a legal case, and it s important to remember the context of all the cliches we hear, donald trump fought this and lost this, the video you see on your television screen is something he spent a long time trying to avoid, but he lost and cooperated with this new york attorney general probe, and here s what he said at the start. anyone in my position not taking the fifth amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool. i respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the united states constitution. this will be my answer to any further questions. as. as to the second part he said, fact check, true. we ll get into. that a.g. james drew these answers into what is a civil probe into his taxes. he infamously attacked others who availed themselves of this same right of pleading the fifth. he went from that to himself pleading the fifth over 400 times across apparently four frustrating hours. i decline to answer the quest
evacuations of towns with mudslides. bill: good morning, i m bill hemmer. good morning. the storms will roll in for at least the next two weeks it looks like in the forecast. the latest storm in a parade of severe weather began a week ago leaving more than a dozen dead in california. 200,000 customers have no power. firefighters rescuing two people trapped in a car at the bottom of a sinkhole in suburban los angeles. the entire seaside community of montecito ordered to get out five years after a mudslide killed 23 and destroyed more than 100 homes. very intense. i mean it almost doesn t seem real with that going on. it s unbelievable. i had ptsd from the last one for a couple of years and it is just bringing it all back. bill: senior national correspondent william la jeunesse live in l.a. to bring us up to date on what s happening today. hello. good morning. we have a slight separation of the bands of rain that i had coming in this morning. the irony is last year
scheduled for tuesday the earliest on this arrest and what comes next, just ahead, and in the meantime, there are two major passing to note on this finally in 2022, the pope benedict the 16th, the first pope coming to resign and nearly 600 years, has died at the age of 95 and tv journalism pioneer barbara walters has died to date 93 and a look back at both of their legacies, coming up the first time, the rest of the idaho murder suspect, moreno final standing by with her expert analysis met for an has more the suspect is background, but we begin with dan springer, live in washington, here were the suspect was attending grad school comedy on. yes john, i learned today from a pulley source, that the police investigators really just locked in on their suspect within the last few days in a dna, more specifically, genetic genealogy, whiskey played a key role in pointing them to their suspect in a s.w.a.t. team arrested and 28 -year-old ryan kohlberg, early on friday morning and
day, another allegation of lying has been levelled against george santos and every new week, if not every new day, kevin mccarthy has been asked what are you going to do about george santos? did you meet with santos today? i did. what was that about? if every single new person brought into congress was elected by their constituent, what their constituents had done was lend their voice to the american public so those members can all serve on committee. are you standing by him? if you resign, that could cost you a seat. no. you know why i m standing by him? because his constituents voted for him. yeah, we will be done with all committees. i never know about his resume or not, but i always have a few questions. who has more power? joe biden or george santos? that s just some of the times he s been asked about it. now it appears that mccarthy might have done something about george santos after a closed door meeting with the speaker yesterday, today, george santo
continuing his road show ahead of the state of the union getting ready to meet with democratic party leaders in new york. but those classified documents becoming headlines again. nbc confirming an fbi search of his one-time washington office. what we know about the timeline and what was found. plus, an nbc news exclusive on the january 6th committee s final report. specifically what s not in it including why federal law enforcement agent sis didn t act on warnings ahead of the insurrection. with me is our news team on the ground in memphis. antonia and garrett haake is joining us as well. antonia, tyre nichols funeral is a day away. talk through the movement on the ground where you are. reporter: well, we re hearing from officials that we are likely to get news of additional personnel actions in the coming days. now, the personnel actions could mean a couple of different things. it could mean departmental charges against additional officers or emts. firings. it could mean