and the undercover prince how william took to the streets of london to sell the big issue magazine for the homeless it s seven in the morning in singapore, and seven in the evening in washington where the hearing into the january 6 assault on congress last year is set to begin in an hour s time. committee aides say the evidence will show that mr trump was at the center of an effort to overturn the election result. but top republicans say the committe s work is illegitimate and a sham. barbara plett usher reports. it was an astonishing attack on democracy. the capitol, stormed by supporters of a defeated president trying to overturn the 2020 election results. the investigation into how and why it happened is the most sweeping ever conducted by congress. but much is already known because these graphic scenes played out on television screens in real time. we fight like hell, and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country any more. and president trump
president s own family. lauren fox is joining us live from capitol hill. good morning, lauren. what can we expect tonight? reporter: well, hundreds of hours of interviews behind closed doors and the public going to get a chance to see tonight what the january 6 committee has been working toward. we expect that the committee hearing will kick off tonight with opening statements from the chairman bennie thompson as well as the top republican liz cheney on the committee. committee aides telling us that we expect thompson will put this in a historical context, the violence that transpired that day, and the unprecedented nature of the attack on the u.s. capitol. and then we expect things will move forward in three different areas. one of them, the public will get a chance to see some previously unseen video footage of private interviews behind closed doors that the committee has done with white house officials, trump campaign officials, as well as members of trump s own feel. we
we re talking triple digits and it will last right through the better part of the weekend. that is wild. derek, thank you. thanks so much for joining us. i m laura jarrett. new day starts right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is thursday, june 9th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we begin with the price of gas, closer than ever to the dreaded $5 a gallon mark. the national average for a gallon of regular gas hitting $4797 up nearly 2 cents overnight and this is the 13th straight day of record highs for the gas prices, it s the 30th in the last 31 days, the surge hitting americans right where they live and drive. so it is worth noting that when you adjust for inflation prices are not at record highs, not yet, but they do keep rising with no real end in sight. this is what president biden said about soaring gas prices during his appearance on jimmy kimmel overnight. look, inflation is is the is the bain of our existe
i m jake tapper. just hours away from the first 2022 hearing from the house collect committee investigating the january 6th attack. in primetime this evening, they will present findings that they say prove president donald trump was at the center of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. this hearing, it s not just about the mob that stormed the capitol that day. this hearing is about a months-long campaign to undermine democracy in the united states of america. a president desperate to hold on to power at any cost, even if it meant destroying the american experiment. even though a willingness to take away legal votes from american voters. this evening, we re expected to hear excerpts from taped testimony from some of trump s closest supporters, and also family members. and live testimony from a u.s. capitol police officer, who was severely injured fighting off the maga mob. also testimony from a documentary filmmaker who was embedded with the group the proud boys. membe
the man arrested outside kavanaugh s home said yesterday he planned to break in and kill him. bill: dhs warned it could happen. the liberal group that leaked the address online held another protest outside his house last night. only hours after the suspect s arrest. it s prompting a wave of outrage from republicans. not just the fringe left but democratic leadership inciting violence. one reason for protestors to show up outside the home of a public fixture to say we know where you live. nancy pelosi said i m perfectly okay to go to justice s home to change the view. when you send this kind of message, it just undermines the legitimacy of the united states supreme court as an institution and this is what it leads to. do you think just to be clear, you think some of the democrats rhetoric is to blame for what happened this morning? of course. bill: just last month the senate passed a bipartisan bill to increase security for the justices and their families. spe