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tonight." we have a dangerous winter storm bearing down on most of the country tonight. we have millions of americans on the move traveling for the christmas holiday and the storms are brutal. they are unleashing frigid temperatures. you have blizzard conditions and very strong powerful winds. the airlines are canceling thousands of flights. tonight as we are waiting for the final report from january 6th committee which is still not here, we have transcripts from star witnesses and like cassidy hutchinson that show she testified that she felt pressured by trump allies not to cooperate with the committee or questions and instead possibly just risk contempt. an incoming republican congressman now saying he will address discrepancies shall we say in his biography as allegations are mounting that he falsified his resume and family background before being elected. let's begin with the powerful winter blast bearing down on most of the country.

it is being called a once in a generation storm. chicago is among the many, many cities getting slammed. cnn's omar jimenez is there tonight. i'm so glad to see you though i wish you were inside of a building looking at the breath coming off you right now. what is going on there? it is hitting major cities. what are the conditions like for you right now? it's not snowing but you look cold, my friend. >> i'll get out in the elements for you all just to make it happen. there are people out and about. how are you? people out and about a little bit. few and far between. you can see sop of the snow in the air a lot lighter than earlier in the day but tonight is about how cold the temperatures are going to plunge and how much the wind is going to pick up in the overnight hours. we are dipping into the negatives now on the national weather service says we'll get potentially past negative 30

degrees fahrenheit and wind gusts potentially 40 miles per hour in the morning. it will blow around all the snow and make visibility a real issue >> i was thinking about that. chicago is a major hub for transportation, major airports as well that are there. how is that weather impacting flights? if there is not visibility pilots are vfr and ifr rated but what is the impact? >> reporter: in short, not good. we have already seen more than 400 flights canceled at o'hare in the last 24 hours alone and the airport said airlines proactively canceled more than 500 because of the winter weather. we've already seen more than a hundred canceled just since about 5:00. the city department of aviation said over the holiday period through new year's they anticipate nearly 3 million people to pass through the airports, o'hare and midway. today was supposed to be the

busiest day for travelers so not a great situation to coincide with the type of weather we're seeing here. >> i'm from minnesota as you know a and we often battle chicago to figure out who is colder. i know chicago knows what it is to be cold and there aren't ample skyways as back home but even for normal chicago cold it is much worse, right? >> yeah, definitely. in my years living here there are two places i look to make me feel better about the weather. it is usually minneapolis and fargo after that. all of us know how to deal with cold and chicago especially has a huge fleet of snow trucks out on the roads, salt trucks to take care of some of the roads but it is not going to be snow that is the issue. it is trying to battle the ice and why we went to chicago's salt dome as it is known and holds about 50,000 tons of salt.

we spoke to a city official who helps manage the facility. take a listen to what he said. >> we'll have over 300 pieces on the street through the end of this thing overnight to try to keep up with this snow. the goal is to keep up. we'll be fighting that wind coming at us and could be getting snow about an inch an hour. >> of course city officials have dealt with storms like this before and they really prepare all year for situations like this. what is unique here is not just snow but the wind that is going to kick up, plunging temperatures, and critically the demand for people to get home for christmas over the next few days. most of the christmas travel happens on the roads so if you can't see or if the roads are particularly in bad shape, you

see how this could create the dangerous situation. >> omar, please stay safe. hope the residents of chicago will as well and everyone passing through. i can hear the sound all familiar of a car going through the snow trying to make its way over what is happening right now. please stay safe everyone. speaking of temperatures, it is plummeting across the country due to the massive storm. joining me now is patrick sheehan director of tennessee's emergency management agency. thank you for joining us today. we just went to chicago. saw what's happening there. tennessee also being struck hitting nashville and other parts of tennessee as we are speaking right now. tell me about the conditions being experienced there. >> we are expecting to see this entire state of tennessee so right now about a third of tennessee or western grand division has seen temperatures from the mid low 50s to mid 40s

plummet into 21 degrees or 25 to 30-degree temperature drop. with that wind gusts up to and exceeding 30 miles an hour and behind that snowfall coming. along and north of i-40 we expect maybe an inch or two inches of snowfall. a little further north, the entire state memphis to mountain city before the system is through with us tomorrow morning. >> that key word you said, expect. because maybe places like chicago, other parts of the country, expect to have the temperature drops and maybe the wind chills but this is not what is typical in a place like tennessee and for many residents they're probably completely unaccustomed and don't necessarily know how to prepare. what is it going to be like for people who are not used to temperatures? is there a way to get the word out to keep them safe and knowledgeable about what to do? >> you're right.

the coldest in a decade and so we've grown a lot with a lot of people move here from warmer climate that haven't been here through a harsh winter. we've really this week been emphasizing preparing people to pay attention to the forecast and prepare homes and cars for the weather coming up. detach their hoses from their hose bibs on their homes and do other things to winterize their homes. if without power make sure they operate a generator outside and away from where carbon monoxide could accumulate in the home. put blankets and extra coats in their cars with gloves just in case they have to be out and about. we encourage them not to be out and they find themselves stranded for some reason >> i wonder too, times have been very difficult for many people over the last several years in particular. and home and housing insecurity remains a problem. homelessness as well. in this country and parts of

tennessee as every other state. are there things being done to ensure those who don't have the luxury of preparing within a home are there precautions taken through shelters or otherwise to get people off the streets and into a safe, warm place? >> we had conversations yesterday and today about the actions being taken and part of the reason the city emergency operations open behind me is to support any needs identified to help if they have a larger than expected population surge. we're monitoring transportation and the impact to the electric grid so we can support our partners to restore power, keep roads safe, and then if they need help with sheltering the unhoused during the next 100 hours where we stay below freezing that the state of tennessee can be there to support our cities and partners. >> so important. patrick, thank you.

we're watching tennessee as many other states are bracing for what is ahead. the massive storm and it is massive affecting nearly every part of this country and is walloping the upper plains with blizzard conditions and life threatening wind chills. i want to bring in the meteorologist in charge of the national weather service in rapid city, south dakota. david, thank you for being here. normally people talk about a weather issue and it is focused on a certain regime. all eyes are on this storm because so many people are impacted and it continues through the weekend. this has been called a once in a jeb ration storm. can you just recall, have you seen anything like this in recent history? i think you're having difficulty hearing me at the moment. we're going through, if you can

hear me jump into the conversation but i think we'll get his connection up in a moment. i can't underscore this point enough just how serious this storm is. and how all across the country recovering today and thinking of ways to inform the public and be sure to watch along. the biggest part here are the actual drops in temperatures. for many people talking about sometimes 30 up to 50 degrees and drop overnight places like washington state, places like denver, colorado and beyond. and these temperature drops are going to have a significant impact on the way in which the energy infrastructure in this country is impacted. you're seeing so much happen. these screens, current wind chills are indicative of the dangers ahead. please stay with us and stay tuned to cnn. we'll be covering this and many other stories impacting the entire nation. not to mention right here in washington, d.c. because speaking of dropping the transcripts are dropping in

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i mean, we don't have the final report now from the house january 6 committee. it still has not been released. it was supposed to be made public yesterday. the committee, they are releasing more witness testimony. i want to turn to cnn's correspondent jessica schneider and the managing editor at axios and a former watergate special assistant prosecutor. beginning with you, jessica, i know you're tapping your watch and we're all going where is it? supposed to be yesterday. we thought maybe okay. with zelenskyy visiting that might be the delay. where is it? >> reporter: at this point we are almost two days beyond what the committee said. the time slipped a little with zelenskyy's visit. okay. it was supposed to be today. we heard earlier tonight from a

committee member that the issue is typos. so the committee staff have been going through this nearly 1,000-page report. they're finding typos. they have to fix them and it has to go through the printing process. the culmination of the factors is what led now to the nearly two day delay at this point. >> typos as in getting the words wrong? >> commas, grammer, ellipses missing, things they're trying to fix before they get it out >> i want to turn to you on this. i wonder what you make of the typo and grammer police notion. it is nearly two years after january 6 happened. don't get me wrong. i've written the book and i get the editing process is a problem. but we're talking about transcripts. why do you think there is a delay? >> it could be they want to be sure when they are quoting

transcripts they're absolutely accurate. i think people will go through this, certainly people in the opposition will go through this. they want to make sure that everything is absolutely a hundred percent accurate. if you don't quote somebody from a transcript of deposition and you don't put in the right words and you change the meaning even in the smallest way that is going to open the committee to criticism. checking typos is absolutely a valid excuse here and a day or two isn't going to make a difference. last week we got the summary that was about 100 and some odd pages with 50 some odd foot notes and i think that was a pretty good outline of what they found. i'm sure we'll get a lot more detail in this 800 or 900 page final report. but the summary isn't bad. >> well, this is literally the embodiment of dotting one's i

and crossing the ts. it is a fair point. any typo or problem will be fodder for, ah, what else did they get wrong? the same token they are up against an impatience clock from the public. there is the idea of adding on unfairly to the mueller report. this is not the mueller report. nothing to do with mueller. many will think about the impatience of trying to get fnlt. what do you make of what has been released so far? >> i think this isn't really about the public anymore. this is a final document that is going to go to the department of justice and become a resource for formal prosecutions for the former president and people around him. at the same time it is going to be used by the former president and his legal team to try to blunt the vulnerability of any prosecution around them. the details are important. it has an impact on the public

perhaps in the 2024 race and perhaps for history. in the transcripts we've seen released so far i take away kind of two camps of people who testified. one is a much more cynical camp who said plead the fifth, plead the fifth. don't want to make themselves vulnerable or cooperate in any way and kind of knew that there was never any doubt about the election. then there is the second camp sarah matthews, cassie hutchinson, younger aides to the president who seem to have this kind of crisis of conscience or moment of revelation where they thought i don't want to be part of this. the testimony suggests that at that moment their entire friendship structure, support structure could be over and could turn in on them, that history could judge them, their

peers could judge them, they could judge themselves. such a strikingly different set. roger stone versus cassidy hutchinson and then the sort of spectrum. >> and the transcript we saw released today from cassie hutchinson really embodied that and illuminated the internal struggle she was having throughout the three depositions where her attorney continually said just keep saying you don't recall and you don't really need to be complete. he was paid for by her but retained by trump world. she ultimately jettisoned him as an attorney and got outside attorneys to represent her and that led to her testifying in public before the committee. you are absolutely right. it was this wrestling that she had with herself. >> the fear, idea of being completely alone and exposed. >> let me ask you and bring you into this conversation. that testimony she is alleged to have said be the attorney who initially represented her, a

white house ethics lawyer at one point i might add, what do you make of it? there seems to be some reaction, a range i am seeing. either, well, is that what he really meant? was he trying to suborn perjury in some way or the run of the mill advice lawyers always give? >> no this is not the run of the mill advice lawyers always give. this was a very concerted effort to obstruct the committee and basically intimidate and influence a witness. both extremely serious felonies. witness tampering by itself is a 20-year felony. you don't tell a witness to say i don't recall when you actually recall. you don't tell a witness that if they say i don't recall you can't be charged with perjury. that is just not true.

we had in the water gait prosecution, nixon's appointment secretary was convicted of multiple counts of perjury for saying i don't recall. you don't tell witnesses to be a team member, to be part of the team that donald trump reviews your transcripts and is going to see what you did. you don't offer them jobs and tell them that we're going to take care of you. this is the kind of activity i used to prosecute with the mafia. this is just not something a lawyer can do, is supposed to do, and it is against the law. the question is one of proof. you mentioned roger stone b he was convicted of obstructing a committee investigation. and intimidating a witness for doing very much the same thing except there what he said to that witness was recorded in a

message. we don't have that here. we have cassidy hutchinson's testimony, the lawyer denying it but then lots of circumstances surrounding what happened with cassidy hutchinson. there were other people she spoke to about this. she went back to the committee herself because she felt she had done wrong by not revealing certain information. so if i were the prosecutor, i'd be examining all of these different people that she spoke to. i'd be looking at other witnesses that appeared before the committee who apparently were treated the same way by the lawyers that were paid for by the trump organization. and try and put together a case. it is not going to be as easy as it was in prosecuting roger stone. >> really important point. it also brings up the point you raised about the intersection of the politics of this. the idea that she was able to get or went on to get a different attorney. she felt she had trump looking

over her shoulder at one point and the idea of believing who am i really working for? am i thinking about this from my own perspective? is it about trying to protect somebody else? i wonder how this plays. facts like that knowing it is the credibility assessment between two people. cassie hutchinson of course who's already been called into question about her comments regarding the allegations about whether trump grabbed the steering wheel or not. she has been taken to task for it unfairly or not but the idea of her being questioned, how does it play in the court of public electorate? >> it is a great question. there are two questions. one is how is it going to play in a republican primary in 2024. that is separate from how will the dust settle? how will americans over time come to understand what happened? i think when any nation goes through a time of crisis, and that is what the last two years have been, what january 6th was,

there are almost several layers of acceptance that come with it. in the last couple years the sense has been we survived. the public survived. the constitution survived. the judicial branch did what it had to do. the 2022 elects went okay. but american democracy is still extremely vulnerable and the granularity that may come out of all of these depositions, these thousands of pages, kind of the connection of what one person said and another person said, those kind of details about intimidation, political threats, about how the people supposed to be in charge of ethics did things that don't fall within the normal rubric of ethics. that will tell the story of what really happened. >> you mentioned how cassidy

hutchinson has come under criticism about her testimony. that trump lunged at the driver of his presidential vehicle. the transcript released was when she talked with the committee again in september and she doubled down on her testimony to that effect. she specifically said not only did tony ornado say it but he recollected that to me in subsequent conversations. so she has been criticized for this and there's been some denial but even as recently as september when she talked to the committee again after her public testimony she says, no. that conversation happened. he told me what trump's actions were. she has doubled down on that. >> that is so important and thinking also about how this is going to impact the special counsel and what the doj is doing because it wasn't as though they were waiting fon criminal referrals. but just thinking about the currency here and i'll end with you nick, the currency here is

not really the referrals but the information. it is the transcript. they are the things that the doj would not have already been privy to if they hadn't had access to a witness for whatever reason, interviewed a witness or deposed or had a grand jury hearing. the currency here we're dealing with and trading with the doj at this point will be those substantive transcripts that compare and contrast and work with them. right? >> it all comes down to the evidence. jamie raskin said at the hearing they had substantial evidence that donald trump committed certain crimes. the question for the department of justice is not substantial evidence but can they prove those crimes beyond a reasonable doubt? there has to be sufficient evidence to prove those crimes beyond a reasonable doubt and that is something the department of justice is within their expertise, out of the lane of the house committee and jamie

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our own cnn k file, the investigations finding santos' claims his grandparents survived the holocaust by escaping the nazis are contradicted by multiple sources and records reviewed by genealogists. jessica dean has the latest. tonight incoming congressman george santos finally aktweetin i have my story to tell and it will be told next week. one part of the new york republican's background now in question? his family history. >> my grandparents survived the holocaust >> i am very proud of my jewish heritage and my grandparents' story my grandfather fleeing ukraine, stalin's persecution, going to belgium finding refuge there, marrying my grandmother, fleeing hitler and going to brazil. >> reporter: but those claims are contradicted by sources reviewed by cnn's k file

including family trees, records on jewish refugees, and interviews with multiple genealogists. >> i always joke i am jew-ish. i come from a jewish home. i grew up and was raised roman catholic. >> reporter: a professional genealogist who helped research santos' family tree at cnn's request said in an e-mail, quote, there is no sign of jewish and/or ukrainian heritage and no indication of name changes along the way. >> today i live the american dream. >> reporter: it is the latest development since the "new york times" first reported and cnn confirmed santos may have misrepresented parts of his resume regarding his college education and employment history saying he attended schools and worked at companies with no record of his employment. while some are calling for an investigation and potential consequences. >> this is clearly a serial effort to defraud voters in his

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we're getting breaking news in about the january 6th full report. they apparently have now filed it with the house of representatives and we are going to be able to see it they are saying tonight. as we learn more information about how the process will unfold, at what point it will be made public and who will be receiving the actual full report and what capacity we'll bring you that information live here on cnn. we've been waiting for this. i have of course maria cardona

here and my guests to talk about a number of issues. what has been your reaction to this delay? has it made you anxious about the credibility or the issue of the report or just the regular rigmarole of burks? >> i am more in the latter camp. rigmarole of bureaucracy. it is not my sense the timing is the sort of thing frankly i look at this from the perspective of a pollster. is it going to affect public opinion in any way? i haven't viewed the delay as something hugely consequential in terms of how the public will receive it. what we've seen over the last year is as this committee has rolled out things even though there has not necessarily been one blockbuster that is an earthquake in the polls slowly over time it has reasserted to a lot of people that democracy is a garden that needs tending. you can't just take things for granted. we saw in the midterm elections

with voters saying they have these anxieties about the state of our democracy and division, that is still here. though we've had a little bit of a delay i think for most americans that is the kind of thing we talk about on the news or in washington isn't the sort of big thing that is going to move -- >> on that point, in some respects though i am eager to get it in my hands and read it. i admit that. >> we all are. >> but the date is arbitrary. we have also seen a lot. we've seen ten public hearings and 11 summation hearings as well as. the transcripts are out. we've seen video. what are you looking for to see more information? >> to back up what kristen said it is something we expect from this committee because they have been very serious throughout the whole thing. i think they are focused on

being careful and precise and correct as opposed to making news. i think what i'm looking for is what additional tid bits are there in this report they're going to add? i think there some quite bombastic news pieces and all of the testimony that did bring to light just how close we were to losing our democracy. to the point about what americans were so concerned about in the midterm elections this report is going to put everything in a bigger and broader context for us to never forget what happened here and how can we avoid it happening again? we saw congress take steps to do that right with the passing of the electoral vote act. that was a big piece of this. you would think we wouldn't need

to do something like that but it clearly was something that was needed given what happened on january 6. what else needs to happen to make sure we are never on the brink of losing our democracy again. >> let's bring in jessica schneider here. she is a justice correspondent. what are you learning tonight? >> i was just on set with you and we were saying when is this report coming out. we got offset and i got the word the final report has been delivered to congress and it will in fact be delivered publicly tonight. now it is a matter of he when exactly is the report released? we have a whole team of people standing by ready to jump on this as soon as it is publicly released. this is going to be a massive report expecting close to 1,000 pages. we've seen the executive summary spanning 150 pages. there is a lot more to come. we understand several chapters. it is something our team wibl passing through at this late hour now. we've been waiting for this

report about since midday yesterday. yes it has been filed with the house of representatives and we expect it to be publicly released at any minute here. >> do we have any information about the availability online? can you click through and read transcripts and watch video? i am very curious about the vehicle by which it is going to be publicized and how you can get and see it. >> that is a really good question. one thing we knew is they had to send this to their printer to get everything printed and ready to be read by the public. at this point i am not aware of how they'll release this to the public. i know how they'll release it to the media. they'll send it out to the people covering this committee. it is not clear. at least i haven't had the information as to how this is going to be publicly released perhaps on house of representatives website.

that is something i'll check out and get back to you on. >> you are doing such a wonderful job bringing us what you have when you have it. it feels urgent to people. thank you for all you are doing. there is a lot. i can't underscore enough. we have been watching for months now these hearings. i would be surprised if there were many surprises contained. you know the value of the medium, visual medium that is testimony. if you're hiding your ace and waiting for the proverbial trump card and have it buried in a footnote i would be stunned. dumber things have happened in washington, d.c. i admit that. in terms of why it is important now, we are going into 2023 as we go right into 2024 and a presidential election year. an outgoing congresswoman liz cheney a republican has been stressing time after time why this is urgent because it is a

continuing threat. you are a pollster and constantly have your thumb on the pulse of what matters to people. are you getting a sense there is still interest in a concerted interest in getting this information even now? >> i think for folks on the republican side there is an exhaustion and desire to move on. that is not to say a lot of republicans don't look at what happened on january 6th and think it was horrible but there is a big difference in the polls in terms of how the parties are viewing not was january 6 terrible or not but what should we do about it no you? for republicans there is a sense of i want to turn the page and move on. the one way that could perhaps be good news for some who don't necessarily like the former president is it it also means for many republicans they are sick of relitigating 2020 all together. not just january 6 and who was

responsible and what have you but also the relitigation of the 2020 election entirely. there are a number of republicans who say i think donald trump did some good things in policy but i'm sick of the relitigation of that yeah lex. i am ready to turn the page. that is how the dynamic may play out where somebody like liz cheney would be okay with. >> you saw the fatigue in the rid term elections and the red wave that did not materialize. >> i think this is going to be a huge challenge for kevin mccarthy coming in as a supposed -- we don't even know yet but he wants to be speaker of the house. he doesn't even have the votes yet. he is trying to get to 218. what is he doing? he is engaging in a corrupt bargain selling out to his maga caucus who knows what promises on investigations, promises on impeachment. all of that comes back to the

relitigation of 2020. it is all basd on the big lie. the maga caucus believes the big lie. everyone in that congress who kevin mccarthy is going to, have to nail to in order to get their votes and who knows what else he has to do to play kate them in the next two years, it is going to be a huge challenge for kevin mccarthy to demonstrate to the american people they deserve to continue to have control of the house. if they're not able to show they are interested in governing or legislating on solutions for the american people which is what they promised during the january 6th committee releasing their report tonight. all 845 pages of it. and we are downloading it right now. our speed-readers are standing by. we'll bring you what we are learning next. and up next, a huge storm bearing down on the entire nation just a few days before

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