welcome to a special edition of inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your holiday with us. democrats go public with complaints about the white house in what one calls an embarrassing transparency stumble. this as we learn more about the classified documents discovered in president biden s delaware home. plus, he s a bad guy. republicans more and more call out george santos for his lies. but many stopped short of saying he should absolutely be booted from the congress. and mangled lives. first responders pulling people out of the wreckage in dnipro after russia sets the ukrainian sky on fire. the latest missile barrage killing at least 40. in just moments the president of the united states marks this important holiday with a speech reflecting on the work and the legacy of martin luther king jr. we will bring you those remarks live when they happen. this event comes as the president confronts a crisis of his own making. the weekend brought
votes, which is one more than we have. and despite all the revelations so far, the former the president revived his attack against mike pence on friday insisting the rioters were patriots and dangling pardons for them if he runs again and is reelected. trump s lies about the election are reinvestigator rating in texas where they adopted a platform calling president biden s win illegitimate. and there are growing fears about a recession next year as americans are paying higher prices while cutting back on travel and leisure and paying more for loans. the biden administration still arking it s not certain after being wrong on inflation. the president said that today himself. we ll talk about whether that interest rate hike will have an impact. also this hour, the raging bat until ukraine where russia has a firm grip on the eastern part of the country and the families of three americans allege captured in combat are desperately trying to get them home. but first, to the atta
right now, the nations in the midst of reflection, the second federal observation of the black freedom struggle, expressed by the holiday known as juneteenth. it comes at the start of a potentially dizzying news cycle. starting this week, as the senate holds out hope that a tenuous bipartisan deal, on guns cannot get a quick vote. while the momentum is there after weeks of mass shootings. and one bracing for the supreme courts spending public to take decision on the future of the federal abortion rights, to come down within days. as the white house weighs its options to protect those rights, possibly through executive order. and then there s what will be the third week of public hearings in the congressional probe into january six. the next round, centering on donald trump s pressure campaign put it election officials in georgia. to overturn the 2020 election results in that. state and we re also waiting a hard confirmation that ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice, cl
election. specifically, they re looking at the state of georgia where he asked raffensperger, we remember, this to quote, find him enough votes to win, and in that now infamous phone call. we will be hearing from raffensperger and his deputy, gabriel sterling, a name we know well as well. focusing on the pressure trump put on the former vice president, mike pence, to not certify the election. now one member of the january 6th committee praised pence this morning for resisting trump s pressure. in a time of the scandalous betrayal of people in office and crimes being committed all over the place. somebody who does their job will stand out as a hero on the day. i think on that day he was a hero for resisting all of the pressure campaigns and the course of efforts to get him to play along with this continuation of the big lie. this big joke that he could somehow call off all the proceedings himself. all the public hearing so far, they ve shown the former president is this re
these hearings. the select committee investigating the capitol riot hold its next public hearing tuesday at 1 pm eastern. it will focus on former president trump s efforts to push key officials in several states to change their 2020 election results. georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gave are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigati