of cnn this morning. it is sunday, december 25th. of course you know, we ve all been waiting for this beautiful morning. i m amara walker. good morning and merry christmas to you as well. thank you for spending part of your holiday morning with us. just ahead this morning, fighting racism from a one horse open sleigh, after getting hate mail for put putting up a black stanta in his yard santa in h yard, one man fights back. and how dollar stars are quickly becoming the go-to destination for shoppers. and we re going to introduce you to this year s cnn hero of the year, with a heart warming moment as she accepted her award. first let s get you caught up with this morning s headlines with whitney wilde. good morning and merry christmas to you, if you re celebrating at home. we begin with this brutal weather storm. at least 22 deaths are blamed on the storm and more than a quarter million people are without electricity. more than 3,400 flights were cancelled yesterda
election interference, what he s saying and when he might go under oath. developing news overseas, putting europe on edge. international inspectors on their way to that nuclear power plant coming under fire in ukraine. the fears growing over a possible radiation disaster. our team there on the ground with a live report for you. meantime, good afternoon to all of you. i m alex witt, in for hallie jackson here in new york. i m joined by ken dilanian, as well as msnbc legal analyst kelly, you re with us, as well. ken, with the doj with at least some of those seized documents contained some attorney/client privileged material. how will that affect the investigation going forward? probably not at all, alex. it s pretty routine when the fbi searches somebody s office and they grab all their files, they may pick up stuff that s privileged. that s why they use what s known as a privilege or filter team, a group of independent prosecutors to go through the documents before they
far down the toilet they could wave hello to chris wallace. it s so bad i hear biden s new strategist is rote 0 router. wow just a chuckle. i thought that would work. no wonder he s once again talking up student loan forgiveness when really joe should be asking for forgiveness not doling it out. forgiveness for afghanistan, for tanking the economy, for farting in front of the royal family. that bomb was so rank the queen thought the germans were blitzing again. tyrus: dang. jason: now they want to forgive ten grand, or roughly what hunter paid for a weekend of hookers. of course this is a hail mary pass or for the gender confused, a hail larry, known appeal to young voters before the midterms which should crush the dems like a dozen eggs under brian stelter s box springs. did i say voters i meant democratic voters the ones too dumb to realize they re trading their future for a quick payout. taking your money to pay a bribe to the people who hate you to elect the same frea
almost nothing, joe biden is on a roll legislatively and on the national security front. todd: alexandria hoff live from washington with the latest. alexandria: even senator bernie sanders is questioning the name saying will have minimal impact. senate majority leader chuck chuck schumer disagrees. i would put in one word, persistence. alexandria: he calls it one of the defining feats of the 21st century. the climate healthcare and tax focus bill included 16 hours of vote-arama. democratss spent a year in negotiation, ending up with narrower adaptation of the build back better bill, inflation reduction act, they call it. 369 billion to climate, minimum tax raising $313 billion in 10 years, democrats expect to add 124 billion by bolstering i.r.s. tax inforcements. democratss government work for families again and this is what this bill does, period. republicans say the end of the sentence is not entirely true there. daniels stated this, democrats will pay the price i
we here at msnbc will have a prime time recap of tomorrow s hearing right here tomorrow night starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. hosting that tomorrow night, along with my dear friends chris hayes and joy reid and nicolle wallace and lawrence o donnell and the whole team, 1:00 p.m. is when the live hearing starts, and 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night is when we will start our prime time recap. i can tell you one thing in advanceim of tomorrow s hearing. i can tell you for sure that the tattoo quotient among the witnesses isth about to go way, wayth up and i do not want to speculate what any of these folks might haveat lurking unde their collars, it is totally possible of course that like, you know, rusty bowers has an amazing torso full of tattoos, who knows or just michael luttig had a full sleeve tattoo working under his very silver suit but in terms of visible tattoos, tattoos visible o even in busins wear, in terms of face tattoos, neck tattoo, head tattoos, hand tattoos, tomorrow is