extremist group and a man convicted for crimes related to entering the capitol. the committee also played clips from its deposition last week with a former white house counsel pat cipollone. chad pergram watching it all joins me live now from capitol hill tonight. chad, good evening there. what happened today? hello. good evening, bill, allegations of witness tampering. liz cheney says the former president tried to call a witness who has not yet testified before the committee. the panel told the doj about the contact by the former president. the committee focused on a late night verbal brawl in the oval office with trump loyalists fighting with white house attorneys, including pat cipollone who just talked to the committee on friday. i don t think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. in the conclave, trump advisers challenged top white house aides that they needed to go to the mat for the former president. i m going to categorically des
all happened. that s ahead. thank you for being here. let s begin with the news on the economy. good news, bad news, something in between possibly. inflation in the u.s. easing slightly in april. consumer prices rose 8.3%. lower than theri we saw in march but still very clearly painfully close to the 40 year high. today s report marks the first time the inflation rate fell in 8 months but still not good out there. sky high prices in major sectors and every aspect of life. president biden this morning called inflation unacceptably high in a statement he issued and also says inflation is now his top domestic priority as the economy faces unprecedented challenges from the supply chain to the war in ukraine. let s begin at the white house this hour. cnn s john harwood is there. john, walk us through this. reporter: well, look. inflation is president biden s top domestic priority, his top domestic problem as well. as you indicated, kate, there s good news and bad news in this re
spread to a nearby grove which is home to more than 500 sequoias. fox 10 mobile, alabama, former escaped convict casey white has been charged with felony murder. this after the death of a former jail guard who allegedly helped him escape. the pair on the run for 11 days before being located in indiana. vicki white was believed to have died of suicide before facing arrest in that case. here s a look tonight in new york city. one of the big stories we are covering tonight from fox 5, three men indicted for possessing stolen lyrics from the eagles album hotel california. the suspects held around 100 pages of handwritten notes and lyrics. despite knowing the man my scripts were stolen, the man tried to still sell them and auction them online. that s tonight s live look outside the beltway. we will be right back in
get $400 off an eligible samsung device with xfinity mobile. take the savings challenge at xfinitymobile.com/mysavings or visit your xfinity store and talk to our switch squad today. . new this morning, escaped convict casey white has been captured in indiana after being pursued by police hundreds of miles from the alabama jail he escaped from. vicky white, the former corrections officer who police say helped him get out is now dead bringing a nationwide manhunt to an end. we re minutes away from a press conference with officials. cnn s miguel mar kwez is live with the latest. reporter: vicky white interestingly enough officials say called 911 in the final moments of this chase.
matthew, let s begin with you, what do you make with how this massive manhunt came to an end? well, it s amazing because of the fact i would have thought they would have been up in seattle, halfway across the country now. the fact that they only went maybe 100 miles from the prison is crazy, and then the fact that they were still together. i mean, i thought that a lot of these fugitive investigations, i work when they break out of prison like that, usually they separate. so then i thought maybe there was a chance that he would probably take her out, kill her or something because of the fact that she would be a liability but bottom line is they caught them, got a tip, they moved in on them. we re really good at this stuff when it comes down to tracking fugitives. that s what happened. it seems like they did a really good job of taking them down. yeah, well, we still have no confirmation as to how vicky white died. when officers took casey white you heard in miguel s reporting out of