unfolding in southern california for the palisades fire raging in los angeles. the sights and sounds of jimmy carter's return to washington, d.c. ahead of the state funeral. >> he loved the world better than he found it. when all in starts right now. good evening. i am chris hayes. there is a real-life not metaphorical oligarchy forming around donald trump. it's pretty unprecedented in the u.s. context, at least in the last 100 years. ominous in many respects, but it is a clarifying development for the pro-democracy coalition as he prepares to oppose the second trump administration. i think there is a recent historical parallel that's instructive. the george w. bush years after 9/11. it's easy to forget that before

september 11, bush was not a popular president. he lost the popular vote but won the election in part thanks to his brother's stayed in florida and a republican state court that his daddy helped put together. all that changed on a dime after the attacks on america. days after 9/11, his approval skyrocketed to nearly 90%. everyone decided he was great. brilliant. courageous hero and the country was willing to get behind him. you saw the whole of american society falling in line behind him. from the media to corporate board rooms in the country music charts. in some ways as i look back, and decide experience, there was something clarifying about realizing that you were in the minority at the time where all the powerful people on one side and you were on the other side. that minority which i was part of was convinced that bush and the powerful folk siding with him were wrong and we were

right. history for that out. everyone would come around to that view. by the time he imploded the economy and the great recession after failed social security privatization and the rack, his approval rating bottomed out at 25% and everyone would pretend they had nothing to do with him. he was not the greatest leader since winston churchill. we are witnessing right now a similar moment after trump selection. i have to say not as bad as post-9/11 american let's hope we never have that again for 1 million reasons. there's something clarifying about the trump tech oligarchy coalescing around trump. even before the election the world's richest man elon musk was inseparable to trump and his one-time paypal colleague and fellow south african by birth peter thiel has been a

longtime benefactor to incoming vice president j.d. vance. things shifted into top gear after november. apple ceo tim cook went out of his way to donate $1 million of his personal money to trump's inauguration . unprecedented donation for him. it matches the amount given by amazon and meta and the ceo of uber. amazon's founder jeff bezos has been putting his finger on the scales at the newspaper he owns. "the washington post". last week, a political satirist drew a cartoon lampooning the tech billionaires prostrating before trump. you see a draft of it there. it's kind of funny. that cartoonist ultimately quit her job after the post killed that cartoon and refuse to publish it. the following day it was reported the other part of the pesos umpire, amazon, was paying $40 million to license and stream a documentary about

melania trump. that seems like an insane amount of money but what do i know. then came the announcement from facebook billionaire mark zuckerberg. >> we are going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes. the fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the u.s. we will simplify our content policy and get rid of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse. what started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas. it has gone too far. >> it's gone too far said the founder one the world's biggest social media empires that monetizes your attention and scale to make it incredible fortunes. he is announcing his sending content fact-checking, practice have done for years. he says it's about more free speech. he also just hired a new global

policy director, joel kaplan, a republican effort to who served as bush's deputy chief of staff. a longtime critic of the meta fact checking of political content. he added a new member to the meta-board of directors. dana white pete rose a longtime trump supporter and friend and spoke at the rnc. that hiring did not sit well with one of the facebook employees who criticized it and found the free speech platform deleted their comments according to the reporting. it seems obvious way you make these moves to curry favor with the big guy and his partisans. it's worth recalling my meta had to institute its former fact-checking policy in the first place. it's been written out of history. they didn't do the fact- checking stuff out of nowhere. they didn't because mark zuckerberg woke up and said we should fact check. no. let's remember the history.

they did it because starting in 2016, the platform that zuckerberg founded, facebook, was used to execute an at the end genocide of the minority by the military company of myanmar. tens of thousands of people were murdered in bloody and brutal pole drums. accounts of gang rape. people had to flee, hundreds of thousands left homeless as an in-depth reuters investigation for, the hateful language in the calls for violence that fueled the massacre's were systematically promoted by bad actors. the poisonous post caught the muslim dogs, maggots, and and suggest they be fed to pigs. this was posted on facebook. a united nations investigator said facebook was used to incite violence and hatred against the muslim minority group. the platform had turned into a beast. imagine you treat your product because you realize because of the incitement on your platform spurred on a mass slaughter of

an ethnic minority. i don't know if people remember this but it was big news at the time. he was raked across the coals by senators and hearings them capitol hill. that was when the facebook billionaire realized content moderation was good or at least necessary. it was something he had to reiterate after january 6. not this january 6 but january 6, 2021, when it became obvious that trump and his allies spread election lies and organize rallies that would be a deadly capitol insurrection. after that, meta ban trump into move zuckerberg defended sing trump use their platforms to incite a violent insurrection would is not even a controversial claim he had. here we are and zuckerberg , memory wiping all of that. rolling up back to placate the incoming president? the top factor of disinformation in america today. incoming president who months

ago but that zuckerberg plotted against him and the ceo would, quote, spend the rest of his life in prison if he crossed trump again. do you think that suede zuckerberg? donald trump has a theory. >> do you think he directly respond to the threat you may to him in the past ? >> probably. >> there's a question that zuckerberg and jeff base is and tim cook want to avoid the ire of donald trump. it's only part of the story and we shouldn't view it through that lens. these are billionaires who have class interests. they have empires of the road to preserve. they see an opportunity for cementing a tech oligarchy where leaders favor -- and it exists in other countries. they look at their failure billionaire bro elon musk and it seems to be working for him. why shouldn't it work for them? i think a country ruled by

donald trump and four are 5 billion or tech dudes is dystopian vision that's fundamentally at odds and what most americans would reject. these are the antidemocratic forces of concentrated power and they are lining in the open in front of our faces. they are not pretending. it's chilling but also very clarifying to have them all standing on the same side. michelle goldberg is a columnist for "the new york times" were she wrote about the great capitulation. executive director of a more perfect union and adviser to bernie sanders and they join me now. let me start with you. there is a sense in which the framework for this tends to be they are scared of trump. they are kowtowing and currying favor. i think that's true but also, they are billionaires with a class interest. the biden administration was

quite antagonistic towards tech monopolies. they were in favor of labor rights. they went to war with them on a bunch of stuff. i think these are their politics and material interest. >> you are driving at it. they want something. it isn't just we are billionaires and we want to influence and curry favor with trump. that is true to get certain things. there's three major threats that bond these tech billionaires, stocks have done well, the major seven companies who are doling money out to trump. they want regulators at the security and exchange commission, federal trade commission, federal communications commission who will be friendly to them and do what will be good for big tech. that's number 1 and lena connie and others have been up in their ways they don't like. they want to expand this crypto world. they are into, you see the investments are making into

crypto, and they like the idea that tropical heavy into the approach of crisp dope. a.i. will be replacement of labor. big tech made huge investments into the a.i. world and they need an and man that will be looking upon them as they make those two displaced labor the next few years. >> i feel you can go 20 seconds without somebody shoving a.i. in your face. i will use it when i need it but stopped. >> it's an auger of this garbage role they have in store for us. of things getting worse and worse and more ersatz as they eliminate jobs and make more money. i think he's right about the crypto and a.i. pieces of this. the amount of deregulation, people don't pay close attention to who lena con, but they were extremely aggressive in trying

to regulate industries that are not -- that think that have carte blanche to make the world how they like. they will have that carte blanche. they will not just not have any -- they will have restrictions on content, but they won't have restriction on content that aligns with the right. similarly, we are looking at -- >> censorship is when you tell me to take it down. >> we are facing an enormous speculative bubble in crypto that is going to make a lot of people rich before it makes a lot of people extremely destitute. the scale of it is somewhat overwhelming. when you think of the robber barons of the gilded age and imagine them with this, not more money but this globe spanning technological might

behind them. >> and in the case of musk controlling global politics. faiz, you and michelle are similar vent two cohorts. i would never want to go back to post-9/11 because of the horror and trauma of the tragedy in the aftermath, but that moment, there was a clarity there. you had this feeling of everyone getting behind this and i don't think that's a good idea. i don't think everyone is getting behind it but there is a clarity of find in this which is, i don't think that is the horse i went to ride. that's not my values. donald trump and the maga rain. i think it's clarifying for people that don't feel like they want -- >> my admonition to that in warning about it is donald trump is not president yet. there is a door nine days and

we have this period i feel like democrats have been torn on how to approach trump so i'm giving them favorable light of this and that if you want to do that. i understand that. we have been in the spotlight phase where trump has no responsibility. he has a lot of courtship from people. on day one, that's when the workplace rates start to happen. if tech billionaires want to kowtow to the guy who is destroying labor in america in 1 million different ways and heinously and inhumane ways, that's what you are about to set up. >> trump is best is pundit and not president. the fact-checking team at meta said the recall blindsided by the decision. they said they are now scrambling to figure out if they can survive. there is a bunch of complicated questions about fact-checking which are true and are not reducible into soundbites. it is difficult, but i think

like everyone has forgotten there is reasons they had to come up with something. >> mark zuckerberg is a feather in the wind. in some ways, he is a useful indication of where zeitgeist is because he tries to follow it as slavishly as he possibly can. when this all goes bad, and i think we believe that it will, there is going to be a new incarnation of mark zuckerberg in four years or maybe sooner, adopting, explaining why the times forced him to adopt a new set of politics. >> exactly. michelle goldberg and faiz shakir, thank you. trump's fight to avoid criminal sentencing before inauguration suffered a setback which actually surprised me. lisa rubin will explain what happened and what it means for

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donald trump just lost his latest attempt to wriggle out of his hush money. he filed for emergency staff is scheduled sentencing his lawyers arguing he's protected by presidential immunity. prosecutors said there's no basis for that. he is not president yet. today after hearing from both sides, new york appellate judge

denied the bid for a stay. he is scheduled to be sentenced this friday, 10 days before he takes the oath of office. lisa rubin is a msnbc legal correspondent and she joins me now. the trump argument was, judge merchan said i want to send you. he said i will not give you time or fines or anything, so do not worry. we will not settle the incoming president was something, some burden. some burden we have to solve for a law school exam hypothetical. trump's people argued it should be stayed why? >> for reasons of presidential immunity and twofold. they said the conviction should've been vacated because it was predicated on evidence a came about through his term of office. >> signing the checks in the office. >> conversations with hope hicks, the tweets, they also then tried to apply this sitting president immunity from all prosecutions to the transition period. moving it backwards, applying

this elastic theory of presidential immunity, and that's where the justice of the appellate division today said, what precedent is there for applying presidential immunity to a president and transition? he said there is none. she wasn't satisfied by the. >> we made up this immunity argument before and it won't go in the supreme court so waunakee generating more. >> at some point, the elastic will snap back, and and they have to be careful because at some point the supreme court will say, it may not be in this instance but they will say this is not what we intend to. you are reading the decision far beyond even the breath of this decision. >> it's tuesday night and friday is the day. i refuse to believe it will happen friday. never any legal reason but pure experience. >> -- >> the can appeal to the court

of appeals in new york state and it's the highest court. i guess they can try some federal judge? >> they can try. that's what i thought they were going to do. they had a foundering -- federal appeal on whether should be moved. that is a case that is not right for oral argument. the da has a brief due next week and they could try to hinge it on that and ask the second circuit, federal court of appeals, to stay or issue a writ of mandamus preventing judge merchan from proceeding with this sentencing. if all else fails, they have their friends at the u.s. supreme court. they could try it with them as well. >> rocket docket situation over there. there was legal news i saw and did not understand. i thought of my reading mad lives which is judge aileen cannon in florida who has been extremely favorable to trump in the documents case there, telling the federal government

that jack smith could not issue a report on what trump did. is that even -- how can she do that? >> let's start with the premise that special counsel is required under the regulations to turn in a report at the attorney general at the completion. in the regulations. those are the same regulations that judge cannon founder invalid under the constitution. she dismissed the case on the grounds. last night, trump's lawyers went to judge cannon and said you should stay the release of any special counsel report. hours later they went to the 11th circuit, the federal court of appeals for that area, asked the same thing and judge cannon, without even hearing substantively from the department said i will grant you that and i will temporarily enjoin the department of justice, jack smith's office, and anybody who works with her for those two people from not only releasing the report but

disseminating any information contained in that report. that's an order of extraordinary breadth. i am the 11th circuit. i can't even asked the lawyers at the department of justice to tell me what's in the report privately. >> come on, dude. aileen cannon, doing her thing. i guess it has worked for her so far and we will see if that continues. thank you very much. still ahead. tens of thousands order to evacuate as a dangerous wildfire burns in los angeles. we will bring the latest details. latest details.

president biden is in los angeles but he had to cancel his event because of high winds and a rapidly spreading wildfire. more than 30,000 californians are under an evacuation order as the fire spreads in pacific palisades in los angeles. vice president kamala harris l.a. home is a mile away from that evacuation zone and unknown number of buildings that burned and people have been abandoning cars as they tried to flee. 1200 acres have burned so far and the dangerous winds fueling the fire are expected to get worse overnight. national correspondent jacob soboroff joins man live from pacific palisades. it looks really bad there. how is it going? >> reporter: it is awful. pacific palisades is the neighborhood i was born and raised in.

23,000 people live here. it's a coastal community in the city of los angeles and much of pacific palisades is on fire as i speak to your. what you are looking at is the ridge of will rogers state historic park. it's a beautiful park in between where i am standing in the palisades riviera and the palisades village, the center of town with thousands of people congregate on a daily basis. the fire started in an area that is known to the palisades highlands and that's an area where maybe 500 or 1000 homes. it is very dangerous in a situation like this. one or two roads in and only one or two roads out. there has been gridlock much of the day because of how dry it has been and how little rain we have gotten over the last several months. a wind event is not one we see often in southern california. the santa ana winds blow over the mountains towards the coast. it's like a tinderbox out here.

it's not wildfire in the wilderness. it's the middle of the urban part of the city of los angeles where tens of thousands of people live and are evacuating from as i speak to you, i am watching people in this neighborhood as flames come over this ridge, evacuate from their homes. in this area governor newsom is here at the will rogers state beach area. it's an lapd tactical alert which means all lapd officers are on duty because it's an event unlike one we've seen in recent times in los angeles. >> that looks really bad and i hope you and everyone there stay safe. think you very much. still ahead. the most important lesson republicans learn from trump. one of the biggest threats to democracy . how north carolina republicans refusing to respect the will of the voters. the vot

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yesterday, was january 6, the day when congress certifies the votes. you may have noticed nobody stormed the capitol. no violent attempt to disrupt the transfer of power. kamala harris as president of the sunny carried out or duty to certify the win. some characterize what happened as a glowing example of what it looks like to preserve american democracy. our team lost and we did not riot. true and also kind of unsatisfying. partly because everyone is acting like we dodged a bullet because republicans won't go

and we know democrats are violent sociopaths and there was an violence. the fundamental truth is not changed that the republican party only accepts election results when they win or too often they do that. the problem is not going away. we have a real life example in north carolina where republicans lost down ballot races. josh stein won the gubernatorial race and be dark robinson, you may remember him from his appearances on the nude africa website. he won by nearly 15 points. no one made the republicans -- the guy on the right but they did. jeff jackson an his race to become the state attorney general which is an important position by three points. democratic state supreme court justice allison riggs narrowly defeated a republican challenger and held her place on the bench. in every one of those races, republicans refuse to accept the results. last month, the republican

carolina legislature use the days of his lame-duck super majority, about to be undone, to override a veto and pass a bill stripping power specifically from the incoming democratic governor and attorney general and giving the power to elected republicans. democrats won. people chose democrats and republicans use their super majority to take the power away from democrats and give it to fellow republicans. they are doing a extreme version of the same scheme in the state supreme court race. we head two recounts, they affirm the republican candidate , that guy, lost that race. he decided to dust off the old trump big lie and claim he won anyway citing fraud and improper ballots and suing to overturn results. >> tonight, north carolina's highest court is starting the new year with old business.

jefferson griffin, the republican challenger for the seat on the north carolina supreme court is trying to get the state supreme court to hear his case instead of a federal court. griffin is contesting more than 60,000 ballots from the 2024 election after two recounts showed he lost to democrat allison riggs by fewer than 800 votes. the north carolina board of elections moved the case to u.s. district court because of its implications for federal voting laws. now griffin is trying to move it back to the state's highest court saying it would better understand the specifics of his case. >> i wonder why he wanted it in the state supreme court? because they have a republican majority they may want to expand? a trump-appointed federal judge did that, kicking the case back to the republican-controlled north carolina supreme court. the very court that griffin ran to join and lost. the republican majority in the court blocked the certification of his loss, opening the door to them just flat out stealing

an election the democrats won narrowly but fair and square. do not be fooled for one second. and think republicans attack on democracy over because democrats certified the presidential results. it remains the case that republicans often or too often only accept election results when they win. bob morris a justice in the north carolina supreme court from 1995 until 2004 and left the republican party and is an advocate for fair insecure elections and anne applebaum, historian and author of autocracy in, dictators who want to run the world and a new article in the atlantic about how conspiracy theories are undermining democracy across the globe and they join me now. bob, let me start with you on the specifics of the north carolina case. it's a close race and was an 800 vote margin, 734 votes. it's a bummer to lose but that close. it's a close race. the claim that 60,000 people

voted illegally seems highly dubious to me. the fact the republican supreme court, republican majority will get to select whether or not they choose another republican for the majority also seems sketchy. >> well, first, on the question of whether the north carolina supreme court is going to make the decision, there is an appeal to the fourth circuit on the decision to send it back. we have to wait and see which court ends up with jurisdiction of the case. you have to remember, it's a game plan. you mentioned the things that trump and the republicans learned from 2020 and that is you do not go into court with crazy theories and weak lawyers. this has been teed up before the november election, to go in and challenge certain categories of voters that they arguably, at least according to the complaint, weren't eligible

to vote. on the one hand, you don't want to see writers in the street like we saw on january 6 four years ago, but we also want, if they are legitimate legal questions, to let the court system play out. >> i was talking to the professor at harvard who writes about democratic backsliding. he said this thing that stuck with me. fundamentally, this consensus about this loser conceding and peaceful transfer of power is just a difficult consensus to reform when it gets torn apart. particularly unilaterally. democrats can't make republicans buy into that consensus even if they model the behavior themselves as they did on january 6 yesterday. >> exactly. it's like putting together back again the omelette back into the eggs once you've broken

them. there are two things that bothered me about this. one of them is the court shopping. in other words, the republicans looking for a court that will do what they want it to do. that is something that we know from other countries, when you have very politicized courts, when people no longer trust the court for the judges and they are not sure which is which and they identify which will be on their side, then you have real problems with justice more broadly. you mentioned aileen cannon in a previous segment. she's an interesting example of a judge who is not exactly a conservative justice in the old tradition, i don't know the federalist society, conservatives and originalists him, but a justice who feels her job is there to defend donald trump. that's something we haven't had in the u.s., certainly at the federal level, not for a long time and that a worrying thing

about this. the other piece of it, as you were alluding is the fact that trump has been reelected and he effectively got away with january 6, so he was never punished for inspiring the insurrection or helping to organize it for all the other aspects of the story we know he contributed to, i think that is giving people a sense of impunity. it's something you can do now in america. challenge the results of an election and get away with it. >> in the north carolina, and we've seen at another case, the wisconsin, this sense that if the people choose someone else, they are wrong. north carolina republicans had a bad election night statewide. they didn't have to nominate mark robinson. they probably could've done better. they loss the supreme court race. my sons, and i read local politics there very well.

there is not a ton of handwringing of what did we do wrong? there is this we will move authorities out of the offices to republicans and we will keep fighting. >> well, the strategy was in place. i think this litigation strategy is there in case trump lost north carolina by incredibly close margin. like i said, and a legitimate challenge to an election goes through a court process. that's the way the system is supposed to work. what is troubling to me, to do things, one is the attacks on the election workers and the state board of elections and their staff who have done an incredible job in north carolina in a nonpartisan way. it's fundamentally wrong, i think, to be attacking them and cooking the books on this. the other is they used this political consulting national

company called cole spark tomb mine the voter rolls and come up with 60,000 voters and at least to my knowledge, no single amount of those voters has been proven to have voted illegally. they fit certain categories -- >> purely speculative. i think the parents of one of those candidates is on there. i will make a bold prediction. i feel confident in this, it will turn out to be the case that it was not true that 60,000 voters in knowledgeably voted in north carolina. that is my bold prediction. thank you very much. a day of solemn remembrance as former president jimmy carter lies in state in the u.s. capitol. u.s. capitol. patients who have sensitive teeth but also want whiter teeth they have to make a choice one versus the other. sensodyne clinical white provides two shades whiter teeth as well as providing 24/7 sensitivity protection.

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right now, at this hour, president jimmy carter is lying in state in the capitol rotunda. the capitol will be open through thursday. so people can pay their respects ahead of carter's funeral service at the washington national cathedral. the final journey to the nation's capitol began with a departure ceremony from the carter presidential center in atlanta this morning. his remains were flown on air force one jet from georgia to joint base andrews outside washington, d.c. where he received a 21 gun salute.

there was a procession for president carter that brought him to the u.s. navy memorial and then the u.s. capitol. it was designed to mirror his inaugural parade in 1977. following president carter's funeral on thursday, his remains will be flown back to plains, georgia, his hometown where he lived and where his family will hold a private service and buried next to his wife of 70 plus years, rosalynn carter, at the family peanut farm. >> jimmy carter was a forward- looking president with a vision for the future. consider his establishment of the department of energy in 1977 which anticipated the central role it would play in addressing the climate crisis. his creation of fema in 1979 which enabled our nation to mobilize a national response to

disasters which has helped countless communities rebuild and recover. and his founding of the department of education, later that year, which elevated public education institutions and increased national standards for the education of america's children and future leaders. jimmy carter was that all too rare example of a gifted man who also walks with humility, modesty, and grace. recall the stories from the 1976 campaign about how he slept in the homes of his supporters, to share a meal with them, at their table and to listen what was on their minds.

james earl carter jr. loved our country. he lived his faith. he served the people, and he left the world better than he found it. in the end, jimmy carter's work and those works speak for him. louder than any tribute we can offer. may his life be a lesson for the ages, and a beacon for the future. >> president carter will lie in state until his funeral on thursday. he will be late to rest and plains, georgia. i want to turn back to the wildfires that are raging in california because they're moving quickly. jacob soboroff joins be live from pacific palisades with the

latest. jacob, i have been watching how fast everything is moving and how quickly and panic people are trying to get out of the area. >> reporter: it is horrible. as i mentioned earlier, it's part of the city of los angeles that has 23,000 or so residents. my family for a long time, the entire family was part of that including my brother and wife who live here and have had to evacuate along with thousands of people. you are looking at the ridge line between the palisades riviera and will rogers state historic park. as i mentioned, it's a beautiful park and one that is engulfed in flames at this moment. the wind is blowing in a southwest direction and if it continues to blow in this direction, which it's doing now, it will jump over sunset boulevard where i am standing and going to rustic canyon. if you are watching now, and

have not evacuated from this area yet, get in your cars and go right now. we just watched a car from both sides of that street, that one and that one waiting to leave, this wind is as erratic as i have seen it especially with the dry conditions we have had in southern california. it's no wonder there's a mutual aid situation with not only law enforcement of firefighters around the south carolina -- california region. aircraft fighting it. much of pacific palisades is engulfed in flames as i am speaking. >> firefighters know what they're doing around these things and have a lot of experience and there's a huge amount of manpower. is there a sense of containment or what the status is, how hopeful they are that they can get it controlled so it does not spread for instance across sunset boulevard? >> reporter: part of the issue is, chris, is the wind is

expected to pick up tonight. i have heard reports with gusts ranging from 40, 50, and even 100 miles per hour in some of the reports. that's why the national weather service put out an alert this morning saying life threatening conditions for millions of people in southern california. that's the big concern tonight. overnight, wind gusts that could spread the fire in any direction. the fire started over the ridge and was called the palisades highlands earlier this morning and since then has exploded because the wind has been blowing nonstop. until the wind dies down a we get marine layer that sits over this part of los angeles, i do not see a situation which and meteorologists and other experts, firefighters, don't see where this gets better anytime in the near future. >> folks should be heeding those evacuation messages, if they are getting them. i imagine there's a lot of messages being sent to people locally. we will keep our eyes on that and jacob soboroff will be reporting on it.

stay safe. appreciated. that is all in on this tuesday night. a quick reminder, in a few weeks, my new book the siren's call, how attention became the world's most dangerous resource comes out in the world. i got a physical copy today. i wrote an essay for the "new york times" in the sunday reviews section based on the research i did for the book and it's about boredom, of all things . how avoidance is the silent engine of life and the more disparately you try to avoid boredom the more easily you become bored. i know this firsthand. it's adapted from one of the chapters and i will hit the road for a book tour to talk about it i would love to see you . you can scan the qr code for details on the tour and how to get tickets. you can preorder the book at the same link and it will get to you in january 28 or maybe sooner. alex wagner starts right now. >> we will pick up where you left off with those wildfires.

a wild fire is burning out of control in los angeles and the fast-moving fire is being fueled by a wind storm that has produced gusts of 50, 70 miles per hour as of right now the fire has already burned or than 1300 acres of land with wind speed is expected to peak tonight between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. local time. there is significant fear the fire could continue fire could continue continue to spread and spread rapidly. around 30,000 residents of the pacific palisades and the surrounding areas have already been evacuated. one resident told the l.a. times the fire was moving so quickly that police started yelling for people icto abandon their cars d telling residents to run for your lives. the l.a. times is also reporting firefighters could be heard telling dispatchers over the radio that as many as 100 abandoned vehicles are blocking the road. you can see right here that authorities had to use a bulldozer to move the