midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.
as you know, talking about a stolen election can get you int trouble it s the equivalent of shouting fire and a crowded theater. but you can shout fire and at theater even more if you re a democrat in you re about to become a white house press secretary. jean-pierre, it sounds like the goal for the montréal canadiens. he has been tapped to really lace in psaki, but do you know she claimed at that the electio was stolen. since when do democrats care about theft, when someone gets fancy job embarrassing tweets surface like a bloated corpse i the east river. i remember when this show started, someone started thinking these erotic videos i made back when i needed the money through, i was the one leaking them. i just felt they needed a wider audience. her tweet matters because that sort of thing would disqualify anyone who isn t a lefty. back on april 2nd of 2020 she said reminder, the gubernatoria election in stacy abrams, of course know tim has called this an attack on democrac
Democracy at stake, the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court hold in their hands the power to forever alter the trajectory of our country. How they rule on cases having to do with january 6th, violent attempt to disrupt the transfer of power, will echo for generations. So not only is it reasonable for us to expect those nine human beings to go about their process impartially, its vital that they are seen and perceived as being impartial appearance. The mere appearance of bias could strain our trust in an honest result for these cases, which is why todays news isnt just disturbing, its scary. The New York Times cites photos and interviews with neighbors in reporting that in 2021, days before president joe bidens inauguration as president , days after the deadly attack on the United States capitol of january 6th, neighbors of conservative Justice Samuel alito noticed something on his lawn, an upside down american flag, a symbol commonly used in those days by Trump Supporters
summer olympics. that s not what you want to see just before the games start. a bizarre one i never heard about either. the name. plus, a day of reckonning for facebook. we look ahead to the first earnings report as a public company later today with our christine romans. interesting. up first, the latest on the aftermath and investigation in aurora, colorado. law enforcement sources say the shooting suspect james holmes mailed a package to the university of colorado campus in aurora which was received on monday and forced the evacuation of a building. it was holmes himself who told police where to find it. cbs news says the package was addressed to a psychologist and contained a letter talking about shooting people along with scribbling showing the gunman shooting victims. we re going to have a full report from aurora in a few minutes. six days after the mssacre in aurora, colorado, gun control is a very hot topic on the campaign trail. he waited five days to enter the
wrong about chavez, and that tells you a lot. and he also recently awarded an apartment to a woman who became his 3 millionth twitter follower, and he is a big twitter follower. yes, he is wildly popular and the message is getting through to twitter again, and he did this, and he is rewarding somebody for being the 3 millionth follower. can you imagine if president obama or mitt romney were giving away homes on live television? no. thank you, miguel. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m suzanne malveaux and this hour in the cnn newsroom, we will tell you how the worst drought that america has seen in 50 years is affect iing the cro and the economy and our pocketbooks. and the white house takes mitt romney and two possible vp candidates to ohio. and the fda bans a chemical from baby bottles and why are adults still living with it? we go to wilted crops in fields, and soil drying up, and half of the country s farms are reaching drought which is the most since