wall street journal who employs evan, his parents say when they saw hi...

los angeles. we'll watch for it and cover it if it happens. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the inflation rate last month rose 8.6% from one year ago. the fastest pace since december 1981. that's up from 8.3% in april. it is hot. i told you, it's running hot. the energy sector hit hard. prices there for gas, heating, electricity have skyrocketed. prices of meat and eggs surging the double digits. the white house is ignoring the people it's supposed to serve and they know the power is in the hands of the voters. >> every item when i go food shopping is 20% mor...

The numbers are down. business equipment is falling. when you see the business side weaken, fall, and so forth. that's a leading indicator of recession. it is not the consumer side that leads when you have down turns, it's the business side. my point is these were very soft numbers and on the wage side if i can add to that, wages -- average weekly earnings up 3.7%, up 3.7% for the month of june, average weekly earnings. that is again below the inflation rate. the average hourly earnings 4.4% is even with the inflation rate. so real wages are still sloping down on a trend line. this is a very s...

To jobs that they prefer, better jobs, often with better pay. that's one of the reasons why you see some very nice pressure on the wage side. you talked about a 5.7% increase. that's the fastest wage gains thus far over the pandemic. if you look at middle and lower wage workers you get closer to 7%, 6.9% year over year for wage gains. that's a sign of upward mobility, where rates enable people to take better jobs. another consequence, by the way, of one of the tightest job markets i have seen in my long career, as you see with this gray hair, tracking our labor markets. one of the things you g...

But this trade war, i think it is going to hurt a lot more people than it is going to help. i'm nervous about its impact, even in the medium terms. >> let me zero in on that. we have a strong economy. the question becomes, was a protractor trade war impact the fundamentals of our strong economy? you're concerned president trump may do something about that. let me read this to you. we got a better than expected jobs roreport for june. 213,000 jobs. unemployment slightly rose from 37 3.8% to 4%. are the fundamentals strong enough to withstand this trade war? if so, how long? >> i fear that some ...