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
the department of justice or influence officials there. it will be very interesting to see especially given the role that the department of justice might be playing and eventually prosecuting trump whether or not how trump s influence there was actually played out and what the officials will be testifying. that is what i will be looking at very closely. all right, matt brown, thanks for getting up bright and early for us. happy to be here. the january 6 committee announced that its next hearing tomorrow will focus on trump s pressure campaign on the justice department. scheduled to testify, three high ranking doj officials who refused to go along with the baseless claims of voter fraud. the hearing starts thursday at 3:00 p.m. cnn projects trump endorsed katie britt will defeat mo brooks in the alabama senate runoff winning by nearly a 2:1 margin. remember trump initially endorsed brooks but dropped him after britt after brooks i should say urged voters to move past the 202
britt is the former chief of staff to retiring senator richard shelby. she thanked trump for helping her wrap up her damagcampaign i style. people across alabama miss his america first agenda and we re going to go to the united states senate to fight for it each and every day. thank you. before he endorsed her, trump claimed had britt was, quote, not in any way qualified for the job. just ahead, lawmakers race to get a gun safety bill to president biden s desk. and plus passengers raced to safety from a plane in flames. and beyonce s ode to the race to quit your job. n cancer. when caught in early stages it s more treatable. i m cologuard. i m noninvasive. and i detect altered dnana in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers. even in early stages. early stages. yep.
also pressured by trump to help enlist the very infrastructure of the republican party itself to overturn the election, when you hear testimony like that, it does show that you don t have to be a democrat or a person who is left of center to believe that what trump did in the 2020 election was wrong. and that you can stand up for the u.s. constitution and our basic election administration while still holding on to the republican principles. and what we heard yesterday was pleading and cajoling these officials trying to for hours. trying to rewrite history. what are you watching for next in these hearings? we have top doj officials set to speak tomorrow. yes. so far the committee has gone and shown that trump pressured his vice president, he pressured state and local officials. and in the coming hearings we ll definitely be seeing the effort that trump used inside of washington to take control of
require you to stand up and just take the shots. you re doing your job. and that is all we did. but i had to be faithful to the constitution and that is what i swore an oath to do. let s bring in matthew brown from the washington post. thanks for getting up for us. one of the more powerful parts of the hearing is showing how this strategy, trump s election lies, hurt public servants. we heard from two yesterday including an election poll worker ruby freeman. i lost my name and i ve lost my reputation. i ve lost my sense of security. all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally rudy giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter shaye to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen.