do you smell that? motorbike exhaust, fish sauce, incense, the faraway smell of something? is that pork grilling over charcoal? vietnam. it could be no place else . listen to me. listen to me. there is no other way to see this city, hanoi, than from a motorbike or a scooter. to do otherwise would be to miss it all. it is one of the great pleasures of my life to join the river of people rushing through the streets. vietnam. it grabs you and doesn t let you go. once you love it, you love it forever. i ve been coming here since 2000, the first time i d been in this part of the world, and it s held a special place in my heart and my imagination since. i keep coming back, i have to. vietnam has changed since last time i was here. it s changing every minute. but some things, for now, anyway, remain the same. important things, like this stuff. that s going to be good! bun oc, first meal in hanoi, and it s something they do here better than anywhere else. okay. i m official
and a basic promise. - a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single american. - so the least among us shall have an equal chance to achieve the greatest things. - and the doors of higher education will be open to all. - no matter what your circumstances or where you are, you are part of the life of our great nation. - it s one thing all our presidents agree on, each in their own unique way. [patriotic music winds down] - have a good life. we will see you soon. - and to get that good life, all we had to do was follow the instruction manual on how to do the right thing. study hard, be nice to your brother. - get him! - go to college, graduate, and voila, achieve the american dream. but at some point. [clattering] - the us economy shrinking. - they re not getting married. they re not getting homes. they re not getting jobs. - we ve been looking at 40 years of flat wages. - those doors to opportunity got harder to open. [light laughter] - this is a big one
welcome to a special thanksgiving edition of th show to what i am coming the mehdi hassan book club via oprah. bucks and all have been mainstay of the show giving me a chance to dive deep into a subject. book segments helping me understand the male strip of this relentless news cycle so we will revisit some of our famous conversations wit authors this year. how the media needs to cover elections when one party i campaigning against democrac how marjorie taylor greene has gone from the fringe to th center of the republican party and how outgoing speaker nancy pelosi consequentially one o the most consequential speaker of our lifetimes may have bought the opportunit to convict president donal trump. we start the day about books particularly the endless strea of tell-all books about donald trump. what was to all of them was no the what or the when if that i with so many crucial whereas relations wait for a boo publishing date? i want to show you an old news we cover from almost
grown into something larger an more fruitful than we uppe match and. the velshi banned book club wa created in response to the targeting a removal of so many important books from libraries and school curricula across th country. according to p.e.n. america, and nonprofit organization the champions the freedom to rea and write in the united states from july 2021 to june 2022, there were 2532 instances of individual books been banned that s a shocking number what the figure doesn t make clear is the types of book that have been fans. as we begin to compile our own list of banned literature, or feature for you, with author from margaret atwood to a clear pattern emerged. it became apparent that th most frequently targeted boo shared at least one of the sam three topics sexuality or gender, and sexua identity, race, and bodily autonomy including sexual and physica violence we re moving books that deal with these three very real topics sends a clear message t readers that those
amara lloyd. msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it has christmas day many have yet to know thei families to two historic winte storm that we ve bee monitoring all weekend for you over 5000 flights in the unite states have been delayed o completely canceled today. the airports in buffalo ne york is completely close and we remain so until tuesday this storm is just as much deadly as it is inconvenient at least through people dyin from weather related causes an hundreds of thousands losing power. also this hour look at how families in ukrain are making the most of the holiday. despite the ongoing war there. plus we ll delve into ho trump s taxes and the 800 plus -page report released by the january six committee coul spell trouble for the former president going into the new year let s start with the sever weather that is wreaking havoc across the country this holida weekend. in and on this christmas day msnbc correspondent jess curses here in new york city ready to update