tornadoes. we will have a live report ahead. in the next 48 hours, donald trump is expected to travel to new york walk into a manhattan courtroo and be officially charged in about 30 criminal counts the former president announced plans for a big post arraignment speech those connected to the cas were sharing their thought ahead of the big day tuesday alvin bragg - 2000-pound anvil accountabilit right onto his lap since the first time in hi life that he s going to be hel accountable for his own dirt deeds. anything at the arraignment that would be showmanship an nothing more we have not seen the indictmen yet. i would be mindful of not committing some other criminal events, like instruction o governmental interference whic is interfering with by threa or otherwise the operation o government new york city police ar tightening security around the manhattan courthouse for the - it is not clear if trump wil get the massive protests h craves we are here in front of trum
we have live reports first straight ahead also key takeaways from th january six committees intensive 800 plus-page report and we re gonna take you liv to ukraine, where there are ne taxes as president zelenskyy returns from his first trip to the united states since russia wag war. but, let s start this hour for you with the severe weathe across the country looking like less of a winte wonderland and you probabl guessed, it more like nightmare for many the dangerous storm has caused nearly 20 deaths across te states more than 1 million people are without power this christmas eve, from north carolina t maine. the big concern right now, freezing temperatures, not allowing snow and ice to mel away, to get off those roads that you see right there check out what it looks like i buffalo, new york, all of this you can imagine leading to bad news that airports, not only o the roads getting from a to b. passengers remaining strande after thousands of cancellations and delays a air
speaker mccarthy made to get his new gig? fellow republicans calling on house speaker kevin mccarthy to make his secret deals public as the party makes its first legislative move since taking control of the house. also this hour, president biden at the podium in mexico city only to be overshadowed by questions about multiple classified documents found in his private office. from lively discussions to bipartisan friendships to physical confrontations, the new push to turn on the c-span cameras the full time onto the house and let the whole world see what really happens in the people s house, just like we did last week. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. the main issue today, what exactly are the extents of the details, the promises that kevin mccarthy made to those republican hard-liners to get their votes to become house speaker and why is he hiding any lists of those promises from not only the public, but from his own rank-and-file.
carley: more than 4 million mail-in ballots have been requested so far. three big races, they hit the debate stage tonight. jackie bunyan s is for the preview jackie ibanez is here for the preview. two candidates three pivotal races square off on this debate stage tonight. john fetterman and dr. mehmet oz in their first and only debate. the real clear politics average of polls show fetterman with a two-point advantage over the republican nominee but the democrats team is already tempering expectations ahead of tonight s debate saying he is going to be talking about his real ideas to help real people. but if we are all being honest, oz comes in with a huge built-in advantage. as is done in recent press interviews after suffering a stroke, determine will use closed captioning. dr. oz will see that his opponents values do not match with those in pennsylvania. vehicle if he had a magic wand to do anything he wanted to see his goal would be to release metaverse from life i
everything. and trump was pretty upset about the search and he put out a statement that said they even broke into my safe. they even broke into my safe [ laughter ] trump is like, dammit, i knew i should have flushed that safe down the toilet, i knew it. all right. 6:00 on the east coast, there are new developments on the justice department investigation of donald trump including confirmation that the fbi search of his florida home, mar-a-lago, was related to the handling of classified information. we will have the outlandish claims from his attorneys. desperate for some sort of defense here, i guess. plus, the former president is set to be deposed in new york state s investigation into the trump organization today. and a sixth trump-backed candidate wins the republican primary for governor, this time in wisconsin. we ll have the latest on that election and others. also, the very latest from ukraine. new information this morning on how ukrainian forces are pulling off