you read books. you read books there was a great va, author of the book how the garcia girls left their accent. joining me tomorrow night six pm eastern for our special year end meeting of the velshi banned book club and we are going to feature some of my favorite conversations with authors and scholars from 2023. don t miss it. but i will speak with a man who was one of the first introduced the idea that donald trump could be disqualified as a 2024 presidential candidate because of section three of the 14th amendment. the federal judge joins me just a few moments if another hour of velshi begins right now. and good morning, it is saturday, december 23rd. i m ali velshi. the start of a crucial presidential election season is right around the corner, but a few key constitutional questions remain unresolved, which could directly up in the 2024 race. with the iowa caucuses just 23 days away, some of those issues are finally reaching the supreme court s purview, setting up
working, news 4 s, of just a former trump fixer michael cohen telling msnbc exclusivel just minutes ago that he is no done with the grand jury in th manhattan da s case. he ll be back as a rebutta witness indicating that trum team may have called their own witnesses. we ll have the latest on tha just coming up it comes in the wake of donald trump s prediction he ll b arrested tuesday which is now sparked a defined message on the manhattan d pursuing the case. and an ugly response from th former president as well this, as kevin mccarth threatens to use the force o the republican house majorit against da alvin bragg, th reaction from both sides has been coming fast and furious it s not clear to me what committee speaker may be referring to perhaps the so-calle weaponization committee whic is really more appropriately named the committee to protect insurrectionists just feels like a politically-charged prosecutio here and, for my part, just fee like it s just not what th ame
jinping, veteran putin s mos important friend vladimir putin has bee isolated, this icc charges tha would isolate him even further russia needs china more than china needs russia this visit, everybody s gonn be watching because they wan to see exactly what kind o friends vladimir putin and x jinping are going to b assessed for not goes into its second year, richard also could, be as you kno when it comes to victory lap sometimes when there is troubl at home or trouble on th statues, who do travel the leaders get out there to try to show strength when ther is actually weakness matt bradley, looking for th conversations you cover this for us thank you so much. still ahead, how forme president trump supporters o capitol hill or reacting to hi claim that he will be arrested in just 48 hours plus, the new technology costing 60 k per classroom look closely at this it s been to protect kid during a school shooting and who s gonna foot that bill
but the big heavy guns have already been used in this war of economic strangulation. i think the point is to continue to tighten and correct. to show that there is not going to be because time continues to elapse. there is not going to be any commitment on part of the world s two account for this russian aggression with vladimir may be hoping for. he may be hoping the west gets tired of this and gives up. that s not what s going to happen, according to the leaders that have met today. they re making the point that they re not going to simply turn their back on ukraine and allow this to be the status quo going forward. we ll see. the truth is, no individual sanctions by itself has changed veteran putin s calculation. the question is, whether the accumulation overtime has an overall impact on russia that either changes the dynamics for him or at least weakens russia