2020 election has arrived at the courthouse in washington, d. C. As we learn the Special Counsel has obtained new Surveillance Footage from maralago after trumps mishandling of the classified documents. A brandnew poll out just in morning shows a race between President Biden and donald trump would be a dead heat. There is insight though on the key voting block that could determine the outcome of the election. Plus, we have new photos from inside the home of the suspected gilgo beach Serial Killer. What his wife is now saying about her family since his arrest. The suspect in court later today. Im sara sidner along with john berman. Kate baldwin is off today, and this is cnn news central. A live look for you outside the federal courthouse in washington, d. C. Where right now the Federal Grand Jury investigating Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results is needed. Trump received the Target Letter as you know, weeks ago, so any day the Grand Jury Meets could be the day th
8.6%. americans, you, we, are feeling this nearly everywhere, nearly everything is more expensive, including the cost of gas which remains at historic highs. the biden administration taking new steps to lower those gas prices. this morning presidentiesident calling on energy companies to do more. also this morning, the january 6th committee is teasing ahead to its next hearing, tomorrow, they released a portion of a taped deposition with a former white house lawyer. now the committee is saying that thursday s hearing will focus on president trump s effort to pressure then vice president mike pence to block the certification of the election. we will have much more on that, in just a moment. let s begin this morning with cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz. arlette, president biden is making strong demands from oil companies, this morning, as he tries to do something about the soaring gas prices. reporter: yeah, president biden is trying to ramp up the pressure on
disastrous showing the biggest spike in consumer prices in over 40 years that the fed felt the need to move fast here to take a page out of the playbook of alan greenspan and paul volker with a very big interest rate increase, and they signaled that more aggressive steps are to come because that official said they are, quote, strongly committed to getting inflation back down to 2%. and given that it s nowhere near 2% right now, that does imply more big rate increases to come. as far as why this is happening, i think it s important to think about the economy as almost like a car on a highway, and the fed is the driver. when it needs to speed the car up, it will cut interest rates to stimulate demand. right now we have the opposite situation. it s going dangerously fast, and so the fed needs to slow things down. it s actually slamming the brakes on the economy. the problem here, victor, for the fed is if they don t do enough inflation can go out of control. if they do too much,
next month. that visit coming as his administration is facing mounting pressure following record inflation and, of course, a surge in gas prices. president biden spoke about the trip at the joint base andrews in the last hour. take a listen. everything i m doing in the middle east, lays it all out, i m focused on labor all right, the president there also the major story we re following this morning, the january 6th committee set for another public hearing tomorrow morning. it was president trump s false election fraud claims that were the focus yesterday. several witnesses painted a picture of how trump and his allies used lies of election fraud to allegedly scam his supporters out of $250 million. question, though, this morning, will this committee make any criminal referral to the justice department? we ll have much more on that in a moment. a key inflation measure slowed slightly last month, but prices remain uncomfortably high all across the board. our chief bus
the main point there expected to zero in on this time around as they make their case. we have gone through our retirement savings more quickly than we had anticipated. plus, recognizing inflation putting the squeeze on senior citizens. a dire economic situation forcing some retirees to make sacrifices in order to survive. we are always grateful for your company and you take time to be with us this morning. thank you for being here. always a pleasure to be with you. we begin with this developing story out of utah where more than two dozen people believed to be members of a hate group have been arrested for conspiracy to riot near a pride parade. police say the suspects were all wearing similar clothing and they bore the insignia of a known white nationalist organization. patriot front. yes. so police in couer d alene, idaho where this happened, pulled as many as 31 men from the back of a uhaul yesterday afternoon. investigators believe those men were in possession of