a lot to get to this morning, including another state removing donald trump from the 2024 republican presidential primary ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis all not big decision from maine secretary of state. plus we will show you nikki haley attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. , also ahead, the latest from gaza. israeli forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure on israel to protect civilians inside gaza. 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 presidents many legal battles as he enters a presidential election. a lot to go through. witness for all of it, nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann, president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation the reverend al sharpton, washingto
and wants to return, tells people on christmas day that they can rot in hell. just as congresswoman debbie dingell says, trump s rot in hell christmas message was, to say the least, unpresidential. now, special counsel jack smith is filing a new motion to block trump for making political arguments during his criminal trial. also tonight, michigan supreme court decides against removing trump from the 2024 ballot, unlike colorado s highest court and now extra security is needed for those justices. plus, the republicans all out assault on voting rights, which includes plans to ask the u.s. supreme court to preserve their undemocratically gerrymandered maps in wisconsin. good evening. i m charles coleman, in four joy reid, and we have got a lot to talk about. we begin tonight with a new year faster protesting, many looking head to 2024 and wondering what else could be in store. that certainly appears to be the case for former president donald trump who has been the holidays not
systems underway in a delaware courtroom. with dominion seeking damages for repeated false claims about the 2020 election promoted by fox news guests and anchors on some of the network s highest rated shows. this hour, jailed american wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich losing his appeal of russia s baseless espionage charge, appearing in a glass box in a court for the first time since he was arrest nearly three weeks ago the u.s. ambassador at his side. president biden speaks to the unarmed black missouri teenager who was shot in the head by a homeowner after the boy mistakenly went to the wrong house to pick up his younger twin brothers with the alleged 84-year-old homeowner, the shooter, now facing a potential life sentence. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington opening statements begin this afternoon in that $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems against fox news and fox corporation after jury instructions, do
people should hear from including on our apps and services from those who want to lead them. is he a former president of this country vying to be a candidate for the next presidential election. we will have much more of my exclusive interview with nick clague in just a few minutes meanwhile the president is talking fang will supply 3 dozen m 1 abrams tanks to the ukrainians as they try to defend against the russians that move is opening the door to other countries following suit. white house correspondent peter doocy has the story behind the decision live from the north lawn tonight. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. there s nothing delicate about a tank but something very delicate to say they won t be a threat to russia but russian troops inside ukraine. this is about freedom. freedom for ukraine. and help for president volodymyr zelenskyy zelenskyy. today is his birthday by the way. peter: the u.s. is sending 31 abrams tanks the equivalent of one ukr
welcome to westminster, where people continue to queue to pay their respects to her majesty the queen. the queue is now officially closed and no more people are now allowed to join the end of the queue, so the people who are now filing past me are some of the last who will have that moment in westminster hall in that historic building, nearly 1000 years old, that has witnessed so much history, witnessing it once again, these are some of the last people to be able to file past her majesty the queen, the late queen who has been lying in state for nearly four and a half days. that will then end at 6:30am many of these people behind me, they have started at 4pm and they continue to file past and this is we are right in the middle of the snake, that moment where people have do zigzag very compressed in order to facilitate so many people, thousands of people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. we believe at least half a million people will ma