some of the nation s busiest airports many americans try to head home for the holidays we will have the latest on the travel delays. also this morning with a war still raging on in ukraine, ukraine s foreign minister is hoping peace talks by the end of february we will get expert analysis from the president of the council on foreign relations richard haass later this hour. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, december 27th, i m cori coffin in for jonathan lemire countless towns have still in the process of dealing with this weekend s massive winter storm at least 57 people have died nationwide from weather related emergencies this weekend, that includes 27 in western new york s erie county snow continued to fall in that region on monday and officials are expecting an additional 8 to 12 inches into this afternoon. an emergency driving ban remains in place in the buffalo area as authorities plead with residents to stay home so they can continue to
we are learning the fbi seized the cellphone of a republican congressman in relation to the january 6th investigation. more on that in a moment. but first, just in, the former president is about to be deposed. sometime in the next few hours donald trump will face prosecutors from the new york attorney general s office. this is the culmination of a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances that has lasted for more than three years. investigators are probing whether the trump organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance benefits, also tax benefits. kara scannell who has been all over this story for years joins us now. great to see you. so the former president being deposed. what can we expect today? it s a big day and a long time coming. sources tell us that donald trump will be deposed today, will face off with the lawyers from the new york attorney general s office and, you know, this is som
griff: former president was watching and fired back on truth social writing under ronna mcdaniel desanctimonious ron dedesanctimonious. on the other side, the white house won t say when or if president biden plans to hit the campaign trail. peter: it s been a month since president biden s reelection announcement. will he run a campaign ever? we believe in following the rule of law peter: not asking impact of election, you cant say if he will be campaigning for reelection? i will not comment from here on 2024 reelection. griff: this is interesting, wall street journal says wall
it is only when the airline system is what fails. of course, share ration we know sometimes it s complicated like with southwest airlines meltdown last christmas, if you remember back it was weather that initially triggered that meltdown, but the airline later admitted of course the failures that followed were ultimately their fault. so we re going to have to see how the rule exactly works out, the language of it, but it is important to note compensation mandates like this already exist in some places like canada and the european union. sara? all right. so no longer voluntary for the airlines which means you will get it when you ask for it. thank you so much, gabe cohen. appreciate it. in the first real snapshot, if you will, of president biden s standing since his reelection announcement voters are saying he has real work to do and that s even among his own party. a new washington post abc news poll found that 58% of democrats and democratic-leaning independence that they want t
biden s latest remarks about his age in reelection compared how he s handled a question in the past? it s so fascinating lindsey, because there are 550 days until the 2024 election, not that anybody is counting this early. we know that there are so many issues that are likely to be voting issues for americans next fall, from the economy, to immigration, to the war in ukraine. but what we ve seen in poll after poll after poll ahead of president biden s reelection announcement was the number one reservation that we see even among democrats, is the presidents age. he ll be 82 by the time of the election. president biden has been asked a number of times in the past about his age, and his response has always been somewhat defensive. he simply just says watch me. it shows fastening to see in the interview last night, she posed the question to the president in a different way, and he provided a different answer. he actually made an affirmative case about what he thinks age has brought him.