on masking twitter aside, th past year brought discoverie both good and bad in the sector jake ward has more for us. 2022 saw the enormous potential and the enormous risks of technology play out over a single year there were a lot of promises made that wound up going nowhere or worse the biggest, of course, with crypto, the stuff of super bow commercials and overnight and in 2022 in flames are sa bankman-fried, founder of ftx, became the face of a crisi which wiped out individual investors and deeply wounded the industry until investigators closed in and ha him arrested in the bahamas. big tech companies, symbols of analyst growth, flailed this year as the economy suffered medicine from the trillion dollar valuation last year t 268 billion dollars this year. advertising fell apart and a blue billions on its founder stream of the metaverse whic we will work and play in tech companies laid off tens o thousands of people. no one tech company grab the headlines quite like twi
good morning and welcome back to morning joe on this friday, december 30th, new year s eve eve. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. as you wake up out west. let s dive right in to a newly released batch of deposition transcripts from witnesses who spoke to the house select committee including members of former president donald trump s inner circle including former white house communications director alissa farah griffin. she spoke to the panel on april 15th describing her tenure at the trump white house as a wild eight months in her words. griffin revealed one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior government officials would not take positions within the administration. griffin said any report about the trump white house being chaotic and operating without structure was, quote, more or less accurate. that included there being no competent gat
woke stuff they keep putting forward, i got movies you go what, who, huh? taylor swift, brand up. at one point she held all of the top ten singles on the chart this year. that s never happened in the history of billboard. taylor swift is the biggest pop star in the world. there isn t a close second. and she spans generations. that s the amazing thing about it. gold with my daughters to see taylor swift. she s a machine, an incredibly likable personality. and since ticketmaster exploded when her new tour came out and she closed them down and said i want to get this right, i don t want it going to the scalpers, so she has a huge brand and is still so young. big talent, writes her own songs. brand up yellowstone, kevin costner getting it done. what s fascinating about it is you can do shows that bring red and blue states together. that was the genius of this show. it s very high-minded, very well written, it takes place in
there is not a close second. she spans generations. that s the amazing thing i would go with my daughters t see taylor swift she s a machine. she s incredibly likable since ticketmaster exploded on her new tour came out, she has closed them down and said, i want to get this right i don t want to go into th scalpers she has a huge brand she still so young it s incredible. she is great. brenda, yellowstone. great show with kevin costne getting it on. what s really fascinating about it is that it shows that you can do shows which bring red and blue states together i think that was the kind of genius of this show. it s a very high minded, ver well written, yet takes plac right in that place in montana right in that sweet spot of red county, right america. you will see a lot o entertainment going forward. there are three spinoffs already. there is one with harrison ford the same producer did one woul sliced alone on tulsa.
step back, it s not just a change in terms of her piece of history as a woman in power in such a male-dominated place, but for many members of the democratic caucus, she is the only hand of leadership they have seen. she has been in this position for so long, helping members through their campaigns, fund-raising. she s a machine at just getting dollars into this democratic apparatus and helping members have what they need so they can rough in rough election battles. all of these things that make her so powerful and so well revered, even feared sometimes among members of her caucus you and i know people who will say to us during tough legislative battles, it s really hard when you have pelosi doing the arm twisting, because there s the thing she understands here almost better than anyone else on either side of the aisle, which is leverage. how do you get leverage? how do you bend power to your will? how do you get done the things you need to get done? for pelosi, when you look at her