federal reserve is directly contradicting the president about the main driver behind that inflation. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. for now rebate cards are out and the federal gas tax holiday is in. president biden s problem few democrats don t see the point. i fully understand that a gas tax holiday alone is not going to fix the problem. but it will provide families some immediate relief. president biden wants congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days to bring down prices at the pump. but evidently didn t nail down lawmaker support before making the public plea and congress is lukewarm. house speaker nancy pelosi writing: we will see where the consensus lies on a path forward. democrat senator joe manchin indicated the votes may not be there at all telling abc. i m not a yes right now that s for sure. even if congress gets on board, there is nothin
some people will tell you, kids, they say the darnedest things. others will simply say, out of mouths of the babes, if you re my grandmother. but say we heard the truth from the mouth of a child who should be asking to ride her bicycle with that voice, not having to testify before the house representatives about how she was forced to try and save her own life and did. her quick thinking should be commended. but the fact that she had to even do it should be condemned. nearly three weeks since a child was forced to confront pure evil, we re getting a glimpse of the horror she witnessed from inside that courtroom inside that classroom. shot my teacher and told my teacher, shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates and the white board. when i went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me. and i thought he was going to come back to the room so, i grabbed the blood and i put it all over me. if that had been fiction, parents would not let a chi
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millions of americans? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening from the mouths of babes, 11-year-old girl appearing by video before a congressional hearing today describing in spellbounding detail her desperate and agonizing efforts to save herself from a gunman inside her school smearing herself with the blood of a classmate, pretending to be dead to survive. young miah cerriillo telling lawmakers i don t want it to happen again as the house prepared to vote on a series of gun control measures, families and survivors of the uvalde school massacre appeared in washington to demand new gun laws insisting lawmakers know the depths of their sorrow and their loss their testimony incredibly moving but not necessarily moving republicans from their opposition to new restrictions on guns and those who wish to own them gabe gutierrez was inside the hearing room reporter: in one of the most chilling firsthand accounts so far of the uvalde massacre, 11-y
evening. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 9th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. we ll dive right into the house investigation into the january 6th capitol attack, which kicks off tonight in primetime. an aide tells nbc news the committee will present evidence never shown before which shows president donald trump at the center of a coordinated effort to overturn the 2020 election. the aide says tonight s testimony will serve as sort of an opening statement, and that the information we hear could go beyond the testimony we hear from live witnesses. as we ve reported, this evening s witnesses include a filmmaker who is embedded with the far right group, the proud boys, and a capitol police officer who was injured in the attack. the new york times reports the committee will also play video excerpts of the testimony from j