president biden resorted to mocking oil company executives for the price surge and continues blaming russia for his own bad policy. griff jenkins has the latest details. griff: good morning, it is official fox news can confirm the idea barack obama once called a gimmick, president biden will call for it, three-month federal gas tax holiday, he is calling on states to take similar action. gallon of gas was just $2.39 on inauguration day. senator tom cotton calling it a gimmick and saying it is meant to cover up the fact dem policies restricted supply and raised cost. senator tim scott had this to say. we re going to try to trick the market and suggest we can alleviate tax pressure, that is great. but the way gas is ticking up every week, that reduction in price is eliminated in about 12 days. criticism is not limited to capitol hill, target ceo blasting saying it is time to change the supply and demand curve for fuel and transportation. another oil company chief is pushi
federal reserve is directly contradicting the president about the main driver behind that inflation. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. for now rebate cards are out and the federal gas tax holiday is in. president biden s problem few democrats don t see the point. i fully understand that a gas tax holiday alone is not going to fix the problem. but it will provide families some immediate relief. president biden wants congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days to bring down prices at the pump. but evidently didn t nail down lawmaker support before making the public plea and congress is lukewarm. house speaker nancy pelosi writing: we will see where the consensus lies on a path forward. democrat senator joe manchin indicated the votes may not be there at all telling abc. i m not a yes right now that s for sure. even if congress gets on board, there is nothin
the public. reporter: they talked to ivanka trump, whose comments seemed to contradict what she told the committee under oath about whether she believed the election was stolen. plus, easing the sting of gas prices. at the white house next hour president biden will call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months. but is this proposal likely to hit a dead end in congress? speaker pelosi called it good pr just a few months ago. also on capitol hill, a major breakthrough in gun legislation with a senate vote coming as soon as friday. this is the most significant anti-gun violence bill that congress has voted on in 30 years. the senate action comes as new details about the uvalde school shooting massacre sparked new outrage. new testimony that the shooter could have been taken down in a matter of minutes, just adding to the devastation of victims families. i just don t get how you can hear these kids, you know, crying and asking for help, but you re
brett kavanaugh, why the california man says he made a cross country trip to the justice s home. and this photo highlighting the horrors of the vietnam war, turning 50 years old. the child and the photographer join new day. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is thursday, june 9th. this morning, something new, cnn has learned that the ceos of more than 220 u.s. companies will release a letter today, demanding the senate take immediate action to reduce gun violence. the letter calls gun violence a public health crisis that devastates communities, and costs american taxpayers, employees, employers and communities a staggering $280 billion a year. it does not endorse any specific policy proposals or make any new ones. connecticut senator chris murphy, the lead democratic negotiator in the senate gun safety talks, had this to say on new day moments ago, about the prospects for a breakthrough. i don t think you can be anything other than c
legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. why do you think people need to have ar-15s in this country? you are talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. if we can introduce to them safely, they normally say that thing s not even scary. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. wednesday, june 8, 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where in the coming hours u.s. lawmakers will hear the testimonies from the families of mass shooting victims reflecting on the lives they have lost. while gun policy, talks on a bipartisan deal, carry on, many believe it is not enough for the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. on tuesday, the u.s. senate heard from some of those families, they called on congress to take action on gun reform and hate crimes. one man s mother was killed when a shooter opened fire at a grocery store in buffalo, new york last month. he remembered his mother as the heart of the family. what i loved most ab