from the time you started working, republicans want to put it on the chopping block. i m gonna ask ron klain, who s gonna join us in this hour if that is the closing argument in these congressional elections. is is that what. it is wow! mitch mcconnell is a loving that, not! right. and republicans have absolutely made this argument possible, and highly credible for the democrats. thank you kevin mccarthy for explaining that you are gonna use the debt ceiling to slash the social safety net. you re welcome! i think what klain is going to be ready for this question. i think you will be, lawrence! but i m excited, and i will be tuning in. thank you alex! thank you! have a good show! today, a federal judge found compelling evidence that donald trump committed federal, and state crimes. and that he did that with the advice and counsel of attorney john eastman, whose emails the judge ordered, handed over to the january six committee, saying the emails are not prote
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a busy news day with us. president biden taps the strategic petroleum reserve, 15 million barrels is barely one day of what america consumes but the price of gas is hurting the midterm prospects and thehe is trying to show he trying to ease your pain at the pump. no blank check for ukraine. a promise to boot democrats from committees. no promise to rule out cutting social security and medicare. kevin mccarthy gives a window into his agenda. should republicans take back the house. martial law. russia signs off on new decrees from vladimir putin trying to exert more power over ukraine. president biden in a new move designed to help your budget a bit and hopes also maybe his outlook. in just a short while the president announces a batch of new oil drawn from the strategic petroleum reserve, some 15 million barrels and his energy team today won t rule out releasing more oil over the w
the ejections from the stars and a lot of people have different takes on, you know, what this actually looks like. some people say they see the hand of god coming up. the producer for this show says he sees the galloping horse. i don t know about that. what do you think? i see a horse. i do see it. do you see a horse? i see a horse. i could be convinced to see the horse. yeah. i love there s a such thing as a baby star, but just how detailed this picture is. hubble was nice. it was nice. this is fantastic. yeah. it really is impressive. it s so cool, except now i have stuck in my head and i give it to the both of you baby stars, doo-doo doo-doo we didn t plan that. we didn t. thank you as always. top of the hour. i m erica hill. i m victor blackwell. good to have you along. any moment we will see president biden make his now second economic announcement of the day. the president is expected to award $2.8 billion in grants targeting the electric gri
prices up, taxes down? possibly the one good thing about inflation. the changes uyou could see in your paychecks on your tax returns. welcome to the lead i m john berman in for jake tapper. we begin in the world lead in a few minutes russian president s vladimir putin rule of martial law goes into effect. this despite the fact that putin s army doesn t have full control over the area. and as the campaign to plunge ukraine into darkness continues, energy officials said they had no choice but to introduce blackouts following days of devastating russian cruise missile and drone strikes. missiles hit at least three power stations just today, that s according to the ukraine. nick roberts is in kyiv. reporter: ukrainian civilians now under russian martial law. lined up to be evacuated in kherson city. potentially to russia. russian imposed officially, in illegally annexed kherson told them it s not safe to stay. up to 60,000 forced out, boats used to ferry them away from the fron
for electric vehicles. that s any minute now. we ll bring it to you live. the president also putting gas prices front and center today, announcing new plans to try to tackle high prices at the pump. how he s responding to criticism that the move is purely political, with election day now less than three weeks away. and we re on subpoena watch. the january 6th select committee set to formally issue one to former president trump soon, but how soon? we ll talk to a member of the economy, congresswoman zoe lofgren who joins us later in the hour. good morning, i m garrett haake back from paternity leave and we speak with the new york times times political analyst and vaughn hillyard is in tucson arizona, dasha burns is with us, and national political reporter natalie allison rounds out the opening crew here. peter, we just heard from the president about this new plan that tries to tackle high prices at the pump, and he s answering direct questions on whether or not the move