good morning. welcome to morning joe. that s a look at times square. we re a heart of hours the ball the will drop and we ll turn the page to 2024. good morning. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to this morning, including another state remove donald trump from the republican presidential ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis on that big decision from maine s secretary of state. plus nikki haley s attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. also forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure to protect civilians. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023 from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former president s many legal battles as he enters the presidential election. a lot to go through. with us for all of us is nbc news national affairs analyst john heilem
in the days to come. rich. katie burn live in philly. thank you. jonathan. jonathan: rich, a major escalation in the red sea as the risk to u.s. troops grows by the day. u.s. forces intercepted a barrage of houthi drones and missiles in attack that lasted more than ten hours yesterday and learning a u.s. warship involved in that firefight shot down a ballistic missile, the first time that has ever happened in combat. hello, everyone. i m jonathan hunt in los angeles. rich: rich edson in new york. john and sandra have the day of o. u.s. bases in the middle east remain on high alert after a drone attack injured three service members. biden administration said the strategy is aimed at preventing a widening war, but critics say it could get worse. my fear is one of these days we are going to wake up and one of these missiles has actually gotten through and caused a catastrophic attack on one of our bases, or on one of our ships. and that is going to be squarely on joe bid
- he did a dress rehearsal for january 6th at the police riot against dave dinkins. - this is all about a policy, which if i had them, the police department would be even angrier at me, even though i m white. - can this former prosecutor be the one to come in and help bring new york into the right direction? - giuliani was blasted for being insensitive to minorities concerns. - rudy giuliani is and was a thug. - i did not expect the shocking de-evolution of rudy giuliani. - the city is knocked to its knees. he was pitch-perfect. - yes, he stood up. yes, he did what a mayor should do, but that did not change who he was. - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i don t know who s to blame what choice was he givin ? in this world that we re livin when i see y
Good afternoon. I am richard lui in for yasmin. The christmas dozens of Flights Canceled due to weather in the mid let leaving airline scrambling to get Travelers Home for the holidays. A live report on the situation just a moment. And, a brandnew falling by Donald Trumps legal team on the issue of president ial immunity, essentially their clients commute completely immune from prosecution. This sets up a showdown of what the Special Counsel and the hearing set for early january. Breaking news for you as well, the Israeli Military revealing the fate of five hostages whose bodies were found in the tunnels of gaza. We will get the details with that just into. Us with record breaking numbers of migrant the board of this week, some negotiators working the phone lines through the congressional recess to find a deal on immigration. Well also look back at the Culture War Bottles of 2023 when america appeared to be a war with itself. That is coming up, later this hour. We are going to start th
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