thank you. top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. happening now, former trump add v adviser peter navarro is in court. he refused to cooperate with the investigation, and was arrested by the fbi earlier today. cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is on this story. so let s start by just reminding everyone of the information that navarro has that the committee wants and how investigators got to this indictment. well, victor, navarro was subpoenaed by the house select committee investigating january 6th. back in february, they specifically requested testimony and documents related to plans he was hatching with another trump adviser, steve bannon to delay the certification of the election results. navarro has been very public about his efforts to undermine the outcome of the 2020 election. he even wrote about this plan in a book that he published not too long ago. he refers to the plan as
thing he was going to do is make sure that the federal reserve did its job in dealing with inflation. the second thing that he said he would do is to make sure that we lower prices on americans in other areas because he understands what it s like at the table, and laid out prescription drugs. he laid out child care, he laid out high speed internet. there are lots of things we can do to reduce the cost on american citizens, and as he said, to make it just a little bit easier, and finally the robust economy and reducing the deficit and making people pay their fair share, billionaires to pay the same rate firefighters and teachers do would be a great start in reducing the burden on every day americans. the president has laid that out, and he would like congress to act. let s talk about congress acting. the president delivered his speech last night on gun reform, and you watched the build back better negotiations and talks up close. it will certainly be an up hill push to get legislation
climb even. but do you think that there s some value to have the president do more than he did last night? to engage one on one with members of the senate to try to come to some agreement? well, first of all, i expect that the president will use the power of the presidency to help secure the lives of american people and american children. i think that you will agree with me that the president s speech last night was right on target, right on point, right on message. this is a president that understands what it s like to lose a child and clearly from the work he did from the time he was a senator to the vice president to a president has been working on this issue. beyond let me interrupt. beyond the speech, will he engage. i understand that. let me explain. the president is going to use his bully pulpit. he called on congress but for going over there to do their job for them, i m sure he s going to work with them. he laid out a very specific plan of things that almost 2/3 of t