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hi, everyone. i'm jessica dean in washington, d.c. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> great to be with you, jessica. i'm boris sanchez. we're thrilled that you're sharing an afternoon with us. there is plenty going on especially internationally. the eyes of the world on the kremlin for day two of a high-stakes summit in moscow
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that has just wrapped up with russian president vladimir putin calling his meeting with chinese president xi jingping successful. today, the two leaders signing a joint declaration deepening their partnership. and the summit obviously comes at a critical time for the war in ukraine. there are strong indications now that russia and china are moving closer both economically and militarily. >> xi is framing himself as a possible peace broker and they say it could be the basis for ending the war. but the u.s. and western allies remain deeply sceptical. there are signs that russia has requested lethal aid from china but added they don't see evidence that weapons are being delivered. we have team coverage on this. ivan watson is in ukraine. but let's begin with will ripley in taiwan. what more do we know about the talks in moscow today? >> well, you know, there was a
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line from vladimir putin as they were signing these documents deepening their partnership that really summed up the reason why these two are getting together, why xi jingping picked a guy that is, you know, potentially facing war crimes trial at some point down the road. he's a global pariah, heavily sanctioned by the west and xi jingping is taking a lot of heat from the west for his support which was announced even before the war began and is now strengthening through the war. i mean, china has been, you know, bolstering russia's economy, predicting them in many ways from the impact of sanctions by buying russian oil, selling them things that are sanctioned by the west, including high-tech microchipping. they've been selling parts that can be used for military purposes. whether they're going to take that to the next level and give them ammunition or military equipment has yet to be seen. and there wouldn't be a big announcement about that. the reason that xi is favoring
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putin is that because these guy haves the same ideology. they believe that the u.s. world order that has been in place more than 70 years should be disrupted. they think that their system is superior. that they are what the world needs moving forward in the future and so they're banding together, china making russia more stable and counting on russia's support if china decides to make similar moves down the road, for example, here in this self-rule democracy of taiwan. listen to vladimir putin specifically talking about this talking about his opposition with countries that interfere with what his country wants. >> russia is china's views are very close. china and russia are against any states and blocks violating the interest of other countries for the sake of military, political or economic benefit. we believe that many of the points on the peace plan put forward by china are consistent
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with the russian approaches and can be taken as the basis of a peaceful settlement when the west and kyiv are ready for it. >> clearly that doesn't sound like a neutral party, even though china's claiming that they're there, you know, to talk about peace. they presented this 12-point peace plan which would include, by the way, an end to western sanctions. it would force ukraine to give up the territory that russia stole and a nato pullback from the eastern borders. these are nonstarters. china and russia know it. if china were to give russia weapons to help them on the battlefield, the goal could be to give russia better negotiations, to put them in a better position. >> there are multiple references to territorial integrity in that peace plan, something that is a foreshadowing for taiwan. thank you so much. let's move to ivan watson now. he's live for us in ukraine.
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an ukrainian official is telling cnn that discussions is now under way for chinese president xi to hold a call with president zelenskyy to talk about the peace plan. bring us up to speed on that. >> reporter: right. china's definition of neutrally when it comes to the war, its definition of knneutrality does not include discussions between the chinese leader and the ukrainian president. they have not spoken since russia invaded here a year and a half ago -- sorry, 13 months ago. vladimir putin and xi jingping have been speaking almost every month or so. so the ukrainians, though, they cannot afford to reject china's call for a peace plan out of hand. they are keeping the door open. the ukrainians are saying they're up for a conversation between ukrainian president zelenskyy and the chinese leader, but that hasn't come to
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fruition yet. they're waiting for that to kind of come together somehow. ukrainian officials have also said, if you want a peace plan, here's your starting point. withdraw russian troops from territory that they invaded, largely destroyed and occupied since february of last year. then we can talk about peace. and that hasn't really been formally stated at any time by china which also has never said, yes, russia started this role. instead china's position has been to argue that nato and the u.s. somehow provoked this russian invasion in the first place. in the meantime, ukrainian officials are saying, they're looking closely at weapons, the ammunition that the russians are using on the battlefield and so far, they have not seen any signs that china is actively arming the russians. in the meantime, boris and jessica, you have this amazing split screen. there's a surprise visit to the
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ukra ukrainian capital today. the prime minister of japan showed up unexpectedly. didn't make it public for security reasons. he's meeting with the ukrainian president today. the leader of the third largest economy in the world. another major power in asia here while xi jingping is meeting with the russian president showing his support for ukraine, even as europe has pledged another 1.5 billion euros to support ukraine in its fight against its much larger enemy. >> a major moment there, no doubt. we should point out that xi has met with vladimir putin some 40 times. he's not yet directly had a conversation with vladimir putin to this point. ivan, thank you so much. we're following new developments on a plan to speed up the shipments of u.s. weapons to ukraine. let's take you to fort sill, oklahoma, now. we're there and we have new reporting on this plan to get tanks and patriot missile systems to ukraine faster than
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originally planned. >> reporter: yeah, boris. a lot of developments here today. we're actually at fort sill where we just saw ukrainian soldiers training on the patriot air defense system and we learned that in addition to the fact that the pentagon is likely to announce today that they're going to speed up that delivery of abrams tanks to ukraine, we're learning that the patriot training, you can see a decommissioned one, that is also going to be sped up because the ukrainians were just so proficient, according to the u.s. defense officials that we spoke to here, at learning this system, they were able to train them in a much shorter period than they had anticipated. a lot has really gone into the last ten weeks of training here of roughly 65 ukrainian soldiers that came from ukraine to this base here in oklahoma to train. and the ages we should note of these soldiers that have been training here, they range in age from 19 to 67.
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so a really wide range here. but the bottom line is that the u.s. now is going to be sending these patriots in the next few weeks into ukraine just after these ukrainian soldiers who have been here go to europe to wrap up their training. they're going to be sent back into ukraine with two patriot systems. one of those will be u.s.-provided and one of them will be provided jointly by germany and the netherlands. the u.s. clearly trying to get the ukrainians in a good position to launch that anticipated spring counteroffensive with these heavy western weapons that they have promised to the ukrainians, that the ukrainians were fearful that they would not get in time to launch that counteroffensive and eject the russians from their territory. now it seems the u.s. is really making a concerted effort to send not only the abrams tanks but also the patriots which are also very complicated, typically takes several months to learn on. they believe that the ukrainians have proven so proficient that
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they can send them a lot sooner, boris. >> natasha bertran for us in oklahoma. going to make a difference for ukraine. with us now to discuss this is a cnn contributor and our former moscow bureau chief. also with us, cnn military analyst cedric layton. good afternoon to both of you. jill, i want to start with you. we know that the secretary of state, tony blinken said that xi is providing diplomatic cover for putin. we know that xi wants to be viewed as this peacemaker around the world, they both want to disrupt the current world order. with that as the backdrop, what do you make of today's developments and this new declaration of furthering this partnership together. >> i would have to say, to me, the theme is, read the fine print. there are a lot of words that were said today, very broad statements. for example, this is, you
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know -- we know that it's a no limits partnership and today they said it is the highest level of that. there's a lot of hyperbole. if you look at what's happening, xi comes to moscow for a number of different reasons. primarily economic. china needs oil, needs gas, and in a sense, you could say has -- it's a terrible pun, but they have putin over a barrel because putin needs to sell that oil and gas as the markets in europe are drying up. so russia has been selling that crucial -- those crucial commodities, but at a discount. so i think china comes, presents the peace plan, xi, as you said, does want to look like the peacekeeper. in fairness they brokered an agreement between saudi arabia and iran. so there are a lot of moving parts internationally. that's why i think this visit by
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the japanese prime minister is very, very interesting. but i do think in the end pretty much the meeting is about economics and words but not very specific words about ukraine and any possible settlement. >> colonel jill brings up an interesting point about how much this meeting has to deal with energy. and that played a big role in last week's securing of this deal between saudi arabia and iran by china. how much of this is about china having access, as vladimir putin put it, to uninterrupted oil supplies as it continues to rise in the world? >> boris, i think it has everything to do with that. china is very much dependent on external sources of energy and nothing better than to secure your supplies in three different areas, iran, saudi arabia, and russia. so the chinese are very much
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looking at the russians as a major source of a not only energy but also other natural resources. and with that, you know, you've got the possibility of china being able to -- if it needs to, at some point, isolate itself from the rest of the world, even though their trade volume with the united states for example is higher than it is with russia currently. it still becomes very important for the chinese to have that safety valve should they try to do something with taiwan and should they further support the russians in the combat in ukraine. >> colonel, if we could stay with you for a second. i'm curious what your take is on this information that we're getting from the nato general who says there are signs that russia has requested lethal aid from china but so far they don't see any evidence of weapons being delivered. how serious do you think this is? is this different than what we perhaps already kind of thought might be going on behind the scenes? or do you think this is new?
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>> jessica, i think that it's pretty clear that the chinese want to provide some kind of aid to the russians. the military that they would provide, you know, the difference between lethal and nonlethal is semantic at this point, but the basic idea is that the chinese want to keep the russians involved in ukraine. it gives them a way to put the russians in a certain area. it also makes the russians a bit of a junior partner. what we've seen is the weakness of the russian military and it also frees the chinese to potentially do things in taiwan. that becomes their major goal in this area. >> and, jill, i'm fascinated by the language here, coming from xi jingping. he recently talked about china's problems being caused by the u.s. strategy of containment, that's cold war language, and today, he said that china stands
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ready to guard the world order. are we in a new cold war? >> well, i don't think with china we necessarily are. i mean, it's a different type of competition/conflict. especially with russia. conflict in that sense in ukraine. but i think what he's getting at and what putin is getting at and very directly is that they feel that the world order that was created after world war ii dominated by the united states is not fair. that the united states tells the rest of the world what to do and that that time is over and there's a new era. in fact, they've been talking about this new era in which it will -- there's so many words, by the way, that are remember over the years that the russians have used, multipolar world. this was by the americans.
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so what they want is essentially no one to tell them what to do. they can do what they want domestically and, you know, what that means in both countries, and they can do pretty much what they want internationally. so they agree on that and they do not want the united states setting any rules or controlling anything. >> and that has to be a huge concern, if you're a big fan of democracy. thank you both. as the new york grand jury weighs whether to indict donald trump in a hush money scheme involving stormy daniels, law enforcement from new york to washington are on alerts for possible protests. disturbing new surveillance video and 911 calls that are shedding light on that deadly encounter between this virginia man and multiple officers. we're going to bring you that just moments area. at tempur-pedic, we're dedicated to helping you sleep like that. with breakthrough solutions that help relieve pressurere,
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before next week. as the nation waits to see if history is made and an american president is, in fact, indicted, authorities in new york and washington are preparing. >> you can see these new barricades being put up around the new york courthouse and the u.s. capitol preparing for possible protests. the manhattan da is looking into trump's alleged role in that hush money scheme during his 2016 campaign to pay off a porn star. paula reid joins us live from new york. yesterday the grand jury heard from bob costello and his testimony was supposed to contradict a single figure in the case, michael cohen, and costello told the grand jury that the da has cherry-picked documents? >> following his testimony, costello gave a press availability and answered questions before reporters. but he appeared at the request of trump attorneys and they're
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ready to make this request when someone is to be indicted. he was before the grand jury yesterday where his role was to discuss michael cohen's credibility. cohen is the witness at the center of all of this. costello previously was a legal adviser to cohen. so he went before the grand jury and said that during his conversation with cohen, back in 2018, when federal investigators were looking into this hush money scheme, cohen told him, he says, that the hush money was his idea. and, of course, that contradicts statements that cohen has made about this probe. as i said, after his testimony costello answered questions from reporters and you see the contrast between how he portrays things and how his former client says things happened. let's take a listen. >> the only thing i'm doing is trying to tell the truth to the grand jurors. if they want to go after donald trump, so be it, but michael cohen is far from solid
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evidence. this guy, by any prosecutor's standard, and i used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york, i wouldn't have touched a guy like new york, especially if he's a convicted perjure. >> there's so many things about his statement which is untrue. he's exactly who he is which, of course, would be rudy giuliani's attorney. >> both men making their arguments in the court of public opinion there. cohen was also at court, but he was not called before the grand jury where he's testified twice to rebut the testimony. the big question is, well, what happens next? it's not exactly clear. we don't know if there are more witnesses and win the indictment -- the grand jury may vote on a possible indictment. >> the waiting game continues. paula reid from new york, thank you so much. let's expand the conversation with a state attorney for palm beach county, florida. we have with us elliot williams,
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a former federal prosecutor. appreciate you both being with us. first i want to play more sound from bob costello talking about his interview. listen to this. >> i wanted to get those materials and sat for a two-hour interview with them back in 2019, after which you may have noticed the southern district of new york didn't do any business with michael cohen. there's a reason for that. he's totally unreliable. >> dave, how much does michael cohen's credibility have to do with why the fed, the fdny dropped the case or didn't pursue charges against trump in this case? >> michael cohen is the lynch p linchpin in this case here. there's a little bit of truth that they didn't like michael cohen as a key witness. but also in his book, he said
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that the reason why the fed dropped the investigation into donald trump was because bill barr told them to do so. also remember, the department of justice has an internal policy against indicting a sitting president. why didn't the sdny prosecute trump for this after bill barr left? and i think the answer is by that time, you had january 6th and so there are a lot of bigger fish to fry involving donald trump than this matter. so i don't think costello's explanation really holds water. and i don't think he made a very good witness in front of the grand jury which is is why the prosecutors didn't call michael cohen back as a rebuttal witness. >> elliot, i wanted to ask you about that. they didn't call back imagine cohen after hearing that testimony from costello. what do you read into that and also what do you think -- how do you think the next several days will play out? >> it's hard to know why prosecutors choose to call a
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rebuttal witness or not. they may have found that nothing new came up in costello's testimony, that they needed to rebut or they felt they would have caused themselves more trouble than they needed. it's hard to know what was said in there. in the end, it helps prosecutors to get and to have contradictory evidence on the record that's going to come up at trial anyway. at least they're prepared for the kinds of witnesses that they might put on. with respect to the next few days, we'll have to wait and see. signs seem to together that an indictment is coming. but none of us in the public actually know that's the case. the prosecutors seem to have taken a number of steps that would indicate that they're charging someone with a crime but, again, we just don't know right now. >> i want to go deeper into the reporting that we're getting about the thinking that the da is going through about potential charges against trump. one of them relies on this
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statute that indicates that if you falsify any kind of financial record to cover up a crime, that is a felony and it could be the highest level crime that they can pursue against trump. but the statute, it's unclear whether that includes a federal crime, right, elliot? >> that's exactly right, boris. the state of new york where i'm admitted to practice, it's silent, new york law is silent as to whether the crime needs to be a -- only a new york state law or a federal law. now, that's the kind of question -- look, it's pretty clear, it says the word crime and crime can be a state crime or federal crime. that's a question that has to be resolved by new york state courts. and it will -- i assume, if that's the direction that the prosecutors go, that the defendant would challenge it in new york court and it will work its way through the courts there. the language is clear.
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it uses the word crime. but it doesn't have that one adjective before it, whether it's federal or state. but that's not unique at all. >> and you're very familiar with what happens after you indict somebody and how that plays out. this obviously would be history-making if a former president was indicted. how do you expect this to be different? >> jessica, it would be historic. but it won't be historic for long. because i suspect after this indictment trump will be indicted in fulton county and then by the feds over the mar-a-lago documents and possible over january 6th. i think the question for me is what happens after the indictment? does trump truly self-surrender like his lawyers says he will. after all, his people said he would leave voluntarily if he lost the election and he didn't. and his lawyers said that he had returned all the documents to the fed upon request, which he didn't, and i don't know if he's
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going to self surrender. if he doesn't, it poses an interesting political question. the question of extradition false on the desk of ron desantis. and so things could get very interesting very soon. >> yeah, that is a fascinating point indeed. thanks so much for being with us this afternoon. we appreciate it. and just a programming reminder that tonight pamela brown and some guests will explore how we got here with the multilegal cases involving former president trump. inside the trump investigations airs tonight at 9:00 eastern. there's another big legal case we got to talk about this afternoon. right now fox news and dominion voting are duking it out in court. the network is getting hit with a new lawsuit filed by a fox producer alleging that she was coerced by fox lawyers. we have details on that next.
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they've put out there have already proven malice, that they were promoting false claims about dominion rigging the 2020 election. >> if the case goes to trial, dominion was rupert murdoch to testify. we're live outside of the courthouse. what more can we expect to come out today? >> reporter: we're hearing these arguments that have been ongoing since 9:30 this morning. this judge will determine whether or not this case will go to trial or if this judge will just decide the case on his own with the evidence that's been presented so far. so while all of this is swirling inside the courthouse behind me, there's also that lawsuit from that fox news producer abby grossburg. she's alleging that lawyers for fox news coerced her into giving misleading testimony when she was doing her deposition for this lawsuit. she says that she was coerced
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into giving statements that could really shift culpability away from fox news executives and fox hosts. she said fox news attorneys coerced ms. grossburg to deliver shaded and/or incomplete answers during her sworn deposition testimony which answers were clearly to her determent but greatly benefitted fox news. now fox news is responding to this citing attorney-client privilege and saying that they cannot exactly comment on this. interestingly, just in the last few minutes, there's been a development in that case. fox news had filed for a restaining order against her, trying to prevent her from from saying that she was coerced into misleading statements by these fox news attorneys. fox news has dropped their request for a restraining order. in the meantime, this producer is on administrative leave and all of this plays into this huge
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$1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. dominion's lawyers have been up in court arguing that the fox news host and is their executives full well knew that the information they were putting out there repeatedly on fox news was false when they said that dominion voting systems had rigged the 2020 election. fox news has consistently pushed back here saying that everything they have done is fully protected under the first amendment. so that is something that the judge could decide today or sometime in the next few days if he lets this case go to trial, though, the trial will begin before a jury at some point likely in april. guys? >> even more twists in a case where we've already seen so many twists and turns. thanks so much for that reporting. disturbing new surveillance video released today shows the moments leading up to the deadly encounter between irvo otieno
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and seven sheriff's deputies in virginia. the 28-year-old black man was smothered to death while in custody as he was being transferred to a mental health facility earlier this month. the deputies and three hospital employees are facing second-degree murder charges and all ten have now been indicted by a grand jury. >> let's go to brian todd who has been following this story for us. the video is said to be extremely disturbing. the family says it shows officials smothering him until he's motionless. >> reporter: that's right. this is some of the most important pieces of evidence in this case. we just got this video a short time ago from the commonwealth's attorneys office. as you mentioned, it shows the moments leading up to and during what the prosecutor called the process of them smothering him to death. at first the video shows the sheriff's deputies bringing him into the intake ward at the central state hospital in
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petersburg, virginia. that's a mental health facility. this is on the afternoon of march 6th. the video shows them bringing him in. they're not dragging him. he's being supported and he's in shackles and leg irons. they get him seated on the floor by a chair. then the video shows him essentially on the floor in a couple of different positions, but almost all the time for about 12 minutes, you have several sheriff's deputies on top of him. at one point, i saw a video and the prosecutor points out, ten people are on top of irvo otieno putting pressure to bear on his body, trying to restrain him. at certain points, there are seven, certain points, there are eight. at one point, there are ten people. and seven of them along with three security guards. it shows a bit of a struggle where his body may flinch a little bit and the deputies adjust their positions. we see at least one deputy putting his knee on irvo otieno's neck. the operative part of this video
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plays out for 12 minutes until the prosecutor says he died of asphyxiation. we also got recordings of 911 call that is were made that afternoon starting at about 4:40 p.m. from the hospital staff to try to get paramedics to the scene. take a listen. >> we need an emergency. what do you call this? an ems here at the hospital. the patient is a new admission. still in the admission unit. he's very aggressive. >> what building? >> building 39. it's a maximum security unit. >> they're doing cpr right now. there's no pulse anymore. >> is the patient aggressive or is he not -- >> he used to be aggressive. they're trying to put him in restraints. eventually he's no longer breathing. >> are they doing cpr? >> yes, they're doing it right now.
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>> and there are several points during these videos where you see hospital staff and others trying to perform cpr on irvo otieno in just a failed attempt to revive him. one other major development that happened a short time ago. the attorney for one of the deputies, he's the attorney for deputy randy boyar. he spoke to reports for the first time, one of the attorneys for the deputies has put a lot of this at the feet of the staff at the mental hospital saying it was the hospital staff that was supposed to handle the intake of irvo otieno and to restrain him but that they failed in their responsibilities to take care of all of that. so the sheriff's deputies had to handle it. we have reached out to central state hospital for response to that accusation and we have not heard back. boris, jessica. >> tough to watch. thanks so much for that update. also today, treasury secretary janet yellen underscoring her belief that the american banking system is
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even as it's come under some pressure. as i indicated, this is different than 2008. 2008 was a solventy crisis. we're seeing contagious bank runs. >> let's bring in matt egan. what else should we expect from this meeting? >> this is shaping up to really be one of the most important fed decisions of the jay powell era. just under 24 hours, the fed is going to announce its decision here. and over the past year or so, they've been waging this really aggressive war on inflation. we always knew there was a risk that that could backfire because history shows that the faster they raise interest rates and the higher they go, the more likely that they break something. and so now we learn that something has broken, specifically the banking market with these bank failures. and so now there's a question,
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what is the fed going to do? a former fdic chair sheila bear, she wants the fed to pause and survey the damage. and goldman sachs has predicted they will pause, not raise interest rates so they don't worsen the pressure in the banking market. but there actually is growing confidence among investors that the fed is going to go ahead and raise interest rates despite the bank failures. there's an 84% chance being priced into the market that the fed races interest rates by 25 basis points tomorrow. and just about a 16% chance of no interest rate hike. so we'll have to wait and see what the actual decision is going to be. but the stakes here are very high. >> yeah, it's kind of like damned if you do, damned if you don't. if they don't raise rates, some people see that as a lack of confidence in the banking system, right? i also wanted to ask you about new reporting that you've done
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on this research that shows more and more americans are ditching high-priced items for cheaper alternatives online. it's a trend that indicates the pain of inflation. >> yeah, that's right. we have heard anecdotally about consumers trading down to cheaper goods. this new report from adobe shared with cnn puts an exclamation point shows how this is playing out on online shopping. if you look at groceries, the lowest priced tier of groceries back in january of 2019 had 37% of the market. and now if you flash forward to today, it's around 50%. we're seeing something play out similarly for personal care. when you look at how the lowest priced goods there, back in january 2019, that had 27% of the market. it has more than doubled its market share to 54%. that's for personal care. so i think this shows how high
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inflation and persistent high inflation has really changed the way that we shop, it's changed the way that we think about prices. but it's also sort of tapped some consumers out. they've already borrowed money, they've drained some savings, and so they're being forced to downshift. hopefully clearly, you know, it is weighing on consumers. >> no doubt about it. matt, thanks for breaking that all down for us. still ahead, all-time tennis great novak djokovic speaks exclusively with cnn and he vows he has zero regrets, no regrets after he ceded the number one world ranking over his covid vaccination. hear from him next. when they expect it. discover how ryder ecommerce makes your customer's experience ever better.
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22-time grand slam tennis champ, novak djokovic, lost out on participating in two major u.s. tennis tournaments this month because of his vaccination status. his refusal to get the covid-19 vaccine prevented the serbian from traveling to the united states. >> djokovic spoke exclusively to cnn's becky anderson about the fallout from his decision. >> no, i have no regrets. i learned through life that regrets only hold you back. and basically make you live in the past. and i just -- i don't want to do that. i also don't want to live too much in the future. i want to be as much as in the present moment but, of course, create a better future. so, i congratulate al, he
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