Violent mob against the u. S. Capitol and his own Vice President on january 6th. The Justice Department won the battle and politico reports Special Counsel jack smith obtained an extraordinary array from twitter about trumps account. While it remained unclear what sorts of information the messages contained and who exactly may have written them, it was a revelation that there were private messages associated with the twitter count of mr. Trump, who has famously been cautious about using written forms of consideration with his aides and allies. Hes reportedly sent over direct messages that were sent, received and stored in draft. Politico reports this, quote, u. S. District judge Barrel Howard held twitter, now known as x, in Contempt Of Court in february be fining that company 350,000 for missing a deadline. And he lit into twitter for taking extraordinary and apparently unprecedented steps to give trump an advantage. At one point the judge asking being quote, is it because the new ceo
[indistinct] [bleep]! kayleigh: no one except maybe opec because they just did. saudi led oil cartel announced it is slashing production by 2 million barrels a day. the move is expected to push our rising gas prices even higher. it is also a slap in the face to the president and his team because they have been spending months and months trying to stop this spirit the president even visited saudi arabia last july. you remember, it is that video of victoria s fist bump between the saudi prince. that opec removes the failure of the fist pump to diplomacy and simply doesn t work. americans, well, if you will pay the price. you know what, it is amazing to me, tammy. i saw this yesterday the announcement of the cuts from opec. fist bump foreign policy diplomacy simply doesn t work. then came the headlines, which were in canada delete accurate and usually they bury the truth of the biden administration cnbc, white house lobby fails to prevent opec plus cuts appear td national re
the worst drought in 1200 years . it is scary to think we cannot do this because we know have water to do it. there is this assumption that it will always be there, still, it s always not there. they might have been captured by the russians they have been fighting. we expect they were from the tank shooting with a blast. he had this and this big burden on him to serve the people however he can. i want to see him back safely. i am jessica dean in washington. pamela house tonight off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with your wallet, and the beating it has taken in recent days, weeks and months. the s&p 500 ended its first week since march of 2020. that is when the pandemic hit. for a second straight day, the dow closed between 30,000. americans are filling the worst inflation now since 1981. consumer prices shot up by 8.6% ending in may. record gas prices and skyrocketing airline tickets are battering summer travel plans. just a few days ago, the federa
stepian s recorded deposition to try to establish key facts about today s theme, the big lie, that donald trump knew he lost election, but continued anyway to rally his supporters around the false claim that he had won. we re also moments away from the supreme court releasing new decisions possibly on the key mississippi abortion case. we ll bring you any of the big cases as we learn about them. let s start with today s hearing because this missing stepian throws a wrench into the committee s plans after laying out how this would play out during the first prime time hearing last week. indeed, it does. because as we ve seen before, in-person testimony is so much more powerful even than the clips they showed of ivanka trump, for instance, on thursday night as we were showing on friday in the hearings. so the appearance in person would have been much more impactful. of course we re excited for them and his wife and their impending new baby, but that is the reality of what ha