midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.
and i came away just in awe of the work they do every day. mike barnicle, i ll let you take it to charlie, but i want to read part of what he wrote in his amazing piece, talking about the newsroom being in one of the meetings when it was interrupted by urgent alarms. charlie writes, quote, the phone alerts are silenced and the members of the news teams stare with great intensity at their phones, reading their text warnings and firing messages to colleagues, family members, and military sources while following the latest government bulletins. they are checking on loved ones and colleagues at the same moment they re trying to cover the daily story. this is what the modern equivalent of air raid sirens feels like. and each member of the team knows precisely what to do at this moment. they pack up their laptops and head for an interior room without any windows and supported by thick cop crete wallace, where they will continue the meeting. they pray the power stays on so they can keep new
clearly. my first question for this individual is, does he even have a motive we can discern? one other quick comment. there s talk about interrogations and interviews and comments that this individual isn t cooperating. that s different than saying he is not speaking. i would be interested in whether he is mumbling, screaming, whether he is saying things that are incoherent, what s his body language, are there suggestions that give us indications about his mental health, his mental state? motive comes second. first is is this person even in a mental state that gets him beyond edp, emotionally disturbed person? we don t know that yet. we don t know a lot right now. we will know more fairly soon. rene marsh has been talking to witnesses to this shooting. she s joining us from annapolis. what are you hearing? three gunshots, that s what one witness told me he heard. this witness was not in the newsroom. he describes the newsroom being