this woman did something that an angel would do. to take in a perfectly stranger, a stranger. you took him in in your home. on christmas eve. joey s life was saved by a woman who cared deeply about a man she had never met. thank you. i am right here. i am right here. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. the news continues so let s hand it over to alisyn camerota on cnn tonight. alisyn? i am alisyn camerota. the january 6th committee putting more new witness testify tonight. stuff we have not heard before, including how mark meadows allegedly burned documents. and, how much talk about qanon there was in the white house. also tonight, the question thousands of angry stranded passengers ask at this hour, what is going on with southwest airlines? why are they subjecting travelers to so much chaos? how are will the airline make it up to those passengers? and the supreme court allowing that trump-era border policy to stay in place, that is the one that sends migrants back to mexico
that may of us had to live, unfortunately. yeah. maria, i want to get to you for a second because there is more that has just been released by the january 6th committee. this is from jud deer, who was the press secretary and he says, something that we did not know before, which is that president trump was about to the right thing and concede, but then, i guess, i don t know, i guess he changed his mind. here s what yadier says. in the week after the election there was gossip around the building that he, meaning trump, was considering conceding. even strongly considering inviting the president elect and the incoming first lady to the white house. now he calls it gossip, but i think we had had reporting that it took a while for president trump to fasten upon his new plan to say that, the big lie, there was all sorts of fraud. i don t believe it, alisyn. i really don t. one of the things that really sticks out from all of these
and they have been turned away, literally by the millions, under the trump era policy, supposedly based on covid. we all know that is not the real reason for it under trump. but despite the fact that, an order that was entered at the peak of the pandemic, those facts have changed. and the district court was right to strike this down. but we have been left with the status quo and this heartbreaking rejection of migrants for many, many months ahead, while the supreme court decides. i hear you, norm. maria, i want to come to you. i hear what norm is saying. it is obviously heartbreaking with people from families who are freezing in the cold, who have fled nicaragua and authoritarian regimes. , at least give us what the backlog is in the u.s.. the u.s. is not equipped to handle this number. that is a demonstrable truth. there is 1.6 million asylum applications pending. that is 7 times more than the asylum cases in 2012.
committee then we really previously knew. and that begs the question here, she is cooperating with the justice department. what might she lend to their investigation and what potential criminal charges based on her accounts could potentially lead to? that is something we are going to be keeping an eye on into the new year, alisyn. every new revelation contains surprises. jessica, thank you so much for that reporting. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst, norm eilish. counterterrorism adviser phil, mud maria cardona, and all of, former homeland security and covid task force adviser to vice president pence. great to see all of you tonight. norm, i am no lawyer. but burning documents in your office fireplace doesn t sound that. great you know, dozens i think was the word. of course it is hard to know what mark meadows burned. so, how legally damning? well alisyn, it is quite legally damning when you are
some leadership. not every single person who shows up here at our border is a refugee. i know that is the position of maria and the democrats and the biden administration, but we can t take on the entire population of all of central america and just say well, these are all refugees. you said it yourself. we have a massive backlog. we cannot possibly process this. the supreme court today saved biden from himself. you have to forgive a judge for being confused about the biden position. because one day they re claiming the pandemic is still going on to relieve student debt, today the solicitor general is in court saying, well, we know the pandemic is over, let s and title 42. you cannot have it both ways. it is confusing and it is dishonest. yeah. olivia, there is also a lot of politics around this in frustration. but i just keep looking for the solution and i don t know what it is. because congress won t, i mean, congress has failed, administration after administration, on this. it is