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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 compete ....
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 r ....
Virus for about two months before moving on. she also said trump s senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner shot down of any idea of looping the incoming biden administration into informational covid meetings following the 2020 election, saying, quote, it was the first covid morning meeting that jared led after that had been announced. and dr. birx raised, well, should we be looping the biden transition into these conversations, and jared just said, quote, absolutely not, and then we just moved on. so jonathan lemire, where to begin on all of this. i guess the first thing to say is none of this is surprising. this is the picture of the trump white house as had been painted for many, many years now. but to hear this kind of specific detail and to hear donald trump again going out there in april of 2020, talking about a powerful light being able to knock out covid. we heard later from dr. birx that he had heard a kernel of something about the light the sunlight on playgrounds making ....
Unchecked passage of bad material to the president. griffin told the committee, i tried to stop it outside of the oval office because i knew the president was willing to go on national television, have not been able to properly digest what the report was indicating and say something stupid or dangerous to the public. i went to mark meadows and i said, sir, this is going to blow up in our faces. he s not ready. like, what are we encouraging? are we saying go buy a humidifier? do we want to put a run on humidifiers or turn your heat up to 95 degrees? it just didn t make any sense. griffin continued, and meadows overruled me and we got the injecting bleach thing. griffin added former president trump was only, quote, marginally focused on the covid virus for about two months before moving on. she also said trump s senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner shot down any idea of looping the incoming biden administration into informational covid meetings ....