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Another batch of transcripts have been released by the Jan. 6 committee, and a reporter who's been covering the investigation explained the most substantial new evidence those interviews turned up.

The new batch of transcripts show a growing divide between Cassidy Hutchinson and her boss, then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and her Donald Trump-funded first lawyer Stefan Passantino, and Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" which details he found most significant.

On Tuesday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," retiring Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) urged a criminal financial investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY), who will be taking his seat in January.

Santos, who won Suozzi's vacant seat as part of a strong statewide performance by Republicans in New York, was revealed by a series of journalistic investigations to have fabricated large portions of his résumé, including that he graduated from Baruch College and New York University, that he worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, that he ran an animal rescue charity, that he lost coworkers in the Pulse Nightclub shooting, and even that his parents escaped from the Holocaust.

On CNN Tuesday, analyst Gloria Borger reacted to new reporting that star January 6 Committee whistleblower Cassidy Hutchinson saw Donald Trump's former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows burning documents in his office fireplace multiple times a week in the run-up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, including after a meeting with election conspiracy theorist Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA).

This information came as part of a new dump of transcripts this week from the committee, as investigators wrap up their work after issuing the final report.

The "Talking Feds Podcast" opened this week with a discussion about the next steps for the Justice Department as special counsel Jack Smith gets the full report from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the election.

Speaking on the panel was former prosecutor Harry Litman, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann, former impeachment lawyer and ethics czar Norm Eisen and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.

On CNN Tuesday, reporter Jessica Schneider reported that former White House staffer and blockbuster House January 6 Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson alleged she saw former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows routinely burning documents in a fireplace.

This comes from a new series of transcripts dropped by House investigators as the committee wraps up its work.

The stunning architecture, soaring ceilings and intricate carvings in the Ohio Statehouse were soaked on Tuesday after the brutal arctic chill burst pipes in the historic building.

WSYX6's Darrell Rowland made light of the situation by saying that "normally the press loves leaks from the Statehouse." That wasn't the case on Tuesday "when it flows to the floor below aka the Statehouse press room."

Donald Trump has denied reports that his son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump refused his plea to join his campaign, but panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" think it's a case of protesting too much.

The former president denied a report by New York Magazine's Olivia Nuzzi that claimed the couple refused to participate in his 2024 campaign, saying he had never even asked them to help out, and MSNBC's John Heilemann joked about where things were headed.

Legal experts Andrew Weissmann, Maya Wiley and Charles Coleman all agreed that it's officially the beginning of the end of Donald Trump. It's an expectation that has been heard before, but even with the previous special counsel, there was a "policy" that the Justice Department would protect the president.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked his panel of two lawyers and a professor to join in a kind of thought experiment. "You get hired, Andrew Weissmann, as the new legal team. They fire their old lawyers and they want you. You get the briefing book with the rundown of the legal issues facing your client. Your forced client says to you am I going to be indicted? You say what?"

On Monday's edition of MSNBC's "All In," anchor Chris Hayes mocked the GOP by throwing their past predictions of a "red wave" in the 2022 midterm election back at them in a lengthy series of supercuts.

"We begin at the end of this year, and the historic results for the midterm election," said Hayes. "Democrats gained a seat in the Senate, and Republicans managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Historically, midterm elections have been outright disastrous for a first-term president ... Democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 House seats and five Senate seats. Since Watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. Democratic presidents in their first midterms have lost an average of 44 House seats and six Senate seats. Many political observers on both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbath on the level of, say, 1994's Republican revolution, for instance, when Democrats lost 52 House seats and eight Senate seats during Bill Clinton's first term, or the 2010 Tea Party wave, when Democrats lost a whopping 63 House seats and six Senate seats during Barack Obama's first term. For right-wing media ... a red wave was the sure thing."

On Monday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," former federal prosecutor Elie Honig argued that Donald Trump's White House was "afraid" of the reality that the former president had lost the 2020 election, while they tried to push conspiracy theories about voter fraud.

This comes after the transcripts from the House January 6 Select Committee revealed that Trump and his associates wanted to put out a social media threat that anyone who believes the election wasn't stolen "should be fired" shortly after Trump's own attorney general, William Barr, refuted some of the conspiracy theories.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace dedicated her Boxing Day show to the shocking revelations from this year that Russia's Vladimir Putin was working with Donald Trump's allies because he thought he could take pieces of eastern Ukraine, specifically Mariupol, without waging his invasion.

Writing before the mid-term election, New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg explained that hundreds of documents he's sifted through, in addition to former Robert Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann's details, revealed enough to show what Putin was after when he worked to swing the 2016 election for Trump.

Former Republican Congressman David Jolly (FL) saw the new poll showing Donald Trump at just 40 percent in the 2024 matchup against Ron DeSantis' 35 percent.

Meanwhile, people like Mike Pence and Nikki Haley are hovering around 7 percent and 4 percent respectively.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen appeared on his streaming broadcast for Boxing Day where he addressed a number of questions from followers including the ongoing sales of the MAGA trading cards.

He began by attacking the coordinated efforts from the right on TikTok, where supporters of Trump are using the site's algorithm against him to silence his comments. Over the course of the past several years, Trump and his followers have worked to block any criticism of Trump. It means each time Cohen logs into TikTok his account is "frozen pending appeal."