good morning and welcome back to morning joe on this friday, december 30th, new year s eve eve. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. as you wake up out west. let s dive right in to a newly released batch of deposition transcripts from witnesses who spoke to the house select committee including members of former president donald trump s inner circle including former white house communications director alissa farah griffin. she spoke to the panel on april 15th describing her tenure at the trump white house as a wild eight months in her words. griffin revealed one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior government officials would not take positions within the administration. griffin said any report about the trump white house being chaotic and operating without structure was, quote, more or less accurate. that included there being no competent gat
midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.
Tonight on all in. I feel like this is we are waiting for the curtain went up and i just couldnt believe it. The biggest day at at the trump trial. Lee for the first time in the Public Record here, we are getting david cooperating what Michael Cohen for years has now articulated about that meeting. Clean the man at the center of the conspiracy tells all. He said we shouldnt speak over landline, we should use signal. Please deny, david role in the criminal conspiracy to elect donald trump and the wild hearing on trumps gag order abuse. Clearance, the judge is getting tough on trumps lawyer. Saying to Donald Trumps attorneys, you are losing all credibility, you are losing all credibility with the court. Then why the Biden Campaign said they had a chance to win florida. He is out campaigning and i am sitting up all day long. And r series continues, are you better off than you were four years ago . The disinfectant, it knocked it out in a minute and is there a way we can do Something Like
there s a press conference planned by the floyd family a few hours from now. more on all of that straight ahead this hour. it s a big day for white house. roughly 15 minutes from now the white house covid-19 response team will be holding its briefing. a few hours after that, president biden and democratic congressional leaders will talk about the american rescue plan. big news for all of us. president biden just late out a new vaccination time line. you may want to turn up the volume. you do not want to forget these days. may 1st, that s when president biden says he will direct all states to make every adult eligible for a vaccine by that day. it doesn t mean doses will be available by then. the white house hopes for that to happen by the end of may. let s not forget, it s going to take time for people to actually get that shot or get those shots. if all goes according to plan, we could have a sense of normalcy by july 4th, according to president biden. the president hopes
pandemic. supposing we hit the body with a tremendous whether it s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and i think you said that has you re going to test it. then i said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and i think you said you re going to test that too. sounds interesting. then i see the disinfectant knocks it out in a minute, a minute. and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous thing. it would be interesting to check that. that was april 23rd, 2020. griffin said she tried to stop former president trump from making those infamous remarks, but she was blocked by trump s chief of staff, mark meadows, who allowed for easy access and