to the un. tonight with the context, victoria coates a former advisor to the us energy secretary and long term trump staffer and anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in the changing europe. hello. welcome to the programme. it is a crucial night for the january 6th committee. this will be their eighth hearing, maybe the final televised hearing before the report is pubished in the autumn. and this is the point at which the committee mustjoin the dots for their prime time audience. through seven previous hearings, the committee has laid out a case, that the former president was at the center of witnesses, including former trump and white house officials have testified the president knew he had lost but continued to pressure state officials, lawmakers and thejustice department to overturn the result in his favour. and when it failed, when vice president pence refused to help him, he called on the mob. we fight like hell, and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to
we ll get the details from carole lending one of the reporters who broke that story an expert legal guidance on what it all means. but first, let s remember how we got here. today washington for only the second time a federal judge sentence a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see. why in screenshots take it from officers body cams in january six, the sky is seen swinging a pull out of police officers so hard it snaps into on the officers riot shield. so the new guy finds another pull and start swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first poll, the one he hit so hard that it stepped into, that was capitol police sergeant alkaline o connell. he gave emotional testimony about the horror that day before the january six investigation. today he sent his at that rioters hearing, saying he suffered mental and physical inju
ll see you at the end of tomorrow we have got breaking news to get to tonight. the washington post just out with his brand-new reporting. justice department investigating trump s actions in january six criminal probe. we ll get the details from carole lettig one of the reporters who broke that story an expert legal guidance on what it all means. but first, let s remember how we got here. today washington for only the second time a federal judge sentence a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see. why in screenshots take it from officers body cams in january six, the sky is seen swinging a pull out of police officers so hard it snaps into on the officers riot shield. so the new guy finds another pull and start swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first poll, the one he hit so hard that it stepped into, that was capito
broke that story and expert guidance on what that means. first, let s remember how we got here. today in washington for only the second time a federal judge sentenced a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. at 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see why. in screen shots taken from officer body cams on january 6th, this guy is seen swinging t pole at a police officer so hard it snaps in two on the officer s riot shield. so then the guy goes and finds another pole and starts swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first pole the one he hit so hard, the pole snapped in two, that was capitol police sergeant, ganel. he gave emotional testimony about the horror of that day to the januarye 6th investigation last year. and today he testified at that rioter s sentencing hearing saying he suffered physical and mental injuries from the attack that forced him to leave t
top of the hour on cnn newsroom, good to be with you, i m victor blackwell. president biden says that he has a plan to tackle the soaring inflation that s plaguing this country, he says republicans are getting in his way. the problem is republicans in congress are doing everything they can to stop my plans to bring down the cost for ordinary families. that s why my plan is not finished, and why the results aren t finished either. jobs are back. prices are still too high. covid is down, but gas prices are up. our work isn t done. the president also warned that it s going to take time for prices to come down. as americans struggle to buy, well, everything. groceries, gas, cars, a key economic indicator shows that the pace of inflation lowered just slightly in may but the producer price index is still up above 10%. this afternoon, stocks are mixed. s&p 500 dipped into bear market territory yesterday, and now everybody s watching the federal reserve. as economists predict, th