lawmakers have rarely sought to make public confidential taxpayer information. there is some precedent. now we ll see a whole new one today. we ll go live to capitol hill this morning. what time are we expecting these to come out is what everyone really wants to know. reporter: this is going to happen around 9:00 a.m. so just less than an hour at this point and we are mere steps from the house floor where this is going to get entered into the congressional record. what you should expect to see today is the ways and means committee will release a press release that will include the following documents. one of them, trump s personal federal tax returns for the years between 2015 and 2020 as well as the returns for eight of his business entities. here s where the real treasure trove of information could come from, additional work files that the irs might have as they were looking over former president donald trump s taxes. we should talk about the importance of this moment bec
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.
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Smith documents case, where judge Aileen Cannon has a big decision to make, is she going to throw out the testimony of tabarras, the team member whos cooperating with the team. Ken, good to have you. Talk to me about the meadows appeal and the request hes making of the court while the appeal goes forward. Hes requesting that the judge grant a temporary stay of his own order. Which ruled obviously that mark meadows could not have his case removed to Federal Court but that it should go back down to state court. Meadows is saying he could be irreparably harmed by this decision. He wants to appeal and have the judge put a pause on things while he appeals. If this judge doesnt do that, hes going to ask the Appeals Court to do that. Generally you get a stay if you have a chance of winning on appeal, and this judges opinion was pretty resounding that mark meadows didnt meet any of the tests to remove his case to Federal Court, and what the judge said is it was clear that mark meadows, when lo