Hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn new central starts right now breaking this morning, Brand New details on the mounting Security Failures surrounding the first to that Sasson Nation Attempt on former president Donald Trump. A Senate Investigation revealed the chaos that day and several quote, preventable failures, all right. Happening now, an active evacuation underway in ohio, a Train Car leaking dana tourists chemicals near Cincinnati Florida is bracing right now for what could become the strongest storm to make landfall in the united states in over a year topical Storm Helene gaining strength and some parts of florida already being told to evacuate im Kate Bolduan with John Berman and sara sidner. This is cnn new central this morning. Were learning new details on this stunning Security Failures by the Secret Service that led up to the first attempt to assassinate Donald Trump. The new Senate Report found a breakdown in communication a Secret Service at the Trump Rally in butler, pennsylva
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.
pence let me down. the panel also cited witnessed who described how trump watched tv for hours as the violent assault unfolded and the committee s republican vice-chair said the dam has begun to break as more pieces of the puzzle fall into place and new witnesses step forward. can a president who is willing to make the choices donald trump made during the violence of january 6th ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again? cnn s manu raju is on capitol hill for us. what do we know about the focus of this committee for future hearings? reporter: well, they haven t decided exactly yet how they will split-up those future hearings in september. the committee members told me last night those are still issues that they are still trying to sort out. they plan to use the next month in august when congress is on recess to have more testimony from witnesses behind closed doors. liz cheney indicating that subpoenas have been issued and committee memb
this is don lemon tonight. a firsthand account from the witness who gave dramatic closed-door testimony to the january 6th committee, today. this is the sitting president of the united states, saying this in the white house, that was actually very scary. you have used the words frightening, and scary. you were frightened? those are strong words. of course they were pickups the. in the capitol, revelations on the plot to overturn the election. what the president told the doj. what i am asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congress meant. a not a conspiracy theory about italian satellites had reached the highest levels of the government. the completely baseless conspiracy theory that an italian defense contractor for flitted software to a satellite which switch to votes from trump to biden. members of congress angling for pardons. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon, is because you think you have committed a
interesting. and if you see how kimberly guilfoyle cannot recall very conveniently how she was supposedly on the phone with this far-right activist days before january 6th, how she didn t recall she had been copied into a list of speakers for the rally itself, which is a real big point of contention. this wasn t some throwaway list that wound up in her inbox. it was a big deal for trump. that is where the justice department will focus next, because those are the kind of errors the committee doesn t have the investigative powers to go after, but the justice department does. they can see cell phones, subpoena people to appear before a grand jury. so i think the justice department s focus going into the next year is going to be so, not so much on what people were saying, but what people were reluctant to testify. this final report for the january 6th committee, this big volume, this document for history does provide a road map for the department of justice, which of course has been cond