good morning and welcome back to morning joe on this friday, december 30th, new year s eve eve. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. as you wake up out west. let s dive right in to a newly released batch of deposition transcripts from witnesses who spoke to the house select committee including members of former president donald trump s inner circle including former white house communications director alissa farah griffin. she spoke to the panel on april 15th describing her tenure at the trump white house as a wild eight months in her words. griffin revealed one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior government officials would not take positions within the administration. griffin said any report about the trump white house being chaotic and operating without structure was, quote, more or less accurate. that included there being no competent gat
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.
entire time he s sitting there enjoying it like a mob boss rather than running the country like a president should. and of course we also know at the time that donald trump knew a lot more about the virus itself than he told the american public, which is really shameful. so the american people were left completely unprotected. there s also this larger narrative of he was acting more like a dictator than a president even then. griffin described the president as being enraged that somebody had leaked the fact he d gone into a bunker to hide from peaceful protesters outside the white house. i mean, that s not the behavior of an american president. that s the behavior of, you know, moammar gadhafi. i mean, what is this? it s embarrassing. it s embarrassing for the american public. and it s disturbing. a lot of these people have yet to be held accountable. mike barnicle, i ll let you take this wherever you want to
this is what donald trump was doing in the white house, instead of bringing the best people that he promised to bring. he brought people that were completely on seek wous to him, and the entire time, he s sitting there enjoying it like a mob boss instead of running the country like a presidency should. and he knew a lot more about the virus than he told the american people. the american people were left completely unprotected. and there was this larger narrative that he was acting more like a dictator than a president then, according to griffin s testimony. this moment when griffin describes the president being enraged, actually, that somebody had leaked the fact that he had gone into a bunker to hide from peaceful protests outside the white house. that s not the behavior of an american president. that s the behavior of, you know, moammar gadhafi. i mean, what is this?
can you read? did you read the washington post story? did you watch the woman who came forward yesterday? this whole thing about the presumption of innocence. like this is being charged in one of roy moore s old courtroom. if this is a plot, wow. what a plot this is. from the democrats and mitch mcconnell and 30 sources, and all these women, all out to get poor roy moore. we were discussing this in our editorial meeting and one of them pointed to the new yorker story about as you say, the evidence. he said, they said, and a lot of other evidence. the new yorker saying new yorkers troubled. he was banned from the mall and the ymca for what they viewed inappropriate behavior of, quote, soliciting sex from young girls. i think this will be a real