the historic heat wave and an obama biden reunion, why the former president and first lady are returning to the white house this afternoon. we begin with new developments in the investigations into donald trump and his allies. people familiar with the matter tell the washington post the documents seized by the fbi during a search of trump s mar-a-lago estate last month included information about a foreign government s nuclear capabilities. nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. the justice department declined to comment. as the post wrote in its piece, quote, some of the seized documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. and that quote, documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis, not just top secret clearance but a trump spokesperson tweeted the washington post continues to serve as the propaganda ar
conduct the investigations if t the e executive branch won t back them up. joining us now, former chairman of oversight reform committee. former utah congressman jason chaffetz. welcome chairman. i want to know what your oversight list of priorities would be. but you are the chairman of oversight. you get to pick what you want to look into. but you cannot enforce your own subpoenas that is up to the biden administration. that is the most difficult thing, we were both chairmen of that committee, i think the moral cases out there. the media does not always report it. hillary clinton s i-t person issued two s subpoenas they never showed up and they never enforced it. with that said, the table is set, every major issue, the democrats held no hearings on, so, it is a wide open plate there are a lot of things to go after. trey: we had dinner one night with late justice scalia. i asked him about the tools of congress and their ability to stand up for themselves and whether or not
the department of justice is independent. we respect that process. neil: the docu drama continues. the white house fielding questions about classified documents due in president biden s garage. he s heading back to delaware at any moment, and back to that garage, and that corvette kept locked in the garage. the bigger question is who is mining this when it comes to classified material in the first place? today some answers. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto on a busy newsday. we have the latest from the white house and the justice department. peter doocy is at the white house. peter? the press secretary was not involved in the behind closed doors discussions to wait more than two months after the first batch of classified information was found to go public with it. however, she is the official they are sending out to answer all the questions about that process. we have been transparent in the last couple of days. however, that transparency is limited. i m not goin
mitchell reports, house republican leader kevin mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. also this hour, i will speak to dr. zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid-19 in the u.s. and we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to pope emeritus benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursday s funeral mass. good day, i m andrea in mitchell. happy new year, everyone. well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, kevin mccarthy has to win over the hard line house conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. tomorrow the new congress returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. but at this hour no one knows how long it s going to take for republicans to secure the majority vote
and lad baby bag the christmas numberi spot for a fifth time giving them more number one singles than the beatles. more than two hundred million people in america, are under extreme weather alerts, and more than one and a half million people have no power, as temperatures in some areas are predicted to drop, to as low as minus 45 celsius. an arctic storm is approaching, predicted to hit canada. and extend down to the deep south and the border with mexico, including texas. our north america correspondent, john sudworth, has more. it couldn t have come at a worse time. america s peak travel season hit by a once in a generation storm. two days before christmas, two thirds of the country are now under extreme winter weather alerts stretching from here on the canadian border all the way to florida. on airport runways planes have been replaced by de icing trucks. we re out here, period. i mean, we ll be out him until it stops snowing, really. ..leading to thousands of cancelled f