welcome to 2020, two headlines highlights, and history. we are coming to from times square in the heart of new yor city, home to the famous bal drop that marks the beginning, and and of every year. i am - and i m savannah sellers but the next hour, we ar taking a look back at th biggest stories of 2022. it started with the war i ukraine, s supreme court retirement, and the oscar slap the shook hollywood. and it is ending with a tripledemic, looming recession fears and a world uniting on the soccer field along the way there were celebrations, loss, an hopefully some lessons to take until 2023 first, let s remember the headlines that fine 202 were seismic, and historic europe s largest armed conflic since world war ii, a suprem court decision that overturned more than four decades o precedent. the death of a monarch who had rainforest 70 years. yet, in its earliest days, 202 seemed more like a copycat wit the worst qualities of the two previous years staggering new
year they are history making, unprecedented, consequential from criminal investigations into the former president of the united states to midterm elections that preserved our democracy, from the makeup o the supreme court and th decisions that threatened ou rights to the very rapid ris of hate speech on public discourse, we have plenty to dig into you are watching simone and yo know i have a lot to say when i reflect on the wil ride that was 2022, i keep coming back to these words historic and unprecedented democrats bumped historica trends by expanding thei senate majority and preventing a red wave in the house of representatives. and voters, they changed the representation in more way than one electing the first gen z membe of congress with maxwell frost in florida the first woman elected to congress from vermont, wit becca blunt, the first out lesbian governor s, lamar heal in massachusetts, and tina kotek in oregon. the first black governor o maryland with wes moore. th
Allow their democracy to b taken away they are present, they ar accounted for, and people ar going to make their voices heard. legislative victories, w talked about those we talk about those al throughout the year, president biden, i will put them on up o the screen and go through couple signing landmark legislation talking about their strength o marriage act, the first gu safety legislation in thre decades, the inflation reduction act. tara, what do you think wa biden s biggest legislativ victory in 2022? well, you know, there are s many, simone, that is hard t just pick one. i think that people really didn t appreciate how many legislative wins president biden was able to accomplish whether it was the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan, the illustriou infrastructure bill that w waited for years before th trump administration to pass biden accomplished that. i think the inflation reductio act was incredibly important a a time people needed t understand in this country tha the pre
That way i think that s absolutely right. i mean, glenn, along those lines, we are finally, thi year, we ve got to see accountability for january 6th rioters and seditiou conspirators the charges they are starting to b sentenced. you said sat in on some of the most high-profile of these cases, but what s next i think what s next is fo special counsel jack smith t court through everything tha january six committee ha provided in him, i thousand-plus transcripts, and continue to build on the criminal investigation of trum and company. i think what s next is the should be moving towar returning indictments. whether those indictments star low in the kind of command structure of the insurrection, you know, the rudy giuliani s, the bannon s, stones, flints work their way up to the meadows ultimately, the trump s, or whether jack smith decide to drop a big old conspiracy indictment on everybody all at once, simone, i thin
Year they are history making, unprecedented, consequential from criminal investigations into the former president of the united states to midterm elections that preserved our democracy, from the makeup o the supreme court and th decisions that threatened ou rights to the very rapid ris of hate speech on public discourse, we have plenty to dig into you are watching simone and yo know i have a lot to say when i reflect on the wil ride that was 2022, i keep coming back to these words historic and unprecedented democrats bumped historica trends by expanding thei senate majority and preventing a red wave in the house of representatives. and voters, they changed the representation in more way than one electing the first gen z membe