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through a period of high inflation like this one. its painful. paychecks are not going as far. if you adjust wages for inflation, theyre getting smaller. the president is right to call out the fact that this report does not capture the fact that gasoline prices have started to cool off. the national average is 4.63 a gallon. down 40 cents from the record high. two things to remember here, one, its not like prices at the pump are cheap. no one is doing a victory dance about $4.60 gas, a...

and even more so, about the 77 minutes of inaction that the video shows. plus, in some big cities there will no longer be a starbucks on every corner. the coffee giant is closing several locations but not because of slow sales. is this about working safety or is it about unionization? >> welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start today with our money lead and horrible news for your wallet. new data today released by the biden administration shows inflation surging to 9.1%. that ...

attack on the capitol. but more than three hours went by before donald trump said much of anything. >> next weeks hearing, the eighth one of the series, building upon evidence showing how trump tried to use the power of his government to overturn joe bidens victory. >> were going to walk down to the capitol. >> he called on his supporters to come to washington on january 6th. >> so why did you decide to march to the capitol? >> basically, the president got everybody riled up, told ever...

defending his decision to visit saudi arabia as he travels to the middle east next week against criticism and controversy surrounding the trip. the president set to meet with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. now as president he says his visit to the country is critical to u.s. security. >> thats right. "washington post" op-ed the president writes its my job to keep our country strong and secure. we have to counter russias aggression, pu...

doug jones who said the problem is that everyone during the 2016 election in the green room would say one thing about the former president before the cameras were rolling and the commercial break, and all the sudden, the lights came on and they said a completely different thing, because it is beneficial to them to say it. was it doug jones who said it? hes absolutely right. >> doug jones, doug heye, the two dougs, they call themselves douggy fresh, who are sitting behind the cameras ri...

sort of jams that narrative up and here is why. the first request for prechb r prechb race of records came from congress on january 16. the email migration happened on january 27th. and our understanding is that they were told in december and then again on january 25th how to preserve those records, that if they were going to do it, they would need to do it themselves. basically one of these emails made that you might get at your own office from your chief information officer saying we...

requests from congress. plus a house vote puts same-sex marriage one step closer to becoming federal law. now democrats must peel off ten republicans to sends a sweeping civil rights bill to the presidents desk. >> would you vote for that? >> im looking at the bill. i probably will. >> if and when he brings a bill to the floor, well take a hard look at it. >> and can democrat tim ryan turn ohio blue again? well talk to him live in just a couple of minutes. up first, new credibility...

bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. lets begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. >> reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral coun...

hunt. martha the, a whole lot of people, it seems, have turned out to watch procession in scotland. ill let you set the scene. >> so this morning -- howie, good to be with you, first of all. this morning the queen request withs coffin left in the hearse from balmoral castle, one of her favorite places in the world to spend time. she spent every scherr there through the middle -- summer there through the middle of october, generally. today when the casket went through the gates, no doub...

from the secret service. >> the secret service reportedly handed over one single text to the committee, despite a request for all of the text messages from two dozen secret service personnel concerning the four-week period around the capitol attack. and steve bannon is back in court for day three of his criminal contempt trial, and well tell you what witnesses are saying. >> we have all these angles covered. we begin in washington, a single text, thats all the secret service provided t...