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chaos and dysfunction within the white house during trump s time in office. plus, transportation secretary pete buttigieg is threatening major penalties for southwest airlines amid a massive number of cancellations and delays. we ll have the latest on the seemingly never-ending travel troubles. and president biden signs a massive $1.7 trillion government spending bill into law. capping off a year of big wins for the white house. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, december 30th. the penultimate day of 2022. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us with. we ll begin with a newly-released batch of deposition transcripts from the january 6th house committee from some key witnesses, including members of former president donald trump s inner circle. and that includes former white house communications director alyssa farah griffin, she spoke to the january 6th house panel back on april 15th, describing her tenure at the white house ....
And if they do we are in a position to levy tens of thousands of dollars in fines per passenger and per violation. i don t want to resort to fines and he penalties but we ll take whatever it takes to make the passengers taken care of and frankly disappointing that the airline has not been more proactive communicating to the public and i don t know why the ceo of southwest has not been on tv ten times as much as i have to explain the disaster of the airline. the disaster caused by last week s winter storm. and the death toll across the country has risen to at least 78 people. in western new york s erie county, the number has increased to at least 39 deaths, with 31 in the city of buffalo alone. and in a press conference yesterday, erie county executive confirmed that power has now been restored to all residents. and despite initial concerns for flooding over the coming warmer weekends, they have received reports that it should be minimal. ....
politico and the great work, thanks for joining us this morning. stid still ahead on way too early, we will go to storm ravaged buffalo as the death toll from this week s massive winter storm continues to rise. plus, the white house snubs two top republicans, planning to launch a series of investigations from the house next year. those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. there s times square. it is going to be the scene of the party tomorrow night. uare it is going to be the scene of the party tomorrow night ....
Let s hope that is the case. during the same press conference, he also apologized for comments that he made wednesday about buffalo mayor byron brown. take a listen to the remarks both from wednesday and then yesterday. the reason why the state and the county have come in and taken over our operations, i know the mayor won t be happy to hear, it but we took over a segment, one-third of the city of buffalo because we could get in there and clean it quickly. storm after storm after storm after storm, the city unfortunately is the last one to be opened and that shouldn t be the case. it is embarrassing to tell the truth. this is a very, very difficult situation. i basically lost my focus. i ll say that. and i do apologize to our community for doing it. a lot of finger pointing there. and certainly likely not the last winter storm that the region will have to face. the county executive later said he tried to reach out to buffalo s mayor but has not yet heard back. still ahead h ....