Saying it is a victory for the nation. According to a Justice Department lawyer, about 100,000 visas had already been revoked. The state Department Later dialed that number back to about 60,000 visas. So those people in those sevenaffected muslimmajority countries, those visas have been revoked. So its not like practically these people would be able to hop on planes, they would have to apply for visas. So the practical effect is still about the same as it was a week ago. Were waiting for the white house response, waiting to see whether this will likely be appealed to the ninth circuit court, but a lot unraveling right now in what was supposed to be somewhat of a lowkey weekend for President Trump, a festive weekend. Hes here at maralago, expected to a expected to attend that red cross ball tomorrow. Well check in with you if we hear anything from maralago. Jim acosta is at the white house. Any word from there . Reporter not yet, anderson. We do know from talking to people in the admini
A couple of weeks. Oh, my gosh. Thats huge. Mika has the morning off. South of france and all of that. Mark halpern and John Heilemann here and msnbc contributor and columnist did you see that tweet last night . I loved that. What do you do new years eve . Not a whole lot. Just chitchatted. Also have contributing editor two Time Magazine msnbc political analyst and former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state department, elise jordan. Soon to be legendary. Photo shop . I do that myself. You got the photo shop out and doing a little new years day photo shop . You know a lot about computers. I love that stuff. I use couriers now. Look. You got to see that tweet. Incredible. Did you like that one . It was great. If i could have retweeted it twice, i would have. Did you retweet it once . Of course. Mike barnicle, you may not have seen that. Take your time. Its a threehour program. Show the class. Legendary right there. Hello . Oh, i got to retreat it here you go. What is Mike Ba
Louder and were also learning tonight from the wall street journal that the fbi is investigating the Controversial Company where whitaker was an Advisory Board member. Given all that, what does the president say about whitaker . Well, listen. Well, Matt Whitaker, i dont know Matt Whitaker. Matt whitaker worked for Jeff Sessions. I didnt know Matt Whitaker. He worked for attorney general sessions. I didnt speak to Matt Whitaker about it. I dont know Matt Whitaker. Now, in all fairness to Matt Whitaker, who, again, i didnt know, Matt Whitaker is a highly respected man but i didnt know Matt Whitaker. Do you get the sense he doesnt know the guy or at least he doesnt want to . Theres only a slight problem there. He does know Matt Whitaker. He said so himself just last month. I can tell you, Matt Whitakers a great guy. I mean, i know Matt Whitaker. So now that that is settled, theres also this. Cnn and the New York Times reporting that whitaker has served as the president s ears and eyes, ey
A machine recount for the senate and governors races. Counties have until noon today to submit their returns. Florida, of course, the center of attention right now, as it the races for governor and u. S. Senate are too close to call a florida law requires a recount if candidates are in a half percentage point of each other and that is currently the cases in both of those big races. Republican rick scott has taken the u. S. Senate race to court, as his lead over democratic senator bill nelson narrowed during the vote counting, in the days after the election. As for governor, republican ron desantis is leading democrat Andrew Gillum by a razor thin margin. Ryan nobles is in tallahassee with how this will play out into the highest profile races there in florida. And we also have just heard from the secretary of state as well now . Reporter yes, thats right, fred, there is a lot of news to report this hour from florida. First, the official first big breaking news from the secretary of stat
Crowded. Whos making it official just now and how could this change the conversation . His car door was opened. He managed to get the other gun and start shooting at me. A hero tells his story about confronting a gunman in new zealand while police go on the defense about the Response Time to the attack. Plus, a new theory of how the president could gut muellers final report, citing executive privilege. But we begin with new details in the attacks on two new zealand mosques. The number of dead has risen to 50. One additional victim was found while officials were clearing the shooting sites. Prime minister Jacinda Ardern confirms that the suspects apparent manifesto was circulated by email nine minutes before the attack. And survivors are sharing details of their ordeals. This burn mark is i look on the ground and there was a bullet right next to me, and it just skimmed my face. It didnt even skim my face. It just went by me and the heat that this. I can only imagine what people who got