violence. no surprise there, really. many republican senators, susan collins, told the new york times this week that she wouldn t be surprised if a senator or house member were killed, strong words. meanwhile, mentions of civil war on twitter and other social media are spiking, and things may soon even get worse. so, it turns out elon musk may actually by twitter. we re here again. he s already pledged to let trump back on, and as of january 6th committee remind us, twitter is how trump actually talks to his base. trump s followers took to social media to declare that they were ready to answer trump s call. one user asked, is the sixth the day, is that why trump wants everyone there? another asserted, trump just told us all to come on armed. this is happening. the third took even further. it will be wild means we need volunteers for the firing squad. yeah, that was a reference to actual firing squad. maya wylie joins us now she s presidency of the leadership conference on c
it is tuesday, december 27th. don is off. we are glad to be here. what a day. you got home okay yesterday. yeah. but airports are insane so i feel for people like that passenger there, on hold over six hours. unbelievable. plans unravelled for airlines. more than 60% of flights already canceled today. the death toll is rising in buffalo, new york, after a blizzard crippled the area and residents are still digging themselves out of the snowstorm this morning. we re live on the ground where officials say conditions remain dangerous. and china taking a big step reopening its borders after shutting out much of the world nearly three years. the other covid restrictions they plan to lose ahead, plus this i m not a criminal. not here. not abroad, in any jurisdiction in the world have i ever committed any crimes, but he is admitting to embellishes his resume. congressman santos is admitted to lying about parts of his past but will still take office next week, though. an
just a short time ago cnn s manu raju reported that there would be a republican conference meeting tomorrow morning. that, however, we understand has now changed. i want to go to cnn s melanie zanona at the capitol with the new reporting on that and mccarthy s frame of mind as well. melanie, what have you learned? reporter: well, things have not moved in kevin mckarth chriss direction since that third ballot where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for kevin mccarthy and his allies. we ve seen supporters going into his office. we re told he has been working the phones. he is still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i just spoke to a gop lawmaker, this is some breaking news here, this is a lawmaker who texted me, this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they had just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that member to flip. so
that third ballot, where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for ken mccarthy and his allies. we have seen supporters going into his office. we are told he has been working the phones. he still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i spoke to a gop lawmaker. this is some breaking news here. this lawmaker texted me and said this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they have just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans, who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that number to flip. essentially what you have here is kevin mccarthy and his office in the capital, trying to get to 218. and you have this opposition digging in and trying to work directly against him. look, this is one of the potential drawbacks of doing the motion to adjourn. there is a lot of concern initially about whether, if they were to send members home, about whether the opposition would have time to grow, whe