january 6th insurrection, the full extent of donald trump s misdeeds, including the attempted coup, the attack on the capital, or coming to life in remarkable detail. that is thanks to that long-awaited final report from the bipartisan january 6th select committee. last night on this show we highlighted just one portion of that report, and one aspect of his particular misconduct. his work in tandem with his lawyer john eastman to corruptly pushed the bogus and legal theory that then by s president mike pence could unilaterally throw out the results of the election and install trump as a winner. even though both men knew the plot was unlawful. now, the committee referred to that plot in chapter five as, quote, a coup in search of a legal theory. now, that alone frankly should be enough to american politics permanently if not true trump criminally. but chapter five, the chapter that we focused on last night was just one of eight chapters detailing all aspects of the attempted
international analyst for msnbc news, and the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, happy new year to you all. happy new year to you. happy new year. we have so much to talk about. new year yesterday morning, mika and i went to a new year s day service, and the priest gave a homily on the need to be architects of peace in our daily lives and political discourse, and foreign policy and everything. the harsh path we have taken in our not so new century is elevated, revenge over reconciliation. and reminded us for all of us in attendance, and i love this. it s a good one. he said start by digging two graves. one of them for yourselves. yeah. wow, that really does strike you when you look what s happening in washington over the past 20 years because i really do believe, mika, we live in two americas. one that has seen childhood poverty has dropped to 60 year lows, and teenage pregnancy drop to 70-year lows. it s in the u.s. wo
amara lloyd. msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it has christmas day many have yet to know thei families to two historic winte storm that we ve bee monitoring all weekend for you over 5000 flights in the unite states have been delayed o completely canceled today. the airports in buffalo ne york is completely close and we remain so until tuesday this storm is just as much deadly as it is inconvenient at least through people dyin from weather related causes an hundreds of thousands losing power. also this hour look at how families in ukrain are making the most of the holiday. despite the ongoing war there. plus we ll delve into ho trump s taxes and the 800 plus -page report released by the january six committee coul spell trouble for the former president going into the new year let s start with the sever weather that is wreaking havoc across the country this holida weekend. in and on this christmas day msnbc correspondent jess curses here in new york city ready to update
sensitive. officials say these were taken from mar-a-lago even after donald trump s team claimed they had handed over everything. i m john berman with brianna keilar. while you were hopefully sleeping the most comprehensive filing yet from the department of justice, explaining what they found at mar-a-lago, why they executed a search warrant. the government says it developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room at mar-a-lago and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. and when they searched the government seized twice as many documents marked classified as the trump team had given them when they claimed they handed over everything. the filing included this photo, documents that had yellow tabs, red tabs, you can see right there, marked secret, top secret, sensitive. these were taken from containers and they were spread out on the floor by the fbi. this is how the fbi chose to display them
look in the storage records and then they find these three files, three classified documents, in trump s desk drawer. so certainly laying out the case that this was justified. they also on this issue because this is really about whether a special master and third party can review these documents, they re saying these aren t trump s documents to review, they belong to the american people. there is no executive privilege. trump never asserted executive privilege at any point along the process until the search warrant was executed. they re saying that, you know, to permit a special master to get involved at this point could cause unnecessary significant harm because there s also a you have the intelligence agencies to see what was in these documents and whether there is any potential harm to sources and methods. thank you for helping us just begin to understand what s in here. a lot that we did not know yesterday at this time. thank you so much. and joining us now is cnn