biden aides and allies have been talking up key parts of the plan including prescription drugs, taxes and energy. lowering prescription drug costs is one piece. we can bring down costs burdening households like description drugs. pharmaceutical prices which will help health care and lowering the rate. long overdue tax reform. the parks repeal, not the full repeal, but the partial repeal of the trump tax cuts which would take some demand out of the economy. lowering utility costs by providing tax incensetives. the way in which we can assure reasonable energy expenses for households is to move to renewables to address climate change. freeing up fossil fuels in various ways in the short run, and making, with government support, the ultimate pivot to renewables. joining us now from washington, d.c., cnn white house correspondent john harwood. john, happy monday. good to see you here. it looks like a new coat of paint perhaps on some key elements of build back be
united states. we ll look at whether there is any relief in sight. and children as young as six months old just days away from getting covid shots. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we re tracking developments in ukraine where the area around the capital kyiv was rattled by a series of explosions a short time ago. air defenses worked on enemy targets, but so far no fires or casualties reported. officials are urging people to stay in shelters. meanwhile two european leaders say the war may drag on for years. boris johnson and jens stoltenberg made the statements separately and both said that the west should be in for the long haul. and president zelenskyy is pledging to regain all the territories captured by russia in ukraine s south. he spoke after visiting two cities in the region and seeing residential areas ham areaed by artillery and missiles. translator: the losses are significant. many houses were destroyed, civilian logistics were
and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you. joseph r. biden jr. has received 306 votes. donald trump has received 232 votes. the riot ters came close to capturing the vice president and i think that there is very good evidence that they would have done harm to him perhaps even killed him. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is thursday, june 16th. 9:00 a.m. here in london. 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the coming hours the third january 6 hearing will resume in the capital. today s hearing is expected to focus on the white house s pressure campaign on then vice president mike pence to block certification of the 2020 election. lawmakers will argue trump s comments about pence directly contributed to the deadly insurrection and put pence s life in danger. mike pence i ll tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president, comes through for
remember what trump told the crowd at the elipse hours before the attack. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he is a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. [ chanting ] trump s public push contributed to the riot which included threats against pence s life. and two pence aides will appear live this morning. counsel to the vice president and a retired judge and informal adviser. and also expect to see video from the deposition of marc short who appeared yesterday, telling wolf blitzer how he warned the secret service the day before the riot. it became clear that the disagreements that had been discussed i think between the president and vice president? and the staffs were about to become far more public. and i think with thousands of people dekrscending upon washington, i thought it would be important.
unilaterally subvert democracy. also this morning, new photos obtained by abc news show vice president pence and his family in hiding on january 6th, after pence was rushed off the senate floor. you ll remember by secret service as rioters broke into the capitol. i think the public probably is not aware of how close a call this was. the rioters came very close to capturing the vice president and i think there is very good evidence that they would have done harm to him, perhaps even killed him. so this was a close call. that was congresswoman zoe lofgren who sits on that select committee, testifying today, very significant testimony, coming from retired federal judge michael luttig, highly respected conservative judge, once one of justice clarence thomas closest advisers, previously clerked for justice scalia, considered by former president george w. bush as a nominee to the high court himself. that s why his words carry such weight, especially on a day like today. in a