Joker, all new Thursdays Attack on tbs set your dvrs now, Closed Captioning is brought to you by you, cora, help maintain a healthy Urinary Tract with you, cora, having utis for ten years, you cora, we make uti relief products. We also make proactive urinary Tract Health products. You cora protesting too much . But a alleged incitement while practicing incitement themselves were keeping them honest. Also tonight, cnns John King has been traveling all over the map to Battleground States tonight, nevada were perceptions about the economy could be pushing the state closer to trump and later, an extraordinary coordinated attack in lebanon against hezbollah operatives. Hundreds of pagers secretly filled with explosives, detonated remotely and simultaneously well tell you whos behind it and how they did it. Good evening. Thanks for joining us following dozens of Bomb Threats over the last herrell days, schools began today in springfield, ohio, complete with state Troopers Surveillance camera
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
stolen by fraud. that was testimony from former attorney general bill barr, played during the second hearing into the attack on the capitol, saying donald trump was detached from reality, as he tried to overturn the 2020 election. we will have the key take-aways from day two of testimony. plus, after yesterday s intense sell-off, stock futures are in the green so far this morning. as investors brace for a larger than expected interest rate hike. we ll have the latest read on the economy. and the race to turn that bipartisan compromise on gun safety into law and the process of writing the bill hits a snag. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 14th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin today with the second hearing into the january 6th attack on the capitol. the house select committee made the case yesterday that donald trump had an inner circle of advisers telling him the truth, that the election was not stolen, but t
hundreds of millions of dollars in the wake of the election. that s right. and so the committee now is having to address whether or not there will be criminal referrals, that they will be making to the justice department ultimately. some of these findings are so searing, specifically the findings about this money, that they followed, that they saw trump raising money off of this big lie, and that money not ultimately going towards election-related causes, going to politics, political entities instead and his trump hotel collection, that the committee is now talking about whether or not they will need to make criminal referrals at the end of this. they said in a statement that the committee is tasked primarily with developing facts around january 6th, they re focused on presenting the facts and in hearings and in their report and if it is warranted, they will be able to make a criminal referral if they need to do that. there was a little bit of mixed messaging last night about this, b
that s very clear. i d remind people that the washington post had a very interesting investigation that, for the first three years of his presidency, basically until covid came, he spent one-third of his time not in the white house but visiting trump branded properties. promoting the trump brand as a continuity. indeed, what s come out yesterday when representatives said the big lie was a rip-off, funneling money to trump hotel chains. the big lie and election denial was an efficient method of trump raising money and fleecing his followers. certainly, we all know the hearings come as former president trump considers another run in 2024. i think democracy in great peril if he were able to push past this moment and run successfully