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happening now, dangerous whiteout conditions as a huge and deadly winter storm strikes the northeast. we are tracking this epic weather system as it unleashes record cold, heavy snow, freezing rain, and flooding across the country and creates holiday travel chaos. the other major story that were following, the january 6th committees final report laying the blame for the insurrection squarely on former president donald trump. we are breaking down all the top lines from the massive repor...

Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyz...

Think about the spokes of a wagon wheel, each one is independent. in this case, the spokes are each of these separate, independent efforts to overturn the election, so its the pressure campaign on make pence is one of them, the fake elector scheme is one of them. the pressure on state officials is a separate one. what they all have in common, all the spokes and the wheels, theyre connected to the hub. and in this case the hub of this conspiracy is donald trump. he is the person that knows about ...

Following the money. but theres something thats tying these people together. by bringing in ideas of kilimnik involved and data going out, and whether trump was shouting out to the russian as after wikileaks, were hearing sort of that wheel get pieced together and were seeing mueller connect those spokes. >> let me ask you this, shimon, you point out over two years ago when you started covering this story, officials pointed to paul manafort as a possible nucleus of the investigation. is that how...

Involved and data going out, and whether trump was shouting out to the russian as after wikileaks, were hearing sort of that wheel get pieced together and were seeing mueller connect those spokes. >> let me ask you this, shimon, you point out over two years ago when you started covering this story, officials pointed to paul manafort as a possible nucleus of the investigation. is that how its looking to you right now? >> it is, don. i could tell you two years ago when we started forming our team ...

This country was attacked, as you saw from the indictment of 12 russian operatives and spies who were ordered by president putin to do -- >> theyve been indicted for felonies, and this president has helped them do it. at least theyre now saying, well, we dont deny that we did it. >> and the definition of conspiracy, and ive given this instruction to a jury, so have judges, is that there are spokes on a wheel. you dont have to be at the center. all you need to do is be one of those spokes. you do...