that s right. it s an important public service announcement. i encourage everybody to watch at 8:00 and 9:00. this is usually ari s hour. who can do it like ari? i wish you a happy holiday. you made it through two hours of a holiday rock block. did it. i m sorry we re not in the same studio. have a great, restful, well-deserved holiday. enjoy your rock block. i will. thank you all at home for joining me this hour. i m not ari. i m alex wagner. this is the beginning of a two-hour rock block thick with news. we begin here. it s a moment that you are forgiven if you don t remember it or if you missed it at the time. a lot happened on this day. at his speech before the insurrection on january 6, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i m not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much. you know why? because the story is, i haven t spoken to any of them, any o
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Yes yes yeah. E. Youre all coming home with me. Happy wednesda ty, everyone. So in the beginning, america was a pretty great place. People banded together, Createdw Laws to keep everyone safe. F and You Know What . It worked. Turns out that if you build a country with bordersbuild , a military and a wellregulated thw enforcement prosperity wont be far behind. But You Know What comes after that, donatt you . Complacency, a false sense of security, the declinede followed by destruction. Because when the simples t the of dont have to worry about barbarians at the gates, star devel develop something called luxury beliefs. You know, beliefs on to reality. The belief that the bad guys are actually gooreality. Th tha. And to disagree with that makes us the bad guys because the oppressors who keep thugs from enjoying fun stuff like theft and violenceflike the andg abuse and street. Also known as a walking tour of san francisco. But the saddest thing lastt luxury how beliefs is not how naive th
so he has to come on tonight. why do you support a ware? your constituents oppose? how does this benefit the united states ? s are you proud that you helpeda russia and china align a intate? a bloc that s more powerful than the united states ? is that good for for us? us ?, he cannot mat work, congressman? you can t make it. unfortunately, congressmanke mike can t come either. come ei. he represents ohio senator mitt romney of utah. conneldn t respond at all. senators lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell, of coursel, hard nosed. no way. we re not going to answer questions that appeal to cnn.. first, they show that everyone we just mentioned is a republican . they can t defend this. of course, only a very tinyican number of republicans voted to stop this insanity. voted to before it destroys the economy of the united states and triggers world wa thr three .ishe and they ve been punished ford it.fo and a lot of republicans car t ofe because on msnbc, if you re against world war three
provocations may be aimed at starting world war 32. world wa. you look at it throughout the world whether with russia or china, they are using all instruments of the national power. i said, it is a controversial statement, we are in world war iii right now, just in the slow burn phase, we re watching with russia and what they are doing in ukraine, we re seeing with china, and they are expanding to south china sea. they are expanding out through the ending regional stability in europe to the continent in south china sea with our allies there. if we do not act, the consequences was not acting will in fact invite a much more violent. more ruthless and more far reaching conflict. we need to nip it in the bud, yes, it could be