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our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world, i m bianca. and i m max foster. just ahead on cnn newsroom. regardless of party, to meet this moment of national a real vulnerability, in the window of when the last vote is cast and the last vote is counted. kim jong-un feels completely liberated to fire unabated. we do believe that north korea is covertly supplying russia with a significant number of artillery shells. my colleagues and i are strongly committed to bringing inflation back down to our 2% goal. your credit cards are going to cost more. that auto lone is going to cost more. that mortgage is going to cost more. announcer: live from london, this is cnn news with max foster and bianca nobilo. we re now in the home stretch of the election. perhaps now more than ever after the fed hiked interest rates up once again, deepening fears of recession and sending mortgage rates to a 20-year high. when it comes to fixing the eco ....
immigrants are hoodwinked, promised shelter and jobs, only to end up at martha s vineyard because of a republican governor s immigration protest stunt. how volunteers have come to the migrant s rescue. and the ceo of fedex delivering a dire warning about the economy with his company on the front line of the supply chain crisis. welcome to the lead. we ll start with that ceo s gut punch. the head of fedex warning that not only does he think that the united states is headed for a recession, but business is starting to slow around the world. that message created a lot of anxiety on wall street today. fedex stock tumbled, the dow is closing this hour after spending a day in the red. let s bring in cnn s alison kosik. we often come to you at the top of the show when the markets are either substantially up or massively down, but this time, it s this comment from fedex that is getting the world s attention. and fedex s ceo was pretty direct about where he thinks the ec ....
condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon s criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee s subpoena. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the latest. reporter: well, wolf, steve bannon was convicted today, even though he had vowed this was going to be the misdemeanor from hell for the select committee. it was not that. by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a m ....
in the capitol and being targeted by the mob. during all those hours refusing to call the pentagon or any law enforcement for reinforcements. in fact according to aides even refusing to take a call from pentagon officials offering their help. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of defense that day? not that i m aware of, no. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the attorney general of the united states that day? no. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of homeland security that day? i m not aware of that, no. did you hear the president ask for law enforcement response? no. as the men and women in charge of protecting vice president mike pence became more and more desperate about their ability to get him to safety or even save their own lives. and we ll replay in that context an insight to every key moment from last ....
they ve uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations. i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan law school, donelle works as a senior policy researcher at the rand corporation, katie benner is the justice department reporter for the new york times. donel, you ve been watching this unfold. could simple incompetence explain what happened here. at worst it s a conspiracy, at best incompetence. this is unconscionable to find that some of the evidence of a crime, and this wasn t a small crime, a large crime that happened at the capitol. any evidence should have been secured. the secret ....