world. it is friday, october 14th. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the january 6th house committee escalating its showdown with donald trump. our institutions only hold when men and women of good faith make them hold. committee vice chair liz cheney closing down the hearing calling for them to subpoena the former president. trump is not expected to comply. jamie raskin tells cnn s jake tapper, if he s innocent, he should. but even if he thinks that it was a righteous manifestation of pro trump sentiment, then he should come forward if he really wants to be the musi linnie of a mass right wing populus movement. he should come forward and explain that. cnn s jessica schneider has more from the hearing. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. an extraordinary move. those in favor will say aye. aye. reporter: unanimously voting to subpoena former president donald trump for testimony and documents in the
carley: all up from this time a year ago. take a look at the price of gas this morning. the national average $3.90 a gal on. on inauguration, it was $2.90. kevin has more details on that. kevin: great to be back with you. there is a saying, if you don t like what they are saying about you, be sure to change the topic, the smart thing to do. for the biden white house, that is the thing, especially when it comes to talking about the economy. the latest cpi is out, up 8.2% year over year, massive jump. the president says it could be worse, but he swears things are getting better. president biden: today s report shows progress, overall inflation was 2% over last three months, down from 11% the past three months, that is progress. republicans win, inflation will get worse, that simple. kevin: tough to imagine getting much worse than things are right now. speaking of worse, national average for gallon of regular unleaded gas almost $4, incredible, that is bad, this is wor
top concerns. president biden speaking last night in california, 150 miles from the border with mexico, by the way, which he has visited exactly we re counting 0 times. no mention of the crisis there. he also ignored the reality of surging crime rates and resorted to his familiar blame game on gas prices, which are on the rise yet again. biden also touted economic progress despite yesterday s brutal inflation report. the last one before the vote. ouch. prices up 8.2% still at a 40-year high. and the president seems to be keenly aware that it is a very big problem for his party. president biden: we ve got an election in a month. voters have to decide, democrats are working to bring down the cost of things and let s talk about around the kitchen table from prescription drugs to health insurance and energy bills and more. republicans win the inflation will get worse. working folks are losing big time. their wages are rising but inflation is rising more. this continues to be
the biden administration knew early on those border patrol agents didn t whip any migrants. they deserve better. we thought we saw everything in the game and now a new friend wants to join our party. i know this is an intense playoff game but it but i can t help but laugh. steve: good morning. you are not disappearing yet. east providence, rhode island, your sunrise today is going to be in about an hour. about 6:56 right now. 61 degrees now and a daytime high of 67. just like new york city, it s going to be a rainy day throughout the day on this thursday, october 13th, 2022. come on in. ainsley: good morning, everyone! steve: it s day four of fox & friends weekday dish in. ainsley: this week flew by. brian: is it just me? don t feel compelled to agree. there s a blizzard of great and intriguing stories this week, little in the midterms. what is your favorite? brian: probably the first one we have today. i can t believe it. a lot of times what i
many of my colleagues have responded to what i think is a great moral test and challenge of our time. some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter of a key putin ally was preplanned. a murder investigation is now under way after she died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and also considered an architect of the ukraine invasion and often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen has more. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stan