already with big super pac backing. it s growing, anticipation of the trump-desantis run. thank you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. because we have not been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, the president wanted to act out of abundance of caution. we are working hard to recover the debris to better understand, certainly the capability of the surveillance balloon from the prc, but also the nature of these unidentified objects, to better understand, were they surveillance objects? what was their purpose? what are their capabilities? close encounters of the unknown kind less than a week after the u.s. military brought down a suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. the white house ordered the shooting down of three more unidentified flying objects over the weekend. what are these things? it s interesting, they would not call them balloons. they said, there is a reason
eve. police arrest a man in the case of last month s grizzly myrtle is murders of idaho college students. the moscow, idaho, police chief says they are confident they have a killer in custody. we are putting this together. it doesn t stop just because we make an arrest. actually it begins an hour investigators will do hundreds more interviews to finish this picture. rich: barbara walters s many interviews with world leaders and celebrities made her a star. she s dead at 93. she is not only the most famous female journalist of all time, but one of the most famous journalists on the planet. if a manor, pushed all she did, that would be an incredible career and she did it with kind of a joy and kind of a verve. you know you re getting the real thing. molly: we begin with the death of benedict xvi, former head of the catholic church was 95 years old. he made history as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign. charles watson with a look at his impact on the church. us lea
our other major headline tonight, new year s storm threats. two big systems hitting on both coasts. in the west, 13 states on alert for heavy mountain snow. torrential rain and nasty weather moving east just in time for the new year. our team tracking it all. six years of former president trump s tax returns now made public after years of legal battles. what they reveal about his profits and losses. foreign bank accounts, and how he paid no taxes in his final year at the white house. how trump is responding tonight. southwest airlines resetting and resuming normal service tonight after nearly 16,000 cancellations since the holiday travel meltdown began last week. the airline ceo talking exclusively to abc news, apologizing and promising the company will make good on passenger reimbursements. the finances of embattled congressman-elect george santos under new scrutiny. tonight, questions about how he spent campaign money. more than $70,000 in air travel and hotel expense
happening now, breaking news, police officially announce the arrest of a suspect in the killing of four university of idaho students. the 28-year-old is in custody in pennsylvania right now and charged with four counts of first-degree murder. our correspondents are getting additional details on how the suspect was tracked down. also tonight, former president trump paid zero in income tax during his final year in office, held foreign bank accounts and claimed huge financial losses. we re breaking down the revelations in trump s tax returns now that a house panel has made them public. and as russia launches a fresh round of drone strikes in ukraine, vladimir putin vows his ties with china s president can withstand all tests. is there a connection, a show of strength or sign of weakness? welcome to our viewers around the united states and the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking n
good afternoon. i m yamiche alcindor. back for another hour. and it s not been a good day for donald trump. after fighting it for years, his tax returns are out, and there s a lot to unpack. from the former president s federal tax payments, to the foreign bank accounts held, while he, that he held while in office, the lack of mandatory irs audits, our expert panel is here to comb through it all. and the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of witness transcripts, like yesterday, they contain a lot of familiar trump world names, we ve got the biggest take-aways. and following major breaking news in idaho and the murder case there, a person has been arrested in connection to the killings of four college students. law enforcement officials tell nbc news the 28-year-old was apprehended in pennsylvania. we ve got the details and new year, new covid variants. medical experts are warning of a new infectious strain going through the north east right now. what you ca