world. it is friday, october 14th. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the january 6th house committee escalating its showdown with donald trump. our institutions only hold when men and women of good faith make them hold. committee vice chair liz cheney closing down the hearing calling for them to subpoena the former president. trump is not expected to comply. jamie raskin tells cnn s jake tapper, if he s innocent, he should. but even if he thinks that it was a righteous manifestation of pro trump sentiment, then he should come forward if he really wants to be the musi linnie of a mass right wing populus movement. he should come forward and explain that. cnn s jessica schneider has more from the hearing. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. an extraordinary move. those in favor will say aye. aye. reporter: unanimously voting to subpoena former president donald trump for testimony and documents in the
on the u.s. capitol. instead, for 187 minutes, between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home, the 45th president of the united states first argued with secret service agents who refused to take him to the capitol. then after returning to the white house, sat in a small, private dining room off the oval office, transfixed by the violence he saw playing out on fox news. which showed the capitol under siege. trump learned just 11 minutes after returning that the protest had turned violent, but he did not make any calls to intervene. failing to reach out to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the department of homeland security. instead, he demanded a list of senators phone numbers, calling and encouraging them to delay or object to the certification of the electoral college count. while the president s official call log from the white house that afternoon is empty, trump placed at least two other calls that day. not to the military or the police but
how important are gas prices into how consumers are feeling about things and how consumers are spending their money? very important. that link says it gives them a sense to view the economy. we see that slowly. university of michigan data we ll get later, it s very apparent there as well. this is a number today i wouldn t overlook with everything else going on. i think the expectation is for sentiment to be up slightly from the prior month. some of the higher frequency data we look at suggest it might actually be down a little bit. it will be reacting more quickly to these changes that we re seeing. keep an eye on them. retail sales at 8:30. there s just so much going on and you re right. everyone should just buckle up. thanks. scott, thank you. thank you. next on new day, never before seen video of congressional leaders frantically pleading for help as the mob closed in on january 6th. and parkland parents