as staffing shortages continue to disrupt businesses and schools nationwide. and later, what is next for democrats after president biden s stark warning on the anniversary of the january 6th insurrection that american democracy is in danger? what are they going to do about it? tim kaine of virginia will be here ahead. welcome to meet the press daily . one day after the president s fierily address. the administration cases are continuing to skyrocket. the 7-day average of new daily infections is now above 600,000. that has pushed hospitalizations to levels we haven t seen since the worst of the pandemic. this may be mild for most people, but it s still triggering hospitalizations. white house is being urged to retool the message. focus on ways for the u.s. to live with the virus given the spread and frankly, our unwillingness to do more about it as a society. cdc chief said this morning that her agency is preparing for the covid endemic which would suggest a looming piv
the top doj officials took so seriously they warned they would take the measure of mass resignation rather than comply with what they saw as clearly illegal orders to try to overthrow the election. this is the evidence of the coup. trump s own lawyers also threatened to quit rather than join what they viewed separately as a, quote, murder/suicide pact. that s also evidenced from this new report out today. as for that murder/suicide pact, it s not just dramatic political rhetoric. think about who s talking. those are the people who agreed with donald trump s agenda, who wanted him re-elected, whose job and income depended on their work for him and yet they concluded, according to this new finding in this new report that further actions to steal the election as he was requesting at the time, one, they would fail, which is what makes it suicide, and two, it would blow up in their face. it would be career suicide and as the lawyers knew, it would be possible jail time if they wen
over 1 million people are without power. from texas, to the east coast as bone chilling temperatures are kicking in. more than 200 millions americans are currently on no warnings or advisories. this massive winter storm is causing holiday travel chaos. transportation secretary pete pete says it is going to be days before this gets sorted out. yesterday, about 10% of flights were canceled. now of course that means 90% of flights were not canceled. but you know, for goes about 2% would consider that a lot, so 10% means just a lot of disruption for a lot of passengers. now it will getting back to normal but we are seeing again over the middle of the country that that extreme cold in the east that that wind and snow is coming. and is going to be rough or certainly, the next couple of days when it comes aviation. so far over 26,000 flights have been delayed, nearly 9,000 canceled since wednesday. mike tobin is at o hare airport in chicago at the latest. jaime. hello there
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
is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m