get inflation under control. treasurer secretary yellen says bringing prices down is top priority for this administration but the plan forward to ease the economic pain is not clear. rich. good evening. good evening bill. more government data showing the same worrying trend higher prices throughout the economy at levels not seen in four decades. today s labor department report is blamed on one sector of the economy as democrats and republicans assign their own blame. for second straight day labor department report shows significant inflation throughout the economy, the producer price index measures the cost of goods and services at wholesale level before they reach consumers many those prices were 11.3 percent higher in june, the fastest increase since 1981. we are taking our own steps that we believe will be responsive in the short term to get inflation down. the labor department says nearly 90 percent of its annual increase is from inflation and oil, gas, showing infl
244,000 people seeking unemployment insurance last week. as americans struggle with the rising costs of everyday goods. new details about former president trump allegedly trying to call a witness involved in the january 6th committee s investigation. we begin this morning with what appears to be a stark difference between the president of the united states and israel over how to deal with iran. during a joint news conference with israeli s prime minister in jerusalem, president biden defended his efforts to restart an international agreement aimed at preventing iran from building a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security to both israel and the united states. and i would add for the rest of the world as well. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. and we ll continue to work with israel to counter other threats from iran throughout the region. but the israeli leader said diplomacy will not work and that the international community
jansen. there is news that donald trump has decided whether to run for president. he still mulling whether to announce it before or after the midterms? if his answer is yes he did not say that out right. he s merely meant to distract as to what is the hottest topic in washington. who was he trying to get in touch with when he reached out to one of the january 6th witnesses. what was he planning to tell them? what they call mark to evidence as witness tampering? it s been confirmed it was a white horse support staff member. white horse support staff according to cnn, it was not someone routinely in touch with the former president. the justice department is not in possession of that information. one of several threads they are following. the fact that they are coming to the committee for information, has led to a lot of frustration. even from committee members themselves. two they have got potent tools to get information. they can enforce their own subpoenas in a way we can.
climate change, but with senator joe manchin pulling his support, what can the president really do? what the president said today and terry moran on that tonight. the primetime hearing tomorrow night from the january 6th committee. tonight we learn who the american people will hear from including former white house counsel pat cipollone, who has been asked about conversations within the cabinet involving the 25th amendment, which would remove a sitting president and what cipollone warned the president. jonathan karl tonight with new reporting. in washington today, the emotional appeal from ukraine s first lady addressing lawmakers on the hill. the images of the children she brought with her, the standing ovation and after u.s. intelligence warned of what putin could be planning next, what we re now hearing tonight from russia s foreign minister. rachel scott on the hill. it was the story that made national headlines. the turpin children, authorities say, trapped in thei
attack on the capitol. but more than three hours went by before donald trump said much of anything. next week s hearing, the eighth one of the series, building upon evidence showing how trump tried to use the power of his government to overturn joe biden s victory. we re going to walk down to the capitol. he called on his supporters to come to washington on january 6th. so why did you decide to march to the capitol? basically, the president got everybody riled up, told everybody to head on down. so we basically just followed what he said. tuesday s hearing, vice chair liz cheney revealing that trump tried to call a potential witness. something the committee relaid to the department of justice. let me say one more time, we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. but today, chairman bennie thompson telling cnn that the committee does not plan to depose this potential witness. it doesn t know why trump made the call. you have intervi