As i said, its not a spoiler, you figured out really soon as you watch it. But angela lens berry is a she is hidden from the public villain. She is the part behind the throne. She is the wife of an increasingly highprofile u. S. Senator, but you soon learned that he is a puppet, she is the one pulling all the strings. Here is a clip. You can see angela lens buried here. You see her quiet evil satisfaction, while she was knowingly watching, her her husband senator wind up and do his thing. It is a brilliant scene. It is brilliant just in terms of the rioting and in terms of what is happening in the plot, but its brilliant in the terms of how it shot. Even though she is in the room with him while he is causing the scene, she is physically in the same spaces him, you can see the way its shot that shes not actually looking at him in person. She is paying attention to the screen, which you can also see in her field of vision. On the screen, she can see what he looks like on camera, on live
and we begin this morning with breaking news on capitol hill. where a major defense bill has been turned into a debate over social issues. overnight, the republican-led house passed a series of amendments to nearly $900 billion defense policy bill. the amendments include overturning the pentagon s abortion policy, banning transgender health services for military personnel and other things. meanwhile, republican senator tommy tuberville continues to hold up military promotions over the pentagon s abortion policy, which defense secretary lloyd austin warned was a national security issue. this is a national security issue, it is a readiness issue, and we shouldn t kid ourselves. i think any member of the senate armed services committee knows that. joining us from capitol hill is ali vitali. also with us is brandon buck, an msnbc political analyst. ali, what is happening with the vote at this hour? reporter: yeah, i believe, jose, the vote is not yet closed, but that the nd
center headquarters. this is msnbc headquarters on the right. the iconic christmas tree in the middle and this is our news proof to you that they haven t taken down the big tree yet. people still enjoying the ice skating in the holiday season. the new year naturally begins with a presidential race as well as a possible trial of donald trump. later tonight we have some developments in that jack smith case. our top story of the new year right now is this official home stretch of the primaries in the 2024 presidential race. president biden is the presumed democratic nominee. there is no big race there although there are some other announced candidates. we even heard from cornell west last year. on the republican side there could be an open race. will republicans decide between trump or his remaining opponents? and how soon does that process start? if you ve been busy, you know, having a little time off or enjoying your holiday food or your new years workout routine or any of the
i m jim acosta and begin in the middle east where a cease fair between islamic jihad was supposed to go in effect. more rockets were fired toward israel from gaza after the agreed upon time. they continued blaring sirens warning of incoming fire also. for days now we have seen attacks like that one right there in that dramatic video. this is an israeli air strike on gaza where at least 33 people have reportedly been killed over the past few days since wednesday, palestinian forces have fired over 1200 rockets towards israel in response and cnn s ben wedeman joins us now from jerusalem. ben, what more do we know about the cease-fire? reporter: well, the cease-fire, jim, was supposed to go into effect at 10:00 pacific local time. that was an hour ago, but until about half past the hour, there were still rockets going out of gaza and israeli air strikes going in. since then, however, it appears that the cease-fire has taken hold. the situation has calmed down and in the street
here with me ready to dive into this. we have the host of the fast politics podcast molly jong fast. john hart, former communications director for senator tom coburn and the goldberg business reporter for the new york times, and nicholas carlson, global editor in chief of insider but first, let s bring in cnn s tom foreman to break down this explosive propublica report. tom. hey alison. the revelations in this propublica reporter really quite astonishing about justice clarence thomas, his wife, jenny and harlan crow. he is a texas real estate tycoon worth a lot of money, big donator to conservative causes. so what went on here? a lot of travel, paid for by crow and enjoyed by the justice and his wife, according to this report from propublica, where indonesia. new zealand, california, georgia, texas. a reporter behind this said some sort of travel some sort of perk seem to be happening almost every year for 20 years. among the other perks. yeah travel onboard a super yacht whe