Today on Velsi, new evidence that the investigators from the January 6th Committee are zeroing in on Republican members of Congress as they piece together what happened in the run-up to the Capitol riot.

Plus, this COVID winter is starting to feel a lot like the last COVID winter with new record case numbers, long lines of testing sites, and hospitals again stretch to capacity.

But we have the tools this time that we didn't have a year ago. We'll have the very latest on what we know about the Amicron-fueled COVID surge and what you can do to protect yourself.

Then, racism and Islamophobia, not new in this country, but it feels like an ugly chapter of our history is reopening in front of us when

the racist attacks are coming from inside the halls of Congress. Representative Ilhan Omar has been

the target of dangerous racist attacks from her own colleagues. She joins me this morning to talk

about it. And experts are framing it as the next coup, and it's already in progress in key swing states across the

country. We'll talk about how Trump-aligned Republicans are moving to influence who has access

to the ballots and who's in charge of counting the votes. Velshi starts now.

Good morning, I'm Ali Velshi. It is Sunday, December the 19th. We're now just 18 days away from the one-year anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history. The investigation into the House of Representatives,

by the House of Representatives, into the attack on the U.S. Capitol now appears to be zeroing in

on Republican lawmakers who were in contact with the insurrectionist former administration last

January 6th, and who may have been involved in the lead-up to that day.

Ali Alexander, the founder of the Stop the Steel movement, this guy, told the select committee that he was in contact with Republican representatives Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, I'll have more on him in a moment, and Andy Biggs about what he was trying to do to overturn the election leading up to January 6th.

And Politico reports that Alexander's attorneys say that members of Congress may have been

on an organizing call with Alexander in the days before January 6th.

Now, this is a really important development, because January 6th was a horrendous event,

and the public needs to know all of the participants who were involved.

But don't take my word for it.

Were you personally in contact with Mark Meadows that day and other White House officials

to urge the Trump to do more?

Yeah, I was not, but I do think we're all watching, as you are, what is unfolding

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