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launches a probe. i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel. how will this investigation change biden s presidency. and top priority, house republicans launch their own probes into the biden administration. i am concerned about ethics and transparency in the federal government. does that apply to both sides of the aisle? i ll speak to the chair of the house oversight and accountability committee, republican james comer and then the committee s top democrat, jamie raskin, ahead. hitting the limit. house republicans make plans to try to handle the fallout if they carry out on the threat to only raise the debt ceiling accompanied by spending cuts. we ve got to change the way we re spending money wastefully in this country. is the u.d. headed for fiscal catastrophe? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is classified. president biden is in atlanta focusing on the legacy of the late reverend martin luther king jr. here i
robson was endorsed by mike pence. cnn has not yet called that race. also in arizona, cnn is projecting that rusty bowers, the state house speaker who testified before the january 6th committee, will lose his primary to david farnsworth. bowers refused to participate in trump s efforts to throw arizona s 2020 election into doubt. and in michigan, cnn projects election denier tudor dixon has won the republican primary for governor. she will face gretchen whitmer in the fall. also in michigan, peter meijer, one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump has been defeated by challenger john gibbs after democrats meddled in his primary. and you might recall that trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race and one of the erics has won. cnn projecting eric schmitt will defeat eric greitens, the former president president governor who resigned in disgrace. let s begin with cnn s jeff zeleny in st. louis with the very latest. jeff? reporter:
we just want equal treatment and hopefully we ll get some answers very soon. just to give the answer that the trump lawyers gave, because i also have been asking why did it take so long for them to disclose this given the fact that biden attorneys i said trump, i meant biden biden attorneys discovered this november 2nd and we didn t find out about it until january. and the explanation from biden s attorneys are they there s a balance here between wanting to disclose and also not wanting to impede any department of justice investigation because when you announce it, then you are getting potentially in the way of investigators when it comes to witnesses and stuff. that s what they say. hard to believe. i would consider the fact that it was right before a midterm elec election, a very important midterm election that was close that was going to determine the balance of power in congress,
elec election. prices at the pump continuing to drop. the national average for regular gas dropped to $4.16 a gallon overnight. that marks the 50th consecutive day of falling prices. a bipartisan bill helping veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. republicans who blocked the bill earlier finally allowed it to pass after trying unsuccessfully to limit funding for treatments. hi, everybody. a very pleasant thursday evening to you. and the voice of the los angeles dodgers has died. vin sculley called games for a record 67 years. he was 94 years old. those are the five things to know for your new day. don t forget to download the five things podcast every morning. go to cnn.com/fivethings. you can also find it wherever you get your podcasts.