8.6%. americans, you, we, are feeling this nearly everywhere, nearly everything is more expensive, including the cost of gas which remains at historic highs. the biden administration taking new steps to lower those gas prices. this morning presidentiesident calling on energy companies to do more. also this morning, the january 6th committee is teasing ahead to its next hearing, tomorrow, they released a portion of a taped deposition with a former white house lawyer. now the committee is saying that thursday s hearing will focus on president trump s effort to pressure then vice president mike pence to block the certification of the election. we will have much more on that, in just a moment. let s begin this morning with cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz. arlette, president biden is making strong demands from oil companies, this morning, as he tries to do something about the soaring gas prices. reporter: yeah, president biden is trying to ramp up the pressure on
what trump s innermost circle thought of his election fraud lies. detached from reality was the polite way of putting. president biden wrapping up a speech in philadelphia to the aflcio convention. the president s argument, times are tough, but he should be trusted to get us through the economic pain. and the president got political saying a republican wave in november would bring a renewed attack on two sources of security. the president says republicans would put programs like medicare and social security at risk. our cnn white house correspondent is traveling with the president in philadelphia. john, the president was relaxed because he was among friends. talked about the economics, but he also talked politics. he did. look, this was a president, john, who was reveling in the applause of his friends in the union movement. he s always said from the beginning of his presidential campaign that he s a union guy. so he talked about the positive aspects of his economic record.
test evidence, it s pretty apparent that at some point president trump knew what was going on. obviously. right? having meetings within the white house, having individuals that you re paying out there doing lawsuits, the 64, 65 lawsuits, if you re pushing this libel on twitter and social media, important and the committee will concentrate. look what s happening and the message pushed by president trump himself on social yomedia and other individuals, it s a pipeline that s damaging and pushing things like stop the steal. trump is announcing a counteroffensive expecting his diehards on capitol hill to defend his honor by writing off the hearings as a partisan witch-hunt. joining me now, former white house press secretary during the trump presidency, stephanie grisham. thanks for being with us. just last month you testified for a second time, i believe, in front of the january 6 committee. did their questions give any clues as to what these new revelations might be that are
classes will be held again there. and we are watching a tropical system closing in on florida. the timing and potential impact. your forecast coming up in a few minutes. so grateful to have your company in the morning. 6:00 on saturday, june 4th. thank you for being with us. a pleasure to be with you, christi. we begin with a setback for the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. the justice department saying it will not indict two feormer trup officials. the committee says the decision not to prosecute the two puzzling. this comes as the committee is getting ready for the public hearing next thursday when new evidence and witness testimony are expected to be unveiled. let s go to cnn reporter zachary cohen. he is here with details. zach, walk through the decision against prosecuting meadows and scavino. how could this impact the investigation? reporter: good morning. the committee is frustrated by the decision not to prosecute dan scav