public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
dangerous winds and life-threatening temperatures to dozens of states heading into the holiday weekend. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. dana perino and bill hemmer have the day off. we re filling in. rich: i m rich edson. record low temperatures appeared hazardous weather. right now more than 240 million americans are under winter weather warnings, alerts or advisories from the canadian border to the south and rio grande along the gulf coast to florida and pacific northwest to the eastern seaboard. julie: madison is standing by with flight delays and cancellations. the reason i said wow. i was watching max gordon and his video shot while rich was talking starting us off outside buffalo. i watched a wave, oh my goodness. you have to be cold where the national weather service is predicting up to three feet of snow. max, your camera just blew me away. you are too close to that water, i m not going to lie. we ll try to stay as safe as possible today. a frigid
administration take to avert this looming catastrophe? former border patrol chief rodney scott and congresswoman claudia tenney joins us ahead. i believe it s about minus 13 out. i m doing ok, the sun is out, feels great. you are supposed to be used to it, but not this, it s frigid. it s not worth it. stay home with the family. went to the grocery store so we won t have to come out. we ll be stuck in the house looking at the snow. john: if folks in chicago tell you it s real cold, it s real cold. at least five people have been killed by the once in a generation storm that has threatened lives and travel plans across the country. john roberts in washington. good to have you here. almost every state is expected to be impacted by the brutal winter storm. more than 200 million americans under warnings or advisories and more than 1.1 million people are without power. subzero temperatures and snow pummelling the midwest. the worst still yet to come for those here on the
windchills of 32 below in minneapolis, just 10 degrees at houston, texas. this denver it went from 42 to 5 in an hour. the latest on the massive storm, the cold and how it s making a mess of people s holiday plans. it was really chaos. it was back is and forth and one minute there s a flight at 6:45 and then a minute it s gone. and finally ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is back in kyiv following his trip to washington. he left with a promise of billions more in aid, but with republicans taking control of the house in just a couple weeks, that maybe a lot tougher to get going forward. i want to begin with this treacherous winter storm causing disruption across the country. this is in iowa. wow. it s not just there. in erie county, new york, it s so dangerous they just issued a driving ban. i want to bring in shaq brewster. katie beck from reagan national. and also with us is meteorologist bill karins. shaq, let me just get started with you. it feels like you re in
enforcement says saved lives bravely confronting and disarming the monterey park gunman. we ll have more on that interview and the latest in that investigation in just a moment. meanwhile, in northern california, a beach side community is the scene of the state s second deadly mass shooting in three days. this time the gunman appears to have targeted his coworkers. also ahead, more convictions for members of an extremist group, heavily involved in the january 6th attack on the capitol. and it appears kevin mccarthy made a bff during his day s long struggle to become speaker of the house. we ll have the new reporting on his alliance with one of the most extreme members of the gop. plus, mike pompeo is making headlines for his criticism of an american journalist who was murdered by the saudi regime. we ll show you those excerpts from the former secretary of state s new book. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 24th. with us, we have the host of