about little changes, not that little, that do happen. they are smart but they all meaningful. they re meaningful. i think that s why you see a lot of tension in this country. because the progress happens in small steps, but it s happening. in palpable ways. it s happening. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, the address from the white house. i thought what was interesting about it was the quiet normalcy. the idea that the lack of superlatives, there isn t punditry all over the place. twitter is not it could be a tree falling in the woods. the president of the united states gives an important address. first of all. and it s okay. and said nice things about republicans and nobody set their hair on fire. that s the way it has to work. you pointed out, even in the obama days, it would ve been hard-pressed to pay a compliment to the speaker of the house. yes. that s what joe biden did tonight. the normalcy was the part that amazed me
we ll see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. so we are on to the united states senate, where things might take a while, because of the fact that the amendments are allowed, as you pointed out. but it is pretty clear that chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell are going to get this thing through the senate intact. they sure are. it s clear that tim kaine has a lot of, he is wounded, i think, in many ways, by the way the white house put the mountain valley pell plane in the steel. but it sounds lake the democrats believe they need to be the adult in the room and set aside the personal concerns and ultimately say yes to something they never wanted to be part of to begin with. well, democrats, of course, have the curse of responsibility. yeah. they are the responsibility party. the other party is the not serious party, and so democrats frequently found themselves casting difficult votes in
now. thank you for jumping on with us, our viewers have new seen it, what was your reaction when you learned this happened? well, thank you, sandra and john. thanks for being on with us today. yeah, this is a marine corps town, we were shocked, saddened and disgusted. john: we understand the marines were on leave from camp pendleton, some teens were lighting fireworks and i don t know if it was a simple request, or if it was some sort of pointed request from the marines to stop doing it. what happened then? lay it out for us, mayor. yeah, we understand that we had some local youth gathering down at the beach for the end of the school year, you know, getting kind of excited and then they had this confrontation with the marines, we understand that they were setting off fireworks and the marines did tell them to stop. and at that point these youth really turned on the marines and started attacking them. this is completely unacceptable thankfully we have fired four more dep
erin burnett: outfront breaking news, former vice president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel. we re getting new details into cnn this hour. we have the very latest as this story is breaking. plus, new video into cnn of russian brutality against their own soldiers. we have this video out russians running over their own dead and injured. and new questions tonight about congressman george santos. we have a new report saying he was charged with theft after a series of bad checks were written to dog breeders. a lawyer who has known him since middle school said he asked her to help fight the charges. let s go out front. good evening i m erin burnett. out front, subpoenaed. former mike pence has now been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. pence, of course, was at the center of trump s efforts to cling to power. trump repeatedly pressured his then vice president who, of course, was the one who wa
hundreds of thousands without power, more than 4,000 flights canceled. winds so treacherous the airport in buffalo, new york, had to shut down. cnn is live with the havoc being wreaked nationwide. and the january 6th committee out with its final report spelling out why donald trump, in their view, was the one solely responsible for the riot and should be discaqualifi from holding office ever again. new transcripts from the committee. why cassidy hutchinson said she was disappointed and disgusted with her first round of testimony under oath. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead and this nightmare weather scenario before christmas crippling conditions stretching coast to coast with snow and ice in cities such as seattle and portland, oregon to the massive bomb cyclone system moving east. nearly 180 million in the u.s. are in areas with temperatures below freezing. 70 million are in areas below zero. this system is so powerful meteorologist