upwards of 776 today,i m here to say it is in the history books. we surpassed the scale of the storm and intensity and vers on ty of the winds. we will talk about that today and the generations of the blizzard of 22. western new york hit by a blizzard republican governor sends more migrants to the east coast will warning several children dropped off outside the vice president s house. and vladimir putin makes a suspicious statement about ukraine to end the conflict. good morning welcome to way too early. i m cori coffin in for jonathan lemire several people have died in the storm that impacted people this weekend. thousands of flights have been delayed. the storm is impacted erie county, new york hard where 12 people have died new york state officials report that the area was hit with four feet of snow at times, the storm s hurricane-force winds caused whiteout conditions. it caused the city s airport to shutdown new york times reporting that nearly three days, tha
if it congress weren t to pass it that would have led to a government shutdown. now with this bill, the government is funded through september 30th next year and funding for the military and service members. you mentioned this is last act of the democratic house. how is the house preparing for the split government reporter: they have to get ready for republicans to investigate and conduct hearings this is something we see when there is a party in control in congress that is different from the president in the white house u. house. we saw this with former president trump. many are frustrated by the investigations into the former president and the january 6 committee. there are two republicans on the nine-member panel. we heard from kevin mccarthy saying he will be focused on the border i spoke to him after he attended
but if congress weren t looking at what happened on that day, we would have so much less visibility, particularly in terms of communications from within the white house and communications from within the department of defense. one thing that we know is that the white house process of releasing written communications that happened during the trump administration to congress, that process is time consuming, but currently underway. trump s lawyers are currently reviewing hundreds of pages of documents and trying to decide exactly how difficult they ll be in trying to keep those documents from going to the congressional committee. in terms of who knew what when, one new revelation we ve gotten this week is that at 1:30 p.m. on january 6th, four hours after protesters started clashing with police officers at the washington monument and at the same time that the head of u.s. capitol police was begging the pentagon to release national
no cracks in the wall is just about what he can afford. aaron, i m so thrilled you re with us. you re writing about exactly this. the president reversed course on just one of these topics, the g-7, after learning impeachment weary republicans were tired of defending him. talk about that. yeah, so every time something like this happens i think back to 2011. the white house, the obama white house put forward this big budget deal that a lot of people in congress weren t terribly happy with. it was a bipartisan effort, and congressman cleaver came forward and called it a sugar coated satan sandwich. since the impeachment inquiry has been launched here, the president trump has introduced two satan sandwiches to this republican caucus. one is the syria decision, which they are overwhelmingly uncomfortable with. many of them are talking about this in almost terms of a slaughter of isis being rekindled in the reej p. and then of course you have the
questions as part of this impeachment probe. a source familiar says hill had major praise for marie yovanovitch, who was removed as u.s. investor to ukraine in may. today jim jordan complained about process secrecy saying the vast majority of lawmakers have no idea where things stand. there been a total of 12 members of congress in those interviews, which means 423 members of congress weren t present to hear the testimony from the witnesses that mr. schiff has called. house intelligence chairman adam schiff floated signed and that lawmakers may never need to hear from the whistle-blower was complaint led to the impeachment inquiry. given that we already have the call record, we don t need a whistle-blower who wasn t on the call to tell us what took place during the call. we have the best evidence of that. lawmakers on the three main committees are expected to hear from the u.s. ambassador to the e.u., gordon sondland, on thursday. he is the diplomat who assured acting u.s. amba