friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
here are the ten most very festive, magical, jolly. peaceful. snowy, unwrapped, angelic tales of the holiday. who can forget christmas? are you ready to deck some halls. on an entire evening of christmas specials, starting with the grinch stole christmas. the annual christmas specials were an event. when you first. see that advertisements like. frosty the snowman returns tuesday night. this was on once. if you missed it, you were screwed. mom, mom, can you watch that? can we watch that? mom. on sunday, december 4th. burl ives again tells the exciting news story of rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. i was obsessed with claymation and the rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was like the pinnacle. love. that show tells the story of rudolph based on the song rudolph, who was kind of an outsider. burl ives as the snowman, hermie the elf. remember him? he was sort of the the cast off. i want to be a dentist, you know, but it s a lucrative business given that your boss, santa, gets paid in
kicked off the ballot, or at least kicked off the ball pending appeal. more proof that donald j trump is having a hard time shaking the i word, insurrection. and that the republican front runner is heading into the new year with section three of the 14th amendment nipping at his seals. first, there was colorado. now, its main saying that trump is disqualified from being on the ballot. let s not forget that more than a dozen other states, with the 14th amendment have cases pending. 14 amid cases. the new ruling by the secretary of state s as inspiring as it is somber. quote, i conclude, as did the colorado supreme court that the record establishes that mr. trump, over the course of several months and culminating on january 6th, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to blame his supporters and direct them to the capitol to prevent certification of the 2020 election, and the peaceful transfer of power. i likewise conclude that mr. trump was aware of the likelihood for v
hello, everyone, i amwith kennedy, along with jessica tarlov, katie pavlich, and big jim fail out, it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. give us your poor, your tired, and your federal money, the leaders of three sanctuary cities areng begging president biden to shower themts with some cold hard taxpayer-funded cash.h as and they wind their hearts out over the big bad texas governor busting illegals to their doorsteps.rnoreps. we cannot continue to do the federal government s job, the federal government must take responsibility and lead on this humanitarian crisis, instead ofi leaving itng for cities and localities to handle. we need thee federal government to lean in, and provide more financial assistance. all of our cities have reached a point where we are either at constant capacity or nearly out erelof her room. we need more federal support toor be able to manage this amot of inflow. it will crush city budgetslook across the country. looking at $160
and wants to return, tells people on christmas day that they can rot in hell. just as congresswoman debbie dingell says, trump s rot in hell christmas message was, to say the least, unpresidential. now, special counsel jack smith is filing a new motion to block trump for making political arguments during his criminal trial. also tonight, michigan supreme court decides against removing trump from the 2024 ballot, unlike colorado s highest court and now extra security is needed for those justices. plus, the republicans all out assault on voting rights, which includes plans to ask the u.s. supreme court to preserve their undemocratically gerrymandered maps in wisconsin. good evening. i m charles coleman, in four joy reid, and we have got a lot to talk about. we begin tonight with a new year faster protesting, many looking head to 2024 and wondering what else could be in store. that certainly appears to be the case for former president donald trump who has been the holidays not