Jamie raskin umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. My illness won today. Look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. Umm, so, he didnt have anything in there about take some time off. laughs and, uh. Crowd usa usa usa usa jamie raskin why is america such an extraordinary country . We are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. Were unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. It is an aspiration. Its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt be some kind of fetish document. It should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. That is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. That is the constitution that weve been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. Crowd trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump Cr
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
public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
island ferry. forcing passengers to evacuate onto tug boats. an historic bond for disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried. charged with what prosecutors called a fraud of epic proportions. free on a quarter billion dollars bond after making his first appearance before an american judge. his parents showing their support in the courtroom. where he s staying tonight. aaron katersky standing by. the new cdc alert about a rare but dangerous bacterial infection, just days before christmas. what health officials are telling doctors and parents to look out for as family gatherings get under way. president zelenskyy back home tonight in ukraine after that historic and emotional visit to the u.s. how republicans are responding to his urgent plea for more aid and weapons. new transcripts released today from the house january 6th committee. what they reveal about the alleged pressure campaign against one key witness. jonathan karl standing by. the embattled congressman-elect i
whiteout conditions on the roads. good morning to you. welcome to way too early. after a historic 18-month investigation, the house select committee investigating january 6th has unveiled its full report on the deadly capitol is tack and former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. at more than 00 pages, the report is broken down into eight chapters that provide details from more than 1,000 witnesses interviews and hundreds of thousands of pages of text messages, emails and other documents. chapter 1 is titled, quote, the big lie, a reference to trump s widespread effort to push false claims about the 2020 election being stolen. the chapter notes that trump made efforts even before election day to delegitimize the election process by suggesting it would be marred by ballot fraud. chapter 2 is titled i just want to find 11,780 votes and focuses on trump s attempt to pressure state and local election officials to overturn the 2020 election results. the