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very good day to all of you. i'm alex witt in new york. here are the top stories in the final days of 2022. we have breaking news from law enforcement officials. a person in pennsylvania has been taken into custody in connection to the gruesome murders of four idaho college students back in november. this is huge news. we will get to that. former president trump's federal tax returns made public with redactions by house democrats days before losing their majority. we will have the latest on this huge news with analysis as well. also this hour, southwest airlines trying to end a d...

But it makes it certainly far less likely that he had no idea what's happening here and michael cohen was acting you know l-- unilaterally. >> president trump just commuted the sentence of a whom whose case was argued in the oval office by kim kardashian. now we're told he's considering dozens of new pardons. we're joined by senior white house correspondent pamela brown. the president is on a clemency spree. >> reporter: that's right. typically presidents wait until the end of their term to grant pardons, but not president trump. he has already reached out to white house officials asking them ...

Mueller's investigators? >> you know, the president has this near absolute power to grant pardons. so he can do that. but we've seen in other aspects of this investigation that you can do something that's legal, you can for instance be rod blagojevich and select a new senator. but if you do it in exchange for a bribe, it becomes a crime. we're seeing a little bit of that here, too. you can go ahead and grant pardons, but if you're doing it to obstruct an investigation, then it can become evidence in that case and it's a little bit like playing poker where you don't know what's in the other guy...

Does it get to the oval office? i've been saying for, gosh, a year now that the problem for the trump white house is that the investigation is getting wider and closer rather than narrower and further away, right? and that's not just mueller. this is grand juries. this is, you know, judges approving warrants. and that's the problem they've been living with for a year if not longer and will continue until trump decides to take action against mueller or grant pardons or we actually are at the moment, you know, we are getting to, which is this investigation is getting as i said wider and closer. ...

Approvi approvi approving warrants. and that's the problem they've been living with for a year if not longer and will continue if trump decides to take action against mueller or grant pardons or we actually are at the moment, you know, we are getting to, which is this investigation is getting as i said wider and closer. >> thank you, both. i appreciate your time. when we come back a conservative leaning broadcasting company which owns some 200 local news stations is forcing its anchors to read a script criticizing, quote, fake news. guess who loved it? the president. >> tech: at safelite autog...