In washington. Jim acosta has evening off. And we begin with Game Changing evidence in the Georgia Election interference of donald trump and his allies. Fulton county officials now have emails and Text Messages that directly connect members of trumps legal team to the breach of a Voting System in rural Coffee County. The new very many comes as fani willis prepared to present the case to a grand jury. She is expected to seek an indictment of more than a dozen people as early as tuesday. And that means this week a former u. S. President could be facing criminal charges in four u. S. Jurisdictions. We begin with Cnns Zachary Cohen who helped break this reporting. Zack, thank you for being with us. How significant is this new evidence that you all have uncovered that is lirnnking to e breach of the Voting System . Reporter these texts really do draw a direct line between members of trumps legal team an the breach if Coffee County, georgia. A rural republican heavy county, about 200 miles s
Our washington correspondent, sean dilley, reports. We love trump hes the first president to be charged with a federal crime and if previous cases are anything to go by, Donald Trumps 30 indictment is only likely to boost popularity with republican voters. The charges he faces though are serious. The 45 Page Indictment accuses the former president of knowingly spreading false claims about election fraud, to trick and persuade states in helping him overturn the Election Results. Helping him overturn the Election Results. The attack on our nations Election Results. The attack on our nations i Election Results. The attack on our nations i january Election Results. The attack on our nations ijanuary six, our nations ijanuary six, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. It is described in indictment, it was fuelled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the us government, the nations process of collecting, counting and cer
it s pretty icy and very slick. like even in the areas that have been plowed really well, if you get about 40 miles per hour, you start sliding around. we rented a cabin for the week this week but we had to cancel it because we were worried we wouldn t get out of there later or get up the driveway. so we actually stayed home this week instead of going on a trip. that s the perils of winter but this is something else. wrong. look at us. hey! this is going to be trouble. it s about to be on. sarah and i have known each other forever. poppy and kaitlan are off, sara sidner is with us. are you ready for the weather? no. this is why i m here. this suit it s hot. it s hot. thank you. millions of americans coast to coast bracing for extremely low temperatures, dangerous wind chills and power outages. it is serious out there. we have reporters across the country covering the storm. plus the january 6th committee releasing the final report and placing the
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
deadly winter weather still wreaking havoc across the country. travel is still a nightmare. unless one of those passengers get a wild hair and decides with a group of other passengers to rent a car and drive 20 hours to their destination together. that s exactly what some of our guests tonight did. in a little while i ll introduce you to this group of intrep travellers, total strangers, who had quite the adventure. they recorded their trip, and it went viral. meanwhile, 10 million people across the south are under freeze alerts. and the death toll from this storm is rising. at least 49 people have died across the country. 27 of those are in the buffalo area. and authorities fear that they ll find more bodies in cars, as they begin to dig out from what s being called the worst storm in the region s history. you can see some of it there. and while police have their hands full with rescues, stores are being looted. so, i ll talk to a supermarket manager who spent christmas eve