further inflamed the rioters as they were raging through the capitol hunting down the vice president and shouting, hang mike pence. in a preview video released this week, you saw liz cheney referencing a federal judge s ruling back in march that the former president probably violated federal statutes throughout that pressure campaign. a campaign conceived, in part, by lawyer john eastman, a character you will meet today. a big player inside that circle of election deniers working around the clock to try to keep donald trump in power. this hour, we will expand that inner circle with a look at ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. bennie thompson saying that it is time for the committee to hear from thomas, quote, soon. this is a change in the committee s position and it comes after new bombshell reporting from the washington post on the emails between thomas and john eastman about overturning the election. we are going to talk about the new foc
staircases. scenes not usually photographed by typical tourists. one of the men seen the next day walking from the president s rally. there s no escape, pelosi. schumer. nadler. we re coming for you. we re coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc, we re coming to take you out. there is a lot more. we will have a report from capitol hill on the latest. the federal reserve today back in the spotlight with the expected announcement of the first big interest rate boost since 1994 to try to combat historic levels of inflation, which shows no sign of leveling off. president biden pressuring oil companies as prices at the pump soar, sending letters to seven refiners asking them to increase supply and explain their big profit margins and a meeting with the energy secretary about to happen. on capitol hill, more optimism about bipartisan support for a compromise gun safety bill. if it leads to a piece of legislation, i intend to support it. i t
you played this at the top of the show. the fact that there were pictures taken by the people on the tour that corresponded to specific people that they were threatening to go and get on january 6th, specifically people like jerry nadler, nancy pelosi, other key members of democratic leadership. what the committee is able to do this is the power of the testimony we have seen over the testimony of the last two hearings and will continue this week, the idea that they are able to put all of these together in a clear narrative. that s what they are doing around the loudermill being tour. tomorrow, that s something i m sure we will see, too. i want to talk to barbara and phil and peter. we with talk about the politics. let s talk about the legal impact of this potentially. people have to be interviewed. it will be hard to get loudermill being to come as a witness. they can track down some of the
correspondents on the hill have heard it as well. that s right. there has been quiet chatter on capitol hill about these tour groups that have been seen in the days leading up to it. what the committee released today is the first time, i believe, we have seen such stark evidence of a tour actually taking place on january 5th and then using surveillance video and social media video to connect someone from that tour group with the threat you saw being made outside the morning of january 6th, which seems to demonstrate some intent and indicate the urgency to bring this congressman forward for questioning to find out what he may have known about the intent of the group he was leading on the tour on january 5th. of course, they do seem to be casing the place. they were looking at security checkpoints and hallways and things that no tourist would want to take a picture of. peter, i want to talk about another video that was released.
these people in. absolutely. the house select committee that is investigating january 6 and that riot and that insurrection, they released video footage of one of the individuals that loudermill klt k gave a tour. it s possible they interviewed this person. loudermill being the u.s. capitol police said the folks with him weren t suspicious, anything they were doing wasn t consistent with a reconnaissance tour. it seems like this human was on was with this tour with them. that we will hear. we are supposed to hear more about that today. the committee postponed that hearing for technical reasons, they said. that reason has changed a little bit. that will continue. we will see some of that stuff next week and get more information about loudermill