the public. reporter: they talked to ivanka trump, whose comments seemed to contradict what she told the committee under oath about whether she believed the election was stolen. plus, easing the sting of gas prices. at the white house next hour president biden will call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months. but is this proposal likely to hit a dead end in congress? speaker pelosi called it good pr just a few months ago. also on capitol hill, a major breakthrough in gun legislation with a senate vote coming as soon as friday. this is the most significant anti-gun violence bill that congress has voted on in 30 years. the senate action comes as new details about the uvalde school shooting massacre sparked new outrage. new testimony that the shooter could have been taken down in a matter of minutes, just adding to the devastation of victims families. i just don t get how you can hear these kids, you know, crying and asking for help, but you re
roger goodell in front of house lawmakers responding to reports of one team s toxic work culture, which includes allegations of sexual harassment and the no-show witness who may soon be getting a subpoena. we have a little bit of everything this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington. we are joined by mike memoli the at the white house and senior analyst ron insana. we just heard from the president. this new proposal. talk about where it goes from here. reporter: maybe, but it seems unlikely based on the initial reaction we re getting from capitol hill especially. the president if you want to look and explain the urgency from the president, you only need to look at a new university poll that was just released in the last hour as well. the presiden his approval rating at 35%. 68% of americans saying that the high cost of gas is a major problem for them. and that they are making adjustments in their household spending because of it. this is a president that has been deal
election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsin s senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many questions like what did ron johnson know about the scheme to set up false electors which is under criminal investigation by the justice department. here s johnson on capitol hill dodging questions from reporters. how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? no, you re not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. did you know what your chief of staff was doing? does your chief of staff still work for you, sir? can you expla
whose reporting did more than most to make it clear that watergate was for more than the simple break-in it first appeared to be. it s worth mentioning now because contrary to the impression people might have today, knowledge about what watergate truly was in size and scope and the threat to democracy it posed did not come all at once all neatly wrapped up in a bow. it was revealed in day by day slices of the truth by bob and carl and so many others. that notion seems just as true tonight, 50 years later, when it comes to the latest assault on democracy. we ve had plenty of revelations almost since the capitol was attacked, so many that it s hard to keep track, and harder still to be surprised or imagine any of it changes what we think we already know. yet this week, the house january 6 committee, even as it tries to bundle up the scandal and tie a bow around it, has also delivered plenty that is new. and today promised more. listen to kmut tee member zoe lofgren today on cnn
this would play out before the electorate and whether any opinions or any votes or legislation might change. we ve also been waiting for what the person who obviously seems to be at the center of the committee s attention, former president donald j. trump, wondering what he has to say about all the committee s assertions, and there are a lot of them. like that he was told his scheme was to told overturn the election was in fact illegal, but he pressured his vice president to go along with it anyway. things like he knew that mike pence s life was in danger at the capitol but kept publicly lashing out at him during the attack anyway. well, the wayit seems to be ove because today in his first public appearance since the hearing, he didn t really deny any of that exactly. instead, he admitted he did pressure pence to try to keep him in power. but he did deny one thing. never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chanc