Today on Velshi, the powerful winter storm that swept across the country is still causing

havoc from deadly road conditions to blackouts, blizzard warnings, freezing rain.

We're going to get a live report coming up.

Plus, it was a brutal defeat for Donald Trump's years-long campaign to hide his tax returns

when House Democrats voted this week to release them publicly.

We learned a lot from

that release, but I've still got some questions, and in moments, I will be joined by the best

possible person to answer them all, someone who won a Pulitzer Prize for her team's

investigation of the failed ex-presidents' finances. And publishers are rushing to print out

books, book editions, really, of the January 6th committee's final report, three of which are already bestsellers on Amazon.

Later in the show, I'm going to talk to the veteran of the Watergate investigation, former congresswoman Liz Holtzman, who wrote the foreword for one of these books.

Then, were the midterm losses the last straw?

Are Republicans finally tired of winning as Donald Trump promised they would be if they stuck

with him?

Well, a conversation about what the naming and shaming of Donald Trump might actually

mean for the Republican Party, for American politics, and for democracy right ahead.

Belchey starts now.

Thank you. and for democracy right ahead. Belchie starts now. Well, good afternoon.

That is something I'm not used to saying.

It's Sunday, December the 25th.

Merry Christmas to all of you who are celebrating.

I'm Ali Velshi, and we begin this hour with confirmation of one of the many major lies that the

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