the p-word. new details show how trump was told over and over and over again his plot to overturn the election was not legal. plus a rare interview president biden shares a gloomy outlook with the associated press. americans are confused, upset and worried, but he blames covid caution and politics, not his policies. and the search is on for three americans missing in ukraine, three feared taken by russian forces. the plot that donald trump knew it was illegal and kept pushing his agenda. panel picks up the public work next week. hearing four will detail the campaign against people in areas where he lost. they walked through the country s badgering of the. the committee detailed how trump shopped for lawyer after lawyer and scheme after scheme. it led him to john eastman, and an election plot witnesses say was without constitutional merit and without a doubt, illegal. i said are you out of your f ing mind. no, that was pretty blunt. i said you re completely crazy. y
pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. the secret service couldn t control the situation and do their job to keep him safe. at 2:26 p.m., the secret service rushed vice president pence down the stairs. approximately 40 feet. that s all there was. 40 feet between the vice president and the mob. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president s life was in danger. the recent court filing by the department of justice explains that a confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi that the proud boys would have killed mike pence if given the chance. that s just some of what we heard from yesterday s hearing into the attack on the capitol. as the committee detailed the close call for vice president pence, good morning and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we re glad you re with us. the third day of testimony in the january 6th hearings focused on donald trump s efforts to pressure mike pence into overturning
taking photographs of stairwells and hallways and tunnels and security screening posts. hmm. and then the invasion in ukraine hits home for some u.s. families as two americans going missing while fighting alongside ukrainian soldiers. the growing fear these two americans might now be in the hands of the russians. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and a major economic news that will in the short term at least make life more expensive for many americans. the federal reserve this afternoon doing something it has not done in nearly three decades. they raised the interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point. this will mean higher costs for mortgage loans and credit card bills and auto loans and student loans. federal reserve chairman jay powell says the hike is necessary to cool economic growth so as to get inflation under control, but that could take weeks if not months, and so many american families are struggling right now with sk
of the 11th hour, stephanie rule, tom costello with us, white house correspondent carol lee and host of public radio s full disclosure. the news is in, stephanie, three quarters of a point. we thought originally it was going to be 50 basis point but jay powell is in a situation. we are in a serious inflationary environment. normally the fed likes inflation to be around 2% and it s currently approaching 9. so 75 basis points is a big move but it s still tricky because what they don t want to do is move so much so quickly that they push us into recession. but if they don t do something aggressive, prices will likely continue to rise and the economy is suffering for it, especially right around gas prices. this is a big move. it s not unexpected. it s the thing that people have been waiting for. most economists across the board have said this should have happened months ago. markets are going to take this as a positive. robin, it is hard to thread this needle, though. the
supporters in the white house. they were telling him, using many different kinds of words, that what he was saying was a lie. he lied in an effort to stop the counting of ballots on election night and to later cast doubt on their validity. and allegedly he lied in pursuit of a quarter billion dollars in campaign donations to a fund he lied about the very existence of, an election defense fund that did not exist. those are the elements of the case the january 6th committee is building against donald trump, and today in the second installment of televised hearings, it was testimony from some of the former president s most senior advisers at the time who actually made that case, including his campaign manager, bill stepien, and the sitting attorney general of the united states at the time, bill barr. as you ll hear and this is from the other or this is the other takeaway from today s proceedings, much of what they had to say to the former president at the time and more recen