to try to knock trump out of the race are counter productive. they backfire. as you know he feeds on grievance just like a fire feeds on oxygen. and this is going to end up as a grievance that helps him. did colorado just hand donald trump a political gift by barring him from the ballot? why some say the effort to rue the former president could actually help his campaign. plus how president biden is responding. this as nbc news has learned the colorado supreme court justices who ruled in the case are now facing a flood of threats after their historic decision. also ahead, we ll bring you the latest out of the israel-hamas war as israel defense forces uncover hamas extensive tunnel network in gaza city. and the blunt warning from chinese president xi jinping to president biden about beijing s intentions with taiwan. all right, good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, december 21st. i am not jonathan lemire. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. now, th
investigation, political violence in america has not been this bad since the 1970s. people instead of property, most recently deadly outbursts have come from the right. viewers of this show are familiar with what some of those deadly threats and outbursts have looked like. the, quote, unprecedented number of threats against fbi agents, who participated in the search of mar-a-lago classified documents, threats against alvin bragg, fani willis, and judge tanya chuts kin. sensing a theme you are not wrong. common denominator here is, of course, the disgraced, twice impeached four times indicted ex-president, who has become a next u.s. between the workings of law enforcement and our system and political violence and now has happened again. less than hours since the colorado supreme court ruled that donald trump is disqualified from being on the republican primary ballot in that state. now, in the wake of that landmark ruling, the judges who sit on the colorado supreme court are b
just to get a glimpse of the queen s casket . republican governors of several u.s. states appear to believe that the way to deal with immigration is to send those migrants somewhere else far away. florida s governor is taking credit for sending two charter planes of venezuelan migrants to cape cod. they are scrambling to get the migrants sheltered and fed. they are denouncing the move as a cruel political stunt. it s near identical stunt in washington, d.c. they dropped them off outside vice president kamala harris s official residents. here s what the mayor had to say. we re not a border town. we don t have an infrastructure to handle this type of level of immigration to our city. since the start of the year texas has sent more than 8,000 people to washington. 2500 to new york and about 600 to chicago. arizona s governor has bussed some 1800 migrants to washington. federal, state, and local authorities are coordinating to arrange longer term support and resources for t
david hunter is about to stand trial in cyprus, accused of murdering his terminally ill wife janice. are we facing a summer of disruption? bt workers will be asked today if they want to strike. commuters will find out about next week s railway walk out. i look at why more industrial action s on the cards. england s biggest home defeat in 94 years a 4 0 loss to hungary sparks a backlash from supporters, five months out from the world cup. the rising sea levels forcing people from their homes a new report puts 200,000 properties in england at risk. last year, there was eight metres of road between here and the end there. i measured it yesterday, and we re down to 3.4 metres. good and we re down to 3.4 metres. morning from stjai london, good morning from stjames park in london, the warmest part of the uk yesterday. today for england and wales it is going to be another sunny day and a very warm one. for scotland and northern ireland, more cloud with showers in the north and