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capitol hill where if you didn t happen to already be watching the news this morning, you missed a huge surprise that caused a huge spectacle. at 10:04 a.m., the house oversight committee gavelled in to debate ahead of a vote to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress for refusing to comply with a gop subpoena for closed door testimony. at 10:09, hunter biden escorted by secret service and flanked by his lawyers just showed up to the committee room offering himself up for public testimony. but instead of taking him up on that offer, republicans got angry and democrats got exasperated. yes, i m looking at you, hunter biden, as i m speaking to you. you are not above the law at all. i believe that hunter biden should be held completely in contempt. i think he should be hauled off to jail right now. let s vote. let s take a vote. who wants to hear from hunter right now today? anyone? come on. who wants to hear from hunter? no one. mr. biden doesn t make the rules, w ....
hello, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. i want to get right to the breaking news we re following this morning. donald trump arriving just moments ago at a manhattan courthouse for the closing arguments in his multimillion dollar civil fraud trial, and he spoke just before going into the courtroom. there is high tension this morning because trump has suggested he could challenge the judge who has barred him from speaking during closing arguments. another big development, a threat we re following, law enforcement responding to a reported bomb threat at the judge s house this morning. a source with direct knowledge tells nbc news. i want to get right to our yasmin vossoughian joining us from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. and also with us, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and criminal defense attorney danny cevallos. we just saw trump speaking before heading into the courtroom saying, you know, it s not fair that the judge won t let him speak at clo ....
say too much has been made of january 6th and it s time to move on, does that framework earn him a second term? we ll get into it with an adviser to the president. plus a group that works to elect latinos to congress says there s one issue that will define this election for latino voters. it s not immigration. the leader of that group is here to explain what it is and why. and we have details of a last-minute meeting after the navajo nation asked them to delay a mission to the moon. the president of the navajo nation is with us to explain why this mission would be a desecration of the moon. i m victor blackwell. let s start the show. republicans are ten days out from their first caucus votes, but president biden is looking ahead to the general election. he says this will be about democracy and freedom. the president argued that donald trump are threats to both. democracy is on the bat lot ballot. it s the first national election since the insurrection placed a dag ....
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensit ....
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