historic. hashtag tyrus. like the titanic, the movie, not the actual horrible maritime disaster of 19 12. i know, i know, too soon. yes, that s right, one of the biggest moments in tv history. and, no, it s not the first black man hosting the number one late night comedy show. nope, brother s been kicking ass on tv forever, red fox, richard prior arsenio hall dave chappelle and who can forget lewis muhammad gutfeld? but i m definitely in the top three. no. even bigger. it s the first time a wrestler has hosted the number one late night show. [cheers and applause] yeah, that s right. a wrestler. burns, doesn t it? just a wrestler. and where would this country be without wrestlers? we would probably be invaded by canada. look, even hunter biden is a huge fan of the rock. although he smokes it. the country without wrestlers would be like kamala without bongos. it is critical that we work together to understand where we are, to recognize and have the courage to speak truth abou
nbc news has confirmed he s currently in custody and is set to make his first appearance in federal court just a few minutes from now. let us get to it. joining me now is nbc news nas political reporter sahil kapur, host of the beat ari melber and barbara mcquaid. pete, i want to begin with you. this is a bit tricky territory for the d.o.j., is it not? reporter: well, it didn t seem to be in his case, in the steve bannon case, though it took the justice department almost twice as long to decide whether to pull the trigger on peter navarro on two counts, one for refusing to give documents to the committee and secondly for refusing to show up and answer questions in person to the committee. he said to an e-mail in the committee that he was powerless to act here because of the executive privilege claim by president trump. one of the problems for him, it seems to me, is that six days before he sent that e-mail, the supreme court rejected president trump s legal appeal in the
it s just a little sad to hear, you know? i think people want to see you show up for us and provide an eighth of what you are giving to ukraine. it s outrageous. lahaina is so hurt right now and that was tone-deaf. what do you need the most right now? right now we need to get our families and friends back home. number one. that should be number one. we need the fast-track permits. we need to clean up the area. 6-8 months. i spoke to some professionals be they are optimistic about that. we need to start getting some permit process fast-track by architects, have some homes already drawn out and have some options for us to look at, and look over. from there we are going to need some rentals too because it s hotel thing ain t going to last forever. federal money? they promised a lot. you know. talk is talk. they need to walk the walk.
in the u.s. is four times larger and costs about half as much. you focus on housing a few with very expensive housing while you leave the many, the thousands on the streets without a shelter to go to. he blames politicians for focusing on housing instead of shelter. you can t take four years to build something that people need today. why is housing so expensive? land obviously. bureaucracies some 3 to 5 years to get approvals and permits just to great down. lawyers and consultants to fight homeowners who don t want the housing and another 15% to pay union wages. now the new mayor says we aren t going to do this anymore. we ll put people in hotels and motels and a new tax, a mansion tax to give the city a billion dollars a year to address the problem. we ll see if it works. back to you. rich: a lot of cities are doing the hotel thing.
they made us our own lego set. there was a direct emma of our company in berlin. that amazed me that who would want this somebody made a virtual reality four seasons we had people showing up on ou doorstep knocking, asking fo t-shirts we even had one employee tha was leaving, and somebod offered them $50 for the stained sweaty t-shirt off their back we had hundreds of visitor coming in the first couple day following our social media revamp suddenly we had fans. it was surreal would you look at all o these people out here? it s like every day, this is insane people have referred to us as philadelphia landmark. we ve had so many families out front. we even had two sisters, on lived in bethlehem pennsylvania the other in new york city and they met here with a blanket, and a picnic basket and had their thanksgiving dinner together here i really think the four season hotel thing was a blessing for us