midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.
it s 1:00 out in pacific time. [laughter] i m eric shawn, fox news live. arthel: hello, everyone, i m arthel neville. the numbers are stunning. this week alone deputies rescued nearly 80 migrants from a tractor tractor-trailer in texas. the texas department of public safety says it seized more than 300 million lethal doses of fentanyl. texas governor greg abbott says his operation lone star has caught more than 300,000 illegal immigrants, and those are just snapshots of a much bigger picture. griff jenkins is life at the border live at the border in eagle pass with the latest on this. griff? reporter: hey, arthel,ed good afternoon. and you put it correctly, it is stunning numbers just a week boo this first fig call year of 202. there s no signs of it slowing down, and make no mistake, this is a humanitarian crisis. take a look at the video we re going to show you now. just a couple of hours ago when i was talking with you and eric, it is three migrants from nicaragua cr
coy, nice to see you. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. new evidence, new testimony. i m john berman with brianna keilar. that is the promise from the house january 6th committee as it holds its last public forum before the midterm elections. it comes as there s new reporting in a separate investigation. the mar-a-lago documents case. cnn is told donald trump directed an employee to move boxes at mar-a-lago after he received a sup pena for classified documents. and we re told, the committee is going to hammer home that trump remains a clear and present danger to the united states. sarah murray has more. we re expecting this to be their closing argument. reporter: that s right. while we are not expecting to see live witnesses at the hearing, we believe we ll see new video as well as new emails from the secret service. the house select committee investigating january 6th preparing its closing arguments ahead of the midterms. ther
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