hello and thank you so much for joining us, i m ana cabrera in new york. surging inflation a major investigation, and a surveillance video that is shaking the nation. we are following a lot of headlines today. first, after meticulously outlining evidence, sharing new testimony to january 6th committee said it is starting producing material for the justice department. and the panel wrapping up his latest hearing with the bombshell, president trump tried to contact a witness. we dig in. plus, there s reaction to police in action. video from inside rob elementary leaked, and we can now see exactly what police were doing as they waited for more than an hour to confront the shooter. and, inflation hits a new 40 year high and we were talking gas, food, rent, the costs are surging but by how much, and why isn t it getting better? that is where we start, cnn business reporters matt egan are with us. okay 40 year inflation high but we are seeing gas prices starting to go down, so what
hallway, doing nothing pretty could hear the sounds of the teachers and students being shot. so in the most powerful telescope ever made showing the distant galaxies. we will show you the picture of a real star being born. that s all coming up. good evening, i am erin burnett. accusations of potential witness tampering. congresswomen, liz cheney, accusing president donald trump of trying to contact an unidentified january 6th committee witness in recent days. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation. a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. that person declined to answer or respond to president trump s call. instead, alerted their lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us. this committee has supplied the information to the department of justice. that is a serious point to make. obviously, she s making a serious obligation. the justice department does have the power to prosecute if they see the former president tamp
so brazenly torched to admire his or her work. what is uncommon, though, is the arsonist not just being applauded, by the victims, upon his return to the scene of the crime, but being celebrated. today donald trump played the arsonist in the trump-run republican party showcased a version of this phenomenon. meeting separately with house and senate republicans this afternoon, three blocks from where trump was arraigned last year in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost, trump s trip to washington, d.c. today amounted to equal parts chest thumping, america bashing, and more bizarre incoherent ramblings about dating nancy pelosi and the gop convention host city. the press spin for today was that trump would engage in forward looking discussions of policy, but hannibal lecter kept coming up and his animosity to the department of justice. the immediate aftermath of his 34 felony count in new york and that period trump sought to harness the powers of con
please start to move down the hallway again, remaining outside the classrooms. at 12:30, one officer uses the hand sanitizer dispenser in the school. at 12:43 and 12:47, more 911 calls to send police, and the caller says, children are aware that the police are outside the door. [ sound of gunfire ] then, at 12:50, 74 minutes after police first arrived, officers breached the classroom door and killed the gunman. at this point, the video shows officers in the hallway pushing to go in. the texas dps director expressed his disappointment that the video was released before the videos families were given access to it. releasing a statement saying, those most affected should have been among the first to see it. this video is so infuriating to everybody who is watching it, those of it the family members will now see the members, the wife, the mother they will now