house minority leader hakeem jefferys. happy new year to you. happy new year to you, my friend. absolutely. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, and i wish you a happy new year as well on our first show of 2023. so, thank you for starting the new year with us. now, we are already tracking new developments tonight. i have a special report coming up about the pressure on d.o.j. to act on the evidence that is in that lengthy january 6th report which dropped heading into the holiday period. while our stop story is the election eve, of sorts, in washington. democrats expanding their power in the senate and republicans taking over the house where the faces of each caucus leader here actually reveal a lot about the state of these parties. hakeem jeffries replacing nancy pelosi with a show of democratic unity, while republican kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career as his own close allies now find it hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow. mccarthy facing down r
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his firsthand account of what happened that dark day. plus, we ll take you through the latest testimony released by the january 6 committee. including what the wife of clarence thomas had to say about her texts with the former chief of staff. and we ll take a look at what is ahead for president biden in the new year and his looming decision on whether to run again in 2024. 2024. good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, january 2nd. happy new year. thank you for starting your day and 2023 with us. the u.s. capitol police chief during the january 6 insurrection is sharing new details about the alleged government failures he says allowed the attack to happen. in a new book that is out tomorrow which has already been reviewed by the washington post, stephen son give his firsthand account. in the book, he writes that top leaders from the fbi, dhs and even the capitol police s own intelligence division were tipped off about the attack weeks before it happened.
midterms, with nearly 200 election denying republicans running for key positions across the nation. today we will see new surveillance footage from the trump rally on the ellipse and secret service documents proving how forcefully the former president tried to join the rioters at the capitol on the 6th. the committee will show new evidence he planned to declare victory even before the election was held and new testimony from top trump cabinet members that they tried to stop him afterwards from overturning the results. today s overriding theme, beyond donald trump, congress and the voters have to work to preserve democracy as we know it. keep in mind, this is the first time in nearly three months we will see the committee in action. you know the political reality. the house of representatives could be in republican control come january. while members have repeatedly said they don t see this as part partisan, there s still a political context here. ahead of a potential 2024 p
i m sure a lot of people are having fun. i am tied to. i m ashley strohmier import carley shimkus and a lot of people don t say white. jackie is in white. you are kind of in white. todd: ashley, i wear a white shirt every single day on air, so i ignore the don t wear white after labor day. that is my jam and what i do. a story to begin the newscast, really tough stuff. ashley: we turn to a desperate search to find a kidnapped billionaire artist takes a new turn as suspected doctor refuses to talk. todd: a judge sets bail for the accused doctor with $500,000 as the police that he wiped away evidence before taken into custody. jackie ibanez joins us. an affidavit released yesterday say the man suspected of kidnapping eliza fletcher was seen by two witnesses including his own brother behaving oddly in the hours after that attack. 38-year-old cleotha abston was the man on the video violently attacking fletcher before forcing her into his car. those witnesses say they sa