A very good day to all of you from Msnbc World headquarters in louisville and New York. Welcome, everyone to alex witt reports. We are tracking three big stories at this hour. Right now, the outer bands of beryl are bringing wind and tropical rain to texas. It is expected to become a hurricane before making landfall. Any moment now, Leader Hakeem jefferies will convene a meeting of House Democrats to take the temperature on president Joe Bidens postdebate candidacy. President biden will arrive in harrisburg for a Campaign Event as he takes his fight to stay in the president ial race to the Swing State of pennsylvania. We begin with Breaking News on the storm, our team of meteorologists of reporters here with the latest. We will go first to you, priscilla, in the field with the most recent update on beryl. What is the latest you are hearing from officials . Reporter thats right, alex. I just spoke with the mayor and he reiterated the advice that people who are elderly or sick due to lea
legal experts tonight. we re discussing rico is a powerful charge because it is so broad. it is one of the broadest laws in the nation, the way georgia uses it, as the washington post explains, because prosecutors can weave together alleged crimes, violations of state and federal laws, activities in other states, the law as this d.a. knows well, does not require a defendant to set foot in georgia to be charged. why? because rico is that broad, you do need, of course, something to happen in the state, in georgia, but you could be a person who stayed out of state. maybe you re a busy co-conspirator. maybe you re a coward and send other people to do things for you. under the georgia state rico statute, a long as some people have committed these crimes of some kind inside the state, other people can be looped in. that s one of the ways d.a. willis came out with this strong, broad set of charges last night rounding up these 19 defendants. they re not all household names. i want
the seat of american democracy. it s described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. this hour, the charges, the co-conspirators and trump s arraignment tomorrow. plus, his defense as he compares his prosecution to nazi germany. and later, the reaction of his former vice president, including copious notes mike pence turned over to the special counsel. that s all ahead here on ana cabrera reports. good morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. and today the seat of our government prepares for the arraignment of the 45th president of the united states. donald trump called to appear at a district courthouse tomorrow in washington to face four federal counts, including three conspiracies to defraud this country and subvert americans right to vote. special counsel jack smith s 45-page indictment details repeated and exhaustive efforts by trump to stay in power, a pressure campaign that involved attorneys and campaign operatives and list
here are the top stories we re covering this hour. israel says its war effort to eliminate hamas is entering a new phase with the new year. but is it going to reduce civilian casualties as the question has been questioning. this as prime minister netanyahu suffers a major political setback from his country s supreme court. i ll teak to ambassador mark regev and the democratic senator. and in tokyo, a five-man crew of air national guard claimed dead but all 400 on board a wide-body passenger plane escaping safely in just minutes after their plane exploded on the runway. and we ll look at the surge of respiratory illnesses over the holiday season. as flu, covid and rsv give families a rough start to 2024. and good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. israel is starting the new year by launching intense attacks against central and southern gaza, even as the idf begins the process, it says, of bringing the first several thousand of its troops home. that includ
do it for us tonight i promise you alex wagner will be back in the chair next week when she is back from vacation thanks for having me here last night, and tonight i ll see you again for m regularly scheduled rachel maddow show on monday. it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence good evening, rachel, happy friday this is a show that doesn t, you know, in an officially recognize the aging process. about tomorrow, i m going to say happy saturday, just going to leave it at that. it s paul manafort birthday tomorrow! there you go. which, it s a big deal. yeah, so, rachel, i have baltimore story for you that i ve had for years and i v been struggling in the last 20 minutes to figure out how to say this publicly. so, here s - you know, in my memoirs, thi will be much more specific okay okay. no one involved really, except me, at this point, is still alive. so - [laughs] i went to the world series i baltimore years after former govern