president's one-time spokesman who was with him leading up to the insurrection. and why is the right so angry that president biden is promising to nominate a black woman to the supreme court? >> but to exclude certain candidates based solely on race and gender is beyond extremely decisive. it may even be illegal. >> that's what is divisive? seriously? we'll talk about it coming up. but i want to get right to the very latest on the dangerous storm hitting the east coast tonight. you see cnn's brian todd there in atlantic city and derrick van dam is in the weather center, as well. brian, i'll start with you. already snowing in atlantic city. what do you see and expect tonight into tomorrow? >> reporter: well, don, you talked about the term bomb cyclone. this is what it looks like here in atlantic city this evening. we'll pan down the boardwalk here. it almost abandoned at this

point. people hunkering down for the evening. that's what the mayor wants. i talked to the mayor, mayor short a short time ago. he wants everyone to stay in, the mayor to the governor said don't go out today, don't go out tonight, do not go out tomorrow because it's getting dangerous here. the blizzard warning started about four hours ago and they will continue until 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night. that's a 24-hour blizzard warning just for atlantic city, so you've got several different forces converging. i'm told by our cnn weather team, this will feel like a hurricane with heavy snow replacing heavy rain and the reason is you've got snow. you've got the wind gusts that will be at least in this area up to 50 miles an hour at certain points and because atlantic city is a barrier island, you've got high tides and flood and storm surge that could cause some flooding in streets like this one. this is south carolina avenue here in atlantic city. they're worried because high tide is going to be in about

five and a half hours from now and when that happens, you have storm surge that could get to maybe one to two feet and heavy winds pushing the already high tides into atlantic city. some of the low lying streets like this one and there could be flooding here and they're really worried about that because that happened. that happened earlier this month with a 13-inch snowstorm here in atlantic city. they are really worried about this. the mayor marty small told me that what he is telling people, they've actually sent out flyers. they put flyers on people's cars saying get your cars off the streets. they have to get the cars out of the way so first responders, snowplowers, professionals can come here and do their work on the streets and clear the streets while the storm is going on but marty small said that he is really strongly encouraging people just don't go out in this stuff because it is dangerous. the wind is really going to

compound things here, don. that and the storm surge here on this barrier island that atlantic city exists on making this a very, very dangerous storm so not just a blizzard. we're told visibility will be near zero. they're worried about that, too. the casinos are not closing so that's i guess good news for the casinos. the mayor told us that they are encouraging people to just look, if you go to a casino, stay there. do with your money what you will but don't venture out of the casinos all weekend long until maybe sunday morning when some of this clears but don, this is a very dangerous situation developing here and we'll continue probably until at least the afternoon tomorrow. again, blizzard warnings here until 7:00 p.m. saturday night, don. >> brian it'd in the very snowy boardwalk in atlantic city. i want to go to derrick van dam. we saw the snow in jersey. storms are expected throughout the northeast. tell what we should be expecting

tonight. >> yeah, brian summarized it nicely. the threats just outlined heavy snow, strong winds, coastal flooding, power outages and travel disruption all along the eastern seaboard focussing right along the coastal areas with the greatest impacts that's what we'll see. let's get to the root of it. who will get the most snow? we're focussing attention on eastern sections of m massachusetts into rhode island into coastal maine. that's where they have the heavy band of snow that could pick up two feet of snow teetering on historic nature. the peak of the intensity will be from saturday morning at 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from the northern new england r region. the snow will get to the middle of the day from philadelphia to new york city as the storm runs parallel with the coastline. check out this very informative

map from the national weather service. it puts a threat index for the entire eastern seaboard and we focus in on massachusetts and rhode island. look at the shading of purple including the boston metropolitan and focus your attention on the legend on the top portion of the scereen. they expect extreme winter impacts from this particular nor'easter and don't use that word lightly. they talk about snowfall totals per hour from three to four inches per hour. you can imagine how quickly that will stack up. factor in hurricane force wind gusts and got yourself a concerning situation. a recipe for disaster. this storm is still in its infant in many respects. off the coastline of virginia and north carolina but it's taking advantage of the warm gulf stream waters, temperatures are abnormally warm there. so that means more moisture to pick up with this low deepening low pressure system and that will produce all snow.

the cold air is in place. it won't transition to snow which we see sometimes. it will stay all snow and that's why we think the snowfall totals will teeter. 75 million americans from alabama to maine under a winter weather alert being impacted but focussing in on the blizzard warnings along the coastal area of massachusetts, maine into connecticut, long island, too, by the way. not including new york city you're under a winter storm warning but coastal new jersey and the delmar peninsula we could have reduced visibility, whiteout conditions for three hours or greater with the peak intensity. look at the snow band starting to over spread new york city, long island, connecticut and rhode island. you can see the i-95 corridor already starting to get into some of the heaviest snow bands. flakes flying in boston. this is just the beginning. the snow will pick up in intensity overnight and start to maximize that strong part of the storm through the middle part of the day tomorrow and again,

we're talking about the potential of some historic numbers here, don. >> oh, boy, derrick. thank you. [ laughter ] i guess. thanks, derrick. 75 million people, that's a lot of folks. we'll check back in with derrick, as needed. >> i want to turn to the other top headlines tonight with kirsten powers and mark mckinnon, the former advisor to george w. bush and john mccain and director of "the circus." see if you can top that, 75 million people in the path of a bomb cyclone. you guys are the bomb but that's a big storm. good evening. let's talk about republicans signed up to serve as fake electors hit with subpoenas that today knowingly or not, they were all part of the trump team plot to overturn the election so even if a few cooperate, what could that mean for the select committee's investigation, sir? >> i'm not a lawyer so i don't understand the potential legal ramifications, don.

as a guy who is a shallow media guy, this seems to be a significant development and a shift because this is an intentional plan to forge documents to suggest that somebody was elected to overturn a free and fair election. that to me, that suggests a much deeper plot to subvert democracy and violate the law, clearly. >> kirsten, we're learning the select committee selected judd deer saying he has firsthand knowledge of trump's behavior before and during the deadly insurrection. how valuable do you think his testimony could be? >> i think it would be incredibly valuable because it should shed more light on what donald trump was thinking and doing on the day before january 6th. because he was reportedly saying

things that were pretty problematic in terms of what are you going to do about the rhinos, the republicans name only and he was saying in a staff meeting in the white house the day before january 6th so that certainly would suggest that donald trump was in on this and was pretty aware of what was going on and can't really claim to not have known, you know, to not have been pushing people to over throw an election saying things like that on january 5th. so yeah, i think it would be very, very meaningful. >> mark, i want to turn to the current president. president biden getting good news this week. he'll be able to nominate a supreme court justice and make good on a campaign promise and covid numbers are dropping in the country. will the president be able to seize this moment? >> listen, this is a significant development, i think, don. it's the supreme court justice

nomination opportunity provides an opportunity for biden to change the narrative. i mean, this is a story that will be in the news and dominate the news for months to come at the very least and so at the same time, you have covid dropping, economic news very good and emerging and being recognized by people especially with the covid surge dropping and what strikes me about all that, don, is that arguably before this week, you would say that biden was at the lowest point in his presidency, hard to imagine it getting worse, not that it couldn't but even if bad things happen, his approval rating won't get much lower in the disappointment from sort of a broad sector of the electret couldn't be worse. a poll lit. >> caller: -- political consult poll suggests that joe biden, if the election were 2024 right now, joe biden would not only

beat donald trump but beat ron desantis, he'd beat every other republican except for generic republican and that will not be on the ballot so it's pretty amazing to me -- [ laughter ] i think part of it people say he's not fdr but people elected joe biden to not be donald trump and that's the bottom line. he's not. >> doesn't that just say to you, i mean, donald trump has to be, you know, stewing over this. just how much people hate donald trump. i've been saying -- look, i've been saying that people sort of like the trump-ism, the things that go along with it. maybe the judges and all that but they don't like him so this talk about he's a shoe in for 2024, i'm not so sure about that. go on. >> his people like him, i think. i don't think that outside of that, that core group of people. but i also think that these numbers with joe biden of course were many, many years out from when he would run for office so

they're not meaningful but also, they're not putting up against another person and it's not just donald trump. it's also ron desantis. it's when it's in a head-to-head matchup, that's when it matters. how am i feeling now, it's what people are talking about is i'm exhausted from covid. if i'm a parent, i'm ripping my hair out. i want to go back to normal. i just -- that is really what those numbers are about. so it doesn't -- it tells us nothing about where people will be in three years. >> don't you think, though, that, you know, it's still easy to blame the media but when trump's numbers were low, it was framed as but he has that core, 38% that's rabid about him and his numbers were pretty close to what joe biden's are and there's a different narrative about joe biden's numbers and you summed it up perfectly there. there are a lot of different factors that go into the numbers but we never frame it as joe biden has a solid 38% of the country, maybe because he

doesn't. i don't know. mark. i'll give you a quick last word here. >> the quick last word would be it's clear from the data the problem for republicans is they still have donald trump on the windshield. they need to put him in the rearview mirror. when they pull against trump or desantis, the problem is all of them are reflecting to donald trump or worse going to the right of donald trump like desantis is criticizing trump on his vaccines and for being too tough on shutting down the economy during his presidency. so that's the problem for republicans. >> yeah. desantis better look out. it won't be fun for him if he gets in the way. thank you very much. appreciate it. i want to turn to mr. ron brownstein, the senior editor at "the atlantic." hello, sir. we're talking how republican governors are trying to restrict teaching history, shutting down uncomfortable topics on public schools and banning books on the holocaust and slavery and you have this piece that's related

to voter suppression and write in part, i'll quote. the two pronged fight captured how aggressively republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages in red states, even as many areas grow significantly more racially and culturally diverse. voting laws are intended to reconfigure the composition of today's electret, the teaching bans aim to shape the attitudes of tomorrows. so the goal here is to endoctrine the next againgenera to control what they understand about history? >> to the extent these issues are debated publicly, the argument usually is we don't want anybody to feel uncomfortable or guilty about hearing about the nation's racial history, the history of racial inequity and discrimination, which i'm police significantly and sometimes explicitly is about the feeling

of white kids. what yo u don't hear is equally important are the bans and restrictions exploding across red states mean for the in increasing number of public school students who are kids of color and whether they are going to get as civil rights advocates are increasingly focus on a full understanding of the history to which they have been born and the circumstances in which they are living and the systemic factors that explain many intechtintech -- inequities many are living through every day. it's not just defending white kids but also about changing, i think, the narrative and the understanding of the country and it is happening precisely at the moment. i think we talked about this. this is all erupting at the moment when we are living through a historic transition in younger generations. a 2020 census for the first time ever, a majority of the under 18 population of kids of color.

55% of nationwide school kids are kids of color and the class that enters this fall, september 2022 will be the last ever when a majority of high school graduates are white kids. so this is not happening in a vacuum and i think it is happening at a very particular moment for a very particular reason. >> that is scary to a lot of people, to people who have had been in the majority and basically shape the country in their image. >> yeah. right. and it's the same root -- look, i've said to you that i look at these voter restrictions that are being imposed particularly in states like florida and georgia and texas and arizona as stacking sandbags against a rising tide of demographic change. this is i think many civil rights advocates increasingly are viewing this as a companion piece to that as you quoted. the voting restrictions are about changing the composition of the electret today.

teaching a full and accurate history of america's history of racial inequity and gender issues, which are also lgbtq issues which are now being covered in this is about changing the autoconttitudes fo tomorrow and what is striking is how much this is intensifying. red states passed laws, four more had the state board of education restrict what can be taught. the people at pan america, the free speech group who follow this say there have been 71 different bills introduced just since the legislative session began and they are broadening. you are seeing states like florida propose to take the texas abortion scheme and apply it to school districts and basically say parents can sue a school district if they think the lessons are too divisive and glenn youngkin of the '50s setting up a quote tip line and encouraging parents to call in and report out teachers who they

think are being decisive. the only proposals in congress that deal with it are from republicans that want to support it. we haven't seen much from democrats and civil rights groups have been more focused on the voting rights restrictions than this and really, the question is, is this going to be imposed in roughly half the states before anybody really takes notice? >> yeah, i think you're right. that's what is going to happen. ron brownstein, thank you. we'll keep reporting. appreciate that. so many moving parts to the plot to overturn the election. the insurrection was the most visible but what about the fake electors scheme? how high did it go? and will there be criminal charges. hing] [bikes passing] [fire truck siren] [first responder] onstar, we see them. [onstar advisor] okay. mother and child in vehicle. mother is unable to exit the vehicle. injuries are unknown. [first responder] thank you, onstar.

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cnn learning exclusively the house january 6th committee subpoenaed the former white house deputy press secretary judd deer. he formulated the response as it was raging and subpoenaing 14 individuals involved in the fake elector schemes. joining me is former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. thank you for joining us. let discuss. the committee saying they want to speak to deer about january 5th. there was a meeting in the oval office where according to them, trump repeatedly asked and i quote here, what are your ideas for getting the rhinos to do the right thing tomorrow? how do we convince congress? what do you think the committee wants to ask him? >> deer is the proverbial fly on the wall in the room and maybe a participant in the conversations but if not, at least a witness

to what was said, what the president said, what his advisors responded with. you know, don, when you investigate an organize fd crim group and conduct their business in brooklyn, you don't absolutely need a member of the organized crime group. it's okay to have the bartender or coat check person, whoever is in the room, sees and hears what is going on can be very good witnesses and that's judd deer here. >> this is unbelievable to me. at first, this looked like a bizarre side show with the sweaty press conference and stunts. but this is looking a lot more serious now. >> i thought the same thing, don. you know, it looked like this kind of crack pot theory but now when you look deeper, there are so many layers of people involved. you've got rudy giuliani and janet ellis that seem to be driving this thing. you have the electors in each of the seven states. you have other trump administration affiliated people

in mouth prpieces out there on television promoting it. you have lawyers writing memos to the president about it. it is multi layered, many people involved in what appears to be a conspiracy to over throw the election in the form of this nonsensical fake electors thing. it's really fascinating. >> we got all the players like rudy giuliani but could they be trying to tie this to trump? >> absolutely. these people aren't doing all of this stuff just for their own benefit, right? they're at some point the theory would be that it has to come back to the president himself. now, whether or not they'll ever be able to prove that is a very big question and remains to be seen but that seems to be the direction that the committee is pushing. >> all right. thank you very much. andrew mccabe, appreciate that. >> thanks, don. outrage from the right over president biden's plan to nominate a black woman to the supreme court and the smear campaigns have already begun.

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candidates based solely on race and gender is beyond extremely divisive. it may even be illegal. biden didn't mention the supreme court nominee's legal qualifications or judicial philosophy or ability to perform one of the most important jobs in the country. he didn't even say she's a nice person. all he said is she'll be black and female because to him, that's all that matters. >> he said a highly qualified person and charactered her like that and as we reported on the program last night, there were other republican presidents who said they would choose women, as well and an italian american partly based on his ethnicity. joining me say columnist for "the daily beast" and been writing about this very important topic. thank you for joining us. we see this indignation, this is headline from your column, your piece that says white men can't wait to get mad about a black woman supreme court justice. why are these guys so outraged? >> i mean, they're suddenly this

sudden interest that they have in making sure there is no gender or racial bias, right, and we didn't ever hear that expressed before despite the fact we had a supreme court that had 232 years did not have a black woman on it. so, you know, i'm always a little surprised or almost amused when i see this sudden concern when someone is mentioned as a potential candidate and they happen to be non-white or in other cases potentially not male. you know, there are questions about talent and qualifications that we don't see expressed at any other point. it only comes up when we start talking about folks who don't look like the person who proceeded them for centuricentu >> i want you to watch this. this is senator josh hawley. >> i uphold the constitution and i'll ask whomever joe biden sends up to the committee, i'll see if they're a proconstitution judge, actually believe in the constitution and willing to follow it.

that ought to be the litness test. not race, not gender, not anything else but are you willing to follow the constitution of the united states? >> okay. whatever. why would a black woman with experience and extraordinary qualifications not follow the constitution? >> right. i think what -- you know, these people are sort of telling on themselves, right? what would make you assume a black woman wouldn't be the most qualified candidate to begin with? we know a black woman at the point in her career she's being considered for a seat will be talented and navigated a mine field of racism and sexism and getting to the position that she's in. so i don't understand these questions. i think that what we're really seeing is people who are just uncomfortable with the idea of a black woman being placed on the court. they're uncomfortable with

change. we've seen this push back before and it's just disguised racism an and. >> supreme court nominees used to be based solely on qualifications and character and they're ignoring the top of the checklist, that was being a white male. >> right, it's historical mythologizing. we have this color blind selection process when really the first hurdle so to speak you had to cross was to be white and male. there was a period when for roughly 180 years until johnson appointed thurgood marshall to the court, you wouldn't think of a woman. this idea in the past we judge people on merits and race wasn't part of it and now suddenly there are identity politics that dictate what positions people are in. we've always had identity politics in this country. that's actually been a really important center piece of how a lot of politics have worked.

it's just in the past, those identities that we were okay with were white and male and that shift is what so many people are uncomfortable with. >> what they're saying when they say that are qualifications are to be white and male. >> those are the most important qualifications and that's the only way to ensure that you will have competency. we see someone like shapiro writing we were basically guaranteed to get a lesser black woman as a candidate and what that tells me is he does not think there is a black woman candidate out there who is capable of doing the job. so it's about -- it is for all that these people are complaining about, identity politics for race and gender and being the center piece, they are the ones who are most concerned about the race and gender of the candidate. >> yeah. well republicans have ended that term identity politics because they practice it and trump-ism

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the new republican lawmaker glenn youngkin created a tip line to report mask mandates or devoo divisive subjects in the close room. the latest on virginia's parent the rights fight. >> we will remove politics from the classroom and refocus on essentials. >> reporter: virginia's republican governor glenn youngkin starting the job focussing on a key promise. >> we're going to embrace our parents, not ignore them. >> reporter: youngkin made what he called parents rights, a corner stone of his bid for governor. issuing several executive orders his first day in office. including one banning critical race theory from being part of the public school curriculum despite not being included in virginia's standards of learning. >> i will ban critical race theory. >> reporter: the 74th governor announced a tip line this week for parents to email reports of so-called divisive concepts if taught in the close room. >> it gives a great insight what

is happening at the school level and further, further ability to make sure we're rooting it out. >> reporter: democratic delegate marcus simon slamming the policy. >> it does sound like the kind of thing that authoritarian regimes around the world do. it's ironic that the party of freedom is trying to restrict the kind of ideas that can be taught in virginia's classrooms. >> reporter: critics have pointed to the fact that he sent his children to private schools in washington d.c., a national cathedral where it was adopted as part of the plan. youngkin served from 2016 to 2019. porter telling cnn k nrknn youn stepped off the board after 2019 and a lot changed after the years. they havetote books like critic race theory and inclusion resource page and how to be an

anti racist as part of a training session for teachers. one who appeared for dyoungkin n this campaign video supports the tip line and pulled her son out of school to the objection how the impact of racism was being discussed. >> immigrants value education a lot and parents spend money to feed, cloth and educate their children and if they don't get the services they want or they need, they should be able to complain and air their grievances. >> reporter: what was your reaction when you heard about this tip line? >> immediately, my first thought was it's divisive. >> reporter: dominique chatters has four children in public schools. she fears this reporting mechanism will lead to teachers watering down lessons about slavery out of fear. >> it's an intimidation tactic absolutely. it will give them pause. especially our newer teachers just starting out, not knowing

how to navigate the cloassroom. >> reporter: this tip email address is drawing considerable attention with people saying it's a tell on a teacher tip line, the governor's office views this as a standard way to get feedback. the tip email is getting clogged with spam and memes and there is also concern this all could lead educators who are already drained from the pandemic heading for the exits. don? >> eva, thank you so much. appreciate that. you see it in videos across the country. black drivers enduring racism on the road during routine traffic stop. cnn's investigation into just how dangerous those stops can be, next.

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take advantage now. philando , walter scott. some black men killed during traffic stops. black drivers are twice as likely to be pulled over and twice as likely for white drivers to be searched. now cnn sara sidner has been investigating the traffic stops and how dangerous they can be. here is some of her reporting. this is the case of stephanie of stephanie bottom. >> of the of two of them grabbed my hair and threw me on the ground. >> by your hair? >> both my arms and my hair. >> reporter: at this point, the officers are trying to get

bottoms' wrists handcuffed together. >> they were twisting and twisting and twisting. and then, pop. >> she would learn later that her rotator cuff was torn, and her shoulder dislocated. >> terrible, terrible pain. >> you are under arrest. >> what'd i do wrong? >> reporter: what bottom had done wrong was drive about ten miles over the speed limit and failed to stop for the blue lights. for that, she was injured. >> stand you up. okay? >> reporter: searched. >> lean up against your car. >> reporter: and nearly arrested. but she did not go to jail. she went to the hospital, instead, after paramedics arrived and determined she had a dislocated shoulder. >> if you were sentenced for a failure to heed blue lights, the punishment is a fine, not getting yanked out of the car by

your hair and thrown to the ground and having your shoulder dislocated. >> reporter: scott holmes is the supervising attorney of north carolina's central university's civil litigation clinic and one of bottoms' attorneys. he later discovered bottom was charged in the incident. >> she was charged with speeding ten over and failure to heed blue lights and resisting an officer. >> wow, sara, that was really hard to watch. is stephanie bottom demanding anything from police after this? >> you have heard this before. justice is the word that she used. um, and she is now suing the police. she is suing the police department there in north carolina and the sheriff's department who had a deputy involved in that. and we did reach out to the police. we reached out to the officers. their attorneys did not have any comment. the police department didn't

want to comment because there is pending litigation but the sheriff's department, while it didn't say much, it said it did stand by the actions of its deputy. um, but in this case, you know, we should mention that stephanie bottom loved going on road trips by herself. she's that grandma. um, she is a person who really enjoyed it, and what she says happened is that she had her music on really loud as she was bopping to the music, she wasn't paying attention and didn't hear the sirens and see the lights until when she did, she thought that's not for me. um, and so, the way that this goes down, um, is disturbing to watch. however, the police side of this is she was speeding, she didn't heed the sirens, she didn't heed the blue heights and oftentimes, when officers see that kind of reaction, they think that they are up to something, that there's something nefarious going on, that there is something potentially dangerous going on. and so, you saw this heightened response from them.

but stephanie bottom says once they discovered who she was, and what -- didn't ever ask her what she was doing. she just felt like she got yanked out of the car. she didn't understand. she was confused. she says the treatment of herself and -- and many other folks, she believes, had something to do with her skin color, not just some of the things that she did wrong, don. >> well, let's talk about that because, look, i mean, still, you should treat people with dignity or, you know, at least as human beings when you are pulling them over but what do the numbers tell us about whether racial profiling is prevalent where she was pulled over? >> they tell us that what you see in that area of north carolina, um, and across the state is that, generally speaking, black drivers are pulled over twice as often as white drivers. but here is the number that i think really surprised me, and that is that they are searched about four times as often as white drivers.

and why is that? because when the researchers looked at this from unc chapel hill. when they looked at 20 million traffic stops in north carolina, what they found was that when those searches occurred and they looked at the searches of black and white drivers because they have the data from the state and the police departments themselves. it is required by law in north carolina since 2000. they said, huh, the numbers actually show that when they search black folks who are, by the way, searched almost four times as much as white, they got less contraband. the they were getting more from white folks and only about a quarter of the people who were searched, did they come up with contraband. which means three-quarters of the people they searched did not. and so, you can see how that relationship -- when it is overwhelming number of black folks being searched -- you see how that relationship between black drivers and police can go south real fast because people have gotten used to and feel like they are being profiled. so, there are a lot of things

going on here that create this really tense relationship between those two groups. and for the police side, they are always very concerned -- and for good reason -- about the proliferation of guns and the number of guns in the streets and we have seen some of that play out in the last week or so. don. >> sara, it's fascinating. thank you, sara sidner, appreciate that. for more pon on-sara's investigation, tune in sunday night 9:00 tune in for our cnn special report traffic stop, dangerous encounters. and thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. going on inside. it's true, with diabetic retinopathy, excess sugar can damage blood vessels, causing vision loss or even blindness. so, remember this: now is the time to get your eyes checked. eye care is important to your long-term diabetes management. see a path forward with actions and treatments from a retina specialist that may help protect against vision loss. visit noweyesee.com and take charge of your sight.

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and good evening. on a busy night that includes a massive snow storm about to hit the eastern sea board, we begin with breaking news on the january ev6th investigation. the house select committee now taking direct aim with the former president's scheme of losing the heck torl college by putting forth his own bogus electors. listen to stephen miller at the time heying out the game plan. >> as we speak today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we are going to send those results up to congress. this will ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open. >> well, that was december 14th, 2020, and sure enough that same day in michigan some of those phony electors tried to gain attendance to the state capitol as legitimate electors were inside. they were bhoked by police. so, as comical as this might have looked on the surface, it was part of a serious and openly stated plan. now, the committee has issued subpoenas for the two top republican figures on each of