Headline, not about the statues, not about the shows, but what one winner had to say about the president elect. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. It is monday, january 9th. Christine romans is sick this morning. Tweet her get well messages. This chance of meryl streep appearing at the inauguration appear to be dwindling. We will get to the overnight fa faceoff with the hollywood royalty and politics in a bit. For the First Time Since july, trump has promised to hold a News Conference. He says it will happen this week. He said it would happen in december to disentangle his businesses from his political aspirations. We have hearings for the president elects cabinet nominees. Those begin this week. We have new questions about what a President Trump would do about the Intelligence Report linking russia to the hacking. He got the briefing. He acknowledges there was hacking but russia, but not just russia and blames the democrats for being hacked. If you read the statemen
Send her a happy feel good tweet. This morning, safe to say meryl streep has hurt her chances of performing at the inauguration. She froze the Golden Globes Award Ceremony into stunned silence as she crediticized the president elect as she accepted the Lifetime Achievement award. Watch this. This was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart not because it was good theres nothing good about it, but it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and showed its teeth. It was the moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It it kind of broke my heart when i saw it. I still cant get it out of my head. It wasnt in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate when its modelled by someone in the public platform by someone powerful. It filters down into everybodys life because it kind of