official economic recession, although president biden, his aides, and now the federal reserve chair are insisting they don t see this economy in recession. politically, what matters is how people at home feel about the economy, obviously. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening bret, officials say gas prices coming down. jobs available. no recession or pre-recession on the horizon. tomorrow s g.d.p. numbers are going to test that. as president biden re-takes the hymn in the west wing now that he is out of covid quarantine. as i was walking out. [clearing throat] i thought i heard a rumbling my staff saying oh he is back. back in the oval office president biden s number one domestic priority is lowering inflation and his plan to do it trust the federal reserve to make that happen. but the federal reserve chair just made a surprising admission. inflation has obviously surprise to the upside ov
this morning. yes. members of the far right extremist group, the proud boys, first charged with conspiracy, are now charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government or to block federal law from their alleged role in their january 6th attack on the capitol. we expect to learn more about the group s actions this week, not from the justice department but from congress, when the committee investigating the attack opens its first public hearings in primetime on thursday. we ll have more on the very first witness set to testify. and wait, really quickly about this, it s interesting. you look at what the january 6th committee is putting together. you look at the information on all of this. you have republicans like marco saying, oh, it s going to be a circus because there s going to be a tv producer involved. these republicans, instead of doing what they took an oath to do, which is to protect and defend the konts constitution of the united states, they re just trying
gasoline. peter doocy starts us off with a complete picture of the economy live from the north lawn, good evening, peter. good evening, bret. officials around here saying two things that sound like they both can t be true at the same time. on the one hand they say they think the president s economic plans are working. but, observed they say they know that people are paying more than ever for essentials. fighting inflation is my top economic priority. and despite rising prices on just about everything, biden officials are celebrating a stronger than expected 390,000 jobs created in may. we aren t likely to see the kind of blockbuster job reports month after month like we had over this past year. that s even though the economy remains 822,000 jobs short of pre-pandemic levels. inflation has been an issue since last year. before russia invade ukraine but the president continues to blame. putin s war in ukraine. putin began amassing troops. this is a putin price hike.
. we went to mariupol on the front lines and then we also were in kyiv and talking to musicians and you get a sense of the culture. but there was the you know, the wagner problem that was going on at the time. and so the administration was very slow. we couldn t see him. we came back and then this thing really escalated. so then we went i think we got there roughly a week before the invasion and we met him i met him face to face for the first time the day before the invasion and then spent t time with him in which we document in the film during the invasion on the day of the invasion. and ii don t know that there sn a person on earth who who could know that they were born forld such a day that they could rise to it. i want to make sure i saw when you say invasion, was this him taking the two regions, etc. or whatever they were also rockets coming in . this is also when they this is when they hit the airport fifteen klicks out of right. kids. so it was it was a game on and
experience, landing a plane safely. let s go outfront. good evening. welcome to a special edition of outfront live from kyiv. i m erin burnett tonight. outfront this ooefg, the first russian civilian killed just miles from the ukrainian board we are russia. according to the kremlin, the russian civilian was killed by an attack just outside of belgorad, which putin has been using as a staging ground for troops entering ukraine. ukraine hasn t denied this, they have not commented on it as of yet. but news of this reported death raises the stakes. it was yesterday that biden s national director of intelligence warns that putin would escalate this war. the civilian death comes as ukraine is offering to release russian prisoners of war in exchange for the evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers inside that steel plant in mariupol. it is the last thing right now, standing in the way of russia owning that key port city. we re also hearing from a commander still inside the pla