2023. Tonight, were coming to you from times square in the heart of new york city. For so many, this is the place where new years begins and ends. Im tom yum. We fake you for joining us tonight. Were covering the top ten stories from this eventful year. Plus, look at the people in trends which to find the last 12 months. As we look to close the chapter in 2023, we take a look back at the air that was. Heres nbcs joe fryer. How do you define a year like 2023 . Was that the year of the strike . [crowd chanting] or year of the swift . Didnt offer a glimpse of the future with the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Weight Loss Drug ozempic . Or a Blast From The Past . Hi barbie i can with the pink coated resurgence of a classic doll. Was it the year a speaker was booted, or simply a prelude to 2024 . The Campaign Trail lined with pit stops in the courtroom. 2024 you can be defined in so many ways. So much of the world, it was a year headlined by war in the middle east. Major Brea
recording pressuring michigan election officials not to certify the 2020 election results. overseas, police release body camera video about the shooting in prague that left 14 people dead. back here in the u.s., the humanitarian crisis at the border reaching record levels after a week of never before seen numbers of people crossing into the united states. and we begin this hour with yet another report of detailing former president trump s alleged efforts to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election. new recordings reportedly detail trump pressuring canvassers in michigan to not certify the state s 2020 election results, which he lost. he reportedly told them, quote, we can t let these people take our country away from us. the detroit news says the recordings were made by someone presen f the conversation, but were obtained by intermediary who was not present. nbc news has not heard or verified the recordings. in response, the trump campaign says, quote, a
good afternoon, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the blame game over southern border, president biden and house republicans are attacking each other as a record number of the u.s. continue to cross border patrol agents are doing everything they can to take care of this situation, but they are completely overwhelmed, completely just overwhelmed with the situation, and it s getting worse. plus, it s what the atlantic calls the english muffin problem. you might not have heard of it, but likely you re dealing with it. why so many americans hate the current economy even though the numbers show it s actually trending in the right direction. and the cdc tracking a surge in covid cases as millions travel for the holidays, what you need to know about the new variant fueling the virus s spread. we begin with the humanitarian crisis growing by the hour on the southern border, a record number of migrant crossings are pushing processing facilities way
counter offensive. the comments come after attacks on dnipro and the wagner group claiming it fully captured the city of bakhmut. the battle there for control has been the longest of the war. the head of russia s wagner mercenary group has announced that its forces have started withdrawing from the ukrainian city. ukraine denies this. now, one of the country s most senior security officials says ukraine is ready to launch its long expected counter offensive against russian forces. oleksiy danilov has been speaking exclusively, to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. this is what s left of bakhmut in eastern ukraine. images filmed by russian forces of the ruins they now largely control. mercenaries from the wagner group claim they re withdrawing, being replaced by regular russian troops. but ukraine insists its forces are still engaged on the ground and the outskirts, as the country s most senior security official told us. translation: we controljust a small i part of
to lead talks on how to stem the surge in illegal border crossings. those crossings reaching historic proportions with authorities routinely reporting 10,000 encounter a day. the influx is in border authorities, 10,000 in custody right now. so stretched are resources, customs and border patrol had to close two major railway crossings and other ports of entry so they can shuffle agents to busier points along the border. $43 billion in trailed a year are carried on those two rail lines alone. no telling how politically costly an extended closure could be. with congress on holiday, talks for a comprehensive border package have installed, and with them, hopes for ukraine and israel aid. republicans say funding for those embattled nations must be paired with measures to secure the u.s. mexico border. it s a quid pro quo triggering a backlash who fear an asylum and refugee crackdown could hurt the party among latino voters. joining us now, nbc news correspondent guad venegas who s