you from msnbc and los angeles mayor christmas eve to all o you celebrating, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with th latest on the deadly winte storms moving across the u.s., leaving dangerously cold win chills across much of centra and eastern states at least 20 people have died i storm related incidents across the country in, erie count police say ambulances are stil unable to respond to emergency calls, in a timely manner. the problem is in the hardest hit areas, up to two thirds of emergency response vehicles are stuck fire, ambulance, police, i addition, a man in vehicles ar causing significant problems, have to note this, it is not something we are proud of, but in the worst affected areas, there is no emergency servic available. there s no guarantee that life-threatening emergency situation, that they will be able to respond immediately. we are dealing with situations all night, including a situation with a baby at a hom location which is on
tonight, brand-new januar 6th committee transcripts, jus in, as we analyze the full report, and where all of the investigations go from here. then, from dangerous weather to tripledemic illness on th rise what you need to know, heading into this holiday weekend. looking back at this consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad our favorite historians, her to put it all in perspective as a special, extra earl addition of the 11th hour is underway, on this friday night good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle nearly 24 hours after its fina report was made public, tonight, the january 6th committe released a new batch of witnes transcripts. they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump we will break down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, the committee s repor is wrapping up
decided to focus everybody s attention on mike pence, and ultimately to say in the middl of the riot, he didn t have th courage to do what needed to b done, further inciting and exhorting the crowd which wa already chanting hang mike pence. and they had already set up in the crowd. it is just impossible to think of this happening withou donald trump being the central instigator of the whole thing. and if somebody has got theory as to why it was really antifa that didn t, then bring the evidence forward but our bipartisan committee found no evidence of involvement by antifa. i don t know what othe theories are this is not an agatha christ novel. we know exactly who done it. you are obviously not going to tell us who, but in the las 24 hours since the report wa released, have you privately heard from any of your republican colleagues?
ever just title states and frankly i wil remind viewers, you have sai you do not think he is eve going to really run fo president again. so, what do you think? yeah, i ve said he is not going to be on the ballot, and i think that this is a pretend run, but really the articl comes out and down to this is search for staying relevant. you see it at much lower level over former elected official but the need for the attention to be relevant to shap conversations and policies - policy in donald trump case, but at least have the headline so he seems to be doin everything possible to almos sabotage himself, and yet he still loves the headlines. i m sure he would not have a problem with the story being written just the way it is well, this interview with trump offered a few noteworthy quotes, trump told her, quote, i think have always been
and someone is vicious and malignant and narcissist lik him, he is very dangerou still. there s no telling what he wil do during his - this run now for president again, he has no interest in actually becoming presiden again. this is all just to protect hi in his mind from any legal consequences it is to keep him in the headlines. he does not care about the republican party or the stat of the country we will bring it to the ground first if that is what it means if that is what it takes for him to stay in the headlines she talks about his obsessio with sunset boulevard and think that is very insightfu as someone who s a municipal theater nerd my mom was on broadway and i grew up on thes musicals they are fantastic but the storyline of that movie is one of someone becoming irrelevant because of silent movies being pushed out by the talking, the he is obsessed with that movie he is obsessed with not bein relevant anymore, and anyone who knows donald trump or ha