lifting the gas tax is on the table. plus captured americans. russian state media shows two alabama men who volunteered to fight alongside ukraine in captivity held by russian-backed separatists. up first for us, nthe january 6h committee next hearing is tomorrow. fallen promises to expose donald trump s role in a scheme to sub in fake electors for the real ones. on cnn a committee member says part of the evidence will directly tie the former president to the plot. we will show evidence of the president s involvement in this scheme. we ll also, again, show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. we ll show during a hearing what the president s role was in trying to get states to name alternate slates of electors, how that scheme depended initially on hopes that the legislatures would reconvene and bless it. will we see that he directed it? i don t want to get ahead of what we ll show during the hearing. we did hear last week from the forme
a chilling warning about the cost of trump s nonstop election lies. there is violence in the future. i m going to tell you. and as soon as tomorrow, kids as young as six months old will be able to get their first dose of the covid-19 vaccine. roughly 17 million children under five in the u.s. are finally eligible for the shot. we ll detail the administration s rollout. first, the travel nightmare. let s go to pete outside washington for us. what s the scene there and what is causing such a travel mess? well, so many people still trying to get home after traveling this weekend. you know, these new cancellation numbers are huge, but the cause for this really is not new. we ve been reporting about how airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic. it s led to major shortages of flight crews, and a deck of cards comes tumbling down when summer weather comes into the next. this dates back to thursday with massive storms in the east coast. look at the cancellation numbers acco
slide off the pedal. i was getting off the bike and it got stuck on the right side. come on. don t make things up. now you sound like a republican politician. that was a joke. all kidding aside, no, i don t think it is. i was talking to larry summers this morning. there s nothing inevitable about a recession. here s what we can do. i think we can get a change in medicare and a reduction in the cost of insulin. we also can move in a direction that we can provide for taxes on those in the corporate area as well as individuals as relates to trump tax cuts. we have a chance here to make a fundamental turn towards renewable energy, electric vehicles. across the board. that s something that we should be my team is going to be sitting down with the ceos of major oil companies this week. giving an explanation of how they make $35 billion in the first quarter. the president said quite a bit on the beach this afternoon. david asman and charlie gasparino join me now. great to have
votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. still remarkable to hear him. that was georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger on the receiving end of that request. he and his deputy gabe sterling will be the witnesses along with two recent recipients of the jfk profile and courage award for their actions and courage during the 2020 election. georgia elections worker andrea shea moss who also came under pressure. the testimony doesn t stop there, we ll hear what one federal judge described this way, a coup in search of a legal theory. that is the way trump and his legal team in the days following his historic defeat latched on like sea urchins to a radical, unconstitutional effort to leave him in power in key swing states. in advance of that line of questioning, there is brand-new reporting in the washington post this weekend with an inside look of what john eastman was saying to his colleagues that they knew the plan was baseless and pursued it anywa