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take a listen. would you be willing to testify about your conversation with donald trump on january 6th if you were asked by an outside commission sure. next question. you would? change now. another story we re following this morning, tennis star novak djokovic officially the number one seed in the australian open men s singles draw, will he get to play? questions about whether he broke the rules everyone else has to follow. and president biden set to speak next hour to announce a new federal plan to deploy military medical teams to hospitals that are grappling with the omicron surge. let s get right to our top story this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy refusing to cooperate with the january 6th committee. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following the story from washington. jessica, what more are you learning? bianna and jim, mccarthy doubling down now on his refusal to talk. he released that statement last night condemning the in ....
committee chair bennie thompson wants to know what mccarthy talked about with trump and trump s staffers as the riot was unfolding. there is a lot we don t know, but here is what we do know, mccarthy said himself that he spoke with trump on the phone during the riot and as nbc news reported last year, it did not go well. the sources telling us mccarthy was shaken up by what happened and the republican leader telling trump himself on the phone, who the f do you think you re talking to? well, things are changed. now mccarthy is slamming the committee s probe saying their probe is an abuse of power and do not forget exactly one year ago he publicly blamed the former president for the riot and he called on the house to censure trump. the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action by president trump. accept his share of ....
insurrection. let s go ut out front. good and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, biden s urgent pitch to save his voting bill. today, president biden traveled to georgia using the power of the presidential bully pulpit to make his case in a speech after exhausting every other option at winning over all of his own party. last year alone, 19 states not proposed but enacted 34 laws attacking voting rights. their endgame? to turn the voters into a mere suggestion. today, we call on congress to get done what history will judge. pass the freedom to vote act. pass it now! which would prevent voter suppression. biden, you know, obviously, wants to do something here. he wants this done, and given the big lie from trump, of course, it is crucial that americans pay attention to what s happening here. the reality of it is, of course, trump s lie has been turned into a political weapon. his push to replace fair election overseers of both parties make this issue ....
the u.s. senate to, quote, protect the heart and soul of the nation by changing filibuster rules to pass new voting rights legislation. i ve been having these quiet conversations with members of congress for the last two months. i m tired of being quiet! and a frightening scene when a man storms the cockpit of an american airlines flight and tries jumping out of the window, just moments before takeoff. it is all caught on video right there. first, let s get right to our top breaking story and bring in cnn chief business correspondent christine romans, and, christine, the white house was more or less expecting a high number, but i guess the question is will it moderate in the coming months as some have predicted. have we reached peak inflation? yeah, and that is the biggest question out there, right. these are numbers that are not news to the american families who are paying more for just about everything. let s walk through these numbers. 7% this headline year o ....
increasingly dilutioned with the idea of voluntarily cooperation. he told aides that the committee has taken a sharp partisan turn by openly considering the potential for criminal referrals to the justice department about mr. trump and others. the times adds he is annoyed that they have secured a greater degree of cooperation from his top aides than it actually has. something he sees as part of the pattern of democrats trying to turn him against former president trump. here is what one member of the committee said about that very report just a few hours ago. we would just like him to share with us what he knows. he knows what s right for the country. he knows what happened in the election. he knows the pressure campaign he was under. and he knows he could do a service to the country by talking about it, but he also knows that there is a political cost that will come with that. i hope he makes the right decision. the vice president has very material testimony and we ho ....