united states called the bankers on wall street. the current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of vladimir putin. republicans offer plenty of blame but not a single solution. they re not drilling. why not? you want to know why prices are so high? there are a number of reasons having to do with war in ukraine, destruction caused by the pandemic. bill: gas is down 50 cents over the past 30 days. every bit helps. currently sitting at 4.49 a gallon on average. still up 87% since the president took office. peter doocy starts the coverage from the north lawn. what s the explanation now? what we continue to hear from officials at the white house is that when prices go up for pretty much anything, it is putin s fault out of the president s hands. when the prices come down, it is the president s plans to thank and he deserves a lot of credit. and that is leading to new questions whether or not there is a double standard. there is no both way thinking here at all. i very m
firefighters that are fighting this blaze and then, of course, battling this heat. we re talking about a country that is not prepared for heat like this. the infrastructure is breaking down in certain locations, we re seeing that, where there s damage to runways at airports, seeing train tracks buckling. remember a lot of people in this country live without air conditioning which is why there s been such a concern for the public s health and safety. you can see people here doing everything they can to try and escape the heat, going to lakes, going to ponds, buying fans. but we know that not everybody is able to afford that and to do that which is why we saw top government officials meeting over the weekend for an emergency meeting to make sure ducks were in a row to care for schools, for example, that are still in session and without air conditioning. the elderly, nursing homes. but this is an issue that we re seeing all across southern europe, this heat wave that is just gri
response to the robb elementary mass shooting. and we re looking closer at the state of president biden s agenda amid more dismal polling with the midterms less than four months away. we ll discuss with senator lujan. we are going to begin with the major new developments in the investigation into the january 6 attack. nbc news has now confirmed the names of the two star witnesses who are expected to testify during thursday s primetime committee hearing according to a source familiar with the plans. they are sarah matthews and matthew pottinger who is a former member of the national security council. both worked in the trump white house and both resigned in the wake of the attack on the capitol. thursday will be the first time either will have spoken publicly to the committee. committee chairman bennie thompson is also revealing more of the panel s future plans which include likely releasing a scaled back report of its findings followed by a final report. each potentially in
that blue state. we begin with the january 6 committee and nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. brendon buck and kimberly atkin-store and sam stein. ali, is it possible that chairman thompson s absence could push this hearing or are they determined to keep this schedule? reporter: they are determined to keep this schedule, chris. especially because what s clear yesterday after my conversation with chairman thompson, who i would note was wearing a mask when he was talking to us yesterday, he seemed to leave the door open as all of the committee members have to the idea there are more hearings to come, specifically the idea that at some point in the last few days, the committee seems to have decided that their final report will come in the early fall still but that there will be some kind of scaled back report prior to that. in part, it s because they keep getting new information and they want to make sure that the final report is reflective of everything that they kn
suggests a post covid that we are still no better at containing an outbreak. tonight with the context, rebecca harding, trent economist, and the former communications director for the and the former communications directorfor the donald and the former communications director for the donald trump campaign brian lanza. a warm welcome to the programme. there is nothing british people love more than discussing the weather but thatis more than discussing the weather but that is because it is highly changeable. we do not often discussed the weather with concern or maybe a sense of dread about where the climate is heading and we re certainly not used it a0 celsius. 0ur roads and railways were not built for it and neither our homes. we are notjust setting records this week, we are smashing them and we are doing it at an alarmingly regular interval. it should concern us as it is concerning the french and spaniards. they are used to hot temperatures but right now there are wildfires bu