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u.s. and china deteriorated to their lowest point in decades. real tension, particularly over taiwan. secretary of state antony blinken speaking today with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov. as cnn learned exclusively of plans under way for a prisoner swap, trading convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout for detained wnba star brittney griner and marine veteran paul whelan. we re watching that closely. let s begin with the new gdp numbers, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is here with more. christine, break down, a lot of numbers not just you but economists follow, this headline number is not good. this is gdp gross domestic product. it is the largest gauge of the size of the economy and it this rank 0.9% in the second quarter. this is a rear view mirror looking picture, and that s after the economy this rank 1.6% in the first quarter, that first quarter was blamed on the omicron variant and how much was going through the economy with supply cha ....
President s also going to talk about some of the progress that s been made. 185,000 veterans have already applied for new benefits under this law. 730,000 veterans have received these new mandatory toxic exposure screenings that the v.a. must give to all of these veterans who received v.a. care and so the president is going to talk about that progress but, again, all comes back to the personal significance of this. so we ve heard the president talk about the obligation this country has to its veterans, today, of course, that personal significance as he does deliver these remarks holds a town hall at this national guard headquarters here in delaware renamed in 2016 after his late son, john. jeremy, live for us in delaware, appreciate you kicking us off. with me to share the reporting, cnn s manu raju, zolan cano young and sabrina rodriguez of the washington post. i want to talk about where we are, end of the year victory ....
But released a statement saying there are other times she supported it. joining us, correspondent for the new york times and cnn political analyst zolan cano young. good to have you on. my first question is how did this deal come together because i don t know anybody in d.c. who thought this thing had a breath of life in it and you get the surprise announcement yesterday? it was a couple of weeks ago, a short time ago, that senator manchin seemed to pull out of these negotiations, just before president biden was going to massachusetts to talk about ambitious climate proposals and the dire state right now of a warming planet. most in this city who have been tracking this legislation and these negotiations, which have been going on for now a year, we are at a year to the day yesterday when this news came out that senator manchin went to senator schumer and gave this red line on what he would want in a reconciliation bill. this is really caught everyone off guard. we do know, my colle ....
it works in past years at times but unsuccessfully. this caught a lot of people by surprise last night. zolan, thank you so much. and still ahead, lawmakers investigating the insurrection prepare to sit down with another trump cabinet official. what they could learn from former sent of state mike pompeo. that s up next. cnt of state mik pompeo. that s up p next. ynt of state m pompeo. ththat s up next. nt of state mi pompeo. that s up next. nt of state mike pompeo. that s up next. with best western rewards you get rewarded when you stay on the road and on the go. find your rewards so you can connect, disconnect, hold on tight and let go! stay two nights and get a fr night. book now at bestwestern.com. ....