choice. the select committee is investigating an attack on our democracy and it s essential that witnesses cooperate. we have new reaction to that vote, including on some interesting comments from mitch mcconnell that are raising some eyebrows. also derek chauvin the man convicted of killing george floyd changes his plea in one courtroom while in a different minnesota courtroom we could see another officer testify in her own defense in the death of daunte wright. today is a big deadline to make sure your gifts get under the tree in time. good afternoon on this newsy wednesday. i m garrett haake. we are waiting for the president to begin his survey of the damage in kentucky where deadly tornadoes ripped through entire towns. joining me to break it down from dawson springs, kentucky, we have white house correspondent mike memole and bill karins joins us, as well. mike, i ll start with you. where is the president headed right now and big picture, what is he trying to accom
Your republican colleagues are nervous about information about their involvement coming out? i do. i don t think mitch mcconnell is nervous. i think he actually is interested because if you listen to his speech right after the impeachment trial, the first half of it he basically goes off on the former president. on the former president in spite of the insurrection. no doubt about that. i think mitch mcconnell really does want to see what the evidence shows and i think it deeply troubles him that you got elected officials and also appointees of the president who were engaged in this attempted coup. all right, congressman ted lieu of california, thank you for being on with us. i suspect we ll talk again. coming up a former minnesota police officer on trial for manslaughter could be taking the stand in her own defense. the central question that could determine the case. as we go to break, you re looking at president biden touring mayfield, kentucky, meeting with officials and
Get their act together and joe manchin and kyrsten sinema and get the 50 votes we need. nobody can be confident in the united states senate is the kind of advice we should all probably keep in mind as we approach some of the year-end deadlines we run into. john yarmuth in kentucky, thank you for coming on with us. we ll keep an eye on kentucky. president biden taking part in a walking tour. you re seeing the tornado damage. we ll bring it to you live as we get the pictures in. plus something congress hasn t seen in more than 170 years. one of its own former members held in contempt. what is next for mark meadows as he faces the justice department. stay with us. (gasps) did it work?
Difficult to get a signal out. what do we expect to hear from him when he does arrive there in dawson springs? well, garrett, it s interesting because in the conversation that we were having earlier about the extreme weather events that we ve seen over the course of the year that led the president to travel to so many corners of this country and bill karins reminding us of the added storm threat in the next few days. that is part of the president s message when he gets here to dawson springs. the scale of these disasters, the incredible costs that we re starting to see and the frequency of them is a major challenge. but that is part of the politics of this. that the president otherwise loathe to wade in to and we heard him talk earlier about no red tornados and blue tornados and larger message today trying to show that the government is here and work in moments like this. immediately after disaster is a time when people are really, really moving and trying to help each other and tr
It. about the temperature, not the month. i m with you, bill. tornado alley, we re done with it, we re moving on. bill karins, thank you. mike we ll touch base with you later. joining me now is john yarmouth. big picture now. what does your state need the most now from president biden, potentially from the federal government? well, yeah, thanks for having me on. you know, what s amazing about this incident is the enormous amount of resources that are pouring in as dasha burns report indicated from all over the country, certainly from all over kentucky and the midwest. so, i think ultimately that s the question that is going to have to be decided within the next few days or weeks because there s still, it s always difficult to assess the degree of damage. one of the things that we know is that the storm took down all