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after the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol, the panel tasked with investigating the attack is now out with its final report. and the committee points to one man as responsible for the riots. former president donald trump. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles has the latest. >> reporter: overnight, the january 6th select committee releasing its final report. a more than 800-page narrative that concludes former president donald trump is directly responsible for the violence on that day. >> it was something that i think for most americans it was beyond imagination. >> reporter: the report providing evidence trump and members of his inner circle in an effort to cling to power and overturn his election defeat, quote, engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of pressure and condemnation in the two months between the election and the attack on the nation's capitol. if it had not been for the encouragement of donald trump,

it would have never occurred. it would have been a normal transfer of power that we do every four years when there's a presidential election. >> reporter: the report comes days after the nine-member committee voted to recommend the department of justice pursue criminal charges against mr. trump, including obstruction of an official proceeding. congress's certification of electoral votes and inciting or assisting others in an insurrection. earlier this week, the former president called the committee's work a partisan attempt to sideline him and his 2024 presidential bid. the committee beginning to release hundreds of pages of transcripts including an interview with star witness former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, who claimed that a lawyer suggested he with hold information from the committee saying, quote, the less the committee thinks you know, the better.

the january 6th report also includes 11 recommendations to ensure nothing like the attack on the capitol ever happens again. among them, urging congress to consider passing legislation to bolster its subpoena power, increase penalties against those who threaten election workers and strengthen the nation's laws against insurrection. that would in effect bar president trump from holding office again. >> no man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again. he is unfit for any office. >> that was ryan nobles reporting. overnight on social media, trump slammed the committee as partisan and repeated false claims about the 2020 election being stolen. joining us now with congressional investigations reporter at "the washington post," former fbi assistant

director, and white house editor at "politico" and with us is david jolly from florida. so, jacqueline, i just spoke with jamie raskin a few minutes ago, and he said it's not only possible we see trump barred from running, but it could be compelled by the constitution. is there any appetite in congress to adopt this recommendation or any others? >> that's the key follow-up question here and at this moment there might be the appetite, but unfortunately lawmakers on capitol hill are running out of time as democrats are transitioning to the minority and republicans will take back the majority on january 3rd. it's unclear if there's going to be some sort of last-ditch attempt to maybe pass some of this legislation, but it seems highly unlikely as we near christmas unless there's some

sort of emergency session that is called back. but some of the proposals that have actually been applauded by both republican and democratic members of congress that be reforms of the electoral count act, it was included in the omnibus to clarify that the vice president has no authority to reject electoral slates submitted by the states. so there is potential hope going forward in the next congress for some of these reforms that the committee has proposed to maybe actually become implemented in some way. >> yeah, and, sam, i spoke with the congressman about this as well, the panel doesn't criticize law enforcement and intelligence failures, it does break down the ways in which these agencies were unprepared to respond to the riots. what are relearning about that? >> well, a few things here. one is, there's always be a persistent pushback from the trump people that it was nancy pelosi who was at fault for not calling in the national guard.

they had 10,000 troops from the guard ready but pelosi never pulled the trigger. there's been thoroughly debunked. it had been and remains debunked by this report. the other thing that we are gleaning from the report is that, you know, the way that the trump administration viewed law enforcement was not as a mechanism for bringing order to an incredibly chaotic, violent and disorderly ceremony on the hill, it was to essentially protect their interests on the hill. it's a revelation that trump thought the guard could protect the rioters, the people who had come to the capitol to protest rather than the lawmakers who were threatened by the rioters themselves, including trump's vp. so this just adds another layer to what we learned over the past couple of months and years which is that trump did not view this necessarily as an egregious act,

he saw it as a potential to resurrect his chances for power. >> frank, there was, you know, so much confusion, lack of leadership as to who was in charge. the d.o.d. thought it was the doj, dhs thought it was d.o.d. how does something like this happen? >> it was painful to read this law enforcement section because, you're right, it was chaos and nobody wanted to be in charge and nobody was quite sure which part of what programs they were in charge of and then you add in -- layer in the fact that you have acting people in positions at doj and acting attorney general and acting secretary of dhs, everybody is acting, nobody wants to actually perform and the -- one of the startling things that came out of this section was that there was far more intelligence available than even we knew.

i mean, there were -- it was quite clear, there was so much intel streaming in that the fbi decided it needed to open a file to contain all the intelligence. they gave it a code name, a hashtag, cert unrest. nobody can say that it wasn't clear, it wasn't happening. and then, you know, i'm disappointed in the committee. i have to tell you, they relegated this session to an appendices, they gave no recommendations related to reform in intelligence and they said this was all trump's fault. that may be true, but it's also misleading because it also was the fault of the intelligence and law enforcement communities that failed to act on the available intelligence. >> now, the report -- the fbi had that special tab for collecting intelligence related to riot. but, quote, unified monitoring

of the items in the aggregate didn't even begin until the 5th of january. what went wrong here, frank? >> there's one sentence in this section that really stands out to me because it epitomizes the problem of domestic intelligence collection and the confusion about how to act on it legally. so the head of intelligence for the washington field office of the fbi, she said to the committee -- by the way, there will sound asinine to many people. but this is the mind-set. it's not illegal for people to talk about the tunnels underneath the capitol. we didn't figure that out. we didn't do that. yeah, yeah, it's not illegal to talk about the tunnels under the capitol. but it is within the context of all the intelligence you have that they're talking about the tunnels because they're going to enact violence, they're going to act out, breach the capitol. you've got this mind-set of, we are constrained, we are

handcuffed, we don't want to violate civil liberties. that's wrong. and we need to change that guideline and the way they operate, but none of those recommendations are in this report. >> david, what's your reaction? i mean, when you -- what's your reaction to this whole report. i think what frank is mentioning is, the fact that some aspects of it were -- you know, relegated to appendices and yet it's a very complete report in many other ways. >> yeah, look, it will contribute evidence that the department of justice can use in determining prosecutions. as frank points out, there is information related to our security posture that day, the lack of decision-making, you see congress right now, i believe, in the end of year budget bill wrestling with making january 6th a national security event which would allow for additional call up of security forces for

presidential elections. i think the most compelling thing, though, is a very broad narrative, jose, and it's this, this report is about the danger of lies and conspiracy in our politics. the danger of manipulating voters with misinformation often done with malice, of misinforming viewers, often, knowingly and with malice. and at times, the deadly coincidences of those types of misinformation campaigns. that is at the heart of the january 6th story line and the reason it matters is we're about to embark of a chapter of oversight of the biden administration where republicans often reach for misinformation and conspiracy. when elise stefanik declares that joe biden is -- that could spoke the kind of violence that we saw. it's a warning to us as much as it is a capture of what actually happened.

>> the report indicates that in a phone call with his defense secretary object 5th of january, trump said you're going to need 10,000 people as in troops. but there was no explicit order. an email sent by meadows on the 5th noted that the d.c. guard would protect pro-trump people. what does this tell us about the white house's awareness about the threat of violence on the 6th? >> i think this further bolsters the evidence that we had already seen from the committee over the summer which is that the former president and his top staffers were well aware of the violent threats and were being told and notified of these threats in a myriad of ways, including from some of his top secret service agents, people like anthony or ornado. the former president knew if he was conveying this to the pentagon as well.

but i think it shows the disintegration of any process in the white house at this period of time in coordination with agencies. at this point a lot of people had left the administration, a lot of the top staffers were resigning and had really had enough of the dysfunction of the trump administration and the trump white house and a lot of things -- and a lot of, you know, ts that should have been crossed and is dotted didn't get done in a way a normal administration should be working, especially in a time of crisis. >> david, real quick. thinking back on what congressman raskin told us a couple of minutes on trump being barred from running from office again. do you think that's a possibility at all? >> i think only as a result of a conviction. i will tell you politically, republicans hope it happens.

they want doj and oversight investigators to do the dirty work for them so the party can move past trump. but they might not have it that easy. >> thank you all for being with us this morning. appreciate it. up next, the bomb cyclone that is really creating chaos across the country. millions of people dealing with blizzard conditions, heavy snow, freezing temperatures and dangerous winds. we've got the latest on where the storm is headed next. plus, how the storm's frigid temperatures in texas are impacting thousands of people who have just crossed the border. how they're hoping to get asylum and how they're coping. the latest on the legal fight over the u.s. border policy as well. we're going to be talking about that as well and a whole lot more. zbliemplt s well and a whole lot more liempl

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. 18 past the hour. we're continuing to cover that historic storm sweeping across the country now being categorized as a bomb cyclone. it's bringing snow and frigid temperatures after hitting parts of the midwest. as of right now, more than 200 million americans are under different levels of a weather advisory. more than a million people have experienced power outages and nearly 4,000 flights have been canceled, over 3,000 delayed according to flight aware. joining us now, nbc news correspondent marissa parra in northern maryland, and maggie vespa and nbc news meteorologist bill karins. the storm is moving east this morning. how are conditions there? >> reporter: so we are at i-95 and for those of you on the east coast, this is a main artery over here. i will say in the past 30 hours, we've seen rain, rain and more rain. i'm going to take you to one of

our cameras in our car here. you can see the rain has temporarily let up which is good because it has just been the type of rain that really chills you to the core. so it's nice to get a break from that. take a look at the midwest. we've seen those whiteout conditions in places like iowa. we've sign it in ohio, cars that were getting stuck on the side of the road. we know in indiana, the national guard was dispatched to try to relieve people and get them rescued from their cars. so we're talking about conditions where authorities are say to drive outside is life or death. nothing makes you want to be indoors more than looking at images there. the northeast here bracing itself for those freezing conditions. and even we on the road here, we have felt the difference ourselves. in the last hour alone, the temperatures has dropped roughly 15 degrees. and then we felt the wind coming in. we have literally been driving into the arctic front. we're feeling the wind kind of moving our car around a little bit and remember all of this is

coming as we're seeing this holiday travel. we're expecting 102 million drivers on the road during this holiday travel season. so something that's really important to keep in mind is as that weather is coming in and out of your area, depending on where you're watching from, just take it easy. all of that precipitation, we know this is moving around in the pennsylvania area and further north. as those temps drop, that's going to turn into very slick conditions for you. bridges do freeze first. one other thing i wanted to mention, we talked about all of the power outrages. there's roughly 1 million at last check. i think i saw 120,000 in north carolina alone. obviously, it was a -- this is the worst time to lose power. if you have power, charge up your electronics while you still can. >> really important. 1 million people. that's a lot of people during these very difficult times. maggie, how are things at the airport? chicago can have real problems

with the airport there. how is it going today? >> reporter: jose, as you know, once those problems start, especially at one major hub, which this is for united and american, it ripples out throughout america's travel industry, american travel quickly and basically right now we're seeing that coast to coast, in seattle, alaska airlines canceling close to 100 flights. those cancellations continue to grow. at last check, flight aware reporting well over 3,000 flights canceled across the country. about a third of that, about 1,000, delayed. obviously usually those numbers are flipped and we see more delays than cancellations. it speaks to how conservative and careful the airlines are being and how bad the conditions are. we're hearing about frozen runways. in nashville we heard about a baggage carrier system that was

frozen. people couldn't get their bags off the plane and people at o'hare are showing up, asking for helping rebooking. but by and large people seem to be heeding the airlines' advice and their pleas. if your flight is canceled, do not show up at the airport. the employees are overwhelmed trying to rearrange the schedules and work with the flights that have been delayed or rescheduled for today. they can't help you rebook in person. they're pleading with people to try to rebook online and on the app. they say that's going to be the fastest way. they're phone lines are overwhelmed as well. try to get a flight in the morning on whatever day you can because as we know the morning flights tend to take on time more often. those delays and cancellations, they stack up throughout the day. that ripple effect, jose, just continues to grow across the country. >> indeed. bill, what's the latest on the storm right now? >> jose, the winds are really causing all the havoc out there.

you know it's a crazy storm when northern vermont is twice as warm as florida. some of the highlights so far, nashville, coldest morning you've seen since 1996. houston, second coldest morning since 1989. this has been an historic cold snap. now we're watching the worst of it going through the northeast and into northern new england. cold front went through washington, d.c. it just went through philly. new york, it will come through in the next hour with downpours and then the temperatures will fall. if those roads are wet, the flash freeze, in areas of pennsylvania, and eventually, through southern new england as we head through the morning rush hour. we just had a wind gust of 79 miles per hour. that's hurricane gust strength in western new york. we're going to see wind gusts like this for 30 straight hours. they're expecting blizzard conditions in buffalo. 30 straight hours and the snow

may not stop until sometime during christmas day. it's going to be brutal. imagine you don't have power. how are the power crews going to be out there in the weather trying to restring and get you power back for christmas. i feel bad for the power crews being out there in the middle of all of this mess. the warnings go from montana to south texas. you'll appreciate this, the advisories go all the way to west palm beach for saturday morning. that's going to be a wakeup call on christmas eve. tallahassee right now feels like 28 degrees. look at this, burlington, vermont, it feels like 50, jose. it's warmer in vermont than it is along the gulf coast. >> i want to take you to southern texas, the whole border area. we're talking about really dangerous conditions. we've been talking about this, in el paso alone, they're sleeping outside. >> yeah, it's going to be like this -- this area will warm up gradually over the next two to

three days. but this morning it was brutally cold. tomorrow morning will be equally if not a little bit warmerer. hopefully they're past the peak of it. our thoughts are with anyone who is spending -- weather like this in the cold, outdoors, it's -- you know, try to invite a friend in. >> thinking of the whole florida thing. the whole florida thing, bill. south florida -- i was going to tell you, why, let's be clear on why there are watches. >> because the i go igauna will freeze up and they have been known to fall out trees. >> they drop. and you can hear them drop. you see them all the time in south florida. under 50 degrees, these things starts dropping. the worst part is, some people, this is important, some people will think, oh, they're lifeless and put them in their car and the iganas wake up and it isn't

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something that he alluded to in his speech to washington, and that's blackouts. russia has been targeting civilian infrastructure and more than anything the electricity infrastructure. as he mentioned, a lot of ukrainians here, they're going to be having christmas by candle light and not because it's romantic, because there are rolling blackouts throughout this country. also in the east of the country, the battle lines are essentially frozen and about to be freezing in the coming weeks. that's why this fight really does need a game changer. president zelenskyy got a lot of stuff on his christmas list, mainly the patriots that are going to be so effective in shooting down missiles, targeting that civilian infrastructure that's been so critical to the lives and livelihoods of people in this country. but also he wants more. he wants offensive weapons that are going to be able to take the fight to russia itself.

to extend power into russia proper and into crimea and other places. that's what he really wants and some of the folks that i've been talking to here in the government and politicians, they say if they got the u.s. to relent on those patriot missiles which only a couple of months ago there was a hard no from washington on that, they expect that they're going to be able to get offensive weapons, high-tech, sophisticated weapons maybe in the coming months. jose? >> matt bradley in kyiv. thank you so much. general, the u.s. has already given about $50 billion in assistance to ukraine so far. congress is about to approve another $45 billion in aid. how important and how much of an impact has this money and assistance had on the ukrainians' efforts to hold back the russians? >> of course, it's pivotal. and we ought to add in the support out of nato as well as the 50 nations have provided another $40 billion, so the

ukrainian brilliant political military leadership combined with this defense technology as well as economic and humanitarian aid, remember, we got millions of ukrainians who have fled into poland and other countries, that's made the difference. they fought the russians to a standstill. but i couldn't agree more that the crucial time is coming up. we can't allow ukraine to be battered into submission by russian air attack. the patriot missile is going to be a contribution. there's no question. it's a phenomenally effective ground to air -- it will hit ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, russian bombers. until they get an offensive technology that can unravel the russian army, we're in trouble. we're prolonging the war. >> and with a hundred billion

dollar going to this, what offensive measures do they need? >> well, of course, what president biden and his team, defense secretary austin and secretary blinken are trying to balance, they don't want to, quote, provoke putin. they don't want him to feel he has to go nuclear to preserve his own skin. all of which is pretty unlikely. he's thrown everything in the balance now. i think it's time to reassess the whole notion of allowing the ukrainians to survive as opposed to turning this into some kind of a tactical military victory. missiles, 300-kilometer range, ground to ground missiles to strike these targets, and tanks, i worship the m-1 tank and i think finally armed drones. we just got to give these people offensive technology. they can't just be subject to

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challenge to the biden administration's efforts to lift a public health order known as title 42. with us now to talk about this, guad venegas in el paso, texas, and julie ainsley. texas has not been spared the cold temperatures. how are people dealing with them there? >> jose, overnight, it got as cold as 19 degrees here in downtown el paso. the sun is up and it feels much nicer. it's 23 degrees. it feels like 11 with the windchill. these are a lot of the individuals, the migrants that slept right here especially at night this gets converted into a sleeping ground. a lot of them have gotten up and they're receiving food. there's an area over to my left. we see this every day, people that come, offer warm food, water, fruit. they're getting tamales as you can see here, getting chocolate. this is the first meal of the day. a lot of them had waters

earlier, they showed me, and some food that they had from yesterday. the waters froze. someone showed me a soup that froze and this is the first warm meal of the day. this is what we have in one of the areas in downtown el paso. crowds of people, some did sleep in the shelter. but a number of them sleept slept right here on the sidewalk. authorities did bring a bus over here. people who couldn't be out in the cold were able to go inside am some point last night and they tell us they've now cleared the other side of the street, jose, and they're going to bring another bus, this is what i was told by police officers, there were a lot of police officers earlier here, they said they're going to try to bring another bus and those are the options that a lot of these migrants have. and this is just one of the areas in downtown el paso. there's another area blocks away near the bus station where more migrants have been sleeping, as you mentioned. you have a surge in migrants coming to the u.s./mexico border and, of course, authorities here scrambling to do what they can,

jose. >> thank you. julia, the administration said i wanted to lift title 42 back in may but it was blocked by judges. so now it's asking for more time to get ready? what is that about? >> yeah, jose, they just want some lead time. of course, they have to surge resources to the southern border for when more migrants come as they have clearly articulated that they expect in those court documents. they've asked that if the judge rules at this point now, we're at the 23rd, if the supreme court says that title 42 should be lifted, they want two business days. not over the holiday weekend to all of a sudden flip the switch and end title 42 allowing migrants to come in and claim asylum. i was just there where guad is standing. not those people from the northern triangle countries,

those people we might see more of when title 42 is lifted. so many of them have been sent back into mexico. so with those populations added, they could see even more people on the streets in places like el paso and so they want more time to plan for it. i will say, jose, just from people i have spoken to in washington, it's not clear that more time will mean less chaos. >> julie ainsley, thank you very much. lots of people are finishing up their holiday shopping today. what new data out this morning shows about consumer sentiment and what it means for the markets. something we could all use a little more of, good news. highlights from some our more inspiring stories of the year when we come back. when we come .

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>> the news on the economy today is okay. not a disaster. it paints a picture of a u.s. consumer that is still spending, hanging in there, but is stagnating. the spending is happening on services like restaurants and hotels. we all still want to go out more, but we're spending less on goods like cars and electronics, appliances, on the plus side, you mentioned inflation is easing. look, here's the backdrop for what's happening in the economy right now. the federal reserve has been aggressively raising interest rates to cool down inflation and the economy and it may be having the desired effect on inflation which is starting to moderate. but it's painful. we know that because the housing market is hurting, mortgages have climbed shortly. borrowing costs have gone up and the stock market has been weak all year. it's down 20% in 2022 which hurts people's wealth and retirement savings. but the jobs market has been strong. low unemployment, wages have been rising and that has kept

consumers and households in better shape. here's the key test of 2023, can u.s. consumers keep driving economic growth? we're monitoring the signals. we know the savings rates are going down. credit card debt is there are signs of increasing strain. wall street does think there's a chance -- a decent chance of a soft landing, which means an economic slowdown without a big recession or a spike in joblessness. the market is having an okay day. stocks are higher. we are tracking for our third down week in a row on this idea that recession or a more pronounced slowdown is coming in 2023 at a time when the federal reserve is still raising rates to keep inflation coming down. back to you. >> thank you so very much. it's something reflected in our conversation with lawrence summers where he thinks

recession is coming 2023 for sure. as we wrap up this week and look forward to 2023, i want to take a moment to remember all of the heartwarming news we saw this year. no matter how dark, how difficult moments are, there was always good news. you know why? there's always good people. there are so many good people. my colleague and friend kate snow and i re-visited some of the good news that we have had throughout the year. take a look. >> this year, there was so much to celebrate. special moments. >> like when the school surprised this student in michigan sinsinging his favorit song, the national anthem. [ applause ] >> in houston, tears of joy from two brothers surprised with a

newly remodeled house. their community rebuilding after the boys lost both parents. when you walked in the house a month ago, what did you think, julien? >> i was honestly lost for words. i didn't think there would be these really good people who would do all this stuff. >> there were heroes among us. >> when your kid has differences, you want them to be accepted. >> the man who traveled from england donating bone marrow to a retired new york firefighter. >> we bonded right away. it's hard to describe to meet the person that is responsible for you still being here. >> the first responders who put on this parade for a little boy with leukemia. >> to see that moment of happiness was pure joy for us. >> the police department who took this girl to kindergarten. a tribute to her late father who was on the force.

>> the honored educators. >> who is here on the aircraft? my favorite teacher ever. i love you. >> capturing the emotional moment an airline agent spotted a favorite teacher she hadn't seen in more than 30 years. >> you made my day. >> one of things we're going to focus on today is gratitude. >> in new mexico, this teacher inspiring her kids to express gratitude. >> i'm thankful for all you do. with all my love, your grand daughter. >> we love you. >> resulting in hug after hug after emotional hug. >> i got in! >> we were there for when the hard work paid off. >> following in her father's footsteps becoming an army

officer. >> when i raise my hand to do the salute, tears are running down my eyes. i pulled her to me. i wanted to hold her. >> women in the military making sacrifices for their family. this military mom traveled from overseas to surprise her son. >> i love this little boy to death. >> a world war ii veteran finally got a trip to see his beloved buffalo bills. he was the star of the game. >> i can't believe all this is for me. >> my dad's grandpa. >> a minnesota scout who got a monument to veterans built in his town. >> on long island, these teens left their high school graduation to help fight a fire. >> i'm leaving, without any hesitation. i'm out of here. ♪♪ >> the young ukrainian choir

that came to new york bringing grand central terminal to a standstill. >> bringing carnegie hall to its feet. >> a chorus of hope for the year ahead. ♪♪ ♪♪ [ applause ] >> that wraps up the hour for me. see you tomorrow night on "nbc nightly news" saturday. you can reach me on twitter and

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crawling east and bringing disastrous weather with it. freezing temperatutemperatures,g snow and windchill days before christmas. look at this whiteout in ohio. at least half a dozen states are under a state of emergency. there is more than 1 million power outages across the country. this historic winter storm is bringing holiday travel to a halt. we will talk to the mayor of buffalo, new york. he is urging people to stay home. inside the select committee's final report. one of our guests says it reads like a horror novel. the detail on the scope of former president trump's pressure campaign to overturn the results of the election. will the people the committee blames for the attack face what they recommend?