any tax suspension would require of course action by congress. but the president will give a speech today throwing the administration support behind a three month gas tax holiday which would breathe new life into an issue that has so far been stalled on capitol hill. kevin liptak is live for us with this news. what is the administration saying about this? reporter: officials are certainly very bullish on this move. and it is something that the white house had been considering for months. they held off until now, but clearly president biden wants to show that he is taking some initiative on this issue and so in a speech later today the president will call on congress to pass a three month suspension of the gas and diesel tax. he wants to go until the end of september. he will also call on states to temporarily suspend their own gas taxes and he will renew these calls for oil and gas companies to up their refining capacity. and so administration officials claim that taken tog
election. specifically, they re looking at the state of georgia where he asked raffensperger, we remember, this to quote, find him enough votes to win, and in that now infamous phone call. we will be hearing from raffensperger and his deputy, gabriel sterling, a name we know well as well. focusing on the pressure trump put on the former vice president, mike pence, to not certify the election. now one member of the january 6th committee praised pence this morning for resisting trump s pressure. in a time of the scandalous betrayal of people in office and crimes being committed all over the place. somebody who does their job will stand out as a hero on the day. i think on that day he was a hero for resisting all of the pressure campaigns and the course of efforts to get him to play along with this continuation of the big lie. this big joke that he could somehow call off all the proceedings himself. all the public hearing so far, they ve shown the former president is this re
and he wanted it to be true that his hand-picked attorney general would come out publicly and say that there was widespread voter fraud that would ultimately overturn the election results. and he wanted it to be true that rudy giuliani s wild suggestion that he proclaimed victory before all the votes were even counted would not be challenged by his campaign manager or any of his advisers. a group we learned today was on something called team normal. and he wanted it to be true that someone stole a second term from him, not that he just lost the election. now, these are things that he wanted to be true. but, as i said, there s a difference between believing something and wanting it to be true. now, the committee today set out to try to show the american electorate that trump couldn t possibly have actually believed any of the things he wanted to be true, not when adviser after campaign manager after campaign lawyer after deputy attorney general after attorney general after s
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was for the performance of 6, one of the ladies had covid. so one of the understudies stepped in last minute and she got a shout out and that was pretty incredible to watch. all right, frank, di lella, thank you so much. everyone looks so happy. we appreciate you re coming on this morning. it is the very top of the fourth hour of morning joe. and in less than one hour, the january 6 house select committee will hold its second public hearing on capitol hill this morning. the panel is expected to delve deeper into the big lie. lawmakers are expected to lay the case out that former president trump knew he lost the 2020 election. and made an effort to spread disinformation. today s witness list includes former trump campaign manager bill stepian. and we re hearing about the hearings. two more hearings are going to take place this week on wednesday, the panel will focus on pushback from the justice department. and former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen will testify. then