we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. i m ari melber. the top story rocking conservative politics and fox news tonight is a huge new leak about this moment in 2020 when fox news accurately reported biden won arizona, which stoked a maga backlash which upended the network, fed the series of journalists that fox now is facing potential accountability for, potentially over a billion dollars in lawsuit fines. it s also now led to the absolute blockbuster leak to the new york times. if you re think, or i heard about other leaks, this one is different and new and narrates a secret meeting between fox execs and hosts about that arizona call. an internal freakout where viewers were mad and bailing on fox because they reported in that instance, one, undeniable fact about the election. and the executives and anchors, great bare and mar that mccollum, on this call they discuss they were losing viewers because they correctly called arizona for biden. and the
right now, our country s legal system is being pushed to the limit over the criminal investigation of former president, donald trump. this morning, in my capacity of ahead of national action network, i lit a prayer vigil for district attorney brig, as he faces a death threat for doing his job. that job has been to investigate donald trump s role in hush money payments to an adult film star. there were no indictments in the case this week, even after the former president predicted there would be. but the grand jury continued this proceeding on monday. trump will hold a campaign rally in waco, texas, in a few hours from now. where he will likely hurled more insults and veiled threats at brag and other prosecutors for investigating him right now. attacking them once again for doing their job to uphold the law. the former president appeared to be getting help with that on capitol hill, three house gop chairman sent another letter to brag just hours ago. insisting that he turn ove
world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster has the day off on assignment. just ahead on cnn newsroom. the first time it s ever happened. i ve never seen this. the misery continues across the state of california as a parade of storms brings additional rainfall and flood threats across the entire state. attorneys for president biden appear to have taken immediate and proper action to notify the national archives. this is no question a political gift to donald trump and a political gift to the republicans. he s on surveillance at that time. lied to investigators about his whereabouts surrounding the disappearance of his wife, anna walsh. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s tuesday, january 10th. 9 a.m. here in london. 1 a.m. on the u.s. west coast where much of southern california is being pounded by heavy rain, deadly flooding and mudslides. around 34 million people across the state are under a flood watch and thousands have
cancelled, leaving many stranded. adam klotz is bringing the christmas weekend forecast. madelyn is live at the airport, hi, madelyn. good morning, griff and ashley, we have not seen a big pile up, but it is early and things could change. nationwide 2400 flights have been cancelled and 9500 flights delayed so far. the biggest concern in the new york city area are heavy rain, strong winds and icy roads as temperatures drop. outside new york, blizzard conditions through the great lakes and northeast could affect ground conditions at many airports and disruptions could lead to a domino effect. several airlines have been waving fees, but that hasn t helped a lot of people. it is not looking good. they changed my gate, then cancelled my flight. i got to go rebook or refund. we were anticipating the flights were going to get cancelled and we rebooked on wednesday night and rebooked twice back on united this actual. i contemplated driving in case flights got cancelled. t