public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
president trump responding to the panel s findings, specifically where they say he is to blame for the deadly riot. also this hour, if you re trying to travel for the holidays, pack your patience, as they say. we re tracking a massive winter storm blankets much of the midwest, and the east coast. bitter cold temperatures bringing snow and ice to millions of americans. thousands of flights canceled. and at least a million people are without power. plus, a growing humanitarian crisis at the border with mexico. migrants being turned away from shelters as temperatures plunge in texas. a report from el paso coming up. we start this hour with the latest revelations from the january 6th select committee s final report. joining me now are nbc news congressional correspondent judy tsirkin, danny cevallos, criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst and mel harvin, former chief of homeland security, and intelligence for the district of columbia. thank you all for joining us.
morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in
at his disposal to defend the now annexed territories. president biden responding with a stern warning of his own. mr. putin, don t misunderstand what i m saying. ukraine s president zelenskyy is now pushing for accelerated admission into nato in the wake of putin s move today. rhetorical back and forth has ratcheted the threat of expansion of the war in ukraine to a new level. retired general jack keane with analysis of the situation. jacqui heinrich with the biden administration s response but we begin tonight with correspondent trey yingst from kyiv with vladimir putin s threats and allegations. good evening, trey. bret, good evening. the war entered a new dangerous chapter today as russian president putin annexed occupied ukrainian territory. under the guise of legitimacy and the kind of pageantry needed to convince people he is winning the war. vladimir putin signs decrees making four ukrainian regions part of russia. putin was joined by the four appointed leader
i m laila harrak. ahead on cnn newsroom, the white house is on the defensive after more classified documents were discovered at president biden s private home. plus live images from dnipro, ukraine, where a search is under way for survivors trapped in the rubble of an apartment building after a russian missile strike. the latest in a live report. and global condemnation after iran executed a british iranian national. now we re hearing from the man s family, who says he s innocent. we ll have those stories and more for you in just a moment. first, we re tracking breaking news out of nepal. state media report a plane from domestic carrier yeti airlines has crashed west of kathmandu. cnn s kristie lu stout is tracking events from hong kong. reporter: just imagine the agony for family members who are waiting for any information. right now this is what we know. we know that a yeti airlines jetliner crashed on sunday in nepal. we know at least 32 have been killed. a spoke