toxic work culture inside the nfl. reports of a woman paid off to settle a sexual assault case against dan snyder, the owner of the washington commanders football team. what the league s commissioner roger goodell told congress today about the new allegations. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and president biden s latest attempt to tame the insanely high gas prices plaguing americans. the president this afternoon called on congress to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax, which is right now about 18 cents a gallon. a move president biden has resisted until today given that it is unlikely to pass congress. republicans widely oppose it, and even some leading democrats are skeptical that oil companies will actually pass that savings on to drivers. the proposed suspension is part of a larger plan introduced by president biden earlier today which the white house claims could save drivers up to $1 per gallon of gas. as kaitlan collins report
inflation was high before, certainly before the war in ukraine broke out. martha: senator john kennedy was in that hearing with jerome powell. he s here to react to that and respond to it in moments. first, we re glad to be joined by james spurling, senior adviser to president biden. thanks for making time for us today. what is your reaction to what jerome powell just said about the real driver of u.s. inflation? there was no contradiction at all with what president said and your tape of federal chairman powell. president biden is talking about what has happened with gas prices. on that, there s no controversy. on january 17, when putin starts doing military exercise in belarus, the price of gas is at $3.31 at the pump. that is actually below the average for real prices in the previous decade. after he does that, after that unthinkable aggression by putin and the response to it, gas prices have gone up $2 in much of the world and $1.7 oh. martha: the truth is they sta
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
president trump, partly out of concern it would give the appearance of pressure on the attorney general. politico argues that the first three hearings essentially did that for them, laying out stark evidence that trump and his allying now the election was not rig, but they pushed the big lie anyway. there s new evidence that the department of justice may be growing frustrated against the committee as well. we learned of a strongly worded letter by the doj, in which the department accuses committee members of complicating investigations by withholding transcripts of witness interviews, it says, quote, are not just potentially relevant to the overall communications, but likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. however, committee chairman bennie thompson made it clear he is not rushing to help out. we ve interviewed over 1,000 witnesses, that would mean we have to stop what we re doing to then work with the department of justice. we will eventually
moment where you have more than satisfied your burden of proof. there s no room for any reasonable doubt. last night s hearing was the tell them what you re going to tell them part. now, there were moments where they teased the actual telling, the testimony of prominent figures who were relevant not just because of their proximity to then-president trump but also for the role they played within the government, maybe as a member of congress or as a white house aide. or maybe they were playing the role of lawyer in a courtroom, trying to convince a judge of a big lie. i wonder if it surprised any of you to see testimony as part of them tell-them part from one-time trump loyalist like former attorney general bill bar calling trump s election lie, quote, bullshit, unquote. ivanka trump even saying she believed barr, saying she respected him. over her own father she believed him when it came to claims of mass voter fraud. it altered her perspective. did it further surprise you to