hamas war escalating just days after the u.n. approved a watered down resolution calling for aid to the embattled region as the toll of the war caused christmas celebrations to be canceled in bethlehem. and getting down to the wire in iowa where a gop presidential candidate spent the holiday weekend trying win over voters. did he make any headway? we re going to find out. and if you ve been dreaming of a white christmas, you re probably going to be disappointed. we re going to tell you why most people around the country will just have to keep dreaming. we begin this hour with the growing fight over whether former president trump can claim immunity to election interference charges. trump s legal team filed a brief with a federal appeals court in washington over the weekend asking it to toss out the federal election interference case against him. his lawyers arguing quote this. president trump has absolute immunity from prosecution for his official acts as president. so, they s
They ve been taking, so i mean i hope that the warnings that we ve been hearing from places like the british defense ministry and some of the, you know, concern among the russia watchers, i hope that s all wrong, but, you know, that s why we re all kind of holding our breath to see what happens on may 9th. i don t think putin is just going to walk away here. i think, you know, no matter what happens, it s this isn t going to end and we re not getting to the end of this. i want to read more from your piece and then i have another question for you, tom. you write this, if putin doesn t announce ang escalation what else might he say? one option is to declare a limited victory and then go back to grinding away at the ukrainians as he has done in the ukrainian east since 2014. he may simply announce in the spirit of a day devoted to the end of hitlerism he has, indeed, de-nazified ukraine given that precious few nazis were loose in ukraine in the first place. he might say that victory i
republicans are not fixing their internal problem, right? they re leaning into it. so what should democrats be doing that they re not doing. first of all, let s look at the republicans, they re being very successful at what they re doing. given the astonishing ideology to which the republican party has become enslaved, disenfranchisement, controlling through authoritarianism in the united states, let s take a moment to look at what general milley said, the head of our military said of donald trump s movement and trumpism that they are like brown shirts, they are like hitlerism, this is the chief of our military, a great hero incidentally for coming forth unlike in others who have served in the trump presidency and saying these things aloud. the republican party has become captured by this movement. and that s what we need to look
Book is as previous book, we also see general milley. the one person. the head of the american military. who has come forth in a public way. compared trump and his movement to brown shirts. to hitlerism. he is a real hero in our country. and i think we need to look a those who also served in the administration, from pence to general kelly, another chief of staff, to mattis as secretary of defense. none of whom came forward even after they had left office to say we are in the throes of a madman who is undermining our democracy, endangering our country, endangering the world. and now, we have a whole political party that is still unwilling to do it. well, gloria, we got about a little bit less than a minute left. i mean, the thing is, this wasn t just a then then. this is a now thing because the former president is still saying this stuff. that s right.
Especially a mad president, to come forward. and what s extraordinary in this book is as previous book, we also see general milley. the one person. the head of the american military. who has come forth in a public way. compared trump and his movement to brown shirts. to hitlerism. he is a real hero in our country. and i think we need to look a those who also served in the administration, from pence to general kelly, another chief of staff, to mattis as secretary of defense. none of whom came forward even after they had left office to say we are in the throes of a madman who is undermining our democracy, endangering our country, endangering the world. and now, we have a whole political party that is still unwilling to do it. well, gloria, we got about a