country politically, anything else to the contrary to that triggers them and offends them and essentially hoping to cancel anything that doesn t agree with their world view and makes them feel comfortable. jillian: at this see i ming i m trolledby the american flag. new york times board member msnbc have been irresponsibly taken out of context. her argument is that trump and many of his supporters have politicized the american flag. the attacks on her today are ill informed and grounded in bad faith. do you see, tomi a scenario in which that was taken out of context? listen, you just played the clip so i guess our viewers can hear and say for themselves what she said. i don t know how can you take it out of context. it was pretty obvious. went ton say americanness whiteness. at the end of the day, this is, again, part of the trump derange
real concern because you get the trump voters who are not going to get on board with democracy, they are a minority. you can marginalize them long-term but if we don t take the threat seriously, then i think we are really going to be in bad shape. what does that mean, exactly. ainsley: she wants a commission to investigate what happened on january 6th, too. steve: there was a lot of blow back and the new york times has tweeted out this from the nyt communications department. the new york times editorial board member mara gay s comment on msnbc the comments have been irresponsibly taken out of context. her argument was that trump and many of his supporters have politicized the american flag. is that what you heard? the attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad-faith. brian: in her view steve: i wonder if she wrote that tweet. brian: in their view politicize the american flag? that s totally in the eye of the
details about those letters. the administration says the assassination was legal because it was defensive. if so, was it the right strategy critics say former presidents george w. bush and barack obama both had opportunities to kill soleimani but did not. fearing it would lead to war with iran. thank you and tensions with iran have weathered several dangerous flare-ups since last spring, including provocations near the strait of hormuz i visited tehran in august amid the tensions and got some insight into how iran might approach conflict with the u.s. in tehran today the american flag burned in the streets angry reaction to the american assassination of iran s top military commander. iran s national security council tonight issuing new threats, saying, a very grave revenge is awaiting the criminals who bloodied their hands with the blood of soleimani months ago we traveled
reporter: the american flag. dear hero. thank you for your service. from bloomington, indiana. we want to give to our warriors who are far away from home. reporter: 50,000 cards last year. this year, more than 100,000 sent. friends, family, neighbors all helping. even the children at hollis primary school, right there in town. schools as far away as hawaii. this is amazing! look at santa on the beach. reporter: the cards and holiday candy now arriving tonight and the smiles say it all. happy holidays in kabul, the 82nd airborne division, third brigade combat team. and back home tonight, laura says it s those smiles that keep her going. new hampshire, you know, we re small in size, but we re so large in heart. reporter: that heart being felt thousands of miles away. laura and all of her helpers and our troops, america strong. good night. now from abc 7 news breaking
orderly protest through the years but the extreme radical and violent acts have certainly crossed the mind. most severely condemned. asked for the conduct of the hong kong police force, this video has gone viral in the city of hong kong. it shows a cop yesterday during the altercation that hong kong airport drawing his weapon and pointing it squarely at hong kong protesters and it calls into question the use of force in subduing these protesters. as for hong kong airport, the world s eighth busiest back open for business, handling the 1100 cargo passenger flights that they do each and every day and also catching up on the hundreds of flights that have been canceled and passengers that have been stranded. and finally, an interesting rising symbol of these protests, again being flown tonight, the american flag, which protesters say depict and symbolize freedom and democracy and probably an