. also the latest republican to join the 2020 for race is on a mission to abolish affirmativ action and destroy woke culture. i don t know if you know who he is. he will join us. he s made quite a splash lately. we will introduce you to him. first three weeks now after the disaster in east palestine in ohio and one day after a visit from former president donald trump, he was the first one to go. america s underqualified transportation secretary pothol pete made a trip to ohio. he was definitely not thrilled to be there as he looked miserable the entire time. he was dodging and ducking questions all day and refused t take any responsibility for anything. in fact, he all but blamed a right-wing conspiracy for his bad press that he has been receiving. even faulting the trump administration for the train wreck. according to pothole pete his only mistake is he didn t tweet about the crisis sooner. maybe you should have been dealing with the crisis and a chemical burn that was ki
shook customers and investors alike. the question was, and really still is, would it also threaten the broader market and the banking system? so far the answer appears to be no. markets largely held steady closing the day mixed though shares in regional banks similar to the ones that failed did take a beating. joining us shortly former treasury secretary lawrence summers who accurately predicted the inflation to walk us through what he thinks of the federal response so far including this promise from the president. every american should feel confident their deposits will be there if and when they need them. in addition we have cnn s christine romans and phil mattingly on this tonight. we begin with christine. so is the threat of contagion in the financial markets, does that seem to have passed? these two banks in particular, they put a big ring around these banks and stopped the fire here and made essentially the depositors whole. these are people who would have to go a
transportation secretary. he has been utterlpothole pey mn just two years, he aimlessly is presided over multiple airline fiascos, chaos atao america s shipping ports,ship a supply chainping nightmare tht is still ongoing.a disast and now a disaster inn palestine, ohio, a train wreckkb followed by a control chemical burn that released all these dangerous chemicals into the air, the soil, the water.sh we have dead fish, deadnd dea animals, sick people. but pothole, pete, he s nowhere, to be found. he s nowhere to be found and same joe. h jo and four daye.s he has saidthin nothing, did nothing aboutould toxic fires so huge that itpitts could be seen on pittsburgh s pould be seen on pittsburgh s weather radar. now, ultimately, pothole pete,ps he was shamehame d into makingame a statement last week.cl he declared that his palestineat was getting more than enough attention. you decide. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roug
bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. and with respiratory viruses on the rise and kids medicine harder to find, we ll look at how to keep your family safe during the holidays. we begin this morning with the dangerous winter storm battering much of the country that has up ended holiday travel for many americans. this morning more than 200 million americans are still under some kind of weather warning orred a size ri. the storm continues to move east expected to bring powerful winds and bitterly freezing temperatures after dumping blind ing snow on parts of the midwest. hundreds of thousands of people are without power this morning. meteorologists have categorized the storm as a bomb cyclone. the storm disrupting travel for folks looking to head out for the holiday weekend. according to flight aware, there are already more than 3,000 flight cancellations and more than 2,000 delays in the u.s. joinings us now is shaq brewster in michigan and meteorologist agie lasm
after the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol, the panel tasked with investigating the attack is now out with its final report. and the committee points to one man as responsible for the riots. former president donald trump. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles has the latest. reporter: overnight, the january 6th select committee releasing its final report. a more than 800-page narrative that concludes former president donald trump is directly responsible for the violence on that day. it was something that i think for most americans it was beyond imagination. reporter: the report providing evidence trump and members of his inner circle in an effort to cling to power and overturn his election defeat, quote, engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of pressure and condemnation in the two months between the election and the attack on the nation s capitol. if it had not been for the encouragement of donald trump, it would have never occurred. it would have been