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reporter: so he s going to be pushing for this three-month gags holiday, and basically that would mean a 90-day suspension of the federal gas tax. if you re wondering what that s going to save you when you re actually at the pump, right now the federal gas tax is about 18 cents for a regular gallon and 24 cents for a gallon of diesel fuel. so not really that big of a difference when you re looking at an average price of gas. it is getting close to $5. of course it topped $5 earlier this month. so that s been a big question for lawmakers because getting this done is not just something that the president can do on his own. yes, he s about to call for it any moment now. but it really requires an act of congress on capitol hill to actually get this passed. and you re already see something concern even from democrats in the president s own party about whether or not this would actually make that big of a difference, and if it s worth what it would do. one of those concerns has c
sandra: america s energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the government billions of dollars in revenue. sandra: former president obama famously called it a gimmick in 2008, and all of this as we expect president biden to pin the blame once again on his favorite bogeyman, vladimir putin. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house. hi, jacqui. jacqui: good afternoon to you. the president is expected to call on congress to extend a federal gas tax holiday, som
every legal recommend dip is exhausted, a tone different than she reported in her interview before the january 6th panel. and the temperature yesterday underscored how ugly and scary it was to be an elections worker or public official who either came under donald trump s scrutiny or refused to bow to his pressure to overturn the results. arizona house speaker republican rusty bowers described the hoards of people, some with weapon, who would show up at his home. and pole workers shea moss and her mother ruby freeman gave gut wrenching accounts of the threats so unrelenting that they were forced into hiding. yes, a lot of threats wishing death upon me, telling me that i ll be in jail with my mother and saying things like be glad it s 2020 and not 1920. there is no where i feel safe, nowhere. do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states to target you, the president of the united states is supposed to represent every american, not to target one. wi
so it should be interesting to see some of those players perhaps rejoin with some of their pga tour colleagues. yeah. but that will be tense, won t it? yes, indeed. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is friday, june 10th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. donald trump lit the flame with his election lies culminating in the deadly violence during an attempted coup at the u.s. capitol, that was the case made by the january 6th committee in its first public primetime hearing. they presented never before seen video of the violence as rioters breached the capitol. they had gripping testimony from a u.s. capitol police officer who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the attack. and the committee s vice chair, republican liz cheney, says trump had a seven-part plan to prevent the transition of presidential power that included pressuring vice president mike pence to refuse to count certified electoral v