activists still protesting outside the homes of supreme court justices despite last week s arrest out of california threatening the life of brett kavanaugh. pelosi has held up legislation and she says the house will vote on it this week. dana: let s go to chad pergram on capitol hill. the charge of the committee today is to document what was going on between the election and january 6th. the committee wants to understand what fueled the riots. i can say right now the president absolutely tried to overthrow the will of the people and he tried to do it initially through misinformation through the department of justice, through pressuring the vice president and on january 6th. he was told repeatedly by people that he trusted. that s why one witness is former trump campaign manager bill stepan. the committee would not say if he appears voluntarily. the committee is probing what the president did or did not do during the riot. this man had the microphone and could speak
we re talking triple digits and it will last right through the better part of the weekend. that is wild. derek, thank you. thanks so much for joining us. i m laura jarrett. new day starts right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is thursday, june 9th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we begin with the price of gas, closer than ever to the dreaded $5 a gallon mark. the national average for a gallon of regular gas hitting $4797 up nearly 2 cents overnight and this is the 13th straight day of record highs for the gas prices, it s the 30th in the last 31 days, the surge hitting americans right where they live and drive. so it is worth noting that when you adjust for inflation prices are not at record highs, not yet, but they do keep rising with no real end in sight. this is what president biden said about soaring gas prices during his appearance on jimmy kimmel overnight. look, inflation is is the is the bain of our existe
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that the worst of inflation is behind us. as this headline is putting it, from chicken wings to used cars, inflation begins to ease its grip. we re seeing prices drop at the pump too. the national average cost of gas hitting $3.40. oil prices falling as well. opec+ opted against trying to stop the slide of prices by choosing not to make further cuts. i want to bring in steve leaseman to talk more about this. i m curious as the signs you re specifically seeing when it comes to inflation. do you feel as if it s starting to ease here, starting to come down, and should we with all that information involved expect to get another rate hike from the fed? yeah. two obviously related questions. all the things you mentioned are accurate in terms of the declining prices and i think it s important to say we re back
up about 60 cents from this time last month. rich edson looking for answers from the white house. are you getting any? good morning. good morning, bill. beyond gas prices, there is increases in prices across the economy. something that the white house and federal reserve say they re working to address. they have a lot of work to do. the labor department a few days ago coming out with the latest increases in prices. year-over-year. last year to this year. groceries nearly 12%. restaurants up nearly 9%. fuel oil up more than 107%. electricity 12%. rent more than 5%, airfare more than 37%. in los angeles this weekend reporters asked president biden about inflation, specifically the national average for a gallon of gas hitting $5. this is outrageous what the war in ukraine is causing. we re trying very hard to make sure that we can significantly increase the number of barrels of oil pumped out of the