we are awaiting a white house briefing moments from now, it s the biden administration s first in-person news conference since former president trump s landslide victory in the iowa caucuses and the first since lloyd austin s release from the hospital. sandra: and so many questions also swirling own hunter biden after a major development in one of the criminal cases against the president s son. for all of those reasons, we are going to be watching for the white house press briefing. when it begins, we will bring you the news from it. now this. 2023 was the biggest year for illegal border crossings, resources stretched, fentanyl in the country, do you think it s a crisis? we want solutions. solutions are at hand but frankly we are at an election year and the folks who want to return donald trump to the white house prefer to focus on the broken immigration system than the solutions at hand. petty politics at play on this issue as much as anything. john: vice president h
for his dangerous rhetoric. e. jean carroll was back on the stand today, first under cross-examination by trump s attorney, then under redirect examination by her attorney. team trump suggested that carroll actually benef from her accusation. abc news reports the defense suggested that carroll craved attention, took on trump to revive her flagging career, and relish the verdict in an earlier trial known as carroll 2. it established trump was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. did the verctn your opinion provide you with bigger status in new york? itvide me with you have continued to publicize every lawsuit you had had agait president trump. yes, carroll responded, because wanted people to know that a woman can speak up and win a trial. i wanted people to know. i m 80. i don t want to be quiet. it s not right to make a woman be quiet. it s gone on for too long. during redirect, carroll countered that despite all the notary tie s gned, she wants nothing more than t
will: a blue city in maine has a plan to house their influx of illegal immigrants: put them in rent-free luxury apartments. pete: sweet. rachel: meet the air force pilot that has miss america crown on her radar and gets ready to be first active duty military officer to compete in the pageant. second hour of fox & friends starts now. pete: thought there was going to be a swooshy graphic. will: we re working through the changes. pete: oye. will: exactly. pete: i have my cranberry mocktail. feeling good about that . rachel: i was going to go down and get mine and then it s solid and really good. pete: trying to find cranberry and it s hard. will: one of my n new year s resolutions was to it doesn t. it doesn t. i sent several that day. the it was to reach out and to connect, to maintain relationships and after the show last week, i was sitting around at the lounge at the airport, i might have had a rachel: cranberry cocktail. will: cranberry cocktail, i thought this show
out front next, putin s nukes are on the move. as putin warns he can still destroy ukraine s capital. we are live in moscow, and along ukraine s front lines where the attacks are intensifying tonight. plus, the justice department tonight taking steps to prevent trump from releasing classified materials in the mar-a-lago case, as one of his now former lawyers reveals why he is no longer advising the former president. and after the spy balloon, and dangerous close calls. tech can u.s. prevent another dangerous incident with china? a critical meeting about to happen. let s go out front. good evening, i m brianna killer in for erin burnett. out front tonight, putin surrounding ukraine with nuclear weapons. the russian president declaring today he now has nukes on standby in belarus, which is where putin launched his invasion of ukraine from more than one year ago. the first nuclear warheads have been delivered to the territory of belarus, but just the first ones. this is the
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