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and thank you so much for joining us tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and tiktok at jake tapper. our coverage continues with the glorious laura coates and the radiant alisyn camerota. hey laura, hey alisyn. >> youre getting better by the day. >> glorious -- >> this will never get old. [laughs] >> we were wondering if you would run out of superlatives, but you have not. >> no, impossible, impossible -- >> did not even need the the source. >> jocular jake >> hav...

you also hear what donald trump thought of the january six rioters. spoiler alert, -- and you will hear about the text that don junior sent to mark meadows the day after his father lost the election. there is basically a road map for how to unconstitutional keep trump in office. don junior says he cannot remember who sent him that text, but see if you recognize some of the unique language in the text as a clue. as predicted, there are new developments tonight and new laws from congress...

also claims he does not remember who sent it to him. it says, we have operational control, total leverage, moral high ground, potus must start a second term now. state assemblies can step in and vote before the electoral slate. republicans control 28 states, democrats 22 states, once again, trump wins. thats the road map the day after the election, ron, for how to keep donald trump unconstitutionally in office. okay, fast forward to january six, when they tried some of these things ins...

viewers watching from around the world, im laila harrak, and ahead on cnn newsroom -- former president donald trumps tax information is finally about to go public after his years-long fight to keep it secret. what we can expect to find out in the coming hours -- plus -- one of russias largest strikes yet. thats ten months into the war, russia launches dozens of missiles into ukraine, just days before the new year. and remembering a football legend. tributes pour in from around the worl...

it up. >> you got to do what you got to do. thank you. and thank you at home for joining us. im 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. well 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 a...

lawmakers have rarely sought to make public confidential taxpayer information. there is some precedent. now well see a whole new one today. well go live to capitol hill this morning. what time are we expecting these to come out is what everyone really wants to know. >> reporter: this is going to happen around 9:00 a.m. so just less than an hour at this point and we are mere steps from the house floor where this is going to get entered into the congressional record. what you should expe...

good morning, everyone. im jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. any moment now house democrats set to release former president donald trumps tax returns after a four-year legal battle. we expect to learn more wiabout his wealth, his charitable donations and the house said the irs failed to properly lay audit his tax returns. they detailed six years of returns showing trump claimed tens of millions in annual losses that significantly reduced his tax liability. lauren fo...

came out an hour ago and there is say lot of data here and how the former president is responding. >> so as as you said, we have team combing through hundreds of pages but trump paid a very low amount of income tax in the first and last year of presidency. were talking about 2017 he paid $750. 2018 and 2019, it was combined $1.1 million in income tax and in 2020 it was $0 and that is important and here is why. we hope the tax returns will show the raw data of the numbers but it is look...

now. what rudy giuliani and jared kushner swore under oath. today donald trumps taxes now in plain sight after a years long back and forth legal battle. plus the transportation secretarys new threat aimed at southwest airlines, make good on getting thousands of passengers home or face thousands of dollars of fines for failing to get planes in the air. this is what were watching "at this hour." and good morning, everyone. im amara walker in for kate bolduan. just minutes ago, the ...

shootings at the homes of local democratic officials. solomon pena faces a slew of charges including conspiracy, attempted aggravated battery for the attempted attacks. >> he lost by a margin of more than 50%. police say he visited the homes of at least three of the officials before the shootings. some of those visits were caught on doorbell cameras. cnns josh campbell joins us now. what do we expect at the hearing? >> reporter: this hearing is starting just minutes from now there in n...