hundreds of thousands without power, more than 4,000 flights canceled. winds so treacherous the airport in buffalo, new york, had to shut down. cnn is live with the havoc being wreaked nationwide. and the january 6th committee out with its final report spelling out why donald trump, in their view, was the one solely responsible for the riot and should be discaqualifi from holding office ever again. new transcripts from the committee. why cassidy hutchinson said she was disappointed and disgusted with her first round of testimony under oath. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead and this nightmare weather scenario before christmas crippling conditions stretching coast to coast with snow and ice in cities such as seattle and portland, oregon to the massive bomb cyclone system moving east. nearly 180 million in the u.s. are in areas with temperatures below freezing. 70 million are in areas below zero. this system is so powerful meteorologist
the reidout is up next. tonight on the reidout we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country anymore. we re going to walk down pennsylvania avenue, i love pennsylvania avenue. and we re going to the capitol. a ruling about those comments from donald trump would seem to open up the possibility of lawsuits against the former president by victims of the january 6th insurrection. meanwhile, more transcripps were released from the january 6th committee revealing a whole lot of trump insiders with very convenient memory lapses. also tonight, more of george santos lies are uncovered. we ll look closely at his finances which highlight the glaring need for campaign finance reform. and in state after state, midterm voters rejected election deniers. and now democrats have a golden opportunity to safeguard voting rights. one of the governors leading that fight joins me tonight. good evening, everyone. i m maria ter
i could have not said that better myself. i m alicia men menez, alex has the night off. here s a thing that has happened every day like clock work, as long as we can remember. every day the white house sends out from the white house the daily guidance. at the top, there s a few paragraphs describing what the president s day will entail. and below that, there s a schedule of the major events planned. with the daily intelligence briefing, any major meetings, the timing of any travel that the president is doing. the white house puts out the daily guidance that so the press can plan and that you can make out every day. it s something done every day every white house under every president. just a couple of weeks at the end of donald trump s presidency, something weird happened. the white house issued daily guidance that said president trump will work from early in the morning to late in the evening. he will make many calls and have many meetings and then mention about a campaign r
a shot of a predawn los angeles. welcome to the fourth hour of morning joe. it is 6:00 a.m. out there on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. here in the east. i m jonathan lemire alongside the bbc s katty kay. we re happy to report that msnbc contributor mike barnicle is joining us for the hour. we re in for joe, mika, and willie. catty, a lot of headlines to get to in this hour. the biggest one got mike off the ice rink earlier. landed a couple triple axels and came upstairs and i m sort of disappointed he s changed out of his outfit, but there we go. and took the gold medal off. right. let s get to the headlines, mike, beyond yours. the latest from buffalo where the national guard is going door to door checking on residents who lost power during the deadly blizzard. we ll have the latest as officials face scrutiny over that. and southwest airlines cancels more flights as it struggles to recover from the winter storm. the unions are speaking out about how the disaster
2021. the contents of which we reported on last week. on the tape lindsay graham predicts a backlash against donald trump and the entire stop the steal movement in light of the horrific violence on january 6th. take a listen. we ll actually come out of this thing stronger. moments like this reset. people will calm down. people will say i don t want to be associated with that. this is a group within a group. what this does, there will be a rallying effect for a while in the country that says we re better than this. biden will help that, right? totally. he ll be maybe the best person to have, right? i mean, how mad can you get at joe biden? joe biden will be the best person to have. of course, lindsay graham s prediction there that there would be a post-january 6th moment of national unity, one that would include the republicans, at least didn t come close to happening because of, frankly, lindsay graham. instead of turning the disgraced ex-president and allies into p