Happening now breaking news, inflation drops to its lowest level in months as President

Trump defends his economic efforts in front of the nation, but the numbers may not be telling

the whole story.

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Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

I'm Pamela Brown.

Wolf Blitzer is on assignment and you're in the situation room.

Thank you. Will Fletzer is on assignment and you're in the Situation Room.

This is CNN breaking news.

And we begin this hour with that breaking news.

A new measure of the economy released just a short time ago.

The Consumer Price Index shows inflation has slowed to an annual growth of 2.7%. That was at a smaller rate than expected, but economists warned this is a deeply flawed report. And it comes as President Trump defends his economy very forcefully in a primetime address.

He says the country is enjoying a record start to his second term, and he blames any economic pain on his predecessor.

One year ago, our country was dead.

We were absolutely dead.

Our country was ready to fail.

Totally failed. Now, we're the hottest country

anywhere in the world. CNN's Elena Treen is at the White House for us. So let's begin with

our coverage, though, with CNN senior reporter Matt Egan to better understand this morning's numbers

and how they fit into the big picture of the economy, Matt.

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