president trump, partly out of concern it would give the appearance of pressure on the attorney general. politico argues that the first three hearings essentially did that for them, laying out stark evidence that trump and his allying now the election was not rig, but they pushed the big lie anyway. there s new evidence that the department of justice may be growing frustrated against the committee as well. we learned of a strongly worded letter by the doj, in which the department accuses committee members of complicating investigations by withholding transcripts of witness interviews, it says, quote, are not just potentially relevant to the overall communications, but likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. however, committee chairman bennie thompson made it clear he is not rushing to help out. we ve interviewed over 1,000 witnesses, that would mean we have to stop what we re doing to then work with the department of justice. we will eventually
this administration has failed. the far left pro abortion group is now reportedly clairing, quote, open season on pro life americans. it s been a week and joe biden still has not condemned the attempted murder of a sitting supreme court justice. mayra flores flipping the district in texas. the democratic party has gone so far left and they don t represent our values. a little bright thing to wake you up. there s someone running. there s some people surfing right now. that s where everyone in south carolina goes to surf. the cameraman didn t follow them. what happened to that? like he was just there. still running. i think he s looking for something. i don t think that s exercise. they re getting a high of 85 today and if you look at the forecast, there s one big sunshine. there s not a cloud over it. that s what you want for the summer. last time we were in the neck of the woods, we were south of there. . i had shrimp and grits every meal. they act
the committee scared new video from mark short saying pence pushed back against trump s pressure campaign. was it your impression the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world, through a dear colleague letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and had been consistent in conveying his position to the president? very consistent. joining us now, nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, nbc news correspondent vaughn hilliard, luke broadwater from the new york times and joyce vance, professor at university of alabama school of law and msnbc legal analyst. garrett, you spoke with pete aguilar, who is taking a lead role today. what did he tell you about what we can expect? reporter: we can expect to hear that mike pence was both under more pressure and in more danger in the leadup to january 6th and on january 6th than has been previously reported. the committee plans to lay o
and being the saudis now starting up this, you know, tournament of their own, and this sports washing that they re doing, trying to buy respect on the world stage, trying to improve their image, just be truthful, you know, just work with the truth instead of hiding behind lies. that s how you gain respect. you can t buy it. you have to earn it. terry, wonderful to have you this morning. thank you so much for speaking with us. thank you for having me. and new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is wednesday, june 15th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. and new this morning, president biden taking on big oil, demanding immediate action from seven major oil companies to boost supplies. in a letter to the companies, he slams their high profit margins, and insists they are not acceptable when americans are paying record prices at the pump. the president blames the oil companies for blunting the impact of
disastrous showing the biggest spike in consumer prices in over 40 years that the fed felt the need to move fast here to take a page out of the playbook of alan greenspan and paul volker with a very big interest rate increase, and they signaled that more aggressive steps are to come because that official said they are, quote, strongly committed to getting inflation back down to 2%. and given that it s nowhere near 2% right now, that does imply more big rate increases to come. as far as why this is happening, i think it s important to think about the economy as almost like a car on a highway, and the fed is the driver. when it needs to speed the car up, it will cut interest rates to stimulate demand. right now we have the opposite situation. it s going dangerously fast, and so the fed needs to slow things down. it s actually slamming the brakes on the economy. the problem here, victor, for the fed is if they don t do enough inflation can go out of control. if they do too much,