thank you so much for joining us. cnn prime time starts right now. hi, abby! hey, thank you so much. have a good night. good evening, everyone. it is shaping up to be one of the biggest criminal trials in american history. literally. today was the very first televised hearing in that georgia case against donald trump and 18 of his allies. district foreigner fani willis and her team revealed three big things. first, they want to charge and try all 19 co-defendants together. second, this trial could last four months. and third, they ll call more than 150 different witnesses. that means that the former president of the united states could spend a third of the next year sitting in a courtroom. in just one of his cases, while running for a second term. it is just extraordinary. and we are getting a preview of the tensions to come. two of those co-defendants, trump s legal adviser, sidney powell, and the so called architect, they want their cases to be separated. today they sta
you all. i am katie phang. welcome to the katie phang show. we are going to start today s show with a capitol hill countdown as lawmakers have just four more days of work before they head home for the holidays. i m joining you live from msnbc world headquarters in new york city. we have lots of news to cover and lots of questions to answer. let s get started. failure to lead the president of a prominent ivy league university steps down amid public outrage after a disastrous congressional hearing on the rise of antisemitism on college campuses. we re going to go inside the fallout ahead and a live report from capitol hill. state of emergency catastrophic storms strike tennessee, leaving a trail of death and destruction. six people, including at least one child, are dead, and dozens more are injured. we are live on the ground in the storm zone. no, i am not a threat. i will save democracy. the threat is crooked it joe biden. plus, day one dictator says he will save demo