security council official john kirby. and the january 6 select committee just released new video evidence after an abrupt change in the hearing s schedule. this, as we re learning more about a split within the panel over whether to formally seek any criminal prosecutions, including against former president trump. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a nation on edge right now at a critical moment for the u.s. economy. tonight, president biden is making a new effort to calm americans fears while also trying to defend his record. here s our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. inflation, it s sapping the strength of a lot of families. reporter: president biden acknowledging the pain of higher prices in philadelphia today. gas is up and food is up, which we re going to get down come hell or high water. reporter: biden promising to bring prices down as t
headed near a pride event that was happening here at this park and in other parts of downtown here in this town. and they said, you know, they had riot gear with them, including shields and smoke bombs and some weapons, although not firearms. the men were apparently standing outside of the truck when someone spotted them. they all had the same clothes on, so someone said they looked like a little bit of an army, according to a witness. that s how police were alerted that they were in town, and i should mention, this group is familiar to us because they are an offshoot of a group that was at the charlottesville deadly unite the right rally that white supremacist rally in charlottesville that ended in the death of heather heyer who was run over by a man who also subscribed to this group. so this group was a splinter of that after what happened in 2017, the publicity was so high, they changed their name from american vanguard to patriot front. the leader of american vanguard bec
republican party, and what we can do both from a legal and political perspective to stop this momentum on the far right before it is too late. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. our focus tonight is radicalization, and as we come on the air tonight we are learning new details about an effort from a radical group, the white nationalists patriot front group, were arrested near an lgbtq event in idaho just last night. we re going to have more like that on the show tonight. including vice president harris s remarks on this troubling incident. the radicalization was on vivid display as a trump mob trying to overthrow our government on january the 6th. the footage left me and so many others wondering, what would compel someone to do this? a short answer is, and to be honest, it s complicated. the causes of radicalization s are as different as the forms it takes. some are radicalized by conspiracies like qanon, others by the rhetoric of militant groups or religious extremists,
participate in vent which is what they were planning. people don t want everyone to forget what happened in orlando six years ago. senseless. happens all the time. really we need to pay respect for things like that. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. . it is 19 days since 19 young children were slaughtered in uvalde, texas, with 2 teachers and the senate is taking a step to gun safety. here are the provisions under discussion. funding for mental health resources. red flag laws. expanded background checks. addressing the boyfriend loophole and straw purchasing and clarifying the definition of a firearms dealer. if there s attempt to filibuster the legislation you need ten members from the gop and the democrats to end it. saying we can t fail the american people again president biden is pushing for a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, strengthening the background checks and enacting safe storage and repealing gun mrveers.
iran will remove 27 cameras that have been announcing nuclear sites for the international community. i ll talk to iea chief rafael mariano about what happens next. average u.s. gas prices hit a record $5 a gallon. overall inflation hits 8.6%. 40 year high. consumers are pessimistic about the state of the u.s. economy. what does the former federal reserve chair ben bernanke think? i ll ask him. but first, here s my take. we are now living in a totally new era. that is what the 99-year-old henry kissinger said commenting on the russian invasion of ukraine. president biden vividly outlined the stakes. he wrote, if russia does not pay a heavy right for its actions, it will send a message to other would-be aggressors that they too can seiz e territory and sub yous subjugate others and catastrophic consequences the world over. in times like these, it seemed appropriate that the secretary of state antony blinken would deliver a major policy address, which he did late last month. e