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any tax suspension would require of course action by congress. but the president will give a speech today throwing the administration support behind a three month gas tax holiday which would breathe new life into an issue that has so far been stalled on capitol hill. kevin liptak is live for us with this news. what is the administration saying about this? >> reporter: officials are certainly very bullish on this move. and it is something that the white house had been considering for months. they held off until now, but clearly president biden wants to show that he is taking some init...

keilar. broken laws and broken lives, the case being made by the january 6th committee in its latest round of hearings with new revelations about individuals threatened and harassed because of lies. lies the committee suggests that broke the law, including submitting slates of fake electors that simply did not win the vote. lies the committee says about election fraud in which trump allies did not produce evidence, in fact, admitingly according to the testimony without evidence. >> at some point did one of them make a comment that they didn't have evidence but they had a lot of theor...

refining capacity. the administration estimates the moves could lower gas prices by at least $1 a gallon, if they can get it all through congress. i should say, this faces steep opposition from some on capitol hill, even from some of the president's own party, and members of the administration have even conceded there are significant downsides to do this, jim. plus, significant new evidence in the latest hearing from the january 6th committee, witnesses testify that former president trump and sitting gop lawmakers were directly involved in pushing fake slates of electors in multipl...

the lead in testifying against the former president in yesterday's hearing, including the speaker of arizona's house, who says he told trump in late december 2020 that he would not go along with the scheme to steal joe biden's win in his state. >> you're asking me to do something that's never been done in history, the history of the united states, and i'm going to put my state through that without sufficient, and that's going to be good enough for me? >> i do not want to be a winner by cheating. >> incredibly powerful testimony. also new this morning, president biden aiming to help a...

>> reporter: so he's going to be pushing for this three-month gags holiday, and basically that would mean a 90-day suspension of the federal gas tax. if you're wondering what that's going to save you when you're actually at the pump, right now the federal gas tax is about 18 cents for a regular gallon and 24 cents for a gallon of diesel fuel. so not really that big of a difference when you're looking at an average price of gas. it is getting close to $5. of course it topped $5 earlier this month. so that's been a big question for lawmakers because getting this done is not just someth...