Disney planned to spend 2023 celebrating its 100th anniversary, mounting a number of festivities to commemorate the company's historic 1923 founding by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney. Instead, the once invincible studio spent the year battling one bad news cycle after another.
Disney planned to spend 2023 celebrating its 100th anniversary, mounting a number of festivities to commemorate the company's historic 1923 founding by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney. Instead, the once invincible studio spent the year battling one bad news cycle after another.
welcome back, everyone. i m alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters in new york at 31 past the hour. what you re seeing there is the president and first lady who are right now paying a visit to those impacted by the wrath of hurricane harvey. they arrived a little bit earlier, better part of an hour ago at the nrg stadium in houston. we have been watching the president greeting children, taking photos, sitting down at toy tables and asking the kids to play and saying, hey, i like that. he is definitely showing a much softer side to his persona after being criticized earlier this week for not reaching out to individuals and showing enough empathy, if you will, when he was there in the region earlier. joining me right now, martin o malley, former maryland governor and democratic candidate in this past election. thank you for joining us. my pleasure. so your reaction, sir, to the criticism that the president got during his first visit to texas, mainly because he didn t meet with fl