and this is dateline! this is a tragedy on top of a tragedy now. it happened so quickly. their parents in the backyard spa. their mom in trouble. my dad just panicked. a sudden slip. a fatal fall. you re losing your mother. you re watching her go right in front of you. someone else was watching her. a curious neighbor. it was scary. the look on his face was almost undescribable. what had she seen? was this drowning really an accident? she s got a huge gash on her head, something like that is not consistent with just falling down. a husband and father is suddenly under suspicion. he s crying and we re crying. he said, they think i hurt mom. three daughters stand by their dad, and one prosecutor stands firm. he s holding his wife of almost three decades under the water. my job is to get justice for cristi hall. was it murder? hello and welcome to dateline a young woman peers into her neighbor s yard and sees something for a few mysterious seconds, a
center headquarters. this is msnbc headquarters on the right. the iconic christmas tree in the middle and this is our news proof to you that they haven t taken down the big tree yet. people still enjoying the ice skating in the holiday season. the new year naturally begins with a presidential race as well as a possible trial of donald trump. later tonight we have some developments in that jack smith case. our top story of the new year right now is this official home stretch of the primaries in the 2024 presidential race. president biden is the presumed democratic nominee. there is no big race there although there are some other announced candidates. we even heard from cornell west last year. on the republican side there could be an open race. will republicans decide between trump or his remaining opponents? and how soon does that process start? if you ve been busy, you know, having a little time off or enjoying your holiday food or your new years workout routine or any of the
tonight on a special holiday edition of the reidout the next trump administration, if there is one, will be more extreme and have fewer guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. donald trump is not hiding his iron fisted authoritarian plans, believe him. my conversation with abc news correspondent jonathan karl on his very revealing new book. also tonight as one source said to me, his arrogance destroyed him. tucker s arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wasn t going to last, and it didn t. brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, network of lies. if you think the worst was over when tucker was fired, think again. plus hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to
forget that. cher, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me and happy new year. rachel: happy love life for you. bye. third hour of fox and friends starts right now. wake me up before you go-go don t leave me hanging on a line like a yo-yo. joey: welcome to the first hour of first fox and friends of the year. it is january 1, people rang in the new year about a block from my hotel. they must have kept it dissents, i didn t hear a thing. rachel: you didn t hear a thing? griff: anyone would have heard me snoring through the nine hours i got. happy new year. i ve been going to bed early up here getting to fill in with you, going to bed at 8:00 p.m. one night 7:30. rachel: you don t have a problem going to bed that early? griff: there is a secret, beer. rachel: i need to try that. joey: much more natural. i lean into the nyquil, i might being addicted. it tastes good, it is not supposed to taste good, i am tasting it often. rachel: the secre
gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. e 11th hour with stephanie ts fight to get back on colorado s ballot. asking the supreme court to weigh in on the states ban. as president biden sets the tone for his campaign as a fight for democracy. then, the legal and medical consequences in a post-roe world as a woman faces a felony charge after a miscarriage. then, republican lawmakers take a trip to the border, and the push for democrats to talk more about immigration as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle and msnbc headquarters here in new york city. this evening, a very clear contracting contrasting messages from the presidential candidates who could be headed for a rematch. for incumbent by joe biden, it s all about the future of american democracy after this election. donald trump is legs are being focused on his poll numbers and getting the nation s highest court