and even more so, about the 77 minutes of inaction that the video shows. plus, in some big cities there will no longer be a starbucks on every corner. the coffee giant is closing several locations but not because of slow sales. is this about working safety or is it about unionization? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our money lead and horrible news for your wallet. new data today released by the biden administration shows inflation surging to 9.1%. that is the highest level in more than 40 years and it means the prices we pay over all are 9.1% higher than at this time last year. so unless you have benefitted from an unlikely 10% raise since then, you now have less money in your pocket than you did a year ago. much of the increase is driven by gas prices, which we should note have fallen in recent weeks, but they remain insanely high, up nearly 60% in this report, and the increases are felt across a range of categories, prices on groceries are u
she was active in her efforts to try to help with the overturning of the election. some committee members i have talked to are skeptical as to whether or not she was playing an influential role in all of this, but still, the committee is interested in the role she was playing. at this point, they re still open to talking to people, even though it does appear that their investigation is heading toward the finish. we know for sure, jake, they have a big witness coming in this week, and that s patrick byrne, who is the overstock ceo, who was a part of that explosive meeting that was detailed in great specificity in today s hearing. more than anything, the investigation continues. ryan, thank you so much. today s testimony concluded with akaitlan collins has been working her sources, and a lot of people in the media, a lot of people in trump world trying to figure out who liz cheney was talking about when she noted alleged attempted witness tampering, donald trump reaching ou
to rush in immediately and take down the gunman. he was set to take his place on the city council tonight. we ll tell you what the town s mayor is saying about that. and the latest in the debate over gun reform. more on what the key players are thinking and saying ahead of a senate meeting that is scheduled for today. along with joe and me today, we have former aide to the george w. bush state departments and white house, elise jordan. and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. the white house bureau chief at politico. the senators led by chris murphy and john cornyn of texas will hold a meeting tonight. many issues should be held at the state level, but they said mental health, background checks, and red flag laws are something congress can address. after spending four hours with families on sunday in uvalde, the president returned to the white house and expressed hope that republicans will go for reform. he also discussed the limitations of his power on this issu
baltimore police commissioner. nice to have you with us. i know you have been following this from the very beginning. i want to start with d.o.j. said. quote, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare and to respond to active shooter events. we ve seen these types of reviews before in pulse, in san bernardino. where do they ultimately lead, though? they re going back and they re looking at the incident from beginning to end. but ultimately, we ve learned our lessons at columbine. we ve learned that you don t have time to waste, that you ve got to get in there. so with this investigation, i really don t know what will be gained. i feel that this is more of an effort to play hot potato with failure and stall. we know that there are answers that the public, these poor parents, everyone deserves right now. so the federal governm
response was. that was the first thing, and it s only because the families and journalists were asking questions that we now have an accurate picture of what happened. does the committee plan to release this video, the full 77 minutes, earlier now that the austin american statesman has published this edited version online? you know, i talked to a source close to the committee, and this source tells me that they plan to do what they were planning to do, which is release this video to the families first on sunday in uvalde, so in their own town. and to answer their questions, and that s what they continue to do. the chairman of the committee, representative boroughs tweeting moments ago, expressing his disappointment of this leak because they were really hoping to take the families through the entire video and not subject them to yet another edited version of reality. all right, rosa flores, thank