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morning joe starts now. historic winter storm in western new york statement storm system is blamed for dozens of deaths across the country. it made holiday travel almost impossible on the roads or through the skies with thousands of passengers stuck at airports searching for new flights. meanwhile, the republican governor uses the christmas holiday to play hole papolitics migrants with no warning for groups. and we will take a look at the latest testimony released by the january 6 committee. including a conversation the former president had with one of his closest advisers in the days after the attack on the capitol. also ahead, we dig into the latest action by the democratic controlled house and how the white house is preparing for a divided congress good morning welcome to morning joe. it s monday, december 26th i m jonathan lemire. also with us at the table is affairs analyst and executive editor of recount and host of the podcast. like gene wilder in b ....
Most consequential choice, really, in the committee not just to have liz cheney on it, which was nancy pelosi s decision, but to have her as vice chair and the most public-facing individual on the committee. i have so many questions. it s a tremendous piece as often your pieces are. and there are things that as we went through the 18 months of this committee, there are questions that were raised questions that ran through my mind throughout that there are answers to in this piece i want you to talk about a couple of them i think there was an enormous amount of skepticism that these hearings would be successful giving the recent history of congressional hearings they were successful by any metric and i want you to talk a little bit about one of the reasons for that which you go into in wonderful detail in this piece about decisions made, lessons learned, james goldstein from abc news crafting these as television as a made for television spectacle, story ....
Final report and for what happens monday and then for what happens on wednesday. have you gotten any idea, any preview from the committee? reporter: we know a little, katy. first of all, monday is technically a business meeting, not a hearing and i point it out because it shows aus little bit of the structure. it is not the same kind of highly programmed television spectacle that we saw with the hearings over the course of the summer. we re going to see a series of votes. we re going to hear from each of the members. they re going to lay out the elements of this report, and i think the maximum news value that we will get on monday is going to be these referrals, for the folks who are referred to the department of justice an donald trump s name is most lickly at the top of that list and to other referrals, how to they handle lawmakers who ignored the subpoenas and attorneys that ignored their subpoenas and folks they tangled with along the way. a big chunk of that is monday. and i thi ....
It to him. he knows how to surprise. he announced he wanted to meet with kim jong-un in a tweet which came to the surprise of a lot of people and again it was supposed to be a hand shake. of course that means it was supposed to be a big pr spectacle and it ended up being a television spectacle, especially when we saw him take those historic steps over the line at the dmz and into north korea. but i do think that this really does play up to what the president has we have seen him do with several foreign leaders. he relies on chemistry. he likes the spontaneous nature of the meetings and it led into the hour long meeting afterward to jump start negotiations. so it s an interesting tactic and it definitely was put on for television and to make this media circus. but he did end up having a lot of valuable time with the north korean leader afterwards. well, speaking of these tactics for show, let s switch gears for a minute because president trump is claiming that the obama administrati ....
Information and they have been blocked from testifying. the democrats have not been able to put this into a television free for all where they can make the case to the american people where the president was engaged in obstruction of justice and lying to people. all of the things we re not seeing on tv and in the hearings. democrats are having to slow walk things by going to the courts which can be a long and drawn out process. turn it into a television spectacle that people can digest by watching on tv and hearing directly from the people who are involved or who watch the president do things that are untoward. to hear it, to see it, and make it real and concrete. let s talk about the 2020 field. joe biden, the leader of that democratic field. his vast experience being sort of used well, clumsily he s ....