security council official john kirby. and the january 6 select committee just released new video evidence after an abrupt change in the hearing s schedule. this, as we re learning more about a split within the panel over whether to formally seek any criminal prosecutions, including against former president trump. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a nation on edge right now at a critical moment for the u.s. economy. tonight, president biden is making a new effort to calm americans fears while also trying to defend his record. here s our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. inflation, it s sapping the strength of a lot of families. reporter: president biden acknowledging the pain of higher prices in philadelphia today. gas is up and food is up, which we re going to get down come hell or high water. reporter: biden promising to bring prices down as t
at pnc private bank, we ll help you take care of the how. so tell us - what s your why? top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom, good to have you. i m victor blackwell. we begin with the latest case from the january 6th house committee that donald trump held a key role in the insurrection at the capitol. at its second hearing, the committee kept pounding, the proof that trump refused to listen to the truth that he lost the 2020 election, and not from democrats but from his own people in the white house, and working on his campaign. his campaign manager, bill stepien recalled what he told trump about his prospects. this is just after the election. very very very bleak. you know, we told him that the group that went over there outlined, you know, my belief and chances for success at this point. you know, my belief is that it was a very very 5 to 10%s, it s not a very good optimistic outlook. 5 to 10% there. well, then the committee showed how trump continued to embrace
what you told cnn yesterday about the trump family profiting off these election lies. watch this. listen to this. you were just asked, i think, by manu raju if the committee has found evidence that trump and his family, quote, personally benefited from donations, and you said yes. that s a serious allegation. do you have more details? is that a crime? i don t know you know, we re a legislative committee so that s for somebody else to decide. but, for example, we know that guilfoyle was paid for the introduction she gave at the speech on january 6th. she received compensation for that. but is that a crime? i m not saying it s a crime, but i think it s a grift. cnn has since learned, congresswoman, it was turning point usa, a separate conservative pro trump organization that actually paid kimberly guilfoyle.
happened on january 6th, how are you going to convince police officers outside of washington, d.c., who, you know, may be in solidarity with some of these ideologies. michael, i saw you in the hearing room today. what did you make of the committee s effort to connect the lies that were told to what happened on the 6th? i mean, i think the committee s doing an outstanding job. i mean, i went into this hearing wondering myself whether, you know, trump was a delusional person or whether he was, you know, a calculating liar, and i left the hearing realizing that it was really like an equal combination of the two. i mean, it was so striking to hear that, you know, individuals whose inner circle, self-described as the normal
for the president s big lie, but the money itself, what do you hear there? well, i think that what i kept seeing or feeling when i was watching today was just manipulation. you know, donald trump manipulated so many voters into thinking the election was stolen, that people stormed the capitol, and people died, but talking financially they absolutely are using people and using selection fraud, right, they may use all of this money off an election defense fund, when in reality, as the committee showed today, they were paying people for trump lined pacs and then also an event strategies company that made $5 million. now, hearing that kimberly made $60,000 on that one event didn t surprise me. it did disgust me. they are fundraising to line the pockets of trump loyalists and the trump family. i received three fundraising e-mails from trump asking for small amounts of money to keep