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alone. and they're expected to rise even further as we reach peak summer travel season. the high prices also driving inflation to the highest level since 1981. the consumer price index jumping 8.6% in may compared to the same time, same month last year. now the white house calling that staggering increase uncomfortably high. cnn's christine romans has more now on these troubling new numbers and how wall street is reacting. american consumers are still feeling the pain of higher prices for just about everything, but especially at the pump. look, the may consumer price index, that nu...

nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. march for your life rallies are scheduled for today. some locations underway right now like in d.c. rally-goers reknewing cries for addressing the gun violence epidemic after a series of mass shootings and cnn is covering events across the country and i want to begin with brian todd at the capitol. hi, brian. things are just kicking off where you are? >> reporter: that is right, amara. the crowd gathering, several hundred strong with the riser and with the white house in the background. we've talked to several people in the crowd about the gen...

hi, everyone, thanks for joining me. i'm amara walker in today for fredricka whitfield. and we begin this hour with mass d demonstrations nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. more than 300 rallies happening today. some like the event in d.c. underway right now. that is david hogg, he is one of the co-founders of this rally march for our lives and also a survivor of a mass shooting that happened at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. this is renewing calls to lawmakers to address the gun violence epidemic after a series of horrific mass shootings. moments ag...

partisan thesis, we heard from witnesses in cabinet's own circle and some of them turned on him. trump's attorney general, bill barr told trump the idea that he won the election was bs and trump's own daughter said she accepted barr's assessment. trump's strategy now is to claim his attorney general sucked and throwing his own daughter under the bus by saying she checked out. we see that the mob's chants of hang mike pence erupted after a rioter broadcast a trump tweet about mike pence certifying the election. >> and aware of the chants to hang mike pence, the president responded wit...

seven-point plan to stay in power at all costs, even though he knew biden won a fair election. this is the mob that trump assembled. you're seeing the video once again according to the committee's republican vice chair, republican liz cheney, previously unseen body cam footage shows an officer under attack by insurrectionists. we also heard testimony from people very close to donald tr trump. >> i had three discussions with the president that i can recall. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the pres...