This morning, more revelations from the House Select Committee investigating January 6th,

what we're learning about the chaos and dysfunction within the White House during Trump's time in office.

Plus, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is threatening major penalties for Southwest Airlines

amid a massive number of cancellations and delays.

We'll have the latest on those seemingly never-ending travel troubles.

And President Biden signs a massive $1.7 trillion government spending bill into law,

capping off a year of big political wins for the White House.

Thank you. capping off a year of big political wins for the White House. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Friday, December 30th, the penultimate day of 2022.

I'm Jonathan Lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us.

We'll begin 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.

And that includes former White House Communications Director

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

describing her tenure at the White House as, quote, a wild eight months. Griffin revealed that 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 government

officials wouldn't take positions with the administration. She said any report about the Trump

White House being chaotic and operating without structure was more or less accurate.

And that included there being no competent gatekeeper to stop harmful or unhelpful information

from getting to the then-president, which led to this moment at the start of the COVID pandemic.

Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light,

and I think you said that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it.

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