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 right.
the airline is still canceling thousands of flights, passengers are still outraged, and we learned the southwest airlines got a seven billion dollar bail out during the pandemic, so what did they use all that money for? but let s begin with joy santos and more of his lies getting exposed. the republican congressman elect just cannot seem to get his own story straight. he lied about going to college. he lied about graduating from college. he lied about who he s worked for. he lied about being jewish, and cnn s kate file just up new lies will bring to you in a moment. now, federal prosecutors are looking into is duke s finances. a source tells cnn that they are investigating the congressman elect s financial situation that seems to rapidly swing from being too broke to pay rent to being a multi millionaire. the district attorney of nassau county new york also says that she has sent us on her radar, but wait, there is more, cnn has confirmed that was charged with embezzlement an
biden just responded. we re live at the border. plus, new revelations in just-released transcripts from the january 6th committee, including the committee s key witness who reveals how qanon conspiracies made their way into the west wing. and it s a full-blown travel fiasco for southwest airlines passengers going nowhere, after most of the airline s flights have been canceled. let s go outfront. good evening. i m sara sidner in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, a major blow at the border for president biden. the supreme court ruling that title 42, a controversial trump era border policy, will remain in place as legal challenges play out. it s a policy the biden administration said it was ready to see end. just minutes ago, president biden reacted to the ruling. but for now, the 5-4 ruling is a major victory for gop led states that asked the supreme court to step in, like arizona, whose attorney general said he was, quote, proud to lead the charge on this important
hands can be be saved. but overall he s in stable condition. and she is so grateful for sha kyra autry. this woman did something that an angel would do. okay? to take in a perfectly a stranger. a stranger. you took him in in your home on christmas eve. reporter: joey white s life was saved by a woman who cared deeply about a man she had never met. i m right here. i m right here. reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. the news continues. let s hand it over to alisyn camerota and cnn tonight. thanks, pam. good evening, everyone. this is cnn tonight. i m alisyn camerota. the january 6th committee putting out more new witness testimony tonight, stuff we have not heard before, including how mark meadows allegedly burned documents. and how much talk about qanon there was in the white house. also tonight, the question thousands of angry stranded passengers are asking at this hour. what s going on with southwest airlines? why are they subjecting travelers to so much
the former presidents chief of staff said that he documents on fire, and qanon being discussed favorably at the highest level of the white house. pamela brown here in four and eight released today by the january 6th committee. in both cases, testimony by cassidy hutchison, former aide to then chief of staff mark meadows. we are joined now with the very latest on the striking newly-revealed testimony, and really just some stunning details coming up this transcripts. yeah, we have been seeing the throughout the past few days. this one in particular, a lot of new details. not as particular leap because one of these, it days from june 2022, crucially that was right after cassidy hutchison had fired her trump world attorney, and her new attorney was really letting her correct the record and tell every truth for the committee. first thing she told the committee that she saw mark meadows burning documents in his office, fireplace. she says about a dozen times, and that amounte