country. as the summer travel season heats up, the average price for gallon of gas hits $5 for the first time ever. i m pamela brown, you re in the cnn newsroom. hello, every one. great to have you along with us on this saturday night. more than 20 million americans tuned in thursday night as the house select me investigating the january 6th capitol attacks opened the hearings in prime time. the narrative that former president trump was at the center of wide ranging conspiracy to stay in office. the members used dramatic footage and chilling testimony to make their points. capital police officer offer car line edwards recalled slipping on the plood of her fellow officers during the assault. documentary film maker following the proud boys said he watch the crowd transform tr protesters to rioters to insurrectionists. thursday s hearing was just for starters. cnn senior crime and justice reporter has more. tell us what the committee has in story for cothe coming week. eve
d digs into former president richard nixon s white house recording system. it is about this time that nixon quickly caved and honored the outstanding subpoena to supply the tapes that had been requested, some nine conversations. the reason he had to turn over those tapes is the public outcry. do you think he should give up the tapes? give up or get out. definitely, yes. i think he should give up the tapes. the task force received the tapes, put them up on a reel-to-reel recorder and we chose the march 21 cancer on the presidency tape as the first witness we would listen to. i think there is no doubt, we have a cancer that cloaks the presidency that s growing. it is growing daily. it is compounding. growing gee yo metrically now. one, we are being blackmailed. two, people are going to start perjuring themselves quickly to