good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight it is election night in america and front and center tonight are trump s lies about the 2020 election, as the january 6th committee lays out its case for how trump tried to overturn the election and knowingly lie to his supporters about it. trump s conspiracy theories are not just a thing about the historical record, you know, that we need to put in there. they re not a thing of the past, they re actually still metastasizing, just listen to two of the trump-backed candidate on the ballot tonight. tonight, will transform our election. you know that they did it to the election in this city. we fought right through to the end. they took the election. we the people know the election was stolen and we are not taking it anymore. so, one of those was adam running for nevada senate, other is katie arrington running for house seat in carolina, where polls closed a the the hour. counting now. trying to unseat incumbent nancy mace
security council official john kirby. and the january 6 select committee just released new video evidence after an abrupt change in the hearing s schedule. this, as we re learning more about a split within the panel over whether to formally seek any criminal prosecutions, including against former president trump. 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. we begin with a nation on edge right now at a critical moment for the u.s. economy. tonight, president biden is making a new effort to calm americans fears while also trying to defend his record. here s our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. inflation, it s sapping the strength of a lot of families. reporter: president biden acknowledging the pain of higher prices in philadelphia today. gas is up and food is up, which we re going to get down come hell or high water. reporter: biden promising to bring prices down as t
join us coming up. john: first fox news alert to an economy in crisis. americans crushed on high prices from gas to food while their retirement accounts evaporate. growing concerns a dramatic move by the fed on interest rates could send the economy spiralling into recession. john roberts in washington. sandra. great to have you back. sandra: i am sandra smith in new york. this is america reports. we are watching all of this, brand-new numbers today from may painting a bleak picture of the american economy. consumer and producer prices still skyrocketing, and hitting record highs. all has major implications for your wallet as those producers that are facing higher costs plan to pass those higher numbers down to the consumer in the form of higher and higher prices. john: national price of gasoline up 63% from a year ago and the highest ever. sandra: it is almost hard to believe, every day a new record. the white house has announced a middle east trip to saudi arabia n
to the gas pumps to fill up their cars, look, i drive a little ford and it cost $60 to fill it up the other day. so they are concerned about the cost of gas at pumps and groceries in our stores. i m the daughter of a maid and a janitor. i watched my parents struggle to make ends meet. the youngest of 7 children. so believe me, in my own life experiences, i knew all too well about that. but let me say this. it does not mean that we should ignore people who lie, steal, and cheat to stay in power or make money. so we re not going to do that. but we certainly need to drive down the cost. we ve already reached out to the administration and talked about in terms of gas, let s tap into those reserves, let s look at price gouging to make sure that oil and gas companies are not just taking advantage of a bad situation so we have called for an investigation into that. we re certainly hoping that that legislation will pass. but we re also looking at market manipulation. again, many time
says the president should call it quits after one term. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, mentally gone, detached from reality or just a liar. put star witness of today s january 6th committee hearing was trump s attorney general, bill bar who says in no uncertain terms that he made it clear to trump that the lies about a stolen election were exactly that lies. but according to barr, and many other trump aides who testified, trump didn t care. there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. there was somewhat demoralized because i thought boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with he s become detached from reality, if he really believes this stuff. and the so-called stuff being peddled by the president and his rag-tag team of lawyers, this is how they were described by the trump aides and officials who looked into them. they were idiotic claims, b bullshit, crazy, complet