i'm asking former white house chief economist kevin hassett and purportedly a manager mark tapper abouthe impact. in the wake of surging inflation the u.s. army is now suggesting our soldiers go on food stamps, nebraska governor heat ricketts response to this he is one of 22 u.s. governor sounded the alarm against president biden's massive student loan handout. he will tell us why they say this plan is a complete fail. sky high ticket prices, frontier airlines ceo reports airfares for the holidays will be the highest in five years, first here's a look at where the markets ended the week after higher-than-expected inflation numbers triggered the worst selloff in over two years, he was the president's response. >> the stock market does not reflect the state of the economy as you well know. the economy is still strong, and employment is low, job thereof, manufacturing is good, i think will be fine. >> are you worried about the inflation number? >> no i'm not were talking about one tenth of 1%, anyway, thank you. >> joining council of economic advisers, kevin hassett and strategic wealth pa

i'm asking former white house chief economist kevin hassett and purportedly a manager mark tapper about

i'm asking former white house chief economist kevin hassett and purportedly a manager mark tapper about

find, they drop them not me very deceiving, joining the conversation strategic wealth partners ceo mark tappere with me and see peck senior fellow mercedes schlapp, good to have both of you andrew sadie's, to you, your reaction on this latest move from the trump legal team. >> good morning cheryl i have to tell you i think we have a bigger problem which is the missed trust of the department of justice. the fact is even by putting out that photo by leaking out stories that trump might have nuclear documents as part of the document that he had in his storage room it raises a lot of questions, this is why you have seen the trump legal team ask for a special master where we have a judge that would look into the documents make it into a fair assessment as to what the president had an mar-a-lago in terms of documents and make it into the sense that this would be taken into fairness, the reality is that the d.o.j. has been politicized in this process it's not allowing for a transparent process and there is no independent eyes on what we are seeing so far. cheryl: again the possibility that we may not

annexation and absorb in europe, as protesters here leave their mark vandalizing the russian consulate. welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper, hurricane ian making his third landfall in south carolina after previously hitting florida and cuba earlier this week. residents of south carolina are looking southward no doubt at what happened in florida with dread. in the sunshine state, clean up beginning. ian decimated parts of fort myers beach, winds whipping hotels, restaurants, it's a similar scene on sanibel island, homes, hotels, docks, destroyed, littering the beaches with debris. listen to how president biden described the destruction earlier today. >> was just beginning to see the scale of the destruction, was likely to rank among the worst in the nation's history. you have all seen on television homes and property wiped out. it's going to take months, years to rebuild. >> as of now we know of at least 25 people in florida killed by this storm. right now in south carolina, ian is just beginning its attack. you're looking right now at already flooded streets in pauley island, between charleston and myrtle beach. water ris

tapper. we start with politics lead, we are less than 48 hours away from the next public january 6th committee hearing. cnn is learning about text messages from then trump chaief of staff mark meadows linking the white house with a pro trump operative who was trying to seize voting machines. we're going to have more on this exchange in just a moment. we're also learning about new links between the white house and a rioter on january 6th. denver riggleman who was an adviser to the january 6th committee is telling cbs "60 minutes." riggleman will join us on "the lead" in a moment. cnn's sara murray who has been tracking all the developments and what we know about the high level contact. >> reporter: as donald trump as and allies made a final push to overturn the 2020 election. >> there's still plenty of time to certify the correct winner. >> reporter: retired army colonel and election conspiracy promoter, phil waldron. >> the core of these voting systems are rife with vulnerabilities. >> reporter: communicated directly with then white house chief of staff mark meadows complaining that an arizona judge dismissed a lawsuit calling for state officials to hand over election equip