Welcome to prime time weekend i m nicole wallace let s get to the top stories. We witnessed a political bombshell in the making, liz cheney, vice chairman of the committee and the most conservative republican dynasty in america who earlier this weekend dorsed endorsed harris, she and her father will do something if you are casually follower you might think hell is frozen over. Dick cheney is voting for democrat, he is voting for harris. Here she is in conversation with the atlantic s mark levovich making the news in austin, texas. Dick cheney, your father, a beloved figure among democrats for many, many years [ laughter ] do you, do you, if you know who he will be supporting or who he will be voting for do you care to share with us who he might be voting for dick cheney will be voting for kamala harris. [ cheers and applause ] okay. Wow. Words i never expected to hear yeah. You know. If you, if you think about the moment that we are in and you think about how serious this moment is. Yo
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
you come away with all of the messiness of the relationship and in public. this is really a love story as well on a great number of levels. carl bernstein, mark levovich, thanks for being with me. thank you. we ve got lots today. departures from the white house and edward snowden s big tv interview. also this important question for every interviewer, every blogger out there. is the media glorifying a mass murderer by showing his self-made youtube video over and over again? we ll tackle that one after the break. this is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location.
mark, let me start with you here in the studio. do you think the press should be treating this book campaign as if this is the start of the presidential campaign? oh, yeah, because the clinton people are. this has become a tradition of melding the selling of a book to and that s why mid-career cases, memoirs, and you might say this is a late career memoir, tend to be more cautiously written and marketed. hillary seems to have this down to a science. it is. it s planned like a science, it s planned with a normandy level precision, and these leaks if you call them leaks have been thought out, they ve been parcelled and we ve seen them a few weeks prior. do you see this as a start of a campaign for the presidency? of course, unless the book turns out to be a great memoir that goes deep into self-evaluation and
introspection, which the last book by hillary clinton was decidedly not, and i don t think we can expect this one to be, either. the term normandy is exactly right. the presidential campaign is like a war. it s fought on a huge battlefield with great dangers everywhere and all kinds of strategy required. mark, you mentioned leaks. whether these are leaks or not, you and i, we talked about the new york times. the it seems like their leaking out the excerpts themselves before reporters can go buy a book in the bookstore and tell us what s in it. it s strategic, it s taking control of the narrative, as we say in the smartie pants world. clearly they had a mother s day leak to vogue and so forth. look, i mean, that s fine. i don t think a lot of this stuff has been that interesting, frankly, and maybe there s this vast bipartisan conspiracy of