windchills of 32 below in minneapolis, just 10 degrees at houston, texas. this denver it went from 42 to 5 in an hour. the latest on the massive storm, the cold and how it s making a mess of people s holiday plans. it was really chaos. it was back is and forth and one minute there s a flight at 6:45 and then a minute it s gone. and finally ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is back in kyiv following his trip to washington. he left with a promise of billions more in aid, but with republicans taking control of the house in just a couple weeks, that maybe a lot tougher to get going forward. i want to begin with this treacherous winter storm causing disruption across the country. this is in iowa. wow. it s not just there. in erie county, new york, it s so dangerous they just issued a driving ban. i want to bring in shaq brewster. katie beck from reagan national. and also with us is meteorologist bill karins. shaq, let me just get started with you. it feels like you re in
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. high stakes political drama unfolding today. in two of the closest senate races in the country with two embattled candidates trying to keep their shot at victory from slipping away. this georgia republican nominee herschel walker is tripling down, maybe quadrupling down on his denials about an ex-girlfriend s abortion. flat out denial a lie. and democrat john fetterman giving his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke to nbc. he claims he s good to go, but he won t release his medical records to prove it. we ll have live reports from both states, show you that interview and ask pennsylvania democrat whether she thinks voters deserve more. plus will there be a smoking gun at the investigation on capitol hill the answer just 24 horse away. and finally it turns out intentionally slamming a $330 million spacecraft into the side of an asteroid is a good thing. how nasa s grand experiment tha
justice. plus, joe biden s primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbi s search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book and that its investigation should continue full speed ahead. team trump, though, is objecting and asking a judge to name a special master. that s an independent third party to review the materials taken from the former president s hotel, home and office. the hearing is before a trump-appointed judge who is already on record leaning in favor of a special master. team trump last night responded to a detailed government filing asserting that trump had no standing to ask for a special master and as
election. and the committee only issued criminal referrals for trump and attorney john eastman despite the conclusion that put many other players who were involved in the effort. last hour i asked adam schiff if he s concerned that he s letting those people off the hook. to, i don t think so. we did uf others in addition to the president that we believe violated federal laws. but we also made it very clear this our criminal referrals that this was not an exhaustive list. either the individuals committed crimes or of the crimes themselves that were committed. let me bring in julie circumstancen and nicholas woo. we talk about the others. they are named as cocon sere torts in the full-time report. and yet the criminal referrals were only issued for the former
finally all of these transcripts as opposed to the snippets that we have seen in testimony, and in parts released by the committee so far. it will certainly make for must reading. i appreciate that. politico s nicholas woo. thank you so very much for waking up and joining us and providing us with your expertise. and thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. we have a packed morning joe starting right about now. down in georgia, herschel s gearing up for his runoff with raphael warnock and he s doing it by tackling the issues voters believe matter the most. the other night i was watching this movie, i was watching this movie called fright night, but it was about vampires, i don t know if you vampires, a werewolf can kill a vampire, do you know that. senator, your time has expired. whoa, and that is what donald