insurrection, the january 6th committee plans to focus on donald trump s repeated pressure on former vice president mike pence to block the certification of the 2020 election results. remember what trump told the crowd just hours before the attack on the capitol. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he s a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. hmm. the committee s going to make the case trump s pressure campaign directly contributed to that day s deadly violence. new photos obtained by abc news show pence and his family in hiding after the former vice president was rushed off the senate floor by secret service during the insurrection. let s begin our coverage with cnn s ma nu raju live on capito hill. walk us through exactly what we ll watch later today. reporter: the committee will try to lay out the time line
harry smith on the end of an internet era announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening today some tough medicine for an american economy racked by high inflation. the federal reserve raising a key interest rate 0.75% it s the biggest bump-up since 1994 a hike sure to be felt in the wallets of american borrowers. think higher mortgages rates and bigger credit card payments which we ll get into in a moment. what s it all about? the fed hopes the increase will start putting the brakes on inflation which is running at 40-year highs. gas, food, prices, you name it. it s all soaring investors liked the news today the markets rallying on the fed announcement policymakers weighing future increases while trying to steer around the risk of a recession. let s tell you what you need to know about all this starting with tom costello reporter: for days, the fed has telegraphed that it would go big today after acknowledging it should have acted sooner to rein in
and ease pressures, the risk is stalling the economy and opening the door to recession. and primary lesson, south carolina voters voted to impeach trump. the banner republicans were warned they vied for opponents up and down the ballot. the crackling dispute now between the january 6th committee and a republican member of congress. the republican member in question from georgia. here you see a man taking photos of stairwells and hallways, not your typical capitol tour highlights. the committee says he led this man and a few others on a tour of the capitol complex january 5th, 2021. the committee says that same man took this video outside the capitol on january 6th shouting threats at democratic lawmakers. we re coming in like white on rice, for pelosi, nadler, schumer. even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out. cnn s ryan nobles up on capitol hill for us. tell us more. reporter: john, i think maybe each one of these individual pieces of evidence by itself may not be a
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
the committee is also expected to take a deeper drive dive into the lies that led to supporters violently storming the capitol. we are by the president of the united states! he personally asked for us to come to d.c. that day. and i thought, for everything he is done for us, the only thing that he is asking me is it is hard to know right now just how much east trumpy detail we heard on thursday moved the needle among the 20 million americans who tuned in, according to nielsen s rating data. whether it was learning that former attorney general bill barr thought that trump s elections were quote, bs, or whether ivanka trump agreed. or that trump reportedly told his staff that vice president, quote, deserve to be assassinated. or even the never before seen footage of just how violent trump s riders were. the full impact of the hearings has gets to play itself out. still. congresswoman liz cheney had a stark warning for recalcitrant republican politicians who continue