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all in one place. find live sports faster just by using your voice. sports on now. touchdown irish! [cheering] that was awesome. and, the hits won t quit, with peacock premium included at no additional cost. all that entertainment built in. xfinity. a way better way to watch. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing news. the president preparing for a phone call with the president of ukraine amid rising russia tensions. let s go rice to msnbc s mike memoli joining us from wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. today s call with zelensky comes just days after the president spoke with president putin. what is the timing of the two calls. where does the situation stand? reporter: the timing of this call so quickly after president biden spoke with president putin is significant because as we ve seen in the eight years now since russia annexed the crimean peninsula part of ukraine s territory there s been only a continued build up of p ....
york city, where the new year brings a new mayor. former police captain eric leroy adams became the city s 110th mayor, only the second black person ever elected to that office, mere moments after the ball dropped in times square early yesterday morning. mayor adams is inheriting the biggest municipal budget and largest workforce in big apple history. joining him in city hall will be the five deputy mayors he appointed, all of them women. and he will need them as he manages a very full plate with both new and familiar challenges, including navigating the city s evolving omicron surge, resuming in person schooling tomorrow for the nation s largest public school district, and building local alliances with fellow democrats who are much further to his political left. labor leaders endorsed adams in the democratic primary last year to be, quote, new york city s blue collar mayor. now that he is mayor, will he meet those expectations? joining me now is the 110th mayor of new ....
back to normal. sometime we can venture beyond it, to leave the known and take the first steps. so let us not return to what was normal, but reach toward what is next. what was cursed, we will cure. what was plagued, we will prove pure. what we tend to argue, we will try to agree. those fortunes were forsworn, now the future we foresee. where we weren t aware, we re now awake. and those moments we missed are now these moments we make, these moments we meet. and our hearts once all together beating, now all together beat. come, look up with kindness yet, for even solace can be sourced from sorrow. we remember not for the sake of yesterday, but to take on tomorrow. we heed this old spirit in a new day s lyric. in our hearts we hear it, for auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne. be bold same time this year, be bold same time. for when you honor yesterday, tomorrow ye will find. know what we fought for, not to be forgot, no for none. it defines us, binds us as one. co ....
in 1983 as a nevada representative and became a senator in 1987. he served as majority leader from 2007 to 2015 and retired two years later. in a story detailing reid s departure in 2017, the washington post described him as both the senate s warrior and deal maker. back then, reid s long-time rival mitch mcconnell told the post, if there is one thing we know about harry, he doesn t give up easily. with an iron fist, harry reid pushed through the affordable care act in the senate during the obama era. last year, reid said, we made it so that obama s presidency became a success. he will go down in history as one of the great presidents. why? because we passed obamacare, the affordable care act. even after his retirement, harry reid couldn t disconnect from washington politics. shortly after president biden took office this year, reid wrote in the las vegas sun that biden was being astute in pushing for a bold democratic policy agenda. quote, if we have the politica ....
now time for the last word. good evening, jonathan. what a wonderful tribute to bishop tutu. your fabulous podcast, all of the episodes are out, you walked on it for a year and i am wondering since it dovetails with what we are going to talk about at the start of the show, has the radicalization that you have been reporting on for the last year, do you think that things have gotten more radical? first of all, thank you. that is a great question. radicalization is trending upward in this country and everyone should be concerned about what is happening in various corners of not just the dark web but happening in plain sight when you see politicians and others perpetuating the big lie, using that to stop division and violence. that is something we should be concerned about. this is echoed by officials in law-enforcement when you have the fbi and others warning congress about online radicalization. thank you very much. we begin with the reason why the january 6 select ....