inside of gaza and on the israeli side, of course, ensuring that hamas will indeed release hostages this coming saturday. i've been pinging a number of israeli sources right now, and they are declining to say whether israel will actually abide by the terms of the ceasefire. if hamas releases three hostages. but one israeli official telling me that there is no appetite inside the leadership of the israeli government to abandon this cease fire at the moment, and that it seems like everything is heading in the direction of a resolution here and of israel sticking to the terms of the ceasefire. as long as hamas releases those three israeli hostages. keep in mind that even as the israeli prime minister made that ultimatum, he did not go as far as trump in terms of saying all hostages must be released this saturday for this ceasefire agreement to continue. he kept that vague just talking about our hostages. an israeli source had previously told us that israel was seeking nine hostages to be released by saturday, but it does seem at this point that

israel is likely to accept the release of just three hostages, as previously ordained and scheduled according to the ceasefire, and that the ceasefire will go on as long as hamas upholds that commitment. >> sarah, it was the deal that was made. we will see what happens. jeremy diamond, thank you so much for your reporting. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> a new phase in elon musk's war on government workers moving beyond paid leave. this morning, employees waking up to the news they have been fired. and a crisis for craft beer. newly imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum are set to wreak havoc on brewers, with the spike in prices could mean for your favorite ipa, and amazing video captures the moment a train strikes an suv at high speed. sheesh. what happened to the driver just seconds before the crash? i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is

cnn news center. >> a new wave of federal workers this morning out of work. but how many were actually fired? that is one of the big questions this morning after termination, letters flooded employee inboxes at both the department of education and the small business administration overnight. and the president also just got a big legal win on that front as well, with his doge efforts to shrink the federal workforce. a federal judge denied the request to halt what the administration had deemed the deferred resignation program. elon musk saying this about that buyout just this morning. >> if people retire, they get paid all the way through september. they can go on vacation, they can get a second job, they can do whatever they want. there'll be some disruption. but at the end of the day, we'll have people move from, like i said, from low to

negative productivity roles to in the government sector to higher productivity roles in the private sector. >> cnn's rene marsh tracking all of this. and with every day, there becomes more and more to track renee. what's the latest? >> well, the latest is that these new wave, this new wave of firings that we're talking about here, this is certainly a new phase for the trump administration, as both donald trump and elon musk's department of government efficiency, efficiency aim to dramatically shrink the federal workforce. until now, as you point out, federal employees across the government have only been placed on paid administrative leave. but cnn obtained a form letter sent to dozens of employees at the department of education. and it states, and i'm quoting the agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your future employment at the agency would be in the public interest. now, letters similar to the department of education's notice

of termination were sent to employees at the small business administration on tuesday. we should note that the full scale of these firings at both agencies is really unclear at the moment. but i also want to point out the situation at the small business administration. they had received an unsigned draft letter of a termination on both friday and monday. and then later on monday, the agency sent another email advising employees that that draft notice was sent in error. but then just the next day, according to a union representing the employees, the actual termination emails did go out. and kate, it's worth noting that all of this is coming after that judge made that ruling, we should, uh, and that was just yesterday. and we should note that some 75,000 employees have already accepted the trump administration's buyout offer. so a lot going on. as you as we talk about the workforce and how the new administration is really trying to dramatically shrink it. kate. >> yeah, full steam ahead, it

seems on that. thank you so much, renee. john. >> all right. we are standing by for a key committee vote on kash patel. president trump's nominee to lead the fbi. also today, the full senate is expected to vote on robert f. kennedy's nomination as health and human services secretary. and there will be a hearing, a confirmation hearing for the president's pick to lead the department of education, which he basically wants to dismantle. linda mcmahon, let's get right to cnn's lauren fox. i mean, i think the big picture that everyone needs to keep in mind here is president trump is getting pretty much everyone he wants. >> exactly, john. i mean, when we started this process, there were a lot of questions that republican senators had about whether or not someone like rfk jr. was going to be qualified to lead the department of health and human services. i mean, it was just a short time ago. we were watching with bated breath over whether or not senator cassidy was going to advance him in the senate finance committee. it was really unclear going into that markup just a couple of days ago. and now here we are,

where you had republicans unified and advancing his nomination yesterday to this final vote today. now, there's still a question of how senator mitch mcconnell, the former republican senate leader, is going to vote on this nomination. that is the only vote that we are really watching very closely at this moment on the republican side, in part because of rfk jr.. s past comments on vaccine hesitancy. and obviously, we know about mcconnell's past. he is a polio survivor. he has been outspoken in his belief that the polio vaccine in particular saves lives. but he was also a stringent advocate for the covid 19 vaccine when he was the republican leader, making sure that americans across the country felt safe getting that vaccine. meanwhile, today, we also expect to have a vote in the committee of the senate judiciary committee to advance kash patel nomination. we expect yet another party line vote in

the judiciary committee, and this comes as senator thom tillis, one of the republicans who serves on that committee, has been working really hard behind the scenes to get republican colleagues comfortable with patel. it was just a couple of weeks ago that tillis actually brought patel to the republican senate lunch. a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes to shore up support for some of these nominees that on their face a month or two ago, looked really controversial. it looked like they were headed for a really steep climb in the united states senate. i do want to mention linda mcmahon is going to get a confirmation hearing today. i think this is going to be a really big opportunity for democrats to question her on what trump's plans are when it comes to the department of education. i think that that is how democrats are going to be using their time today. again, we do expect that republicans are probably going to advance this nomination on a party line vote. >> all right. lauren fox on capitol hill, thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. to discuss more on this. joining me now is cnn, washington bureau chief and

political director david chalian. david trump is batting a thousand, basically with his new appointees. so can we just expect more of the same for the republicans to to capitulate on everything when it comes to, for example, patel and kennedy today? >> well. >> certainly, i think that. >> you can expect republican senators to continue to support the president building his own. >> team and his. >> own cabinet, where. >> there have been. >> some questions with some republican senators. clearly, those concerns. >> seem to have been. >> assuaged by. >> by the way, sarah. >> with a pretty aggressive. >> targeted political strategy coming out of the white. >> house. >> either a personal. >> touch from president trump. >> j.d. vance involvement. finding the right people to. come and sort of advocate on. >> behalf of the president's. >> nominees. >> even the more controversial. >> ones with. >> the right. >> wavering senators. so i. >> you are right to say, batting. a thousand, it's hard.

>> to. see here. >> a. >> nominee at. >> this point. >> that isn't. going to get. >> confirmed by the senate. and that is. typically the norm. >> we should. >> note once, once a. >> nominee sort of gets. >> to a hearing and. >> gets to a vote. >> it's far more. >> likely they get confirmed than they don't, especially at the start of a president's term. >> yeah, that is a fair point. let's talk about, though, the one person who is pushing back heavily. it's not really a big surprise that senator mitch mcconnell would vote against rfk when it comes to his stance on vaccines, but a no against tulsi gabbard was that expected? >> you know, watching mitch mcconnell. >> right now. >> on the senate floor and how he votes is one of the most. >> fascinating things to watch, because he clearly. >> sees a different role for himself now that he is not the leader of the republicans in the senate, now that he is one of the many, he seems freed up a bit more to vote his conscience rather than lead his conference to a particular vote. and it

just is really fascinating. you saw him vote against pete hegseth, the defense secretary against tulsi gabbard. >> i will. >> be very intrigued to see this polio survivor who. >> has real. >> belief and advocacy for vaccines. i will be very curious to see how he's going to cast this ultimate ballot for hhs secretary nominee robert kennedy jr.. it could be that he votes against here, too. it does make you wonder, sarah, if mitch mcconnell wasn't the leader of republicans back in 2021, might have his vote on impeachment relating to donald trump in the aftermath of january 6th been different, given his scathing floor remarks at the time, it just seems that mitch mcconnell has been unleashed here a little bit to vote in a way that is very different than how he was voting when he was the leader. >> yeah, unleashed. partly because he has nothing to lose. he's not going to run for reelection. so that we should point out trump is meeting with the indian prime minister,

narendra modi. modi is promising concessions on tariffs like a little gift before the two meet. the president's foreign policy is seeming to come into sharp relief and basically using the promise or the threat, at least of economic punishment, to get his way. is it working? >> i mean, this is the heart of donald trump's so-called america first strategy and the intersection. as you note, sarah, of the economic and the foreign policy. positions here. donald trump made clear he believes in tariffs as a successful way to put forth america's role on the world stage. what you see here and what our business team is reporting, if you look back at 2022 using india as the example, you see that indeed tariffs paid to from indian imports far outweighed the tariffs that were being paid from u.s. imports to india. and this is the kind of

thing that donald trump says we're getting screwed here. and he is looking to even the playing field. what we've seen so far is that the rhetoric doesn't always match up to the reality. sometimes he sees the backlash from the markets and we see him pull back and point to a different kind of victory. that is what happened in the case of canada and mexico. we will see, he says. this is the big one today. these reciprocal tariffs, if if a country puts a tariff on the united states product, then the united states is going to respond exactly in kind. we'll see how donald trump responds to how the market responds to that. and if he keeps his word with these tariffs this time around. >> we shall see. david chalian, it's always great to see you. thank you so much. appreciate it, kate. >> coming up for us, the justice department is now going after new york, taking legal action over immigration enforcement. the new attorney general of the united states declaring this is a new doj. new york. you're next. president trump campaigned and won the election on a

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much for being here. glenda, seeing the great news of marc fogel being reunited with his family, it's does that bring you hope? >> it was bittersweet. >> i'm so, so thrilled that mark got to come home. but. and it gives me hope that trump is. >> working to bring our americans back home. >> glenda, tell me about travis. he for you know, many people may say they haven't heard of travis leak. tell me about your son. >> oh. >> shouldn't people. he was going to college in sacramento, california, studying english. and while doing so, he was writing lyrics and going on youtube and changing russian songs to american lyrics and keeping the beat and everything. and he was contacted by a

russian band over there that wanted him to come and write their first english cd. so once he got his degree, he traveled over there and managed the band and taught english at a facility there. excuse me, that teaches english, goes to different big companies, you know, like johnson and johnson. et cetera. and teaches their employees english. he he came home, um, a few years later. he did his master's studies in los angeles. and for whatever reason, he wanted to go back to russia. and that was january of 2017. and that's the last time i've seen him in person, struck when he was planning a trip home. so he didn't make it. so. >> and jonathan travis has not been designated wrongfully detained by the u.s. government, which would give him access to additional support and much needed resources from the u.s. government. is the government

actively working to secure his release? >> we're not sure. and thanks again for having me. i mean, we secretary rubio's statement the other day was extremely refreshing, in which he said the president is committed to seeking the release of all americans that remain detained in russia. i thought that was a really positive sign. so we've asked the government whether that now means that it is seeking travis's release, and we're awaiting a response. we certainly hope so and, jonathan, you've been involved in other high profile americans in getting and securing their release. >> one of them that comes to mind is trevor reed back in 2022. we've talked so much to you about him. how is travis's case the same or how is travis's case unique and different? why is he still there? >> i know. >> you know what's so interesting about travis's case? well, it's completely different than trevor's. there's a similar theme in which local police officers encountered an american and decided that turning that american into the fsb

intelligence officers would be. >> good for their. >> careers. and then charges were concocted a trial, a sham trial was had. and here we are. different facts, different scenarios, but a similar pattern in both cases. and one of the more interesting parts of travis's case is right after he got arrested, the russian government tried to develop a mythology around him. they put him on state tv. they they massively embellished his military history, all to make him seem like he was some sort of special forces uh, um, you know, what was the word they use, glenn? a paratrooper, when in fact he worked on air conditioning. uh. they called him as part of an engineering unit in. >> arizona. >> yeah. glenda, on this one. you want your son home? it has been so long since you have seen him in person, and now he has been. and now now he's been sent to a penal colony for. i mean, they said. 13 years. what is

your message to president trump? if he would be listening right now? >> i would like to get him home before he is actually sent to that penal colony. he still is in the pretrial detention facility, which is still a horrible prison. but, uh, i can communicate with him there. i, you know, i'm not sure how things will be if, if and when they do get him to the to the labor camp or the penal colony. uh, i'm hoping that president trump can get him out of russia before that happens. >> how is he doing? what can you tell us? what that communication is, is like with him? >> kind of a roller coaster, kind of a roller coaster. he has. there's times where he's high in spirits because he thought the trial was going good, because facts came out that, you know, the person that said he did these things retracted most of her statements and everything sounded like, you know, everything was going his way because he was forgetting he was. it was still a russian

judge ruling. and and it was still russia, you know. so, uh, he has. >> still russia. and that's i think. >> he was elated when he was elated when trump made president. he really feels president trump will be able to do something to get him home. and that's that's my that's my prayer. and that's what i'm hoping for. >> jonathan. in your experience, do you think does the successful release of marc fogel just now just happening? does it does it make does it make it more likely that travis will be able to get out, may be able to get out soon. does it make it more challenging to get travis out soon? >> i think it's definitely more likely than it would that it will happen soon than it was earlier this week, for sure, and i base that on the fact that, again, secretary rubio committed the president to, uh, seeking the release of all the americans, which was not the policy under the biden administration. so i think just by if that's, um, that is the

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it stayed at 3.5%. that is tied for the highest rate in almost two years. now, month over month, this metric did improve slightly to 0.4%. so when you put it together, it's kind of a mixed report, but it's also big picture. it's not really what you want to see at this point. right? because we had been seeing a lot of improvement for producer prices at this point last year, and we've seen that unwind. right. the progress has stalled out. and in fact, if you look on that on your screen right there, you can see this is the annual rate for producer prices. and it has ticked higher. in fact, this metric is at a moving at a higher pace than it was right before covid 19. obviously, much improvement from almost three years ago, right. we're not near that sort of inflation crisis right now, but it's also moving in the wrong direction. this comes after yesterday's report. i mean, yesterday's report on consumer prices. that was a big

setback. it did alarm some economists, some investors. and it has sort of given a sense that maybe prices are kind of stuck here, right. that all of this improvement on inflation is kind of stalled out. and it could force the federal reserve to just kind of stay where it is right now and not resume cutting interest rates anytime soon, which, of course, would be a disappointment to borrowers. >> and clearly a disappointment to president donald trump, given what he's been, what he decided to come out and post about that just yesterday. it's good to see you. thank you. katie. thank you so much, sarah. >> speaking of which, president trump's promise to improve the economy and bring down prices. of course, that was his big promise to get into office. but after yesterday's disappointing inflation report, which came in much hotter than expected surprise, it's harder to bring down prices. and the president said it would be. and then there's all this uncertainty about what's going to happen with the tariffs and whether those are going to affect prices as well. cnn's harry enten is joining us now to run the numbers for us. i think that i can guess where you're going

with this. >> you think sometimes it all comes away, give it away in the title slide. i don't like to make things too difficult for the audience. you know, we'll talk about the focus where americans think trump should be focused on. and not much of a surprise in his first 100 days, they believe. look at that. the top answer inflation at 34%. and then number three, it's the economy in general at 21%. let me be perfectly clear. inflation crushed the joe biden presidency. it ate it alive. if donald trump is not careful, inflation will crush his presidency and eat it alive, because that is where americans want him to be focused. they want him focused on fixing the inflation crisis, the inflation problem, and bringing prices down. >> breaking news. i'm going to do some math here. i just want to point out that inflation and the economy, 55%. i mean, that is basically everything. when you look at. >> the whole kit and caboodle. and it doesn't matter what poll

you look at, it is the economy stupid? although smart in your. >> case. rude. how do you how do you how are viewers and how are voters seeing donald trump and the work that he's been doing when it comes to the economy? >> yeah. you know, there's a lot of things that folks have liked about donald trump's first few weeks in office. inflation is not one of them. they believe that donald trump is not keeping his eyes on the prize. is trump focused enough on inflation? not enough. 66%. that is, two thirds of the country. just a third of the country say he's focused the right amount. get this. 48% of republicans say he's not focused enough on the problem of inflation, and he absolutely should be, because it is numero uno in the voters mindset. >> is there any sign that americans feel a little bit better about the economy or not? >> no. you know, there's perhaps this idea that donald

trump could come into office. and to borrow my first name, be it like harry houdini and wave a magic wand and make the economy all better again, economy is excellent or good. you go back to november of 2020, right when donald trump lost reelection, it was 49%. by this past election, it was 32%. look at where we were in a recent marquette university law school poll. it was 27%. so, no, donald trump is not a magician. no president is a magician when it comes to the economy. but be very clear here. if this number does not go up, donald trump's approval ratings will go down. >> and we should mention this is when the prior president was in office. and you see the jump there and why he lost. it's lower than that. >> it's exactly right. you know, i started this segment by saying that inflation ate the joe biden presidency alive. it crushed it. if these numbers remain the same, inflation will do the exact same thing to donald trump's second term. it will eat it alive. it will crush it. >> all right, harry enten, thank you so much. thank you. appreciate it. and now to you, john. >> all right. with us now, cnn

political commentator, democratic strategist maria cardona and former white house spokesperson for president george w. bush, pete seat. and i want to read you both a quote from donald trump on the campaign trail, august 9th, 2020, for the new york times. put this on their page the other day. it says starting on day one, we will end inflation and make america affordable again. and i just want to go back to my friend vanna white over at the magic wall here. harry put up that not enough that not enough graphic again, 66% of americans pete, think that donald trump isn't focused enough on inflation. i was surprised, frankly, by that number right there, because that's a pretty quick reaction time. but in truth, he hasn't talked about it that much the last few weeks. has he? presidents have to walk and chew. >> gum at. >> the. >> same time. and donald trump came. >> in with a. >> very lengthy. >> to do list.

>> if you look in that. >> very same. >> cbs poll that was released sunday. 70% of americans believe donald. >> trump is. >> holding to his. >> promises. >> doing what he said he would do on the. campaign trail, and he has. >> a high. >> approval rating of 53%. >> yes. >> it's going to take time. for inflation to come down. this is not something that occurs overnight. >> but the. >> administration is focused. >> on it. >> i don't think we're going to see deflation, which could be just as bad as inflation. but there is a lot that he is tackling and he's working on it. and americans see that he's doing the job. >> and yes, harry, now, that third graphic you had there, harry, if you can put up about how americans feel about the economy, maria, they actually feel worse now than they did after the election. and i understand pete's point that things take time, and presidents have to do a lot of things. but this has to have an impact on the important discussions on taxes and spending that will take place over the next month.

>> absolutely, john. and the problem is that. >> yes, these things. take time. it's what democrats have been saying. >> for the four. >> years of. >> joe biden. and he actually was. >> able to get inflation down. >> obviously. >> voters didn't think it was enough. >> donald trump. >> thinks he. >> is a magician. >> donald trump thinks. >> that he can, you know. >> wave the wand. and things will. >> happen the. >> way he says. >> that's why he made. >> these egregious promises during the campaign. and this is why. >> we're now seeing it in the numbers. >> he's paying for it. >> and he. >> will continue to pay for it because. >> hannah harry vance is absolutely. >> right that that. >> this is number. >> one. >> it's numero. >> uno for voters. >> it's the. >> economy is stupid. >> and donald trump has done. >> nothing to. >> bring down the. >> cost of groceries, gas and rent, which is what he promised, and especially to those. non maga voters who looked at donald

trump and. >> said, you know what? >> he is telling me that he's going to bring. >> down my costs. >> i'm going. >> to give him my vote. i'm going to trust. >> that he's. >> going to do that. and everything. >> that he. >> has done, from the mass deportations to the tariffs to the the focus on every. single other thing that he is doing has done nothing. >> to bring. >> down those costs. and in fact, it is. >> making it worse. >> and this is what democrats need to focus on in terms of messaging. every single day from here on out, every minute of every day. they have to end on what donald trump is doing is a huge betrayal of the american people. he's done nothing to bring down the cost of groceries, gas and rent. inflation is going up and americans are not going to be happy about it. >> pete, i feel like i should ask you if you want to buy a vowel, but i will resist the urge right there. and instead i want to quickly shift to eric adams here in new york, the mayor of new york city, the new york times reporting this morning that he was calling

senior republicans about the idea of maybe switching to run in the republican primary for mayor. just talk to me about the politics of all that. >> well. >> eric adams would not be the first municipal leader in this country to finally see the light and switch from the democratic party to the republican party. it's happened on quite a few occasions here in my home state of indiana. it's happened elsewhere across the country. for as much as maria thinks americans dislike donald trump and the trump administration, which was reelected and came back to office, look at all these democrats who are not just switching, but thinking of switching. and part of it. i do want to tag on to what maria said. part of it is because the democratic party is completely out of touch. joe biden could not even recognize and admit that americans were struggling

to make ends meet. they just kept pointing to all these economic numbers, these macro indicators, to tell us that things were fine when we could see it with our very own eyes and feel it in our hearts that it wasn't. so don't tell me democrats know what's happening or know how to get the job done. that's why trump's there. and that's why eric adams is maybe thinking of making the switch. >> well, i will also note that there have been democrats who switched to the republican party and republicans switched to the democrat. this is, i think, the first time i can remember that it's one who had a federal investigation, at least asked to be dropped or put on pause over a substantial period of time for the administration, maybe that played into that. i don't know, pete. see, maria cardona, thanks both so much for being here. and harriet, and our thanks to you for touching the letters, sara. >> all right. a measles outbreak in west texas is now growing, with most of those cases, this is not going to be a surprise to you in unvaccinated children. and president trump's new tariff on steel and aluminum could deal a major blow to a lot of

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all right. earlier this week, president trump announced a 25% blanket tariff on all steel and aluminum imports. and those tariffs are expected to negatively affect a lot of different industries, including the nation's craft brewers driving up costs when it comes to buying the materials needed to brew, house and serve beer. no, that is not a latte behind me, although i need one with me now is bart watson, president and ceo of the brewers association. all right, bart, how will these tariffs impact your industry, especially the tariffs on aluminum? >> i think they're going to be challenging for a lot of craft brewers. craft brewers use a lot of steel and a lot of aluminum. steel is used for brew houses, for fermenters, for kegs. and aluminum is the preferred packaging for many craft brewers. about 75% of packaged product goes into cans. we love our cans as americans, and so any increase in the price of cans is going to be challenging for craft brewers. >> i mean, when you think about

it, you know, their cans are used for soda as well, and a bunch of other things. and so that is going to be an issue not only that you have, but that many other folks in the beverage industry have. i'm curious about the cost for consumers. how do you see that playing out, and will they go up significantly yeah, i think there's the potential for prices to rise. >> craft brewers have seen the cost of just about everything that they use to make beer go up. in recent years, and what i think they've also seen is that consumers are at a breaking point. and so it's tough to raices. anand so brewers are going to face a really challenging dilemma. do they raise prices and risk losing sales. or do they see their margins get cut at a time that's challenging for the industry. and and small brewers are the least able to push back on these price increases. so i think a lot of them are expecting that their their prices will rise. and some of them may have to pass that on to consumers. >> i was looking at how large the craft beer industry has gotten with the value of over $100 billion last year alone, which is a huge number. it means

a lot of jobs. it means a lot of the potential businesses. the president has finally said out loud that there is going to be a little pain, as he put it, for americans, as he puts these tariffs in place, is the industry prepared to deal with that pain, or will it be crushing at some point? >> you know, the industry has dealt with a lot of pain in the last few years. we've seen, you know, prices rise for things like co2. aluminum is also risen. it's already been up about 25% since covid. um, so i think brewers are preparing as well as they can. um, you know, there's not too much that they can do here. you know, most of our cans are produced domestically, but we do import a fair amount of aluminum. canada's our primary import partner, and canada has been exempted from aluminum tariffs up to this point. so certainly we do expect that prices could rise. the brewers will feel that pinch and that that will be really challenging for some of them who are already seeing a sales slowdown. >> it sounds like the smaller ones, as is usual, per usual,

always get hit the hardest. um, going forward, what do you expect to happen to the industry if these do go into effect and they are long lasting? and then there's some reciprocal tariffs as well. >> yeah, i think it's going to be challenging. you know most brewers don't have the opportunity to readily switch packaging. you know that's huge capital equipment. you can't just say i'm going to go into bottles instead of cans. if you don't have a bottling line. um, so brewers are going to have to figure out how they deal with these price increases along with others. and, you know, we'll see how far tariffs extend. you know, certainly tariffs on canada more broadly would impact one of the other raw materials that brewers care about in the form of barley and malt. um, so brewers are trying to look at their supply chains, find places where they can save money if possible, find places where they can diversify. but there's only so much you can do. and so some of them may be forced to raise prices. >> well, might be forced to have a drink and complain at a bar somewhere with a glass, as opposed to a can. i'm sorry,

bart, it's been a long, long day. bart watson, thank you so much for coming on and explaining what this will mean to your industry as these go into effect. appreciate it. joan. >> coming up, the craft beer hitting us where it hurts. all right. new surveillance video shows the moment a driver avoided a fatal accident. he jumped out of his car just as a train was smashing into it. really a stunning video. the driver stopped on the tracks shortly after being rear ended by a pickup truck. it's unclear why the driver did not move forward to avoid the train, but luckily no one was hurt in that crash what's next? closing arguments in the trial involving asap rocky. prosecutors say he fired two gunshots at a former friend in 2021. the defense argues that he fired blanks from a fake weapon. the case could be with the jury as soon as this

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