you ll swallow your pride if hakeem jeffries came at you because you ll work together. there s stuff you want. if there s nothing you want in a governing sense there s nothing you can be given in a deal. michelle and nick, thank you. that is all in. alex wagner tonight starts now. happy new year. we re talking about the unity on display, we have congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez at the top of the hour. she will have a lot to say. thank you for a great show as always. thanks to you at home for joining us. if you took a high school history class in the united states, you probably spent at least a day discussing this image. this is the iconic political cartoon of the caning of senator charles sumner in may of 1856. preston brooks entered the senate and he entered the chamber carrying a metal tipped cane then he walked over to the anti-slavery senator and beat him unconscious and then he walked out without anyone stopping him. it is one of the most famous instance
the house just passed a stop-gap bill to prevent a government shutdown. isn t that the reason they got rid of kevin mccarthy? more on that later in the show. and biden sitting down with xi jinping tomorrow for what is sure to be long american surround. and the thunder dome, we ll get into that later on. first, license to kill is focus of tonight s the angle. growing up in the 70s, changes were happening, withdrawal from vietnam, nixon resigning, gas lines and the jimmy carter malaise. with all of that, i don t remember ever hearing about stories of mobs, mostly young people brazenly committing criminal actses. the christmas season is around the corner, you re hearing christmas music, and fed ex. truck drivers are not just worried about getting packages on time. robbery of a fed ex truck, multiple cars blocked him at the red light in south memphis around 8:30 saturday night and broke into his truck and stole $100,000 of deliveries, putting our city on edge. laura: no on
you ll swallow your pride if hakeem jeffries came at you because you ll work together. there s stuff you want. if there s nothing you want in a governing sense there s nothing you can be given in a deal. michelle and nick, thank you. that is all in. alex wagner tonight starts now. happy new year. we re talking about the unity on display, we have congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez at the top of the hour. she will have a lot to say. thank you for a great show as always. thanks to you at home for joining us. if you took a high school history class in the united states, you probably spent at least a day discussing this image. this is the iconic political cartoon of the caning of senator charles sumner in may of 1856. preston brooks entered the senate and he entered the