New this morning, the House Select Committee investigating January 6th releases its formal report on the Capitol attack, arguing that one man was largely to blame for the violence that day, and that was former President Donald Trump.

Plus, the Senate approves a massive spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.

Now it heads over to the House, but will it be passed before funding for federal agencies runs out at midnight?

Also this morning, a major winter storm is moving across the country.

We're seeing thousands of flight cancellations and delays and whiteout conditions on the roads.

Good morning to you and welcome to way too early on this Friday, December 23rd. I'm Erin O'Hern,

in for Jonathan Lemire.

After a historic 18-month investigation, the House Select Committee investigating January 6th

has unveiled its full report on the deadly capital attack and former President Trump's efforts

to overturn the 2020 election. At more than 800 pages, the report is broken down

into eight chapters that provide details from more than 1,000 witnesses interviews and hundreds

of thousands of pages of text messages, emails, and other documents. Chapter one is titled,

quote, the big lie, a reference to Trump's widespread

effort to push false claims about the 2020 election being stolen. The chapter notes that Trump

made efforts even before election day to delegitimize the election process by suggesting it

would be marred by ballot fraud.

Chapter 2 is titled, I just want to find 11,780 votes and focuses on Trump's attempt to pressure

state and local election officials to overturn the 2020 election results.

The next few chapters outline how Trump and his allies planned a slate of fake electors,

their efforts to get the Justice Department to cast doubt on the integrity of the election

and the push to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to decertify the results.

In a forward to the report, Vice Chair Liz Cheney wrote this in part.

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