good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, june 17th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are new questions about donald trump s legal exposure in the january 6th attempted and attempted coup. he and his allies new their scheme was illegal but continued with it anyway. putting vice president pence s life in danger as angry mobs vowed to hang him at the capitol. this was pence on january 6th sheltering in a secure location as rioters overwhelmed the capitol. they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route. we are learning more about a heated phone call between trump and pence on that morning of january 6th. here s what witnesses, including ivanka trump, said about the former president s demeanor. yeah. i remember hearing the word wimp. he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. . it was a different tone i heard him take with the vice president before. so a major new piece
just as summer temperatures heat up, thousands of kids could be left high and dry. why thousands of pools and summer camps may not open. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the wife of a supreme court justice could be dragged to the forefront of the investigation into the january 6th insurrection. ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas says that she is willing to meet with the house select committee investigating the capitol attack. the request for her interview comes after the committee says they have emails between ginni thomas and former trump attorney john eastman. eastman, of course, the architect of the delusional, unconstitutional theory that vice president pence could single handlely have overturned the election. while the contents of the emails between the two have not been revealed, eastman in emails to a different trump lawyer, according to the new york times, seemed to have insight and knowledge that supreme court justices were i
my memory, i remember hearing the word wimp, either he called him a wimp, i don t remember if he said wimp is the word i remember. something to the effect this is the wording is wrong. i made the wrong decision for our five years ago. and the word that he repla the word, do you remember what she said her father called anymore the p word. our investigation found that early drafts of the january 6th ellipse speech prepared for the president, include nod d no men of the vice president, but revised it to criticize the vice president and further ad libbed. trump did not stop there, sending a sweet attacking his vice president after aides had told the president that there was violence at the capitol, where mike pence was. the tweet poured gasoline on the fire according to one trump white house aide. the mob surged in the minutes after that tweet and were able to overwhelm the police. two minutes later, pence was evacuated to a secure location underneath the capi
what trump s innermost circle thought of his election fraud lies. detached from reality was the polite way of putting. president biden wrapping up a speech in philadelphia to the aflcio convention. the president s argument, times are tough, but he should be trusted to get us through the economic pain. and the president got political saying a republican wave in november would bring a renewed attack on two sources of security. the president says republicans would put programs like medicare and social security at risk. our cnn white house correspondent is traveling with the president in philadelphia. john, the president was relaxed because he was among friends. talked about the economics, but he also talked politics. he did. look, this was a president, john, who was reveling in the applause of his friends in the union movement. he s always said from the beginning of his presidential campaign that he s a union guy. so he talked about the positive aspects of his economic record.
another prisoner swap? then, the same kind of technology used for the best covid vaccines, mrna, is showing promise in treating other conditions, including some cancers. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead. prices are up and the stock market is down. president biden is trying to put a positive spin on the economy, today insisting that tackling the worst inflation the u.s. has seen in decades remains a top priority. during a speech in front of the afl-cio in philadelphia, the president touted his administration s coronavirus relief efforts, record new job creation, and low unemployment levels. sure, but that s likely little consolation to the millions of americans paying record prices for everything from food to gasoline. especially as many economists predict the federal reserve will drastically hike interest rates tomorrow to try to get control of the inflation. president biden will try to address one of those crises, gas prices, now avera