prices and rising costs for food, energy, and housing. the biden administration is clearly on the defensive, as the financial pain felt by americans keeps growing. and the embattled uvalde school police chief speaks out for the first time about his response to the massacre. he s reportedly denying he was the scene commander and rejecting many of the main criticisms of his performance. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. and we begin our coverage this evening with fresh fallout from last night s blockbuster january 6th hearing and new indications of where the committee plans to go during its next round of testimony. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has all the latest details. tonight, the impact being felt from the first hearing of the january 6th committee, as they set the stage for what s to come. some republicans are working to discredit the findings. while the form
adjust for inflation price right side not actually at record highs, but what is the white house plan for handling soaring prices and inflation that are affecting americans so severely. joining us is gene sperling, he is currently the white house american rescue plan coordinator and a senior advisor to president biden. he was a national economic council adviser in the clinton administration. gene, let s talk about maybe what can be done to take some of the edge off here. is another release of more barrels from the strategic reserve a possibility here? look, we re trying to do everything we can. you know, when you are talking about looking in real inflation adjusted terms, the day that putin moved troops to the border of belarus gas prices were at $3.31, that was actually below the average that we had over the last decade. as you say, it s now $4.97, that is $1.60 that s over $1.60 tax, putin tax, on the american pu public. little comfort that it s higher for families in
on complicated comprehensive negotiations before. and some laughs but also tough questions. president biden sat down with jimmy kimmel. he was met with hard questions and why he won t do more on guns, on abortion access and climate change. the most high stakes, the january 6th committee restarts the public presentation of the facts on prime time. they gathered evidence. tonight a first glimpse at the work, including previously unseen video testimony that includes trump campaign officials and members of the former president s family. the committee promises a jarring reminder of what happened on insurrection day. a mob tried to up end american democracy and tried to help donald trump steal the presidency. we begin our coverage on capitol hill. ryan, set the stage. there s no doubt the committee understands the challenge they have in front of them. it s been almost a year and a half since the violence and chaos on january 6th. they need to reintroduce that to the america
constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. as negotiations continue, cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju pressed lawmakers about ar-15s and why people need them and he got a range of responses. here it is. why do you think that people need to have ar-15s in this country in. you re talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. people who are law abiding citizens are in good mental health and aren t a threat to the public. in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other types of varmints, so i think there are legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. that s used for sporting events, for sporting activities all the time. why not raise the age to 21 for people buying semi-automatic rifles? we re talking about a lot of things, and what we re talking about most are background checks, juvenile records, the areas where we can get consensus, that came into the discussion. but right now we re trying to work on things w
do you think it s going to happen again? miah was one of several witnesses who gave heartbreaking and really disturbing testimony at the hearing about america s epidemic of gun violence. mass shootings are on pace to hit record levels this year. the parents of lexi rubio, who was killed at robb elementary we want as they implored lawmakers to change the country s gun laws. we don t want you to think of lexi as just a number. she was intelligent, compassionate, athletic. she was quiet, shy unless she had a point to make. if she knew she was right, as she so often was, she was firm, direct, voice unwavering. so today we stand for lexi and as her voice we demand action. we seek a ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines. we understand that for some reason to some people, to people with money, to people who fund political campaigns that guns are more important than children. somewhere out there there s a mom listening to our testimony thinking i can t even imagine