polansk. tell us about this, this was about attorney/client privilege but if there s criminality, the pr privilege doesn t exist. reporter: right. john eastman was trying to keep these emails away from the committee and anyone else who wanted them. this is the second time the judge found these emails should be released, they can t be protected because of a furtherance of a fraud, it s called a crime fraud exception. this is a monumental finding from a federal judge. it does two things, potentially very quickly. right now eastman is in a position these emails could be released to the house select committee. previously they got emails right around january 6th. this is a wider portfolio, the entire month of december 2020 leading up. so a lot of additional context the house may not have had before. and the second thing it does, it has a federal judge on paper looking at documents that could potential evidence and saying what they actually mean. and his finding is that these ema
one the supreme court is about to hear a case you might not have heard of, that concerns a benign sounding theory about state legislatures. this case could quite literally and democracy as we know it. there is not been nearly enough conversation about this case, and we are gonna change that this morning. then every politico in the bell when trying to figure out how the republican overreach that landed us in this dystopian row post row reality is going to effect next month s elections. one louisiana candidate is literally embodying the shifting landscape. we re gonna tell you her remarkable story and we will meet her in the next hour. velshi begins right now. good morning, feel it is an effort in the ninth. i am a label. she just must election. they were officially in of the 2020 midterms. is the first major election since the 2020 presidential election, and the insurrection of the. capital as well into these last weeks of the election cycle, the former president s grip on t
frustration intensely. and we will be getting through this together very soon. also today, the white house is slamming texas governor greg abbott after 140 migrants from texas, including babies and children were dropped off at the residence of vice president harris in frigid temperatures on christmas eve. the latest on the battle over title 42 waged by republican governors this hour. and the federal warning that migrants, not to cross the southern border. with polls shows donald trump s power over republicans waning ahead of 2024, other potential contenders including florida s ron desantis, and former vice president pence are making moves to make their candidacies official we re watching that but we re going to start with the weather that we were just mentioning, the deadly snowstorm, joining us right now, nbc news meteorologist angie lassman. where are we at right now, angie? it was a rough weekend. it was. and a holiday weekend at that. a lot of people trying to c
bi-valent booster seems to have some protection, so if you have not gotten that booster, this is the most important message over this holiday week is get that booster. it s now, now is the time to get it if you have not gotten it yet. dr. hotez, any correlation with the flu and covid, and one going down and one going up and are they normally linked or not? how should we understand this? in the past, they ve both accelerated during january and february so if you remember, in 2021, in the winter, we had the terrible alpha wave and then the following year, the ba.1 only con wave those were paralleled by a big rise in influenza as well some of the we saw a lot of cone infections this time around, they seem to be at odds so the flu activity is starting to come down, but again, we have the times in the past have seen flu start to go down and go back up again so we can t do any high-fives around influenza just yet. but now we are looking out for the new scrabble variants which