michael steele in for katie feng and jonathan kaye part. immunity insanity, special counsel jack smith fires back at trump s presidential immunity defense and the federal trial. our team at msnbc legal and political analysts are standing by to help us break it all down. looking at that this new 80 page court filing and how it impacts the 2024 race for the white house, ahead. taking aim, ukrainian forces strike back after russia s biggest aerial barrage since the war began nearly two years ago. the latest overnight developments coming up in a live report. security and celebration. police across the country are beefing up their presence on the ground and in the air to keep new year s eve party or safe. we are live in new york s times square where nearly 1 million people are expected to bring in the new year under tighter security. we begin with the latest on donald trump s deepening legal troubles in a new filing on saturday, special counsel jack smith urged the d.c. appeals co
gum. don t worry, the big guy is okay, the white house said the biden got sabotage, a sandbag at the air force academy graduation today but the president s bigger problems to deal with like is nonexistent, campaign strategy. mr. president, how is your reelection campaign going. nothing the campaign trail yet. his artificial campaign rally. greg: but is also avoiding debate stage is breaking the heart of a guy, from boston screco after james midweek, yes, that is vendor break, went viral with this criticism abided ducking the competition. i cannot get over the fact the democratic national committee, saying that they will not be debate to decide nominee for president and are you bleep kidding become an 80 -year-old man, if he lives to be the oldest sitting president in the history of the country. he does not look, the vice president s approval rating is worse in his this guy beasley declining mental faculties about human breaking bad. greg: here s why biden should get out t
[laughter] i m kidding. maybe. happy thursday, everybody. it is a glorious thursday. so let s big question, why are the young liberals so depressed, especially when compared to their righty counterparts? you can see it for yourselves. do these people look like they are having a good day? maybe. if you define a good day as resting your genitals in a bowl of battery acid. don t knock it. what is behind this agony? are they liberals because they are depressed? or are they depressed because they are liberals? it is the old what came first, the responsively great chicken or the organic egg? they are not watching uplifting programs like this one. i m surprised colbert s credits don t end with how to tie a noose. [laughter] it is very depressing. sometimes i cry. to get to the bottom, you have to have a former lefty. covering a 2022 academic paper titled the politics of depression. which comes complete with a beautiful charge. you can trust anything the chart and its colors and numb
[national anthem] will: fox news alert, growing concerns this morning over overcrowding at u.s. facilities across the southern border as migrants pour in at a record rate at the end of title 42. rachel: the top border patrol union calling this worst disaster any agent has ever seen and warns that the worst is still to come. pete: matt finn live in el paso with the latest. reporter: pete, when you re referencing overcrowding, i mean, we re standing in the middle of it right now here in downtown el paso. this is the sacred heart shelter. as the sun has come up, many of these migrants who slept on the streets last night are now waking up. sadly, there s a lot of coughing going on, so some migrants who are showing symptomses of illness. inside the shelter right now, we re told there s about 140 women and children, and outside is overflow, you know, maybe two or three city blocks of migrants who slept outside overnight. i spoke with a few of them yesterday, they say they
alexandria: this is last day of combat readiness controls, according to beijing, an aircraft carrier has been used to send jets. all in response to taiwan president visiting with speaker kevin mccarthy in the u.s. last week. u.s. lawmakers hardening the island in an event to by china. this is very serious. if you look at the authority of the chinese air force together with the ships becoming close to taiwan and any accident might spark uncontrollable war between taiwan and china. and if other countries try to intervene, it might be the start of a war of grand scale. alexandria: china state television sharing what a missile attack could look like. congressman michael mccaul weighs in. this is intimidation tactic they are known for. the size of this one is quite large, one of the largest ones we ve seen and it is not going to intimidate us. if we have deterrence for peace, we need to get weapons into taiwan. alexandria: china claiming the u.s. illegally intruded