two days after election day in 2020 before the results of the presidential election have even beenio called. president donald trump s chief of staff received a text message laying out a veryte detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. the text was from donald trump s son, don jr. and described in detail the plot to use republican legislatures to keep trump in office regardless of the actual vote count. if that failed, republicans in congress could keep dump in keep trump in power. it matches up with the scheme that trump and his allies tried to carry out by replacing biden electors with fake trump electors in states that joe biden won. today the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack released the transcriptsse of the interview with donald trump jr. and he told the committee he doesn t remember where the idea came from. quote, question. is that something you wrote, or did you cut and paste that from somebody else? junior,me i imagine i cut and paste
chaos and dysfunction within the white house during trump s time in office. plus, transportation secretary pete buttigieg is threatening major penalties for southwest airlines amid a massive number of cancellations and delays. we ll have the latest on the seemingly never-ending travel troubles. and president biden signs a massive $1.7 trillion government spending bill into law. capping off a year of big wins for the white house. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, december 30th. the penultimate day of 2022. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us with. we ll begin with a newly-released batch of deposition transcripts from the january 6th house committee from some key witnesses, including members of former president donald trump s inner circle. and that includes former white house communications director alyssa farah griffin, she spoke to the january 6th house panel back on april 15th, describing her tenure at the white house as quo
going after the bidens for instance, on hunter biden and trans action reports with the treasury department, and trying to link those to joe biden, even though there is no link there as far as we can tell at this time, so that will be where the rough is, and where this white house probably is going to determine, okay, these are the things that we will engage on but we feel very little responsibility to engage on these other issues, especially given what went down over the past four years of the trump administration, just the uniformed stonewalling of pretty much all subpoenas. thank you, we are grateful that you are on this story and will stay on it as well. thank you for your time tonight. that does it for us. way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next. oo ear lemire is coming up next this morning, more revelations from the house select committee investigating january 6th. what we re learning about the