to is saying there have been pilot programs to formalize the operations of the smaller minds. the results were promising, paying workers and keeping them safe while also continuing the operations. we ve got a lot more to come. you re watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. hey there, top of the. our thanks for being here. i m stephen romo in for yasmin. if you are just joining, us welcome. before still with, us thank you. we are taking a look at live images from dubai, where a new year s celebration is underway, as the clock there strikes midnight. and for many around the world, it is already 2024 as well. some of the amazing sights and sounds as humans paused the world over to recognize the flipping of that calendar page. despite these festivities, the concerns of 2024 are already upon us as well. wars, political divide, and humans rights issues are already waiting for us in the new year. and we will dive into many of those coming up this hour. we do be
charges. we made it 234 years is a country without a single president or former president fa criminal indictment. this year, 2023, donald j trump broke that record. not just once, he was charged in four separate criminal charges this year. trump is 91 federal indictments are far in a way the biggest story of 2023. as the year draws to a close, it s worth considering the magnitude of each of these charges. it s also worth reminding ourselves how big the story is. how big this moment says. it s historic. how very not normal everything about trump world has been. donald trump s disregard for social norms, common courtesy, and the rule of law was shocking at first, but, like any of these campaigns, it can be exhausting to think about, to talk about, to live through each and every day, day after day, year after year. today, with his last day of the first year that a former president was criminally indicted, i want to underscore just how imperative it is that we is a country, as an
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
to keep donald trump off the ballot in 2024, and overseas israel s expanding its ground offensive into refugee camps in central gaza in what it calls, quote, a new battle zone. the government there saying the war against hamas will go on, for, quote, many months. secretary of state tony blinken, and other top biden officials, set to meet with mexico s president in the next couple hours for critical talks about the border crisis happening as a caravan with a reported 8,000 migrants heading towards the u.s. border. hey, everybody, good morning to you, we re going to begin with the latest developments in the israel-hamas war. israeli defense forces saying they have expanded their war effort into central gaza where several refugee camps are located. it is the same area where just earlier this week 70 people were killed in the strike on a refugee camp, the announcement coming with no clear end in sight for the war, israel s army chief saying their operations could last for mo
number of migrants putting a strain on both their governments. what can they get done? we ll have the latest coming up. we re going to start in the middle east where israel says it is battling enemies in gaza, in the west bank. lebanon, syria, iraq, yemen, and iran simultaneously. the heaviest fighting is happening in central gaza right now where israel says refugee camps are now considered a new battle zone. the u.n. says bombings there have killed at least 100 palestinians since christmas, and despite evacuation orders there is, quotes, no safe place for gaza residents to go. jay gray is live in tel aviv. jay, give us the very latest on the intensity of fighting happening now. reporter: yeah, it s very intense right now. in fact, some humanitarian agencies saying this is the most violent and deadly fighting we ve seen since the beginning of the ground invasion into gaza. we know that the idf is working, as you talked about, in these refugee camps, in central gaza just o