good monday morning. i m hallie jackson in washington we re coming on the air learning more people have been killed in a massive winter storm with emergency workers only starting to get to some of the hardest hit areas now. we just got an update from officials near buffalo we will bring you live what they said we are looking at western new york buried under several feet of snow. the governor describing it all as a war zone. i know how hard this is but western new yorkers are tough. we know how to deal with this. we will get through this together we ll have more on that in a second new tension on the korean peninsula after north korea fires drones over soak soak for the first time in years. how the south is responding. plus, the first christmas holiday inn ukraine since the war began. the defiant message from president zelenskyy later in the show here at home with holiday shopping season over, the return the gift season is kicking into high gear. what you should know abo
for the january 6th select committee, the ticking clock has prompted a last-minute print to share with the american public everything that they ve collected. this morning, the committee released yet another enlightening batch of transcripts from interviews with some of trump s closest allies. testimonies from people like ronna mcdaniel, kellyanne conway, and katrina pearson add new context to trump s state of mind in the lead-up to january 6th attack. however, the information we learned today was very important, this morning s release was follow-up to a veritable mother load from the committee shared overnight. a now public database of investigators underlying evidence, as well as some of their sources and methods. thousands of pages of phone records, text messages and emails. think of the committee s work like this. a master architect constructing a new home. a tom firm ground, they set a solid foundation. it raised a frame and with meticulous craftsmanship, it built a stru
we are agonizing for these last two years. he was panicked, that turned into torment. i was concerned, she was hurt somewhere. i felt so helpless. kelly was always there for others. she liked to help people who needed help. there are, for her friends, for her country, this was a good fit for, her the army? she wanted to be an officer. her personal life was a little more complicated. d. were they talking divorce? kelli was. mike wasn t. had a new boyfriend. she was pretty fun. she s easy to talk to. and lately, she seemed to have an admirer. did he ask kelli for her phone number? yes. when she suddenly vanished, hundreds joined the search, including this perfect stranger. i said, i d like to see if i could solve this. he was suspicious about one of the men in kelli s life. it is like, dude, i can tell you re lying. but getting the truth wouldn t be easy. i had to get into his mind, see what he was about. what you were involved in was p
congress. there is a lot on the line for anybody who cares about expanding health care, protecting reproductive freedom, or other items on the biden agenda. it is something we are just not talking about enough and friday at the white house president biden warned republicans could undermine his achievements if they return to power. folks. you know republicans in congress will do if they regain power. they re telling us. they re being straight up about it. they re gonna increase prescription drug prices. they re gonna raise drug prices. they re gonna cut social security and medicare. they will pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy. make them permanent. but they re not now, the individual tax cuts. they will threaten the very foundations of the american economy. if we don t meet their demands. there s a. think that is not conjecture. you have to just take the presidents word for it. this week, an interview with punchbowl news, house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, laid out
they regain power. they re telling us. they re being straight about it. they will appeal lower prescription drug prices and raise drug prices. the social security and medicare. they ll pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy, make them permanent, but they are not now individual tax cuts. delta and the very foundation of american economy, if we don t meet their demands. here s the thing, that s not conjecture. you don t have to just take the presidents word for it. this week, in an interview with punchbowl news, house minority leader kevin mccarthy, he laid out his vision as a potential speaker, and that includes holding the economy hostage, refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless his demands for spending cuts are met. now, this all sounds familiar, it should. congress raised the that ceiling three times when donald trump was president. the washington post reporting it as avoiding the market rattling, economic showdowns that congressional republicans had force one democrat