reading faces, biological and environmental reasons why that could be, but that s what they found. poppy, kaitlan? elizabeth cohen, thank you. fascinating. cnn this morning continues right now. we didn t get any texts or any message telling us it canceled before we came. flight s canceled. hang out with pops a couple more days. call my boss and tell him, i m sorry. hope this wasn t a bad decision. good morning, everyone, who s not at the airport today. don is off this morning. as you can see there, it has just been chaos at the airports over the last several days and it s not changed as flights have been canceled, travelers have been stranded. southwest airlines forced to scrap more than 60% of its flights today. also, the death toll is rising amid a record-breaking blizzard in buffalo, new york. we re live on the ground there. also this morning, ukraine s foreign minister is aiming for a peace summit in the new year. could russia potentially be invited to the
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
documents related to nuclear weapons capabilities during that court-approved search of his florida residence last month and includes as the post puts it a foreign government s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities and nuclear defense readiness. what country was the subject of this classified material was not revealed. but some of the material so secret that it s described as many senior national security officials are kept in the bark about them and only the president and some members of hi cabinet or a near cabinet level official know about them and can authorize others to be read in. this comes as the justice department is weighing its next steps after a federal judge sided with donald trump, agreeing to appoint a special master to review all of the documents picked up in this investigation and that include the possibility of appealing on the part of the justice department and bill barr thinks they should push to fight for. we will much more on all of that i
politician up ahead of reelection this monday. now the nation will be holding his funeral. president biden paid a visit to the japanese embassy yesterday saying he was stunned, outraged and saddened by the former prime minister s killing. and he had this to say about the assassination on japan s security. we re going to learn more about, as time goes on, about motive, about the whole japanese, prime minister is a stable ally and we, do not believe it s likely to have i don t know yet likely to have any profound destabilizing impact on japanese security or japanese solidarity. when we look at this, japan one of our key allies, particularly in this region and particularly militarily with all that goes on with chinese efforts to expand. and a lot to talk about on a global scale. absolutely, and i think that hearing the outpouring from so many world leaders about the legacy of abe, japan s youngest prime minister when he took over and the longest serving when he was don
hutchinson, a former top aide to trump chief of staff mark meadows. she s been in some of the most dramatic videotaped testimony. she talked about conversations around illegality of the fake electors scheme, she reportedly confirmed accounts that trump reacted approvingly to the chance of hang mike pence. and we re also learning federal agencies john eastman s cell phone last week. eastman is the architect of the scheme to install fake electors in order to overturn the election. joining us now, cnn anchor chris wallace, host of who s talking to chris wallace, chris, great to see you this morning. when you have an unannounced hearing like this, you raise expectations. whether you mean to or not. so clearly everyone looking at this hearing today at 1:00 wondering what is cassidy hutchinson going to talk about? what are you expecting? well, you re exactly right. in fact, when i unplugged last night we still didn t know the identity of the mystery witness. i woke up this