i'm andrea chel in for chris jansing. as we speak trying to push that $1.7 trillion funding bill over the finish line 12 hours after it looked like the whole thing might fall apart. that could have meant billions in aid for ukraine and critical legislation like count reform would go by the wayside. the senate is not the final word. the bill still has to pass the house before going to president biden's desk for suggest. all before government funding runs out tomorrow night. plus the january 6th report is setting to released at any moment. two hours ago we received one of most widely anticipated parts of the investigation. the full transcript of testimony from mark meadows' top aid cassidy hutchinson. we'll go live to capitol hill with more on that in a minute. and we'll also get the latest on the dangerous weather impacting more than a third of the

population. a blizzard could bring whiteout conditions to the great lakes and northeast. dropping as much as 3 feet of snow just in time for the holidays. we begin with the january 6th report. 800 pages of detailed information about the insurrection and what led up to it about to be released to the public. the committee put out dozens of transcripts connected to the investigation and just hours ago they released a brand new one. we have been waiting for this, the transcript of cassidy hutchinson's interview. you remember her bomb shell testimony. this laid the groundwork back in june. this happening against the backdrop of some real drama on capitol hill today as the senate puts the finishing touches they hope on the omnibus funding bill that includes a critical tool to try to prevent a repeat of january 6th, reform of the electoral count act, as well as $45 billion that volodymyr zelenskyy was pleading for in person just last night.

i want to bring in capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. clint watts is an msnbc national security analyst and distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute, and simone sanders townend, a former chief spokesperson for vice president harris, as well as paul butler, a former law professor and msnbc legal analyst. welcome, all. we're on the verge of the holidays. people are trying to get out of town. the senate is in such lockdown as chuck schumer is trying to speed through these amendments that one of our guests in the last hour, senator pat too meet, could not leave. they are handcuffed to their desks because they are not allowed to get off to a quick tv interview. he is not wasting any time.

>> they waisted a lot of time leading up to this point. now they are at the point where they are basically up against it. not jus up against the deadline of a government shutdown tomorrow, but up against the backdrop of this terrible storm that's going to grip a good portion of the country and could potentially strand many of these lawmakers here ahead of the christmas holiday. they are speeding through this. they have 18 amendments that they need to vote on before they vote on the final $1.7 trillion omnibus package. this was an agreement reached this morning after a lengthy debate last night over the extension of title 42 and getting a vote on that. there thereby two separate votes and will amount to a stalemate on that issue. but it should be enough to get this bill out of the upper chamber, send it back to the house to be voted on later this evening and avoid a government shutdown. as you point out, $1.7 trillion

in spending $45 billion for aid to ukraine. the reform of the electoral count act, countless other pieces of government funding and legislation that are massively significant as the democrats round out their control of the house and senate before republicans can take control of the house in the new year. >> they did not include what a lot of us have been hoping for for our friends, the afghan refugees who worked so closely with u.s. forces, a path to citizenship, a green card to be permanent residents and get jobs. they have been left hanging. that's one of the things that has not happened. but the electoral count act did, and that's now hanging in the balance if they can get these amendments through and get that bill done. >> absolutely. the electoral count act, it closed a thunderstorm of these loopholes. it included provisions to make

sure that, hey, electors have to be appointed on election day from the various states it clarifies that the vice president's role in this is pure ly clerical. there's no ability to redefine and it also raises the threshold for the number of senators or other members of congress needed to actually object to anything during the proceedings. i think it's important. rand paul got on board with it. i believe in the last 24 hours. so this is one of the steps that the january 6th committee report recommends happens lgbtively. there are other fixes that will be in there to prevent what happened on january 6th. >> ryan, let's also shift to the january 6th report. we have a new transcript this morning from cassidy hutchinson that's referred to. tell us about what it reveals and any indication of when the full report might come out. >> so literally any second. i'm refreshing my phone constantly waiting for that

report to drop. i will let you know the second we get it. but we obviously knew so much about cassidy hutchinson already because of the bomb shell hearing where she answered questions under oath. but these transcripts are revealing even more information about her experience, extensive conversations she had with her boss to mark madows, where meadows admits he believes the former president lost the election and that donald trump knew he lost the election. but then there's also this. somewhat of a vailed pressure campaign against associates close to the former president trying to kind of color her testimony, to a certain extent, it's part of what led her to change counsel. she said, stephane, a former trump lawyer, he was representing her. he said something to the effect of, the committee doesn't know what you can and can't recall, so we want to be able to use that as much as we can unless you really, really remember something very clearly.

and that's when you give a short, sweet response. she then goes on to tell the committee, i want to make this clear to you. stephane never told me to lie, but he specifically told me i don't want you to per engineer yourself, but i don't recall isn't perjury. they don't know what you can and can't recall. so this is a very, very suspicious interaction between hutchinson and her former attorney. i remember back at the time reporting on the fact that she had changed counsel and what that meant toward her testimony. this is in black and white that basically the fact that she changed counsel led her to be a lot more open with the committee. when you read this transcript, she goes into great detail about the things she recalled. that likely would not have happened if she kept the same counsel. >> paul butler, you are the law professor. let's talk about the line between advising your client and

witness tampering. because there was also another white house official who said to cassidy hutchinson, mark her boss, knows that your family shotgun to the effect the, you're a member of the team and so don't let mark and the boss donald trump down. so there's a lot of pressure on cassidy hutchinson. this is why there was a tell from liz cheney at the end of that hearing that there was a lot more to be said and they are going to be looking at other people. >> so witness tampering is trying to improperly influence or alter the testimony of a witness in a civil or criminal case. hutchinson said she only went with this lawyer, the first lawyer because trump folks were paying for him and she knew she needed a lawyer and couldn't afford one on her own.

if this lawyer actually dangled job offers and told her she would be taken care of, that's grounds for disbarment and potential criminal prosecution for witness tampering. lawyers like this give attorneys a bad name, and judges and bar associations take these allegations very seriously. lawyers are supposed to be officers of the court and trying to get a lawyer to -- trying to get a witness to lie in court is the opposite of the oath that ke take as members of the bar. so now we have this witness, cassidy hutchinson, as a fact witness to the crime to january 6th and now a fact witness also to a potential cover up. >> luke, let's talk about a batch of 34 witness transcripts. you dug through them and pointed out many of of the witnesses simply pleaded the fifth over and over again. we can show you some of them because john eastman pleaded the fifth more than 150 times.

he another former trump lawyer. former national security adviser mike flynn pleading the fifth to virtually every question he was asked. and kelly ward even pleading the fifth when asked about her phone number ask where she went to college what does this tell us about cooperation? >> the committee is going to be releasing hundreds of transcripts over the next few days. this was the first batch that came out last night. 34 of them. the common theme among all these were people who were invoking their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. you only do that if you believe that there's a possibility that your answer to the question could expose you to criminal liability. and so witness after witness did this. now the important thing here is that this was one way some witnesses were able to block parts of the committee's investigation. and the committee said the other day that they probably could

have made even more criminal referrals had so many people not invoked the fifth amendment. but if you do read through these transcripts, you can see more so from the questions than the answers some of the evidence the committee was amassing, things about the fake elector scheme, about who transmitted those documents to capitol hill to try to further the fake elector scheme, about calls made to local elections officials encouraging them to stop the count of the votes for president biden. so there is evidence in there, but you have to dig through them to see the text messages and the e-mails that were obtained through subpoena and were in the questioning from the investigators. >> in ab earlier settingment, we were discussing that the former head of national intelligence he testified that the president knew very well that he lost the election, but then would backslide the next day.

but he did know early on that he lost the election, which is important testimony. >> you're seeing that in cassidy hutchinson's testimony today. there's a good bit in there about her conversation with mark meadows and mark meadows says to her after the call, the famous call that donald trump knows he's lost. i'm still going to try to fight for him, but he knows it's over. there's another time when he's going to arrange a presidential archive for the post presidency. he asks her not to tell donald trump that because he wants me to keep fighting this even though we all know he lost. there's an acknowledgment on med does' part that he knows he lost, but he wants to keep trying to find ways to overturn the election any way. >> and separately on another transcript, there's one from

john radcliffe as well. clint watts, when you think about the people from law enforcement who suffered on january 6th, the officers who were attacked, we know some of them very well after all this time. what do you think when they see so many of these witnesses simply refusing to participate in the investigation in taking the fifth? >> i just think it shows the bounds of any investigation opposed to these law enforcement investigations that we have had. just compare this to what we have seen from the oath keepers, the sedition charges, the indictment and in terms of the trial, we just learned a lot more in terms of what the goals were of that plot. i think that really shows you what a law enforcement investigation can do versus just a congressional investigation, which while it's necessary, it's great to do. it doesn't get you all the way because they know two things. one, pleading the fifth allows you to dodge answering the tough questions, and the second part

is you're not really under any sort of reenforcing of other pieces of evidence to the same degree that you might get from law enforcement. you compare this to the oath keepers and proud boys investigation, there's very clearly some text messages that have been surfaced through, lawful subpoenas through investigative inquiries and search warrants. you're seeing a lot of that data show up that puts the pieces together. that's where we're going to end into this investigation today. which is what was the relationship, what did people believe when they went to the capitol, was there communication between the white house and those people that descended on the capitol that day, and was it a pre-planned event. we won't really get to the toughest questions that were out there. it might be illusive in the end because we don't have much coming out of these transcripts that have been shown so far. >> and you actually spoke to the committee chair about the

investigation and the cooperation between the committee and the department of justice. tell us about that. >> in my conversation with chairman thompson yesterday, i asked him if he had confidence in the justice department investigation. he says he's more comfortable now that jack smith is on the case. he went on to detail that the work of the committee has been very substantively helpful to the justice tpt department. i want to play what he said. >> there were people that we deposed that justice had not deposed. there were electors that justice couldn't find. >> you found them? >> we found them. we deposed them. we had a lot of information, but now we make all that information available to them. and if they come back and want to interview staff or any of the members asked any additional information, we would be more than happy to do it. >> and chairman thompson

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ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy. he met with the president first at the white house. he gave an historic speech to a joint meeting of congress last night with a dire assessment of the next few months saying, quote, let the world see in the united states is here. >> we defeated russia in the battle for minds of the world, and next year will be a turning point. know it. the point when ukrainian courage and american resolve must guarantee the future of our common freedom. your money is not chair whichty. it's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. >> there was applause, but it was not universal. i want to bring in josh letterman from the white house. matt bradley in kyiv for us. also with us is university of

new york msnbc analyst peter beinart. so josh, let's talk about this because there were some republicans not including the senate leader, but some other republicans on the house side who were not on board with this money for ukraine. we now are waiting for the omnibus to get through, because that money is stuck in there, the $45 billion how did the historic trip lay the oundation for what ukraine needs and wants from the u.s.? they didn't get everything they wanted in terms of weapons. >> they didn't get everything they wanted, but they got more than they had gotten in the past, at least in terms of the first patriot missile battery. the goal really was to try to show to president putin if he thinks he's going to be able to play a waiting game and that western support for ukraine will erode as we head into the second year of this war in february, that is not going to happen. and today secretary blinken, as

he was having his closing news conference for the year saying the u.s. is taking the ball on this issue and running with it. even this announcement we saw today from the national security council is part and parcel with that. with the white house saying they have now declassified information about north korea transferring arms, lethal weaponry to the vagner group, which has 50,000 people fighting in ukraine. that is a strategy of declassifying intelligence trying to blow up the russian spot that the u.s. has used from the very beginning of this war. even before the war had commenced, that's an indication that the u.s. plans to continue with the very similar strategy of trying to put the russians on their heels going forward into next year and certainly that $45 billion in the omnibus, more than the white house had even been asking for will go a long way to making sure that president biden is able to

deliver on that long-term commitment that he pledged to president zelenskyy during his visit yesterday. >> so matt brad bradley, there have been rolling blackouts. we had that experience over the last hour. volodymyr zelenskyy said his land is soaked in blood, that the russian tactics are primitive. emergency power outages are continuing there. the importance of his trip here is showing the world the solidarity with the u.s. and having a face to face meeting with president biden to clear up any misconception asks to make the appeal for the tanks and the offensive weapons, the artillery, the jets. he's not getting them yet. and maybe he won't. but as josh was just saying, he did get a lot. >> reporter: he did indeed get quite a lot. they broke barriers, and not

just on the battlefield. they have been having a lot of success on the battlefield. but the patriot missiles, that's a big deal not just in terms of how they are going to be able to use them, to stop russian aerial bombardment. this is a defensive weapon. that's a big deal for ukrainians. this visit by zelenskyy was two parts gratitude, one part further requests. when we talk in my conversations with ukrainian officials and politicians, they are very, very thankful to the united states for providing so much money and material, but they still want more. they always say when they say thank you, they remind you that the fact is the united states is giving all of this money, but it's the ukrainians doing the fighting and the dying. i spoke with one ukrainian member of parliament, who is a leading member of volodymyr zelenskyy's party and here's what she had to say. >> from my heart and from the people of ukraine, i highly

appreciate every penny, every cent that has been spent on your side. every humanitarian aid you're sending by mail, every designer thing you're doing, every cookie you baked to collect money, this is all so touching. we highly appreciate it. here we pay the highest price. it's our lives. that can't be measured with budget figures. >> reporter: as that parliamentarian mentioned, they are very, very grateful, but they want more. and what they really want, this patriot missile system is a defensive weapon. she mentioned it was only a couple months ago that ukraine asked for that patriot missile system this was even before the invasion started they were requesting this. they got a hard no from washington now they are receiving the patriot missiles. that means that not only have they broken barriers on the thefield, but they believe if

they can bring washington to yes on the patriots, they can get more offensive weapons. what they really want are these offensive artillery weapons like the atacms, which are surface to surface. that means they will be able to fire weapons into russia even. they will have that capable or even into crimea that's something that washington really doesn't want to see ukrainians do, at least not with american-made weapons because they believe that could possibly escalate the war and maybe even bring putin to do more disastrous things like using nuclear weapons, which he's threatened to use. at same time when you speak to ukrainians. they say there's no such thing as a weapon that's purely offensive when it comes to high-technology. they believe that any offensive capability they have is fund thely defensive because they are the ones defending their homeland and using american weapons in order to do it. so for them, this is just

another step forward and it means that they are going to be asking for more. as long as they feel like they are winning and like washington will oblige them, the ukrainian government officials are saying they are going to be making further requests and asking for the kinds of weapons that might make washington a little bit uncomfortable. >> more than a little bit because they got a hard know on the jets again. and for the reasons why the fear in washington is that it would enlarge and extend the war. peter, this was a dramatic show from the ukrainian leader to come, to leave his country for the first time in 300 days. it showed courage and confidence in the security that nato did afford him. to give the speech on u.s. soil, he made a point to make it in english it was brilliantly delivered. he referenced critical comparisons between ukraine and our own history as well as the fact this it was resident of

churchill in some ways. we will never surrender take a listen. >> just like the brave american soldiers which held their lines and fought back hitler's forces during the christmas of 1944, brave ukrainian sol engineers are doing the same to putin's forces this christmas. >> speaking of, the battle of the bulge and comparing ukrainian forces up against russia as the american forces that horrible winter up against the nazi onslaught. >> yes, one of the interesting things about this conflict has been this fight over the meaning of of world war ii. because vladimir putin has continually invoked rush as play

ing the role of the anti-nazi force calling zelenskyy and his regime nat sis. you see how zelenskyy is trying to take this analogy, which remains the most powerful analogy in the united states when it comes to a just war. world war ii, saying, no, we represent the willing sit of the fight that the allies waged against fascism and vladimir putin's russia is now in the position that the nazis were in, essentially as an aggressive anti-democratic authoritarian power. >> peter, this speech could not have come at a more critical point. right before the republicans take over the house in january with again.com county talking about no blank checks. despite the warm reception from congress, steve scalise saying house republicans, pressed an interest in maing sure the money is going to be scrutinized, which both the

white house and zelenskyy say is happening. and also militarily, as "the new york times" is reporting a new analysis that it is stalemated and there's great concern by zelenskyy about a new russian offensive as soon as the per ma frost freezes over and the tank cans start rolling again. >> i think he put time on the clock essentially to shore up american support, which is critical for overall nato support to give ukrainians more time, in order to show even more gain. they have already shown a significant number this year. more gains, which then actually becomes a cycle that can give people more reason to support. the problem is he's facing the winter where things will probably, the pace of ukraiian gains may slow. plus the possibility of a significant russian counterattack, so the danger for

him is that russia shows it's going to be in this fight for a long time and that strengthens the forces in the republican party and also in parts of europe like germany that say we need to push the ukrainians towards a quick peace. he's trying to the politics here in washington against that dangerous prospect. >> it's great to see all of you. happy holidays. thanks for being with us today. we move on to the crypto collapse. disgraced former ftx ceo sam brankman-fried appearing in a new york city courtroom. he was extradited after waive ing extradition. he's back from the bahamas and in court. we'll talk about that, coming up next.

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for children, but i think this was an historic speech to congress. but the thing that i'm most worried about, when karen and i started the ukraine children's action project in may, we were concerned initially about two big things. one was the enormous amount of psychological trauma experienced by children. remembering there were 7.5 million kids in ukraine prior to the war beginning, and this phase of the war, in february, and of those 7.5 million kids, 2.5 million of them were displaced outside the country, and became refugees. and another 2.5 million children are displaced to the west, which had been considered a safe zone within ukraine. everything changed on october 10th, when the war actually became a terror campaign, mounted against the people, the civilian, the society, in ukraine, and it's a disaster for children. they are, kids are at extreme risk now from the freezing cold

temperatures, there is at least 15 million ukrainians who are not getting heat and electricity, and the winter is brutal. and we have been now shifting some of our focus to providing, buying generators, and wood-burning stoves and winter clothing for children, which is so desperately needed right now, and in great volume, and fortunately, we have a couple of volunteers working in collaboration with a lot of very reliable not-for-profits there and guys are actually shopping for generators in poland. and we're going to get them shipped in there. they're on the way as we speak. hundreds of them. and we're going to do what we can. but i'm worried about the winter, plus covid, for people of ukraine, especially the kids. >> what can people do, with the christmas spirit, the holiday

spirit, what can people do to help? >> look, this boils down to people being as generous as they can around this time. it's not great to actually ship items, we can't be, for example shipping generators and winter clothes from the u.s., the logistics are overwhelming, but people can contribute to organizations, especially i must say like the ukraine children's action project, which is, the website is ukraine cap.org. and you can see it there on the screen. but if people do that, the mass majority of money will be going to buying what is directly need tloefrd and it is tax exempt and people should think about donating this holiday season. but really throughout the winter, this is going to be fwrutle for the children of ukraine. >> thank you for something you always do, we will have it up on the screen and i will put it out on social media as well.

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