too busy but walking through the station there are a lot of people inside, what s on families and young children and suitcases, people standing around wondering what to do, services to paris and amsterdam and brussels and disneyland paris to and brussels and disneyland paris to a lot of children inside and families wondering what to do next. a busy period, wanting to go on holiday on new year s eve and visit family and your and as i was walking through the station announcements that would not be any trains before midday at the earliest and suffer 14 trains cancelled, none running midday and they said if anyone was hoping to get a last minute ticket do not bother because every train is full. they are working on the issue and anyone is affected they can get and anyone is affected they can get a full refund or exchange the ticket but for a lot of people inside they want to get to where they are going and we have been hearing from simon calder who has been in the station talking
a.m. pacific, i m josé diaz-balart. right now on msnbc, a michigan newspaper revealing details of never before heard audio of donald trump appearing to pressure officials in one county not to certify the 2020 election results. plus, who else the paper says was on that call. we re also following extreme weather, the storm drenching the west coast and how it could impact holiday travel across the country. also ahead, terror in prague, what more we know about a rare deadly mass shooting at a university in europe. and later, the new calls for a cease fire in the israel-hamas war, including the tense negotiations at the united nations to reach a resolution demanding a new pause in fighting. we begin this morning with new reporting about another instance of former president donald trump pressuring local officials to overturn the 2020 election results. the detroit news revealing there is an audio recording of then president donald trump and rnc chair ronna mcdaniel talking to
if you are hitting the road or jumping on a plane today, you will have plenty of company. one of the busiest travel days of the year is in full swing right now. the nightmare keeps getting worse for families of hostages in gaza. word today a 73-year-old american citizen, father of four, grandfather of seven, died at the hands of hamas. what we know about him and his wife who is still a hostage. lots to get to. we start with the new and significant reporting out of michigan. the detroit news obtaining audio recordings from 2020 in whicthen president trump urges officials not to sign off on results that show boden won. he said, we ve to fight for our country. we can let these people take our country away from us. he also said,quote, everybody knows detroit is crooked as hell. on the call, rnc chair mcdaniel who told election workers, if you can go home tonight, do not sign the certification papers. we will get you attorneys, to which trump added, we will take care of that
very good to beac you for another hour. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re continuing our breaking news coverage of a legal setback for special counsel jack smith in his election interference investigation into the former president. the supreme court has just put out a single line order statement denying smith s request to immediately settle trump s presidential immunity claims, meaning the issue now heads to the court of appeals in d.c. we do have the date for those oral arguments. so what this decision all means for timing and how quickly the supreme court could take up the case once that court rules, there s a lot to get into. we re going to dive in right now joining us, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. with the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. ken, first off, were we expecting a sidestep like this? because that s essentially what it is. it s a punt, if you will, from the su
an official investigation said the shots were fired in breach of the army s rules of engagement. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the hostage deaths broke his heart but that military pressure is still necessary. mr netanyahu has said his country is in a war for its existence which it would continue, despite what he called the heavy price paid by israel. our correspondent hugo bachega reports on the fallout in israel to the hostage deaths and growing pressure to rescue the others still held in gaza. for the families of the hostages who remain in gaza, it s an agonising wait made worse by a tragic mistake. the israeli military has given new details of how three israeli captives were shot dead by its own soldiers. yotam haim, alon shamriz and samer talalka emerged shirtless from a building, carrying a makeshift white flag. one of the soldiers misidentified them as a threat and opened fire. two were killed instantly. a third, injured, returned to the building and was la