bianna golodryga picks up our coverage now. hello everyone. i m bianna golodryga. airports are scrambling to get back on schedule after an early morning glitch throws the nation s air travel into chaos. a key safety system for the faa went down forcing a nationwide ground stoup on all domestic departing flights. that s left travelers stranded in airports or trapped on board parked airliners. the ground stop is now lifted, but the backlog of flights is still jamming airports across the country. cnn correspondents and analysts have been following these developments. let s begin with adrienne broaddus. adrienne, are things get back to normal there this morning? reporter: hello, bianna. things are getting back to normal. travelers passing through chicago o hare will experience delays and cancellations. if they stop at the information board, they will see boarding. that s a nice sign for folks leaving the airport. there s also other indications that there have been technology
individual s names in this report. the bar associations across the country, local bar associations have to step up. local prosecutors have to step up the accountability piece is the piece here, and that is what folks will be looking for. we certainly will, symone thank you. if you are just joining us right now i m stephanie ruhle. it is midnight on the east coast and i am on the west coast, we are continuing our breaking news coverage of the release of the january 6th committee s final report on the siege of the capital and donald trump s effort to change the results of the 2020 election. it was made public just over an hour ago, it totals 845 pages. what is the first passage all about? the big lie. with that, let s get smarter with a lead off panel, former you new york prosecutor in civil rights attorney charles coleman. pulitzer prize-winning reporter for an joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor and symone sanders-townsend still with us along with stua
that we have already seen to this. we cannot compare watergate, just this really was the beginning and the plot for what would ve been a civil war, a small version on january 6th. and that is laid out even in the first few pages of this document. from a legal standpoint, from a principled standpoint, it absolutely has to be taken seriously. it is not just an indictment on democracy, sorry an indictment on the republican party, it is as clear statement on how these people will go to any and many lengths to literally dismantle american democracy. and that is no laughing matter. katie, in 845-page report that is now sitting in the lap of the department of justice. jack smith, a report like this isn t like a pot potato that they now have to deal with or do they just get a winning lotto ticket? there are all sorts of details in this thing. i think based on in the summer over the election in the fall and now more recently the subpoena sent out to the fake electors plot i don
buffalo, new york. he is urging people to stay home. inside the select committee s final report. one of our guests says it reads like a horror novel. the detail on the scope of former president trump s pressure campaign to overturn the results of the election. will the people the committee blames for the attack face what they recommend? we start with the january 6 report. 845 pages of painstaking detail that all come to a single and in the committee s view inescapable conclusion. former president donald trump was the driving force behind the insurrection. in fact, one of the biggest takeaways is the committee s recommendation that congress come up with a way to ensure trump is never president again. with the new congress in session, just 11 days from now, recommendations like that will not pass. the massive scope of the report shows the efforts to overturn the election went beyond donald trump, involving officials and aides who pushed fake electors and media personalities
. right know, on msnbc, the massive winter storm bringing holiday travel to a virtual standstill, a dangerous weather system marching across the midwest, toward the east coast, as we come on the air. high winds and bitter cold keeping planes on the ground and many cars off the roads. threats now of a so-called flash freeze, in parts of new england, as heavy rain turns to ice. we ve got the latest forecast, with our reporters standing by. also this hour, new fallout from the final report of the january 6th committee, what committee members are telling us about how it all came together, and what former president trump is saying after the panel said squarely that he is the one to blame. plus, the clock ticking down to a government shutdown. the house voting now on a bill to keep everything open before the midnight deadline. our nbc news reporting on the last-minute vote wrangling on capitol hill. good to be with you. we start this hour with the latest on this monster storm t