months as americans hit the road for the summer. plus i didn t want to be used as a pawn. republican elected officials go point by point through donald trump s efforts to throw out the 2020 election. now the january 6 lt committee calls on a key west wing insider to share his story. and is the trump brand fading. voters say yes to very late trump pick in alabama, but georgia republicans again defy the former president. this time in two house races. up first for us, new white house push to lower gas prices through the summer driving season. today president biden will ask the congress to suspend the gas tax for three months, july, august and september, and he will call on states to do the same. at an event this afternoon, the president will demand oil companies do work to lower gas prices including ramping up production. it is a big white house play on this year s dominant economic and political issue. high gas price asks the much broad problem with inflation and economic a
virginia. the security in hopewell was not as tight as it would have been as maximum facility. lamonty willis and shaw were missing on saturday and serving lengthy services for gun and drug charges. the federal bureau of prisons has come under fire for lack security at similar complexes where it s typical to leave doors unlocked and security cameras not in working order. the u.s. marshal service has launched an internal probe and the fbi and local law enforcement are involved as well. mike. mike: marianne rafferty, starting us off. anyone with information on the four men encouraged to call (804)545-8501. rising inflation and soaring gasoline prices are weighing heavily on the biden administration prompting historically low poll numbers. lucas tomlinson joins me live from the white house with the very latest, hi, lucas. lucas: hi, mike, after president biden fell off bicycle while ride target beach today, today the new york post showed the president on the asphalt with a headl
in her video today, congresswoman cheney played a longer version of testimony we first heard some of yesterday from eric herschman, one of the white house lawyers, that eastman spoke with. it was the day after eastman i don t remember why, he called me or texted me, wanted to talk with me and said he couldn t reach others. and he started to ask me something about georgia and revealing something, potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are you out of your f-ing mind? i said, i only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on. orderly transition. i said, i don t want to hear any more f-ing words coming out of your mouth other than orderly transition. repeat those words to me. what did he say? eventually he said orderly transition. g i said, good, john. now i m going to give you the best advice you ll ever get in your life. get yourself a good lawyer, you re going to need it. and i hung up on him. right now we want to take a closer look at another ke
courting this union vote. now he spoke to them trying to make sure that the members of the unions hang with democrats, with him come november despite these soaring prices. during his speech, he specifically took a moment to blast senate eric scott on florida s plan for the economy. so now the plan of senator scott trying to walk back, but it s clear the last thing that they want to see is workers with power in this country. martha: so to respond to that, senator scott joins us now. good to have you with us today. you had at one point point out a suggestion that everybody should have buy-in on income tax regardless of how low their income is. mitch mcconnell was not interested in including that plan in republican plans. so is it correct to say that you walked that back? absolutely not. here s what i believe. my dad was a union member. he was a teamster. union members want to work. my point is this. we have to get this country back to work. biden s plan is to get people o
constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. as negotiations continue, cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju pressed lawmakers about ar-15s and why people need them and he got a range of responses. here it is. why do you think that people need to have ar-15s in this country in. you re talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. people who are law abiding citizens are in good mental health and aren t a threat to the public. in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other types of varmints, so i think there are legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. that s used for sporting events, for sporting activities all the time. why not raise the age to 21 for people buying semi-automatic rifles? we re talking about a lot of things, and what we re talking about most are background checks, juvenile records, the areas where we can get consensus, that came into the discussion. but right now we re trying to work on things w