2020 and january 2021. this pressure campaign on pence to overturn the lelection what understand instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the state. as the former president returned to washington since leading office, we ll have some of what he said shortly. first what merrick garland told lester holt when asked when indicting a former president and possible presidential candidate again might tear the country apart. we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th or any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another accountable. that s what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. reporter: so if donald trump were to become a candidate for president again, that would not change your schedule or how you move forward or don t move forward? i ll say
according to one passage, the prosecutors have hours of detailed questions in meetings trump held in december 2020, and 2021. his pressure her pranced overturn the election, and what trump told his lawyers in electors, and sending the election again this is the same day that the attorney general speaks out. and the former president returned to washington since the first time since leaving office. and what s male kyle told nbc s lester holt when the president again might tear the country apart. we pursue justice without fear or favor. we attend to hold anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surviving january 6th and any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from any administration from one to another accountable. that is what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. so if donald trump were to become a candidate for president again, that would not change a schedule. or how you move forward or move forward? i
unprecedented step possibly, at least leaving the door open prosecuting trump saying no one is above the law. the federal reserve is meeting today. experts predict it could raise make its second significant rate hike in just six weeks. first, let s get more on the reports that the doj is asking questions about trump s actions around the january 6th insurrection. what more are we learning? reporter: good morning. what we re learning is from the washington post reporting that they ve asked a number of questions about trump s role. the department of justice and witnesses of trump s meetings, his pressure campaign on mike pence, as well as his role and knowledge of the fake elector scheme. this comes as doj has already interviewed key people in pence s orbit, two of his aides, mark short and greg jacob. those interviews before the grand jury occurred last week, a couple of weeks back for jacob. that s a significant step. it comes as garland, the attorney general merri
more on all of that later this hour. but first the critical decision set to drop soon from the federal reserve. and cnn business correspondent rahel solomon is here with us. walk us through what is to come in the next hour or so and why it really matters. so the expectation is that chairman powell will raise rates about three quurs of a percent. that is not one to one in terms of borrowing costs. we won t see borrowing costs raise 75 basis points. but it does influence all of the categories. so costs will continue to go up. and i want our viewers to enter understand what this really means for them, for their wallets. and i know you ve pulled a few examples. yeah, i ve been working the phones. let s start with credit cards. we ve already seen credit card rates accelerate quite rapidly this year. and right now the average rate is about 17.5%. according to bank rate, if you are holding a $5,000 balance which is the national average, you have a current ampt pr of 17.25%, if
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight caught in a lie. new video from the january 6th select committee, sworn testimony from trump s acting defense secretary chris miller contradicts a statement from president trump. he said he personally asked for 20,000 national guard troops to be at the ready ahead of january 6th. this is what the defense secretary told the committee exactly happened. to be crystal clear there was no direct order from president trump to put 20,000 troops on the ready for january 6th, correct? you re correct. there was no order from the president. that shutting down a statement from trump who on june 9th said the unselect committee learned that i as president offered up to 20,000 national guard troops be deployed in d.c. because it was felt the crowd was going to be very large. well, you heard the secretary of defense say he did no such thing. whether 10 or 20,000, he never ordered any. this blatant lie exposed as we learn more from attorney general me