did i embellish my resume yes, i did and i m sorry. and it shouldn t be done but i m still the same guy i m not a fraud. i m not a cartoon character. i m not some mythical creature that was invented. republican congressman elect george santos admits much of the life story that helpedget him elected was fiction. but there s a very good reason kevin mccarthy will do nothing about it also tonight, what to expect when donald trump s tax returns are finally released we already know that some years he paid nothing in federal taxes. and if you missed it over the holidays, we ll dig into the january 6th committee report plus, christmas cruelty governor greg abbott dumps hundreds of migrants into the bitter cold of washington, d.c. on christmas eve, as the supreme court keeps title 42 in place. good evening, everyone. i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid and we begin the reidout with the bewildering tale of george santos. the incoming republican congressman from long isla
committee and other former cabinet members. they are in negotiations to do the same. yet, there are some things that neither the justice department nor the january six committee may ever find out. the washington post reported this week that even more testimony and text messages sent and received by federal employees around the time of the insurrection were deleted. they may be gone forever. this latest news involves the phone records of former acting homeland security secretary, chad wulf, and his acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli. the situation closely resembles the recent revelations of the secret service may have also deleted and failed to preserve text messages that may be relevant to the january six investigation. including, from the phones of agents who were signed to donald trump on the day of the insurrection. for more on this, i am joined now by his betsy who is a national correspondent for politico. she is also an msnbc contributor. so, betsy, let s start with
healthcare, prescription drugs and more. we need to show democrats across this country that the democratic party can actually get stuff done when we have 50 democrats in the senate, and i think that s where we are right now. so i m all about forward looking, brianna and hello, joe manchin. happy to have you. a new effort to form a viable third party, names from the right, left and center say they will succeed where others failed. soon we ll hear from the president of the united states live at the white house. he ll tout big progress on his agenda, a senate agreement that includes new climate and new health care investments. a package, the president will say in a way that will also take a big bite out of inflation. it is a smaller, but still significant piece of the giant goals the president and has party had back in the beginning of his term. the white house event is a presidential push to get this new senate deal to the finish line and, make no mistake, it is a president
i know there s conflicting information hydration beyond the hype. about dupuytren s contracture. i thought i couldn t get treatment yet? well, people may think that their contracture has to be severe to be treated, but it doesn t. if you can t lay your hand flat on the table, talk to a hand specialist. but what if i don t want surgery? well, then you should find a hand specialist certified to offer nonsurgical treatments. what s the next step? everyone else was working to visit findahandspecialist.com today to get started. get congress back in the session, what did president trump do? at 601, just one minute after the citywide curfew went into effect, he posted his last tweet of the day. after officers engaged in multiple hours of hand to hand combat and over 100 of them sustaining injuries, president tweet president trump tweeted at 601 and justified the violence as a natural response to the election. he said quote, these are the things in events that happened when a sacred
he said quote, these are the things in events that happened when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who ve been badly and unfairly treated for so long. go home with 11 piece. remember this day forever. he called the mob great patriots. he told people to remember the day forever. he showed absolutely no remorse. a few minutes later, at 6:27, the president left the dining room and he went up to the white house residence for the night. on the screen is the last photograph of the president that night as he went into the residence. as he was gathering his things in the dining room to leave, president trump reflected on the day s events with the white house employee. this was the same employee who had met president trump in the oval office after he returned from the ellipse. president trump said nothing to the employee about the attack. he said only quote, mike pence let me down. miss matthews, what was your rea