the lead in testifying against the former president in yesterday s hearing, including the speaker of arizona s house, who says he told trump in late december 2020 that he would not go along with the scheme to steal joe biden s win in his state. you re asking me to do something that s never been done in history, the history of the united states, and i m going to put my state through that without sufficient, and that s going to be good enough for me? i do not want to be a winner by cheating. incredibly powerful testimony. also new this morning, president biden aiming to help americans out, at least a little bit at the pump during the summer travel season. the white house expected today to call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax, three months. we have details on how much that would help reduce prices at the pump, and downsize to it as acknowledged by some members of the administration. more on that in just a bit. begin this morning with cnn s manu raju on the hil
months as americans hit the road for the summer. plus i didn t want to be used as a pawn. republican elected officials go point by point through donald trump s efforts to throw out the 2020 election. now the january 6 lt committee calls on a key west wing insider to share his story. and is the trump brand fading. voters say yes to very late trump pick in alabama, but georgia republicans again defy the former president. this time in two house races. up first for us, new white house push to lower gas prices through the summer driving season. today president biden will ask the congress to suspend the gas tax for three months, july, august and september, and he will call on states to do the same. at an event this afternoon, the president will demand oil companies do work to lower gas prices including ramping up production. it is a big white house play on this year s dominant economic and political issue. high gas price asks the much broad problem with inflation and economic a
listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. ten, nine, eight eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we started to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a warm, safe, humor. i love you guys. the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. the father strangling the chi
we re going to have 80% of the staff we need. we re hopeful we ll get to 80% of the pools that were able to open. a shortage of workers is forcing some summer staples like community pools to stay closed. the concerns that could lead to a rise in violence. thank you for joining us this sunday, june 19th. juneteenth. happy father s day to all the dads out there. kristin, great to be with you as always. great to be with you, boris. they resisted pressure from donald trump to help overturn the 2020 election results. state officials will share their stories with the nation before the committee investigating the january 6 insurrection. zoe lofgren says these officials put the rule of law ahead of politics. these individuals are republicans. they voted for trump. they supported him. they wouldn t do illegal things that he asked them to do. we expect to hear in some detail the pressure placed on them and why they were true to the law instead of the pressure. election offi
impression people might have today, knowledge about what watergate truly was in size and scope and the threat to democracy it posed did not come all at once all neatly wrapped up in a bow. it was revealed in day by day slices of the truth by bob and carl and so many others. that notion seems just as true tonight, 50 years later, when it comes to the latest assault on democracy. almost since the day capitol was attacked, so many that it s hard to keep track, and harder still to be surprised or imagine any of it changes what we think we already know. yet this week, the house january 6 committee, even as it tries to bundle up the scandal and tie a bow around it, has also delivered plenty that is new. and today promised more. listen to committee member zoe lofgren today on cnn talk about donald trump s effort to strong arm georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger after the election. i think we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then-president trump was trying to fo