what happens when the president disregards the court s rulings as illegitimate? when he disregards the rule of law? that, my fellow citizens, breaks our republic during the committee s final meeting, they vote today make four criminal referrals to the doj for the former president inciting an insush recorrectiong false statements and defrauding the united states. investigation is now in the hands of special counsel jack smith. thanks to katy tur there. joining us now, new york times staff writer robert draper you wrote an expansive behind-the-scenes look for the new york times magazine. we encourage everyone to take a look at that good morning, thanks for being with us. this committee has done a good job commanding, dominating at times the media spotlight. but it s final report slipped out late one night last week,
morning joe starts now. historic winter storm in western new york statement storm system is blamed for dozens of deaths across the country. it made holiday travel almost impossible on the roads or through the skies with thousands of passengers stuck at airports searching for new flights. meanwhile, the republican governor uses the christmas holiday to play hole papolitics migrants with no warning for groups. and we will take a look at the latest testimony released by the january 6 committee. including a conversation the former president had with one of his closest advisers in the days after the attack on the capitol. also ahead, we dig into the latest action by the democratic controlled house and how the white house is preparing for a divided congress good morning welcome to morning joe. it s monday, december 26th
overreaching on any number of subjects, once they take control, there are questions to be raised about things like afghanistan and the border, january 6th and hunter biden, elise, these feel like tricky subjects. just january 6th, it s from a calm standpoint, i would say, just don t go there, give up, no one liked this. the country overwhelming disapproved and voted out people and voted against people who were election deniers, move on certainly those who litigated january 6th at the ballot box the past year, didn t fair so well. still ahead, who attracted the most attention in the political world this year? we ll have that new analysis ahead. plus, from the war in ukraine, concerns about a recession and what s being called revenge tourism a look at what to expect from next year. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back with that. there s a different way to treat hiv.
europe because europe is struggling with these high energy prices as it tries to wean itself off russia gas it s rising prices for industry. we think that s going to be a lot more painful in britain, we have both of those problems we have the postpandemic inflation that america has, plus the high energy price inflation that europe has, plus we have the impact of brexit we think the uk recession which has probably already started, is going to be deeper and longer and last the whole of next year. the list introduced me to interesting new phrase that i had no idea about, quote, revenge tourism, can you explain what revenge tourism is? sure, revenge tourism is where travelers get their revenge on the coronavirus by having the holidays that they were denied in 2020 and 2021 and we ve seen a lot of this happening in 2021. sorry. 2022 we saw the total number of international tourists trips go up by 60% this year. we think it s going to go up