quickly darkened. >> totality. >> reporter: we took off our glasses. >> like, exciting, happy. like, my heartbeating is fast! >> i'm so happy you guys got to experience this. this is so neat. >> reporter: a special and powerful moment that connected all of us. >> my mom always promised me a trip to the moon. this is as close as we get. 1969, watching the first moon landing together. she made it an event that we would never forget. this is for her. >> she is with you today. >> thank you. hi again, everyone, it's 5:00 here in new york, i'm in for nicole wallace. you know, we are 25 days away from the start of donald trump's second administration, the day on which he is promising to

unleash a litany of executive orders. throughout the campaign he made a number of promises that axios has tabulated. here are some of this things he has promised to do, end the war of russian aggression against ukraine, even though the russians unleashed bombs on christmas day, close the u.s./mexico border and unleash the largest deportation plan since president eisenhower. a promise to cut funding to schools that teach critical race theory. even though that is, as you know, not a thing. he promised to cut funding to schools which have vaccine mandates which affects all 50 states because they require certain vaccines for children to enter schools. he promised to freeze drilling and fracking even though u.s. oil production has neared a record high under president biden. and one expert told politico that a president's ability to affect oil and gas production in the near term is not zero but it's pretty close.

he promised to end inflation in its tracks and make life affordable again. a promise that, as you know well, he is already walking back. he told time magazine that, quote, it's hard to bring prices down once they're up. you know, it's very hard. he also promised to circumvent the constitution and end birth right citizenship. >> you promised to end birth right citizenship on day one. is that still your plan? >> yeah, absolutely. >> the 14th amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the united states are citizens. can you get around the 14th amendment with an executive action? >> we'll have to get a change. we'll maybe have to go back to the people, but we have to end it. >> and that, friends, that litany, it is just a small sample of the promises he made and i am setting aside the pardons for the people who attacked the capitol on january 6th, the trump tariff taxes, his deregulatory boom. let's be honest, trump, not a man about the details, but the folks at the heritage foundation, the ones who penned project 2025, they are.

and lucky for the president-elect, a bunch of those folks, they are coming with him to the white house, including russell vought, his budget chief. and he has been busy the past few years. according to two undercover journalists at the center for climate reporting, russell vought has overseen the production of policy pacts, executive orders, and agenda items that would be handed over to the trump administration on day one, which works out well for trump because he can focus on his expanding wish list of things he'd like to do during his second term, taking the panama canal, turning canada and its 41 million citizens into america's 51st state. denmark just announced a military ramp-up for greenland, you've got to wonder why. it is good to see you all.

what a christmas miracle to have the two of you with me anywhere near rockefeller center. so thank you for being with us. those are a lot of promises. i feel like the first thing i learned in parenthood was never to promise because everyone remembers the promises. >> exactly. exactly. unfortunately, parenthood and presidencies, especially with this president, may not be the same. lots of things he promised in the fist term and people didn't hold him accountable for that. at least not his core constituencies. there's the other version of it, when people plan, god laughs. that applies to presidencies too. there's a whole list of things you may plan to do, but it generally is the case that you are doing those things in concert with world events, the wildly unpredictable sprawl of world affairs, and you spend at least as much time reacting as you do being proactive. it's a wish list, but it can't be taken as a one to one

correlation between what will happen in this administration. >> right, that's a good point. susan del percio, some of those things can be done by executive action, but even some of those things require funding which then requires congress. when you talk about mass deportations he can't really do that on his own. he needs a funding mechanism that goes through congress, which means he's going to need republican senators who may be up for re-election to decide that they want to spend billions, maybe trillions of american tax dollars on a mass deportation that i would wager is not actually that popular once in effect. >> i don't think it will get in effect. to carry on the point of the wish list and how -- you know, politicians, whether you're running for governor or president or anything in between, they always say on day one, and i chuckle to myself. >> right. >> but the thing with trump up

is, he doesn't have to get the job done. he just needs enough. so for example, if he starts deporting 1,000 criminals, for example, that's enough of a fig leaf for trump to say, i started my mass deportation. now, it may be 1,000 people in the next six months, but he will use that as job done. he is -- he only needs a little bit of the job to be done so he can get something in motion. now, on prices it's really interesting. because i think someone finally told donald trump that inflation and prices have nothing to do with one another. when one goes down, inflation comes down, the prices that raised stay there. it's just the buying power that changes. so someone's been whispering in his ear about that saying you probably should walk that back. and as far as the other things, the panama canal, who'd he have dinner with the night before he said that? that's what i want to know. he goes on those tangents. >> can i add one thing on the

14th amendment? the 14th amendment provided birth right citizenship after the war because there was a question about the people emancipate at the end of the civil war being citizens. that's why we have that in the constitution. if you can side step that, something consecrated by the blood of 700,000 people who died in the course of that war, there's nothing to stop you from getting around parts of the constitution that you do like. for instance, the second amendment. you can't just pick and choose what parts of the constitution are valid to you. and so if you're saying that you're going to get around the 14th amendment, i'm going to go on a limb and say that's not going to happen and it's nowhere near as easy as he appears to have presented it in his rhetoric. >> if he says it and puts a bill in, for example, doesn't that get him for what he needs? >> for political purposes, yeah. >> if it's about messaging. and julian castro, to the point susan made about the fact that a lot of these proclamations come

from, you know, whoever was in his ear last, it puts democrats -- we've watched it put democrats in a tricky spot where they have to decide what they respond to. they have to decide what bait it is that they take. and they have to be really clear about who it is that they are advocating for. right? so i think about all of these efforts around doge. you don't want to be the ones defending bureaucracy. that isn't the winning message. you want to be the ones defending the services that government provides, the way citizens benefit from the u.s. government. but you see once again the tricky dance that democrats find themselves in. >> well, it really is. one thing is clear -- two things are clear in my mind. first of all, that trump knows what he's doing more now as he enters his second term than he did eight years ago when he was preparing to enter his first term. and secondly, he is going to do

everything that he can to repeal the administrative progress that the biden administration has made on a whole range of issues, whether it's pro-environment, improving our immigration system, making it more fair, humane, protecting people with disabilities. you name it, along a series of different issues on day one they are going to immediately, i think, try and roll back what the biden administration has done where they can. how far they'll get with that, whether they'll trip up over some policies or laws that they have to follow that they don't end up following that will bite them back in court, we'll see. but they will try it. it is going to be important for democrats, though, to have a strategy on messaging and on which pitches they're going to swing at. and i think you see really trump crowd giving democrats a gift because elon musk and these other billionaires are so at the forefront of shaping what looks like is going to be their policy

approach and the politics of it. this is going to be a pro-billionaire, billionaire's first agenda, and democrats have an opportunity when the aca subsidies come up, when the trump tax scheme renewal comes up to push that. i think that's going to resonate be the american people. and if they stick with that messaging, i think that's good for democrats. >> that's funny, i noticed the messaging that julian referenced during this last fight over funding the government where you had minority leader jefferies saying that democrats stood up to, quote, the billionaire boy's club. that has been a part of it. there's that piece of it. there's also the piece of it that's the russell vought's of the world. the people who the first time around perhaps did not understand how they could fully leverage government resources in service of the policies they wanted but, one, they had time in government. then they had time in between the trump administration 1.# and the biden administration now

that trump 2.0 to prepare and learn. so they are coming in armed and ready in a way that they were not the first time around. and that makes it fundmently different. >> that's absolutely true. you know, that was one of the lines you heard during the campaign, first in the biden campaign, then in the harris campaign, where they were saying that these are people who have adapted and learned new skills over the course -- even when you look at, you know, the fact that trump won in 2016. he looked intimidated by that. he looked frightened out of his mind on the verge of the presidency. now not so much. and so contrary -- and at the risk of contradicting myself, the other side of this is that they are likely to be more efficient, likely to be more effective. it also means that there's a higher possibility of overreach. if you can actually attain the things that you say that you're going to do, well, those margins in that election weren't all that big. at some point you throw people off, you know, from the wagon. >> i think that is exactly right. and i think it comes down to who it is that he is listening to in

that inner circle. because i think that there are folk who is understand if you do some of these things, let's use the example of mass deportation, if you were to prioritize folks small in number but who have some type of violent criminal history that there would be widespread public support for that. if you start showing up at workplaces and raiding workplaces and all of a sudden you're messing with america's ag system, you're messing with construction in the united states, if all of a sudden a mom or dad from your kid's school goes missing that you don't have the same type of support for that that you do for what people think it is that they bought. >> that's absolutely true, because we know what trump values most when he's in office and out of office are his poll numbers. so if we start seeing them go down because of these really horrible, mean, just nasty actions, whether it be on mass deportations or other things, i think he will care about that. but what i'm more concerned about trump 2.0 is the things

that he doesn't care about that others do. >> uh-huh, go ahead. >> so whether -- trump up wants to say mass deportation, mass deportation. he may not care what's going on with the department of education, for example, and the cutting that they want to do. oh, you're going to save money, go ahead. i don't care. or, oh, i found a way -- people can figure out there's ways of cutting funding to new york city if you don't like the policies that they're doing when it comes to immigration. and trump says, oh, save money, like i can -- but i don't care what's happening in the city unless some of his billionaire friends speak up. but there are so many things and so many different agencies in the government that work is done that donald trump won't care about. >> mm-hmm. >> and the constituencies won't have a voice in this government with donald trump. and things will start disappearing very quickly. >> when you talk about something, julian castro, like immigration policy, you're talking about someone like steven miller who is very

invested, regardless of whether or not donald trump is. you're talking about someone like tom hollman, who is very invested. so let's talk just a little bit about tom hollman. as you know, he famously co-authored the child separation policy. is promising more of the same by vowing to depart mixed status families. so just to like illustrate for people what i mean when i say a mixed status family, i grew up with a lot of folks like this. mom may not have papers, dad may not have papers, but you have two children who are u.s.-born citizens. they all live in the same home. that is incredibly common. so we are now talking, yes, about some people who may not be documented, but we are also talking, julian, about american citizens. tom hollman sitting down with "the washington post", he defended that abhorrent policy. he blame parents for what they were about to do to their children. he told "the washington post", listen to this, quote, you knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. so you put your family in that

position. i understand the angst and the anger that he is trying to harnness there, but it is fundamentally, to go back to jelani's point about the 14th amendment, un-american, julian. >> it is. and i think that this has a lot to do with them trying to score political points and trying to deliver for the base. i think it's also the -- especially folks like steven miller. i don't expect that particular policy change to get very far, but he also talked about, as you know, reintroducing family separation, family detention centers. i do expect policy changes like that absolutely to happen. and they're going about it, and hollman especially and this bravado and this sense of a mandate that they don't have. we have to remember that family detention and separation were -- family separation was stopped in the trump administration itself

because of the blowback across the political spectrum. and now they're talking about reintroducing this. i think, as you alluded to, that when they actually do it, if they actually try it, that it's going to get a lot of blowback again and that the same thing is going to happen, a they're going to have to back down from that. he's approaching this with a confidence that i don't think is very well placed. they don't have an overwhelming mandate to be cruel again. >> but there is just one thing here, and when you go into that interview, he realizes he doesn't have the resources. they need to do new training. that this will take months and months. they can't even -- he talks about, yes, he wants this horrific policy of separating families. >> he needs a trillion dollars to do it. >> he needs it. it's not going to happen. it's likely not going to happen. we're not going to see national guards going into schools or, you know, waiting for parents to pick up their children because they don't have the resources. which begun puts trump in that situation of he can't get what he has promised done because he

doesn't have the resources, at least not yet. >> jelani, i've been wanting to reach out so you and i could have the conversation i've been wanting to have with you, which is the same question that is now before democrats, which is which balls do you swing at, what do you choose to con front. it's before every single journalist, which is you want to be as accurate and as specific as you can possibly be, but that is extraordinarily difficult with someone who is constantly work shopping policy in real time. so how do you deliver news and information that is accurate when the source of a lot of that information is by definition unclear. >> yeah, i think that we can't afford to chase after every shiny thing. that also allows us to be manipulated as journalists and as news organizations. but the fundamental thing, here's one of the things i think is crucial in circumstances like this, which is explanatory

reporting. so you know, if i were an editor in chief, i would assign someone to do a story on what it would take for mixed status families, what would be the implications of deporting american citizens and what that would open the door up to. how does the federal judiciary view this? what are the legal precedents around this? what we need is a public prepared to understand. and those things are not likely to happen. so the best tool that we have in our tool kit is our ability to explain the complexities of these issues to our audiences. >> because that's such a great point, because whether you're on the democrat or republican side, when you heard about the panama canal, what did you google? can the president of the united states take back the panama canal. you just want to know if it's factual, does he even have the ability to. that's such a great point that

people need to be aware. that's the information that people so desperately need to know if it's even -- you know, what are the facts around the matter. >> i'm going to take that on as an actual assignment. do not go anywhere, the panel is sticking with me. much more on what's in store for us during trump's second term. we'll be right back. us during trump's second term. we'll be right back.

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crt, cutting funding to schools that have vaccine mandates, increasing drilling and fracking. how many of those things do you actually try to do through executive action just to sort of say like we are out here, we are doing something, and how quickly does he realize that, you know, he's going to need to go through congress to get most things done? >> well, you know, they probably realize -- as susan was referencing in tom holman's interview with "the washington post", they probably recognize, at least the legitimately competent ones, that they can't get this done without congressional approval. on some of that they may get congressional approval, because they have numbers right there, at least in the senate. but i think that what they're going to do they're going to huff and puff. he's going to huff and puff on all of these issues. the cabinet secretaries, once they get in place, will start trying to move forward on each

of these as priority items, and beal see, you know, whether they're able to get some of these across the finish line probably within four years you can get some significant new regulations done and also biden administration regulations clawed back. but on a whole bunch of these they're going to trip up over things like the administrative procedure act or other what you would consider mundane laws that if you violate them, in other words, if you don't do your rule making appropriately, you're going to get pushback in court. and those regulations are going to get overturned. we saw that to the biden administration, to the trump up administration, and administrations before that. so i expect that they're only going to get a few of these donees. i don't think that four years from now we're going to be sitting here saying he got all of that stuff tone. a lot of this is the huffing and puffing trump does to look like

progress without any actual progress, like building the wall mexico was going to pay for. >> it comes down to whether or not the checks and balances actually hold, but it also comes down to something the three of us were talking about during the break, which is when american people watch the reality of some of these promises begin to come to fruition, right -- you can hear about something like mass deportation. we can talk about the funding mechanism and whether or not that is done through reconciliation, but there's something different when all of a sudden you see these policies playing out in your own neighborhood. >> oh, absolutely. we were talking about this earlier. the one thing is you can say mass deportation in the abstract is a very different thing when people see their neighbor and their community, the person whose kid played ball with their kid, when you see that person dragged from their home it has a very different kind of resonance. that's a kind of fundamental thing, dynamic in american

society, that goes, you know, back to the abolition days. that's a very difficult thing for people to -- so if we look at that metaphorically, the impact -- look at in 2016 when trump ran saying that he would get rid of roe v. wade and then they actually saw the implications of the dobbs case, which was something they had not thought through at all. and so there are a dozen kind of land mines like that where there are policies that might rhetorically sound effective because the audience cheered when you said it, but the implications are things you aren't prepared to deal with at all. >> for the last several decades, democrats -- here's big difference between democrats and republicans. democrats believed a lot of their problems would be answered if they controlled the government. they looked for answers to get their policies implemented there. for example, if we're talking about vaccinations in schools, you know, eliminating the mandate, democrats would be wise

to get on the ground and in their individual schools saying we want to protect this and build, not in a political way, but in a protect your children way. democrats really need to step up on their grassroots, individual, city council, assembly district races and see that change happen there. i mean, to your point about you don't like to see your neighbor taken away, well if people -- if deportations are questioning starting to happen and we see people knocking on our neighbor's doors, maybe we tell everybody so we all go to the restaurant they own or the hardware store. i mean, you have to develop that community behind whatever you want to protect. and frankly, the republicans were doing a really good job of it. look at book banning. i say flip that script. take all of those policies and start bringing it home where the pushback is real to the elected officials on the ground. >> i just wonder, julian castro, how that plays in a place like

texas. what it actually looks like to bring those fights to the state and local level. >> yeah, i mean, one of the things that happened in the first trump era, including here in texas, was you saw groups like indivisible rise up and anti-assault weapon groups, you know, pro-gun safety groups. after what happened in uvalde, for instance, you saw moms come together in that community and lobby local government and state government to make a change. it's also true change hasn't happened as quickly as you would like, and in some cases not at all on these issues, but we have seen that ground swell of people becoming active. you also have groups like run for something that has successfully help upped hundreds and hundreds of new candidates at every level to pop up and to compete for slots. many of them get elected. so i think it's true that

there's more fatigue and people are tired right now, but as trump starts to overreach, as he starts to do these horrific things, as he starts to attack vulnerable communities, i also believe that you're going to see that ground swell again and that activism. and i agree, i hope that it's not oonl aimed at washington, d.c., but at state capitols and city councils and state school boards and water districts where you can make policy changes. >> i think of the fact that we've had authoritarian experts on who say you keep saying four years or during his first two years, but something you need to understand about autocrats is that there may not be -- i mean, this may become a rolling term if he were to actually reckon with american democracy the way he has talk about. >> i think there are two things here. one, we're talking about this standard politics, which this is not standard politics, but if we

use this for a moment. when we look at figures in the 20st century, the fact they had majorities in congress didn't mean they didn't have meddlesome relationships even in their own party. if you want to google lbj's line about the difference between a caucus and a cactus, you'll laugh when you get the result. but he was talking about the difficulty of dealing with his own caucus. and so it's a little bit of a different situation in that trump has much more control over the republican party than either of them had of the democratic party at time, but politics are still politics. that's not a done deal or a given. the other thought is on authoritarian side of these things, it is absolutely true. which is why for me the institution that, you know, i represent most closely, the media and the press, we have to

be relentless in our audacity and our courage and our willingness to call a thing what it is on its face. and you know, what we to best is educate the public about the nature of the moment that we're in. and i think we have to do that relentlessly without any fear. >> can i say something about jelani's first point, which is we did see during this last fight on the hill a number of republicans who for the first time did not seem terrified by the prospect of having donald trump send in a candidate to one of their primaries, right, who were like willing to say, you want to get rid of the debts, and like if we don't stand for that, then like what to we stand for. and perhaps it's a little too little a little too late, but there does seem to be some muscle memory and some safety in numbers that makes it a slightly different dynamic than it has been before. >> you hit it, safety in

numbers. that was it. but you had 38 republicans who voted no. not all of them for this reason, but mostly as principled, whether you agree with their principles or not, freedom caucus members. who are 100% maga, but they have principles. donald trump tries to force maga and forgets people have principles and they're not necessarily willing to cave to it. he probably couldn't understand how it was those 38 that turned against him spchlt he's not running 38 primaries against these members. it's not going to happen. and the same in the house. i think when you start challenging the -- i mean, i'm sorry, the senate. when you start challenging them too much, both legislative branches, they don't like being bullied. they'll fold on a lot, but not on everything if it means keeping the institution alive. as far as being an authoritarian, to me the challenge, the ultimate challenge and what kept me up at night during the election and still does is what happens when trump takes something to the supreme court. >> mm-hmm. >> and they say no, that is

unconstitutional. and he says, so what? you have no authority to enforce. anything you say is unconstitutional, my word is final, and he breaks with that. for example, he decides to run again. he decides to send the military into community to take people out of their homes for deportation, and they say, no, you can't do that. and he goes, watch me. and he will fire everyone down the ladder, chain of command until someone obeys. and someone always obeys. what will be the pushback then? >> seeing people develop the muscle memory of saying, no, that is a bridge too far. jelani, susan, julian, thank you all. thank you for being with us. coming up, so much uncertainty over the situation in the middle east heading into the new year. a live report from beirut. that is next. a live report from beirut. that is next arthritis symptoms... ...with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok.

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what more do we know about the deaths of these five journalists and the three newborn babies? >> reporter: well, we understand that they were killed when they were spending the night in their vehicle, which as you mentioned, was parked outside a hospital. this is according to sources inside that medical compound. in aftermath footage -- and you're showing some of it there on the screen -- you can clearly see the word press on the vehicle that is charred. it belonged to a gazan television network. now, the idf said that it was targeting palestinian/islamic jihad elements in that part of the gaza strip. that's a claim it didn't back up with evidence. this is when it was asked about that specific incident targeting the vehicle. we were told by medical personnel inside the hospital that one of the dead journalists, that his wife who was in labor when his vehicle was attacked actually gave birth to a baby boy today.

that means the committee to protect journalists is saying that that means that nine gazan journalists have been killed in the last two weeks alone. it brings to 141 the total number of media workers killed since october 7th last year. and alicia, you mentioned the hopes for ceasefire. they are dwindling. a few days ago that deal that we were expecting could materialize to free the hostages and end the war appeared closer when the israeli prime minister said there had been some progress made. but both sides are now accusing the other of introducing new demands, alicia. >> can you talk us through those new demands, your sense as you report out this story of what it would take to get those negotiations back on track? >> reporter: a few weeks ago an israeli source told nbc news that the deal that is being discussed right now would involve three phases, the first and quite crucial phase, of

course, would involve the release of 40 live hostages in exchange for palestinian prisoners. the big sticking point here, alicia, is israeli military withdrawal from gaza. hamas and egypt as well would want the israeli military to withdraw from strategic tactical areas, like the narrow strip of land in the south. it doesn't appear as though the israeli military or government is willing to commit to that. the defense minister of israel was in the corridor area just a few days ago and reiterated that israel would maintain security control of the strip. so this is obviously one of big sticking points. but it does appear right now as though the two sides are once again drifting further apart, alicia. >> hala, when you talk both specifically about this ceasefire deal and then about the region more generally. we've been talking about the

incoming president of the united states, the way in which various groups are bracing for the beginning of a second trump term. in your reporting from the region, what is the belief about the ways in which it changes the contours of dynamics between the united states and middle east? >> it's a good question. i think when it comes to gaza, there are two schools of thought. the first school of thought is, well, donald trump has expressed solidarity with benjamin netanyahu, has told him to finish the job quickly, has posted on social media that there would be hell to pay if civil -- if hostages were not released from gaza, and that therefore this would give free reign to benjamin netanyahu and the israeli military to go in everyone more aggressively in the gaza strip. the other school of thought is that donald trump has said time and again during the campaign

that, you know, he's the president during whose term there's never a conflict and that therefore the government of benjamin netanyahu, which is a hard line right wing government, is going to go all in now so that once donald trump takes office, whatever military objectives they have will be achieved as quickly as possible. so i think it's just a wait and see situation right now when it comes to at least the israeli/gaza conflict. as far as syria is concerned, the takeover and the rebellion in syria pulverize this deeply entrenched dictatorship so quickly that everyone is recalibrating their approach to syria in record time, i think. and that, again, is a wait and see situation when it comes to how these rebels that do have roots with al qaeda will end up transitioning into another government in that country.

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during this year's presidential election. nbc's brian takes a look back. >> in a year where a lot happened, the u.s. economy kept its stride, thanks to a u.s. consumer that got choosier with their dollars. bigtime names in corporate america got pushed back. >> why we not talking about these fast food restaurants going up too? >> fast food chains like mcdonald's, wendy's, and burger king were pressured into offering meal deals to draw shoppers back. shoppers still opened their wallets, spending a report amount of money online over the extended black friday weekend. >> some were on sale, some weren't. we still buy. >> that spending buoyed a u.s. economy that got help from the federal reserve, which cut interest rates for the first time since 2020. >> we don't want the labor market to soften much from here. >> the fed undid some of its post-pandemic rate increases to avoid a spike in unemployment, which tilted up 0.5% since a year ago. the good news, the pace of price increases in the united states

slowed with inflation declining over 2024. now still prices for household staples remain high with the cost of ground beef and eggs up from about a year ago. housing costs are rising too. but many questions face the u.s. consumer going into 2025. >> can you guarantee american families won't pay more? >> i can't guarantee anything. >> prices could rise further under the incoming trump administration's plan to hit america's biggest trade partners with tariffs, leading a charge to import goods could push companies to pass those costs on to consumers, raising the cost of electronics, meat, or even oil. another question, what will happen to tiktok? the supreme court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the ban after to court upheld the law forcing a sale, tiktok could disappear as early as january 19th. >> breaking news, tiktok is getting banned again. is it real, i'm not sure. >> breaking news a massive

global technical outage tied to crowdstrike. >> there was also the, oh, the microsoft outage in july that bricked computers around the world due to a faulty update from security company crowdstrike. and that wasn't the only blackout of the year. in february, at&t had a massive cellphone outage, and in march, meta had problems that disrupted facebook and instagram services. now, it didn't sink any of those companies, but debt piled up for companies that filed for bankruptcy this year. among them, express, tgi fridays, and red lobster. they're just reorganizing, not necessarily gone forever. here's to more cheddar biscuits in 2025 after a busy 2024 for the u.s. consumer. >> talk about something we can all get behind. coming up, beyonce's nfl halftime performance went out with a bang yesterday. we'll have the highlights after a quick break. g yesterday. we'll have the highlights afte a quick break. up

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popular. >> reporter: the musical defied gravity, smashing box office records and turning green and pink into the color combo of the year. >> you're green. >> i am. >> ariana grande and cynthia erivo, costars turned friends for good, seem to be dancing through life with every press appearance. >> we were strange ires. >> that's no lie. >> but now we're besties. >> ride or die. >> it's an extraordinary privilege to be trusted with these rules and to present them. >> i'm very, very grateful that there's space for us to breathe ourselves into these roles, this piece, not to take away from but to grow it and to expand it, yeah. >> reporter: and many fans turned it into a double feature

with gladiator 2, aka glikccked. her costar tima trend that took off in 2024. it was a brat summer thanks to charlie xcx, and a whole year of female powerhouses keeping us entertained. if you're losing sleep over the end of an era -- >> lover you, taylor. >> reporter: -- we got some me education pres sew that was hottogo. and a round of texas hold em from queen bee's first country album. a new ere rar for superstar celine dion, making a comeback after stepping away to battle a rare disease. the real star of the year, moo deng, the baby hippo who stole our hearts. and another pop culture moment for the ages. in case you missed it, beyonce recently named the greatest pop

star of the 21st century by billboard magazine delivered an epic christmas gift in front of a home crowd this past wednesday delivering a spectacular halftime performance from her grammy-nominated cowboy carter live during the houston texans/baltimore ravens game on netflix dubbed the beyonce role. she enlisted artists who sang on the album, including shaboozey, post malone, and last but not least, her 12-year-old daughter blue ivy carter joined her for the show stopping finale. after the show a teaser on social media with the date january 14, 2025. that teaser launched speculation from her fans that the artist may soon be announcing a new tour or a new album. her renaissance act three, perhaps? but you'll have to wait until next year to find out. so mark your calendars. and for those of you who missed

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