that brutal storm that killed 50 people, plus left thousands stranded across the country. why one governor is now calling her state a war zone and in ukraine, an attempted drone attack deep inside russia has vladimir putin once again saying he s ready for peace talks, but is anybody taking that offer seriously as president zelenskyy urges his countrymen to keep the faith. today the future of title 42 allowing migrants to be turned away quickly at the border because of covid-19 public health concerns remains in limbo. what is clear, that the dangser to migrants and the political fight are increasing the supreme court could grant the biden administration s request to end the trump-era border policy, or keep it in place issuing a longer stay. but with freezing temperatures not only is a humanitarian crisis growing at the southern border, the white house is now financial saying strong criticism for governor abbott after that busload of migrants was dropped off in front of vic
morning joe starts now. historic winter storm in western new york statement storm system is blamed for dozens of deaths across the country. it made holiday travel almost impossible on the roads or through the skies with thousands of passengers stuck at airports searching for new flights. meanwhile, the republican governor uses the christmas holiday to play hole papolitics migrants with no warning for groups. and we will take a look at the latest testimony released by the january 6 committee. including a conversation the former president had with one of his closest advisers in the days after the attack on the capitol. also ahead, we dig into the latest action by the democratic controlled house and how the white house is preparing for a divided congress good morning welcome to morning joe. it s monday, december 26th i m jonathan lemire. also with us at the table is affairs analyst and executive editor of recount and host of the podcast. like gene wilder in blazing
authority ten, the chair now says that the committee approval to release the deposition good morning, last week, the select committee laid out a preview of our initial findings about the conspiracy overseeing and directed by donald trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, it blocked the transfer of power, a scheme unprecedented in american history. my colleagues and i don t want to spend time talking about ourselves during these these hearings, but as someone who has run for office a few times, i can tell you that the end of a campaign, it all comes down to numbers. the numbers tell you the winner and loser. for the most part, the numbers don t lie, but if something does not add up with the numbers, you will go to court to get resolution. that is the end of the line. we accept those results. that s what it means to respect the rule of law. that s what it means to seek elected office in our democracy because those numbers are not just numbers, they ar
ballots, the allegations that they are taking one ballot and scanning it through three, four, five times to rack up votes for vice president biden. i told him the video did not support that. then he went off on double voting, he said that dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote, and he meant people in native american reservations. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. i told him flat out that much of the information he s getting is false and therefore is not supported by the evidence. we looked at the allegations, but they don t pan out. mr. barr and his advisors were not the only ones to determine that the president s allegations regarding dominion voting machines were false. i asked unanimous consent, reports issued by the department of homeland security, cybersecurity, and infrastructure security agency otherwise known, that reject the claims of manipulation of voting machines in the 2020 election. without objection, so ordered. thank you, mr.
that section 3 is what we call self-executing, which means that the qualification automatically arises from the condition precedent in this instance in the insurrection or rebellion against the constitution that occurred on january 6th, 2021. the corollary of that is that congress need not act to determine whether the former president engage the in an insurrection or a rebellion or aided and comforted such, neither must a court find that fact and neither must a jury of the former president s peers concluded that he engaged in an