white. we didn t even have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us. the house was shaking. we were all close together in the middle room of the house. wow. it s the craziest thing i ve ever been involved in. more than 20 million people are under high wind alerts in the mid atlantic, northeast and western u.s. meteorologist alilison chinchar is keeping an eye on all of this. this storm is heading out into the open atlantic, hopefully giving folks a break 24 hours from now. we still have heavy bands of snow across maine, new hampshire. you re getting a little bit of wraparound in upstate new york, places like watertown new york continuing to see snow. when you factor in the snow and wind component, it can lead to whiteout conditions. travel going to be very dicey in some spots. even farther south away from the snow, you still have wind advisories in place, looking at wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour. that could lead to trees down and additional power outages.
not a fishing expedition. it is up to them to be able to share with the american public that logic behind what they did, the fact that they had, what caused them. releasing the affidavit would be important. we also have new information on a personal message donald trump reportedly sent to merrick garland. back to the fbi top secret documents from his home. we re gonna talk about this in a moment with january six committees members. the this hour, the last stand for another january 6th committee member, liz, cheney facing a tuesday primary. it could spell the end of her time in congress for now. democrats celebrate the inflation reduction act. will it be enough to save them in the midterms? i m gonna talk to congresswoman, joaquin, castro about this ahead. we are first going to begin with the breaking news. the fbi and dhs issuing a bulletin describing a spike in threats to federal law enforcement in the wake of the mar-a-lago search. senior law enforcement officials tell nb
more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6th unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks before january 6. the times says this raises questions about a possible link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. cnn s katelyn polantz live in washington. explain to us about these revelations involved in all of these emails. reporter: hi. so this new story from the new york times describes emails between two lawyers who were working with donald trump and the trump campaign after the election. they appear to reveal that one lawyer, john eastman, he is well connected among conservatives, former supreme court clerk, that east man had insight into the internal deliberations of the supreme court and another lawyer was using that information with him to look at ramping up their legal battle with an expectation of chaos on january 6. so in these emails the new york times says that eastman on christmas eve
adviser to mike pence. in advance of that life testimony, nbc news has obtained exclusive new video ahead of today s hearing. highlighting how the events of the 6th were only the end of a pressure campaign against mike pence to overturn the election results that began much earlier with pence consistently pushing back according to testimony from his chief of staff mark short. was it your impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president not just to the world, through a deer colleague letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and had been consistent in conveying his position to the president. very consistent. okay. we ll see more on that coming up in the hearing. another angle to the january 6 story, we re getting new details on how protesters may have known their way around the capitol. now video from the january 6 committee raising questions about what happened the day before the riot on the fifth. the
before the 6th. pence pushing back every time. was it your impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world through a dear colleague letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and he had been consistent in conveying his position to the president? very consistent. and then the new memos show ing pence s legal and political advisers spending weeks whether pence could block or delay the electoral vote count. their conclusion doing that would break multiple laws. the author of that second memo, former counsel to the vice president, greg jacob, will testify today. so will federal judge jay michael ludig, who rejected a theory by trump adviser john sman that pence could unilaterally reject lectors. and if he tried any way, the new york times reports that emails from eastman predicted a heated fight in the supreme court. much more on that, and the connection to justice thomas wife