in the federal gas tax. he is aiming for a decision this week as americans are clamoring for relief from record prices at the pump. and u.s. airlines are trying to untangle a holiday-weekend mess due to thousands of cancelled flights. with staffing shortages, and bad weather causing chaos. will air travel be a nightmare all summer? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states, and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. yo you re in the situation room. aides say the january 6th slektd committee plans to reveal new information about the origins and the scope of former-president trump s direct efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election, including his role in a fake electoral scheme. cnn yes jessica schneider has more on what to expect tomorrow. reporter: the january 6th committee getting ready to shift its focus to trump s role in a scheme to submit fake electoral, all in a bid to overturn the 2020 election. they will call three r
join you tomorrow at 8:00. rachel, imagine it is the mid 1990s, and you are with your elementary school on a tour of washington, d.c. and at the capitol. you are 30 is, 33 is rounding to the near 30 is? you are at an elementary school in the 1990s, and you are walking through one of the congressional office buildings. you see over there, a low traffic area, on a stun bench, there is the famous colonists and pundit mark shields, and he is sitting beside a guy in a t-shirt and jeans, who is actually me, and i am counting $10,000 in cash. what do you think, and who do you reported to? i think while they have drug dealers in the east coast here to, mom. that s probably why i think. it was it was a strange moment. it s all going to be explained at the end of the show why mark shields was with me when i was counting $10,000 in cash and congressional office building. can i ask you in advance how big $10,000 in cash is? it was hundreds, so i have never seen it before.
before, zoe lofgren leading that second hearing and pete auilar talking about the pressure campaign on mike pence. this will focus on the pressure campaign at the state level. they re going to use, as you mentioned, lawmakers from georgia to make that point. of course, that s one of the key states that we know that former president trump was pressuring election officials to overturn the election results or at least, in his words, find the overrule 11,000 votes that he would need in order to win georgia, which he actually lost. they re also likely to delve deeper into the idea of fake slates of electors. that s something that john eastman was pressuring former vice president mike pence on. we heard about that last week. but now we may hear a little bit more about the plots at the state level beyond just georgia that the white house and his allies were using at the time to try to find any way to keep the former president in power. and vaughan, former vice president mike pence
not produce any evidence of election fraud, something they were not ashamed to admit. at some point did one of them make a comment that they didn t have evidence, but they had a lot of theories? that was mr. giuliani. and what exactly did he say and how did that come up? my recollection he said we ve got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. the pressure campaign against state officials was relentless and it was dangerous. it included ugly threats and intimidation by trump supporters and the former president himself leaving one georgia election worker too scared to say her own name in public. a steep price for those who defended democracy and did their job. why didn t you just quit and walk away? because i knew that we had followed the law, we had followed the constitution and i think sometimes moments require you to stand up and just take the shots, you re doing your job, and that s all we did. i do not want to be a winner by cheating. were a l
the gop officials who stood up to their parties leader to uphold democracy. and they face threats of violence for simply doing their jobs. election workers unsafe in their own communities after being singled out at the former presidents, and the active threat they face today. so in light of all of this, what does accountability look like? and where do we go from here. it is all ahead at the 11 hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie role. explosive and emotional revelations on capitol hill today, as of january six committee had its fourth hearing. the committee argued that donald trump played a key role in the plot to put forward slates, a fake pro trump election as in states joe biden won. senator state officials and one election worker described the intense pressure campaign and the violent threats they face as trump and his allies spread lies about election fraud. these public servants wouldn t go along with donald trump