manus: powell says the r word. a recession is possible is steve interest hikes will make a soft landing challenging. using ping pledges to meet the economic target by slamming sanctions. eu leaders have laid out the path for ukraine to join the block in brussels. good morning, back in the chair, back in dubai. that r word is monumental. there is a cacophony of recession chorus. dani: they are saying it is inevitable. this morning, there is a feeling there will be a soothing balm for the market. let me take you into the equity market. we should seek oil declined more than 10%. even steeper for euro stocks futures. at the same time, asia is looking for for a rally. they are doubling down on china tech. valuations will pay off so they are buying at 1.8% higher. manus: abby joseph cohen tells the world that that era is over. duration hunters unite or they may be the most anxious about recession. the street they were saying basalt bonds up, crude is following. 80 bucks on crude and the fourth quarter. it will continue o

manus: absolutely.you like your cocktails and i know you like a little bit of the savoy bar on a friday afternoon. remy cointreau, $40.4 million. that's comfortable. in the u.s., you know, you've got a whole momentum going on, remy to pay 185 in cash dividend and one euro exception dividend. the current operating income beats estimates. condition firming targets. everyone can rest easy in the american bar and the savoy. there'll be plen of remy. i used to love a martini in the savoy. that's how long ago i drank martinis in the savoy, dani. dani: that sounds like a -- manus: how are your equities? dani: i do feel like we've push turned a little bit in market. i say late bit because we're mostly unchanged that the moment when you look at s&p and nasdaq futures. there's the feeling of stay us is. we were up in euro stocks. is it about the global central bank tightening story? is it about opec? sit about oil? asia pacific stocks? those are down about 1.2%. but again i do think one of the more interesting as

manus: thank you so much.y stretch head of fx strategy at -- juliette saly. >> president biden says he will give weaponry to benefit ukraine in the war against russia. the conflict drags into its fourth month. it will allow them to straddle locations as far as 80 kilometers away. china is doubling down on mass kobe testing. they had imposed a lockdown in shanghai. now they are setting up a network of tens of thousands of lab testing boots across the country. they're hoping to shift away from a costly covid zero strategy. the slow down, not as bad as april. the new survey blamed week four and demand is a key factor. global news, 24 hours a day, on-air and at bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2,700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. dani: thank you so much. coming up, we discussed a report that opec is considering dropping russia from their output deal. more on that, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ manus: this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." the rally in oil prices is fiz

>> hi, manus.al bankers are staying on the sidelines despite global central banks raising rates to slow down inflation. maybe this is because the turkish president favors low rates. he wants to transform turkey's economy into an industrial powerhouse. he believes in an unorthodox view that high interest rates actually cause inflation, rather than prevented. encouraged by erdogan, the turkish central bank has been cutting interest rates last year by a total of 500 basis points. and of course, the lira is under pressure as you said. year-to-date, it is down 20% against the dollar, the worst performer amongst emerging market currencies. investors are concerned with turkey's ultra loose monetary policy. and the war in russia also compounding the situation in turkey. dani: you are on the ground in istanbul, give us a sense of what it is like seeing these higher prices in daily life? >> we are seeing skyrocketing prices on the on almost weekly basis, everything from food, energy and housing. one example

manus: let's talk about that. xi jinping says china can achieve a final victory lap over covid-19, but we are not going to get there quickly. where do we stand, what is the narrative from him? >> globally, there was word that china was shortening its quarantine, what we did have yesterday was present xi jinping came out and said we are sticking with covid zero, there more or less codifying the margins, the health dividend is number one for the authorities. he made himself the point, they can take a number of pains, they're not going to put the economy over the protection of their people. they are with it. there is no end in sight. present xi jinping arrives in hong kong today. the covid zero policy has been playing out, it will be interesting to see whether or not -- the big takeaway was china has its covid zero policy, they are sticking with it, no deviation in the near term at least. manus: that's got huge implications all around the world. let's get more market reaction out of china, started easing some of the

manus: good morning from our middle east headquarters in dubai. i'm manus cranny. it's daybreak europe. g7 day, the group weighs a price cap on russian oil. global stocks start the week risk on as recession fears ease. chinese tech shares lead gains, while the dollar and treasuries decline. russia defaults on its foreign debt. for the first time in over 100 years. an event moscow labels as a farce. good monday morning, we are risk on. this market has had a pretty colossal turnaround on friday, 3% up on american equities despite rapid outflows. a defensive rally, goldman sachs saying the underbelly in the ramp-up was defensive. why? because we are off the 14 year high of expectations for inflation. we will hear from bullard later. asian stocks rally on the tech story and jp morgan saying because of repositioning for the quarter you could see stocks rally another 7%. to the cross as a check this morning. oil as we going to opec, in the previous cycles of recession, in the past three this century oil on average dropped 66%. but it is a structurally different market in

manus: let's see what it means.e are asking questions, -- in singapore with the latest on christmas. the market is going to ask itself what comes to opening up, where do you cut costs? you said yesterday about raising the pay, dani: you are going to be reincarnated as a junior banker. yesterday, they are getting a raise of $110,000 for junior, where the cost cuts are going to come from? i guess not the bankers. this up -- that is it for manus and me. this is bloomberg. ♪ dad! a dinosaur! it's just a movie. no dad, a real dinosaur! show doorbell camera. the new xfinity video doorbell works with your xfinity home system for real-time alerts no matter what's at the door. get off the car... it's a lease! jurassic world dominion, in theaters june 10th. rule your home security with xfinity home. dani: good morning.

manus? manus: a little later this morning, the gathering behind me, they are waiting to hear one of the kick off conversations, elon musk speaks with our editor-in-chief at the qatar economic forum. stay tuned for that pretty monumental interview. this is bloomberg. ♪ manus: this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." dani: investors are getting some risk fight this morning -- respite from the worst of the selloff, but the specter of monetary tightening continues to stir doubt about how long the stability can last. the ecb's christie lagarde and the fed's jim bullard have been talking on the risks facing central banks and here is some of that. >> rising interest rates in combination with deteriorating growth prospects have exerted downward pressure on asset prices. these pressures were compounded by the russian invasion of ukraine. while the correction in asset prices has so far been orderly, the risk of a further and possibly abrupt fallen asset prices remains the fear. >> the main risk is inflat

manus: jay powell vows to beat inflation. one fed governor backs another 75 basis point rate hike as treasuries trim the game. wall street's biggest banks get the green light to pay millions to investors after passing the fed's latest test with flying colors. historic step. the european union grants ukraine candidacy status while eu leaders devise strategies to weather russia's gas supply cut. we seem to have moved from inflation to our obsession about the failure of growth. or is it the other way around? your call. dani: i will certainly not make the call. i am not brave enough. but it does feel like the inflation trade is blowing up nearly as quickly as we put it on. it is about the oil patch coming down, the decimation of commodities. let me show you what it is doing to the equity markets because futures are up once again after the u.s. rallied yesterday. s&p 500 futures are up 0.7%. tech is outperforming again. this is a bit of the undoing of the inflation trade. we have those longer durations increasing. tech is on track

manus? manus: jules, thank you the roundup.ust imagine, a couple of months ago we were talking about the invest ability thesis for china. breaking news from credit agricole, upping their game on net income to 6 billion euros by 2025. glasses off so we can read the text. return on equity, 12% by 2025, upping their game from 11%. it is still a payout ratio of 50% in 25. they maintain the payout ratio. the one question i asked everybody as i was walking around, what happens next at credit suisse? we can take that offline. it is day two right here at the qatar economic forum. we have heard from elon musk, and bob diamond, standard chartered, bill winters, they are jumped into the conversation. group one holdings, and boeing. dani: also coming up, how can investors position for stagflation? will it be stagflation that we need to position for? we are going to speak with chris brightman, ceo and cio at research affiliates. that's next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> a recession is inevitable at some point. >> it's almost unavoidable. >> th

manus: go ahead.i: i was just going to think you, we are both happy you could join us this morning. now to the first word news. >> jp morgan no longer has any exposure to the nickel that rocked metal markets earlier this year. after drop in prices allowed the tycoon at the center of the massive short squeeze to exit his positions with the bank. j.p. morgan emerged as the largest counterparty to a chinese company. walgreens has abandoned the sale of its goods pharmacy chain. the deal was expected to bring in more than $6 billion. bloomberg has learned the goldman sachs is going to celebrate to more than $1.2 billion. it forces the firm to take more lending loss provisions. goldman originally said the market would break even this year. 2310 -- 23 time grand slam winner serena williams the first round at wimbledon. she was beaten by 116th ranked player from france. when asked if this is her last match, she said who knows. global news 24 hours a day, on-air and at bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than

this is bloomberg. ♪ manus: it is daybreak with manus cranny. dani burger is in london.enues slightly ahead of forecast but china with the headwinds coming home to roost. laura wright has the details on nike and china. good morning. laura: nike trading down almost 3% after hours, china sales down 20% year-over-year. that is significant because the country accounts for around a fifth of nagy sales -- nike sales. lockdowns in china lead to a buildup in inventory, up 23% year-over-year. in the retail sector, inventory was already elevated because of supply chain congestion. that put pressure on growth margins, missing the forecast, 40 5% and expected to remain flat in upcoming quarters. nike's ceo on the earnings report reveals he sees china as a long-term bullish region for the company. a note on north america, a disappointment with sales down 5% year-over-year, nike's largest market showing recession fears and inflation are starting to bite. for the time being, sales up 9%, a standup with asia-pacific and latin america. looking forward, it is about the direct consumer and

manus: this is bloomberg daybreak: europe, i'm manus cranny in dubai. dani burger in london.'s get up to speed, juliette saly is in singapore. juliette: bloomberg understands the prime minister of the uk expects rebel mp's to undermine his leadership in the coming days. calls for johnson to step down have intensified since a report was released on illegal parties at downing street during the pandemic. ukrainian president zelenskyy visited an area in the south where fighting is ongoing. the u.k. says it plans to send rocket systems to ukraine that will let it strike locations as far as 50 miles away. this as explosions were reported in kyiv over the weekend. global news, 24 hours a day, on air, and on bloomberg quicktake. powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. dani? dani: thanks so much. coming up on the program, we are going to talk about the ecb, but also how are investors pricing in qt? according to the latest survey, it is all about crypto, and tech. as futures charge higher and bitcoin trades above $30,000. this is bloomberg. ♪ manu

manus: that's the latest on apple. manus: it's bloomberg daybreak: europe.se are the stories that set your agenda. dani: down but not out, boris it survives a confidence vote, the mutiny suggests his days are numbered. no holding back, the rba hikes rates by a jumbo 50 basis points, setting inflation higher than expected even a month ago. aussie yield surged. record upon your record of a supply constraints, the war in ukraine and easing supply -- covid constraints, is jumbo rate hikes again, this time from the rba. not just upsetting the bond market but seeing some reaction across the different asset classes. manus: because the view on inflation we will talk about whether we see some incremental peak inflation a bit later. across the assets you saw the aussie role rampant. you saw on the fx base, 7% inflation and set of 6% the aussie dollar gives back its gains in the first instance because, they are on a trajectory for high rates. capital economics says 3% is on the way. at a 20 year low, and possibly further to go, the yen. that is something -- policy tigh

manus: thank you. getting various notes in terms of geography that marine le pen managed to take, places like northeast, around palais, and bordeaux. an interesting breakdown. fantastic shot, caroline. we will see you through the morning. a director general is bullish on the airline industry and sees a sustainable recovery for the sector. >> pent up demand is being fulfilled at the moment but all of the research we are doing reaffirms that people want to get back flying again. there are headwinds but the outlook remains good. manus: let's bring in guy johnson. you have a busy day ahead of you. you've been speaking to the aviation industry leaders. terrorism is hot. will it indoor -- tourism is hot. will it endure? >> we know there is a demand for air travel and will it last until the autumn? you got to be positive to be in the airline industry, and they are at the moment, but he was saluting some of the headwinds that could be coming down the track. you mentioned what happened with the potential for re

>> looking for all that, manu, appreciate it. thank you. chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, with us, political analyst, jackie kusinich. as we go through all the new yesterday, part of that was the call that donald trump made to the head of the rnc. i want to play a portion of that. >> what did the president say what he called you? >> essentially turned the call over to mr. eastman who then proceeded to talk about the rnc campaign gathering incontingent electors with the legal challenges, changing the result, more just helping them reach out and assemble them. my understanding is the campaign did take the lead, and we just were helping them in that role. >> laid out and did all the asking or the former president who did the asking? >> i think that's significant because, you know, a lot of what's gone on here is the question of, did the president or did eastman commit a crime? you know, these contingent electors is an interesting phrase. they weren't contingent. they were invented. they were fake. i mean, being an elector is a government po

, you yourself were held at an offshore detention center on manus island for six years, so how concernedre you about the kind of precedent this uk rwanda agreement could set? >> thank you for having me. i think it's horrific news and for many years, advocates and australia were warning that was -- warning that what was happening in australia and what the australian government was doing one day would be a model for other countries. five years ago politicians came from denmark and they visited naru and when they went back to europe they exactly established the same system in denmark. but in the u.k., it's a large version of australia and is exactly the same. and let me say the former australian prime minister tony abbott was exactly the same person who introduced this policy to the british politicians and now they are doing it. the policy established on secrecy, on uncertainty, and also on based of colonialism mentality. so what they are doing is exactly the same as what australia has done and unfortunately, i feel very negative about this and i think they are going to do it. now they have

. >> cnn senior congressional correspondent manu raju joins us now from capitol hill. so manu, do any of the president's proposals have a chance of getting through congress? >> well, the ones that would restrict access to guns almost certainly do not, including an assault weapons ban that is not being contemplated among negotiators, talking in the last several days, and will continue discussions next week. one of the ideas to increase the age from 18 to 21 to prevent people from buying semiautomatic rifles until they reach that age of 21. i'm told that members are skeptical. that ultimately will get into the final proposal, assuming they can get a deal. they are still trying to hash one out, focused on how to bolster states red flag laws, dealing with mental health issues and the like, and also expanding the background system. even an expansion of the background check system won't go as far as one proposal that's stalled in the after math of the sandy hook massacre in 2013. that bill stalled that would expand background checks to include gun show sales as well as inter

for that we go to manu raju. you caught up with senator johnson outside the capitol.did he have to say about this slate of fraudulent electors. >> well, he acknowledges in the morning of january 6th he in fact was aware that his chief of staff had reached out to mike pence's office to try to deliver them the slate of electors, but he also contends that he does not know the genesis of this push to potentially pro vvide n electors from the states of michigan and wisconsin. he has no idea the person that was behind it. he also says that he had no involvement whatsoever other than a very brief interaction he had with his staff member who tried to deliver this to the vice president's office, who rejected it. this is what he said. >> why was he even asking for that? >> because somebody delivered this to our office and asked to deliver that to the vice president. >> did you support his efforts to try to get those slates to the vice president? >> no. i had no knowledge of this. >> who is the person -- >> i had no involvement in an alternate slate of electors. i had no idea it

this is bloomberg. ♪ manus: rishaad: your back with bloomberg markets.king at the ecb form and portugal, outlining those risks to global markets. >> is what we see is a redivision of the world into competing geopolitical economic camps, a reversal of globalization, that certainly sounds like lower productivity and lower growth. in many parts of the side of that, you see the aging demographic, so a shrinking workforce, bc economy is growing more slowly. those workforces are not expanding. that is a possible outcome. >> in the shorter term can the u.s. economy deal with interest rate hikes? >> the u.s. economy is in pretty strong shape. if you look back a year, we grew more than 5.5%, it was the big reopening. we expect this year, that growth would moderate to a more sustainable path. we are raising interest rates and the aim of that is to slow growth down so supply will have a chance to catch up. we hope growth can remain positive. if you look at the strength of the economy, household have excess savings from forced savings from not being able to travel.

. >> cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is with me now.ou spoke with committee members after the hearing about whether there's a criminal case against the former president. of course the doj, one of the audiences for the presentation, what did you learn? >> reporter: yeah, one of the big things that came out in the hearing was the amount of money that the trump campaign raised in the aftermath of pushing the bogus notion the election was stolen, the e-mail solicitations. $100 million in a week's time, according to the committee. $250 million total, and when i asked the committee members, the leaders of the committee whether they had evidence that there could be a crime, they stopped just short of saying that, saying that ultimately it would be up to the justice department to make that case. >> what is your personal opinion? do you think that donald trump committed a crime and would you prefer the justice department investigated him or even indicted him? >> well, i prefer that we complete our work and share that work with the department of

manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >> thanks very much, manu. the january 6 committee has met behind closed doors with the british filmmaker who documented the final week of the trump presidency. the three part series will be released this summer by discovery plus which provided us with this clip. have a look. >> can we talk for a minute about january 6? >> yeah. well, it was a sad day, but it was a day where there was great anger in our country. people went to washington primarily because they were angry with an election that they think was rigged. a very small portion as you know went down to the capitol. and then a very small portion of them went in. but i will tell you they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election because they are smart and they see and they saw what happened. and i believe that that was a big part of what happened on january 6. >> after his deposition, alex holder sat down with don lemon to talk about this time with the trump's and committee questions. >> what was the focus of their questions? >> i th

manu raju is on capitol hill for us. the pressure was not just that day, that morning, this was a campaign that went on for weeks to get the then vice president to essentially do something that we now know they knew at that time was unconstitutional. >> reporter: yeah repeatedly told both the president along with his top attorney who was pushing this theory, don eastman were both told repeatedly it was illegal, unconstitutional, and pence couwouldn't do it. the committee acknowledged privately this was not legal but still pushed ahead, and donald trump made this case repeatedly to mike pence to essentially ignore the will of the electorate while he was previdpr presiding over the joint session of congress to essentially ignore those votes and stall him for a second term or at the very least, somehow send those votes back to states to review them, and deny joe biden his electoral victory. mike pence held firm. he said he would not do that, even though donald trump berated him, even on the morning of january 6th in a previ

manu, how many more witnesses does the committee may think have been subjected to these intimidation efforts? >> well the committee has not disclosed that information, but based on what they are signaling, suggesting this is a fraction of what some witnesses have endured. they had said at that hearing that this is a common question that is asked at the end of every single witness interview whether or not anybody has tried to influence their testimony in any way and according to what some of the members have suggested is that there is more evidence that the committee has not yet shared but are now discussing behind closed doors how to proceed on this issue. we have learned that cassidy hutchinson is one of them but who the others are the committee has not disclosed, adam schiff one of the members of the committee, said he's certainly seen the history of the former president trying to influence witnesses or intimidate them. this all comes as the committee gone a bit behind closed doors, not expected to have public hearings next week, we do expect public hearings in july, but have been

cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, now what? where do we go. >> reporter: last night was a general overview of everything we have found through the course of the investigation that has occurred over the past several months. they have interviewed a thousand witnesses, 100,000 panges of documents. including three hearings next month to detail the seven-point plan you laid out. something they allegedly donald trump orchestrated to overturn the results of the election. they will drill down on monday, with the false election claims, and move on to other efforts, as well as pressure the department of justice to urge states to overturn their electoral results, pressure on vice president mike pence, then vice president to try to deser-certi the electoral results . in last night's hearing, a number of house republicans who had worked to overturned the election allegedly sought pardons from then donald trump because of their concern, their involvement with the effort to overturn the election. that's what came out from liz cheney at this h

we've still got to get past november 2022. >> manu raju joins us now.it clear how much senator johnson's connection to those fake electors might impact his chances of re-election. >> it's unclear at the moment because the polls are showing incredible tight race. if any of those four democratic candidates emerge from a primary, according to a poll, it will be within a margin of error race for any of them. expect this to go down to the wire. tens of millions of dollars being spent. the democratic candidates themselves say while they believe these controversies will while up johnson's negatives, this will be determined again by the economy, by inflation, and how voters are feeling about the performance of the president at this time. but that doesn't mean they're softening their rhetoric. it has been incredibly sharp against johnson. alex lazerly, the candidate of the will wau key bucs executive who is running told us it is treacherous and seditious what ron johnson did. and two of those candidates said that johnson should resign his senate seat. >>> just a

but first, manu, what more are you learning about what we can expect from the public hearing that themittee will present for all of us to see tomorrow? >> reporter: committee aides talked to reporters this afternoon about exactly what to expect. we can expect to hear about how this theory that president trump and his closest allies pushed that somehow vice president mike pence overseeing the certification of the electoral results on january 6th, 2021, could have taken this unprecedented move, this extra constitutional move to overturn the will of the electorate. how that theory came to shape, and how donald trump pushed that theory. then the committee is going to look at what happened on january 6th. the danger that mike pence faced, and time that all to donald trump's rhetoric, and his actions. now, there will be live witness testimony. greg jacob, a former counsel to mike pence, will be there testifying, as well as a former federal judge, informal advisor to mike pence, also will be discussing. these hearings will be a part of a number of other hearings that will take place through

. >> our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, we learned the hearing is not happening tomorrow. that's a big thing to postpone. technical reasons? like what? >> reporter: yeah, look, they had -- this has been a very well choreographed hearing. they've been discussing this and planning this for months. here at the last minute here of sorts, they decided to delay tomorrow's hearing. the reason why they're saying officially is because they need some more time to put together the video presentations that we have seen, expetensive testimon of depositions, witnesses' depositions they've played throughout. they want more time for the staff to put together those presentations and the like. they want to space these out a bit more. tomorrow was supposed to be about pressure the justice department faced from donald trump to overturn those election results. that will still happen but a later date. thursday's hearing will still occur, about pressure that then vice president mike pence faced from donald trump and his associates to overtu

not just face-saving or window dressing but real progress . >> so manu was talking about some of the things under discussion, talking about maybe a waiting period of two to three weeks, checking juvenile record. obviously, those are changes and those would, you know, be something to do. that, they've been clear though on the republican side, for example, right now, that they would not raise the age to 21. citing that they don't think it's constitutional, obviously we all understand rent ial car ages are higher than that, pistol ages higher than that, that may be true, but is that off the table now raising the age of purchase to 21? >> i hope it isn't off the table because i would like to see that kind of provision pass, i'm in favor of banning assault weapons but we need 60 votes . we've also seen that in the past and i've been involved in a lot of past efforts, these talks have flounderred on the rocks of g gun lobby opposition and my republican colleagues will have to stand up to that opposition now with measures that can get 60 votes, that's the key criteria. core components seem

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let's turn to cnn's manu raju on capitol hill. so we've learned multiple times that people inside the trump orbit rejected eastman's idea of what vice president pence could have done, but still the former president pushed on. >> reporter: he did push on, and even though he was told and eastman were both told that it was illegal and that the supreme court would never stand for it, and even though mike pence directly told donald trump multiple times that he would not go through with this effort to simply reject the will of the voters while overseeing the joint certification -- the certification of those electoral votes in congress, donald trump still pushed for mike pence to do what he wanted him to do, which is essentially to install him in a second term as president. this is a pressure campaign that was relentless, continued for weeks, trump pressuring pence, eastman pressuring aides up until january 5th, in which they got into an intense discussion about this. and on the morning of january 6th itself, the committee revealed that

you heard manu there. what's interesting is that they've got these final hearings next week and yet the january 6th committee is still actually trying to nail down a witness list for an upcoming hearing that will focus on trump's efforts to use the justice department to back up his false election fraud claims. so they were going to have a hearing on that very important topic, right? last wednesday. sorry, this past wednesday. two days ago, but then they had to postpone it to next week. so how important is this specific topic to the committee's overall story? >> well, erin, the doj part of this story is absolutely crucial because what we learned already from the committee is donald trump and his people were absolutely desperate to find anybody who would validate their election lies but they failed at every turn. dozens of courts refused to do it. trump's own attorney general, bill barr, refused to do it. donald trump's own lawyers and advisers refused to do it. so as a last gas, they tried to get the ultima

manu, the senate negotiations on a guns package have been going on all week.ght? >> well, the negotiators met this morning virtually. they're signaling optimism they can reach a deal, in fact, they're working on a statement to detail the progress that they have made. that statement could come out as soon as tonight. i'm hearing it's more likely it's going to slip into early next week, then they hope to agree on an overall framework of what this package would entail, and that would eventually lead them to draft detailed bill text that could take several days to come up with. now, this overall agreement deals with potential red flag legislation, in other words too, incentivize states to enact laws to allow authorities to take away guns from individual whose are deemed a risk. money for mental health facilities in 50 states, as well as school security measures and also new background checks to allow for juvenile records to b searched for 18 to 21-year-olds. the top democratic negotiator chris murphy spoke at a rally earlier today for gun control advocates and ind

manu was not the only one asking for the senator's response. the old, i'm on the phone move, even if he wasn't really on the phone. take a look. >> senator johnson, how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? >> i'm on the phone. >> no, you're not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. does your chief of staff still work for you, senator? >> can you explain what happened there? why was your chief of staff even offering this to the vice president? >> today the senator did get on the phone, telling a radio host where he thinks the alternate slate of electors came from. what did he say? >> reporter: well, we are hearing a lot of back and forth on this one. so, congressman mike kelly has said these allegations from senator ron johnson are patently false. he says he hasn't talked to the senator in the better half of a decade and he has no idea what johnson is talking about. of course he took this back to johnson, and he is standing by his words. our manu raju caught up with him moments

>> and more on this groundbreaking hearing from cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu raju. >> over the course of two hours in a "prime time" hearing, the january 6th select committee for the first time revealed some new details about the investigation that has been going on for the better half of the past year. more than one thousand witnesses have been interviewed. hundreds of thousands of pages of documents have been obtained. we've got a glimpse of some of the things that they found and some of the witness interviews they had, including members of donald trump's inner circle. people such as the former president's daughter, ivanka trump. her husband jared kushner, as well as his former attorney general bill barr. barr and trump, barr and ivanka trump both indicating the issues of fraud that donald trump continually claimed after the election simply were not true. in fact, bill barr called it bs. ivanka trump said she believed bill barr. donald trump was told repeatedly than, according to the testimony that was shown in these video excerpts by congresswoman liz cheney. now at

manus: it will be interesting to see jon interview elon.uestions he will be asking, but it must be an incredibly difficult conversation to run one of the leading electric vehicle companies in the world, the battery storage and the technology she has developed, yet at the same time, taking on the rise and the concept of what is free-speech in many ways, what twitter is. it is an incredibly complex deal, in terms of financing, who's on your roster, who is on your side, what needs to happen to get the deal over the line. i am really looking forward to it, a very british editor-in-chief with a south african global entrepreneur. tom: it will be colorful. conversation around bitcoin, maybe spacex, the boring company, twitter. we can see it now, $37. manus: i wonder if he will give dogecoin a shout out. tom: anything else that you are looking for? anything that you will be focused on for the next several days in qatar? manus: there are a host of other panels taking place here. if you think about where we are geographically, in terms of the nexus o

manu raju has our report. >> reporter: casting aside 50 years of settled law, the supreme court endedoman's constitutional right to an abortion. and in the process, royaled the nation's political landscape. >> i am spitting mad over this. >> roe versus wade belongs on the ash heap of history with dred scott. >> justice samuel alito writing for the conservative majority in a 5-4 opinion call roe v. wade agree shously wrong and deeply damaging. the three liberal justices decenting warng it la lead to the curtailment of women's rights and status of free and equal citizens. on capitol hill the reaction was swift. >> disgraceful. disgraceful judgment. >> it is absolutely a major issue on the ballot. >> largest governmental overreach in the history of our life time. >> house gop leader kevin mccarthy told cnn he supports codifying a 15-week abortion ban at the national level. the supreme court upheld mississippi's 15-week ban and its ruling overturning roe. with the support of chief justice john roberts who opposed overturning roe entirely. >> the right to life has been vind vindicated. the

but as manu raju reports, many conservatives remain resolute on gun reform. >> reporter: after his mother was murdered, whitfield said do something. >> because if there isrespectfuu should yield your position of authorities and influence to others that are willing to lead on this issue. the urgency of the moment demands no less. my mother's life mattered. >> reporter: but in the halls of the senate, a deal to help stop the rising of mass shootings is elusive. >> what are the sticking points right now? >> i think that it is just different people have different ideas and, you know, this is a big diverse country and so i think it just takes time to build consensus. >> reporter: a small bipartisan group of senators looking at narrow changes to gun laws. including encouraging states to enact red flag laws allowing juvenile records to be reviewed during background checks and pumping money into school security and mental health programs. what is not on the table? banning semi automatic rifles used in many mass shootings and raising the age to 21 to purchase those weapons even though the killer i

manu raju has our report. >> mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! >> reporter: the pressure cam baby was relentless. donald trump for months tried to get mike pence to do something no vice president has ever done. resdwreject the will of elector. right up to this heated phone call on the morning of january 6, just before pence was presiding over a joint session of congress to certify joe biden's victory. >> he called him a wimp. >> a different tone than i'd heard him take with the vice president before. >> do you remember what he said your father called him? >> the p word. >> trump even revising his january 6 speech at a rally of his supporters to take aim at the vice president. >> mike pence is going to have to come through for us. and if he doesn't, that will be a sad day for our country. >> reporter: rioters echoing the president's remarks. >> i'm telling you, if pence cave caves, we'll drag [ bleep ] through the streets. >> the vice president's life was in danger. >> reporter: trump had been told repeatedly that pence had no authority to take su

manu raju is on capitol hill this morning. tell us what we're expecting to see. the committee is saying they have new evidence. not what we've seen so far. what do we know? >> they say the vast majority of what we see will be new. this coming months after investigation. 1,000 people have been interviewed. 14,000 pages of documents. they will provide this in this primetime setting detailing all of the information they have here. including video of depositions of former trump officials, xwhie house officials, and including potentially family members, talking about january 6th. all that the committee shows the american public, convince the american public, that donald trump was at the center, connecting him to the deadly violence of january 6th and the efforts to overturn the election. putting that together in a direct line. we're learning about all of the concerns happening behind the scenes among republican members of congress in the run-up of january 6th. one congresswoman, debbie lesko, according to audio, raised concerns about what could happen, the violence th

. >> cnn's manu raju is live on capitol hill. what more can we expect to hear at the hearing today? >> that's the public hearing, they are meeting to talk about his interviews as they look at his footage. but publicly we will see a story about the justice department under donald trump in the final days of his administration as he launched a relentless pressure campaign on the senior officials at the justice department to essentially lean on local officials and use the power of the federal government to try to overturn joe biden's victory, something that he was told time and again simply was illegal and also was told that there was no basis for his claims of widespread fraud. now, today we will hear testimony from three witnesses who were part of those discussions in the trump administration, including jeffrey rosen, the acting attorney general at the time richard donoghue, acting deputy attorney general, and steven engel, another senior official who was part of those discussions late in the trump term. now, we're getting a copy of his opening statement in which he makes clear there

staying with rugby and manu tuilagi will miss england's tour of australia because of surgery on a kneeal, he's only played six games for england. in a statement, sale said, "a summer of rest and a full preseason is the best course of action". two scottish football referees have become the first to come out publicly as gay. category one officials craig napier and lloyd wilson follow footballers josh cavallo and jake daniels in coming out. it is something that i have obviously lived with for a long time. it has been a difficultjourney to get to this point. but over the last couple of years, it has become a lot easier. and i think that it is really important that people like me are willing to sit here and do this. i don't think this needs to be a news story, but i think, at the moment, it really does, because we need to see the climate change so that people do feel they can be their true self and live happily and comfortably in their own skin. and that needs to transcend into football. footballer zac emerson from the lgbtq team hotscots has given his reaction to this news. idoa lot of i d

. >> joining us now, congressional correspondent manu raju. one of those reporters who chased down senator johnson caught up with him again. what did senator johnson have to say about today's hearing? >> reporter: nothing, anderson. in fact, on the way in and on the way out of an event he had this evening in milwaukee, i tried to catch up to him, tried to ask him about the hearing and what happened last week. he didn't want to answer questions. at one point he snuck out the back of an event room and declined to answer questions. watch. >> reporter: senator johnson, do you have time for questions, please? >> reporter: so he has been under quite a bit of pressure over the fake electors issue that you mentioned, and they revealed last week that they said the senator wanted to help in the fake election. he has downplayed that when i asked him on several occasions, but he also downplayed january 6 saying it wasn't an armed insurrection. when i tried to ask him about that as well, anderson, no response. >> his comment that it wasn't an insurrection,

let's go to cnn's manu raju on capitol hill.what did you learn from your conversation with senator manchin? >> reporter: manchin is part of a larger group of bipartisan negotiators in the senate, trying to find a deal. you mentioned the four having discussions today. they are talking with that larger group which includes joe manchin, and he made very clear to me earlier that he believes any final deal must include two things, a deal with the rising gun violence and massacres we're seeing all across the country, dealing with state red flag laws, minimum standards to ensure authorities can take guns away from individuals deemed a risk, and raging the age of purchasing semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. >> some republicans saying the age is unconstitutional. what's your response to that? >> why do we have driver's license, why is there a certain age for everything we do in society. it's always been accepted. i don't see how this one thing can be different than other things we do. you want to look at two things that could have prev

manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >>> after another weekend of blood shed, the u.s. is on track for the worst year of mass shootings on record. the nonprofit gun violence archive says there has been at least 246 mass shootings in 2022. according to a cnn tally, at least 17 people have been killed, more than -- at least 13 mass shootings since friday. the call for lawmakers to take action is louder than ever with even the most conservative democrats saying they support the age to buy semi automatic weapons like the one use the in uvalde and many other mass shootings. >> two things that could have prevented this, an age requirement would have prevented an 18-year-old and basically a red flag law that is basically intended to try to help a person get some mental help. >> do you think raising the age from 18 to 21 for all gun purchases? >> that is where it is everything except for rifles and long guns right now. or if it is just for the high capacity weapons. whatever they want to do, i'm open to doing something that makes sense. >> we've never seen this many senators, r

c nrk cnn manu joins us. >> reporter: depositions more than 1,000 witnesses have come before this commitehind closed doors. they reviewed 140,000 pages of documents and try to show donald trump was at the center at the campaign to overturn the election and everything that led up to the violence on that day of january 6th and his inaction during the day of january 6th when all the violence was unfolding. we do expect video showing depositions of frutrump officia and family members, two witnesses caroline edwards and one of the first to respond on that day. she was injured on that day and the documentary film maker you mentioned was alongside with the proud boys with direct access to militia groups. we'll hear direct testimony from him. republicans on capitol hill are dismissing this effort contending this is not a legitimate line of inquiry. but there were ten republicans who voted to impeach donald trump over his actions on january 6th. accusing him of inciting the january 6th insurrection. one of them is tom rice. he's a republican from south carolina. he's locked in a tough primary bat

manu, what are you picking up? >> reporter: talks are going to happen, including this hour when a larger group of members to see whether they can finalize any sort of agreement that's not going to go as far as what some of these survivors of the uvalde massacre, the parents of the survivors, the parents and the pediatrician who testified just moments ago in uvalde, texas, will not go as far in what many of them want and restrict access to guns, but what they are talking about is a number of other provisions, expanding background checks to look at juvenile records is part of those background checks as well as red flag laws, incentives to states to develop those laws to allow authorities to take away guns from individuals deemed a risk, along with mental health provisions and the like, but still not raising the age from 18 to 21. the purchase of the semiautomatic rifles even though senate republican leader mitch mcconnell privately expressed an openness to that idea but they'll accept even an incremental change, even

. >> cnn senior correspondent, congressional correspondent, manu raju joins us. where are these talks now? >> reporter: they're still going on. it's uncertain whether or not they can get a deal. there are key issues they have to resolve, and also key questions, namely whether or not there will be enough support in order to overcome a republican led filibuster, 60 votes in the u.s. senate to get there. before that they need to have a deal, and the deal they're discussing, is a narrow one, not going as far as a lot of democrats would like, not going to outallaw any sort of high powered semiautomatic rifles, and not raising the age from 18 to 21 to buy the rifles, instead focusing on handful of issues, investments in mental health, school security and dealing with background checks so people can actually look into the juvenile records of individuals buying those guns, and also dealing with the issue of red flag laws. those happen in a number of states have these laws so authorities can go in and take away from guns from individuals who are deemed a security risk. th