we re talking triple digits and it will last right through the better part of the weekend. that is wild. derek, thank you. thanks so much for joining us. i m laura jarrett. new day starts right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is thursday, june 9th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we begin with the price of gas, closer than ever to the dreaded $5 a gallon mark. the national average for a gallon of regular gas hitting $4797 up nearly 2 cents overnight and this is the 13th straight day of record highs for the gas prices, it s the 30th in the last 31 days, the surge hitting americans right where they live and drive. so it is worth noting that when you adjust for inflation prices are not at record highs, not yet, but they do keep rising with no real end in sight. this is what president biden said about soaring gas prices during his appearance on jimmy kimmel overnight. look, inflation is is the is the bain of our existe
Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Theres no shortage of news today in the legal troublesing the disgraced expresident and current gop front runner, including a third trump lawyer and fourth trump associate earlier today Pleading Guilty in the Fulton County Criminal Election interference case. We begin with a moment years in the making at Aen Manhattan courthouse. The disgraced expresident coming face to face with Michael Cohen, the former fixer who said he would take a bullet for donald trump now, Star Witness In That Civil Fraud Trial that threatens to bring down the trump business empire. Here is what Michael Cohen said on arrival at court today. Let me just turn around and say that this is not about donald trump vs. Michael cohen. This is about accountability, plain and simple. We leave it up to the judge in order to make all the duststorm nations. I thank you all for coming. A few hours later in what he called a, quote, heck of a reunion, he took the stand in the 250 million civi
Structure structures in our political system, as envisioned by the founders, that sometimes theyre going to disadvantage democrats, but the truth of the matter is, is that if we have a strong message, if were speaking to what the American People care about, typically you know, the popular vote and the Electoral College vote will align, and i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we looked for one explanation or one silver bullet, or one easy fix for our politics, then were probably
initiative and School Nutrition program is a greater threat to democracy than our government going after the press if theyre issuing a story we dont like. I mean thats an issue that i think weve got to wrestle with. And we will. People asked me how do you feel after the election . I say well, look, this is a clarifying moment. Its a useful reminder that voting counts, politics counts, what the President Elect is going to be doing is going to be very different than what
everyone else, lindsey graham regardless of his status as senator, owes his testimony to a grand jury. there is an old adage that the grand jury is entitled to every man s testimony. that includes people who are sitting senators. you can t use the speech or debate clause, which protects you from being questioned in any other place about your legislative goals to immunize you and shield you from answering any questions at all including those that might relate to crimes. at this point, i think he is viewed as a witness, but we know he made calls to brad raffensperger to pressure him about voting counts. and i m sure that fani willis wants to know whether that was a coordinated effort with donald trump and what his goals were in making those calls. yeah, barbara, talk to me a little bit about that speech, the debate clause, because there s some things that are respected and that aren t. what exactly is that? the speech or debate clause
revolution and they will vote a lot of these folks out of office. we have to keep it focused on if they overrule roe v. wade and state of california don t do it but other states say that you cannot do the following, there s always a law, you can t cross the border, all the things that some states have then you have to make sure that you vote. you have to vote, let people know exactly what the devil you think. what do you think? he thinks there will be a mini political revolution where people will be voted out of office based on what people assume will be a supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade. if you go state by state somebody elected those state legislators that have put all of these restrictions on, virtually eliminated the right to an abortion functionally in state after state after state. somebody elect that had texas state house, somebody elected those folks in georgia and some of these other states. when you say, yes, voting counts, you know, it s going to make a bi