it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfasc
flights to martha s vineyard. chad wolf will react to the growing national security threat and the dire consequences of the biden administration s open border policy. sandra: but first, the battle for the house and senate ramping up with midterm elections just 49 days away. latest fox news power rankings revealing democrats may have roads to victory as republicans try to hold on to their advantage. hello, and welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: good to spend tuesday with you. new data shows republicans are expected to take a 13 seat majority with the total of 231 seats. that is three seats fewer since august, giving democrats pathways to retain control. sandra: it s essentially a toss-up in the senate with races appearing very close in arizona, georgia, nevada and pennsylvania. power rankings show the senate is evenly split, republicans a slight edge, expecting to take 51 seats with democrats taking 49. john: on the heels of the latest fox
added to the list of venues that are now welcoming migrants from the border. some record number of migrants, we might point out. startling numbers today for fiscal year that technically isn t even over yet, but we have broken all records in the process. let s get to it with peter doocy from the white house. hi, peter. neil, this afternoon president biden upending our understanding of his i immigration policy. more than a year he told us the migrants are coming from the northern triangle countries. that would be el salvador, guatemala and honduras. now he says that s not the problem anymore. there are three countries that are never there s fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico. this is a different circumstance. what is on my watch now is venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. the ability to send them back is not rationale. just before that in the briefing room, the white house claimed they were willing to engage leaders that were bussing or flying migran
hello, everyone. at this hour departure boards bringing post-christmas misery to travelers everywhere. one major u.s. carrier is the big source of a nationwide headache. plus, incoming congressman george santos says he should get a pass for lying about virtually every single detail of his resume because not telling the truth is not a crime. and new cnn exclusive reporting about why you ll pay less at the pump now, but should be preparing for more pain in the spring. this is what we re watching at this hour. we begin this hour with the blame game playing out at southwest airlines. thousands of stranded travelers just want to get where they are going but bad weather, bad planning and bad systems mean more than 25 hundred southwest flights grounded today so far. that s around 90% of all flights canceled in the u.s. southwest passengers can t get through to customer service and its employees are struggling to speak to the people in charge. it s just it s frustrating for pil
welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper in washington. and tonight new horrific details are emerging about the attempted violent attack against house speaker nancy pelosi, the one that ended with the wounding and hospitalization of her husband, paul pelosi. the alleged violent intruder david depape is facing federal charges for breaking into the pelosi s home and beating paul pelosi with a hammer early friday morning. the suspect who trafficked online in far right conspiracy theories about covid and the 2020 election and holocaust denialism, quote, stated that he was going to hold nancy hostage and talk to her. if nancy were to tell depape the truth, he would let her go. and if she lied, he was going to break her kneecaps. depape also explained, she would then have to be wheeled into congress, which would show other members of congress there were consequences to actions, unquote. several prominent republicans have condemned the attack, including today donald trump. with p