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rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. lets get to cnns senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next weeks hearing? >> well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump....

strohmier. we talked to a farmer who says this could snowball into a food shortage. >> there is all kinds of shipping delays, its a big snowball effect happening at this point. >> ashley: griff jenkins live in washington with more, good morning. >> griff: inflation was 1.4%, yet in his first interview with a reporter since february, president biden tells the ap were in a stronger position than any nation in the world to overcome inflation. if it is my fault, why is inflation higher in ...

pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. >> the secret service couldnt control the situation and do their job to keep him safe. >> at 2:26 p.m., the secret service rushed vice president pence down the stairs. >> approximately 40 feet. thats all there was. 40 feet between the vice president and the mob. make no mistake about the fact that the vice presidents life was in danger. the recent court filing by the department of justice explains that a confidential informant from the pro...

that is testimony from mike pences former adviser regarding former president donald trumps repeated efforts to get pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. we will hear much more of the key moments from yesterdays january 6th hearing, including the vice presidents close call with the mob, very close call that day. and the pardon request from the architect of the presidents election scheme. plus, new reporting that the house select committee now wants to talk t...

buried in his hometown of san angelo, texas. all of this as a bipartisan group of senators tries to finish writing a bill aimed at reducing gun violence. with us to talk about this, sam brock in vestavia hills, alabama, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. sam, how are people in that community processing what happened last night? >> i think its very telling, jose next to this church behind me, there is an assisted living facility who said we are just disappointed at the world. we can...

the plan was illegal, or said in in front and trump did not care it was illegal. >> i think that was one of the biggest take-aways that eastman himself knew it was illegal and put it in an email, i want you to do a minor constitutional violation. chuck, back to you, we will build our way back to donald trump if we, can and specifically about his lawyer, that lawyer, john eastman, we even saw the email that he wrote to golden globe, saying, you know, having -- to rudy giuliani, s...

>> the conversation was pretty heated. >> i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp. i dont remember if he said you are a wimp. >> it was a different tone that i had heard him take with the vice president before. >> these pictures of pence never seen before, the vice president being hidden by the secret service in an underground garage under the capitol, reading the presidents tweet that said that pence lacked courage to overturn the election. that tweet helped inflame the...

president trump, partly out of concern it would give the appearance of pressure on the attorney general. politico argues that the first three hearings essentially did that for them, laying out stark evidence that trump and his allying now the election was not rig, but they pushed the big lie anyway. theres new evidence that the department of justice may be growing frustrated against the committee as well. we learned of a strongly worded letter by the doj, in which the department accuse...

duty that day under the constitution and the laws of country." one lawman said if given the chance, members of the proud boys were willing to kill pence on january 6th. in just a few minutes were expected to hear from former president trump speaking to the faith and freedom coalition in nashville, tennis is. earlier he released a statement that said in part "i never suggested to vice president pence that he overturn the election." all this coming, as we said, the latest hearing that pr...

talk to us about this new development as it relates to the january 6th committee and this intent to respond to this doj request for transcripts. it was something the department of justice had to ask for twice to this point. >> yeah, had to ask for twice. and you saw in the letter that came yesterday, as hearings were ongoing, that the justice department said that by not having this, it could also be hampering some of the investigations that they are already ongoing with. thats somethin...