clerk in wisconsin. she spent the last 15 years running elections. here she is holding a mock election in 2011. she is trying to figure out how much extra time voters need to cast ballots under the state s iner you voter id law. i m madison city clerk. and today we re having a mock election invi the city county building to time various scenarios with voter id and figure out how to do the best practices for 2012 before we actually have an election. she said she chose to do this work because she wanted to combat voting inequities in madison. she encourages every new wisconsin election clerk that comes to herwi for training to similarly find their why. quote, they have to focus on why they re doing this work. what it comes down to is making votingak accessible to those eligible to vote. that s why we keep showing up daye after day. her why is more important now than ever. in 2020, mary beth contemplated not showing up. she almost quit. that s because after election day 2020,
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tonight on the reid out. your money is not charity. it s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. [ applause ] president zelenskyy delivers an inspiring speech to congress as the putin-loving right gives him the cold shoulder. capitol police officer harry dunn joins me to talk about the january 6th committee s investigation as we await its final report. later president biden lays out a hopeful vision for america s future as we prepare to bid farewell to a tumultuous 2022. we await the release of the final report by the house january 6th select committee which could come at any moment. the panel is expected to drop a whopping 800 pages that will give a comprehensive and detailed look at how donald trump plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat and purposefully provoked his supporters with phony conspiracies about widespread voter fraught. this report is a big deem. the committee interviewed more than 1200 witn
that we have already seen to this. we cannot compare watergate, just this really was the beginning and the plot for what would ve been a civil war, a small version on january 6th. and that is laid out even in the first few pages of this document. from a legal standpoint, from a principled standpoint, it absolutely has to be taken seriously. it is not just an indictment on democracy, sorry an indictment on the republican party, it is as clear statement on how these people will go to any and many lengths to literally dismantle american democracy. and that is no laughing matter. katie, in 845-page report that is now sitting in the lap of the department of justice. jack smith, a report like this isn t like a pot potato that they now have to deal with or do they just get a winning lotto ticket? there are all sorts of details in this thing. i think based on in the summer over the election in the fall and now more recently the subpoena sent out to the fake electors plot i don
bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. and with respiratory viruses on the rise and kids medicine harder to find, we ll look at how to keep your family safe during the holidays. we begin this morning with the dangerous winter storm battering much of the country that has up ended holiday travel for many americans. this morning more than 200 million americans are still under some kind of weather warning orred a size ri. the storm continues to move east expected to bring powerful winds and bitterly freezing temperatures after dumping blind ing snow on parts of the midwest. hundreds of thousands of people are without power this morning. meteorologists have categorized the storm as a bomb cyclone. the storm disrupting travel for folks looking to head out for the holiday weekend. according to flight aware, there are already more than 3,000 flight cancellations and more than 2,000 delays in the u.s. joinings us now is shaq brewster in michigan and meteorologist agie lasm