Im jose diazbalart and we begin with Breaking News out of georgia. Just in the last hour, Fulton County judge scott mcafee dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump and some of his codefendants in the States Election interference case. The judge said six these counts in the indictments lack sufficient detail. Joining us now, msnbc legal contributor and host of the katie phang show, katie phang, also catherine christian, an msnbc legal analyst, and greg blew steen, political reporter at the Atlantic Journal Constitution and an msnbc contributor. Katie, what exactly did the judge stay, which charges were they, and how significant are they . So, jose, this is not the ruling on the motion to disqualify the District Attorney fani willis. Were going to start with that kind of ground work. But what it does do is it dismisses six of the counts in the indictment that was secured by fani willis from a grand jury. And thats another important point because this was not an
just hear those sleigh bells jingling come on it s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you. outside the snow is falling and friends are calling. brian: this is how great and tuned in our listeners and viewers are. they pointed out there is only six reindeer. what s going on. add in rudolph some biblical scholars say rudolph didn t happen. if you add in rudolph 9. carley: do you know all their names? [laughter] brian: donner. carley: con comet, cupid blitzen. brian: amazing those names haven t gotten more popular. lawrence: i don t think we should go down down this road after your last biblical lesson last week dry line. brian: the drummer boy. because you can t find the drummer boy. lawrence: no scripture on that. carley: i read on instagram about the little drummer boy. after somebody gives birth that s what everybody would want a solo drum performance from a little boy. i never thought about it. brian: get the child with the snare drum b
the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has alleged that china is considering supplying weapons and ammunition to russia, for its war against ukraine. he was speaking to cbs news, after meeting china s top diplomat, wang yi, on the sidelines of the international munich security conference in germany. he said he d warned mr wang of consequences, if material support was provided to moscow. mr blinken told cbs, that chinese firms were already providing non lethal aid for russia s invasion. james landale reports. for months now, vladimir putin has been wooing china s president so is all that diplomacy about to pay off? so far, china has neither endorsed nor condemned russia s invasion of ukraine, calling instead for a peaceful solution. but the us believes russian forces in ukraine are already getting surveillance and other information from chinese firms. and america s top diplomat now believes that china could be going further and providing weapons. we have seen them provid
without power and commuters facing a travel nightmare. i think people thought that w winter was going to be done and over with and now we re getting hit. this is new england it is about time well, on the west, more catastrophic flooding in the forecast in the wake of weeks of unrelenting rain thousands now under evacuation orders, rescue teams already deployed to save people trapped in those deadly floodwaters. we re timing out both of these systems. and the gloves are off former president trump in iowa taking direct aim at his biggest competition for the gop ticket, florida governor ron desantis. ron was a disciple of paul ryan, who is a rino loser. how the crowd responded to that and why it may not be what the former president wanted to hear we re going to begin with the latest fallout from the collapse of silicon valley bank and the new inflation numbers out this morning. starting us off, jake ward in san francisco. our business and data reporter brian cheung