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trump there would be no january 6th. the final report from the january 6th select committee lays out the case against the former president. just in time for holiday travel, a bomb cyclone bearing down on parts of the u.s.. and with it, a slip of the tongue or the change in foreign policy. for the first time, let reporting uses the w word following the invasion of ukraine, a war. an 18 plump long in vest again, sound doesn't, interviews documents, records and house committee investigating january 6th has been released its full report. 845 pages in all which finds donald trump and his allies took part in a number of schemes to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the report makes 11 recommendations, including one aimed squarely at trump. it says, anyone who incited insurrection should be disqualified and barred from holding public office.

the report also urges new laws which would prevent a vice president or other official from overthrowing electors chosen by individual states. that's exactly what trump wanted his vice president, mike pence, to do. we have more now from cnn's justice correspondent, jessica -- >> nearly two years after the january 6th attack on the capitol, the committee tasked with investigating all aspects of that attack has finally released its report. it comes nearly two days after the committee expected to release it, all because of typographical errors and printing issues. but it is nearly 900 pages, with comprehensive narrative of what occurred before, during and immediately after january 6th. most importantly here, it also lays out 11 specific recommendations from the committee about how various agencies and even congress can move forward. he among those recommendations is the committee pointing to section of the constitution, the 14th amendment, section three, that clearly states that anyone who is engaged in an

insurrection can be disqualified from holding office. the committee says that constitutional provision should be enforced and while they don't say it directly, the takeaway here is that they believe that donald trump should be barred from holding office again, especially because he has now announced his plan to run in 2024. the committee, separately, is also pushing for passage of the presidential election reform act. that would make clear that vice presidents do not have the power to overturn elections as trump pressured pence to do. and the committee is also recommending that federal intelligence and security agencies really take a much closer look at the dangers of violent extremism. especially since members of the proud boys and oath keepers were at the forefront of the capitol attack. plus, there's a host of new details in this 800 plus-page report including about how john eastman first contacted donald trump at the white house on december 23rd 2020, almost exactly two years ago to fill trump in on his plan to get

pence to overturn the election, of, course pence refused to do that. also, how a little known attorney named kenneth cheese burrow, allegedly came up with that plot to appoint fake electors in battleground states to try and claim that trump actually won in those states. and crucially here, that fake elector plot is exactly what is now being investigated by state prosecutors, including in georgia, also federal prosecutors for the special counsel's office. and those prosecutors for the special counsel's office, they have even served subpoenas to election officials in several battleground states, as part of its ramped up investigation. so, the committee wrapping up its report, but still potentially a long way to go on the criminal side. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. -- senior political analyst and senior editor for the daily atlantic. he's from atlanta -- >> greatest you. >> thank you. >> okay, so the bottom line for the committee, without donald trump january 6th adjustment

another day. the report says there's evidence that of a multi part plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election that evidence has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion, the central cause of january 6th was one man, former president, donald trump. and many others followed. none of the events of january 6th would've happened without him. it was surprising to read the number of moving parts this plan had, the amount of time and planning that went into it'll. in many ways, that is been the great contribution of this committee from the start. in the chaos and horror of that day, an immediate aftermath, there is a tendency to say, well, i think that would happen was a flash of frustration from the president an impulsive action with him pointing his supporters toward the capital. in fact, but the committee has made clear, it was the final step in a multi pronged, multi month effort to overturn the election.

that ultimately enlisted collaboration from a large number of other republican elected officials. both in congress and especially in the states. and it is true, that none of this would have happened without donald trump as the committee says, the other caused the red is also important. he could not have done this alone. and i think what you see in this report are the glimmers of the breadth of collaboration he was able to inspire. >> that's the question. many members of the republican party who are eager and willing to help donald trump in the days after january 6th, they're still around. there's a republican party, does the gop get past? >> what the committee did, clearly, was make an unbelievably comprehensive case that donald trump violated his oath of office. in fact, may have violated the law. as well. in particular in that early trapped are on the big lie, chapter two, they show over and

again how he was told, clearly an unequivocally, not only by the justice department by his own campaign, that what he was saying about the election wasn't true. and that it was not the evidence of fraud, for example, with dominion voting systems. and later, the report makes very clear that the plan that he urged on mike pence, to simply ignore the results, he was told that violated the electoral count act. he knew that at the time. it's obviously very important from a legal point of view. if there's any criticism of this report, it's that it zooms in so tightly on trump and his circle and their culpability, that it sort of crops out of the picture those other republicans in the states and in congress. for example, when it's dealing with the fake electors, it really bends over backwards to argue that they were in effect duped, in many cases, by the trump campaign in the trump white house. obviously, their investigations going on in the states after

the special counsel whether that is in fact the case. >> the report says there is evidence from election day in november to january 6th, the storming of the capitol, trump within his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure or condemnation targeting other state legislatures or state or local electorate administrators. to overturn state election results. it seems there is more and more evidence that this is like a mob rule, a mob tactics being used by the trump administration and they're muscling of election officials to overturn the results. as well as what we're hearing from cassidy hundreds and, that she had a lawyer paid for by the trump allies, she did know that the time. and he wanted to protect the boss. just don't recall everything. >> staggering details. that number jumped out at me as well. obviously, there were many local officials predominately republicans in these states who resisted that pressure from trump. there were others who went along with it.

and participated in the fake electors scheme. one thing that really struck me was a memo from a white house official, that i had not seen previously disclosed. it was included in the final report. in which this official argues that they don't even need evidence of fraud for state legislatures to overturn the votes in their states, and instead, award the electoral college votes to donald trump. the threat of socialism from joe biden, joe biden, was sufficient to justify overturning the votes of the people in their state. that really goes to this larger question, because this is the argument so much of conservative media that trump indeed other republicans and elected officials have been beating their base for years, that any democratic candidate would so transform and deform the country, what uprooted from what it is been for over two centuries, that essentially, any means necessary are justified to prevent that. it's been summarized as the

flight 93 argument. and the question i think, the big question that the committee, the one question they did not grapple with, even if you did deal with trump, even if you politically marginalize him or indict and convict him, is that virus contained inside the broader conservative movement? certainly, among the extremist groups that they explored here in this. >> very quickly, we've been looking at the proposal going along of how many people are being moved and convinced by this committee. the bottom information they put out over the last 18 months. do you think that trump bases impacted anyway by this report? >> i don't author impacted by this, certainly, there eroded by the science of his electoral failures in 2022. you know, someone made the point to me, they really shouldn't be considered the metric. someone who works -- studies democracy. they pointed out in the past episodes like this, there's been an elite reaction that

says, we should not look back. we can have one administration judge the action of a previous administration as criminal. that was the argument gerald ford used when he fired richard nixon. the argument breakaway used in 2009 when he chose not to prosecute torture under the bush administration. we're not hearing that argument. you're not hearing that except for the die hard trump loyalists, in fact, during the opposite argument. the failing to uphold -- and establish accountability is the real danger. to society. the thing that a coup without consequences is practiced. i think there is the committee success. they have really made the point, very strongly, that we cannot simply turn the page and refuse to ignore the magnitude of what happened on january 6th and move on to other things. >> ron, as always, so good have you with us. we really pressure time anyone sites. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> an unprecedented wind storm is moving across parts of the u.s. right now. dangerous frigid temperatures,

cold winds, snow and ice making for treacherous travel conditions ahead of the christmas holiday weekend. more than half of the u.s. population, about hundred 70 million people, or a windchill in winter weather alerts across the country. more than 2000 flights scheduled for friday had been canceled, adding to the chaos from thursday, which saw similar number of cancellations, the storm is expected to bring a bomb cyclone, with air pressure dropping to appoint equivalent to a category two hurricane. and you know it's cold outside when people from wyoming notice the freezing weather. cnn's lisa kavanaugh has the details reporting from denver, colorado. millions of people experiencing the peak of what the weather service is calling a once in a juror generation type event. others still bracing. >> the bomb cyclone producing ice and snow is impacting more than 105 million people across the country. winter alerts from coast to coast, for snow and icy conditions.

the dangerous cold has over 150 million people, or half the u.s. population, under wind chill alerts. with below zero wind chills as far south as texas. in the midwest, more than a foot of snow and possible blizzard conditions expected. south dakota's famous sioux falls, frozen. in some parts of kansas, the national weather service reporting wind chills below negative 30. there and in the plains, the cold expected to stick around for christmas weekend. likely making it the coldest christmas there in roughly 40 years. >> your nose hairs literally freeze. >> even though he's used to the cold, people in wyoming are feeling the arctic blast. >> it's cold. but when it's negative 20, it just another level. >> slick ice and snow making driving conditions dangerous. abandoned vehicles, stranded drivers, -- >> a lot of people have things in their vehicles, kits ready to be deployed if they get stuck in their vehicle somewhere. >> weather hazards causing road closures in various parts of

the country. zero visibility, making it hard for emergency workers to respond. >> there's hand warmer, socks, beanie, some hygiene products and then some water and a blanket. >> in colorado, outreach workers trying to provide help and keep people warm. >> they said it's gonna be cold. i said get off the streets. this really extreme emergency, they really be right on it. >> buses of people seeking shelter at the denver coliseum, to stay out of the freezing cold. >> it may look like things are getting back to normal, the sun is out here in denver, finally, but looks can be deceiving. it still feels incredibly cold, in fact, the city of denver is opening up new warming centers, there is some relief on the horizon. we are expecting temperatures to go back up, slowly but surely, on friday and by christmas day, we could be seeing highs of 50 degrees. of course, there is less relief incitement rest the country. lucy kafanov, cnn, denver.

she's looking very drugged up there let's go to our cnn. -- >> got six or seven seats over, their power outages already what more is to come? >> this area of low pressure continues to deepen, and as it does so, the cold presses eastward. here's that area of low pressure over the great lakes, bringing in quite a bit of snowfall there, the front itself pushes eastward, exist far south as the gulf of mexico, kicks out here by sunday. that arctic blast will hold as we just discussed. lucy just told you. look at this. this massive temperature drop it indianapolis that occurred overnight, and early morning, by midnight we dropped 43-degree temperature drop. in just nine hours. so, it's pretty chilly. we went from 41 degrees to two below, and here we are, with temperatures over the last 24 hours continuing to fall. big difference compared to where we were yesterday morning. in memphis, it's 41 degrees, colder. here we are, bringing in actual

temperatures right now in des moines at nine below. it feels like 37 degrees below zero. that's what counts. the feels like temperature. the windchill, when you factor in the wind. wind gusts in grand rapids michigan reaching 30 miles per hour. this is just going to hold, as that area of low pressure slowly makes its way off to the east. windchill warnings from the plains down into texas on up into the mid-atlantic and the ohio valley, where temperatures will feel like 35 to 40 below at times as the winds continue to gust. with that frostbite can happen within 5 to 10 minutes. so, if you have to go out and about, we are gloves. protect the extremities. make sure that you, best advice i can give, you just stay inside. wind chills all across the nation here, going to be dropping down to nearly 30 below in chicago. and better yet, we had snow on top of it, which doesn't help with winds gusting, we still

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welcome back everyone, i'm john vause, you're watching cnn newsroom. the long awaited much anticipated final report by the january six house select committee is being released. and the conclusion is blunt. the central cause of the insurrection was just one man, former president, donald trump. none of the events of january 6th would've happened without him. it is trump and his allies orchestrated an effort to overturn the 2020 election, including submitting fake electors in the states he lost. the report recommends anyone who incited insurrection should be disqualified from holding public office.

los angeles, jeff assist go levinson and professor of law at -- and host of the passing judgment boss podcast. hi jessica, good to see. you >> could hear you, john. >> donald trump, just let this sink in, is being accused of a multi party conspiracy when he was president to overturn an election and the accusations are backed up by more than 800 pages of what looks like credible evidence and witness testimony often under oath. you know, it's a momentous day. but with all that evidence, is there a direct link between donald trump and the actual violence on that day on capitol hill? >> i think there is. i think that's why when the january 6th committee had its final hearing on monday, they talked about insurrection. and one of the criminal referrals was for at least aiding and abetting those who actually did storm the capitol. i think that, based on all the evidence, all of the witnesses, all of the documents they looked at, you can draw a through line between the former president and what happened in

the capital. and let's remember for those who want to criticize the report, and want to say, no, you can't do that through line, the evidence, the witnesses here. almost exclusively where people who wanted the former president to win. they told the truth because they were under oath. >> so, what does the department justice do now? there's never been a case like this before. >> there's never been a case like this before, thank goodness. we don't want to be normal. the department of justice has its own parallel investigation, but they also now have an 845 page roadmap. now, look, we'll have to remember at this historic moment, what a house select committee, a political body, says. what they deemed to be criminal, that's different from what the department of justice and prosecutors might decide. when they decide whether not to file charges, they're saying we can go into a courtroom and show, proof beyond reasonable doubt, that these crimes occurred.

having said that, i think after the hearings, after the report, if the department of justice doesn't go forward, they owe us a big explanation as to why. because there really is an enormous amount of evidence here, including it's not just the insurrection, it's obstruction. it's defrauding the united states. it's making false statements of material fact. there's a lot here. >> federally, or the select committee released a transcript of interviews with witnesses including cassidy hutchinson's testimony. she worked for the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, turns, out trump allies were paying for her lawyer. and this is what she told the committee. he specifically told me, i don't want you to perjure yourself, but i don't recall isn't perjury. they don't know what you can and can't call. later, he allegedly told her, the less you remember, the better. he also said to her on another occasion, that is all about protecting the boss. where to something like that a quite to obstruction of justice? and this lawyer, he was an ethics adviser to the trump white house which says a lot.

what sort of promise problems is he facing? >> iron is dead. what we've seen, is that attorneys are facing repercussions. so we've seen, for instance, really rudy giuliani has faced a number of barr panels. and when we talked about, i remember in the wake of the election litigation, you and i talked about, when i teach this in al in an election law classroom. and the answer is, no, i would teach this in an ethics classroom. in a legal ethics classroom. as to what not to do. so, could this rise to the level of criminal behavior when you have an attorney saying, well, don't lie, but if you want to just lie and say that you don't remember anything, that's perfectly fine. yes. that can be a problem for an attorney. both legally and if they want to keep their bar card. again, we have seen, there's referrals in this report to the house ethics committee for members of congress. there was a discussion about whether or not some of the attorneys here needed to be referred to their state borders. here's another example. >> it's quite a legacy from the

trump administration. jessica, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> the biden administration is asking u.s. supreme court to -- the trump era emigration policy known as title 42. the policy allows border control agents to admittedly turn away migrants to enter the country illegally. in the name of covid prevention. thousands of migrants are waiting at the border as the policy remains in limbo. cnn's david culver has the story of one couple hoping to make it into the united states, but they want to do it legally. >> there are those across illegally, streams of people every day, every hour, and then there are those who watch, wait and face the unknown. here in what us, this is what the u.s. looks like for alexei hernandez and lucy bestie us. >> we are not criminals, we are good people, they stressed. >> the two met while serving in the venezuela military, in october, they start their truck nerve, fleeing political

turmoil. hiking through jungles, rafting murky waters, riding a train from on top. so close to their final destination until policy and this health their journey. before sunrise tuesday, we watch as texas law enforcement mobilize, sealing off this popular access point to american soil, one of the states efforts to stop the flow of bargains, but they only reroute them in short distance down the river, creating a new bottleneck for illegal crossings and a tense standoff. the setting sun ushers in freezing temperatures. by nightfall, migrants settle in on the u.s. side of the river, building campfires to keep warm, hours later, some russian other border entry point about a mile away. under title 42, they can still be immediately expelled on the grounds of covid prevention. lucy and alexei determined to enter legally. >> she wants to do it the right way, she tells me, and knows exactly where she wants to go.

far from their big apple dreams, unable to return home, stuck in international purgatory. >> i am here with my partner, she says, discriminated against, they say, because they're migrants, they're women and they are a couple. to be safe, they avoid public displays of affection and traveling groups. >> another reason they want to get to the other side, one where there, we will have all of our families, she says. the very mention a family triggers a motion that lucy carried since leaving venezuela. lucy, her mom and siblings, alexei, her ten-year-old daughter. we hurry across traffic about half more from where we first met the couple at a shelter, were numerous to go, families lined up, hoping to escape the freezing cold. lucy and alexei among the fortunate, this is home, at least for now.

you need some of their new friends, fellow migrants from all backgrounds. >> how many people altogether are usually in here at night? >> altogether, 135. we don't have the capacity for the demand. >> the church group that runs a shelter bolstered by locals donating their time and food, like the cities in the u.s., they are feeling the strain for the migration search. the city has always been very generous's to migrants, but in this case, with so many people, it's difficult. the city is not prepared for this influx, he says. >> back in the shelter, you lexi struggles having left his daughter behind, telling me, i don't know when i can give him my love again because right now, we're just trying to provide for. lucy saying that the hardest part in this moment right now is being so close and not being able to cross but echoing from

their phone, a familiar song that chronicles a margaret's journey that brings back smiles and hope. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we're going to make it, we're going to make it, she says. it's precisely because of title 42 that these two want to avoid doing with the migrants you see behind me are doing. thousands of them turning themselves into u.s. customs and border patrol, so as to seek asylum officially. but the problem that they were facing in under title 42, as soon as they enter, they risk being deported to places much farther and much more dangerous. david culver, cnn, juarez, mexico. when we come back, what happens in china will not stay in china. and right now, china is in the grips of a severe covid outbreak spreading at late speed. with a number of new infections possibly doubling within hours.

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from zero-covid to zero plan, beijing is rollback a pandemic restrictions and now health experts warn the rest of the world should brace for the arrival of new variants that could prove more dangerous than the ones we've already seen. the warning comes as hundreds of health officials rather from across the country are traveling to beijing to assist medical centers as a president wave of infections, ripples across the country -- live in hong kong. there's going concern about the real toll of china's current wave of infections. how do we know these numbers are real? and what more do we know about this? >> yeah, concern is certainly rising over the true scale of covid-19 infection across china. look, official figures in china

are not reliable. especially now as the country carries out less testing as than ones from years of its zero covid policy, and especially after recently narrowed its definition of what constitutes a covid related death. for this month, for december, so far, china has officially reported only eight deaths from covid-19. eight. that is a remarkably low number. especially in the face of just mounting evidence showing a surge of infection in covid-19 deaths across the country. in the chinese capital, beijing, our team on the ground there has filmed evidence of a completely -- overwhelmed crematorium, a parking lot there is packed. smoke's seen billowing constantly from its furnaces. there are yellow body bags piling up on top of each other. hospitals in beijing are overwhelmed. there are reports that medics from other provinces are being sent into the chinese capital to help pitch in and to assist, meds like fever and cold

medicines are running out, people are scared. people are desperate. we do have this we want to share with you from a resident in beijing, her name is -- she tells cnn this. quote, in the past five days, i had many symptoms. but couldn't buy any medication to treat sore throat, coughing or fever, none of the medicines are available. the u.s. secretary of state, anthony blinken, is out calling on china's as well as other nations to share, to be transparent about their covid-19 outbreaks. he cited a number of concerns. public health concerns, obviously, economic concerns. but also concerns about a possible new variant emerging. this is what america's top diplomat said, he said, quote, anytime the virus is spreading or moving around. there is the possibility that a new variant develops. that variant spreads even further, and it comes in hits us or other countries around the world. we've learned in the last few hours, secretary blinken spoke with china's foreign minister, wang yi, on the phone to

discuss several issues including the covid-19 outbreak. in china. and according to the white house readout, blinken emphasized the importance of transparency. for the international community. john? >> kristie, thank. you just very quickly, earlier today there is a story from cnn's selina wang about packed crematoriums in beijing. in the past, something like that would've been censored by the authorities there. but this one wasn't. so, what's happening? >> yeah, when the story went to air, selina sent us a note and said, wow, that was surprisingly they censor such state material. state media tries to avoid of sensitive videos of packed hospitals or packed crematoriums. but this story actually want to, air and this underscores the chaos and confusion inside the censorship regime in china. ever since china begin this u-turn, ending and un-winding years of the zero-covid policy, there hasn't been a clear

directive given to its propagandists to tell them what is the best way to frame the situation. and china right now. that's what we're seeing in state media, as images that were deemed to be suit too sensitive in the past, actually make it to air and not get back to. john? >> kristie, thank. you appreciate that. kristie lu stout, live in hong kong. brazilian football legend, pella, will celebrate christmas in a são paulo hospital. police daughter says it's best for him to continue to receive care with doctors close by, instead of spending christmas at home. the albertan stand jewish hospital -- in this is getting worse. and he's experiencing kidney in cardiac dysfunctions. a magic technology that does all the thinking for you? no more thinking. just ahead, a look at the next generation of artificial intelligence, the pros, the cons to good the bed, all of it. object. object. it's a storm that crashes, and consumes, replacing thought with worry.

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