his comments come ahead of tonight s penultimate conservative hustings with rishi sunak and liz truss facing tory votes in norwich. gcse results are out today for pupils in england, wales and northern ireland the pass rate is down on last year but higher than it was before the pandemic. good afternoon. pressure is growing on the government to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy costs. a think tank has called for a universal 30% cut in bills and businesses want covid style emergency grants to help companies that are struggling. the upper limit of what suppliers can charge per unit of energy in england, scotland and wales the energy price cap is set to be announced tomorrow. less than a year ago, a typical annual home energy bill was about £1,200, it s now about £2,000 and it s forecast tomorrow to reach £3,500 per year, payable from this october. there are further increases expected in january. back in may, the government promised a £15 billion support
to vice president pence, mark short, greg jacob, they were both asked during their grand jury testimony about the fake elector scheme and the roles of trump lawyers rudy giuliani and john eastman. this morning in additions, the new york times and washington post are reporting justice department investigators back in april received phone records from key officials and aides in the trump administration including chief of staff mark meadows. all of this as the attorney general himself, merrick garland, is speaking out in a new interview responding to criticism that the justice department isn t moving fast enough. let s begin with cnn s evan perez. he s been standing by. what more are you learning about the justice department s investigation here? how broad and far they re looking? reporter: well, in this interview with nbc yesterday, the attorney general, merrick garland, made clear that this is a very broad investigation. this is what he described it as, an investigatio
less overthrow the election, pressured them almost every day, asking officials to say things that were not true, that they told him were not true, and trying to get them to do things without precedence and that were arguably not legal. watch. let s take a look at another one of your notes. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that s not what i m asking you to do. what i m asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. i made the point that jeff clark is not even competent to serve as the attorney general. he s never been a criminal attorney. he s never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. he s never been in front of a trial jury. and he kind of retorted by saying, well, i ve done a lot of very complicated appeals and civ
streak could be ending. meanwhile, the busy father s day and juneteenth holiday weekend was a nightmare for airline passengers. according to flight aware, more than 900 flights were canceled sunday across the u.s. since thursday there have been more than 4,000 flight cancellations, another 1,500 flights have already been canceled today. let s bring in cnn chief business correspondent and early start co-anchor christine romans. we were talking last week about a vibe shift and, man, does it feel like we are right there. it really does. the mighty american consumer, the backbone of the u.s. economy remains strong but how long that lasts in the face of decades high inflation, that s what experts are scouring the data for. now, gas prices have been a daily tax on families and sentiment. prices at the pump have stopped rising at least, the average price per gallon dipping below $5 to $4.98 but the busy summer travel season is about to start, that could push prices higher agai
victory over saracens at twickenham. good morning, a precious story across the country today. cloud and across the country today. cloud and a few showers across england first thing, but there will be sunny spells around. i will tell you when and where, injust a moment. it s sunday 19th june. our main story: the transport secretary grant shapps has accused the country s biggest rail union of punishing millions of innocent people after it confirmed it will go ahead with series of crippling strikes. mr shapps said the travelling public faced a week of misery because the rail, maritime and transport union had refused repeated appeals to call off their action due to start on tuesday. our political correspondent nick eardley has more. for nick eardley has more. anyone who relies on trains next for anyone who relies on trains, the next few days are going to see significant disruption. the biggest real strikes in decades are happening and the government says it will cause misery for