it up. you got to do what you got to do. thank you. and thank you at home for joining us. i m whitney wild, christine romans coming back on monday. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is friday, december 30th, don is off today. recovery, though is in sight. we ll see. i think a lot of people will be skeptical, but that is what southwest airlines is saying this morning as they hope to resume regular service today with, quote, minimal disruptions. and airports are still trying to figure out what to do with the piles of unclaimed luggage. we re live at chicago s midway international airport. and vladimir putin and xi jinping holding a meeting. also the house january 6th committee releasing a new batch of transcripts and what we re learning about texts involving donald trump jr. and lindsey graham. a new claim from congressman-elect george santos is putting his own mother s death into question. that s right. this morning we start with sou
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it up. you got to do what you got to do. thank you. and thank you at home for joining us. i m whitney wild, christine romans coming back on monday. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is friday, december 30th, don is off today. recovery, though is in sight. we ll see. i think a lot of people will be skeptical, but that is what southwest airlines is saying this morning as they hope to resume regular service today with, quote, minimal disruptions. and airports are still trying to figure out what to do with the piles of unclaimed luggage. we re live at chicago s midway international airport. and vladimir putin and xi
so don junior first tells the investigators that he they ask, do you put out your own tweets. he says, yes, oftentimes. what that means i have no idea. they didn t ask him if anyone else had access to his account. he then goes on to say he often sends out tweets other people send him. so he identifies that tweet, the two-part plan tweet, as he maybe saw it somewhere else and forwarded it to meadows. that s inconsistent with what the tweet says, he endorses the two-part plan as the most sensible and logical thing he s seen about how to address the election problem. so his actual statements and his actions at the time are not consistent with his answers. that opens a door for doj, because all as you know, this testimony was given under oath, there may be inconsistencies between his testimony and what he did or said. and investigators will use those