you from msnbc and los angeles mayor christmas eve to all o you celebrating, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with th latest on the deadly winte storms moving across the u.s., leaving dangerously cold win chills across much of centra and eastern states at least 20 people have died i storm related incidents across the country in, erie count police say ambulances are stil unable to respond to emergency calls, in a timely manner. the problem is in the hardest hit areas, up to two thirds of emergency response vehicles are stuck fire, ambulance, police, i addition, a man in vehicles ar causing significant problems, have to note this, it is not something we are proud of, but in the worst affected areas, there is no emergency servic available. there s no guarantee that life-threatening emergency situation, that they will be able to respond immediately. we are dealing with situations all night, including a situation with a baby at a hom location which is on
resigning from the papacy because of the sailing how. nbc s molly hunter is joining us at the vatican. molly, welcome. we know every other pope since the 15th century have led the catholic church until their death. so what do we know about funeral plans, especially since there hasn t really been one for a retired pope in what, six centuries. six centuries. and certainly the vatican didn t release any plans over the last several weeks or days, alex. before i go to the actual, planning i do i don t know if you can hear the hints of the background. i do want to just bring our audience a little bit of this. this is the final prayer service of the year 2022. pope francis had already scheduled. does this was pre-scheduled. he started his plans even other news of course this. morning this is the first time that we saw him since the news of his predecessors that broke. i just want to share a little bit of what he said tonight to open up of service. he said, with emotion, we remembe
2020, this friday. so buckle, up the crowd source portion of this is getting ready for takeoff, and there s likely more turbulence ahead that does it for us tonight, we re gonna see you agai tomorrow now, it is time for the last word with jonathan capehart, i for lawrence hey jonathan haley was, yeah i guess we re gonna keep the conversation going about donal trump, at the top of our show, so thank you very much for tha handoff. 2020 tie, hasn t been a good year for donald trump. and 2023 isn t looking muc better if there s any doubt that is legal problems are getting t donald trump, consider this. what was on his mind o christmas day? not wishing everyone a happy holiday, with family and friends, but attacking the fbi and the justice department and a fantastic profile for ne york magazine, 11 itself say that donald trump, who i becoming more isolated he s embroiled in multiple state and federa investigations, including on concerning the theft o classified documents, and th
better if there s any doubt that hi legal problems are getting t donald trump, consider this. what was on his mind o christmas day? not wishing everyone a happy holiday with family and friends, but attacking the fbi and th justice department in a fantastic profile for new york magazine, olivia nuzz says that donald trump i becoming more isolated he s embroiled in multiple state and federa investigations, including on concerning the theft o classified documents. and th justice department is weighing whether to act on the criminal referrals from the january 6th select committee that s before we learned today that the ways and mean committee will release o friday six years of trump returns. returns that trump fought so hard to keep secret. one adviser told new yor magazine that he has retreated to the golf course and t mar-a-lago, his world ha gotten much smaller, his world is so, so small. olivia details his quote, sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run fo reelect
harrison an suv struck the curb of a downtown tunnel hard enough, that the vehicles tire needed to be replaced, bringing the motorcade to a standstill. harris had to be transferred to another vehicle in the motorcade, so agents could safely speared her to the white house. like i said, small incident in the grand scream of things, car hits a curb, nobody gets hurt, vice president makes it safely to the white house. and yet, the post carol leonnig reported that things about the episode had both the vice president and the secret servers leadership scratching their heads. first, there is the issue of, how today agent train to drive the most precious cargo in the country have a one car accident on a cleared roadway. when the president or the vice president travels in a motorcade, the streets are empty, you can see right there. so that part is weird. and other red flag is what the secret service agents did immediately afterwards, when they sent a message alerting senior leadership