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and costly holiday weekend for july 4th travelers. just how much will drivers have to pay at the pump? ♪ good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is friday, july 1st. i'm john berman with brianna keilar. someone within the trump orbit tried to influence the testimony of cassidy hutchinson. three sources tell cnn that is what hutchinson told the january 6th committee. she was one of the two witnesses who received threatening messages shown at this week's hearing. committee vice chair liz cheney suggested that was only a fraction of the evidenc...

live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. >> ukraine's president will be appealing for more international aid this week when the ukraine recovery conference gets under way in switzerland. he urged his fellow ukrainians to stay optimistic. here he is. >> translator: no matter how difficult it is for us today, we must remember that there will be tomorrow. and tomorrow should bring maximum benefit to ukraine. everyone should do absolutely everything possible for this. >> russia's relentless rampage in ukraine is now most heavily focused on the key city of lysychan...

welcome to "the lead." i'm kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with the money lead. wall street closing this hour mostly flat after today's jobs reported exceeded expectations. great news, obviously, but not slowing rising prices and fears of a recession. according to the bureau of labor statistics, the united states added 372,000 jobs in june and on average american paychecks are up 5.1% in the last year. but that's not keeping up with inflation, which jumped 8.6% annually in last month's report. that's a problem for president biden as he is struggling to convince americans...

to the capitol. >> a window into a president unhinged on january 6th. now backed by cnn sources. inside trump's own security detail. >> the president reached i towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. >> that story was circulating among the secret service and is in line with what cassidy hutchinson testified to. school district police chief pete arrondo resigns from the sk city council. it's a hectic holiday weekend as airlines struggle the meet post-pandemic demand. despite soaring gas prices, a record number are hitting the roads. the legal battle over ab...

We're seeing people who pull up and you see that grumble, their facial expression as they're filling up their tank but that's here in florida. in california i want you to hear from the drivers over there that are paying on average $6.27, perspective here, that's $1.43 more than the national average. listen to what they have to say. >> i'm very unhappy. i did actually pull in today because i knew it was going up tomorrow. >> it's getting crazy. my car used to be $40 to fill up, now it's $69.45. i'm over it. >> i will stay home these holidays, yeah. >> do the gas prices play into that? >> well, ...