happening now, dangerous whiteout conditions as a huge and deadly winter storm strikes the northeast. we are tracking this epic weather system as it unleashes record cold, heavy snow, freezing rain, and flooding across the country and creates holiday travel chaos. the other major story that we re following, the january 6th committee s final report laying the blame for the insurrection squarely on former president donald trump. we are breaking down all the top lines from the massive report and whether it paved the way for trump to be indicted. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar, and you are in the situation room. we are following these blizzard conditions, life-threatening record low temperatures, and treacherous travel all just two days before christmas as a massive winter storm is slamming much of the eastern u.s. we are covering all of the extreme and dangerous weather with our correspondents in
because of that that trump should be barred from holding office again. the thing is, though, that just really doesn t seem likely to happen. and there s really no mechanism for barring him from holding office again. sure, it says it in the 14th amendment section 3 of the constitution, but this is something that s sort of just put throughout in the constitution. obviously it s never been put into practice before. the committee is urging here that, hey, we should follow the words of the constitution and find some way to bar him from ever obtaining federal office again. but it s unclear how exactly they would go about that, and maybe leaving it up to the voters as to what they d do about this. but really no mechanism in place for enforcing that provision of the constitution. although, it seemed like the committee was sort of pushing congress to try to make a mechanism to enforce that. but you know, obviously with a republican congress coming into play in just a matter of tas, that is ex
miles an hour earlier today surpassing that of one of the historic blizzards back in 1977. so it s certainly not an exaggeration what you hear from authorities saying that this is an extraordinary snowstorm, even for the likes of western new york here. these are conditions that are far from over. we are going to see them throughout the evening into tonight, and then tomorrow these wicked winds are going to continue to linger, and that s what s going to make christmas eve travel still very difficult because of the flash freezing conditions that we re going to be seeing in the next couple of hours. especially on roads and highways. we heard from the head of the county government here basically saying that, unfortunately, he is still seeing people violating what is a driving, a travel ban that s been in place for erie county, new york, many of those drivers even becoming stranded on roads and highways. so some emergency crews have had to basically go out of their way to rescue some of the
what did trump actually believe in his heart about the outcome of the election? what did he really know, and the report details that privately he called some of his election lawyers, sidney powell s election claims crazy, and then you had rudy giuliani privately acknowledging that mike pence could not actually stop the certification process. how much does that matter? well, those things that we learned in the report are they re fascinating because for readers and followers t r, it ry puts you in the room. you can almost imagine those conversations taking place, trump muting the speakerphone on his desk. but for prosecutors it has great legal significance. it goes to that concept of knowledge. if he s ever charged with the four crimes that have been referred or anything else, undoubtedly one of his defenses might be, well, i truly believed that these schemes were legal and lawful strategies and that i was trying to recover an election that had been stolen from me. these little momen