the race for president. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. good to be with you. aishah: good to be with you, too. karl rove joining us later this hour with his political advice for both parties heading into the new year, and vivek also coming up in a couple moments here. he s fired up on a new recommendation that marines drop the sir, the ma am. is our military taking wokeness too far? begin with a fox weather alert. john: desperate and disappointed, travelers are feeling as the once in a generation storm puts a damper on thousands of flights across america. the dangerous blizzard has intensified into a bomb cyclone as it takes aim at the great lakes and parts of the northeast. erie, pennsylvania and cleveland, ohio, taking the brunt of the heavy snow this hour. john: meanwhile, rain and gusty winds knocking out power to more than 80,000 people in connecticut. new england residents bracing for freezing temperatures this evening. temper
good evening from new york. i m in for chris hayes. we are still waiting for the january 6th committee s report on donald trump s attempted coup. but today, ahead of the final product, the committee has released a brand-new batch of transcripts from its closed-door interviews. those transcripts providing new insight into the inner workings of the trump administration, both in the days leading up to january 6th and as trump s inner circle scrambled to respond to the committee, the committee s investigation. in fact, among the new transcripts is an interview the committee conducted with the former trump secretary of defense, this man, mark esper, who answered questions surrounding the ex president s desire to use the military to quell domestic disputes. in an interview with former deputy press secretary sarah matthews, who said she heard trump seemed to privately admit that he lost the 2020 election. quote, alyssa fara, the former communication director said to me that behind
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