hundreds of thousands without power, more than 4,000 flights canceled. winds so treacherous the airport in buffalo, new york, had to shut down. cnn is live with the havoc being wreaked nationwide. and the january 6th committee out with its final report spelling out why donald trump, in their view, was the one solely responsible for the riot and should be discaqualifi from holding office ever again. new transcripts from the committee. why cassidy hutchinson said she was disappointed and disgusted with her first round of testimony under oath. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead and this nightmare weather scenario before christmas crippling conditions stretching coast to coast with snow and ice in cities such as seattle and portland, oregon to the massive bomb cyclone system moving east. nearly 180 million in the u.s. are in areas with temperatures below freezing. 70 million are in areas below zero. this system is so powerful meteorologist
bill whew being rammed through congress does little to nothing for as example u.s. border security. all while democrats, and frankly some senate republicans, of course, continue to shrug off the worst border crisis in modern american history, hurting americans more and more by the day. yet again this week, video shows illegal meetings pouring across the border, overwhelming authorities with no end in sight. get this, in just the last year, well over 100,000 overdose deaths here in the united states as drugs continue to pour across the southern border and take innocent american lives. in 2022 alone, the dea seized enough fentanyl to kill everybody in our entire country, but for the far left democrats it s low on the list of priorities, as senate democrats for the third time blocked republican senator bill haggerty s legislation to crack down on fentanyl crossing the border. remember, biden s border crisis is so bad that every state of course is now a border state. cities a
good evening from new york. i m in for chris hayes. we are still waiting for the january 6th committee s report on donald trump s attempted coup. but today, ahead of the final product, the committee has released a brand-new batch of transcripts from its closed-door interviews. those transcripts providing new insight into the inner workings of the trump administration, both in the days leading up to january 6th and as trump s inner circle scrambled to respond to the committee, the committee s investigation. in fact, among the new transcripts is an interview the committee conducted with the former trump secretary of defense, this man, mark esper, who answered questions surrounding the ex president s desire to use the military to quell domestic disputes. in an interview with former deputy press secretary sarah matthews, who said she heard trump seemed to privately admit that he lost the 2020 election. quote, alyssa fara, the former communication director said to me that behind
news out of the vatican. the former pope emeritus benedict has died at the age of 95. with sorrow, we inform you that the pope emeritus benedict xvi passed away, today, this morning, at 9:34 in the mater echess yamon tia mona stare. he was the first pope to resign, rather than stay in office for life. he was a controversial at times member of church. let s go to barbie nadeau in st. peter s square right now. barbie, i m curious, there were a lot of people already in the square and then the news breaks. so what s the reaction? what are people talking about there? reporter: yeah, you know, it s a mixed reaction, because a lot some people didn t know. some people here in rome enjoying a day. the square is empty behind us right now, they re doing a security check because pope francis is going to be coming out here in the next hour or so to visit the nativity scene there. we ve got a lot of pilgrims pushed off the square. they re coming back. but the mood is very solemn.
past and at dan springer s on that ground and i to help it would be given a senior correspondent laura ingle. she is in monroe county, pennsylvania by this is where the suspect is now being held. hi there, he is being held right here behind me at the monroe county correctional facility. now that we have a name and a face to go along with the suspect, we are learning more and more people are coming forward. former and current classmates talking about what type of person he was in class. and about some the things he was he doing in the days after the murders. we have this picture now 28-year-old brian kohberger. he sank it into custody early friday priest setting for a phd in criminology and washington state. that is just under 9 miles from of the murders took place for it one student suddenly your post today he s part of a group discussion about the murders. on deadpan during that conversation for the chief of police in moscow telling fox today they are searching for the mur