any tax suspension would require of course action by congress. but the president will give a speech today throwing the administration support behind a three month gas tax holiday which would breathe new life into an issue that has so far been stalled on capitol hill. kevin liptak is live for us with this news. what is the administration saying about this? reporter: officials are certainly very bullish on this move. and it is something that the white house had been considering for months. they held off until now, but clearly president biden wants to show that he is taking some initiative on this issue and so in a speech later today the president will call on congress to pass a three month suspension of the gas and diesel tax. he wants to go until the end of september. he will also call on states to temporarily suspend their own gas taxes and he will renew these calls for oil and gas companies to up their refining capacity. and so administration officials claim that taken tog
i ve lost my sense of security. this has turned my life upside down. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is wednesday, june 22. 9:00 oom ha.m. here in london, a.m. in washington where u.s. lawmakers heard dramatic testimony about the donald trump pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election and with that came threats of violence from his supporters against people who refused to go along. two of the most moving accounts came from georgia election worker shaye moss and ruby freeman, they were falsely accused by president trump and some of his aides of fixing the vote for joe biden. both women say the threats and harassments they received after the election made their lives miserable. i ve lost my name and i ve
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