good monday morning. i m hallie jackson in washington we re coming on the air learning more people have been killed in a massive winter storm with emergency workers only starting to get to some of the hardest hit areas now. we just got an update from officials near buffalo we will bring you live what they said we are looking at western new york buried under several feet of snow. the governor describing it all as a war zone. i know how hard this is but western new yorkers are tough. we know how to deal with this. we will get through this together we ll have more on that in a second new tension on the korean peninsula after north korea fires drones over soak soak for the first time in years. how the south is responding. plus, the first christmas holiday inn ukraine since the war began. the defiant message from president zelenskyy later in the show here at home with holiday shopping season over, the return the gift season is kicking into high gear. what you should know abo
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. The issue of adoption, did that come up . Like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. Thats not the premise that got them in the room. Then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. The already. There is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. Hope hicks boarded Air Force One and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. You may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a Congressional Committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. She is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that
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Offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, he wrote no details or supporting information was required. Later, emails between don junior and the man who organized the meeting said it was supposed to damaging email on Hillary Clinton. Quote, if its what you say, i love it. To get out ahead of that story, don junior changed his line again. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton i thought was political Opposition Research. Just after this we heard this from trumps lawyer. The Statement Released was donald trump jr. And his lawyers. The president was not involve in the that. The president was not involved in the drafting of that statement. It came from his son. July 31, trump himself personally dictated the statement. Then hater this year it was revealed trumps own lawyers admitted in a momentumo to Robert Mueller that yes, the president himself did dictate the trump tower statement but added there was no collusion. This weekend, the president s same lawyer jay
they are a higher burden if they want to bring criminal charges. they know it they know they need to investigate any case and make it airtight it may be against one of the most elusive criminal defendants in the history of criminal defendants john, let me go to you on the congressional piece of this. danny has given us a 6 forward looking sense of it. the january 6th committee made a series of recommendations they think congress should do the electoral count act passed when the spending bill passed. it was the bare minimum congress needed to do what of the other recommendations might realistically make it through a republican-controlled house and a tight senate what s your sentence. it suggests to me you may know the answer to that question leading you on. that s fair. it is unlikely the republican house will take up a bipartisan committee that included two
bunch of new material from the january 6th committee. you know the evidence has been assembled into a report. transcripts have come out as well jonathan allen and msnbc danny savales. the biggest theme is accountability we knew there was a ticking clock considering republicans take the house a week from tomorrow basically talk us through what the landscape looks like basically the january 6th committee is over. it has made its recommendation to the justice department. we have seen them prosecuting and winning convictions against people who participated january 6th. the question going forward is how seriously the new congress