2020 meeting in the sedition case against five oath keepers on trial for plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power. this as a sitting republican senator warns political violence is escalating. that senator says this. i wouldn t be surprised if a senator or a house member were killed. up first for us, though, we count the midterm votes five weeks from tonight and there is a blockbuster development today in one of the senate races critical, absolutely critical to the balance of power here in washington. the daily beast reporting monday afternoon that georgia s republican senate nominee, herschel walker, paid for a woman s abortion back in 2009. walker calls this accusation untrue. it is a flat out lie. and now you know how important this seat is. this seat is very important that they ll do anything to win this seat and lie because they want to make it about everything else except what the true problems that we have in this country is. this inflation. the border wide
space center where the uncrewed artemis i mission is scheduled to lift off between 8:33 and 10:33 a.m. here s the thing, there are technical issues right now. a hydrogen leak and potentially an engine problem threatening this morning s launch. the plan is for artemis one to eventually fly around the moon with three mannequins, including one named commander moonequin. nearly 50 years ago apollo went to the moon. the artemis plans to land humans on the lunar south pole of the moon in the next few years and ultimately serve as a way to get to mars. lets get the very latest on where things stand right now at the kennedy space center. cnn s kristin fisher is there. what can you tell us? reporter: well, guys, i think it s important to remember that this is only a test flight. it is the very first time this artemis rocket, the sls rocket and the orion crew capsule on top, has ever flown. we knew there was a very good chance that they were going to run into issues today. knew the
involving the doj s investigation of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the trump team has one more hour now to officially weigh in on unsealing the documents before a judge hears the case this afternoon. the doj is opposing their release. various media organizations including cnn are requesting that they be unsealed. also happening this morning, the trump organization s former chief financial officer allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. the new york times reports that justice department has subpoenaed white house records in its investigation into january 6th. that s separate from the mar-a-lago search. and in georgia, rudy giuliani appeared before an atlanta-area grand jury for roughly six hours as the target, a target of the probe into efforts to subvert the election there. we want to circle back, though, to the case of the documents obtained at mar-a-lago. short time ago i spoke with donald trump s former impeachment lawyer davi
united states called the bankers on wall street. the current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of vladimir putin. republicans offer plenty of blame but not a single solution. they re not drilling. why not? you want to know why prices are so high? there are a number of reasons having to do with war in ukraine, destruction caused by the pandemic. bill: gas is down 50 cents over the past 30 days. every bit helps. currently sitting at 4.49 a gallon on average. still up 87% since the president took office. peter doocy starts the coverage from the north lawn. what s the explanation now? what we continue to hear from officials at the white house is that when prices go up for pretty much anything, it is putin s fault out of the president s hands. when the prices come down, it is the president s plans to thank and he deserves a lot of credit. and that is leading to new questions whether or not there is a double standard. there is no both way thinking here at all. i very m
us now. great to see you as always. this is a serious escalation. how do you see it? this is an escalation that china had been worning about in the weeks prior to this trip that pelosi was taking p the question is was it worth it, was anything substantive made during these meetings that she had on the ground there, symbolically this was a huge move, showing once again the united states stands in support of taiwan. and their autonomy there. that having been said, given the tensions, not only in the region right now, in china s escalation, and xi s escalation, as he s approaching his party congress meeting later this year, set to become the third term, unprecedented leader of that country and leader for life, was it worth it. with all of the focus now on ukraine, would this actually benefit taiwan and its security, and that s the question really going forward there, holding embargoes now on trade between china and taiwan, and, you know, the taiwanese obviously embraced this v