we come on the air with new demands for answers from the head of intel, airlines scrambling to get planes back in the air and the congressman being put on the back burner, let s start with what is going down in the senate where key leaders are asking the director of national intelligence for more information on the classified documents found at president biden s former office, with the white house press secretary, and what she is saying now in the first comments from the podium, just in the last couple of minutes as we re learning more this afternoon on the republicans in the house who could be involved in any investigation into this. also this hour, the afternoon after the morning meltdown. new reporting on what is going down at the faa and with what is being done to prevent a runway repeat. the top democrat on house transportation live. congressman george santos promising to stay in congress but he may not have much to do, what republican leaders are saying about possib
released. we will have the key takeaways and how the facts compare with a largely fictitious claims from of the former president. then, we will kevin mccarthy be speaker of the house in 2023? the republican body entering the new year divided. pressure to expel a freshman member over his lies, and clinging onto loyalties to a certain florida resident. and new concerns of tripledemic illnesses, with covid hospitalizations on the rise again, as the year ends, as a special early edition of the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. how much did you pay in federal taxes in 2020? i bet you paid a fair bit of your income. i know i did. we now know the former president of the united states, a self proclaimed billionaire, played zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2020. in fact, donald j trump claimed a refund of more than $5 million. that is part of what we learned this morning from the house ways and means committee, whi
i am in the west. i m mehdi hassan filling in for my good friend ali velshi. i want to start this morning with a little bit of a quiz for you. do you know where and when he went to college? do you know if you attended college? do you know where he worked? do you know if you are jewish or not? of course, you know all the answers to those questions. for republican congressman elect george santos, there have been tough questions, we really tough questions. over the past couple of weeks, he s been caught lying in spectacular and fantastical fashion about each and every one of those things and more. george santos did not attend or graduate from any institute of higher education. he did not previously work for citigroup or goldman sachs. he did not found an animal rights charity. he tweeted that, quote, 9/11 claimed my mother s life. five months later he, tweeted a conflicting statement saying his mother died only five years ago in 2016. we don t know when exactly george santos s m
the january six committee went ahead and did it, they published and released the lon awaited final report productive 18 months of work nearly 1000 pages on the par that i ve read shocking, revelatory laying out the crimes of donal trump and his coconspirators i a clear fashion. crown for one of the off - he told in interviewer tha trump could quote, spend the remaining days of hi misanthropic life behind bars. presumably secret servic agents that s a crazy numbers show madeleine. a bold statement from someon who is fairly measured so, what makes the report make raskin say that given the sheer volume of material, those of us who haven t read through all of it can be forgiven. i assume that you re not - using the same boat i am that s why we re gonna g through the final report here. looking at who s read it closely. obviously a ton of information we re gonna get to we want to start tonight with particularly revealing section it s chapter five which is titled a coup in searc
preparations for, it the january six committee went ahead and. it they published the long awaited final report, th products of 18 months of work, nearly 1000 pages long the parts that i ve read are shocking and revelry laying out the crimes of donal j trump and his coconspirators in a clear and dramati fashion. crown for one of the off - he told in interviewer tha trump could quote, spend the remaining days of hi misanthropic life behind bars. presumably secret servic agents that s a crazy numbers show madeleine. a bold statement from someon who is fairly measured so, what makes the report make raskin say that given the sheer volume of material, those of us who haven t read through all of it can be forgiven. i assume that you re not - using the same boat i am that s why we re gonna g through the final report here. looking at who s read it closely. obviously a ton of information we re gonna get to we want to start tonight with particularly revealing section it s chapter fi