hope you had a great holiday. and look for a great new year. you too, my. friend thanks to all of you for joining us at home this hour. i m nicolle wallace in for alex wagner two days after election day in 2020, before the result of the presidential election, president donald trump s chief of staff received a step message laying out a very detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. attacks was from donald trump son, don jr.. it described in detail the plot to use republican legislature to keep trump in office. regardless of the actual and if that failed, republicans in congress could keep trump in power. the description pretty much matches up exactly, with a scheme that trump s allies did try to carry out. trying to replace biden electors with fake trump electors, in states that joe biden won. today, the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack release the transcript of its interview, with donald trump junior. and donald trump general told the comm
can t help him. i am a mother, i fix stuff. this gave me a hard feeling. i cannot fix this. i can t bring him back. he is on the ground, in front of his vehicle. something is very wrong. it was devastating when they found him. oh my god. the single dad, so passionate about helping others. he was a selfless person. he just wanted to do what he could. so dedicated to his young daughter, siena. two peas in a pod. she loved being with her dad. she was every single thing to him, every single thing. for police, a puzzle. it was such an unusual murder, with a victim who seemed to have so no enemies. then the chilling, on camera clue. there is a figure. you see someone wearing a hoodie come out from the dark. yes, you get the goose bumps, the hairs on the back of your neck. a father, dead in the garage. who was behind it? i am thinking, what? it is mind-blowing. lies, delusion, betrayal. you just don t want to believe that people can be that evil.
get their moment in front of the queen s coffin in westminster hall to pay their respects to queen elizabeth ii. at her lying in state ahead of the funeral on monday. duty officer signals led by the prince of wales and the duke of sussex, they all took their places around the coffin in westminster hall. it s the first time in history a monarch s grandchildren have performed the ceremony. a complete privilege, absolute privilege to see them honouring their grandmother. a moment that i will never forget. to see her grandchildren respecting her like that was so moving, really moving. thousands continue to queue to see the lying in state, and earlier, those near the front had a surprise visit. hip hip! crowd: king charles greeted mourners, thanking those who d waited through the night. the current waiting time is 17 hours. the accessible queue has closed for good. also tonight. ukraine says more western weaponry is needed to beat the russians, as bodies are recovered from a mass
and hurricane irma, which veered at the last second. businesses are putting plywood up on windows. this is an ice cream shot trying to inject some levity, no ice cream for ian. sandbags are on the ground to prevent flooding. that s small potatoes in terms of mandatory evacuations. pinellas county and hillsborough county have about 2.5 million people collectively. the whole tampa bay area is 3.2. 75%, 08% of the people are in two counties that have mandatory evacuations. they re looking to move a million-plus people. that process started last night, 2:00 for hillsborough, 6:00 for pinellas. but you ll see the biggest chunks of people fry trying to get out today. the topography of this area, there are bays and inlets, barrier reefs, the bay on one side, the gulf on the other. the water has nowhere to go. storm surge right now certainly the biggest concern as the projections are between 5 and ten feet. for historical context, the last time a major hurricane struck tampa direct