majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays
thomas webster perhaps going behind bars for any other january 6th defendant. nbc news confirming a court appearance for pat cipollone and pat philbin set to go in front of the grand jury in washington. the mississippi water crisis bad to worse, telling people to shower with their mouths closed. businesses still closed. students still learning remotely. the fema administrator will join us live later in the show about what is being done on the federal level to fix it. i m hallie jackson in washington. with me nbc news correspondent vaughn hill lard in west palm beach, ken dilanian, washington correspondent for the new york times and msnbc contributor charlie savage and former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade is joining us too. vaughn, start with you on the ground there outside the building where all the action is going down. bring us up to speed on what we need to know and what happens next? hallie, i was talking with our colleagues maria and mar
would impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation. that means that someone or more than one person is cooperating with the doj. and number three, disclosure of the government affidavit would chill future cooperation in other high-profile investigations. what are those other investigations? the doj also adds, quote, the government does not object to unsealing other materials filed in connection with the search warrant whose unsealing would not jeopardize the integrity of this national security investigation. mark warner and marco rubio sent a private letter yesterday to the director of national intelligence and attorney general merrick garland to request more information on the records seized. and the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee, mike mccall, made this argument on cnn earlier. the affidavit of probable cause in support of the warrant, we need to see that in congress on the intelligence committee. if it s such a national security thr
enforcement officer of the country. i said i will stay out of it. i wish i did not make that statement. there s no reason why i have to. what happened to durham? bill barr could go down as the greatest attorney general in history, or go down as an average guy. it depends what will happen. he was put, there we have an election coming up, i wish he was more forthcoming. attorney general says he will i will queues myself. why did he not tell me that before i put him in? 33,000 emails, we have a great attorney general, let s see what happens. our justice department, which i try to stay away from, at some point, i won t. coming, up democrats historic we ll speak with barbara lee about the big wins the biden administration is notching up, and how to turn those winds into electoral victories. plus, merrick garland takes action against donald trump. i m republican lies about the fbi, they re feeling political violence. let s get started. it s hard to overstate the massive h
las vegas, we are getting scant evidence of how much shooting was going on. the suspected shooter has been, quoting police officials, located and is now deceased. we don t know the number of victims, another that it is multiple victims. this occurred an hour ago, first report of shots being fired at beam hall, the elite business center. this is miles from one of the worst mass shootings at the music 91 music festival. this does not look anything like that and we pray it doesn t approach that. it occurs a little more than a month after the attack at lewiston, maine, that took 18 lives. let s go to jonathan hunt with the latest, what he is learning and what we can say about the casualties and what they are finding out. jonathan. jonathan: 3:04 east coast time and 12:04 we got word from metro police department there was active shooter on campus of university of nevada las vegas in the heart of the city of vegas, couple of blocks from mgm grand and off the strip. police said th