overthrow the 2020 election culminated in a violent mob storming the u.s. capitol. for a few weeks, trump was an outcast. a political comeback seemed farfetched, almost impossible to imagine. and yet, thanks to his allies in congress and the maga movement on hold, donald trump has emerged here at the end of 2023 not nearly rehabilitated politician but as the undisputed leader of his party. now, trump began this year as the prohibitive favorite for the republican presidential nomination. even in january, he had a monster 20 point national lead over his closest rival, florida governor ron desantis. and in the months since, trump s lead has only widened. at this point, a rematch against joe biden appears almost inevitable. and yet, while trump s march towards the republican nomination this year was mostly interrupted, there has been for the last 12 months an x-factor that he has had to contend with, a series of criminal investigations. as the year began, trump was the subject of
there arheree thirty one congressmen. they are ready to blow u up thie entire deal despite being just. days from default. comphis deal fails, fails completely. and that s why thesetely. membe and others will be absolutely opposed to the deal . l and we will do everything ino our power to sto p and end it now. tomorrow s bill is a bunch fake news and fake talking pointsin that will do nothing to rein ino out-of-control federal spending. nofedera republican in good conscience should support this, consciousnot one republican shl vote for this deal . it is a bad deal . not well, not only ours republicans becoming deeply divided on this, but there are even threats to oust mccarthyakb as speaker because of the dealee he mad de with biden. i joining me now is texas congressman chip roy and florida congressma n byronnd donalds. both are members of the freedomo caucus and both are againsth met this deal . welcome to you both, startinglc with you, congressman. ome . and chip roy, w
that s right. it s an important public service announcement. i encourage everybody to watch at 8:00 and 9:00. this is usually ari s hour. who can do it like ari? i wish you a happy holiday. you made it through two hours of a holiday rock block. did it. i m sorry we re not in the same studio. have a great, restful, well-deserved holiday. enjoy your rock block. i will. thank you all at home for joining me this hour. i m not ari. i m alex wagner. this is the beginning of a two-hour rock block thick with news. we begin here. it s a moment that you are forgiven if you don t remember it or if you missed it at the time. a lot happened on this day. at his speech before the insurrection on january 6, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i m not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much. you know why? because the story is, i haven t spoken to any of them, any o
and that s crucial to moving toward our enduring goal of palestinians and israelis enjoying equal measures of freedom, security, opportunity, justice and dignity. president biden remains fully committed to that goal. we continue to believe the best way to achieve it is through preserving and then realising the vision of two states. as i said to the prime minister, anything that moves us away from that vision is in ourjudgment detrimental to israel s long term security and its long term identity as a jewish and democratic state. you heard secretary blinken there referring to a two state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict. what that envisions is an independent palestinian state in the west bank alongside israel, withjerusalem as their shared capital. next let s hear what the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had to say. to, perhaps achieve dramatic breakthroughs that i think could be both historic and enormously significant in our common efforts to bring
the dirtbag s first son s laptop was russian disinformed. ? turns out that t the biden campaign orchestrated the entire thing. ex cia director mike morell revealing in sworn testimony s that secretaryworn of state, now secretary of state state anthony blinken, who was then a senior biden campaign adviser, led the effort to release that letter. republican jim jordan ripping t into the revelation that lettere became the basis for keeping ama this information from the american people. and the other thing that was im important, we learned that deposition with mr. morrell is they were even mr. morellh rt was even trying to directbiden who the biden campaign told himi who tos to i get to in the medi. it was that coordinated. that s the scary. itary thin was a totaland the political operation. and the most important fact. is it was false. both joe and hunter use that letter as proof to dismiss the laptop or 50 former national intelligence folks fols who said that what this he s ac