20 20 election. No surprise that former president coming out swinging against the charges and the Special Counsel. Welcome to our brandnew hour of americas newsroom. I am dana perino. Whats my name again . Dana murray. Whats my name . Build something. I cant remember. Its after royalty. As william and his George Barrett i was going to say charles. Here we go again now. That third indictment of trump under president bidens justice department. Burned former president charged with 4 Felony Counts in a sweeping 45page indictment. Critics complain it is a crusade against free speech. My concerns me as many of the people celebrating their second indictment are just simply dismissing the implications for free speech. Those are quite dire and real. This is criminalizing disinformation. But the Department Of Justice is saying is that we recognize that politicians can save most things but just not trump because he was told they were false. Begins anew brad baer has got The Big Picture in a momen
With jake tapper starts right now the man trump calls old crow, is flying the coop the leads Ich Mcconnell there with his own 2024 plants, stepping down as Senate Republican leader, though hes going to stay on as a senator from kentucky. The new era of republican politics. Now, loading as a new highstakes restate kicks into gear to replace mcconnell, odds are the winter will likely be an old white guy named John Plus A Monster Wildfire in Texas Exploding at one point burning through 150 football fields a minute charring through land 11 size 11 times the size of washington, dc. Were going to go live on the ground as this fire and wide open land prompts evacuations in its path and President Bidens date with the dr. The report, do any moments after his annual physical welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start with our Politics Lead and the end of an era on capitol hill, senator Mitch Mcconnell, the longest serving Congressional Party leader in american history, announced today hes ste
Branding of the program. We can go with the more accurate polish version or how about the ukrainian spelling and pronunciation . The polish version probably closer to my roots. Im not the only one with name pronunciation on the brain these days. Florida Governor Ron Desantis kicked off his president ial run last week. Perhaps the only thing more confusing than trying to launch the campaign was hearing the candidates last name. Come again. The same day he released that video, he appeared on fox news and said this. Anybody thats so inclined to help us, i would love to have your support. This was lowhanging fruit for the trump campaign. Im ron desantis. This is Governor Ron Desantis. Wishing everyone a merry christmas. Who knew the long versus short version of a vowel could cause all this political calamity. The governor seemed unphased when asked what the final word on how to pronounce his name. He said this. This is ridiculous. The way to pronounce my last anytime, winner. While a name
of the jewish community in pittsburgh who said they felt a lot of relief when that conviction came down. just to describe the tone inside the courtroom, it was also silent as they read the first charges and the first guilty verdicts. it shows you intently the community has been paying attention to this trial. i want to touch on the charges that robert bauers was found guilty of. 63 federal charges, also guilty of 22 of the capital offenses, it was the instruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. the jury said robert bauers killed jewish worshippers while they were exercising their religious freedom. it has been a long time coming and a hard trial to listen to over the past three weeks. i ll bring up one testimony we heard. we heard from carole black. she was a survivor of the shooting. she described hiding in a closet while bullets were ringing out above her. she saw her friend mel wax be killed. she testified he immediately went down on his back.
good afternoon, i m chris jansing live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. ahead for us, how a trump co-defendant is trying to get the charges against him tossed out with accusations about the personal life of the fulton county d.a. we ll explain what s causing all the controversy. plus, the u.s. strikes back after dozens of attacks in the red sea, the pentagon launching strikes on houthi rebels. will it be a deterrent or lead to a wider war? . 14 nations and the united states all issued a warning to the houthis that this type of illegal and reckless activity needed to stop or there would be consequences, and last night there were consequences. and mother nature flowing down the final scramble before the iowa caucuses. the impact the weather could have just as polls show nikki haley beating ron desantis there. but we begin this hour in atlanta, what might have been a routine procedural hearing in donald trump s georgia election case is now anything but. one of