hundreds of pages of documents can be handed over to the january 6th committee by tomorrow s deadline. and after lawmakers subpoenaed more than a dozen in trump s inner circle this week alone. they re focusing on those closest to former vice president mike pence. cnn s kara scannell is following the latest for us. it could be a game changer in the investigation, what we hear and see tomorrow. that s right, victor. as you said, the former president s lawyers have gone to a federal appeals court asking them to step in and briefly stop the national archives from turning over records to the house committee investigating january 6th. trump s lawyers, as you said, have been fighting this. they have lost. they re 0-2 in courts. that s why they re going to the appeals court and asking them to pause this release. the deadline is tomorrow. they have an agreement with the house for expedited briefing which means they could be fully briefed by early next week and the appeals court co
the threat of a mistrial continues to hang over the trial. welcome to meet the press daily i m chuck todd in los angeles. meet the press film festival later today. we re excited. happy veterans day to all our veterans out there as leaders in washington and beyond honor our heroes in uniform. we ll show you some of those ceremonies coming up. but we re going to begin with a major challenge facing this white house and democrats beyond the already sour political environment facing this president. he s facing the prospect of souring economic environment or at least a perceived one for many, everyday workers and voters. yesterday s inflation report which showed that consumer prices are rising at rates not seen in three decades is reverberating through the head looinls and for good reason because it erased most of the wage gains workers made over the last year. essentially wiping out wiped out by rising costs for basic goods. you can t help but wonder is this an upward cycli
dana: cars, everything, televisions are up across the board. bill: you wonder now we re watching pete buttigieg earlier today. transportation secretary. we ve asked why isn t he at the port of l.a. trying to figure it out? he was in glascow scotland. he was hammered why people and going back to job and the workforce. his answers were pretty average. dana: yesterday the white house press secretary said she didn t have specifics on what they could do. bill: this is a real good example of why you need a president who has had business experience at some point in his life to try to give us ideas. dana: also what the voters said last week you are not paying attention to the issues that we care about. glascow and climate has been on their minds 100%. this is an issue that permeates everything. it affects every american in a good way and they don t have a way to get out of it. bill: so you ve got this fueling that inflation rate now. supply chain crisis appears to be gett
daniel, we know it s complicated but can you just boil it down, is greed from oil companies to blame for the high prices right now? you re right. it is complicated. viewers at home and americans, especially low-income households, are suffering from the high energy prices. the finger pointing we see in congress from both sides is shedding more heat than light. there are literally thousands of oil and gas producers in the united states, some of them very large, most very small, and they do not set prices. oil prices and gasoline prices are really set by global market forces. today s high prices are mostly driven by market fundamentals and the russian invasion of ukraine. the best way to reduce exposure is to gradually reduce oil consumption and move towards an economy that s less reliant on fossil fuels which have the benefit of addressing climate
Profits, $11 billion for the last quarter. so that doesn t add up. that just feels like their answer of, oh, well, we don t want to hurt our investors. it seems silly. exactly. there s no point in debating whether companies should have profits. of course companies need to have profits and shareholders want and put pressure on companies to have profits, but we are in a special situation right now. there is a war going on, a lot of people are being asked to sacrifice and what s happening at the gas pump americans are paying more than $4 per gallon at the gas pump but that money is not going to pay for crude oil. they are buying back shares of stock. that is called profit earring or