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.
but he was an activist. he really was iconic because of what he did. he used his talents to do what he didn t have to say with his mouth. the term certainly applies here. pele is an icon and the great pele died yesterday at the age of 82. still ahead this morning, the debate over bail reform takes center stage in illinois today as the state prepares to do away with cash bail in the new year. we ll break down what this could mean for public safety. plus, new details about congressman-elect george santos in the wake of those revelations he s been lying about who he really is. we ll talk to gene robinson about his new piece arguing, quote, the most honest thing house republicans could do would be to welcome santos with open arms. gene explains next on morning joe. on morning joe.
worth the cost to some to open schools. saw a nice piece arguing that the opening of schools may only cost us 2 to 3% in terms of total mortality? the backlash was swift and oz later said he misspoke. a study found that of 40 randomly selected episodes from his show, his health recommendations for based on evidence just 46% of the time. the following year, a group of doctors and professors sent this letter to columbia university s dean of medicine asking him to remove dr. oz, who is a trained heart surgeon, from his faculty position. the group cited his egregious lack of treatment in the lest of financial gain. columbia stood by him. but in recent years, dr. oz has had to answer to a senate committee, which also questioned his advertising of unproven
at the hudson institute. and rana faroo is a global economist with the financial times. michael, you have influenced the president a great deal. you wrote a piece arguing that one of the core demands of the u.s. position be, i think you originated the idea, that the tariffs stay in place until you see chinese compliance with the trade deal, because in the past, they have cheated so, from your point of view, is the u.s. position tenable? and is it the right one? well, don t forget the president s goal for the long-term is zero tariffs, increased trade between the u.s. and china, increased investment by the u.s. in china and china in the u.s. that s the grand strategy here. to improve overall relations with china, not to have a new cold war and not to have a trade
tucker: the president and ceo of concerned women for america wrote a piece arguing that christine ford s account of assault by brett kavanaugh is missing a central details. the rest of us need to assess i. she joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. great to be here. tucker: i think most people watching it came into itk is a pretty open mind. i know feminists are saying, no one believes the women but i know most people want to believe. it s hard because there are missing details. what should we know that we don t in order to assess this? first let me tell you, i m coming at this as a woman who has been a victim of an attempted rape and a physical assault when i was pregnant with my first child. i wrote a whole chapter in myd book about that issue, i testified before congress advocating for women and victims of sexual violence, advocating for the debbie smith act. written numerous op-eds about this. this is an important issue to my heart. i care about justice. that s a miss