i m jason chaffetz in for laura ingraham. this is a special edition of the ingraham angle. nikki haley s civil war filibuster on the campaign trail. i wonder what her competition thinks. tonight, governor ron desantis is here to react. jason: we have breaking news that s happening right now. the main secrthe maine secretars barred donald trump on the ballot as the authority to block the former president from election. we will have more on this in moments, reaction from governor ron desantis. unbelievable that that is happening. but, first the lapd says demonstrators carrying signs reading free palestine blocked the intersection. that s when police say things turned violent. others became aggressive with the police officers. one police officer was thrown to the ground by a protester. [shouting] [shouting] disperse now to permit the safe flow of pedestrians traffic. jason: first christmas, now new year s. times square on high alert. the nypd bracing for more viole
- he did a dress rehearsal for january 6th at the police riot against dave dinkins. - this is all about a policy, which if i had them, the police department would be even angrier at me, even though i m white. - can this former prosecutor be the one to come in and help bring new york into the right direction? - giuliani was blasted for being insensitive to minorities concerns. - rudy giuliani is and was a thug. - i did not expect the shocking de-evolution of rudy giuliani. - the city is knocked to its knees. he was pitch-perfect. - yes, he stood up. yes, he did what a mayor should do, but that did not change who he was. - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i don t know who s to blame what choice was he givin ? in this world that we re livin when i see y
hey there, everyone. i m alex witt at nbc world headquarters here in new york city. our top stories this hour, we are awaiting a key meeting that could be critical in helping the crisis on the southern border, as,000 more migrants begin their long journey north. secretary blinken and other officials plan to how old talks with mexico s president. we re look at what s at stake as resources are stretched to the limits. tension in the west bank after a new israeli drone attack kills six palestinians, and increasing threats from settlers put pressure on palestinians, who say they re being pushed out of their homes. back here in the u.s., gun shop owners are noting a new trend. black women buying guns at a rapid pace. what s behinds the spike in sales? we begin this hour with that critical meeting in mexico city. a u.s. delegation led by secretary blinken arrived in mexico just a few minutes ago. they ll meet with the president lopez obrador, as the administration trying to g
the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a great show for you tonight wednesday, december 27th. we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough, but low-profile prosecutor with a very long record. he led difficult and victorious cases including the prosecution of new york police officer justin volpe who tortured lima, smith was a younger federal prosecutor then and went on to develop something of an expertise in the hard cases that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful in government or police, senators, heads of state. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific kind of cases a something of a reputation as the kind of prosecutor you actually pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did stints in federal and local prosecutor s
plus, israel is barring refugee camps as part of new efforts to find hostages. the head of the idf insists the war will go on for months but some critics think that will not be enough time to wipe out hamas. and jack smith calling on the d.c. court to do something that sounds almost unthinkable. stop donald trump from injecting politics into his election interference trial. we re going to start with secretary of state blinken. all right. we re going to start with blinken and dhs secretary set to meet with mexico s president as we speak. the two countries grappling with what the u.s. is calling quote unprecedented levels of migration as well as security challenges on both sides of the southern border. now, these discussions taking on even more urgency as a massive new caravan of roughly 8,000 mie migrants or more are making their way to the united states. the u.s. is already struggling to deal with a record number of migrants. nearly 50,000 arriving last week alone, overwhel