falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same basic alleged crime in 2020 but he was pardoned by donald trump as trump was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations. cnn s kara scannell is here with the latest. this has a familiar ring to it, but steve bannon, these are serious charges. yeah, these are serious charges and a serious investigation by the manhattan district attorney s office. sources tell me that bannon will surrender, a expected to surrender tomorrow here in new york to face these new york state charges. the conduct he is being charged with is very similar to the conduct that he was charged by federal prosecutors in 2020 and that was for allegedly along with co-conspirators misleading donors who donated money in this fundraising effort to raise money to build a wall along the southern u.s. border, an entity called we build the ball.
weekend and now the blast forward to election day nine weeks away. peter doocy at the white house neal, good afternoon we spent time with president biden on the campaign as he tried to make the case he thinks republicans like donald trump more than they like entitlement programs. speak with the biggest contrast from maga republicans the extreme right, the trumpies. they want to these maga republicans in congress are coming for your social security as well. you, by the way, as i said, you might think that i m making this stuff up because it s so outrageous. he is referring a plan by republican rick scott to make congress vote to reauthorize every spending program every five years and an attempt to cut down government waste. so now scott is challenging the premise of the president s claims there. of course he s going to lie about it but what i believe you have to do everything to preserve medicaid and social security. make sure these are lasting programs. so, congress e
[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] watching the fire glow take me back to the little farm rachel: good morning and merry christmas eve. the day is almost upon us. one day until christmas and our stockings are all hung by the virtual fox and friends hearth. how about that? good morning. chris:the producers started with taylor swift, a full-body cutout of tyler swift, she is wearing a christmas sweater and open the show with the taylor swift christmas song, it was a surprise. i have new york city care and taylor swift christmas. here we go. will: we will get to new york city here in a moment. that requires follow-through but i did not look at the rundown, no idea what is coming up, but the show playing out was that very song. it is by taylor swift. thank you, our secret or non-secret, she consumes our mind every waking hour and i am and prepared for that. carley: most think that i would know that and i m the only one who didn t which is a uniq
griff: that s a good one. he s definitely going to make the cut, because as you pointed out and i really hadn t thought hard, deep thoughts about the antlers, but we ve got to get milk and cookies up there. oh, perfect, excellent. santa s going to like that. you were talking about the antlers. the antler didn t have one in the middle of its head. carley: one of the reindeer was very top-heavy with the one big antler. griff: i can t wait to touch one. we are moments away. carley: is there a difference between reindeer and caribou? griff: yes. one can fly around the globe and deliver presents, and the other is just caribou. [laughter] todd: i need an audio clip of saying i can t wait to touch a reindeer. that s going to be my new ring tone. i didn t think it was such a big deal until today. carley: we re tracking santa, and he is just over japan or just left japan. believe give just over right now. you can see from this precision map that is santa flying with the reindeer, an
final tournament ever. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening those boxes of materials the fbi recovered from mar-a-lago are drawing broad scrutiny both inside and outside the government tonight for items that may not belong, as well as for signs of damage to national security. president trump s lawyers have asked a judge for a set of independent eyes, what s called a special master, to sift through the seized items government lawyers responded today, saying they have already reviewed the materials and separated out items that potentially contain attorney/client privileged information. a judge may decide if it s enough this week. but also tonight, the director of national intelligence has ordered a separate examination of the items identified as classified to determine what damage may have been inflicted by how they were stored and handled. it s where we start tonight with kelly o donnell. reporter: tonight, measuring the mar-a-lago search f