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
this is the nightclub district in seoul. there was a halloween party. it s been described in local media as stampede. this is the street where it happened. the house of house speaker nancy pelosi violently attacked with a hammer early friday morning. he confronted mr. pelosi shouting where is nancy? it reminds me of january 6th. mr. pelosi was able to call 911 speaking in code. it was the difference between life and death in this case. this is what happens when you convince half the country that the election is stolen and the other side is an enemy. ten days do go before election day. candidates are bringing out big-name surrogates. every republican politician seems obsessed with two things. owning the libs and getting donald trump s approval. we ve seen something of a momentum shift toward dr. oz. trump is still very popular in pennsylvania. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. president biden is offering hi
upcoming elections. but first big developments in two separate investigations involving the former president. one includes spreading lies about the 2020 vote. we start with our breaking news. the former president s legal team is considering whether to allow federal agents to conduct a new search of mar-a-lago. sara murray joins us with that story. sources have told us that this is a consideration on the table to allow federal investigators to return for some kind of supervised search so you could imagine that trump s lawyers would also be present for something like that. that s because the justice department has insisted to them in private discussions as well as publically in court filings that they believe that the former president still has government documents, even after the subpoena he was given, even after the august search at mar-a-lago. so this would be a potential way to try to satisfy the government s demands. there are of course people around former president tru
i m that s annoying but soft alarms on your smartphone. no. i mean one of those really obnoxious alarms that you might hear a few rows back on the plane. turn that off. but you can t turn this alarm off. and as much as we might all want to wish it away, it s clear with less than three weeks until the midterm elections, the forecast is doom and gloom. and maybe that s why president biden today gave not one, but two, speeches on the economy. families are hurting. you ve heard me say it before, but i get it. it s been a rough four or five years for the country, but a lot of folks here are still struggling. but there s some real bright spots. i get it. folks are still struggling. but one word you did not hear from president biden today, the word, recession. but he did admit a recession was a possibility during our interview last week. i don t think there will be a recession. if it is, it ll be a very slight recession. that is, we ll move down slightly. look, it s possib
in a moment we ll be joined by senator bernie sanders to discuss democrats chances in the upcoming midterm elections, less than three weeks away. big developments in two separate investigations involving the former president. one involves potential criminal liability for his conduct spreading election lies about the 2020 vote. we ll get to that in a moment. we ll start, though, with breaking news, sources telling cnn the former president s legal team is considering whether to allow federal agents to conduct a new search of mar-a-lago. cnn s sara murray joins us now with that story. what have we learned about this? sources have told us that there is a consideration on the table to allow federal investigators to return for some kind of supervised search. you can imagine trump s lawyers would also be present for something like that. the justice department has insisted in private discussion as well as publicly in court filings that they believe that the former president still h