Beautiful live picture of Times Square where that big old ball will drop tomorrow night at midnight.

Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is Friday, December 30th, New Year's Eve Eve.

On this final morning, Joe of the year. And this morning, there is more heat on New York congressman-elect George Santos,

who also now is under federal investigation. After it was revealed, he lied about his resume

while campaigning for Congress. We'll have new reporting on what those charges could be. Plus,

newly released transcripts from the January 6th committee showing the struggle within the Trump

White House to keep bad information, conspiracy theories away from the president, and the

failure to do that in many cases. We'll take a closer look at former White House chief of staff

Mark Meadows in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. Plus, after thousands of canceled flights

and a reputation now in tatters,

Southwest Airlines says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. We'll tell you what

the company is saying. It plans to do to somehow make things right. With us this morning,

the host of way too early White House Bureau Chief at Politico

Jonathan Lemire, MSNBC contributor, our good friend Mike Barnacle, columnist, an associate editor

for the Washington Post, David Ignatius, and member of the New York Times editorial board,

Mara Gay. Joe and Mika will be back on Monday. Good morning to you all. I want to dive right in with a newly released

batch of deposition transcripts from the January 6th House Committee from some key witnesses,

including members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle. That includes former White

House communications director, Alyssa Farah Griffin. She spoke to the January 6th House panel on April 15th,

describing her tenure at the Trump White House as a wild eight months in her words. Griffin revealed

one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. She described a Trump White House

in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior

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