good morning and welcome to the couch. you are looking at saint paul, minnesota. one of the two twin cities and to do my best steve doocy looks like 31 degrees there and mostly clear. a good morning for this time of year and so are we, carley. carley: it s nippy in saint paul. joey: is that what you call it? carley: a little nippy. are their mountains in minnesota? carley: one. is he going to quiz me on pooing toography? i draw a blank. joey jerry i don t know if there are a lot of mountains in the midwest. giant lakes. griff: i have been there and seen lakes i haven t seen the mountains. carley: it s 43 degrees here. so it is 12 degrees warmer here and very warm because i just turned on the space heater underneath this desk. sorry, joey, he hates when i do that. joe: he gets it so hot here my feet are burning up. griff: is that because you want caribbean temperature? carley: why would we talking about the caribbean. someone will be experiencing caribbea
,. good to go, all right. hello, new york. thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very special edition of why is this happening? he is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. admit it, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbc s chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. hello! thank you. oh, stop. [applause] stop it! [applause] how are you? good? thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down, sit down. thank you, that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. really, really hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, i ve got some family here. tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. in that word, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. even that as a topic seems weird, we know a
news saturday night. it that magical time of year, fact, drunk and broke for a time to talk about resolutions. revolutions are by and large all lies. sure, well intentioned to get you will abandon and land in the orphanage of end of your promises past real good dreams go to guy but this year in addition to the typical go to the gym more nonsense, we should use collective goodwill to manifest a better reality from our leaders starting with zombie in chief president living in a dream world causing a national nightmare. the little kitty kitty steps. i m happy he didn t follow up then. president first lady and team of propagandists reportedly held urgent west wing media to address taking poll numbers which have the president s approval rating at dismal 37% according to the wall street journal . even lower, a number of 34%. this is not an outlier, this is reality. biden and and trip about economics incredible economic news, inflation dropping and wages going up. it s for the ca
retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed militant groups. the latest on the rising tensions in the region, plus, trump s christmas message lashing out at special counsel jack smith as the former president tries to get his election interference case thrown out. so, is the former commander in chief immune from criminal prosecution? we ll see. we ll talk about that coming up. and later on, the presents opened and the cookies devoured, millions of americans set to travel today in the post christmas rush. i m going to speak to a travel expert about some travel tips to help you survive the misery. hey, everybody. good morning to you. merry post christmas. we begin this hour with the breaking news out of the middle east. president biden ordering retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed militia groups in iraq after three u.s. service members were injured in a drone attack in northern iraq on monday. since october 17th, there have now been at least 103 separate attacks on u.s.
let s get started. according to the new nbc polls out this morning, and for the first-time, donald trump is now leading in a hypothetical general election matchup. now, this isn t just bad news for president biden. this is terrible news for the very future of american democracy. for weeks, we ve been warning you on this show about the dangers of the second trump term. the former president after all, has promised retribution. pledged to round up protesters with the military, and suggested using the justice department to go after his political enemies. these are plans that should terrify each and every single one of us. tonight, i want to pull back the curtain take a look at who could be tasked with carrying out trump s radical agenda come 2025. and answer the question, what would a second trump presidency without any human guardrails, without any adult in the room, actually look like? let s start with the second highest office in the land, the vice president of the unite