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max foster here in london. just ahead -- >> great likelihood is that we will have a recession. >> this 40 year high in inflation is having a real impact on the economy. >> consumers are shifting their spending to more essential categories like food and fuel. >> our investigation though it is not a criminal investigation certainly has brought some things to light that doj is watching. >> doj is now inside the white house for the first time. that is a big change. >> it is a hard grind, that is what ukrainian commanders are predicting to try to push the russian troops back. >> it is wednesday, july 27. 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the

coming hours, the u.s. federal reserve is expected to hike its benchmark interest rate in the latest attempt to cool the economy and tame inflation. the country's gdp will be released tomorrow with analysts waiting to see if the numbers show that the economy has slowed again. add in soaring prices, rising expenses and an ill performing stock market and it is creating the perfect recipe for recession fears. despite all this, the white house remains confident that the u.s. can steer clear of this one. >> growth is slowing globally and i'm not saying that we will definitely avoid a recession. >> i don't think that we'll see a recession. >> citigroup, little data that i see tells me that the u.s. is on the cusp of a recession. morgan stanley, with strong job growth and continued robust demandconsumption, this

economy doesn't look se recessionary. >> but a poll shows 65% of register voters already feel that they are in a recession and that sentiment is changing intending habits. despite small and frequent price increases, customers are still waiting to pay for the convenience of hurricane donald's. chipotle has the same practice. but higher income customers are increasing visits and lower income are not visiting as often. and consumer confidence slipped for the third month in a row. rahel solomon has more now from new york. >> the state of the economy with major corporate earnings and economic data. tuesday we learned consumer confidence fell for a third straight month with only 17% of people surveyed rating business conditions as good. almost a quarter describe business conditions as bad. consumer confidence gives us a look at several things,

including how the public feels about the economy and perhaps more key, how they plan to spend. plans to make major purchases also signaled a slowdown. investors feeling a slowdown as well after microsoft and alphabet both autho reported we than expected earning. walmart is seeing a slowdown in where people are spending. the retailer warning that investor profits are likely to fall 11% to 13% for the fiscal year. retailer says that while it is expecting to see more customers, inflation is forcing people to spend more on essentials like food and fuel and less on apparel. walmart makes larger profits on categories like apparel as opposed to food. wednesday meantime we hear from the u.s. federal reserve where it is largely expected that it will raise its benchmark interest rate by another three quarters of a percent. that then ripples through the economy and raises borrowing costs for everything from mortgages to car loans and

credit cards. the fed is hoping by raising borrowing costs we consumers spend less and bring a bit more balance in the supply of goods and the demand for those goods and services and this should lower inflation in the future. speaking of inflation, we get another key inflation report on friday. in this morning, rahel solomon, cnn. but it is not just the u.s. feeling the pain. the international monetary fund has downgraded its global growth forecast for the second time this year. the imf chief economist says the outlook is gloomy and more uncertain. and it now predicts the world economy will grow to reach just 3.2% by the end of 2022, that is nearly half of last year's outlook. the range of issues cited for the change include slowing trends in the world's top economies, high inflation, covid-19 lockdowns and the war in ukraine just some of the issues impacting the global economy. europe is also facing the prospect of a winter with much

less natural gas to heat homes and businesses. russian-owned gazprom is cutting supply to 20% of capacity. moscow says more repairs are needed on the turbines in the pipeline, but european leaders say it is retaliation for sanctions imposed after russia invaded ukraine. to deal with the problem the european union is rationing its gas. member countries have agreed to lower demand by 15% starting next week. but the cuts are voluntary and several eu members are exempt. let's see how european markets are reacting. you can see all are trending in the green there. and here is a quick look at the u.s. futures as well. similar picture as you can see the dow, nasdaq and the s&p 500 all in the green. twitter shareholders will be voting on whether to approve elon musk's proposed $44 billion merger agreement. the vote will take place during a virtual meeting scheduled for

september 13th in spite of the company's ongoing legal fight with musk. twitter's board has has's in an recommended that they vote in favored the deal and it could give leverage for its legal fight against musk. annual investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 u.s. presidential election is getting deeper into the trump white house and closer to the former president himself. the "washington post" reports the justice department is now looking directly at donald trump's actions as they continue to question his close allies. u.s. attorney general merrick garland suggests prosecuting trump is now a very real possibility. ryan nobles has the details. >> reporter: attorney general merrick garland making it clear that his office will not hesitate to prosecute the former president donald trump if it

finds evidence that trump criminally stood in the way of the certification of the 2020 election. garland in an interview with nbc said that there is no one who is above the law and that his office will pursue the matter without fear or favor. take a listen. >> we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone, who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6 for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another accountable. that is what we do. we don't pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. >> so if donald trump were to become a candidate for president again, that would not change your schedule or how you move forward or don't move forward? >> i'll say again that we will hold accountable anyone who was criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the

transfer, legitimate lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next. >> reporter: now, in the past garland has been very specific about making sure that the department of justice is focused on the actual rioters that breached the building on january 6. in fact that took up the lion's share of their investigation in its early stages. but just recently, they have been expanding beyond just the rioters themselves, looking into election interference, looking into things like fake electors and other things and of course just this week we learned that they have brought before the grand jury two key pence aides, marc short, his former chief of staff, and greg jacob his chief counsel. there is also reporting from the "washington post" and others that show that the investigation has expanded and has been directly asked about donald trump himself. so this is garland saying that they will go where the evidence takes them. the other question of course is whether or not the january 6 committee forces their hand by sending a criminal referral. members of the committee this week said that they are very

satisfied to see the department of justice moving forward, but the committee of course is not giving up. they still have hearings planned for september and a final report for later this year. ryan nobles, cnn, washington. meantime a former trump defense secretary told the house committee that trump never ordered him to have 10,000 troops ready to be deployed to the capitol onnen gentleman 6. trump had previously said that he requested national guard troops to be ready because he felt, quote, the crowd was going to be very large. here is more from chris miller's testimony. >> to be clear here, there was no direct order from president trump to put 10,000 troops on the ready for january 6, correct? >> no. yeah, that's correct, there was no direct -- there was no order from the president. >> as powerful as the january 6 hearings might be, a new cnn poll finds that they are not moving the needle very much in terms of how americans view the capitol riot. however, public consensus is

growing that donald trump acted illegally or at least unethically in trying to hold on to office after the 2020 election. with 79% of those surveyed saying that that was the case. while 61% of americans think that trump's statements leading up to the attack encouraged violence. ceos of at least two gun makers are due on capitol hill today to testify about the mass shootings in the u.s. the chair of the house oversight committee says it is long past time for the gun industry to be held accountable. she plans to show a video featuring survivors and victims' families from the recent mass shootings from uvalde, texas, highland park and buffalo, new york. in just over three hours from now, brittney griner will take to the stand for the first time in her criminal trial. she has been detained in russia since february on drug smuggling charges and already 34r5pleaded

guilty. her defense team is asking for leniency. clare sebastian is here with details. what do we expect to hear from griner today? >> yeah, really important day as you say, she is expected to testify in her own defense. i think the sense we're getting from the case given that she's pled guilty which was her decision alone, taking into account the fact that very tiny percentage of criminal cases in russia end in acquittal, she decided to plead guilty and potentially to try to mitigate her case to try to improve the sense that she deserves leniency. this is a charge don't forget bringing drugs across border into russia that carry as maximum ten year sentence. take a listen to what her lawyers had to say tuesday. >> we are still saying that she involuntarily brought them here because she was in a rush as she said packing and this medication she just forgot to take it out of her luggage.

>> we have a lot of mitigating factors, so we do hope that the court will take it under consideration. the court in russia in fact has broad discretion with regard to the sentence. so we'll see what will happen. >> so they are arguing that the cannabis oil that was in her luggage unintentionally, they are taking the intent out of the plea there, but they are saying that they brought experts to say that it was designed f eded forl purposes which is allowed in the u.s. and she didn't realize that she had packed it in her luggage and it wasn't allowed in russia. leniency is one thing, but her supporters want her out of russia. >> and reality is her fate is unclear really until there is a verdict. >> yes. i mean, i think the sense is certainly we've heard from the russian side and even from a u.s. official previously speaking to cnn that until she gets through this criminal trial and certainly admits

responsibility, that they can't move on to any discussions of what to do with her in terms of bringing her back to the u.s. there has been speculation about a potential prisoner swap as we saw happening with another american detainee, trevor reed, who was released in april. we know that potentially bill richardson might be heading to russia in the coming weeks. he was instrumental in trevor reed's case. >> and we'll watch closely to see what brittney griner has to say today. clare, thank you. quick victory russia expected in ukraine has turned in to a grinding war of attrition, one that requires reinforcements by russia appears to be deploying more troops. plus from deadly flooding to devastating wildfires, the vast impact of the growing climate crisis is hitting home for millions of people. catastrophic rain event the past 24 hours across missouri, rainfall amounts exceeding a foot in a few spots. additional heavy rainfall is in

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extreme made worse by the climate change continues to ravage parts of the u.s. in colorado, the pueblo fire department rescued two people trapped under a bridge by rushing water. and in st. louis, record-breaking rainfall has caused widespread flooding, hundreds of people were rescued after they were left stranded on rooftops or in their cars. at least person was found dead in a flooded vehicle. omar jimenez has more. >> reporter: roads turned into rivers. >> that is the only road out of this area. and it is impassable. >> interstate 70. >> reporter: and firefighters forced to make dozens of rescues. all as a record amount of rain fell in the st. louis area in just a matter of hours. >> we had approximately 8 1/2

foot of water that had developed in a low lying area. and we were told by a civilian that there was a possibility of somebody in a car as the water was receding. and we have pulled a civilian out of a vehicle that has passed. >> reporter: others went scrambling for shelter. >> heard some thunder, didn't think much of it, went back to sleep. a couple hours later, heard water coming into the apt and there was a couple feet in and just kept going up. >> reporter: from midnight to 7:00 a.m., st. louis got more than 8 inches of rain. previous record for one day was less than 7 which happened all the way back in 1915. the surrounding st. louis area saw anywhere from 6 to 10 inches overnight according to the national weather service. area officials urged everyone to avoid travel as they say they were getting 911 calls of multiple people stuck. >> you don't know how deep it is, it is simply not safe, it is not worth the risk.

>> reporter: torrential rain left parts of the area almost unrecognizable, trapping cars on streets, flooding train tracks and homes. climate scientists say such turbulent weather is becoming more familiar as rising temperatures mean the atmosphere can hold more moisture leading to more rain and more extreme conditions. from deadly heat to destructive fires, dangerous floods, it is a dynamic officials are increasingly trying to be prepared for across the country. whether it is the extreme heat affecting tens of millions of americans or the hurricanes or the drought, this is the new normal. this is a climate emergency. in st. louis, the floodwaters are receding, but scientists say the chances of this happening again are only going up. omar jimenez, cnn. in california crews are making progress as they battle a wildfire raging near yosemite

national park. the oak fire has burned through more than 18,000 acres around 7500 hectares. fire officials hope rising humidity and cooling temperatures will help they will the blaze under control. and in texas, at least nine homes were destroyed after a grass fire exploded into an inferno near dallas. another 17 homes were damaged. families are getting their first look at the destruction, and the sense of loss was palpable. >> i really do remember when we first came here, when we first took a look at the house, this was our house and like this is the only thing i've got now. and i just got to start all over. >> officials say the flames are now completely out, but north texas is still facing an elevated fire risk. pedram javaheri has those details plus the latest on the no whomissouri deadly flooding.

>> and you look at the rainfall amounts and it almost appears that it fell out of land falling hurricane, but this was not the case as over a foot of rainfall observed across missouri, even in st. louis. and anytime you look at areas with this much rainfall, we know it is a rare event. statistically it has a 500 year recurrence interval, which means that there is a 1 in 500 chance for this to happen any given year or less than 1% probability. so very rare setup that led to this flooding across this region and the rainfall amount pretty expansive here as the storm continued to soak this landscape for many hours in a row. the disturbance responsible is shifting a little farther toward the east. slight risk for severe weather east of this region as well, but the rainfall threat is rather high. it is east of st. louis, although there is a marginal risk for st. louis. but around charleston, louisville, charleston, west virginia into nashville, tennessee, all these areas from wednesday to thursday could see rounds of heavy rainfall in store for them. in the west, the story has been all about the heat.

parts of california, parts of washington state seeing record temperatures in the past 24 hours as excessive heat stays put here for the next couple of days. what we're watching here when it comes to heat of course really impacting the fire weather situation around the western united states as well and heat alerts will continue. some areas as warm as 109 degrees across oregon and washington with seattle really running away with the incredible amount of heat in store. should be around 79 this time of year and they will be well into the 90s the next several days around the northwest. now, west of yosemite national park, the oak fire, 18,000 acres consumed, about 26% containment, we could use some he rainfall. we have plenty of it in the southwest, but not quite to us here across portions of california. so that is what we're watching here arizona into new mexico, we'll get beneficial rainfall help with the drought situation there. looks like maybe a slight possibility we'll tap into some moisture into portions of california but not nearly enough to douse the fires across this region. in portland, we'll aim for 97,

st. louis 87, and in new york high temperatures should be in the middle 80s. in germany, hundreds of firefighters are struggling to contain a forest fire raging in the northeast. conditions are especially dry after the recent heatwave making it easier for the fire to spread. on top of that, officials say crews have to be extra cautious because ammo from an old military base is buried there. to the south firefighters are battling another powerful blaze near the german/czech border. too much rain is the problem in southern pakistan. several regions have been inundated during the monsoon season, at least 89 peel have been killed and july rainfall is nearly 50% above average.have been killed and july rainfall is nearly 50% above average. two bridges have been washed out and emergency response teams are providing basic food and medical care. now, russia appears to be ramping up its presence in

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stories. u.s. attorney general mire rick garland says prosecuting former president donald trump for his role in the january 6 attacks on the capitol is not out of the question. this as the "washington post" reports that the justice department is now looking directly at trump's actions to overturn the 2020 election. and in the coming hours the u.s. fref federal reserve is expected to hike interest rates once again in an effort to cool off high inflation fueling recession fears. that is after a key consumer spending report on tuesday showed confidence in the u.s. economy has dropped. can more and more americans unhappy with the state of the economy, president biden's approval ratings are plummeting and a new cnn poll finds three quarters of democratic and democratic leaning voters want the party to nominate somebody other than mr. biden in the next election, a sharp increase from earlier this year. and in the republican party a similar story is playing out, majority of republican and

republican leaning voters now say that they don't want donald trump to be their party's presidential nominee in 2024 with 55% saying that they want a different candidate. but the former president and his former v.p. are both eyeing the race. they were in washington tuesday giving speeches at separate events. jeff zeleny has the details. >> reporter: former president trump returned to washington for the first time since leaving office. and picked up right where he left off. >> i ran for president. i won. and then i won a second time, did much better than the second time. a lot better. >> reporter: what began as a policy speech about crime, immigration and the bore did he devolved this to a litany of familiar trump grievances as he inches ever closer to launching another bid for the white house. >> what a disgrace it was, but we may just have to do it again. we have to straighten out our country. have to straighten out our

country. >> reporter: the former president blasted the work of the congressional committee examining his role in the january 6 attack even amid new signs that the justice department is intensifying its own investigation. >> never forget everything this corrupt establishment is doing to me is all about preserving their power and control over the american people. they want to damage you in any form, but they really want to damage me, so i can no longer go back to work for you. and i don't think that is going to happen. >> reporter: while trump seized on the nation's rising crime rates and repeatedly praised the efforts of police, he made no mention of the brutality endured by scores of officers at the capitol as he sought to cling power after losing the election to joe biden. stark choices were laid bare as he shared the spotlight with former vice president mike pence who implored republicans in a speech only hours earlier to turn the page.

>> now, some people may choose to focus on the past. but elections are about the future. and i believe conservatives must focus on the future to win back america. >> reporter: they offered competing visions for the gop with pence suggesting it was time to look forward, not back. >> in order to win conservatives need do more than criticize and complain. we must unite our movement behind a bold optimistic agenda. >> reporter: while trump has appeared at countless rallies since leaving office, the speech served as a loud rebuttal to months of testimony from people who served in his own white house about what he did and didn't do on the january 6 attack. >> they are doing the exact same thing with january 6 as they did with all these previous assaults on our country. so where does it stop, where does it end? it probably doesn't stop because despite great outside, our

biggest threat is evil people from within. >> reporter: so even though the speech was designed to be a policy address as he inches closer to announcing whether he will run for president, it simply was effectively a rebuttal to the months of testimony and reporting from the january 6 committee. the former president has been very angry that his side in his words have not gotten out, so he came to washington again the first time since he left office to effectively rebut the entire process. he compared it to the russia investigation saying it is simply a hoax. the reality is though the investigation from the department of justice is deandea deepening into his involvement in the attack on the capitol. so simply a speech won't take that away. but one thing was clear, very different paths for the republican party that we heard from the former president and the former vice president. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. russia has launched a series

of new strikes against ukraine. the latest appear to be targeting the town in donetsk in the east. and two missiles hit an industrial district of kharkiv earlier this morning according to the city's mayor. he says rescuers are already on site sorting through the rubble. and ukraine says russia is sending additional troops to bolster its positions in the south of the country. videos posted online show heavy military equipment on the move. the kremlin denies deploying any extra forces. but to slow that likely advance, ukraine confirms that it is striking a major bridge used by russia to send reinforcements to occupied kherson oig, some of t territory ukraine is trying to regain. if they succeed it could change the course of the war. ivan watson has the details. >> reporter: scenes from ukraine's southern front during the first months of the war.

footage shared exclusively with cnn shows ukrainian senior lieutenant andre hiding in shell craters, flying a drone to call in artillery strikes on russian positions. they narrowly escape the long range fire from the russian military. months after filming these videos, he is still fighting on the southern front. were the russians in this village before? >> yeah. >> reporter: the ukrainian military is fighting to claw back territory seized by what this commander describes as well prepared russians. >> very slow the process to take back all our territories. but step by step and with the help of the west, artillery systems, we do that. >> reporter: this month my team and i traveled the length of the southern front from the critical port of odesa to the edge of the

donbas region. i spoke to people willing to risk their lives against the russian war machine. in this city, ukrainian forces storm a building. it is actually a training exercise to prepare these men for one of the most dangerous forms of modern warfare, urban combat. the commander here was gravely wounded, pushing russian-backed separatists out of cities in the eastern donbas region in 2014. we have a duty to liberate our territories, he says. this is our land and we will not give it to anyone. that confidence shared by a regiment of front line troops in eastern ukraine. they show off recently arrived british-made land rovers and this armored personnel carrier. >> i just noticed something. take a look over here at this tire.

made in russia. this was russian. >> it was russian, but our sold soldiers fight him. >> reporter: but the war is taking a dreadful toll here. day and night russian rockets, s-300 surface to air missiles repurposed to strike ground targets, pound the front line city of mykolaiv. and more appear to be on the way. ukrainian resistance groups shared this exclusive footage with cnn taken just days ago showing the arrival of a train full of missiles in the occupied southern kherson region. later confirmed by the satellite images provided to cnn by maxzar. but with the help of long range rockets known as himars, ukraine has been targeting russian am

pew naam new ammunition depots. >> and we have two or three weeks when they haven't enough ammunition to fight us. >> reporter: still he predicts that it will take a long time for ukraine to win the war in the south. >> i'm not some you are that we will win this year. it might be into next year. >> reporter: before i go, he shows me captured russian passports and drivers' licenses. when did you capture these? >> about some weeks ago. >> reporter: russian men ranging from 22 to 41 years old who he speculates are now dead. they look like you. >> yeah, they look like me. >> reporter: they have similar names. >> yeah. but they are our enemies because i'm standing in my territory and they came to me to capture our territory, to kill maybe my parents. >> reporter: this is what ukrainians are fighting for.

now, another development here on the southern front, both ukrainian and russian occupation officials are confirming ukrainian strikes on a strategic bridge which is essential for reinforcing and resupplying russian troops in that russian-occupied city of kherson in the south of this country. the strikes taking place overnight. it is not the first time that this bridge was hit by ukrainian long range rockets and in fact it is part of a broader strategy that the ukrainians have had to strike other bridges that are essential across the d&i pro river to slow supply potentially coming from russia to the russian occupied south. and when it comes to capturing territory, the moves that the ukrainians are making forward, we are hearing about a village where the ukrainians are advancing but it is not easy

work as one front line commander put it. even after a couple villages are captured, will can sthere can s be deadly ambushes carried out and losses as a result. so it is really a grind to try to push these well entrenched russian forces back by the ukrainian military. christina. >> yeah, ivan, thanks very much for that update and for that report. that is eivan watson there live. russia is planning to pull out of the international space station after 2024, a move that would end more than two decades of partnership with the u.s. and other countries. some believe it is just a threat while others say it shows the financial toll of western sanctions on moscow. nasa says it hasn't officially been notified by russia but it is already working on contingency plans. all right. just ahead, the pope again acknowledges the suffering of indigenous canadians at schools

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welcome back. pope francis is about to start the fourth day of his canadian trip. he will be traveling to quebec in a few hours where he will meet with prime minister yus conti justin trudeau and other officials. although the pope has publicly apologized several times for the suffering of the indigenous canadians, some indigenous leaders say the apologies don't go far enough. for more on this story, i'm joined by john allen in rome, he is editor of the catholic oriented news website crux. john, the pope's apology this week, or apologies, have been considered by many to be thorough and heartfelt, but did he fail to acknowledge the

church's full role in these residential schools? >> hi there christina. well, look, i'm not indigenous, and so i think that it is up to the indigenous to assess whether the pope went far enough. and it is worth noting there are more than 600 different indigenous groups in canada, 50 nations, 50 different languages. they don't all speak with one voice on it will take time to sort out how this has played. but if the issue is the apology by itself enough, i think that pope francis would be the first to say of course it isn't. i mean, this is catholic theology 101. to be forgiven, you don't have to just apologize, you have to change your behavior. and that i think is what most indigenous are looking for. as the church truly turned over a new leaf. the acid tests there would be is the church going to do everything it can to open up its archives to get to the truth of what happened to these indigenous children who were

ripped out of their families and placed in these residential schools. and are they going to make a real commitment to financial reparations trying to do justice to the survivors, theireheirs. if those things happen, high prediction is that most indigenous will look at that apology as heartfelt and historically significant. if those things don't happen, then they will be saying this was a hollow pr exercise and unfortunately whether that is going to happen is not a question that we can answer today. >> yeah, at the very least the pope has said that he will promise to fully investigate what happened. so we'll wait to see if anything comes from that. john allen live from rome, thanks very much. okay. still to come on "cnn newsroom," talk of a potential visit by u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan has china on edge. why it is causing such a controversy, next.

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tensions are running high between the u.s. and china amid talks of a visit by u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan. u.s. officials are working to

convince pelosi of the diplomatic risks of her potential trip. sources familiar with pelosi's plans say she's invited both democrats and republicans to accompany her. and now beijing is warning of serious consequences if the speaker goes ahead with the visit. selina wang has the details. >> reporter: beijing is furious over a potential trip by house speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan. beijing has said that it would take resolute and powerful measures if pelosi were to visit. and just yesterday china's defense department urged the u.s. to cancel pelosi's visit. saying if the u.s. insists on taking its own course, the chinese military will never sit idly by and it will definitely take strong actions to thwart any external force's interference and separatist schemes for taiwan interference and definitely defend national

sovereignty and territorial. china sees it as a breakaway province and beijing is against any loop that appears to acknowledge taiwan as an independent country or makes the u.s. relationship more formal. there have been recent u.s. congressional visits but if pelosi goes to taiwan, she'd be the highest official to go there since newt gingrich in 1997. and the timing comes at an extremely sensitive time. china's military is celebrating its founding anniversary and we're just months away from a key meeting when xi jinping is expected to seek a third term and some experts say it being ins the chances that china will overreact and take rash action to avoid looking weak. u.s. officials have told cnn that china could impose a no-fly zone around china, a prime voice says that beijing's reaction would involve a shocking military response. some experts say ais visit cou

further compromise taiwan security. and in taiwan, media coverage of the trip has been muted. in fact on tuesday, taiwan's foreign ministry reiterated that it has no information on the potential visit by house speaker nancy pelosi. on the other hand, important here is that the chinese government has not announced any details about how it could retaliate. other experts have told me that this is by design. the point is that the uncertainty will lead pelosi to back out, but that xi jinping does not actually want to and is not ready to risk a military conflict at a time when stability is so critical. selina wang, cnn, beijing. now to major league baseball and what is known as the subway series. the mets and yankees faced off at citifield. but despite this homer from aaron judge, the mets who lead the national league east got the win. final score 6-3.

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it is wednesday, july 27, 5:00 a.m. here in new york. thanks for getting an early start with us. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin this morning with the justice department's most aggressive public moves yet in its criminal investigation of january 6. the source close to the investigation tells cnn two aides to former vice presi