with the russians in northeast russia in kharkiv and they haven't been seen since. the russians on a social media channel claim they have been captured at this point. the state department says they're aware of those unc unconfirmed reports but have nothing more to add. >> oren, thank you very much. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. ♪ ♪ "outfront" next, just in, new photos of vice president mike pence and his family hiding from rioters on january 6th, obtained by abc news tonight. as cnn learns the january 6th committee will argue that trump's efforts to get pence to overturn the election contributed to the riots. and she's promoted qanon on social media. what is mayra flores? and the white house sending another billion dollars to ukraine. how much more will the u.s.

send? i'll ask john kirby with the national security council. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, pressure campaign. the january 6th select committee revealing tonight it will make the case tomorrow that donald trump's pressure on mike pence to overturn the election "d "directly contributed to the deadly snushg insurrection." the hearing will focus on president trump's efforts to convince his vice president to subvert the election. those efforts happening behind closed doors, on twitter, and on the airwaves. >> mike pence, i will tell you right now, i'm not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he's a great guy. of course, if he doesn't come through, i won't like him as much. >> all that, despite the lawyers in the white house counsel's office telling trump clearly

that pence could do no such thing. he didn't have the authority. and aides also say that the hearing will include new material about pence's whereabouts on january 6th. so new images obtained by jonathan carl of abc news of pence on that day. this photo, according to him, was taken moments after trump supporters entered the capitol. you see pence and his daughter, his wife closing the curtains, reportedly afraid the attackers would see them. and then in the next image, pence can be seen with his daughter after returning to the capitol after working on a speech. it comes as the january 6th committee releases new video of a tour led by republican congressman barry loudermilk of georgia. this tour has become a focal point. it took place on january 5th. i want you to pay close attention to the man you see taking pictures of the

staircase. see him in the front? okay. and then in these clips, same man taking pictures of security checkpoints. so according to the january 6th committee, that man marched to the capitol 24 hours later and can be heard making threatening comments about a number of democratic leaders. >> there's no escape, pelosi. schumer. nadler. we're coming for you. we're coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer. even you, aoc! we're coming to take you out. we'll pull you out by your hairs. how about that, pelosi? >> okay. this obviously, the guy taking

the photos saying that, being on the tour with loudermilk does appear to be at odds with the findings of capitol police who said yesterday, there is no evidence that represent fit loudermilk entered the capitol with this group on january 5th, 2021. we train our officers on being alert for people conducting reconnaissance and don't consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious. steve bannon suffering a major loss in court. a judge rejected his efforts to dismiss the criminal case against him for defying the january 6th select committee's subpoena. in a moment, i'll speak to committee member congresswoman lofgren. but first, manu, what more are you learning about what we can expect from the public hearing that the committee will present for all of us to see tomorrow? >> reporter: committee aides talked to reporters this afternoon about exactly what to expect. we can expect to hear about how this theory that president trump

and his closest allies pushed that somehow vice president mike pence overseeing the certification of the electoral results on january 6th, 2021, could have taken this unprecedented move, this extra constitutional move to overturn the will of the electorate. how that theory came to shape, and how donald trump pushed that theory. then the committee is going to look at what happened on january 6th. the danger that mike pence faced, and time that all to donald trump's rhetoric, and his actions. now, there will be live witness testimony. greg jacob, a former counsel to mike pence, will be there testifying, as well as a former federal judge, informal advisor to mike pence, also will be discussing. these hearings will be a part of a number of other hearings that will take place through the course of june -- a seven-part series to look at a conspiracy alleging donald trump was

behind. the question the committee is still grappling with is if donald trump committed a crime and whether the justice department should investigate and prosecute donald trump. we have learned tonight that liz cheney, the vice chairman of the committee, is a leading voice pushing for a potential referral to the justice department of donald trump. other committee members say it's not necessary. it's an issue they will debate later. all of which pointing to the new evidence that they are planning to present tomorrow and also in the hearings to come. >> manu, thank you so much. i want to go to a member of the january 6th committee, congresswoman zoe lofgren. i appreciate your time. i want to start with these new photos obtained by jon karl at abc news, mike pence taken after the riots had taken the capitol. what do these photos tell you

that the public doesn't know? >> i think the public is probably not aware how close a call this was. the rioters came very close to capturing the vice president, and i think there's very good evidence they would have done harm to him, perhaps even killed him. so this was a close call. >> it's incredible. are you going to present some of that so people understand literally they -- i know, we heard them say hang mike pence, but that was indeed truly literal from the evidence you have? >> well, there's evidence there, and frankly, there's the justice department that is also pursuing cases about some of the more violent extremists there. so we have a lot of information. this was not a friendly crowd that this was a mob -- well, look what they did to the capitol police officers. the violence they inflicted on them. >> so i want to turn to the

video that your video released of the congressman giving that tour. i showed there that man in the front here, taking pictures of the stairs and then he took pictures of several other locations. do you have evidence that the man in the video you released, i know you said he went to the rally the next day. is he one of those who actually breached the capitol himself or helped someone else do so? >> he's a guy who threatened violence against speaker pelosi, chuck schumer, jerry nadler, alexander ocasio-cortez. and, you know, i'm not going to get into what doj's business is. but we had asked representative loudermilk, we didn't accuse him of anything, we asked him to come in and talk to us about this tour, which he has not done even yet. as you can see from the video,

we were going to go over the video with him, since he's refused to come in. we released it and he can look at it now. but you can see that this rioter was there the day before with the representative. and he was taking pictures of things that tourists aren't usually interested in. taking pictures of the stairwell up to the ways and means committee, where later the next day members were sheltered in place. taking pictures of the tunnel between the rayburn building and the capitol, where the next day i was evacuated through that tunnel. we also know that the extremists were compiling maps of the tunnels and the buildings before january 6th. and just today, there was a filing in one of the proud boy cases about their plans to occupy not only the capitol, but

the house office buildings to get their way, and how they were going to do that. so this is a concern. >> as you point out, the photos are not photos tourists could take, a random stairwell. it's not one of the big grand ones, right? you could see it's one of the internal ones. and i ask that in the context of the capitol police. they have cleared congressman loudermilk and when it comes to this tour, the police chief said they determined the footage didn't show anything consistent with a reconnaissance tour. >> well, they also said that there was -- they didn't see any video of the rioter, i guess they didn't know he was a rioter the next day, taking pictures of the tunnels. you can see in the video that, in fact, he was. you know, i've gone through that -- >> so they just -- you think they just didn't see the security footage? >> i have no idea. i was surprised by the letter, because if you look at the

video, you can see with your own eyes what was happening. it was not reflected in the letter from the capitol police. >> no, it certainly wasn't. i keep showing this because i want people to understand the stairwell he's taking a picture of, that's just not a stairwell you would take a picture of. >> no, it's the back entrance to the ways and means room, the big room. and the ways and means committee room is where you know, 100 members of congress sheltered in place on january 6th. >> so the senate judiciary ranking member chuck grassley dismissed the taped testimony that your committee showed from former attorney general bill barr, where he said president trump was detached from reality, that it was crazy, all the things that he said about the election being rigged. i want to play some of what senator grassley said about that to manu. >> i think that this january 6th

thing that you're talking about now, bringing all this stuff up is pretty much an effort on the part of the democrats to cover up the bad economic policies, inflation, high gas prices, and everything like that, and i don't know what they're going to accomplish, because we have 800 people arrested. >> your response to senator grassley? >> well, that's pretty sad. you know, we have -- it's a bipartisan committee. and we are doing the jobssigned up cover all the facts and present it to the american people. and also, we will come up with legislative recommendations. obviously, there are things of concern going on in the country. inflation and we are passing bills to deal with that. other issues. but if we don't have a

functioning democracy, then what's our future? that's pretty important. >> and it certainly is. congresswoman, i want to ask you one other thing before we gon't the capitol police and what they're sort of -- their motive could be in putting out that statement. obviously as you point out, capitol police members died or injured in this attack, yet they put out this statement saying they don't see anything problematic about that video the day before. what do you think the motive is? is that they are not open to whether they may have also made mistakes the day before or maybe should have seen something they didn't see or could it be something else, do you know? >> i have no idea whether it's a competence issue or what. but it's not accurate, and as you can see with your own eyes from the video, it's what they said was not accurate. >> yeah. it certainly appears that way. congresswoman, i appreciate your

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tonight, the fed making a major move, announcing the biggest interest rate hike in nearly 30 years. three quarters of a percentage point, just in one fell swoop, signaling another increase could come next month. it comes as the average american household is paying $460 more per month for just the same things, you know, that they buy every month than they were a year ago, according to moody's analytics. mortgage rates are nearing 6%. you're seeing a doubling in things already. "outfront" now, i appreciate your time. look, this is a dramatic rate hike from the fed. three quarters of a point is the largest in three decades, that gets us back to 1994. in a sense, this is a move of

desperation. the situation got out of control, and they're using the blunt tool they have, it's all they have, and they have no other choice. what is the impact going to be on people? >> well, you're right, sit a blunt tool monetary policy, and the fed, it's all they can do to tack it will demand side of this inflation problem. they can't wave a wand and bring down energy prices. so they have to focus on the demand side. what's interesting is the move to 75 in what was in the fed's statement reinforces although the fed operates with the so-called dual mandate of focusing on price stability, their word for inflation, and the labor market, they clearly have their sights primarily on bringing inflation down. and they wanted to, i think, just front end load the necessary medicine in order to bring down the demand side of the economy, which, again, is the only thing that they can

directly control with monetary policy. >> so as part of this, the chairman of the fed powell, says that he expects a soft landing for the economy, which is, you know, he said hopefully a recession will be avoided. okay, that is not what most economists say. i know that you disagree with that. i guess i understand why they're saying it, but you know, how does he even make that argument? >> so the summary of economic projections, which came out in conjunction with the announcement today, if you do some of the simple math of where even the fed projects things like the unemployment rate to go, the math is such that that's very recessionary. it would not be customary for the fed to talk about that bluntly. but powell sort of hinted that it's going to be a, you know, tough needle to thread. even before today's announcement, i've had the sort

of recession case is the more likely outcome. and unfortunately, the nature of how recessions are decided on, and how ultimately they're dated, and that's done by the national bureau of economic research, is such that not only is recession more likely, it's possible that we're already in one. based on the fact that step one of the process around recessions is for them to say okay, we're in one. that's clearly when the environment has deteriorated. step two is to date by month when it started. so they go back to the peak in the aggregate data they're looking at. so that's why if you look at a snapshot in time, the data looks pretty good. you just don't know at that point that we're about to go from the peak to a level. so if we don't get a lift in growth from here, it's possible. it's not my base case, but just understanding the mechanics of

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tonight, republicans say they have found their blueprint for success after flipping a house seat in south texas. mayra flores defeating democrat dan sanchez, eating into the democrat's slim majority in the house. and in a memo, the republican party says, flores' victory is proof that republicans have a winning message with hispanic voters and no democrat is safe in the current political environment. boris sanchez is "outfront."

>> reporter: a historic victory in south texas, signalling a potential political realignment. republican mayra flores flipping a democratic held seat in a special election, winning more than 50% of the vote, beating her democratic rival by more than seven points, and becoming the country's first mexican-born member of congress. the gop's first house pickup since democrats took control of congress in 2020, coming in one of the most hispanic areas of the country. 85% of the district's residents are latino, and flores' victory is being touted by republican leadership as a blueprint for success. >> i was born in mexico, but at 6, we immigrated. we grew up modest, working in the cotton pay, honest pay for honest work. >> reporter: running a pro trump, anti-abortion and pro second amendment campaign, flores touted her husband's experience as a border patrol

agent to call for a crackdown on immigration in a district that runs more than 80 miles along the mexican border. flores also used several qanon related hash tags in some of her social media posts, telling the san antonio express news "i've never been supportive of it." cnn reached out to her campaign for comment. she has not yet replied. >> under president trump, we did not have this mess in this country. >> reporter: though joe biden won nearly 2/3 of latino voters nationwide in 2020, former president trump outperformed expectations. >> the question is whether those gains with hispanic voters were specific to trump. a special election in texas gave us a specific piece of evidence that the gains republicans are making aren't necessarily tied to trump, and could be part of a broader trend away from

democrats and toward the republican party. >> reporter: when democrat filemon vela announced his resignation in march, republicans thrust more than a million dollars in ads for flores in english and spanish. >> i've always said south texas is republican, they just don't know it. >> reporter: national democrats declined to spend heavily in the race. partly because flores will have to run again in november, when the newly drawn 34th district will be more friendly to democrats. >> while i think it's going to be more difficult for her to win re-election in a district that's more democratic, this sends a larger message that republicans do have an opportunity to gain ground with hispanic voters. that has the potential to give them opportunities in other districts that aren't as democratic. >> reporter: and erin, i've been speaking to republican strategists about this dynamic going back to 2020. they are bullish on this. they're practically salivating

at their opportunity with latino visits. if you go back to 2008, republicans struggled demographically. they have an aging voting base and this is their best opportunity to win, especially going into 2024. so states like florida, colorado, nevada, even new mexico could be in place for them. >> well, thanks so much, boris for that report. i want to go now to the former dnc communications director, who is from the district that flores just won. and scott jennings, cnn political commentator and former adviser to mitch mcconnell. you know, you hear boris giving the context here. she has to run again in november and the district is shifting. obviously, republicans see this very differently than democrats. how big of a red flag is this loss for democrats? >> this district is not necessarily a red flag, because it will turn blue in november. these were old, redirecting

lines. the new lines is a plus 15 towards democrats. republicans are taking a victory lap, and they're taking a victory lap on 7% turnout. this wasn't a persuasion issue, this was a turnout issue. it's not that hispanic voters turned out for republicans the way they claimed and believe this will translate to places like nevada and arizona. the fact that democrats didn't actually spend enough money to turn their people out. and that's what the red flag is. the red flag is, when you're a party in power, you have to motivate your voters, motivate your base, and give them a reason to turn out and you have to spend that money to turn out hispanic, black voters, women, young voters, and they didn't do that. >> scott, to the point that she just made, 7% is bad. even here in new york where turnout is usually abysmal, that is bad. that is one of the lowest turnouts i've ever heard. so what do you say to this her

point, this is a turnout story, not a persuasion story about hispanic voters? >> i agree, sit a turnout story. the story is, democrats two usually vote democrat have no interest in turning out right now. in an 85% hispanic registered district that's gone for obama, clinton, gone for biden, democrats stayed home and the hispanics voted there, it was low turnout, but the hispanic vote who came out wanted to vote republican. so the big story isn't about the house republican majority, that we'll pick up with or without this district, the story is what we're seeing in poll kg come to life in a raeal-life situation, are hispanics going to vote for republican? to me, the story isn't about this texas district. it's about the nevada senate race, the arizona senate race, the colorado senate race. and all these other places that have hispanic voters who aren't woke, but they are broke and mad as hell and they're fixing to do

something about it. >> so i want to broaden this out a little bit. tesla's ceo elon musk say he voted for mayra flores in texas. he said it's the first time he's voted for a republican. and then today he responded to someone on twitter saying he's now leaning towards the florida governor ron desantis for president in 2024. ron desantis came out and responded to that today. here he is. >> elon musk, so what i would say, you know, i'm focused on 2022. but with elon musk, what i would say is, i welcome support from african americans. what can i say? >> scott, that's the joke line that he makes, elon musk, of course, is from south africa. but look, he raises a point. there's a lot of buzz about desantis. i mentioned the $112 million re-election pool he has for governor. does he translate into a serious threat to trump nationally,

scott? >> absolutely. if you're somebody who thinks we have to move on from trump but you want some of what trump represented, the fighting spirit, faking on the media, he checks a lot of those boxes but he doesn't carry a lot of the same baggage. he does haven't the baggage of washington or january 6th. he doesn't have a lot of what comes with trump. so he is somebody that people love, because he has candidly all the right enemies. republicans love florida, they think he's led it in a fashion that they would love to see someone lead this country. what's holding ron desantis back? he plus eight or nine other people run against trump, fragmentation of the field becomes trump's best friend. >> there are democrats in florida love that ron desantis kept florida open. not the same thing as voting for him, but it's just a point that he's a complicated guy. and when you look at it, who as a democrat would you rather run

against, trump or desantis? >> i think that they both are very problematic. you heard joe biden say before that he wouldn't mind running against trump again. and i think that is, you know, some of what a lot of people in our party believe. at the same time, you -- ron desantis also has a record, and one thing that came out today that you reported on is the fact that children under 5 are going to get vaccinated soon, but yet, you know, florida hasn't necessarily preordered those vaccines for those children. so he has a record, and democrats will use that against him. >> thanks to you both. appreciate it. and next, the u.s. provided ukraine with another billion dollars in aid, as zelenskyy mads for more weapons and says it's life or death, as 200 ukrainians are dieing a day on the battlefield. how many weapons can the u.s. provide? it's one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. a place where just reporting on a crime can get you killed. and tonight, we'll take you there.

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another $1 billion in military aid will be sent to ukraine. that includes howitzers, tactical vehicles, bringing the total u.s. aid to $5.6 billion to ukraine since the start of the war about 100 days ago. it comes as top u.s. general mark milley warns that ukrainians are, indeed, losing ground in the east. >> i wouldn't say it's afternoon inevitability, but i would say the numbers clearly favor the russians in terms of artillery, they outgun and outrange. >> outnumber, outgun, and outrange. "outfront" now, john kirby, national security council coordinator. i appreciate your time, admiral. let's start here with the aid today. the pentagon announcing another billion dollars in military aid. that brings the total to $5.6 billion since the beginning of the war. ukraine says it could go on for another year. how much is the u.s. prepared to

spend and send in the context of the american inflation crisis and economic pressures at home? >> well, sure. look, it's a key priority for the president. he had a chance to talk to president zelenskyy just this morning to get an update from the president about the battlefield himself. and also to talk to president zelenskyy not only about what we were providing in this next tranche, but also additional capabilities that president zelenskyy feels he might need going forward. we're going to meter these out over time and do as much as we can for as long as we can. right now, we still just got now $40 billion from congress. this is the first tranche announced inside that $40 billion total package. so we still have quite a way ts to go here. that's why, erin, that we're metering these out over time, so we can be in lock step with the ukrainians, in the moment, trying to meet the needs that they have on the battlefield.

>> so i understand what you're saying. i think it's important that they're sort of more to come. you have a runway. the context is president zelenskyy, despite his gratitude for this, and he's made that very clear, has been begging for weapons in recent days. he's been really specific. he wants howitzers, 1,000 of them. he warned that western military aid has to come quicker. on monday, he said, and i quote, only a sufficient number of modern artillery for ukraine will ensure our advantage. he continually calls for this. as i said, he's called for 1,000 howitzers. these numbers are stunning. they do dig into the u.s. supply. how much can the united states realistically provide of the wish list that zelenskyy has? >> what we are trying to do is work with the ukrainians in realtime, erin, to determine what their capabilities are. what they're using, what they need, and what we can provide in

the united states. but it's not just the united states. and so yes, we have provided an extraordinary amount of security assistance in an unbelievably fast -- at an unbelievably fast pace. just today in brussels, the defense secretary was meeting with 50 other nations about assistance they are willing and able to provide in various forms and formats. so it's not just the united states. the entire international community is trying to come to ukraine's aid. now, how long can all that last? how long will the war last? nobody can be sure. we know and predicted that the fight in the donbas was going to be a slog, that it was going to probably stretch this war out many months. and it seems as if that's bearing fruit now. this is a country where both parties have been fighting over it sense 2014. it was largely an artillery fight. so we're focused in the moment trying to help them as best we

can, in the conditions they're seeing on the ground. it's not just us. other nations are also digging deep and trying to provide security assistance. >> one final question, admiral, is about the president's upcoming trip to saudi arabia, that travel is being planned. he's going to meet in some capacity with the crown prince, known as mbs. of course, as you know, it comes after biden vowed to make the kingdom a pryia, his words, and he spoke passionate about it. he 13e6k specifically said mbs d the killing and dismemberment of jamal khashoggi. i spoke to someone in the president's party criticizing this decision to go to saudi arabia. here's what he said. >> i believe joe biden was right when he was candidate biden. i mean, a man was murdered by

the number two official in a foreign government. that can't be acceptable in terms of u.s. interests or u.s. foreign policy. it ought not to be acceptable to the president of the united states. >> add virimiraladmiral, can yo light, who convinced joe biden to change his view on this so dramatically? >> the president, when he became president, first of all, even as a candidate, obviously he took the murder of jamal khashoggi very seriously. when he became president, he carried that thought process into the oval office with him. he published and made -- and declassified the intelligence community's report on the murder and put in place the khashoggi ban which has been used some 70 p times. and he's put in other accountability measures such as

sanctions. so me took this very seriously at the outset. we said at the time, we want to recalibrate the relationship with saudi but we don't want to rupture it. saudi arabia is a key strategic partner in a vital region of the world, in which we have significant national security interests of our own. counterterrorism, the war in yemen, climate change. of course, you know, oil production in today's environment. so there's a lot of business that the president believes needs to still be done in the region. now he's going primarily for the gulf cooperation council summit in riyadh. saudi arabia is hosting it. he will have a bilateral meeting with the king and the crown prince. but there's a lot of significant national security interests at stake here norfor the united states. >> admiral, thanks so much. i appreciate your time. next, we'll take you to a place where just reporting the

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those crimes are busy. this we get to see firsthand, meeting up well after dark with freelance journalist. it's not long before we're off to what police say is a murder scene. dangerous neighborhoods like here in los alamos. arturo gets to work snapping photos and going live on facebook. he just describes the basics, time, location, manner of death in a city like tijuana where murders are often linked to okayed crime, even just reporting the facts can be deadly. margarito was a reporter. he was killed outside his home earlier this year. a best friend. he taught me everything i know.

jesus arguilar was his best friend. he worked at martinez's. i had to see it. i had to see it. it's what we do. we cover homicides. now i witnessed his. prosecutors detained ten people for the crime though none have been formally charged. authorities say those detained have ties to organized crime but haven't given an exact motive for the killing. martinez's death, tragically not that unusual in mexico. 11 journalists have been killed so far this year according to human rights group article 19, a number the mexican government disputes as too high. mexican president says his government is committed to protecting journalists. the difference from before, he

says, is that in all these homicides there have already been people detained and there is no impunity, but that is simply not true. the government's own statistics show that more than 90% of crimes in mexico go unsolved. for sonya danda, herself a tijuana journalist, it creates a morbid reality. she says whatever threats, obstacles to their work, whoever kills a journalist, there are no consequences because we live in a country of impunity. the 34mexican president also routinely attacks journalists he doesn't like as enemies. coverage that's critical of him is an attack on the mexican people. comments like that contribute to the violence journalists face. how many journalists have been killed, he says. a whole lot, that's the truth. that uncertainty, the danger surrounding this job is with

arturo rosalis as he drives around each night. he said there's not much confidence in the government because there is no protection. arriving at our last scene of the night arturo goes through the motions and we find out what happened. the driver of that car right there that's now on its side, he was shot while actually driving the car. that would make this at least the tenth homicide recorded in tijuana in just the last 24 hours. and arturo says he'll keep being there to document as many as he can even though he and all his fellow journalists know they could go from covering victims to becoming a victim at any moment. erin, it's mainly local journalists who are being targeted here. it's people who live in the same communities that they cover. it's meant that local news in many places across the country

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tonight the montana national guard has carried out 87 helicopter rescues in the last two days as flooding in parts of the yellowstone rivers breaks records. more than 16 feet. so those levels make this a 500

year flood in the formal categorization. the national park service says some sections of the park could remain closed for month. significant damage in the town of gardner where buildings have been swept up by the swells and the images look apocalyptic. local residents are sheltering in place. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us. when the house january 6th select committee reconvenes tomorrow afternoon the focus will be on pressure mike pence may have been under from the former president to do his bidding on january 6th. we begin with a new photo from him that day. the photo was obtained by abc news. it was taken in his ceremonial office just moments after he and his family were evacuated from the senate chamber. along with the former vice president, congressman greg pence, his daughter charlotte