who is going to stop it from happening again? who s gonna stop it from happening again is that you, the committee? maybe it s republicans? who s gonna stop it from happening again? who s gonnand up, the next time in defender freedom for a fair election, to defend our democracy, from the lies that could take it all down. because what we re hearing from the january six committee, the testimony from eyewitnesses, who were shocked by what they saw, and heard behind closed doors in the trump white house. who were pressured by president, determined to hold on to power no matter what it took, the fake electors, the wild conspiracy theories, the mob that stormed the capitol. none of that is about the past, it s about what could happen the next time, if nobody stands up to stop. i should ve put the median that, who s gonna do it, the media, journalists. that s why it matters for the committee to follow the investigation wherever it at leads. that s why it matters for journalists, who
senator chris murphy and ben o rourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he had been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese
one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former trump white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the leaked audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he stebve bannon been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese billionaire, who is kind of a patron of bannon s. in the leaked audio we got yesterday, bannon out on b
and even more so, about the 77 minutes of inaction that the video shows. plus, in some big cities there will no longer be a starbucks on every corner. the coffee giant is closing several locations but not because of slow sales. is this about working safety or is it about unionization? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our money lead and horrible news for your wallet. new data today released by the biden administration shows inflation surging to 9.1%. that is the highest level in more than 40 years and it means the prices we pay over all are 9.1% higher than at this time last year. so unless you have benefitted from an unlikely 10% raise since then, you now have less money in your pocket than you did a year ago. much of the increase is driven by gas prices, which we should note have fallen in recent weeks, but they remain insanely high, up nearly 60% in this report, and the increases are felt across a range of categories, prices on groceries are u
with this reporting, quote, the former president has called witnesses throughout the investigation according to those who spoke anonymously to reveal conversations. they ruled out a number of former officials as the recipient of this latest call highlighted by cheney saying it was not former white house counsel pat cipollone whose deputy patrick philbin, former media officials, matthews or former pascale. the allegations of witness tampering by trump and his associates, though, do add new dimension to the wider scandal that is to overturn the 2020 election results which, as vice chair liz cheney added, trump was, quote, substantially and personally involved in. politico reports on the dual track of the committee s public hearings with this analysis. on the one hand, the committee is focused on filling out the historical record of the attempt to overturn the election and its violent conclusion. on the other, its members are laying out an unmistakable map to a potential crimina