of the busiest travel days with new year s eve just two days away. rob marciano with the forecast. police on high alert for new year s eve. ramping up security in times square for what it calls a heightened and dynamic risk environment, deploying thus of officers for an expected crowd of 1 million people. one day after being banned from the ballot president trump fighting another legal battle. our jonathan karl with three former staffers and their warning about a second trump-term pair reporter: the skies over ukraine were set ablaze after russia unleashed its largest attack since the start of their full-scale invasion. civilians sent running for their lives. at least 31 people killed and the u.s. shooting down a drone and a ballistic missile fired by iranian-backed militant tas. a urgent manhunt for a hurting her own children. and the new report from the cdc, high levels of respiratory illnesses, including flu covid and this is world news tonight with david muir. g
and could a conviction in any of these cases be a tipping point for voters? scheduling nightmare aside in all of this, the former president might not even get on the republican ballot in some states. we ve got a wave of new developments in the effort to disqualify trump ahead of the primaries. where it s working and where it s getting kind of messy. meanwhile, in d.c., another motion has been filed by jack smith in donald trump s election interference case. what the special counsel is now asking the judge to block the former president from doing during trial proceedings. let s dive right in. joining us now is washington post senior political reporter aaron blake, former congresswoman and msnbc political analyst donna edwards, and msnbc political analyst, democratic strategist, and pollster cornell belcher. thanks for being here. aaron, let s start with you. as we approach the new year, paint a picture of this, if you could, of just how chaotic this could get. only one of do
republican rivals are crisscrossing early voting states, attempting to cut into his support in the new year. but they are battling their own conflicts. backlash grows for nikki haley over her response to a question on the civil war. we will dig into the latest on the race. new developments in gaza. israel is accused of hitting the same area they told people to seek refuge. they are facing allegations of firing on an aid convoy. as we gear up for the ball to drop in times square to ring in 2024, we are taking a look back at the biggest stories of 2023, the entire year, and what a year it has been. we begin the hour with the big pre-new year s push on the campaign trail. the republican presidential candidates are spread out across the early voting states of iowa and new hampshire today, as they try to find enough support to turn the tide against frontrunner donald trump. the clock is kicking as we are just 17 days away from the iowa caucus, and 25 days from the new ham
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticizing it as well. we re going to break down what donald trump s options are now that two states have determined he s not eligible to run. and what it all means for the election year, which is quickly approaching. and more developments on this front. hours after last night s decision in maine, bellows counterpart in california announced trump would remain on the balin that state. i ll be joined by colorado s secretary of state in a moment to talk about where things stand with the supreme court, plus the latest request for the justices to speed up their review of the decision to keep trump off the ballot. we have a whole lot to cover. so let s start with the reporting. joining us now, nbc news justice reporter ryan riley, author of sedition hunters, now january 6th broke the justice system. so ryan, walk us through what happened in maine. unlike colorado, its state supreme court ruled this decision unilaterally was made by the sta
to keep donald trump off the ballot in 2024, and overseas israel s expanding its ground offensive into refugee camps in central gaza in what it calls, quote, a new battle zone. the government there saying the war against hamas will go on, for, quote, many months. secretary of state tony blinken, and other top biden officials, set to meet with mexico s president in the next couple hours for critical talks about the border crisis happening as a caravan with a reported 8,000 migrants heading towards the u.s. border. hey, everybody, good morning to you, we re going to begin with the latest developments in the israel-hamas war. israeli defense forces saying they have expanded their war effort into central gaza where several refugee camps are located. it is the same area where just earlier this week 70 people were killed in the strike on a refugee camp, the announcement coming with no clear end in sight for the war, israel s army chief saying their operations could last for mo