majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays
the country s longest serving monarch. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. it is tuesday, september 20th, 4 a.m. here on the east coast of the united states where we are tracking hurricane fiona as the storm gains strength in the atlantic. fiona is now a category 3 hurricane barrelling closer to the turks and caicos islands after tearing through the dominican republic on monday. heavy rains and strong winds ripped through cities destroying buildings and homes. more than 1 million people are without running water in the dominican republic and officials say it s too soon to know the exact number of power outages. it s only a glimpse of the power of this storm, and that s expected to get even stronger through the weeks. let s turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who s keeping a close eye on the storm. all eyes on the storm. it is a major hurricane, category 3. possibly up to a category 4. the turks and caicos, home to 5,000 pe
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mar-a-lago. clemency requests, irs forms and entryingly paperwork that appears to be related to the 2020 election, even an email accepting trump s resignation from the screen actors guild, or sag as they call it in the business, according to a justice department list that was apparently inadvertently posted publicly and reported by bloomberg news. that as we have more secretly recorded awedudio from an alleg 2020 oath keepers meeting played in the trial of the far right militia group on seditious conspiracy charges. watch this. if the fight comes, let the fight come. if they go kinetic on us, we ll go kinetic back on them. i m willing to sacrifice myself for that. other defendants discussing what weapons are legal to bring into washington, d.c. that according to prosecutors. tasers are legal. stun guns are legal. it doesn t hurt to have a lead pipe with a flag on it. no weapons, right, according to only people? right. the secret recordings are the first major piece of
abortion rights. what about the fight against deadly fentanyl overdoses and seattle residents pushing back for a homeless mega-plex, why many residents and business insiders feel under siege and illegally pushing crypto-currency is getting kim kardashian. chad pergram will explain later in the show. gas prices posing big political problems for democrats while white house threatens new restrictions. kevin corke has more. kevin: president biden, you will recall, was quick to claim responsibility for falling gas prices after a summer of paying at the pump. many states are seeing soaring prices, the white house is saying, we re not to blame. is the president responsible for gas prices going up? so it is a lot more nuance than that, there has been pandemic and putin s war and putin s war has increased gas prices at the pump. kevin: triple a s national average sits just north of 380 a galleon, californians are getting pum belled averaging $6.40 a gallon. rising a dollar jus