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congress charges against jeffrey clarke, a former top justice department official for refusing to provide critical information to the committee while under subpoena. tonight president biden calling on americans to remain calm over the new coronavirus variant omicron, saying that while the variant is a cause for concern, it is not a reason for people to panic. and republican congresswoman lauren boebert doubling down on islamaphobic comments aimed at her democratic colleague congresswoman ilhan omar. ryan nobles is live on capitol hill for us this evening. ryan, good evening to you. my question is the january 6th select committee announcing they ll vote on another criminal contempt of congress referral, this time for former top doj official jeffrey clark. what can you tell us about that? reporter: yeah, don. this is a significant move by the january 6th select committee. this is the second time they ve moved or planned to move on a criminal contempt referral for so ....
on the leases that they already own, because we very much understand that it is a world supply of oil and gas that is so important for energy costs and he wants to ensure that those prices remain manageable for households. just to be clear, what s happening with russia and ukraine is compounding a problem that was already starting, right. so this is exacerbating something that was already in effect before the war. what about a national gas tax holiday? so, look, the president understands the uncertainty and the costs that rising prices pay for, the cost on families. all measures are on the table. he s focussed on these issues. so, one, he s trying to address oil and gas prices. i mentioned the spro, all other options are on the table as well. he s been focus odd on reducing the cost for families on really important items such as reducing prescription costs, making child care and home care more affordable, lowering the cost of housing which will increase economic gro ....
domestic priority right now. he knows the pains that americans are feeling because of it, but the big question, of course, is what president biden is going to do about it. that s where the challenge comes in for the white house. the president today leaning on the federal reserve, saying he does agree with them that inflation is the number one economic priority here in the united states. and you ve seen interest rates on the rise, potentially more of those rises to come in the coming months. when it comes to what president biden is going to do, he talked about the federal reserve s actions and his domestic agenda which we should note is stalled right now on capitol hill. and he also talked about telling companies not to price gouge, but there are still big questions about other steps he could take that he has not taken so far. you did hear him at the end of the remarks say that they are discussing whether to remove the trump era tariffs on chinese goods. that is somethin ....
yeah, and wolf, the ukrainians say it was seven missiles that hit an american sized mall, one of the biggest in southern ukraine. one person was killed but there almost surely would have been more if it weren t for the citywide curfew that kept the mall closed yesterday. also two hotels were hit. one owned by a pro-russian businessman, though it s not clear why or if it was the intended target. russia s bombing campaign in odesa comes just as the ukrainians make some progress in taking back territory around kharkiv. new drone video shows the moment a russian tank is destroyed just outside a village east of kharkiv. it s not clear when the video was taken, but it s an area where ukraine is launching a counteroffensive to retake occupied land. at the top of the frame is what s left of an evacuation convoy of civilians attempting to reach ukrainian held territory. video posted to social media on friday shows the convoy was fired on. cars are riddled with bullet holes. st ....
described and has prohibited the broadcast of information the government regards as false. with that matthew filed this report just moments ago. reporter: this was a much anticipated event amid speculation that the victory day parade would be used to make an important announcement about what russia calls its special military operation in ukraine. possibly a formal declaration of war or a mass mobilization of troops. but neither of those things happened. what we did witness was a spectacular display of russian military might. even though the air display was cancelled because of bad weather, 11,000 troops marched over the cobbles of red square followed by columns of tanks, rocket launchers and interballistic missiles. vladimir putin repeated claims trying to justify the conflict in ukraine that russia was faising an eminent attack and that it had to act preemptively. he also drew parallels between the soviet victory over germany in the 1940s which is what victory day is ....