defense production act over the price of gas. carley: the president s push for a gas tax holiday getting pushback from the democrats, warning this policy would at best achieve miniscule relief while blowing $10 billion hole in the highway trust fund that would need to be filleded if we want to fix crumbling bridges, advance the modern infrastructure system, and griff jenkins is live in washington can more. good morning. griff: good morning. the president s plan is combination of suspending federal gas tax until september and calling on states to suspend their respective gas tax and now issuing war-footing edick that oil companies lower their prices. watch. president biden: to companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump, this is a time of war, global peril, ukraine, these are not normal times. bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect cost you are paying for the product. do it now, do it today. griff: the president s messaging bla
guy, jeff clarke. the january 6th committee turns its spotlight on jeffrey clarke, the critical figure in trump s corrupt plot to put the parameter on his fake elector scheme. also tonight, trump is not happy with kevin mccarthy because the january 6th hearings are completely devoid of clowning, trolling and disruptions that trump was counting on for his attempted coup. i have a special guest, cherelle griner and the wife of basketball star britney griner who has been held in russia for four months. we begin with the january 6th committee hearings which most people can agree have been extremely substantive. so much so that they re going on longer than we thought. chairman bennie thompson said today that the committee received so much new information on the tip line that he s been promoting during each of the previous hearings that after tomorrow additional hearings will be held in july. one of the latest developments, never before seen footage subpoenaed from the committe
election defense fund that never existed and how he repeated his own top officials, even as they investigated one wild fraud allegation after another and found nothing. he said dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote and he meant people on native american reservations. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. there were instances where the president would say people are telling me this or i heard this or i saw on television this impropriety in atlanta and we were in a position to say people already looked at that, you re getting bad information, that s not correct. i told hmm the stuff his people were shoveling out to the public were [ bleep ]. right now i want to bring in jonathan lemire, paul butler, barbara mcquade, great to have this all-star panel. ali, i think there s a pretty clear through line here all about the fact that the president was told over and over that the allegations of fraud didn t hold up and he went out and spread them anywa
for documents. how the panel could respond to his defiance. a near total abortion ban. looser gun laws and political stands that cost millions of dollars to taxpayers. why republican policies are failing taxpayers. all of this and more is coming up. a good saturday morning to all of you. i am katie fang. let s start with a fact. i hope none of you will have to put this to use. caskets for children come in four different sizes and 11 different paint colors for the exterior. there s only one company that makes them in the united states. sadly, they have had a busy week. the company knee, cherokee caskets of georgia, is covering the cost of the cascades for all of the uvalde shooting victims. it is 30 $400 each. the ceo told the daily beast quote, when we have sandy hook, that was a crazy day. we are tired. we are tired of doing these things. i am beyond tired. i am exhausted and overwhelmed by the death and tragedy of lives lost. as the days tick by in uvalde, there seems to be
before he went on the kill spree, he had gotten into an argument with his grandmother. ramos reportedly shot her in the face. got in his car, wrecked near rob robb elementary school which where you can see here, grabbed his rifle and headed to the school. and he choreographed his despicable intentions online. just minutes before the massacre, here is governor greg abbott earlier today. the first was to the point of he said i m going to shoot my grandmother. the second post was: i shot my grandmother. the third post maybe less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school was i m going to shoot an elementary school. jesse: we just learned today that an on campus officer did exchange gunfire with ramos before he went into the school. this is ramos caught on camera entering from a back door. when ramos got inside, officers say he barricaded himself in a classroom and opened fire. he just began shooting numerous children and teachers in that classroom having no regard for h