jacqui? hey, charles. we have just learned that president biden will return to the white house to sign that massive tax healthcare and climate bill. there will be a big celebration at the white house on september 6 and then there will be a huge nationwide victory tour. we have a copy of a memo that some white house officials circulated. they write between sunday and the end of august, cabinet members will travel to 33 states touting the inflation reduction act and the administration s accomplishments. some of that travel biden will take part in. polls show inflation is still voter s top concern. the white house named this bill the inflation reduction act to try to show he s doing something about it. even though experts agree it s not going to impact overall inflation for a year or more. officials have said this bill will immediately help because people can spend money on things like solar panels and electric heat pumps in order to save money on their taxes. biden has been q
about the president s counsel, the vice president s counsel. they all told him it was un-american. in the words of a prosecutor, illegal. even the nation s top prosecutor, the attorney general bill barr, found no evidence to support a play to stay in office. and tonight we have not one but two former attorneys general here both nominated by republican president. and both are going to give us their take on whether the emperor s wardrobe might be traded for prison garb. the former attorney general merrick garland says he is watching closely. but i wonder what his predecessors would think and what they would do. day three has had a theme, pressure, persistent, unyielding pressure, all targeting vice president mike pence. the browbeating all began behind the scenes. but when that didn t work, the bully pulpit was the new soap box. and pence s failure to succumb to it put him in danger. the vp s chief of staff was so worried the president was putting his life at risk, that he aler
two missing americans in ukraine, on the back of a russian military truck, hands apparently tied behind their backs. where are they now? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, donald trump was quote, pouring gasoline on the fire. how trump s former white house deputy press secretary describes trump s actions that put pence s life in danger on january 6th. this testimony showed at the january 6th committee this afternoon, rioters came within 40 feet, 40 feet of the vice-president at the capitol. committee showed these never before seen photos of the vice-president and these pictures are of pence at a secure loksz after rioters breached the capitol so when he s in that, you know, sort of rushed into that little back area of attempted safety. including this one that shows pence looking at the video trump tweeted, asking rioters to leave the capitol, the one sent many hours after the violence began, and hours after trump had repeatedly stoked the
language. get him! get him! get these motherfuckers! we re coming through! we re coming through! ah! ah! for nearly a year, the january-6th committee has been trying to piece together how this happened, different vantage points, who was involved, from the bottom to the top? and last night, they up veiled some new video of its own and concerning findings. and it s very first public hearing. president trump was yelling and, quote, really angry at advisers who told him he needed to be doing something more. and aware of the riot rioters chance to hang mike pence, the president responded with this sentiment. quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea. mike pence, quote, deserves it. wow. wow. what the american people deserve are answers and information and the truth. and of course, the people who fought to defend our capitol that day well, they deserve it, as well. and among them, former d.c. metropolitan police officer, mike fanone, who is now a cnn law enforcemen
realizing now that children his own age were murdered inside their classroom, inside their school, he s trying to process it all. and he saw my own anxiety this morning and i felt guilty for even causing a little bit of his own. and he actually said to me, don t worry, mommy. i will be home tonight. he said, i make a promise to myself every day that i will make it home at night. now, these should not be the promises any child has to make. not in a nation where our promises to keep them safe have not been kept. i remember when mr. rogers was trying to comfort kids like me by telling them when you see scary things, look for the helpers. look for the helpers. okay, well, as far as we know, the helpers stood in the hallway. the helpers heard shots even after they believed it was a barricade and not an active shooter, and when the helpers aren t being tight hp lipped, they re offering changing narratives but i m still going to look to these helpers. but this time it will be for an