economic legislation through the senate. the inflation redaction act represents what would be the largest investment in energy and climate programs in u.s. history. it would extend health care subsidies and give medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices. senator schumer says it will close tax loopholes and reduce the deficit by $300 billion. cnn s sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill with the latest on the deal. reporter: good morning. this is certainly a big breakthrough on capitol hill and democrats and the white house certainly breathing a huge sigh of relief this morning. senator sinema coming out and announcing that she is on board, that she s going to move forward with this bill, meaning that democrats very likely have the votes to get this passed through on capitol hill, and this is a major piece of the biden administration with major investments in climate, energy and health care, as well as tax reform. it was on that issue of tax reform where senator
sandra: america s energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the government billions of dollars in revenue. sandra: former president obama famously called it a gimmick in 2008, and all of this as we expect president biden to pin the blame once again on his favorite bogeyman, vladimir putin. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house. hi, jacqui. jacqui: good afternoon to you. the president is expected to call on congress to extend a federal gas tax holiday, som
citizen s arrest. hearing number four the attack on the capitol marked by testimony of violence and threats against elected officials who refused to help donald trump overturn the election as well as against election workers targeted in the former president s big lie. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday it snot monday. it is wednesday, june 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. it s been a long week. we re glad you re here. the fourth public hearing into the january 6th capitol attack examined what s described as former president s donald trump personal and direct role in pressuring state officials to help overturn the to 2020 presidential election. the committee demonstrated how trump and his team leaned on state officials to throw out biden votes, find trump votes or to replace biden electors with fake trump electors. rnc chairwoman mcconnell, mark meadows, senator ron johnson and congressman andy biggs were also mentioned with helping with this scheme.
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
And what the Biden Administration is actually doing. On its face a hearing this week with Donald Trumps former Chief Of Staff mark meadows revolved around what might sound like a sideshow legal issue compared to the larger problem facing the former president hooch he wants to move his case from state to federal court, but what we learned from his nearly four hours of questioning has implications far beyond a potential Change Of Venue for his trial. In addition to giving us the first sense of what the argument may be from one of trumps other coconspirators of which there are many, the testimony was also another Flashing Warning Sign of what a second trump term could look like. I mean, lets zero in on the key defense we heard from mark meadows. He argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of Election Fraud, the Pressure Campaign on georgia officials to find votes, the conspiratorial behavior to keep trump in power, he say