uphill battle against ever-rising inflation. we re seeing the playbook is to try to turn around the perception of his performance. here s the problem. as record gas prices, the yellow line here goes up and up, his approval is a mirror image on the way down. here he is just moments ago with an upbeat message as he tries to convince the american people. the job market is the strongest it s been since world war ii. millions of americans are moving up to better jobs and better pay. since i took office, families carry less debt on average in america, they have more savings than they ve had. martha: still 2/3s in this poll say that they expect that inflation will get worse. steve forbes and joe concha are standing by. first, we bring to bring in anita, a st. louis mom. she works for a nonprofit. recently she had a tough day. it was in her car. it was getting on low in the gas department and she ran out. her two kids were in the back. the three of them had to get out and walk to
to a committee member, jamie raskin, in his first interview since the hearing. there was never before seen testimony from trump s inner circle, including attorney general bill barr. and the former president s daughter and senior adviser at funky trump. there was also disturbing new footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol. the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an attempted coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is just some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies. to march down the capital and subvert democracy. i made it clear that they didn t agree with the idea of putting out this stuff, i told the president was bullish. it i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he said was saying. president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and let the blame of this attack. president t
tanks and aircraft. all kidding aside, he s come off the sidelines. he retired. he helped us get ahead of the challenges that arise at our ports, our railroads and on the road. this is about reducing costs for families. you know, i have to admit to you a lot of us elected officials have been in office for a while. every once in a while something you learn makes you viscerally angry, like if you had the person in front of you, you d want to pop him. i really mean it. there are nine major ocean line shipping companies that ship from asia to the united states. nine. they formed three consortiums. these companies have raised their prices by as much as 1,000%. so everything coming from asia, they get 90 something percent of stuff coming from asia. they ve raised it by 1,000%. that s why i called on congress and they re foreign owned shipping companies that raised their prices while raking in just last year $190 billion in profit. a seven-fold increase in one year. seven-fold inc
trading week. it s due to this morning s worse-than-expected read on inflation. now 8.6%. there were hopes today that it would bring signs that price spikes were easing. instead, they got worse led by that record surge in gas prices. we ll have a lot more on that. but on capitol hill, the house january 6th committee is getting ready for its next hearing on monday, which will focus on the big lie. the is committee will zoom in on former president trump s efforts to convince voters the election was stolen from him. next phase of the hearing comes after several major revelations during the prime-time kickoff. among the biggest, vice chair liz cheney pointing to testimony that when donald trump was told that rioters were chanting, hang mike pence, the former president said, maybe his supporters had the right idea and that pence deserved it. nbc news national senior political reporter, suehill kapur is on capitol hill. glenn kirschner is a msnbc legal analyst and former federal
revealed. right now, the nation s focus returns to the u.s. capitol as we await the most comprehensive account yet of crimes committed against the united states on this sacred ground. welcome to cnn special coverage of attack on democracy here on cnn. i m jake tapper, about an hour away from the rare prime time presentation on this committee and let s be clear, what will happen in the hearing room tonight is not just about the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th, specifically, it is a month s long campaign and conspiracy to undermine democracy in america. it s about a president and those around him desperate to hold on to power at any cost, even if it meant destroying the american experiment. committee aides say we will hear and see interviews conducted with trump insiders for the first time. we expect that to possibly include members of the former president s family, as well as former senior administration and trump campaign officials. the hearing will showcase l