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overthrow the 2020 election culminated in a violent mob storming the u.s. capitol. for a few weeks, trump was an outcast. a political comeback seemed farfetched, almost impossible to imagine. and yet, thanks to his allies in congress and the maga movement on hold, donald trump has emerged here at the end of 2023 not nearly rehabilitated politician but as the undisputed leader of his party. now, trump began this year as the prohibitive favorite for the republican presidential nomination. even in january, he had a monster 20 point national lead over his closest rival, florida governor ron desantis. and in the months since, trump's lead has only widened. at this point, a rematch against joe biden appears almost inevitable. and yet, while trump's march towards the republican nomination this year was mostly interrupted, there has been for the last 12 months an x-factor that he has had to contend with, a series of criminal

investigations. as the year began, trump was the subject of criminal cases in new york and georgia, as well as two separate federal investigations led by the recently appointed special counsel jack smith. remember, when this year began, we were all talking about whether the former president would be indicted. it was definitely not a sure thing. and it was a long time coming. but then, as spring turned to summer, it rained indictments. >> we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conducts. >> we have set laws in this country and they apply to everyone. >> a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. >> my office will seek a speedy trial. so that evidence can be tested in court and judged by a jury of citizens. >> as the year closes out,

donald trump, the 45th president of the united states, has been charged with 91 felony counts and four criminal indictments. but with each new indictment, trump has actually increased his support. trump began the year with a support of about half of the republican primary voters nationwide. and as we head into 2024, that number has risen to about two thirds of the parties primary electorate. and with less than three weeks until the iowa caucuses, it has become abundantly clear that the rest of the republican field will not stop trump. his closest rivals have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid attacking him, instead, the campaign become a sort of circular firing squad with trump on the outside of it. even with 2016 in the rearview mirror, there hasn't really been any concerted effort to coalesce around any trump alternative. and so, in purely political terms, donald trump is back within a coin flip of the presidency. as for the legal processes, the

x-factor in all of this, we began this year wondering whether trump would be indicted. and we end it wondering whether trump will actually face trial next year, as the threat of criminal prosecution has increased, trump has responded with threats directed towards both prosecutors and his political enemies. he has embraced authoritarian rhetoric on the campaign trail, drawing parallels to the worst of the 20th century's fascist dictators. whether that language is evidence of fear, or whether it's merely a political tool to rile up his base, what is obvious is that donald trump does not want to stand trial. for months, trump has deployed every tool in his legal arsenal to delay judgment. before this year even began, he succeeded in getting florida federal district judge aileen cannon to appoint a special master which set the mar-a-lago documents case back for months. his recent maneuver suggests

that schedule for a may trial may not actually be held until after the 2024 election. and in his d. c. federal election interference case, trump's numerous appeals have resulted in a prolonged pause in that trial, and may end up delaying its scheduled march 4th start date for some time. so, when these historic federal criminal trials actually begin, well, that is a very open question. and then, of course, there is that question of what happens when donald trump is found innocent or when he is found guilty, and if that judgment comes when he is outside of the white house, or back inside the oval office. 2023 has been an historic year. the rule of law has been tested in ways unseen in american history. but wow does 2024 look like it's going to be an even greater challenge to the basic foundations of our democracy! here goes nothing. joining me now is former missouri senator and current msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill.

claire, thanks for being here. it's hard to even remember everything that we've lived through this year. and yet, i have a sinking feeling that it pales in comparison to what is ahead of us. how are you thinking about the year behind us and that year ahead? >> well, i think, you know, first of all, i think it's important to remember that a lot of democrats lost confidence when donald trump won in 2016 because truth be known, no one thought donald trump would win, including donald trump. and when he did win, it kind of shook the foundations of everyone believing, you can't do and say those kinds of things to be a president. that's not what we are in america. well, it turns out that you can. and not only did he say those things before he got elected president, he kept acting that way. the entire time, busting norm

after norm, cozying up to the worst leaders on the planet, people who do not believe in freedom, people who do not believe in human rights. everything he did would lead one to believe that of course he would get reelected, and then he almost did. and now, you see january six and all of these criminal indictments, and you say, well, of course he can't win again, and the polling would indicate that all of this has made him stronger. so, it's understandable that people are really worried about next year. it's also true that donald trump did not win the popular vote in 2016, and he did not win in 2020. and when he has been pushing candidates on the ballot, most of them have lost, and his party has lost ground since he became a leader. so, everybody needs to take a deep breath, say happy new year to everyone, realize that this is in the hands of the american people, and we can do something about it by making sure that

someone takes office that respects the constitution and doesn't vow to terminate the constitution. >> i noticed that you said this is in that hands of the american people. you did not say this is in the hands of the american judicial system. does that reflect a belief on your part that there isn't actually going to be a criminal trial for trump that is resolved before the election? >> i think jack smith is going to try very hard. i think the supreme court is probably going to move with some haste on the cases that will be in front of them. but understand this, alex, if these cases are not tried, if none of them are tried, and if donald trump wins, the federal cases go away. and you may get another crisis. we have a crisis that if he appoints an attorney general on the promise that the attorney general will dismiss these cases against him that are federal, the mar-a-lago documents case, and the obstruction case in washington,

d. c., both being handled by jack smith. if he says my attorney general is going to dismiss them, that attorney general has to get confirmed by the senate. now all of a sudden, we have to worry about the senate elections, and whether or not the senate will confirm an attorney general who has promised to ignore the law and the facts, and prop up someone who is doing everything they can to run for president, and stay out of prison. and i'm not sure which is more important to him at this point. >> are you at all concerned -- i mean, we talked in the closing weeks of this year about how trump, if elected, could do an end run around the guardrails, not looking for senate confirmation, but just appointing acting attorney generals, acting cabinet secretaries, people from the fringes of the maga movement who might not otherwise be qualified or get confirmation. how -- how worried should

people be about that potential future? >> i think people should be worried. i think they should be worried that we have a lot of people in this country that are okay with someone who says he will terminate the constitution, and talks about executing generals and putting journalists out of business, and shutting down networks. people should be very concerned about that. on the other hand, we still have a court system. and so, really, this year will tell us a lot about our court system. so far, the supreme court, even though it's dominated by conservatives, and three of them were appointed by donald trump, they said no to donald trump many times. donald trump thought they would put him in power after january six, after the election, that they would somehow help overturn the election on his behalf. they did not. and so, the courts are going to be tested. but they will have opportunities both in this next year, and if he were elected

president, to stand their ground and hold the line on the law in this country. and it will be interesting to see what happens before the election as to whether or not the court's actions helped donald trump, which so far him being accountable, and the law has helped him politically. or whether it will hurt donald trump because the way that evidence will finally break through to those low information, swing voters in the states that will decide the presidency. >> claire mccaskill, it's great to end the year with you, claire. i'm excited, a bit trepidatious, and somewhat terrified for the next one. thank you, as always, for riding along with me. >> we will be there together next year. >> we will, sister. coming up, in the past two national election cycles, we have seen conspiracy theories fray the fabric of our electoral system. we are gonna show you how one arizona radio station is fighting back against disinformation. but first, we will take you back to florida, where this

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under his leadership has promoted classroom lessons on racism if students feel discomfort. and as the public liberal arts new college has been overhauled into a model of conservatism. as the state has re-written black history itself with new standards that mandate lessons on the personal benefit of slavery, and require that lessons on certain race massacres include acts of violence perpetuated against and by african americans. this summer, we traveled to the small town of ocoee, florida, with the town's own history of anti black violence and its presidents ability to learn about it are under threat. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the ocoee massacre was, a bunch of black people were killed because they wanted to vote. and the white people decided to run into ocoee, kill them, and burn their homes. it was a really horrible night. and i know that a lot of students say they don't know about that, even though we are literally in ocoee.

>> i learned about ocoee, the ocoee massacre through her -- and actually, oh, yeah, did you know that there is a scholarship for ocoee. what scholarship? the ocoee massacre. i'm like the ocoee massacre. she's like, yes, the white people killed all the black people -- i did amount of research on it, and this is serious. it's crazy how racism goes so far. >> that was everywhere. it happened everywhere -- >> in our state -- >> people just don't know about it. it's crazy -- ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i wasn't taught it in school. i think it may have been mentioned in ap u.s. history in my junior year. but even if it's at a slower pace, there is still, it still needs to be taught throughout the years of school because it's important, it's our history, especially as us living in florida. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in november 1920, the small town of ocoee was the site of the worst election day

violence in american history. weeks before the election, ku klux klan members held rallies and sent threatening letters to white ocoee leaders who registered black residents to vote. the klan promised, we shall always enjoy white supremacy in this country. and he who interferes must face the consequences. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is ocoee and this is a hollow ground cemetery which contains the bodies of at least 300 black people who died during the ocoee massacre. most of them burned to death beyond recognition, so they were put in mass graves in this spot. and until recently, forgotten about. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the massacre was sparked by two african american men who went to the post to vote. it was about voting rights. >> it was good reason for white

men to be afraid about blacks voting because of the change of the balance of power in the south. >> and so, mose norman and july perry were refused the right to vote. >> the mob comes to him, surrounds his home, trying to find out what was going on, bring him out, punish him for attempting to vote. they killed two of them members through friendly fire, and it gets blamed on july perry. >> there were headlines all over the country, two white men killed in ocoee, blacks rioting in ocoee -- >> reporter: it remains unclear to this day who killed those two white men. but those headlines about the death of whites at july perry's home, diminishing the racial terror in that black community, those headlines will have repercussions both then and now. >> he was arrested and brought

into orlando where the orange county jail is. the mob followed him and took him out of the jail and hung him, and left his body hanging for days, as intimidation, so that other african americans who would contemplate voting in orange county would see what would happen. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> a lot of what the klan was trying to do, the kkk, was to suppress the vote by using violence. and normally, it worked, it worked pretty well here. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the black death toll from that day is now incalculable. the remaining black population of ocoee plummeted after the massacre. and the events of november 1920 were largely forgotten, until now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> since i've been governor, we have added to what type of african american issues have

been taught. we have mandatory instruction on the election day riots, the ocoee election day riots in 1920. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the new curriculum in florida schools, championed by governor ron desantis, mandates that students learn about what happened in ocoee. but only if that instruction includes acts of violence perpetrated against and by african americans. it's an apparent reference to the two white men killed at perry's home, and it obscures the fact that the massacre targeted black citizens. >> there have been comments about the breadth and depth of these standards. anyone who can read those standards can see the topics that are covered are in-depth, and there is nothing that is left out. >> the state of florida and desantis today, officially blaming anti white violence on blacks of ocoee. and it did not happen. they are lying. the two white men who died here died at the hands of white

people. so, we are here to try and correct that lie. >> if you take a massacre where a whole town was destroyed, houses were set on fire, schools were set on fire, churches, lodges, people who ran out of their homes were shot and killed. and those who did not run out of their homes burned in the building. and if you can take something like that and have it focused on violence, perpetrated by and against african americans, you miss the whole point. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good morning -- >> reporter: geraldine thompson worked in the florida education system for more than 24 years before she became a state senator representing okosi. >> i'd like to welcome you and thank you for your

participation in this speak out town hall meeting. >> reporter: thompson is now involving the entire community to correct that state's history standards. >> i want boxes of petitions that we're gonna send the commissioner of education, saying that we want factual, balanced history taught in our classrooms. >> i love the students. every day i come to school, i come to work, i'm excited to talk to the kids. i'm excited to tell them what they need to know so that they can grow and make this country better. but they want me to lie to kids. they want us to ignore african history prior to the slave trade. they want us to try to hide florida's ugly legislative history. i'm sorry -- i'm getting upset. i will not, in my classroom,

both sides lynchings. it's not gonna happen. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: while teachers in ocoee and across florida are struggling to teach students under these new standards, professor marvin dunn is showing educators ocoee's history firsthand. >> i'm here because i wanted to bring dade county teachers, active teachers to these places in florida, that the state requires them to tell lies to students, like those anti white violence in ocoee. we are trying to correct the record, not have teachers feel that they have to teach all lie because the state requires it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> can someone tell me what's wrong with this marker? the problem with this marker is that it doesn't tell the truth of what happened here. it doesn't tell the truth of

who is out there. this is hollowed ground. this is not a cemetery. this is a mass grave. this is a mass grave. we will take questions, comments, reactions, anything -- >> i'm a teacher at palm meadow in miami, florida, miami-dade county public schools. and i'm telling our teachers, as you know, i wasn't hired to teach lies. and i will never teach lies. i am not a teacher who will teach lies, period. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: as for the students now back in school in ocoee, they are determined to learn the truth about what happened in their own backyard, regardless of what the state of florida says. >> even if our history is not supporting this, i feel it's

like our obligation to read about our own history on our own. >> we have to do what our teachers are unable to do, our public school teachers who are being prohibited from teaching us what is real by law. their jobs are at stake. they are risking their livelihoods, exactly. >> you can't pick and choose which ones you want and say, oh, history was beautiful. we helped the slaves. we did this. we are just a glamorous people. no, you killed people, you massacred people. you took people from their homes. and, like, that's the hard truth. it hurts. it hurts, it really does, because people still have wounds. like the ocoee massacre, you have the great grandchildren surviving, recalling the times, it's trauma. we have to hold as a nation, but we can't do that if they don't know -- and if they don't acknowledge the past, history is gonna keep on repeating so we have to stop now. ♪ ♪ ♪ still ahead tonight, mayor eric adams calls it the issue that will destroy new york

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since the 2020 election, local republican election officials, fueled by conspiracy theories, have attempted to interfere with the voting process. and this year, a lot of them had faced legal consequences. this november, two officials in cochise county, arizona, the state with a long history of disinformation, indicted for their refusal to certify the 2022 election results. ahead of the 2024 election, the effort to counter disinformation in the state involves more than the legal system. one radio station in phoenix is focused particularly on latino voters, who make up nearly a quarter of the electorate in arizona. msnbc's paula ramos has this report. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> they are about to record their morning show called "punto de vista". today's theme is misinformation, disinformation. and we will be dispelling a lot

of the narratives that latino voters are exposed to here. >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: with the state of arizona up for grabs in the 2024 election, the spanish language radio network, campesina, has emerged as a purveyor of truth amid a landscape filled with misinformation. >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: the radio station is also an effective mobilizer for that communities whose relationship with politics has been strained by the past. >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: the station has been a consistent and trusted messenger for decades, ever since it was founded by labor activist cesar chavez in 1983,

it was meant to serve as a voice for the spanish speaking community, including in arizona. this state has been home to some of the country's most anti-immigrant policies, from racial profiling by sheriff arpaio, to the show me your paper's law in 2010, to senate candidate kari lake, who says an invasion is happening at the southern border. >> joe biden is different -- [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: the biden campaign has already launched spanish language radio ads on radio campesina, and other spanish language stations in arizona and nevada, marking what it says is the earliest ever investment by democrats in black and latino radio for a reelection campaign. so far, the trump campaign has focused more on the early primary states. they did not respond to our questions about plans for arizona. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: misinformation and disillusionment can feed off the deeply rooted mistrust that

many latinos feel. and that's why radio campesina is connecting with its audience in unique and traditional ways. >> saturday night in phoenix, arizona. and we are at this rodeo community event that's being hosted by radio campesina. this is so much fun and there is games. this is a political strategy. this is radio campesina's way of building trust with the community. >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: radio campesina knows their community, and it's through outreach events like this -- >> people here are trying to have fun. they are here for the rodeo, to drink, to be with their families. and yet, you all onstage were talking about politics and disinformation. was that strategic? >> yes because we are here to celebrate, enjoy the day. but this is the way you do it, by registering to get out to vote, and understanding that you cannot allow any misinformation to stop you from

voting. >> reporter: we were curious just how deep does that misinformation and mistrust go. >> [speaking in a global language] [speaking in a global language] [speaking in a global language] >> so you still believe trump may have won the election. there's a lot of mistrust in the community. we have been talking to people, there's a lot of different information that they are hearing. can they trust radio campesina? >> they trust the brand. we have been there next to them at the frontline. they need us more than ever. >> reporter: it really is $1 spent for latino voters that countless digital initiatives set up to counter the big lie and drive voter turnout, the

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no place to stay have crossed the southern border and arrived in new york city. some were sent by republican governors, some hoped to land in new york, and others have arrived without knowing where they are. one thing remains true for all of them, new york city is the only major city in the country required by the courts to provide shelter, food, and care to anyone who needs it. for more than a year on the show, we have been tracking the impact of this ongoing wave of migration and the ongoing tension over immigration that transcends partisan lines. this fall, we checked in with officials to see how a city like new york is handling the impossible, providing aid and shelter without enough of either. when it opened in 1924, at the roosevelt hotel was a luxury destination. as new york city's socialites flocked to the art deco

building -- an artist guy lombardo made the hotel famous for his annual rendition of auld lang sign -- >> happy new year everybody. a very happy new year. >> the roosevelt soon earned the nickname the grand dawn of madison avenue. today a top new york city health official is calling it the new ellis island. >> welcome to the new york city asylum seeker arrival center. >> dr. ted long led new york city's response to the covid-19 pandemic. now, alongside new york city immigration commissioner manny castro, long is dealing with a crisis of a different kind, finding shelter for more than 140,000 migrants who have arrived in new york city in the past year and a half. what exactly is happening here? what is this area? >> when people come into the arrival center we immediately want to give you a place to sit, give your meal, make sure your

kids are intended to. and you come up, here and you register. your registration is what's your name and how big your family's. as rooms become available new york city we know who can get placed there immediately. >> under the chandeliers in the main lobby where new yorkers once hobnobbed, immigrants now wait to be registered. they are exhausted. they are worried. many have made dangerous treks to get here. and now they need a place to stay. >> [speaking in a global language] >> [speaking in a global language] >> the number of rooms we have

available across new york city at this given moment is zero. that's why we have so many people in the lobby. >> none of these people have a place to stay tonight? >> correct. none of them do. and currently, it's not an exaggeration, we have zero rooms across new york city for families with children. >> outside of the hotel, hundreds more wait to be processed. there are no beds available, but a consent decree requires new york city to offer anyone and everyone shelter. >> think about this for a moment, new yorkers. we have a policy in place right now that states you can come from anywhere on the globe, come to new york city, and we have to pay for your food, shelter, clothing, for as long as you want. when does it reach a point where it says it's not sustainable? >> how many today you're getting?

>> there was a day when we got over thousand people. but we are seeing a surge, and that is just, to us it's unsustainable because our city was not set up to manage a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude for this long. >> more than 2. 4 million people have crossed the southern border in the past year. a recent spike brought on, in part, by the end of a covid era policy that turned back migrants at the border. thousands of them are now in new york city. joel hernandez is one of them. like millions of others, hernandez left venezuela to escape food scarcity and poverty. it took him almost four years to make it to the u.s., but when hernandez finally arrived at the southern border last year, he had no idea he would end up in new york. a free bus ticket made the decision for him. >> [speaking in a global language]

>> hernandez now works as a delivery driver in a city he barely knows. >> [speaking in a global language] >> this is the spring of 2022, republican governors have been sending often unsuspecting migrants to liberal cities. using human beings as pawns to exact political revenge and hoping to provoke an anti immigrant backlash. >> they put out policies, self proclaiming, they are sanctuary cities. and they love to promote these liberal ideologies until they

have to live up and apply them. >> this past weekend there was a night when between 11 pm and seven a. m. we had seven unannounced buses from texas arrive overnight. >> with those buses that were sent by the governor? >> no, busses sent by the governor and the cities in texas. >> clearly texas wants to make a point. but what are we to do? let people sleep in the street? >> they always get fake news -- >> this has been a live issue on the presidential campaign trail, where donald trump has been stoking anti immigrant fear for political profit. >> we know they are terrorists. it's a very sad thing for our country. it's poisoning the blood of our country. >> that sort of language has been echoed across the country. >> [speaking in a global language] >> this year even mayor eric adams, a democrat, has been come under fire for rhetoric that critics say is dangerous

for immigrants. >> this issue will destroy new york city. >> adams as further described migrants as financial burdens for new york taxpayers. >> if i raise your taxes because anyone on our globe that wants to come to new york city can stay here forever, and the federal government said it's on our tab, listen, idealism collides with real-ism all the time. the real-ism is, we are out of room. we're out of room. >> i'm the daughter of immigrants. this is an immigrant city. new york city wants to, in theory, welcome immigrants, but the mayor's rhetoric around immigrants, specifically this group of migrants, has been very abrasive in recent months. i understand the frustration in the desire for the federal government to intervene in a more formal capacity. but do you at all worry that the messaging from city hall has not been actually that welcoming to the immigrants

that find themselves here? >> we've been seeing this for over a year, that we need help. we have to say it in a way that people pay attention. >> to guarantee beds for every asylum seeker who comes to new york city, more than 200 new city funded emergency shelters have popped up all over the city. >> most people assume that this is being done by the federal government. we are doing it in new york city. we are hoping that this can be used as a model to be replicated everywhere else in the country. but in the meantime, we can't be the only ones. >> the biden administration is helping. >> we've already delivered over $1 billion in congress appropriated to cities receiving immigrants. >> but new york city officials say it's not nearly enough. the city has already spent more than two billion dollars to house and care for newcomers since the spring of 2022. it is expected to spend 12 billion dollars over three fiscal years. >> they only gave us a little

over 100 million dollars to pay for this. >> in september, the biden administration eased pressure on would-be migrants by offering temporary protective status to more than 470,000 venezuelans already in the u.s.. that status allows them to obtain work permits, but some dhs officials worry this might prompt more migration from elsewhere. in the meantime, everyone else is left in limbo. >> [speaking in a global language] >> every asylum seeker we communicated with says we don't want anything free from new york. we just want to be able to contribute to the city. >> people who call new york city home represent more than 200 nationalities. many came through the southern border, were processed at the roosevelt hotel, and are now the newest new yorkers.

>> this is turkish, right? >> yes, it looks like turkish or ukrainian. because we serve a lot of ukrainians. >> for now the roosevelt hotel is the only arrival center in new york city. the work is hard, but welcoming migrants is a reminder of what has always made america america. ♪ ♪ ♪ we'll be right back. ♪ cargurus. shop.buy.sell.online. liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. oh. [dog barks] no it's just a bunny! only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪

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