brand-new hour here on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. good to have you on. we re on the eve of another hearing on the capitol insurrection this time tomorrow, the committee investigating january 6th plans to focus on former president trump s efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. georgia elections officials brad raffensperger and gabe sterling are expected to testify about that pressure campaign. along with arizona house speaker rusty bowers. the committee is also promising to reveal new evidence that shows trump s involvement in the scheme to overturn biden s win in battleground states. we ll show evidence of the president s involvement in this scheme. we ll also show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. and we ll show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn t go along with this plan to either call legislators back into session or decertify the results for joe biden. cnn
worker too scared to even say her own name out loud in public, a steep price for those who defended democracy and did their job. the committee unveiled new information about previously unknown activity involving wisconsin s republican senator ron johnson. his aide offered to hand deliver fake electors to vice president mike pence on january 6th, now, johnson claims this is a nonstory. cnn s manu raju pressed him on this. reporter: why was he even asking for that? because somebody delivered this to our office and asked to deliver that to the vice president. reporter: who is the person that delivered it? i have no idea. and new reporting this morning on ivanka trump, this is a reminder of what she told the january 6th committee in a taped deposition when asked about bill barr s conclusion that there was no widespread election fraud. i respected attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. barr made those claims on december 1st, 2020, but nine days la
the lead in testifying against the former president in yesterday s hearing, including the speaker of arizona s house, who says he told trump in late december 2020 that he would not go along with the scheme to steal joe biden s win in his state. you re asking me to do something that s never been done in history, the history of the united states, and i m going to put my state through that without sufficient, and that s going to be good enough for me? i do not want to be a winner by cheating. incredibly powerful testimony. also new this morning, president biden aiming to help americans out, at least a little bit at the pump during the summer travel season. the white house expected today to call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax, three months. we have details on how much that would help reduce prices at the pump, and downsize to it as acknowledged by some members of the administration. more on that in just a bit. begin this morning with cnn s manu raju on the hil
set of hearings. plus flying in without a covid test, why the cdc is dropping a international testing requirement. and the embattled uvalde, texas, police chief defending his actions over his department s response. you ll hear from him just ahead. good morning, it is saturday, june 11th. thank you so much for starting your day with us. christi, always a pleasure to be with you. thank you so much. each when we have to talk about what we re talking about now because this is effecting every single person watching us. no question about that. we begin with painful economic news. the national average gas price surpassing $5 a gallon for the first time ever. this is unprecedented. according to aaa. that is a 60 cents increase, the biggest price jump since 1981, more than 40 years ago. it triggered a massive sell-off on wall street and biden officials have admitted that inflation is uncomfortably high and we continue to pay more for everything. the president tried to shif
constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. as negotiations continue, cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju pressed lawmakers about ar-15s and why people need them and he got a range of responses. here it is. why do you think that people need to have ar-15s in this country in. you re talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. people who are law abiding citizens are in good mental health and aren t a threat to the public. in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other types of varmints, so i think there are legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. that s used for sporting events, for sporting activities all the time. why not raise the age to 21 for people buying semi-automatic rifles? we re talking about a lot of things, and what we re talking about most are background checks, juvenile records, the areas where we can get consensus, that came into the discussion. but right now we re trying to work on things w