it's never happened before in the white house. tonight we are honored to mark another new tradition we are establishing. that is the lighting of what will be the first ever permanent white house menorah. it will also be the first jewish artifact in the entire white house collection. jill just described it and i echo her gratitude to the incredible white house carpenters who made it. well -- really appreciate that. her -- y'all didn't really -- but i tell you guys, thank you thank you for the love you put into it. to celebrate hanukkah, previously ministrations our road a menorah with the specials amid cans of survival, hope and joy. this year we thought it was important to celebrate hanukkah with another message of significance, permanence. permanence. the very promise of america is that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally through our entire lives. while we have never lived up to the promise, we've never fully walked away from that. it has been up to each successive generation to dedicate ourselves to delive

the white house? well the theory of restoration and preservation, is that by restoring and preserving the past we can make certain that we don't make that were made in the past and we can learn and do better citizens for the future. that's the whole theory of history why we study history. it's to learn from the past make certainly don't make the same mistakes and do better at going forward. now the human brain has not yet evolved such that when you see a picture of the white house or a picture of any historic building, it's the same as actually visiting it you can look at the picture of the white house and get some sense of what it's all about, but it's not the same as a visiting it and therefore if you preserve it more people want to visit it what people want to see what this white house is about and therefore our citizens flock to see it all the time and they should and it's possible to make this white house better because we can provide the resources through the white house historical association t

at the white house? and i have to say, it's pretty personal. i feel very lucky. and i was a pretty spoiled little girl at christmas time. and the fact that my mom would put up nine christmas trees every year. and so in 2004, i was lucky enough to be a guest at the white house. and at a holiday party. and i was just absolutely blown away by how beautiful, obviously the white house is, but especially at christmas time. and so the next morning, i went to go buy a book on the subject and there wasn't one. and the white house is such a great way to study american history. the home is roughly as old as our nation. and so it really is a great metaphor for our country and the things that are going at the on it during the time. so when you think about christmas in america at the early beginning of our republic, it was very much a family event. it was celebrated with friends and family. not all the big decorations we see today in so roughly at the end of the 1800s, we start having the first christmas trees. and so

house is nbc news correspondent josh letterman the white house is reacting to this move by governor abbott tell us what they're saying. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jonathan, the white house blasting governor abbott for that move over the weekend calling it a cruel, dangerous, and shameful stunt white house spokesman hassan saying the texas authorities did not engage in any coordination with federal or local authorities, essentially giving them a heads up these migrants would be coming so people could prepare to accept them the white house saying they'll work with anyone, democrats or republicans, on real solutions on this immigration issue, but calling these busloads of migrants being essentially dumped on kamala harris' doorstep political games that the white house says accomplish nothing and only put lives in danger and of course, jonathan, these migrants arriving over the weekend come as the administration is bracing for an even bigger potential surge of migrants if and when that title 42 policy used during covid to quickly return many migrants who have crossed the border il

but right now knowing this is what ralph norman was advocating for to the white house. suspend the constitution, put troops in the streets, take power by force, knowing he was advocating that is one thing. knowing that he and his party are going back to congress as the new majority party there for next year, that feels like something different. because what are they gonna do what the real power when they really have it? but talk from congressman ralph norman to white house chief of staff mark meadows comes to us tonight from reporter hunter walker along with john kaczynski and eminem you jay at the news website talking points memo. they posted a series of articles tonight based on thousands of text messages they have obtained. thousands of text messages that they say were sent by and to white house chief of staff mark meadows. between election night, november 2020, and biden's inauguration day in january 2021. these are thousands of text messages that were turned over to the january 6th investigation in congress. and talking points about meadows of coming to them. and t

reporter: well at least here in the white house briefing room the secretary said that only the u.s. and russian negotiated the release of brittney griner and on the fight with greiner back to the u.s. an american had been held hostage for four years and president biden addressed the issue saying that he try to include him about the russians be this case differently he said likely reference to him accusing him of being as fighting to advise the charges of espionage and exchanger trend once rated they convicted russian arms dealer known as the and he was arrested and later then hundred in the courtroom in 2011 the conspiracy to kill the u.s. citizens in columbia, and some lawmakers on capitol hill are asking him to long-standing u.s. policy of freeing hostages in the order they were detained and earlier john from here the white house and nobody is doing backflips about viktor bout getting released. liz: thank you so much and joining us now, congressman guy russian from house appropriations, and okay, your reaction to the story because i was meant, hit is good to see you and people are

former trump white house lawyer eric herschmann spoke of the feverish atmosphere in the white house as he described heated exchanges with trump's allies. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. the theory was also completely nuts. it was a combination of italians and germans, i mean, different things that were floating around as to who was involved, i mean, hugo chavez, the venezuelans. he was not the only republican official to question what was happening. the committee heard that other in the former president's former circle did not support his plans. i told them that the stuff his people were shovelling out to the public were... wa �* the claims of fraud were bleep. armed with these false narratives, trump and his allies began trying to overturn the results of the election... ..firstly by putting pressure on officials in states he had lost, like georgia and arizona. thank you, please be seated. rusty bowers, republican speaker of the arizona house of representatives, told the committee that he received a phone call from president trump and rudy giuliani, who was part of the p

inside of the white house? >> you, know of the top of my head i cannot think of any. even richard nixon did not bring the tape. there was a gap, but he didn't bring the tape. this is stunning. look at the timing of this. after the election, before january 6th, i think that we should point out that we do not know what those documents were, we don't know whether they were required by the archives because of the presidential records act to be preserved. but i would say that unless this was some kind of a shopping list that he was throwing inside the fireplace for these dozen times, that this is a real problem for mark meadows. what was he thinking about when he threw things in the fireplace that he thought needed to be destroyed? >> and we know that according to the testimony from cassidy hutchinson, two of the times where after meeting with the republican congressman scott perry who tried to install jeffrey clark as head of doj. the attorney general tried to get him to investigate some of these conspiracy theorie

the white house. so we can look at the root numbers from one side of the records. but we can't see what those white house numbers are. most of them are provided where less than eight and still exist in the system. so there are some technical challenges there when you're doing a law enforcement type of investigation. but again, my guess is that there's other people looking at this right now, denver riggleman guest until 10:00 if you want to ask them questions about his book and, what he found in it, you can do so on the lines. 02748 8001 for republicans. 202748 8004 democrats and 202748 8002 for independents. you want to text us questions or comments? you can do that at 202748 8003. mr. riggleman your book deals with mark meadows, and i want to read a portion for the audience, but you can fill in and elaborate on it. the portions they're saying we never received a cd-r for mark meadows, trump's chief ofta, but the telephone xte turned over to the became the rosetta stone for the january six investigati

the white house. so we can look at the root numbers from one side of the records. but we can't see what those white house numbers are. most of them are provided where less than eight and still exist in the system. so there are some technical challenges there when you're doing a law enforcement type of investigation. but again, my guess is that there's other people looking at this right now, denver riggleman guest until 10:00 if you want to ask them questions about his book and, what he found in it, you can do so on the lines. 02748 8001 for republicans. 202748 8004 democrats and 202748 8002 for independents. you want to text us questions or comments? you can do that at 202748 8003. mr. riggleman your book deals with mark meadows, and i want to read a portion for the audience, but you can fill in and elaborate on it. the portions they're saying we never received a cd-r for mark meadows, trump's chief of staff, but the telephone text he turned over to the became the rosetta stone for the january six inv

the white house. so we can look at the root numbers from one side of the records. but we can't see what those white house numbers are. most of them are provided where less than eight and still exist in the system. so there are some technical challenges there when you're doing a law enforcement type of investigation. but again, my guess is that there's other people looking at this right now, denver riggleman guest until 10:00 if you want to ask them questions about his book and, what he found in it, you can do so on the lines. 02748 8001 for republicans. 202748 8004 democrats and 202748 8002 for independents. you want to text us questions or comments? you can do that at 202748 8003. mr. riggleman your book deals with mark meadows, and i want to read a portion for the audience, but you can fill in and elaborate on it. the portions the're saying we never received a cd-r for mark meadows, trump's chief of staff, but the telephone text he turned ov t the becamrosetta stone for the january six investigation

house services any different than you taking advantage of it white house service any perfectly normal capitalistic american way. >> i guess my point is this he came in without an ideology an old philosophy book that i read when i was a freshman, men qualities as qualities with a man. and steve essentially has no other purpose and what likely to be rich and he could care less about policy and welfare of the american people and icing the bucket, there are two people they never darkenwh the door of the white house, trump would still be there with bigger problem was that set of wall street transaction you have to kind of scratch your head as to why that goldman sacs gary come with goldman sachs being one of the most prominent weapons to offshore american jobs and whenever he put in charge of economic policy in the west wing, and what could go wrong there will is adamantly opposed trump and fought them tooth and nail and it was not until we got him the heck out of their that the president was actually able to go forward and reasonable basis. >> & the last person that i want to talkn about

house -- cruschev to the white house. it was an attempt to make a better relationship in the cold war era. unfortunately only a few months after the visit, an incident happened and it was not successful in improving relations between the ussr and the united states. but a really important piece in that, i loved the state dinner in 1976 when gerald ford invited queen elizabeth and prince phillip for the bicentennial. we see queen elizabeth visit for several important anniversaries of moments in angelo american history. so this was one of the big ones -- [indiscernible] -- 400th anniversary of the jamestown settlement. another example of those important anniversaries in our shared history. it doesn't have to be limited to one country. there have been examples of hosting several countries, most recently in 2016 it, barack obama hosted several nordic countries, up to five of them. denmark, iceland, etc., and they all came to one dinner. similarly jimmy carter hosted egypt and israel in responls to the israel-egypt peace treaty

white house and maximal restraint when there are democrats in the white house. i cannot imagine them allowing this to stand. >> alina, talk about the benefits of student loan forgiveness and what it means to be free of summer all of that burden. we heard that gentlemen talk about 45 million or so people who are impacted by student, loans and then say, that is a systemic problem, dare i say, a scam? >> it is a systemic problem and, i was heartened to see -- in the documentary that you guys are going to be showing later this evening, because he would be the person to tell you that the impact that that student debt has on communities of color, particularly african americans, which are the largest percentage of student loan borrowers for a higher education. so, when it comes to student debt, it ends up being this relief becomes not just a financial cushion, or play money, a few thousand dollars here or there, but the cancellation of student debt and even some offerings, at $10,000 or $20,000 to help students, and up being an investment in economic mobility. it ends

house as emmanuel macron and his wife are going to the white house for the day and of course all in preparation for the first state dinner of this administration at the white house tonight. senator, you met with the french president yesterday. tell us about it. >> i did. we had a luncheon with him and other members of the delegation, both democrat and republicans in the house and senate. the president was talking about the need to invest the biodiversity and deal with climb change, a discussion about how the united states and france could work together. >> very good. joe, as we're looking at these live pictures, i'm looking at the really symbolic gifts that each leader is going to be giving the other as part of this grand occasion, including a copy of a movie that president biden and jill watched on their first date, which is kind of poignant. >> how nice. how nice. that'll warm the relationship up between the two countries. peter baker, a rough run in the last year, year and a half. we go back again to the united states interfering in a nuclear deal between france and australia, no

joining me to discuss this are the white house correspondent for nbc news. and here in studio, the chief washington correspondent for the new york times. the congressional correspondent for cbs news. and the politics bureau chief at politico. i want to start with the fact that politico roque this story about the january 6 committee possibly looking at referring criminal charges for former president trump. what more do we know about what lawmakers are thinking and preparing? >> you have to take a step back. it is extraordinary that the u.s. congress is considering urging the justice department to pursue the most serious kind of middle charges against a former president. we truly are in uncharted turn -- territory or in the history of the country. from a political standpoint, i think this will be one more rock in the load that trump is carrying as he goes into the next couple of years. a lot of people in the gop really want to move on. even if there is not a conviction, if an indictment comes from the fed, i think it galvanizes republicans turning the page. ya

and here in studio, the white house correspondent for pbs. in the senior legal affairs reporter for politico. and the washington post you know i'm going to start with you. there is so much going on. it was a roller coaster week for democrats. what more do we know about where this leaves them? what is behind kristin cinema's decision? >> the victory of warnock was significant. it finally broke the stalemate. committees can now subpoena whoever they want. you will see more democrats sitting on those committees to move things faster. to approve judicial nominations. it is a little bit more procedural. democrats are really feeling good. this is a big victory. all of these incumbents waiting for the first time in almost 100 years. and then you get this news. it is not going to change the dynamic. she said she has not going to caucus with the democrats. she does have an independent streak. they will continue to keep working with her. republican see this as a moment or maybe they will be able to have inherent to the democratic caucus. maybe continue

i said in the white house. >> i said in the white house. >> i apologize. i cannot reveal communications. obviously i think, you know, yeah. >> i said, good, john, now i am going to give you the best free legal advice you are ever getting, get a great criminal defense lawyer. you are going to need it. do you believe in the peaceful transition of power? >> [indiscernible] >> another officer unconscious. >> i do not want to say the election is over. i want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over. ok? >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from california for an opening statement. lofgren: thank you. over the last 18 months, the select committee has connected an investigation of enormous scale, seeking to uncover the depth and breath of ex-president trump's plan to reverse the lawful outcome of the election. we have compiled an immense volume of documents collected from countless individuals, law enforcement agencies, federal and state authorities. many of our efforts to get the evidence required litigation in federal c

house. >> every single day. >> stewart mclaurin is president of the white house historical association, a nonpartisan privately funded group that helps restore and preserve the famous address. they try to teach presidential history through each ornament. >> it's a labor of love really for those of us who invest in this and try to come up with something unique and creative. >> reporter: this year they added the scent of gingerbread infused into the nixon recipe included with the ornament. it's those kinds of details that had people ginger-snapping them up at the national christmas tree. ♪ families around the country collecting white house holiday keepsakes while doing their part to keep the house intact. >> merry christmas. ed o'keefe, cbs news, the white house. >> ginger spice and everything nice. >>> still ahead on this cbs ekd gift returns, and retailers are ready. but you'll want to check the fine print. >>> after a day of giving, now comes the great gift return. but this year there are more hurdles. a recent survey found six in ten retailers have changed their return policies. cb

there's a third layer that they're also white house staff. so there's executive privilege questions. so a court has ordered them to testify on account of the fact that it's just important testimony to get. so it legally, politically, historically, it's just a profound moment. i'm with you on this, scott, all the investigations over the years leading up to this have desensitized people to how profound it is right now. >> when you think about the fatigue, there are people who are legitimately fatigued and people who would like you to be fatigued. who would like you to be exhausted saying we have a new committee coming january 3rd. let's move on. some want to move on to have tit for tat investigations. others want to move on to other things. the january 6th committee has got wrap up. they have to have a report. the laundry list of things congress has to do between now and january 3rd now, expanding. how significant and how much people pay attention to this report? >> well, i think the january 6th committee has a pretty good record of drawing att

forcing the white house to finally confront the crisis at the border. the administration is weighing a number of options. no time like the present, right? they reportedly include a five-month asylum ban as well as the expansion of a program letting some migrants apply remotely. >> bill: that clock is ticking. title 42 expires in six days. it will kick the floodgates wide open. >> dana: once that happens the u.s. is expected to see 14,000 migrants cross every single day. that's a strong dose of reality for a white house that has repeatedly refused to even acknowledge there is a problem. >> the border is secure. the border we are working to make the border more secure. that has been a historic challenge. >> the border is secure but we also have a broken immigration system and particularly over the last four years before we came in and it needs to be fixed. >> we'll have 2 million people cross the border. you are confident the border is secure? >> we have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration. >> d

other white house witnesses. 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. >> there were officers on the ground. they were bleeding. they were throwing up. i mean, i saw friends with blood all over their faces. i was slipping in peoples blood. >> officer caroline edwards was slipping in blood, while donald trump was doing nothing to help her or anyone else being attacked at the capitol. >> [inaudible] did not want people to leave the capitol -- >> on the stuff? >> [inaudible] >> i can't think of anybody. on that day, who did not want to get out of the capital once the violent started. no. >> what about the president? >> she's at the staff. so, i answer that. >> no, i said in the white house. >> oh, i'm sorry. i apologize. [inaudible] i can't reveal communications. but obviously, i think that [silence] yeah. >> possible one may now be forced to reveal those communications with donald trump. two special prosecutor

>> i expect more of the same from the white house. unless they change some of their policy decision making, you are going to just see title 42 continue to get punted. i will tell you representing 42% of the southern border the communities along the border we got a win tonight. we are great 68 for it even if it's just a band-aid. we will take a band-aid at this point. house republicans are in the minority. this is what a win in the minority looks like. kevin mccarthy has led house republicans pushing the effort to keep title 42 in place knowing it's not perfect but it is at least a band-aid that needs to go forward. now we look at house republicans having the majority. and what does a win in the majority look like? i think part of that is making sure that the administration is held accountable and also finding ways for solutions. at the end of the day, the biden administration needs to have a long-term solution to this problem set. >> rich: do you think now with house republicans taking over in a week and a half this puts pressure on t

she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior government officials would not take positions within the administration. griffin said any report about the trump white house being chaotic and operating without structure was, quote, more or less accurate. that included there being no competent gatekeeper to stop harmful or unhelpful information from getting to then president trump, which led to this moment at the beginning of the covid pandemic. >> supposing we hit the body with a tremendous -- whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and i think you said that has -- you're going to test it. then i said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and i think you said you're going to test that too. sounds interesting. then i see the disinfectant knocks it out in a minute, a minute. and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous thing. it would b

and then a part of the white house budget. and really, most of the time go back to presidential libraries. lady bird johnson's final year, president johnson actually purchased them as a presidential ladybird so that she could keep them and some the kennedy ornaments, most everyone's not sure exactly where all of those are, but sometimes they return with first families and but and then like the nixons, they left there. so they were on the trees for many, many years. we have a question here from facebook. um, that, uh, you sort of talked about maybe you could elaborate. white house usher clem congress said that pat nixon restored the executive mansion to its golden age. and what specifically? why so? i think she did. i think i'd mentioned before it went from white one. the white house went from being just one third. historically furnished to two thirds. by the time she left that as an acquisition of her 600 pieces. no administration consensus done been able to acquire that many pieces for the white house and it's absolutely amaz

watch then white house press secretary jen saki in july last year yeah, the white house was red flagging problematic posts on social media to censor. watch. >> can you talk a little bit more about this request for tech companies to be more aggressive in information -- has the information been in touch with any of these companies? >> sure. first we are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team, given as dr. murthy conveyed this is specifically misinformation concerning the pandemic. in terms of actions, alex, we're taking or working to take from the federal government we increased disinformation research and tracking within the surgeon general's office. we're flagging problematic posts for facebook that spread this disinformation. elizabeth: that is elon musk saying next round of twitter bombshells will be about censorship. we have you can in muck saying wait a second, twitter fell down on the job stopping child exploitation on twitter as they're focusing on everything e

>> well, for many when you talk to folks observing the white house within the white house this policy has somewhat become a sort of stopgap in the void of a sort of consistent functioning plan at the border. title 42 while president biden and even during the campaign committed to unwinding many of the trump era border policies, title 42 was one you didn't hear about as much, even dating back to the campaign. we know that throughout the past two years it's also been a point of tension for immigration advisers and the aides working on the border within the white house. you've had those that have argued it does show a message of deterrence and sends a message that could try to deter a surge at the border, which has also been pretty dubious when you talk to career officials down there. title 42 doesn't exactly stop people from coming, it just prevents them from staying in detention facilities in the u.s. and allows border patrol agents to rapidly turn them away but it doesn't stop people from coming. so when you talk to members of congress, when you see members of congress now also using

and, you know this is a message not sent by the white house chief of staff. it's a message sent to him. so maybe you're thinking, you know, i bet the white house chief of staff gets all kinds of weird spam text messages from over eager trump supporters. whoever sent this doesn't know how to spell martial law so how serious could this be? this wasn't from someone who just guessed the phone number of the white house chief of staff. this text message was from a sitting member of the united states congress. republican congressman roll of norman of south carolina. on january 17th last year, three days before biden's inauguration, congressman ralph norman was texting white house's chief of staff to urge president trump to call out the u.s. military to use the military against civilians. in order to keep trump in power. congressman norman was saiting member of congress when he sent that -- was a sitting member of congress when he sent that. he is still now. ralph norman was just re-elected. he was reelected by a lot, like a 2-1 margin. and marveling about the sediti

as one who had proceeded him in the white house. he knew the rigors of the president. he knew the demands of the job. he wanted to be there as a comfort to his son and somebody who his son could come to and orelieve himself in the burdens of the office even for a moment and someone that knew the burdens he was carrying and george herbert walker bush's attitude was we had our turn in the white house and now it's your turn and my role is to support you as best i can and i'm here if you need me. if you don't need me, i'm going to stay out of your way. >> two very well known ladies with the bushes as well. barbara bush and laura bush, also incredibly strong and important first ladies also important counselors to their husbands, people that they could go to behind the scenes for important political advice and people that had their backs as president. barbara bush certainly had her son back when he was in the white house and formidable first ladies in the matter that barbara was.so >> she was the enforcer for good reason and always knew w

in the white house. he knew the rigors of the president. he knew the demands of the job. he wanted to be there as a comfort to a son, somebody who his son could come to just to relieve himself of the burdens of that office, even for a moment with somebody under the burdens that he was carrying. but george herbert walker bush his attitude was we've had our turn in the white house, now it's your turn, and my role is to support you as best i can, and i'm'm here if you need me, t he don't mean dash if you don't need me uncleta to stay out of your way. >> host: two very first well-known ladies with the bushesow as well. >> guest: barbarark and laura incredibly strong and important first ladies. also important counselors to their husbands, , people thats y could go to behind the scenes for important political advice. people who had their backs as president. barbara bush certainly had her sons back when he was in the white house as well. former first ladies in the same manner that lady bird johnson with. >> hos

house, at that point in time, was close to the president in charge of personnel at the white house, he testified about hearing that that trump had quoted blanket pardons for people involved in nonviolent actions on january 6th and the white house counsel pretty quickly shut that down. and it tracks with other reporting that we've heard from the white house at that time, and reporting that we've seen, you know, in the last two years or so. at the same time, this is pat of the january 6th committee's addition to the historical record, being able to see the sworn testimony from members of the president's inner circle about what was happening in the days after the attack. >> and a lot of the entry is in the details. i wonder someone who has gone through this, page by page, what else stuck out to you. >> well, what stands out to me are some of the interesting little efforts that we see aren't necessarily bombshells like that, but, you know, as someone whose been watching politics for the last few years just helped to shed a lot more light. so, for example, former white house press aide j

to display the now iconic gingerbread house as part of the white house decorations. >> just to give you a sense of pride every time you see it that -- >> every single day. >> -- you helped do that. >> every single day. >> reporter: stuart mclaurin is president of the white house historical association, a non-partisan privately funded group that helps restore and preserve the famous address. they try to teach presidential history through each ornament. >> it's a labor of love, really, for those of us who invest in this and try to come up with something unique and creative. >> reporter: this year they added the scent of gingerbread, infused into the nixon recipe included with the ornament. >> take a whiff. it's gingerbread. >> reporter: it's those kinds of details that have people ginger snapping them up at the national christmas tree. ♪ all is merry and bright ♪ families around the country collecting white house holiday keepsakes while doing their part to keep the house intact. >> merry christmas. >> reporter: ed o'keefe, cbs news, the white house. >> ginger spice and everything

so you learn, you'll learn how the white house works. one of the most powerful positions interesting enough in the white house is the staff secretary. i mean, who would've thought that works that this guy rob porter hurricane ian as candidate bush republican, wielded tremendous influence in the white house, and it would be bad influence because he was the traditional republican who hated the tariffs, who hated the buy american, who hated the secure borders. i liken him to little thinking game of thrones, kind of put his thumb on on the scale every n a while and changed history. >> host: you also on page 65 refer to former treasury secretary mnuchin as a never trump -- steven mnuchin. it struck me steven mnuchin was one of the first, if not the first, sort of wall street executives to support president trump to raise money for president trump. >> guest: and i was with him at trump tower. >> host: so explain how we as a never trumper. >> guest: just like we had like the three generals and never obeyed the chain of command, as i described i

. >> let's get right to cecilia vega, who joins us now from the white house. cecilia, we saw those applauding. sitting there, not - some top republicans are making it clear that they want limits on this american support for ukraine. >> reporter: exactly, linsey. the man who could become the next speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, said that while he does support ukraine, he does not support writing a blank check. that very well may be a sign of things to come. we are also, linsey, hearing from the kremlin in response to zelenskyy's trip here to washington. they called it a, quote, hollywood-style trip, and they say it will not help advance peace talks, linsey. >> cecilia vega from the white house. cecilia, thank you so much. >>> and tonight, congress is one step closer to approving that massive $1.7 trillion government spending bill. senate democrats and republicans approving the bill late today, sending it to the house for approval tomorrow. the bill also funds the government and military through september 2023. >>> next tonight, the january 6th committee i

very sophisticated weapons the white house does not want to give ukraine. are you saying they should have those? >> i think it is important that we make certain that ukraine has what they need, but john, it is not the sole responsibility of the united states. you have nato, you have the e.u., it is important that people step up. the united states has already spent in the past year more than what ukraine spends on their military in a year, and we just want to make certain that there is transparency and accountability on how these dollars are spent, on the timeline for when money is getting in there for these battles. >> sandra: we should be seeing the ukraine president and the u.s. president shortly. biden is set to greet zelenskyy when he arrives at the white house and they will sit down and later on zelenskyy will address congress. appreciate you joining us. happy holidays to you and yours. >> john: thanks, senator, merry christmas. we are going to have senator lindsey graham, he'll be talking to us in a little while, he supports the increased military spe

sam bankman-fried met with the white house and white house aides before the so collapse. why did he do that? lauren: four meetings with white house aides, the last one being two months before the collapse of ftx. he met with the counselor to the president twice in april and then again in may and with a policy advisor charlotte footash in may, this is raising eyebrows about why there was such a revolving door. greeted bloomberg conversations were focused on the crypto industry but read between the lines, the policy could benefit him. spf was previously accused of trying to redirect regulators looking into this away from centralized exchanges like his own and platforms instead anti-was a big democratic donor. ashley: ironic when we know what was going on. you are looking at the movies, mark marhaney said his pick was netflix. lauren: as mark said they have new things to offer like this deal with nike to offer subscribers access to work outs. some users will see that today. meta, dog of the year, but not this month. the nasdaq is down 10% in december. meta down a lot this ye

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so what does that mean for the white house? >> reporter: well, the white house has to keep the fed at an arm's distance. they don't want to be accused of what happened in the trump administration where trump was kind of bullying the fed into doing actions that would benefit him politically. and so having independent fed, an independent fed, is good for america long term, even if it means they're going to jack up rates until inflation eases. and so i think, you know, for jerome powell, head of the fed, it means keeping, you know, staying the course, and i think he recognizes that he didn't raise rates fast enough last year, but that he wants to get these, you know, sky-high numbers down, and they already showed some signs of easing slightly, in the right trajectory, but it's tough. >> yeah. this is -- seems like a good phase for physical white house, considering that inflation is cooling slightly. wages are going up in the last few months compared to inflation, and gas prices are down. so this is actually a positive development

6th house panel back on april 15th, describing her tenure at the white house as quote a wild eight months. she revealed that one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff, because more senior government officials wouldn't take positions with the administration. she said any report about the trump white house being chaotic, and operating without structure, was more or less accurate. and that included there being no competent gate keeper to stop harmful or unhelpful information from getting to the then president. which led to this moment at the start of the covid pandemic. >> supposing we hit, with a tremendous, ultra violet or very powerful light, and i think you said that has been checked, we're going to test it, and i said supposed you brought the light inside the body, in which you can do, through the skin, or in some other way, and i think you said you're going to test that, too. it sounds interesting. and then i see the disinfectant which would knock it out in a minute, one minute, an

like there's two kinds of people in the white house. it's the ones that thought they had to save the world from trump and the ones who thought trump would save the world. and they're in lies. the bad personnel is not just bad policy, but bad politics. tail and taking back trump's america and i think it's important lesson for any future president. i mean if you read the book, there's one t early chapters. i take a tour, what i call the west wing dumpster because, you know, people have referred to the west wing as president trump is a dumpster and it's not the great greatest place to work because, you know, space this size, which is quite nice, you'd have about six offices in in this place. and so you learn you learn how the white house works. and one of the most powerful positions, interestingly enough, in the white house is the staff secretary. i mean, who would have thought that? but this guy, rob porter, who came in kind of as a bush republican, wielded tremendous influence in the white house. and it would be bad influence because he

lee at the white house, thanks so much. it's an alliance that goes back all the way to the revolutionary war. for more on today's relationship between the two countries, melissa bell is live in paris. i don't mean to tell you how dark the period was between these two countries this time last year after the u.s.-australia submarine deal which supplanted a deal with france had. france took the extraordinary step of recalling its ambassador. is that issue behind france and the u.s. now? >> i think there was a question of substance. of course, there was the loss of that some $60 billion submarine deal to france. but there was the way in which it had been announced since europeans learned about it, from the press conference that president biden held with his british and australian counterparts. i think that really ruffled their feathers. the ambassador recalled since they've patched things up and both sides we're told have taken measures to try to restore trust. it really had become an issue of trust. and yet, things ahead of th

cnn's senior white house correspondent is joining us right now from the white house. m.j., what is he saying? >> reporter: wolf, we have just gotten the first reaction from joe biden to the supreme court saying that title 42 will remain in place for now. he briefly spoke with reporters as he was leaving the white house to go on vacation. let me just play the brief remark he just gave. >> what is your reaction to title 42? [ inaudible ] >> reporter: of course, when he says "i think it's overdue," he's referring to the fact that the administration has been saying they believe title 42 should be allowed to expire. in the meantime, the white house has also said it will continue to make preparations for title 42 to expire, and it would like to see congress, again, pass comprehensive immigration reform. but i think it's just really difficult to overstate what a challenging and complicated problem this has been for the administration. you know, first of all, it's been in limbo really since last week when the supreme court decided to put a temporary freeze in place. now it kn

ironic that he's a former white house ethics lawyer. but people were taken aback when they learned that the trump pacs were paying for the representation of witnesses. that's not a violation of the ethics laws, but it is, when that attorney starts to advise the client, in a way to protect the payer's interest and not the client's interest. that may be what we're seeing here. >> it's perfectly okay to not remember a fact. people say i don't recall all the time, because you're questioned for hours and hours on end. >> elliott, if you're preparing a client to be deposed, and this is what you do. if you have a client being deposed, you don't put them out there without practice. you walk them through things. what do you say to them to explain to them what to say or not say if they don't want it? >> you say don't do the other side's lawyers for them. don't fill in the details of things you're not asked. but answer questions truthfully. if the answer is, yes, i know. however, my knowledge stops at a certain point, then stop there. but it's oka

now, the committee goes onto say that in that investigation that the white house even in 2018, the white house press secretary contended that donald trump was under a mandatory presidential audit, but he was not at that time. now, they go into some -- concerns they have which was just a legislative response in fixing what they see are problems with this audit program. now, on the separate analysis over his tax returns we're still pouring through it. it's a very technical analysis looking at all the numbers that donald trump submitted in his tax returns. it gives a summary of these returns. it raises -- it says there are some issues that require further investigations like the number of deductions he took, charitable deductions, questioning whether they're business or personal and doesn't provide any personal judgment on that but only suggests perhaps there's an issue in which investigators or others may want to look further into, but this report the joint committee of taxation report i'm holding up right here about five pages in length, very detailed getting through the numbers. we're st

so, this is happening at the white house right now. we will likely see some of this a short time from now. we will turn that for the audience, john. >> john: we'll get the play back very soon, it takes a little while for the pool to get out of the oval office and get the tape reracked or whatever it is these days. a live look at minnesota, looks like winter wonderland. it's spelling trouble for millions of americans this christmas week and bringing dangerously cold temperatures. that forecast is coming up next. >> sandra: minus two, oh, cold looking at the temperature. plus, the white house responding to critics as the border crisis spirals out of control. ari fleischer joins us on the messaging coming from the white house on that. two world leaders. let's listen. >> everyone is in. >> well, mr. president, good to have you back. i'm delighted you are able to make the trip to be here and you know, it's an honor to be by your side in united defense against what is a brutal, brutal war waged by putin. 300 days, hard to believe, 300 days.

let's go to chief white house correspondent nancy cordes. nancy, we heard margaret mention that the whelan family was issuing a statement. i think you have it in its entirety. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, it's a pretty emotional statement, tonyerothe david, starts out by saying that they're so glad that brittney griner is on the way home, especially in time for the holidays. a very -- very gracious talking about the fact that the biden administration made this possible for her. but then the statement takes a turn. he says that the u.s. government did this time let his family know in advance that paul would be left behind, unlike last april, he says, when they left him there. that early warning, david whelan says, meant that our family has been able to mentally prepare for what is now a public disappointment for us and a catastrophe for paul. i don't know, he says, if he's aware yet, although he will surely learn from russian media. and he expresses concern for his brother's mental health when he finds out about this. paul wh