and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quid that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself had continued to promote the idea that he will be a vengeful dictator in a second trump presidency. over the holiday weekend, he shared this image of a word cloud put together by the daily mail. the image was based on a survey of what voters sent about trump s ambitions for a second term. and you can see that the most popular responses, the biggest ones represented in the middle r, power, revenge and dictatorship. revenge being the most devoted. that is the image that trump himself wants to cultivate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, an image she wants to promote, eve
ahead on cnn newsroom, north carolina s republican controlled legislature overrides democratic governor roy cooper s veto banning most abortions in that state after 12 weeks. gaps reportedly remain after the latest negotiations between the white house and republicans trying to head off a possible default on the u.s. debt. and ukraine says it successfully shot down six hypersonic missiles launched by russia, a claim moscow refutes. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin in north carolina, where the republican-led assembly moved to ban most abortions after 12 weeks, overriding a veto from democratic governor roy cooper. the vote in the state senate on tuesday was 30-20 along party lines. just hours later, the state house also voted 72-48 to do the same. governor cooper slammed the vote in a tweet, saying republicans are unified in their assault on women s reproductive freedom and vowed to fight back. the sta
tentative from me for now, now it s time to the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening rachel, we ve heard many speeches on this day, and martin luther king s birthday over the years since his assassination. i heard when today for the first time, that was delivered in 1983. and it is just the most extraordinary, 60 minutes long, we re gonna show some of it later in this hour, the most extraordinary speech about martin luther king, i ve ever heard, it was delivered by then funniest man in the world, richard pryor. in washington d.c.. and thanks to c-span, which is something we say all the time, thanks to c-span, it is been preserved, and we must show some of it later, it s like nothing you ve ever seen on this day, i have no memory of it, i don t member seeing it, know remember hearing about it. it wasn t in a news cycle that day, that s for sure. that is fantastic i did not know this existed. not only have not heard it before, they know exi
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republican congressman elect george santos admits muc of the story that helped get him elected it was fiction but there is a very good reaso kevin mccarthy will do nothing about it also tonight, what to expect when donald trump s tax return are finally released we already know that some years, he paid nothing in federal taxes. and, if you missed it over the holidays, we will take into th january six committee report plus, christmas cruelty, governor greg abbott dumps hundreds of migrants into th bitter cold washington d.c. on christmas eve. a supreme court keeps title 42 in place i m in for joy reid, and w begin with the tale of georg santos, the incoming republica congressman from long island has finally admitted that th new york times is right. he was not honest about hi resume on monday, santos broke hi silence and talked t embellishing huge portions o his biography, according t merriam-webster, that is calle a lie. you know, when someone makes a untrue statement with th