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
congress. would this really help or a ploy for political mileage? and president biden will have to counter this dismal sal by barack obama in 2008. we re arguing over a gimmick to seau half a tank of gasp. if so everyone in washington can pat themselves on the back. let me tell you something. this isn t an idea designed to get you through the summer. it s an idea designed to get them through an election. phil mattingly joins us at the white house. this is another effort by president biden to deal with gas prices. he s released oil from the strategic reserve. he will travel to saudi arabia in efforts to increase production. he s called on refineries to ramp it up. but even some democrats don t support a gas tax holiday. help us understand the white house thinking here. reporter: it s just a myriad of reasons why they have been reluctant to give their support. it s been on the table. it s been something that s been under consideration by president biden and his team ask t
liberated a number of towns near kharkiv. the region where they reported the civilian killed has seen several explosions. the cause is missiles and bombs. ukraine has not confirmed nor denied responsibility for the blast. another major development is finland joining nato possibly. they agreed to assist each other militarily should either country face attack. finland shares an 800 mile border with russia. finland s president will contact vladimir putin if that should happen. if that will be the case, what my response would be that you caused this. vladimir putin s profile. critics made a daring escape from russia. she ll tell us how she managed to get out. we ll start of the report of the russian civilian killed. scott mcclain. scott, since the first time this war began in february, what do we know? reporter: anderson, yeah. as you mentioned earlier, this is an area where ukrainians have been making progress in taking towns and villages around kharkiv. in those areas they
thwhat a tragic thing that happened. this committee trying to get to the bottom of it. the doj, wooul see. they have fwoen through these several pieces. tomorrow we ll hear from jeffrey rosen. then from richard donnahue, one of his deputies. so we have already seen bill barr s testimony. he said three times he met with trump. give it up. it s not there. what is the committee s goal in trying to say donald trump kept going to the justice department s saying i want you to help me say there was no fraud. they clearly have demonstrated and are continuing to demonstrate that the president had every reason to understand that what he was saying was baseless and fraudulent. he didn t have evidence or the legal cause to take the kind of extreme actions he wanted to talk. the fact that rudy giuliani said we don t have evidence, but we have a lot of theories a all the this point, is quite an emission on the part of somebody very
this and fats for it to go into effect. let s turn to the investigation of january 6th. tomorrow the house select committee will hear testimony from former acting attorney general and deputy attorney general richard donnahue. the focus will be on how then president trump and allies pressured the justice department to intervene in the 2020 election. there s also growing pressure to secure testimony from then trump white house counsel pat cipollone. you might recall this testimony from trump s son-in-law jared kushner about cipollone th threatening to resign ahead of january 6th. are you aware of instances where pat cipollone threatened to resign? i kind of my interest the at time was trying to get as much done. i know that he was always him ask the team were saying we re going to resign. we re not going to be here if that happens. so i kind of took it up to be whining, to be honest with you.