eric cheney the ah now the speaker of lebanon's paulman for the past 30 years has been reelected. nearby berry was chosen by am pays in the 1st session of parliament following an election early of this month before he was narrowly voted in peace making their debut march to parliament calling for change. so to hold the reports from beirut. 4 0, it's a moment of change. oh, representatives of lebanon's protest movement making their way to parliament. they walked past security forces, who once kept them out during massive demonstrations in recent years. it's the 1st session of the new. ready elected legislature, and these 1st time m p 's are hoping to bring change to a decades old system. there is no democracy in lebanon. what the consultation and completion system. but we are here to leave wars, democrats in lebanon, and to, to you for steven, right. what gun on that if you with any, any kind of compromises. compromises based on power sharing between the political establishment of them have long been how politics is done here. that's how parliamentary speaker to be. but he was re el

eric cheney is an economic advisor with institute maintain. that's a think tank dedicated to public policy in france in europe. he says, savings accumulated by households during the pandemic has led to a surgeon consumer spending. but he expects economies to go into recession. it's partially due to the war in the grant with the russian aggression to ukraine. but the truth is that inflation was already creeping up before the beginning of the invasion. and it's a kind of global phenomenon which started with the pers copied recovery. and all the bottlenecks in economy around the world. so yes, the war in ukraine as added to this pre existing inflation through energy prices and progressively through food prices. but when you look at the numbers in detail, as i do, you see that unique labor costs are also rising. and companies are pilling, that they are going to in grease prices because their input prices have been increasing. and the impact on consumption is not very high because there is a very high level of savings which i can related during the

cheney he would ask trump to resign. he did not. and we are told to expect more bombshells when the committee kicks off public hearings in june. let's bring in democratic congresswoman eric swalwell of california. he is a member of the judiciary committee and the former impeachment editor. congressman, i wanna start with kevin mccarthy's comments after january 6th. take a listen. >> this is a serious bleep to cut this out. >> yeah, that, i mean it's potentially illegal what he's doing. >> well, he's putting people in jeopardy. and he doesn't need to be doing this. we saw what people are doing in the capital, you know, at least we came prepared with everything else. >> you think the president deserves to be impeached for his comments? that almost something that goes further than what the president said. >> all right, congressman, talk us through how the audio that we just heard comports with the public reality of what followed? >> alicia, the idea that you heard is exactly what you'd want to hear from a leader in our country, after january 6th. so what kevin mccarthy said privately is exactly the right answer, which is that we can't tolerate what others are doing. we can'