hello america i am mark levin this is life, liberty and levin finally i ve missed you folks a lot it has been two weeks and hope you had a great christmas. i hope our new year is great. it s going to be a battle a question about it. just because the calendar flips this not mean things go away and all the fit said a sudden thingl sunny. it was nice having little time off, wasn t it? actually it s hard for me too do things with time off. the mind keeps percolating i cannot help it. we have two great guest for you this saturday. we have christopher the manhattan institute senior fellow and the city journal contributing editor. we also have colonel richard cap former commander of british forces in afghanistan former chairman of the covid intelligence group he has been spending a lot of time in the country of israel pretty want to talk to him about what s going on in the world in particular there as well. before we do that want to talk about what s going on right here at home.
hello america i am mark levin this is life, liberty and levin finally i ve missed you folks a lot it has been two weeks and hope you had a great christmas. i hope our new year is great. it s going to be a battle a question about it. just because the calendar flips this not mean things go away and all the fit s sudden things arel sunny. it was nice having little time off, wasn t it? actually it s hard for me too do things with time off. the mind keeps percolating i cannot help it. we have two great guest for you this saturday. we have christopher the manhattan institute senior fellow and the city journal contributing editor. we also have colonel richard cap former commander of british forces in afghanistan former chairman of the covid intelligence group he has been spending a lot of time in the country of israel pretty want to talk to him about what s going on in the world in particular there as well. before we do that want to talk about what s going on right here at home.
,. Good to go, all right. Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very Special Edition of why is this happening . He is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. Admit it, hes taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbcs chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. Hello thank you. Oh, stop. [applause] stop it [applause] how are you . Good . Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Really, really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, ive got some family here. Tonight, were gonna talk about democracy. In that word, weve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. Even that as a topic seems weird, we know americas democracy. Ther
going. people trapped on the trains. businesses and homes are crushed. a major move by israel supreme court striking down a contentious law. risking even more division in the country at more. as we start 2024, some of the 2023 political predictions that were also wrong. how is it looking this new year? welcome to the lead. i m casey in for jake tapper. we start with destruction in a japan after a 7.2 magnitude earth right. four people were killed when the 7.5 magnitude quake hit western japan just hours into the new year followed by a series of aftershocks. the weather agency says those could continue up to a week. it also triggered tsunami warnings along the coast and residents have been urged to evacuate. the warnings have been downgraded but there is still a tsunami threat. multiple buildings caught fire or collapsed including a home on the upper left of the screen. it was reduced to a pile of rubble. we start coverage off from japan where more than 8000 military perso
thank you for joining us live at a town hall in new york city for this very, very special addition of why is this happening. he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very, very smart, and admit it, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. [applause] well, thank you! hey! oh, stop! stop it! [applause] how are you? good! making. thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you, sit down, sit down. thank you. that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. [laughter] that was a really, really hard to 20 seconds for me. so thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got some family here. so, tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. and that we re in, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last, you know, for five years than i had in all of my time as a journalist before that, i would say. like, even that is a topic seems a littl