we told him, the group that went over there outlined, you know, my belief in chances for success at this point. my belief was that it was very, very 5% to 10% is not a good optimistic outlook. the committee then showed how former president trump continued to embrace allegations of fraud, going against his white house lawyers, who told him that accusations were baseless were not substantial enough to make a difference in the election outcome. the justice department even told him there was no there-there as trump kept holding onto wild conspiracies. there were so many allegations, that when you gave him a very direct answer on one of them, he wouldn t fight us on it, but he would move to another allegation. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. we told him flat-out much of the information he s getting is false and/or just not supported by the evidence. we look at the allegations, but they don t pan out. so then former president trump had a choice. the committee s
taming inflation. the very thing that is weighing on the u.s. economy. the worry, of course, is that the fed could tighten too much and plunge the u.s. economy into a recession. it s really a delicate walk for the federal reserve, but at this point, the market wants to see the fed try to get out ahead of this because many believe the fed has been behind the curve for so long. alison kosik, thanks so much. turning to our politics lead and the january 6th committee laying out damning evidence that former president trump was told over and over and over again that his claims of election fraud were not rooted in fact. he was told by members of his campaign, he was told by members of his legal team, he was told by even his own attorney general, bill barr. when i went into this and would, you know, tell him how crazy some of these allegations were, there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were, in my opinion then and my opinion now is that the electio
nevada. bill: we ll try to get a fair debate here soon. we ll see what happens in nevada on tuesday. thanks. thanks. dana: house committee investigating the january 6 riot at the u.s. capitol will soon hold its second in a series of public hearings today. they plan to focus on president trump s claims of voter fraud and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i m bill hemmer. that hearing delayed a bit as one witness, former trump campaign manager can t testify. he has a family emergency. won t testify today we should say. lawmakers plan to present evidence aimed at showing president trump spread false information to cast doubt on the election. what democrats are calling the big lie. protests take place outside the u.s. supreme court less than a week after the assassination attempt targeting justice brett kavanaugh. an event largely ignored by the networks. brit hume last hour w
ballots, the allegations that they are taking one ballot and scanning it through three, four, five times to rack up votes for vice president biden. i told him the video did not support that. then he went off on double voting, he said that dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote, and he meant people in native american reservations. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. i told him flat out that much of the information he s getting is false and therefore is not supported by the evidence. we looked at the allegations, but they don t pan out. mr. barr and his advisors were not the only ones to determine that the president s allegations regarding dominion voting machines were false. i asked unanimous consent, reports issued by the department of homeland security, cybersecurity, and infrastructure security agency otherwise known, that reject the claims of manipulation of voting machines in the 2020 election. without objection, so ordered. thank you, mr.
that event in just a few minutes. but, first, breaking tonight, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in this country is soaring past the $5 mark, a figure never before seen in the u.s. wall street took the skyrocketing inflation hard. the dow losing almost 3 percentage points today. the s&p 500 dropping nearly 4. the nasdaq losing four and two thirds. president biden continues to put the blame on others, vladimir putin, oil companies, but an increasing number of americans are blaming president biden, according to the latest poll numbers. that is now leading many democrats to both publicly and anonymously question whether the president should seek a second term. white house correspondent peter doocy leads us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. a quick check of numbers that have changed since president biden s inauguration day, gas prices are now twice as high and the average price, the dow jones industrial average stocks are