top of the hour. i m jim sciutto. in short, it is cold. the powerful winter storm battering the u.s., expected to grow even stronger and colder today, covering nearly half of the u.s. population. parts of the country could see the coldest christmas in decades. sub-zero temperatures hitting hard out west. here is the owner of a local towing company in montana speaking with cnn this morning. it is cold up here. if you ain t prepared for it, it could be really bad. i ve been here 20 years and this is the worst i ve ever felt. wow, tough time to be a towing company. right now hundreds of thousands of people are without power. that is tough in the cold. many of them in the southeast. travel plans upended for many going to the holiday weekend. more than 3500 flights canceled already today and counting. here is the transportation secretary pete buttigieg. lots of things are so important to us around the holidays. our traditions, our loved ones. but of course, the most importan
anything for better or worse, but for better, but it s breaking under view, the three rings under investigation, the rally, the electors and the big grift, the big scam. it s a stunning piece of reporting. huge piece of reporting,s you say, and when you start going up the line on the three diagrams and some like a venn diagram overlap cross. good seeing you, nicole. i ll get down to my office and watch yours. okay. welcome to the beat, everyone. breaking news on the doj criminal january 6th probe. the justice department investigation into the january 6th insurrection and coup is substantially escalating. this is a story nicole and i just discussed crossing within just the last hour courtesy of the new york times. the justice department count for subpoenas has drastically increased that we know of. this may have been going on privately or secretly, but the times has opened up the story, and you see the names. two top trump advisers, including boris epstein an
cnn tonight, there is so much news on the multiple ongoing investigations into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. he will spend the whole hour unpacking it all this evening. we have not one but two former trump white house insiders who are going to help us do it tonight. in a moment you will hear from former trump acting chief of staff nick mulvaney. his message for some of his fellow republicans, pay attention. to the january 6 hearings. and big developments tonight on that front. we will also hear from former trump white house press secretary stephanie grisham she like mulvaney resigned on the day that our capital came under attack. stay tuned for both of them. the select committee meanwhile apparently just finalized plans for what could be its most critical testimony yet. our sources say the committee struck a deal for a closed door recorded interview with former white house counsel, set to happen on friday. he met with members in april for an informal i
january 6th. new reports on the question of lost or erased secret service texts. gentleman, thanks for joining, good evening. evan, i am going to start with you for the reporting. i am going to talk to you about this police officer backing up casey hutchinson s testimony. what do we know? it could be really important testimony from someone that was there that day. this is a metropolitan police officer who was part of the motorcade and who has now given an interview to the january 6th committee. this is reporting. what they are telling us is that essentially the police officer was able to corroborate some of what cassidy hutchinson provided testimony to. there has been a lot of push back from some of the people in secret service, some on pack ground, some of it on record claiming there was some or parts of what she was saying there was this altercation that the president, the former president reached for the steering wheel and that he actually pushed the lead secret servic