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The Beat With Ari Melber

because they show pence remembers a lot of the details. how he can be pressed on them under oath on any trump criminal plotting, on trump's secret statements made only to pence or trump's apparent intent leading up to that day, and the meetings and contacts that both trump and other coup plotters, like john eastman, seen here being searched by the fbi, what they might have said privately. we do know that a dozen lawmakers who met with trump, at least one meeting occurred on december 21st, and an attendee described that huddle as friendly withpence's involvement. >> it was a very friendly meeting. vice president pence was there. in fact, vice president pence encouraged the debate. he said the debate is something that needed to happen and laid out his plans to entertain that. unfortunately, violence and riots obstructed the work that we wanted to do.

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The Beat With Ari Melber

>> renato with the wire quote. if you shoot at the king, you best not miss. i think that you're remiding folks that some of what we learned did come from pence's closest aides, his counsel. that goes to something i alluded to earlier. some of those were probably unlawful orders rather than crimes. trump was doing mixing and matching. there were clearly attempted crimes like voter fraud in georgia, and then unlawful orders which in our system of government don't always lead to imprisonment. you had pence's lawyers talking about that and it may be the committee didn't ultimately want to pick a big fight with pence and make him out to be the worse enemy when they were focused on bigger problems. to bring joan into this, let's remind folks we have the december 21st meeting, one of several really horrific, terrible, undemocratic measures that were taken.

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The Beat With Ari Melber

you said on record you didn't keep the copy, okay. i want to mention something interesting that came up. you mentioned january 6th in the committee. there was a meeting at the white house on december 21st where you discussed jan 6 strategy, whether pence would take constitutional action. reporting said it lasted several hours. what did you advocate in that meeting at the white house in december '21. >> nothing. i was seeking to understand the process because this was unprecedented. with expected senator hawley would be joining house objectors and we didn't know whether that would result in one unit cam ral debate, if the senate would retire to the cham bernie sanders, who would preside over the debates, how people would be recognized. it was a friendly meeting. vice president pence was there. vice president pence encouraged the debate. he said the debate was something that needed to happen and laid out plans to entertain that. unfortunately violence and riots really obstructed the work that

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The Beat With Ari Melber

stolen. >> on december 21st, some republican members of congress met with president trump in the white house to talk about overturning the 2020 election. >> mr. gaetz was personally pushing for a pardon, and he was doing so since early december. advocated for there to be a blanket pardon for members involved with that meeting. >> i want to give you the benefit of responding but also want to take this process seriously. you have individuals who are not known to be coordinating in any way. they all have their own counsel. they have an incredible legal liability if they lied about this, and multiple individuals, all of whom by the way, republican appointees are testifying in that period after that december meeting, you, sir, requested a pardon for yourself and other attendees at the meeting. the question is, can you really say all of them are committing perjury, lying on you, a. and "b," if a pardon was requested, why not tell us, what were you worried about, what was it you thought others might be indicted for?

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Morning Joe

attorney general merrick garland says the group hacked computer systems at hospitals, school districts, and financial firms, stealing data and sometimes publishing it. southwest airlines reported a $220 million loss in the fourth quarter following the company's holiday meltdown. the airline canceled more than 15,000 flights, you'll remember, from december 21st through 31st. southwest says the mass cancellations cost the airline $800 million, expected to impact revenue through march by as much as $350 million. still, the airline reported a record fourth quarter revenue of $6 billion. and just moments ago, the commerce department reported consumer spending fell 0.2% in december. underlying inflation cooled to its slowest pace since october 2021. let's bring in the co-anchor of cnbc's "squawk box," our friend andrew ross sorkin. good morning. explain that number, 0.2% on

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CNN This Morning

investigative and enforcement powers of the department of transportation. talking 16,700 flights cancelled by southwest between december 21st and december 29th. that means about 2 million passengers were impacted by this. the focus has been in many getting the refunds back to passengers about $400 million of 725 to $825 million this caused southwest to lose because of the meltdown. we're going to the out more today in a new financial filings from southwest airline. >> we got those numbers. they've posted a loss and warning more losses ahead. i know they said they'll cooperate, what is that mean? >> the interesting thing here is that southwest insists the skid yule and staffing were in the right place leading up to this. but southwest said our systems and processes became stressed working to recover from cancellations across 50 airports

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CNN This Morning Weekend

pena's campaign was being funded in part by cash from narcotic sales that were laundered into campaign contributions. a hearing is set for monday to determine whether pena should be detained or released with conditions. respiratory illnesses seem to be easing for the first time since september with covid-19, flu and rsv levels dropping to the lowest levels in three months. respiratory viruses continue to trend downward across the country. health experts are saying this is a good indicator but not a reason to drop precautions just yet. southwest airlines will pay its approximately 9,400 pilots bonuses for working through the holiday. the airline says 16,700 flights were canceled between december 21st and the 29th and that would

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America Reports

fairfax county, she broke this story december 21st. she said she did not learn her son, who graduated from thomas jefferson for science and technology in 2021 was a national merit student until two years after he was to receive the award. that has huge consequences for families. >> it's just -- it's just absolute absolutely atrocious for families and it is unacceptable clearly to withhold this kind of information to students who are excelling when they want to apply to colleges. this is described as a golden ticket. >> sandra: is it criminal? is it criminal? >> the attorney general is investigating all of this under the virginia human rights act and we are going to find out. but there clearly is a real suggestion their civil rights have been violated and we need to understand what's at the heart of this. remind ourselves that we do have a superintendent of schools in

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Chris Jansing Reports

seeing, the ability to have this meeting today, to have this vote is because of what we did. they are proud of that. they believe they fought for democracy here. and yet, you wonder, as you look forward, what can get done and we talked a lot about what's the motivation for some of these members who are holding out, when i guess, at least part of the answer is that they were brought into office to do not in spite of being election deniers, not in spite that they might do something like that, but maybe because of it. >> and there's been no political consequence. each of these house members were just elected two months ago. andy harris just won his reelection bid by 10%. he was one of those congressman at the white house with donald trump on december 21st looking for ways to overturn the election. you look at andy biggs. reelected after being publicly

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Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo

we have to confront it, and we have to protect the american people prosecute threat it presents. jackie: that's former secretary of state and fox news contributor mike pompeo speaking with maria last month on the threat the chinese communist party poses to america here at home. meanwhile, in the skies over the south china sea a chinese military jet came within near feet of a u.s. air force jet, forcing the american pilot to a take evasive maneuvers to avoid a midair collision. incident occurred on december 21st, according to the defense department. let's welcome back congressman darrell issa. congressman, good to have you here. let's get right into the china threat, because president xi seems emboldened and with the foreign policy track record of this administration, it's no surprise. we're wondering what you think about the possibility that he makes a move on taiwan possibly this year. >> well, it's extremely, extremely possible, and it's possible because of the sign of weakness. secretary pompeo wasn't the

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