texts by tomorrow. just in time for what may be the summer finale of their public hearings. what we are learning about new witnesses, including somebody the committee we found out will meet with tomorrow. that s just coming in to us, all of it as across town in d.c. inside the building you re looking at live here, you ve got steve bannon in court, getting ready to learn which of his peers will decide whether he s guilty or not in his contempt of congress trial. also this hour, breaking new details out of indiana, with police revealing more about the shooter who went on a rampage inside a mall, and the man who stopped him. and our nbc news team dropping a new investigative piece out of texas. what one conservative group is blaming for a recent school shooting, not guns, per se, but what they call a woke teaching philosophy. we ll explain that later in the show. i m hallie jackson in washington. with me now are my correspondents. allie, let me start with you and this new report
congress. would this really help or a ploy for political mileage? and president biden will have to counter this dismal sal by barack obama in 2008. we re arguing over a gimmick to seau half a tank of gasp. if so everyone in washington can pat themselves on the back. let me tell you something. this isn t an idea designed to get you through the summer. it s an idea designed to get them through an election. phil mattingly joins us at the white house. this is another effort by president biden to deal with gas prices. he s released oil from the strategic reserve. he will travel to saudi arabia in efforts to increase production. he s called on refineries to ramp it up. but even some democrats don t support a gas tax holiday. help us understand the white house thinking here. reporter: it s just a myriad of reasons why they have been reluctant to give their support. it s been on the table. it s been something that s been under consideration by president biden and his team ask t
transportation fund. he says he s reduced the deficit by 1.6 trillion, so there s room. to the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump, this is a time of war. global peril. ukraine. these are not normal times. bring down the price you re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you re paying for the product. do it now. do it today. the president not changing any of his policies. the votes may not be in congress to do what he wants. i m willing to embrace his proposals for a gas tax holiday. i don t know whether we ll get the votes it needs here in the senate. i m talking to my colleagues. nancy pelosi has in the past criticized a gas tax holiday. the senior policy director for the committee for responsible federal budget is concerned that the $10 billion hole would grow as pressure would keep the gas stacks suspension even longer than three months. listen. at best, this will reduce the inflation rate by 0.1%. as soon as the holiday is ove
citizen s arrest. hearing number four the attack on the capitol marked by testimony of violence and threats against elected officials who refused to help donald trump overturn the election as well as against election workers targeted in the former president s big lie. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday it snot monday. it is wednesday, june 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. it s been a long week. we re glad you re here. the fourth public hearing into the january 6th capitol attack examined what s described as former president s donald trump personal and direct role in pressuring state officials to help overturn the to 2020 presidential election. the committee demonstrated how trump and his team leaned on state officials to throw out biden votes, find trump votes or to replace biden electors with fake trump electors. rnc chairwoman mcconnell, mark meadows, senator ron johnson and congressman andy biggs were also mentioned with helping with this scheme.
the padres playing great as well. such a great division. can you believe the angels collapse? yankees initiated that and sent them into a tailspin. really? they lost 12 or 13 in a row before they finally won. loaded with talent but struggling a bit. stock futures are on the rise as investors anxiously await the federal reserve s action to tame surging inflation. this as president biden lashes out at republicans for blocking his economic agenda. msnbc s stephanie ruhle will join us to break it all down and the challenges ahead. and we walter isaacson with us. we were talking about presidents and inflation before. jimmy carter, i mean, you know, he had volcker, volcker tamed inflation. right. but there were so many global forces, external forces, you know, we like to think in america that presidents control the economy. there s so many external forces right now. especially now. especially now with two years of covid, the pent up demand. i understand bi