hello, good afternoon. i'm abby phillip here in washington and we begin today with the house january 6th

committee dropping a brand-new batch of key testimony and for the first time we are now seeing interview transcripts from 19 additional witnesses and they include some of the closest people inside former president trump's inner circle. his son, donald trump jr., former fox news anchor kirsten gillibrand as w-- kimberly guile so let's get right to cnn's sara murray looking through all of these documents. sara, thousands of pages of transcripts. some we've seen through the january 6th committee hearings and you've been reading through donald trump jr.'s transcripts. what are you finding in there? >> reporter: you know, this is obviously interesting because he's the former president's son, proximity to the former president and asking him about what was happening as the riot unfolded on january 6th and they're reading back text messages he exchanged with mark meadows. at one point don junior tells mark meadows, the former

president trump, his dad has got to condemn this then says an expletive so the committee is asking him, you know, you said he's got to condemn this. what did he have to condemn and again, don junior says the violence going on, again, i think i made it pretty clear in my speech we can do this peacefully, you know, use your first amendment rights, do it that way but violence has no place in this situation. and, abby, of course, we know from our previous reporting on the mark meadows text how they were getting inundated from people including the former president's kids trying to get donald trump to call off the masses and in this transcript, donald trump jr. points out that he was often in contact with other white house aides. he said when he tried to reach his dad at the white house he would often get him through the white house operator because famously his father doesn't text, his father doesn't use emails, this is something that has stymied a number of investigators, his lack of a paper trail and you get some more insight into it into these transcripts and asked donald

trump jr. a lot about the fund-raising efforts and saw the committee make a lot of how much money donald trump raised on these baseless claims of election fraud and donald trump jr. sort of says, you know, you could send out things under my name as long as they were approved by legal. that was the tacit agreement. he would o occasionally been in touch with big donors but dialing for donors was his idea of hell. >> a lot of interesting things. a lot of i don't knows and i don't recalls in these transcripts, as well. sara, thank you. let's discuss now with former federal prosecutor renato mariotti and ron brownstein. renato, obviously in these transcripts, you're seeing an effort especially as we get closer into trump's inner circle to really try to not say definitively whether or not a lot of things happened, but one thing that has kind of struck out in many of the transcripts is the role of mark meadows who was the chief of staff at the

time. he was at the heart of a lot of this because he was the person physically closest to the president. we also learned yesterday cassidy hutchinson saw him throwing papers into a fireplace and burning them. from your perspective, what's next here for mark meadows? if you're the special counsel looking into all of this, is there more that you want to learn from him and will they be able to get those answers? >> it's a great question. i think that the challenge for jack smith is going to be the fifth amendment. if i was representing mark meadows, i would counsel him to take the fifth and not testify whatsoever unless he received immunity. i think that, you know, the question is really going to be for jack smith, does he have enough evidence to go to meadows' defense counsel who is a very fine criminal defense attorney and say, i'm going to indict your client if he does not cooperate. i think that's really the question here. otherwise, the alternative would be to immunize meadows in order

to get his testimony against trump which is dangerous because meadows may try to cover for trump. i will say by the way that i think it is apparent, you're absolutely right, abby, from reading the transcripts how much meadows was a key here. he was in many ways a funnel or a bottleneck for so many people to reach trump that day. >> and, ron, i want to just stay on don junior for a second and this issue of how he was able to or not able to get to his father. in these transcripts it makes it very clear that don junior thought it was imperative for his father to go to the oval office and say something to do something, but he couldn't get through to trump himself. what do you make of that, just the fact that even for the former president's family, they weren't able to get this message through to him at such a critical moment? >> well, to renato's first point, it is about the centrality of the role of mark meadows and how he was really

the hub, i think, or the funnel for so much of this including the efforts to communicate with him, the president, on that day. can i focus, abby, on another -- following up on another aspect of the trump jr. deposition that i think is really critical because as you know, i mean, i don't know, i don't recall, i don't remember, if you take those words out you might reduce it from 105 pages to 5. but there is one critical thing, there is one critical thing that he acknowledges and, you know, in the report the first mention of the idea of having state republican control state legislators throw out the vote in their state and simply substitute donald trump electors is from donald trump jr. to mark meadows two days after the election. it's somewhere around page 260 of the report. and in this deposition, he's asked, where did he get that idea? and he acknowledges that it was, quote, a cut and paste from someone else, that he did not develop this himself, but he

says i don't remember who gave me the idea initially. i'm guessing that as they investigate the fake elector scheme and the broader conspiracy to obstruct the official proceeding that that is something that the special counsel is going to want to press donald trump jr. on rather than just simply i don't remember. he is saying that idea, which i think is the first time it appears in the record of that suggestion and meadows responds, we are already working on it. so i think this is important insight into the genesis of the fake elector scheme. >> renato, i wonder what you make of that and also this tactic that you see repeatedly in these transcripts from don junior, from others, kimberly guilfoyle close to the former president to try to suggest they just don't remember things that are there, how far does that go when you're not a january 6th committee but a federal investigator probing some of these questions? >> well, it's not uncommon,

abby, for witnesses to take that approach when there's a criminal investigation, because it can be hard to disprove what you can or can't remember and so it's hard to charge someone with lying for saying that they don't recall and they don't remember something so that's why they're doing it. i think one thing that struck me with don junior he sometimes takes it a step further and tries to distance himself from his father which i thought was very interesting. he couldn't reach his father directly, that's why he went to meadows. he's not really involved of the he's just the fund-raising guy, look, he makes himself seem like he's really very distant whereas other media, other times if you read his twitter feed or if you're getting his fund-raising emails, which i occasionally do sounds like he's hand in glove with his father like they're talking constantly and working together and he's the heir apparent so, you know, i think it's interesting, it's really interesting when you compare it to some of the other witnesses like stephen miller who kept putting his arms around donald trump and was saying how

glorious he was and stuck with the party line. i think it shows that don junior really saw potential culpability for himself here. >> ron, speaking of stephen miller there was another key quote in miller's deposition. he was asked about this ellipse speech that happened on january 6th and miller told the investigators on the committee that it is a, quote, radical impossibility and extreme and outlandish to say that trump wanted anything but, quote, peace and harmony on january 6th. just your reaction on its face to that statement from stephen miller. >> well, look, stephen miller is the purified essence of trumpism. you know, embodiment and an individual we continue to see it in the causes that he has pushed the group that he was associated with that had those openly racist ads during the baseball playoffs about the border and so forth and, look, it is just a reminder there is a substantial portion of the republican party

still that is going to defend donald trump to the last, you know, the last yard, even after the evidence, you know, as we've talked about before about what happened in this election in swing states, the candidates who are essentially running under his umbrella. i looked at stephen miller's deposition as an indication of how hard it is going to be from the republican party to simply put donald trump in the rearview mirror no matter how many fund-raisers and other party strategists want to do so. there is a core that is deeply invested in his polarizing and divisive brand of politics and miller is a reflection of that. >> renato, one of the new pieces of information that we're getting is from actually the transcript of christina bobb, who is relaying to the committee in her testimony some conversations that she had with senator lindsey graham who, as you know, is a close ally of former president trump's and this seems to kind of speak to desire on the part of so many people around trump to find

fraud where there was none. christina says that lindsey graham tells her to just give me five dead voters, give me -- i'm sorry. that graham told meadows this, but she told the committee, give me five dead voters, find an example of legal's voting. give me a small snapshot, he says, of anything that he can take and champion in order to find -- in order to demonstrate evidence of fraud and as we know, there was no evidence of fraud but what does it tell you that someone like a sitting senator lindsey graham was basically begging for examples of anything that would prove these baseless claims that the election was stolen? >> yeah, it certainly makes it look like something i think we already knew is that he was on team trump and was willing to do what he could to try to help trump create enough of a circus

around the electoral results to try to overturn the results of the election and so one thing that i find just looking at it as a former prosecutor and a current defense attorney is, how does this line up with what he told the fulton county prosecutor? you know, there he's -- supposedly he's having phone calls to georgia trying to influence things over there and he's probably trying to take the tact that don junior was, i don't remember much. what does bobb make him look like, the exact opposite, very eager to get in there on behalf of donald trump. >> renato mariotti and ron brownstein, thank you so much for all of that analysis. and now on to ukraine for us where russia has unleashed a massive wave of missile strikes. ukraine says that this scene has played out all across the country as soldiers shoot down

dozens of russian rockets and at least 11 drones. ukrainian officials say that it is one of the largest missile barrages since the war began and more than ten months ago and that russia is targeting intentionally critical infrastructure. massive power outages now blanket several regions of that country. cnn's ben wedeman joins us now from kyiv. ben, what are you seeing in the capital right now after, you know, quite the last few hours they've had? >> reporter: well, certainly the morning we heard several large explosions here in central kyiv, and basically this was a scene played out across the country from the far east to the far west from the north to the south. here in kyiv, according to the mayor, there were 16 missiles fired in the direction of the capital, they were all intercepted, however, in the process of intercepting those

missiles, debris fell to the ground hitting, for instance, two residential areas, we went to both of them and one of them, a 14-year-old girl was injured as well as her mother and a man nearby. and even though this was just debris falling from the sky, there's massive destruction in those areas and another home we went to, we found a 79-year-old man leonid walking around the street in his bathrobe, something in a daze, his house was almost hit, just about a yard from his house. there's a huge crater where another piece of debris hit, both he and his adult son escaped with barely scratches, but in other parts of the country, people were not so fortunate in the city of kharkiv where four missiles actually did hit what ukrainian officials are calling critical infrastructure,

two people were killed and another person was killed in the donetsk region. here in kyiv 40% of the city is without electricity in the western city of lviv, 90% of the city is without power. nonetheless, the ukrainians did manage to shoot down 54 of the 69 missiles struck so their attitude at the end of the day is that all's well that ends well, abby. >> ben wedeman, thank you so much for that report. and coming up next for us, attempting to fight a startling new covid surge. why the u.s. is requiring negative tests for travelers arriving from china and how china is responding now. plus, incredible pictures from just outside of buffalo. homes covered in ice after that massive winter storm and now officials are warning that warmer weather could be bringing another disaster. and cnn's k file uncovers

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milan with nearly half, half of the passengers testing positive. and there are some unconfirmed reports that as many as 250 million people in china have had covid just in the first 20 days of this month. cnn's kevin liptack is traveling with president biden and paula hancocks is in seoul, south korea. kevin, i want to start with you. tell us more about what prompted the administration to take this step so quickly. >> reporter: well, this is really about what u.s. officials say is a lack of transparency coming from beijing amid this latest covid surge and, of course, american officials are alarmed about the numbers themselves, but perhaps more concerning is the lack of genomic sequencing data from the ground in china could help detect whether a new variant or new variants are spreading. that's what led to the rules announced yesterday. as you said all travelers coming from china to the united states

will have to provide a negative covid test before they board their plane, it can be either a pcr test or it can be an at home antigen test conducted through a telehealth service on a webcam that apply to all passengers over the age of 2 and it will go into effect on january 5th. the white house, the cdc wanted to give the airlines some time to get this infrastructure in place and what a health official said yesterday they acknowledged this isn't necessarily going to prevent covid cases coming from china to the united states and, of course, we have been down this road before. at the very beginning of the pandemic, there were these strict travel bans in place on china and other countries and it didn't necessarily prevent the virus from leaving china, but what they do say is that they hope this can help improve the genomic testing once travelers potentially get to the united states, help detect these variants, if there are new variants and help prevent them from spreading in the united states. now, this is all speaking to the

growing mistrust between washington and beijing and, of course, that's true in so many area, the economy, security, but it's also true in covid and you've heard that really since the beginning of the pandemic, u.s. officials say that china hasn't necessarily been forthcoming with details about the origins of covid. u.s. officials said just this week that china continues to reject american offers to provide vaccines for chinese citizens, u.s. officials don't have a deadline for when these new rules may lift. they say they want to get a better handle of the situation on the ground there in china. abby. >> and, paula, as kevin just said this is a tense moment for u.s./china relations but it's not just the united states. other countries are putting in similar restrictions. how is china responding? >> reporter: well, abby, they actually responded even before the u.s. officially announced that they were putting these restrictions in place because they knew that it was coming. we had a statement from the

ministry of foreign affairs, basically saying all parties need to work together scientifically against the epidemic to ensure the safe movement of people between countries. now, of course, the irony isn't lost on anybody that china is the country which has really had one of the most stringent and long-lasting restrictions. this zero covid policy when it comes to the pandemic than any other country in the world. also we heard from the spokesperson of the foreign ministry that the covid situation on the whole remains predictable and under control. that doesn't tally with what we've been seeing on the ground. our teams there and what we've been hearing, also from some media within china itself, they have been pointing the hospitalizations are significant, that hospitals are under strain and even things as basic as fever medication is very difficult to come by, abby. >> predictable and under

control, not what it seems like is happening right now. paula hancocks and kevin liptak, thank you. here at home there's some good news for southwest passengers. the company is informing customers by email that it expects to be flying a full schedule starting tomorrow, friday. and this comes after southwest canceled thousands of flights over the last week including 2300 flights just today. the airline has not provided information on its recovery efforts or plans for those affected by the massive disruptions. the winter storm that initially caused all this travel chaos affected more than just southwest passengers, patrick holland missed out on a heart transplant last week after receiving a call that there was a donor heart in seattle, he raced to the airport in alaska and only had a short window of time to get to the medical center and the weather just kept getting worse.

>> but i realized in anchorage there was also a storm going on. i mean it was crazy to watch it from out the windows. and then the second flight got canceled and then the third flight got canceled then i knew at this point i knew, i told my brother, the next phone call is not going to be good and just as i was calling her she was calling me back to tell me that they were going to give the heart to somebody else. >> just tragic. the 56-year-old added that the staff of alaska airlines jumped through hoops to try to help him and now to erie county, new york, where officials just updated the death toll there to 39 after that brutal blizzard earlier this week and as roads in buffalo re-open and the first responders conduct door-to-door wellness checks, there is concern that that number will rise. earlier today on cnn, buffalo's mayor defended the city's response to the crisis and that was after erie county executive called it inadequate.

>> he's wrong. people have operated since friday working around the clock on little sleep and i'm not going to focus on negativity. i'm going to focus on positivity and working together. that's what the residents demand of us. >> cnn's national correspondent athena jones is on the ground in buffalo. athena, there was just a press conference there in buffalo. what are we learning? what's the latest? >> reporter: hi, abby. we're learning that the death toll is rising. the erie county medical examiner has now confirmed 39 deaths that they are attributing to the blizzard. but erie county executive mark poloncarz made it clear that number is likely to rise, this is something we've been warned about over the last few days as more bodies are uncovered and discovered through the wellness checks and said there are additional bodies found but they need to be examined and autopsied to figure out whether they can be attributed to the

blizzard itself. and that 39 number, that's countywide, 31 of those deaths occurred here in this city of buffalo and as you mentioned, mayor brown responded to mark poloncarz's criticism from last night very public criticism the county executive had said that the mayor wasn't doing enough to coordinate with the county and with nearby municipalities, well, he made a point of doing something we don't often see from politicians, he apologized not once but -- not twice but several times at the top of this press conference saying that, look, these deaths are absolutely heartbreaking. he said i lost my focus. he apologized to the community for doing that. he said, it's been a lot of work, a lot of effort, a lot of hours and not a lot of sleep and last night he called mayor brown to discuss this with him texted with him. he hadn't reached him yet as of that press conference an hour or so ago but looked forward to talking with him about this and he apologized once again for losing his focus. so we're unlikely to hear more criticism and more of that whack

and forth blame game for the next day or two. one bit of good news shared is that the flooding that we've been hearing about, the concerns about flooding, those have diminished somewhat. they now don't expect -- they expect to see waterways crest but not cause any sort of major flooding, still just in case, governor kathy hochul has already ordered state agencies to dispatch resources, personnel, equipment to western new york to be in place just in case that bad flooding does materialize. we're talking about 800,000 sandbag, more than 300 generators and pumps to deal with that. that is already in place ahead of time. meanwhile the driving ban is lifted. city hall is open. the courthouse right next to it is open as are erie county offices and the snow removal continues but just more signs of this city beginning to get back to normal. but, again, we do expect the death toll to continue to rise, abby. >> and hopefully they do get relief on that flooding front. athena, thank you. up next for us, new lies

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other into these false claims about his background. su first, what do we know about these investigations? >> reporter: these investigation, abby, could potentially be a big problem for him legally. these are two investigations in the federal and local level and specifically federal prosecutors in new york are looking into his finances. the big question here is over how and where he got his money and that $700,000 that we know he loaned his campaign. there is a possibility that he tried to evade xaen finance laws by funneling his own money from his own company to his campaign and locally the probe from the nassau county district's office have launched that as well and called these numerous fabbri kisses and inconsistencies

saying it is nothing short of stunning. while he pushes ahead to come to capitol hill next week and take his spot in congress the legal path ahead for him could potentially be a huge issue as well. >> and as you mentioned, next week, he could be sworn in, likely to be sworn in. but today cnn has uncovered even more lies which is really extraordinary considering. what are the new revelations from the kfile? >> reporter: there's three new big fabrications cnn's kfile team uncovered. fabrications previously unreported. now, first santos claims that he attended an elite new york city private school called horace mann prep. the school says they have no evidence that he attended their school. santos also says he represents goldman sachs at a financial conference. he says he spoke out there at that conference against the company for investing in

renewables. that is also false. he did not ever work at goldman and to record of him appearing on a panel there but also no record of him even attending that conference that he claims he spoke at. there are also new additional false claims he's made about his family history, santos said that his mother had a historically jewish last name, but genealogists found that cnn worked with found no evidence of that name, no evidence of jewish or ukrainian heritage at all in his family tree. scrutiny intensifying around him while it is notable it's been absolutely complete silence from republican leaders on the hill. abby. >> the lies just keep coming, sunlen serfaty, thank you for that. let's discuss more on this with cnn political commentator errol louis. you are the guru of new york politics and interviewed santos twice now. or i'm sorry, you've interviewed

santos now once. two investigations are now under way. what do you think is the biggest risk to him from a legal perspective? >> well, the two areas that you talked about are going on. there's a third investigation going on, abby, as well by the state attorney general who said she was looking into some things based on the jurisdiction of the state attorney general, it's likely that it involves george santos' claim to have run a pro pet or pet rescue charity for which he publicly raised money and there's no particular record of that charity actually existing and it's unclear what happened to the money so he's got three different law enforcement agencies looking into his past. all of these are going to be real big trouble for him because any one of them could lead to serious criminal penalties or civil penalties, which could, you know, really persuade the house to take action. that would be really adverse

action. as you mentioned he is likely to be seated when the time comes next week, on the other hand, his life as a congressman, his career as a congressman could be very circumscribe and ultimately terminated if any of these legal claims turn out to work against him? >> but how long do you think republican house leadership can continue to push this to the side? this is a person who it seems now almost nothing he said about himself is true. >> that is true. i mean, there are -- there's even more to tell you the truth. i mean on social media people are showing posts where he claimed that his mother died in 9/11 and then there's another post saying he misses her because she died in 2016. it's unclear what we're going to find out. there's going to be a lot of confusion and a lot of contradictory statements but to be fair about it, abby, whether republican leadership speaks out or not, members of congress do not have the power to simply stop him from being sworn in.

this has been litigated. it went all the way up to the supreme court in the 1960s. if he meets the basic requirements meaning he's at least 25 years old, has lived in the country for -- been a citizen for at least seven years and lives in the state where he wants to represent his district, there's nothing that they can do to stop him from being seated. they can expel him with a two-thirds vote but that's a big task and a little further down the road. >> yeah, you know new york as well or better than anyone. how is this playing back in long island? we've seen now two other of his long island colleagues speaking out against him. are they worried about this blowback? >> i don't know if they're worried so much, abby, but it is notable and both are in the same class. they're both freshmen. they both won on the same day george santos did and even a third republican who also won part of what happened in new york was that republicans did quite well in some of the down state seats. all three of them said they want

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after a brutal year new jobless claims are fueling some optimism on wall street as you can see there. cnn reporter matt egan is with us now. matt, the jobless claims ticked up higher last week according to this new data but the dow is up. what's the deal with that? >> i think the good news here is that despite all these recession fears and despite the layoffs that we've heard about from tech companies and media companies, jobless claims do remain still pretty low. i mean initial claims did tick higher by 9,000 in the latest week to 225,000, but that is historically low. almost exactly where claims were a year ago and this is a sign that a lot of companies, they don't want to let go of the workers they have because they're worried that they won't

be able to get new ones. and claims are still well below the level that would cause economists to be alarmed about a recession. in fact, mark zandi, chief economistist at moody's analytics thinks jobless claims are one reason to be optimistic this economy can skirt a recession. that's because if layoffs stay low consumers can keep spending and consumer spending is the main engine of this economy, one thing to keep an eye on is continuing claims, that is how many people are filing for unemployment on an on going basis. that did tick up to a ten-month high, a sign hiring has slowed down. nothing in today's numbers that screams out imminent recession. that's good news. >> yeah. and the dow, though, is up now. it's up today but 2022 has been a brutal year for stocks. what can we expect going forward? have we perhaps turned a corner or just a reaction to those numbers? >> well, abby, you know, trading

volumes are pretty low right now, a lot of people are on vacation. it doesn't take much to move it up or down, either direction, despite the big gains today, though, markets are still deeply in the red for the year. the s&p 500, it's down by about a fifth so far this year. the nasdaq has lost a third of its value. those are big losses. this would actually be by far the worst year for u.s. stocks since 2008 and some of the household tech names, they've lost just staggering amounts in their market value. tesla also $800 billion in market value down this year. alphabet, amazon, more than 800 billion. apple, more than $900 billion. now, clearly investors are worried about next year. they're worried about the economy and worried about the fed and what it's doing to fight inflation, but, abby, thankfully this year is almost over for the stock market. we start with a clean slate next

week, and if investors end up being too pessimistic here, right, if the economy can avoid a recession, if the fed can chill out with some of these massive interest rates hike, then maybe markets could rebound early next year. >> maybe next year also, matt, we'll get economic claritity about what the economy is really doing. are we going to have a mini recession or none at all. matt, thank you again. legendary vocal artist dionne warwick has brought us countless hits while breaking racial barriers and shining light on important issues. and now the cnn film "dionne warwick: don't make me over" tells the intimate stories behind the singer's rise to global super stardom. here's a preview. >> shows were completely sold out every night. there was one side which was white where they were seated and the other side was a ballroom type setting where everybody was standing, blacks were on this

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a short time ago, the vatican provided an update on the condition of retired pope benedict. over the last several days the 95-year-old's health has rapidly deteriorated. and today his condition is described as stable, but serious. cnn's delia gallagher joins us now from rome. delia, what are you hearing from the vatican? >> reporter: well, abby, relatively good news today from the vatican. they say that he rested well overnight. that his condition is still serious, but stable. and they say that he is absolutely, they say, lucid and vigilant. so this update, abby, compared to what we heard yesterday seems to me to want to calm some of the concern that was raised yesterday about his

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