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attack with more than 600 sent to prison. >> four out of five people in the last election felt that donald trump had done something wrong. he did. he led an insurrection. >> four years later, the people are trying to say that what people saw with their own eyes didn't really happen. >> for those of us that were there in the capitol, it's going to be quite an emotional experience to be back in that environment on that day. >> meanwhile, president-elect trump and newly re-elected house speaker johnson say they plan to pass what trump called a big, beautiful reconciliation package by the end of april or there abouts. the sweeping package defies senate republicans' two-bill strategy and will require near u themty among republicans.

>> i think my job is to do everything i can to help him achieve success, be a successful president, which in my view means it will be a successful country. we have the same set of objectives. >> and with only 15 days left in the white house, president biden has much on his schedule. tomorrow, he visits new orleans to meet with victims and families of the new year's day terrorist attack. he will then head to los angeles and on thursday, he will travel to italy and meet with the prime minister. in biden's final week in office, he will deliver two major speeches. one on foreign policy, the other, a farewell address. ahead of her meeting with biden, she visited with trump at mar-a-lago. trump hosted the premier of a film about john eastman, who pushed mike pence to reject electors and stop the certification of the 2020 election.

among those in attendance were marco rubio, rudy giuliani and michael flynn. trump praised his former lawyer, insisting eastman was quote, right the whole time. we have reporters and analysts in place covering all of these new developments and we're going to start with van hilliard in west palm beach. what do we know about this gathering at mar-a-lago? >> reporter: it's where the action is going to be on january 6th, tomorrow, but this weekend, the action was here down in palm beach at mar-a-lago. the former president and now president-elect hosting a cadre of election deniers who were instrumental in his efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election. you're seeing some of those individuals. john eastman, lawyer who was indicted in the georgia racketeering indictment that donald trump was included in.

he was the one on january 5th and january 6th who was pressing donald trump that he could tell mike pence, his vice president, that he had the legal ability to reject electors on january 6th and send them back to the states. you also had peter navarro who served four months in jail for denying the january 6th subpoena. also michael flynn. jeffrey hart, the doj official who urged other officials to put out false statements. they were there for a movie screening featuring john eastman. this comes four years after the capitol attack which led to trump's criminal indictment. i want to let you listen to bennie thompson, who was the chairman of the january 6 select committee this morning talking to our colleagues about the event that took place here in

florida. >> obviously, he's trying to rewrite history. we stand by the work of the committee. obviously, the department of justice, who finally decided to move forward, brought a number of indictments and people are in jail an now this president-elect wants to call them patriots. that's so unfortunate. >> reporter: in those remarks last night, donald trump, despite winning this 2024 election and about to be sworn in just two weeks from now, continued to admonish mike pence as former vice president for not rejecting electors four years ago. donald trump continued to defend his actions in the lead up to the certification of joe biden's victory and now welcoming many of those individuals who were not only indicted alongside of him in the aftermath of the january 6th attack and those efforts to overturn the election, but individuals who he has welcomed back into his

circle at a time in which he is about to re-enter the white house. >> thank you so much. right now in washington, local and federal law enforcement are ramping up security ahead of tomorrow's election certification. julie is joins me once again to talk about all of this. let's talk about the big preparations. what's it been like? >> reporter: i think it's impossible not to notice how different the capitol complex looks security wise now than it did four years ago on january 6th, the day where lawmakers meet every four years to certify the election. in 2021, it was an unprecedented day with a riot that temporarily stopped the count, but law yerss are determined for that not to happen again. the fact there is new leadership for capitol police, senate and

sergeant at arms. leadership that can now call the national guard on its own. it took hours for the national guard to show up and help the police officers who were trying to keep rioters away from this building. another thing, more capitol police officers were hired. all now having riot gear. whereas four years ago, just a quarter of them did. and not a single member can object. now that threshold is 20%. one-fifth. that is a change made by the senate rules committee chair, amy klobuchar, who spoke about all of these changes and more earlier today. watch this. >> we have, as you know, a new police chief, increased morale, many hundreds of more officers and we have a plan and strategy in place. that's not to say there aren't threats all the time on members of congress or the capitol, but i feel very strongly that we

have made major shifts. what happened last time where an officer's words haunt me forever on the police line said does anyone have a plan. does anyone have a plan? and the answer from the leadership back then was no. now, we have clear leadership in place. >> reporter: one thing that's perhaps impossible to plan for is the forecast. the snow that we are expecting overnight. with that though, speaker mike johnson urging republicans to get on a plane, make their way to washington today before that starts. i saw a whole lot of salt being put all over the floor to make sure that doesn't happen and lawmakers are able to access this building tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. to certify the election. >> i had raja on in our 1:00 hour. he's already there. he said he wanted to get ahead of things. so good on him. thank you for that. let's bring in joyce vance. former u.s. attorney, professor at the university of alabama law school, and co-host of the

sisters in law podcast. really good friend. let's get to what happened last night because trump, along with a list of his maga cohorts, all gathered at mar-a-lago for the premier of john eastman's new documentary. of course, eastman being one of the more prominent figures in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. this comes two days before the anniversary of january 6th. what message is this sending, joyce? >> this is a clear slap in the face to democracy. i think it suggests that trump has normalized what happened on january 6th and although americans have notoriously short memories, it's important for us to dredge up the feelings of where we were, what we observed and how we felt. we know republicans in the house were outraged by what happened on january 6th in the moment. many of them issued stinging

condemnations of donald trump. so for him to sit in mar-a-lago honoring john eastman, one of the architects of january 6th, someone who failed to honor his legal obligation to uphold the constitution, that speaks volumes about where donald trump as he embarks upon this second presidency. >> let's take a look at the clip from the documentary. here it is. >> he asked me to help design a strategy. one could not have predicted that would subject me to years of lawfare, but i thought it was important to take on that representation. >> was it worth it? >> distorting laws that have been on the books for a long time to find people we don't like because they're saying things that we don't like. and then to use those criminal laws to go after them. that's lawfare on steroids. >> okay. so during last night's event, donald trump took to the stage

to praise eastman and accuse democrats of conducting lawfare against him, but based on what we just saw, is it the other way around? >> absolutely. and this again is donald trump spinning the truth, right? no surprise to any of us this time that there is no concept of truth. that there are alternative truths in donald trump's universe. we all know what happened after the election in 2020. we all remember the phone call that donald trump made begging georgia officials to find him the votes he needed because he had lost the count in that state. and yet here we have donald trump once again claiming through his proxy, john eastman, that it was all lawfare. that it was political attacks. that's simply not the case. the american people spoke. donald trump and his insider circle did not want to listen to the voices of the american people. they took actions that were ante thet cal to our democratic system of government.

now they're trying to normalize it, to act as though it's okay. they need to do that, by the way, to cloak themselves in legal authority for this second term in office. this is a moment for americans to resist that characterization and to push back. >> on friday, donald trump will be sentenced in the new york city hush money case. judge merchan surprised many when he decided to move forward with the sentencing before the inauguration. in your new article, you describe merchan as someone who isn't obeying in advance. what do you mean by that? >> it would have been very easy for judge merchan to hold sentencing in advance until donald trump finishes his four years in office. the district attorney's office certainly gave him the latitude to take that approach. but instead, he's insisted upon going ahead with sentencing. alex, i think that we'll likely see from trump's team, an effort to get that sentencing put off. they may file in both state

courts and try to get the united states supreme court to weigh in, but what judge merchan sees, and it's written into his order, is the importance of finality here. in legal terms, finality means that once donald trump is sentenced and the appellate process is complete, that conviction will stand for all time. and trump has suggested it's important to him to have that conviction, that blemish on his character removed. so by setting the sentencing process in motion, merchan is doing the best he can to make sure that conviction will hold up forever. >> can i ask you were merchan to have waited as you would suggest he do, until after donald trump leaves office, wouldn't donald trump be able to make appeals on his own behalf as high as the supreme court to try to whitewash everything and get his conviction thrown out? so in other words, end up with the same blemish free record? >> i think how it will work is

this. after sentencing, donald trump will have 30 days under new york law to file his appeal. his lawyers will file. sometimes this process can take a year or two. but it should proceed. trump will argue that there can't be an appeal while he's the sitting president and there's not a strong rationale for the courts to accept that position, but it will be an issue of first impression. so there is some chance that a court somewhere will say trump's appeal can't proceed. but the better path and hopefully the one we'll see is that within a year or two, the conviction, the appeal will be finished and there will be finality in that case. as you say, if sentencing were held off for four years, trump, who will pull the levers of power for the next four years, might be able to try and find some way to make it disappear. perhaps an extrajudicial path. >> okay. we'll be talking with you a lot. no doubt about this. thank you so much. so it's not a small price to pay. not to sneeze at so to speak, if

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specifically across kansas, and a lot of those with injuries. here in the city, the plows have been out basically non-stop to try and clean up the roadways. earlier, i rode with the kansas city city manager who's been out taking a shift as a plow driver. >> this is going to be one of the most historic storms kansas city has seen. we haven't seen more than 10 inches in 30 years. we're expecting that today. but we've been out for days. we started pretreating the roads friday, 36 hours in advance of any snowfall or ice to make sure we were as prepared as we could be. >> reporter: driving all morning, didn't get a lot of sleep last night. everyone's asking everyone to stay home, not go out on the roads. they say first responders have gotten stuck trying to respond to a lot of these crashes. one thing that's making that difficult, a lot of power

outages, especially mid-morning, have been popping up in several states. outages by the thousands. crews have been out in full force trying to make sure the power comes back on as quickly as possible given how cold this system is making things across much of the country. back to you. >> dangerous roads, indeed. thank you. new today, congestion pricing in new york city just went into effect a few hours ago, but it did not come without a fight. so, give your four in one on what congestion pricing is and why it's so controversial. >> reporter: hey there, alex. so i'm standing between 61th and 60th where you can see a few of the more than 800 signs for pricing and cameras charging drivers heading into the busiest parts of the city. in full operation despite months of legal challenges and delays. with honking horns at all hours,

it's no wonder new york is the city that never sleeps. but the big apple, famous for its gridlock traffic, could soon look and sound much different. >> two, one. >> reporter: at the stroke of midnight this morning, drivers started paying up for the privilege. part of a first in the nation congestion pricing plan. drivers entering the city from 60th street and below are now forced to pay $9 during peak hours and 2.25 overnight. truck drivers will shell out even more. revenue from the tax will be spent on upgrading the city's public transportation system. >> we have found a path to fine the mta, reduce congestion, and keep millions of dollars in the pockets of our commuters. >> reporter: according to a study out last year, new york has the worst traffic in the country. followed by washington, d.c.,

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tomorrow, president biden will visit new orleans to honor the victims of the deadly terror attack. this is just the first agenda item during biden's very busy final days in office. aaron gillcrist is joining us from the white house. after the attack, what's being done to secure the events ahead? >> reporter: the director of homeland security was asked about the two events, new orleans and the events that are coming up here in d.c. the inauguration as well as the funeral of former president carter coming later this week. i want you to hear a pair of his responses to the questions about

those issues. >> it is a very difficult threat landscape and it is why that we as a community, not just the federal government, but state and local officials, and residents, need to be alert to it and take the precautions necessary. so we took a host of actions to supplant, forgive me, to supplement that which was already in place and we are proceeding accordingly with respect to tomorrow. the certification of the election. the state funeral of former president jimmy carter. the inauguration of president-elect trump and continuing there on. >> reporter: and so you have a couple of special national, or national special security events happening here in d.c. the certification of 2024 election is happening tomorrow at the capitol. we understand that will go on

despite the fact we're expecting half a foot of snow in the d.c. area. we also know that the events around the state funeral for former president carter are supposed to start here in d.c. on tuesday to include the president's remains being carried from the navy memorial here in washington by horse to the u.s. capitol where he will lie in state. so all of these things are things that are of concern and importance. we know again that there will be the funeral on thursday for president carter at the national cathedral here in washington. president biden intended to attend that funeral and give a eulogy for president carter. that's before he leaves for rome. it's a busy couple of days here in the last two weeks of president biden's presidency. he'll head to rome to meet with the pope. excuse me, he'll meet with the pope in vatican city and meet in rome with leaders from italy as we. that's before we anticipate he will give two more speeches according to people familiar with the planning.

one speech on foreign policy to speak about the work this president has done on building alliances around the world and the fact he believes the u.s. is more secure and stronger as a result of the alliances he's helped to solidify or grow in different parts of the world. as well as a second speech that will really, alex, be a farewell address to talk about the future, but also his 50 plus years in public service and the work he believes that he's done for the better of this country. >> yeah. extraordinary. half a century, indeed. thank you for that from the white house. joining me now, molly john fast. fast politics podcast host, "vanity fair" special correspondent and an msnbc contributor. and steph kye. molly, we had president biden giving out those 19 presidential medals of freedom yesterday that included hillary clinton and billionaire donor, george soros. i'm curious about what stands out about those two names in

particular. >> well, this has become a very kind of partisan endeavor and you'll remember that trump honored rush limbaugh. so there's a precedent for this. and there were a lot of people who were honored who were not political. you know, people, or they were sort of, you know, more on the philanthropic side. it did feel political and you'll remember clinton did lose to trump in 2016. so there certainly is a feeling that time is a flat circle. >> interesting on that one. steph, we were listening to aaron report how the president will be delivering two major speeches before he leaves office. one on foreign policy as well as his farewell address to the country. give me a sense of the messages you think the president will send with both of these speeches since his term come to a close. >> i know on the international

speech, we're expecting him to really highlight his efforts to work with ukraine to fight back against russia aggression. we know that he is going to point to some of his successes there. one thing that we're all wondering is whether he decides to address afghanistan, which is of course one of the low points of his presidency, but notable that he is deciding to give one of his final speech addressing the state of the world right now. you look around, there's certainly, it's certainly a world in crisis and we expect him to kind of run through what he has tried to do to alleviate some of these issues. we expect him to address you know, the situation in gaza as well. then in his farewell speech, i think it will be interesting to see what he decides to highlight. how he kind of addresses the shift to a trump administration. one thing i'm noting, i'm looking at this week is just what it's going to be like at as we see the presidents gather to say farewell to jimmy carter. it will be interesting to see all of those former presidents and incoming president, current president, all sitting together

once again and what that's going to look like as we kind of reach the end of biden's presidency. >> yeah. that's going to be very interesting to watch, that's for sure. molly, as we look ahead to tomorrow, january 6th, marking both the certification of donald trump's win and also the anniversary of the attack at the capitol we saw four years ago, do you expect any surprises tomorrow and what are your reflections on the date itself? >> well, i think what is really good is this electoral reform act that was passed that really does mean that these votes will be counted no matter what. taking out any element of will they or won't they, which shouldn't have been there in the first place. that was a smart thing legislators were able to do quickly after the aftermath of january 6th. that is quite good. look, you know, it was really, there was really incredible

reporting in "the new york times" about how meaningful the day was and sort of the repercussions of it. and historically, i think that, you know, look, again, what matters i think the most right now is protecting norms and institutions and that means a peaceful transfer of power tomorrow. which now there are more guardrails for that, which is actually protecting our norms and institutions so in that way, i think that's excellent. >> let me ask you quickly steph about what you wrote about how mike johnson's plans for this mega, big, beautiful bill they're calling it. it's scheduled to be done april, maybe may. is that overly ambitious? is it possible to get it done that timeline? >> i mean, it's going to be an ambitious bill. this does end up being one single package in which they're trying to combine tax cut extensions as well as deal with border security funding. issues that in and of

themselves, each part of this bill would be very difficult for congress to get done. now they're trying to potentially get it done in one single bill. this is going to take significant time. especially you add in the fact that many republicans will include spending cuts. it's unclear how quickly they're going to get this done. >> thank you, ladies. next, new information just released by authorities in the new orleans terrorist attack. be new orleans terrorist attack

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new information and video that's been released about the deadly terror attack in new orleans. the fbi releasing this video of shamsud din jabbar planting the two ieds that didn't detonate. officials also released video he recorded with smart glasses during previous trips to new orleans. the fbi did blur out the faces in this video. >> jabbar made at least two trips to new orleans in the months prior to the attacks. one in october and the other a month later in november. during that time, jabbar using meta glasses, recorded a video as he rode through the french quarter on a bicycle. meta glasses appear to look like regular glasses, but they allow

the user to record videos and photos hand free. >> joining me now is former trump administration security council, senior editor. welcome to you. i'm curious your response to these latest updates that jabbar recorded video during previous trips to new orleans before the attack and that he also traveled overseas last year. >> nice to be with you. based on the latest information coming out about jabbar, it's not surprising to hear that he made at least two trips to new orleans to engage in what we would call preoperational plans of his likely route or target of attack. and now, unlike other like minded people who we've seen for many, many years, he was leveraging a different kind of technology to engage in that kind of activity with these

smart glasses or the meta glasses and that's one way he was able to engage in that. or looks like he was able to engage this that surveillance without setting off any further cause for concern or any unwarranted attention. >> so he becomes susceptible to radicalization obviously and over the past year, there's been a string of deadly terror attacks by isis overseas, moscow, iran, that foiled plot at a taylor swift concert in vienna. what's driving this spike after years of seemingly reduced violent activity? i'm curious how powerful is the islamic state today and potential for more attacks in the u.s. and elsewhere is what in your mind? >> so i was back in government in the mid 2010s between both the obama and the trump administrations and that period of time, the isis threat to the united states and to the west was arguably the country's number one counterterrorism program and a tremendous amount

of effort went into applying as much pressure as this global coalition could, which resulted in the loss of isis' cal fit in iraq and syria. they lost hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves and made it very difficult, the campaign made it very difficult for them to raise funds, but here we are a decade later and the ideology still remains. the organization is no longer the same organization it was, but it's not surprising to see this rash of isis either inspired attacks like the one we had in new orleans or the one from over the summer that could have happened in vienna and the directed or enabled attacks in moscow and iran. this just goes to show how difficult it is to actually defeat terrorist groups. >> there's a new nbc news article that quotes experts that the u.s. is in a perfect storm for radicalization.

it notes the main terror threat in america remains lone actors who are inspired by extremist ideologies who may have no contact with far right groups. what do you think is driving this perfect storm and how hard is it to thwart an individual who's not affiliated with an extremist group? >> we're definitely in a heightened threat environment, but going back to my own career, there have been other similarly very accelerated moments like the one we just went through where it looked like there was a whole combination of threats being directed against the united states. from terrorist groups abroad and people inspired here. so, not sure this is entirely new. it's just coming at a different period of time. but some of the factors that are different now are the impact of social media and mobile communications and encryption and i think we're going to learn more about how that affected jabbar's radicalization and operational planning.

so that's certainly something different now. and isis has been able to despite all the pressure that we talked about, has been able to get that message out through these different social media platforms and technologies. so that's going to be something that groups like isis will continue to use until we come up with other solutions to prevent that propaganda and beliefs from getting out there. >> the perpetrators of the new year's day incident and las vegas were veterans. it was found since 2017, americans with military backwards radicalized at a faster rate than those who have not served. now we're going to make the point here it's not a great number of military veterans, most of whom are loyal and still want to serve their country appropriately, but that said, what is it about this that you think this common thread is that makes them susceptible to

radicalization? >> well, at least with these two most recent examples with both jabbar and liversberger, the more important thing beyond the military background was that their lives were in different circumstances. either from their military service or other things happening around them. that probably opened up the door to the radical believes on these different spectrums that were believing in. >> okay. thank you for weighing in. coming up next, we're going to head west for something that's happening on television tonight that hasn't been done before. appening on television tonight that hasn't been done before watch your step! that's why visionworks makes it simple to schedule an eye exam that works for you. even if you have a big trip to plan around. thanks! i mean, i can see you right now if that's...convenient. visionworks. see the difference. when you live with diabetes,

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hollywood's getting ready for one of its biggest nights. the golden globes get underway in just a few hours. hit movies and tv shows are nominated. among the favorites, wicked and the bear. liz is in los angeles and has more on what we can expect. movies, too, i might add. who are the big favorites? >> there's so much to watch for. of course, will wicked defy gravity? will we say yes, chef, to the bear? there's also a lot about nikki glaser. she says her hope is for everyone to have fun and not take themselves too seriously. >> the official kickoff to hollywood awards season with

tonight's 82nd golden globe awards billed as hollywood's party of the year. >> let's go out with a bang, have a laugh at your expense. >> this year's host, nikki glaser, the first woman to host the show solo and coming off her viral roast of tom brady. >> you have seven rings. >> glaser telling yahoo entertainment that i'm not going to go so hard that anyone's going to be offended, adding she's going to avoid politics and other jokes like the feud with it ends with us costars. the show also coming amid tragic news about the death of white lotus star's husband. the 47-year-old known for co-writing the 2004 film i heart huckabees was found dead at a los angeles home on friday.

plaza had been announced as a presenter. it's unknown now if she'll attend. emilia perez tops the list. other contenders, conclave and the brutalist, about a holocaust survivor trying to build a new life in the u.s. all eyes, also, on wicked. >> come with me. >> what? >> the film by nbc universal up for best comedy or musical, blockbuster achievement and best supporting actress. on the tv side, stiff competition with popular shows all up for coveted golden globes. viola davis and ted danson will get special lifetime achieve m awards and denzel washington is making history as most nominated black actor.

the ceremony takes place in los angeles at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> thank you so much for the preview. we'll be right back. thank you e preview. we'll be right back. things aren. you could use some metamucil. metamucil's psyllium fiber helps keep your digestive system moving. so you can feel lighter and more energetic. metamucil keeps you movin'. and try the 2 week challenge at metamucil.com

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