investigation makes it case, day three, a losing presidential candidate, pressed to force his running mate, the vice president, to throw out the election results, to overthrow the u.s. government. when mr. eastman came in, he said, i m here to request that you reject the electors. new witness testimony today about how the president tried to force it to an end. did you hear any part of the phone calls? yeah, i remember hearing the word wimp. and i remember he said, you are a wimp. new information today on the danger the vice president faced as a result of the threats to his life, and the president knowing that that s what he had done. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america. new evidence today showing that people working with the president to enact the scheme. they knew what they were doing was illegal. doctor eastman s emails stated, quote, i ve decided that i should be on the parted lust, if that is still in the works. and a crucial warning abo
two missing americans in ukraine, on the back of a russian military truck, hands apparently tied behind their backs. where are they now? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, donald trump was quote, pouring gasoline on the fire. how trump s former white house deputy press secretary describes trump s actions that put pence s life in danger on january 6th. this testimony showed at the january 6th committee this afternoon, rioters came within 40 feet, 40 feet of the vice-president at the capitol. committee showed these never before seen photos of the vice-president and these pictures are of pence at a secure loksz after rioters breached the capitol so when he s in that, you know, sort of rushed into that little back area of attempted safety. including this one that shows pence looking at the video trump tweeted, asking rioters to leave the capitol, the one sent many hours after the violence began, and hours after trump had repeatedly stoked the
keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. the new york times reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6 unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks this email before the insurrection. the times says this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. much more on this in just a moment. but first cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will say at today s hearing which focuses on th
nearly three decades. all, of course, in an effort to slow slowing inflation. in hours, the fed expected to announce raising rates by 0.75. that will make it more expensive to pay for things like a mortgage. the biden administration under growing pressure to do more to avoid a recession. retail sales fell last month. consumers feeling the squeeze from the record high gas prices, inflation and already rising interest rates. let s begin our coverage with cnn s matt egan live in washington taking a closer look at the fed s big move expected today, matt. reporter: erica, this is shaping up to be an historic day for the american economy. in just under three hours, the federal reserve is expected to take aggressive action to try to tame inflation. prices surging so rapidly that economists and investors now expect the fed to raise interest rates by 0.75%. this is a big deal. some context, just six months ago or so, there was a debate over whether or not the fed would raise interes
years, marking the central bank s most aggressive move yet to bring down the soaring costs of food and gas and almost everything else. inflation is not easy. just days ago we learned it s at the highest level since 1981. the fed released a darkening forecast projecting more inflation and higher unemployment. joining me now matt egan. we heard from the fed chairman. he signalled more rate hikes. what did you learn? reporter: well, victor, clearly inflation is on fire. today the federal reserve officially called in help for some reinforcements. taking aggressive steps to raise interest rates and fed officials are signaling that even more aggressive steps may be needed to get inflation under control. listen to what jerome powell just said. we anticipate ongoing rate increases will be appropriate. the pace of those changes will continue to depend on the incoming data and evolving out look for the economy. clearly today s 75 basis point increase is an unusually large one. from