| | | | | | | Presented By PhRMA | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen · Jun 10, 2022 | | Happy Friday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,457 words ... 5½ mins. Edited by Noah Bressner. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Jan. 6 surprises | | An image from Ivanka Trump's deposition is shown during last night's hearing. Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP Corridor cam ... Dome cam ... Roof cam ... Crypt cam. The House Jan. 6 committee's made-for-prime-time hearing featured previously unseen Capitol surveillance footage that told the same story from every angle. - Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) sketched the case the committee will delve into during hearings that continue all month: "January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup. A brazen attempt ... to overthrow the government."
The committee sought to connect the dots — and connect with the American people — on three points: - The plotting started long before Jan. 6 ... The danger to democracy remains ... And former President Trump is the chief actor in all of it.
What we learnedReporters in the room — including Axios' Alayna Treene — say there was an audible gasp when Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the committee's vice chair, revealed: - "Aware of the rioters' chants to 'hang Mike Pence,' the President responded with this sentiment, 'maybe our supporters have the right idea.' Mike Pence 'deserves' it."
A second revelation as Cheney made a methodical, prosecutorial case: Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) "contacted the White House in the weeks after January 6th to seek a presidential pardon," she said. - "Multiple other Republican congressmen also sought Presidential Pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election."
Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The night's most human moment was the live testimony of U.S. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered a traumatic brain injury that day. - Accompanied by bodycam footage, she described being stampeded by the violent mob, having her head thrown into the steps of the Capitol, being knocked unconscious, pepper sprayed and tear gassed.
- "I was slipping in people's blood," Edwards testified. "It was carnage. It was chaos."
The other live witness was British filmmaker Nick Quested, who was embedded with the Proud Boys for a film. - Quested said he documented the crowd moving "from protesters to rioters to insurrectionists."
Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP Above: U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn — a 13-year veteran of the force, who testified last year about the violence he endured on Jan. 6 — was brought to tears as he relived it during last night's hearing. |     | | | | | | 2. The evidence | | Former attorney general William Barr was shown last night giving his deposition to the committee. Photo: House Jan. 6 committee via AP Drawing on a massive trove of witness depositions, the committee showed Trump's former attorney general, Bill Barr, saying what he thought of the election objections: - "I told the president it was b******t. I didn't want to be a part of it."
Ivanka Trump was shown telling the committee: "I respected Attorney General Barr. I accepted what he was saying." Screenshot: NBC News Videotape from Jared Kushner's deposition said he viewed former White House counsel Pat Cipollone's threats to resign over Trump's calls to overturn the election "to just be whining." Screenshot: ABC News Cheney said as the card above was shown on the big screen: - "White House staff urged President Trump to intervene and call off the mob. Here is a document written while the attack was underway by a member of the White House staff, advising what the President needed to say."
| | | | | | | | 3. 🔮 Future episodes | | House Jan. 6 committee exhibit As part of what AP called "The Insurrection Show," the House committee created these animations of the successful attack on the Capitol, with the effect of zooming and swooping in. House Jan. 6 committee exhibit What's next: Congresswoman Cheney said the investigation continues — and hinted at more prosecutions. - "The Department of Justice is currently working with cooperating witnesses," she said, "and has disclosed to date only some of the information it has identified from encrypted communications and other sources."
House Jan. 6 committee exhibit Last night's episode ended at 9:55 p.m. with this teaser for the next one. Here's what the committee plans to argue at future hearings, reported by Axios' Alayna Treene and Andrew Solender: - President Trump spread false information about the 2020 election.
- Trump tried to install loyalists at the Justice Department so the department would "support his fake election claims."
- Trump pressured former Vice President Mike Pence to help overturn the election.
- Trump prodded state election officials and legislators to change the election results.
- Trump's legal team "instructed Republicans in multiple states to create false electoral slates and transmit those slates to Congress and the National Archive."
- Trump summoned and assembled a mob in D.C. and directed members to march on the Capitol.
- Trump ignored pleas for assistance from his team, and failed to take action to stop the violence.
The bottom line: Note the first word of each of those sentences. - In his opening statement, Chairman Thompson gave his Smart Brevity on the hearings to come: "Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy."
Share this list. | | | | | | | | A message from PhRMA | | Insured Americans face barriers to care | | |  | | | | Nearly half of insured Americans who take prescription medicines encounter barriers that delay or limit their access to medicines. Learn more about the abusive insurance practices that can stand between patients and the care they need in PhRMA's new report. | | | | | | 4. Flying taxis finally take off | | Volocopter's VoloCity air taxi, on display at UP.Summit 2022. Photo: Troy Watters Once far-fetched dreams for the future of transportation — delivery drones ... driverless trucks ... air taxis! — are starting to become reality due to huge capital investments and technology advancements, Joann Muller writes for Axios What's Next. - Why it matters: We're in the very early stages of a historic transformation in the movement of people and goods. But some of the pioneers in that climate-driven revolution are notching unmistakable progress in their quest to reinvent mobility.
Axios got to be a fly on the wall this week at UP.Summit, an exclusive confab of 250 transportation entrepreneurs, corporate executives and wealthy investors in Bentonville, Ark. - Their shared mission is to make transportation cleaner, faster, safer and cheaper — whether it's on the ground, in the air, at sea or in space.
- Now in its fifth year, the private event is hosted by investment firm UP.Partners, Walmart scions Steuart Walton and Tom Walton, and businessman Ross Perot Jr.
Volocopter's VoloCity air taxi, on display at UP.Summit 2022. Photo: Troy Watters Here are two examples of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLS). - Why Bentonville? Arkansas aims to become a global leader in the future of transportation. Bentonville is the headquarters of Walmart — the world's largest company by revenue — which is piloting a number of cutting-edge transportation technologies, including drone delivery and autonomous trucks.
Keep reading. | | | | | | | | 5. Apple's car vision extends far beyond music | | The next generation of CarPlay, as shown by Apple at WWDC2022. Photo: Apple CarPlay, Apple's system for connecting your iPhone to your car, currently takes over a car's entertainment functions. - Soon Apple intends to provide a pervasive interface controlling everything from the dashboard to the temperature to mapping and music, Axios' Ina Fried writes in her weekly Signal Boost column.
The sneak peek at the future of CarPlay occupied less than three minutes of an Apple developer event on Monday — but was arguably the most significant reveal of this year's developer conference. How it works: Apple's demo showed CarPlay stretching across multiple displays, from the infotainment screen to the main instrument cluster, handling functions including fuel levels, speed, temperature control and radio — all things it doesn't do currently. - Auto companies working with Apple on the next generation of CarPlay include Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Nissan, Ford, Lincoln, Audi, Jaguar, Acura, Volvo, Honda, Renault, Infiniti and Polestar.
Keep reading. | | | | | | | | 6. ⛽ Fiver: $5 gas is here |  | | | Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios | | | | Regular gasoline is a penny shy of the never-before-seen national average price of $5 a gallon ($4.986), Emily Peck and Matt Phillips write in a special gas-price takeover edition of Axios Markets. - Why it matters: It's a major milestone in this inflationary journey we're all on.
What's happening: Surging prices in the wholesale futures markets — which are leading indicators of retail prices — suggest there's little hope for near-term relief. Zoom out: Prices at the pump play an outsized role in the minds of Americans — and can be harbingers for everything from plummeting presidential approval ratings to ugly recessions. - Setting aside the brief, unique COVID recession of 2020, 10 of the 11 recessions the U.S. has experienced since World War II have been preceded by a sharp rise in energy prices.
 Note: Historical data is annual, monthly and since 1990, weekly; Data: Energy Information Administration; Chart: Axios Visuals How it works: In general, steep increases in oil prices — and by extension gasoline prices — are thought to reduce consumption because they: - Leave people with less disposable income for everyday shopping after paying higher energy bills.
- Make people uncertain about the future, causing them to ...
- Delay purchases of large goods like cars and washing machines, and ...
- Sock away any extra money they can in precautionary savings.
The bottom line: All of that can slow down a heavily consumption-driven economy. | | | | | | | | 7. 💭 An encouraging word | | Photo: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the N.Y. Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin yesterday at a DealBook event in D.C. that the U.S. is likely to avoid a recession: - "I don't think we're [going to] have a recession. Consumer spending is very strong. Investment spending is solid."
- "I know people are very upset, and rightly so, about inflation. But there's nothing to suggest that a ... recession is in the works."
Save that tape! | | | | | | | | 8. 🎸 What will YOU be doing at 78? | | Photo: Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images Ronnie Wood, age 75 ... Mick Jagger, age 78 ... and Keith Richards, age 78, perform yesterday in Liverpool, England, during the Rolling Stones' Sixty Tour ('62-'22). | | | | | | | | A message from PhRMA | | Voters want Congress to address health insurance | | |  | | | | A decisive majority of Americans (86%) agree Congress should crack down on abusive health insurance practices impacting patients' access to care. Why it's important: Greater transparency and accountability within the current health insurance system. Read more in new poll. | | | | 📬 Invite your friends to sign up here to get their daily essentials — Axios AM, PM and Finish Line. |  | It's called Smart Brevity®. Over 200 orgs use it — in a tool called Axios HQ — to drive productivity with clearer workplace communications. | | | |
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