tom: it s the christmas season. which is according to andy williams the most wonderful time of the year. but not everyone is into that and they re tired of all of the good cheer but would it surprise you to know a new study find that declining invitations to holiday parties is actually good for you. many people say yes to invites when they want to say no. you see they re afraid their friend will be angry and cross them off future party lists. but researchers found, quote, people tend to exaggerate degree to which the person who issue invitation will focus on act of the invitee declining invitation as opposed to the thoughts that pass through their head before they decline. you get it right, it s old bit of wisdom you wouldn t so much about what other people thought of you. if you knew how seldom hay did there s a lot of demands on your time this time of the year. you have to look out for your mental health even if it makes you kind of a grinch. this woman hates holida
i want to begin tonight by throwing it back to june 16th, 2015. i day that most americans, and most around the world would probably remember. then businessman donald trump came down to the golden escalator in trump tower to announce that he was running for the republican nomination for president. i want to warn you that we will be playing a couple of moments from the former president tonight, which is not typical an american voices. tonight is an exception. it is important for you to be reminded of exactly what donald trump said that day. specifically, this about mexican immigrants. they re bringing drugs, they re bringing crime, they are rapists, and some, i assume, they were good people. trump s racist opinions were well known before that moment, his role as lead against barack obama, the tax on the exonerated five before that. as a candidate for president of the united states, saying people who come to our country that was built by immigrants are rapists, well, that
over a weekend session to try and hammer out some sort of deal on immigration before the end of the year. while they haven t reached a deal, several have cited, quote, unrest. anything to say about the negotiation? yes, we made progress, things are good. we are here, tomorrow it is all good. we know senate negotiators will be on the hill next week trying to work on the immigration side of the deal. so president biden s foreign aid package could pass. when republicans are holding aid to ukraine, israel, and other u.s. allies hostage to president biden agrees to short-circuit our nation silent system, comes as no surprise after all, today s micah dominated gop caucus zealously embraces donald trump s extreme anti immigrant agenda. republicans are proposing reads like a stephen miller wish list. a return of title 42, the expulsion of migrants without allowing the asylum, toughening the stand for granting asylum, bringing back wide scale migrated attention, and limiting exe
world, we know news organizations take on enormous risk when they publish things they know to be false. they risk their representations. in the rare instances where actual malice can be established, they also face legal exposure. this knowledge of falsity on fox s part was established through mountains of internal communications that prove that the producers, the executives and the anchors knew that claims of massive voter fraud were false ahead of time and they broadcast them anyway. the case dominion had against fox was so strong that by the time the trial commenced, the only thing the jury was going to have to determine was whether fox met that really, really high legal bar of acting with actual malice when it knowingly published falsities about dominion. now, as we all know, instead of standing trial, fox decided to settle for close to $800 million. what we know from that discovery process is dominion established from the top of that company to the bottom, from ruper murd
harshest vision for america. trump and desantis prepared to duke it out to fight for the gop nomination. plus, the rights ongoing shift towards authoritarianism. the woman who literally wrote the authoritative study on the subject. also, the harsh realities now that title 42 is history, it s easy to forget that this is a humanitarian crisis under enormous hurdles for those arriving at our our border by the books. we will show. you and holding the line on reproductive rights in south carolina, one woman from becoming law is with us. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a humanitarian crisis at our southern border with mexico. as the u.s. struggles to meet the reality of the greatest complexities of global migration. this new reality demands a reimagined of our immigration system, a system that is of past decades. border agents stopped more than 6200 undocumented migrants at our southern border on friday. it was the first day since the u.s. ended the trump