International analyst for msnbc news, and the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, happy new year to you all. Happy new year to you. Happy new year. We have so much to talk about. New year yesterday morning, mika and i went to a new Years Day Service, and the priest gave a homily on the need to be architects of peace in our daily lives and political discourse, and Foreign Policy and everything. The harsh path we have taken in our not so new century is elevated, revenge over reconciliation. And reminded us for all of us in attendance, and i love this. Its a good one. He said start by digging two graves. One of them for yourselves. Yeah. Wow, that really does strike you when you look whats happening in washington over the past 20 years because i really do believe, mika, we live in two americas. One that has seen Childhood Poverty has dropped to 60 year lows, and teenage pregnancy drop to 70year lows. Its in the u. S. World dollar and anytime over
he appeared in a video released this morning saying, we still are in a fight for the soul of the nation. he spoke about the need to, in his, words defender mobocracy. he repeatedly spoke with the need to stand up for what he termed personal freedom. this time, not just against the extremism of former president who hopes to retake the white house, but republican party, the president believes is enabled by him. and has been the work of my first term to fight for it democracy. this shouldn t be a red and blue issue. to protect our, rights to make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally, and everyone is given a fair shot at making it. but around the country, maga extremists are those bench rock freedoms, cutting social security that you paid for your entire life, while cutting taxes for the very wealthy. dictating what health care decisions women can make. banning books, telling people who they can love. all making it more difficult for you to be able to vot
that man lost his life. policing is a big family of people who know at some point, they may be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice, but you never wish or hope that it actually happens. tonight this tragedy did. there s some broken hearts that will take a long time to grieve. todd: hundreds of chicago police officers gathered on the streets to salute the body going to the examiner s office. it is called a tremendous loss. we will try to get through this, very difficult time for chicago police department. we are heart-broken this young officer, that had five years on this department, had a bright future ahead of him and this is something that no family should have to face. todd: investigators reviewing body cam footage, the suspect was shot and is in critical condition this morning. chicago police superintendent and the chicago u.s. attorney announce resignation following lori lightfoot failed bid for re-election. crime up 61% from last year. chicago lopez is hopeful c
election admitted in a sworn statement released on wednesday that she had knowingly misrepresented the facts in several of her public claims that widespread voter fraud led to trump s defeat. the admissions by ellis were part of an agreement to accept public censure and settle disciplinary measures brought against her by state bar officials in her home state of colorado. jenna ellis s confession is a far cry from the lies she told to millions. president trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this election. we have at least six states that were corrupted if not more through the voting systems. we know that president trump won in a landslide. but we knew he didn t and it turns out so did she. in a statement posted on twitter, jenna ellis claimed that the case against her was politically motivated and ellis and her attorney insist that she remains a practicing attorney in good standing in colorado. what she admitted to doing, though, damaged democracy and sewed dist
between trump and aj tish james. anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. do you understand that? i think. is that a yes? i don t know what i did wrong, but the answer is, yes, i do understand it. i don t know what i did wrong. donald trump then goes on to read a prepared statement in which he repeats some of the same many paranoid conspiracies and delusions we ve heard from him for years now, that he s the actual victim of a witch hunt by an out of control prosecutor, blah, blah, blah. here s a snippet. this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. the there has never been another president or perhaps even another politician who has been persecuted, harassed, and in every other way unfairly treated like president donald j. trump. not anything we haven t heard before from the ex-president but what happens next is. here s trump repeatedl