a special edition of the ingraham angle from new york city. efforts are underway several states to remove former president donald trump from the ballot. we will get to that in a moment. tonight, vivek ramaswamy is here with his reaction. plus, gary sinise with a heart-warming inspiring story that you have to hear. but, first, william faulkner famously said the past isn t dead, it isn t even past. as we say farewell to 2023, there are important lessons that we may have missed. lessons we need in the new year. you know, we tend to focus so intently on the crisis or the outrage of the moment that we miss the larger trends. this hour we will report breaking news, look at the big stories of the year and how they will shape our 2024. it will be an important and fun hour. i want to start with the narrative thats sounded all year long and going to be a major theme in the new year. you know the song. this fight for out freedoms is also a fight for our democracy. i wish i could s
here s one of the shop workers explaining what happened. translation: i was at work in the furniture section when there was a first hit. me and my colleague fell off our feet, went down and hit the floor. there was a second hit after which we were covered in rubble. we were covered in it, our faces, too. we started to dig our way up to the top. there, the extinguishing system had started working. we grabbed a few people and an emergency service guy who was shopping saved us. he was with a girl that was also shopping and he helped us to get out through the window. me, my colleague and another boy as well as the shopper and his girlfriend made it out. i spoke to cyrille amoursky, a journalist for la chaine info channel. he sjoined me from kharkiv, just in front of the shopping centre which was attacked today. we know that there are at least 16 people missing before it used to be 11. now it is 16. we know also that five people are dead, but there may be other people inside of
we spoke tojoe burton, professor of international security, lancaster university and he gave us his assessment on what exactly people should be aware of. i think there are two main trends at the moment. the first is we are in a worsening geopolitical environment. our relationship nationally and internationally with russia and china is not great. and in the last five or ten years, there s been clear evidence of both of these countries trying to subvert democratic processes in the uk, in europe, in the us and indeed elsewhere, and they re becoming increasingly brazen in doing so. the second element, i think, is the technological tools they now have at their disposal to interfere in our democracies, whether that s the political use of ransomware, whether it s synthetic media. you ve just showed the clip of the robo call of a call mimicking joe biden s voice in seemingly a very authentic way, whether that s more traditional hack and leak operations or indeed disinformation dissem
and other buildings in the city. the mayor of kharkiv says there are a large number of people missing following the strike. earlier this month, russian forces began a renewed offensive in the kharkiv region, in an attempt to break through a weakened ukrainian front line. here s one of the shop workers explaining what happened. translation: i was at work in the furniture section - when there was a first hit. me and my colleague fell off our feet, went down and hit the floor. there was a second hit after which we were covered in rubble. we were covered in it, our faces, too. we started to dig our way up to the top. there, the extinguishing system had started working. we grabbed a few people and an emergency service guy who was shopping saved us. he was with a girl that was also shopping and he helped us to get out through the window. me, my colleague and another boy as well as the shopper and his girlfriend made it out. i spoke to cyrille amoursky, a journalist for la chaine in