i heard the president say something to the effect of, i don t f ing care if they have weapons. republican congressman adam kinzinger joins me exclusively. gas prices and soaring inflation dampen americans holiday. can president biden turn america s mood around? hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is ready for some fireworks of the nonpolitical variety. happy fourth of july weekend. as friends gather to celebrate america s birthday at parades and cookouts on this holiday break, the food they re eating and drives they re taking are more expensive than last year. there are signs that americans of different political stripes are growing more divided after a series of supreme court reversals on environmental regulations, guns and abortion. add to the mix, the ongoing fight over former president trump s big election lie as americans learn shocking new details about how far trump was willing to go to stay in power. the former president has told as
trump white house aide kassidy hutchinson. she is alleging that then president trump lunged at an agent and try to grab the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle in order to steer it to the capitol on january 6th. the secret service spokesperson telling politico we were not asked to reappear before the committee in response to yesterday s new information and we plan on formally responding on the record. we have and will continue to make any member of the secret service available. the agents mentioned in the testimony has spoken to the committee and want to do so again in public to refute the steering wheel allegation, but hutchinson s attorney says she stands by her testimony despite criticism, saying, because of this courageous woman and others like her, the attempt to hide the truth from the american people will fail. this after she admitted most of what she told the committee was second and third hand accounts and in some cases drawn from conversations she just ov
children s lives. stunning new details and the images this morning on law enforcement s response to the mass shooting at a school last month in uvalde, texas. we are learning that 11 officers responded to robb elementary school within three minutes. they were armed to the hilt. they had protective gear, bulletproof protective gear, but still waited. why? this image obtained by the austin american statesman shows an officer with a ballistic shield, 11:52 a.m., 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school,. another image obtained by the texas tribune shows officers with rifles, ballistic shields, and an ax-like tool. so they had all of this, but we do not know, we should note, at this point, what point in the standoff this image was taken. this morning, a father of one of the students killed in the mass shooting tells cnn he cannot fathom why officers would wait so long to act. they re supposed to be trained professionals, bulletproof vests, heavy automatic weapon
the lead in testifying against the former president in yesterday s hearing, including the speaker of arizona s house, who says he told trump in late december 2020 that he would not go along with the scheme to steal joe biden s win in his state. you re asking me to do something that s never been done in history, the history of the united states, and i m going to put my state through that without sufficient, and that s going to be good enough for me? i do not want to be a winner by cheating. incredibly powerful testimony. also new this morning, president biden aiming to help americans out, at least a little bit at the pump during the summer travel season. the white house expected today to call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax, three months. we have details on how much that would help reduce prices at the pump, and downsize to it as acknowledged by some members of the administration. more on that in just a bit. begin this morning with cnn s manu raju on the hil
about mike pence, that served to whip up the crowd. one of the rioters read it aloud. watch this. you just heard that mike pence is not going to reject any fraudulent elector votes! you re a traitor! that s right. you heard it here first. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! [ bleep ] you, mike pence. it was clear it was escalating and escalating quickly. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. so when that tweet, mike pence tweet, was sent out, i remember us saying that that was the last thing that needed to be tweeted at that moment. the situation was already bad. and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. the danger to pence was very real, and very close as we have now learned, that angry mob got about 40 feet away from the vice president. mr. jacob, you were there, seeing that for the first time, does it surprise you to see how close the mob was to the evacuation route that you took? 40 feet is a distance from me t