for electric vehicles. that s any minute now. we ll bring it to you live. the president also putting gas prices front and center today, announcing new plans to try to tackle high prices at the pump. how he s responding to criticism that the move is purely political, with election day now less than three weeks away. and we re on subpoena watch. the january 6th select committee set to formally issue one to former president trump soon, but how soon? we ll talk to a member of the economy, congresswoman zoe lofgren who joins us later in the hour. good morning, i m garrett haake back from paternity leave and we speak with the new york times times political analyst and vaughn hillyard is in tucson arizona, dasha burns is with us, and national political reporter natalie allison rounds out the opening crew here. peter, we just heard from the president about this new plan that tries to tackle high prices at the pump, and he s answering direct questions on whether or not the move
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
aside from being bizarre and somewhat disturbing, that rift was actually a tell about his administration s strategy with the courts. they want their cases to go straight to the stream court because they believe they have five conservative votes to win with on oeverything. legal observers have noted this for a while. they keep appealing rulings they don t like from district court bypassing the appellate courts. it is highly irregular. they did with d.a.c.a., a travel ban, a lawsuit over climate change to name a few and today they gave the trump administration what they want a green to leap frog the appeals court citizenship to the next census. they argued they needed this expedited review. the census bureau itself says they could push it back to september.