again, he blew that george gascon. is he taking the right approach?honest, i know who he is, we are friends. he needs to make it very hard approach. you know i? he's not going to get any cooperation from karen bass, the mayor, a socialist. the l.a. county board of supervisors. we have a police chief in the city of l.a. who said he's not going to cooperate with tom homan. nathan hochman needs to take a hard-line approach because he is surrounded by socialists. >> mike: when you look at the beautiful skyline behind you in sunny los angeles, are people set up with all the migrate crisis and the crime run amok in the great city of los angeles? >> yes. we are sick of it. i haven't told people in the last year, don't come to california. it's not safe, it's not dangerous. we have lost a great quality of life in this great state. it's a beautiful state, but we have democrats who want to destroy, want to socialize. notwithstanding the trump numbers that increase significantly in california. the democrats are in denial. and not listening to the constituents of

los dos casos que el anterior fiscal, george gascon manejÓ como una causa criminal por el doble homicidiol fiscal hoffman seÑala que no solamente hay dos acusados, sino tambiÉn dos vÍctimas. la mamÁ keri menÉndez y el padre josÉ menÉndez, cuyas muertes serÁn analizadas por separado y sin presiones, a pesar de los altos niveles de atenciÓn. >> what i'm actually hoping about the melÉndez cause is that people use that as the springboard to get interested in criminal justice issues. >> ambrosio rodrÍguez, abogado penalis ajeno al caso, opina que el nuevo fiscal de los angeles no estarÍa a favor de una sentencia de los hermanos menÉndez basado en pruebas de un supuesto abuso a manos del padre josÉ menÉndez. >> hay una diferencia entre defensa de persona propia y venganza. ya, y yo creo que la actitud que Él tiene basado en las cosas que he dicho, que Él mucho mÁs cree que esto fue un caso de venganza, no de defensa personal propia. y es una gran diferencia en la ley. >> i hope that he will este fin de semana ana marÍa baralt, prima de eric eloy, expresÓ en redes sociales que el nuevo fiscal de

office amid a voter backlash against what critics saw as soft on crime policies of his predecessor, george gascon violent crime. your predecessor is referred to as a progressive. what does that make you? >> what it makes me is common sense. i reject the extremes. the decarceration which predetermines that certain crimes and certain criminals would not be prosecuted, not withstanding the facts and the law. and the other extreme of mass incarceration. >> reporter: hockman, a republican turned independent vows to operate from what he calls the hard middle, including in his approach to the menendez case, in which the previous d.a. asked a judge to resentence the brothers, who were currently serving sentences of life without parole for the 1989 murders of their parents. >> the pace is expeditious, because we have a january 30th hearing. and i'm reading thousands of pages of confidential prison files. >> reporter: hockman, not tipping his hand as to where he may land on the case. but confirming personnel changes among the teamhat led the resentencing effort. have you removed people who were directly in

los dos casos que el anterior fiscal, george gascon manejÓ como una causa criminal por el doble homicidioer holt. >> look at each case separately which is thee way they actually should be handled. >> el fiscal hoffman seÑala que no solamente hay dos acusados, sino tambiÉn dos vÍctimas. la mamÁ keri menÉndez y el padre josÉ menÉndez, cuyas muertes serÁn analizadas por separado y sin presiones, a pesar de los altos niveles de atenciÓn. >> what i'm actually hoping about the melÉndez cause is that people use that as the springboard to get interested in criminal justice issues. >> ambrosio rodrÍguez, abogado penalista ajeno al caso, opina que el nuevo fiscal de los angeles no estarÍa a favor de una resentencia de los hermanos menÉndez basado en pruebas de un supuesto abuso a manos del padre josÉ menÉndez. >> hay una diferencia entre defensa de persona propia y venganza. ya, y yo creo que la actitud que Él tiene basado en las cosas que he dicho, que Él mucho mÁs cree que esto fue un caso de venganza, no de defensa personal propia. y es una gran diferencia en la ley. >> i hope that he will este

office amid a voter backlash against what critics saw as soft-on-crime policies of his predecessor, george gascondecessor is referred to as a progressive. what does that make you? >> what it makes me is common sense. i reject the extremes of decarceration, which predetermines that certain crimes and certain criminals would not be prosecuted, not withstanding the facts of the law. and also the other extreme of mass incarceration. >> hochman, a republican turned independent, vows to operate from what he calls the hard middle, including in his approach to the menendez case, in which the previous d.a. asked the judge to re-sentence the brothers, who are currently serving sentences of life 1989 murders of their parents. >> we have a january 30th hearing, and i'm reading thousands of pages of confidential prison files. >> reporter: hochman not tipping his hand, but confirming personnel changes among the team that led the re-sentencing effort. >> have you removed people directly involved in the menendez case? >> one of the people is actually no longer -- will no longer be with the office, and i will be

. >> it's remarkable and george gascon was also defeated. horace cooper as californians democrats wright. and with being on schools on the street and it's there in california and whether it's biden and harris italy about a party that's led them down a road. >> the altar woke warriors behind the whole mission to allow an open season on innocent americans. when innocent americans blackburn owner white are asked what should we do they want more law enforcement and they want to greater punishment. enea microeconomics professor would tell you if you want more of a particular human behavior rewarded. if you want less of that behavior sanction it. i am asking the governor of new york to fire alvin bragg. put someone in place who is going to say to people if you thank you can go out on the subway and light a fire and kill it random. this isn't the town to do it. as pointed out in your opening remarks they are at a 25 year high in depths on the subway. coming up from where we've been for nearly 30 years and heading in the wrong direction. new york st

in los angeles welcoming a new tough on crime era as nathan hochman replaces george gascon, who is ae to the country. and manhattan fed up and residents say it is time for alvin bragg to go, as well. after his failed push, latest failure to get daniel penny behind bars. >> the guilt i would have felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do would never be able to live with myself and i'll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed. >> brian: no regrets. is this beginning of the end of woke d.a.s? i hope so. one of the new ones, nathan hockman, joins us now. your thoughts about this case and is america looking to turn the page like they did in los angeles to give you the power? >> you know, it is interesting, any time you do not win a case beyond a reasonable doubt or had lesser included offense for jury to consider because originally they were split on second-degree manslaughter and it played down to criminally negligent homicide and jury acquitted it makes y

san francisco got rid of their radical da and los angeles dismiss george gascon. if new york wants to make a comeback the first step is to get alvin bragg out and have him take his dangerous woke policies with him. second hour of varney just getting started. deroy murdoch is with us this morning. black lives matter outside the courthouse threatening violence, that's not good for new york. >> there was nothing mister penny set on the subway, you are black or any racial slurs. if this had been a black person being choked you wouldn't have heard about it. a -- he would probably be hero, so it is racialized and ugly and we are talking black vigilantism. i'm glad he did what he did. too bad the man died, but he said someone will die today unfriending people who were terrified. he is mentally ill, somebody stepped up and could have gone the other way. stuart: how does you end up with the da like alvin bragg? >> pick him up on a bus. and on fox and friends, brings a law and order approach, and another radical da in los angeles. the crime and the chaos, hopefully put him

. >> reporter: then the los angeles district attorney george gascon said that lyle and erik's sentence prison. >> we're going to recommend to the court that the life without the possibility of parole be removed. >> reporter: but before that could happen, george gascon was voted out of office and the ew d.a., nathan hoffman said, hold on. >> i will do a thorough review of the facts. >> reporter: and after, the brothers menendez will rejoin the great wild world or stay where they are, in their small one. for "dateline" msnbc, i'm keith morrison. >> thanks to keith morrison for that report. >>> and still ahead, what deals are out there at rock-bottom prices and where to shop for them. we'll be right back. prices and r them we'll be right back. and i'm feeling free. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ control is everything to me.♪ and now i'm back in the picture. feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements. skyrizi helped visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining. and with skyrizi, many were in rem

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places in los angeles george gascon seated in san francisco in new york city.> i'm not surprised that the victims did not hear from the president before this. the president hasn't done this in the last four years. look at the families of the afghanistan withdrawal victims. the families when someone who has been murdered by illegal i will grant. the biden administration has more empathies for the criminals than they actually do the victims and their families. and, if you look at what they ran on president biden vs. president trump, president biden said he wants to commute these criminals and do away with capital punishment. but president trump said he believes in capital punishment is for cop killers and one of those that biden commuted was a cop killer. mind you, several of those that now are no longer on death row. actually killed since being in prison, it's not like they are now reformed and doing well. they have killed again while in prison. >> brian: got to keep paying for them. putting them to death and stopping the bleeding. president trump going to put t

remember how california voted on november 5th and that was to get rid of george gascon, the da in losa has spoken so saying basically they want the types of policies donald trump was promising when he won. maria: and you know, you look at california today and it's just not the place that it was just a few years ago. i mean, the big cities like san francisco, los angeles, you see drugs on the street. you see homeless on the street. and you know, citizens are upset. so i don't know, todd, how feel about this but the fact that governor newsom is focused on fighting trump when he just had this incredibly decisive win, winning the popular vote, winning all the swing states, winning deep blue cities or losing them by just a couple of points there, it seems to me that he might want to focus more on rebuilding california instead of fighting trump who is trying to, what, make america great again. >> to your point, $55 billion budget deficit, you might want to put some money toward that and this is an odd way to your point, maria, of trying to run for president in 2028. listen to the language h

when i made my first visit, my foreign political advisor, christoph george gascÓn at the time said tonterlocutor prikhodko, his counterpart, that i had been bitten by a dog, so it would be very kind not to have a dog present. i didn't like them all that much. and then he gave to me a stuffed animal, a dog, and said this one is not going to bite you so maybe he forgot. he's forgotten it um, but if you read this whole story then it's not very probable that he didn't know anything about it i'm writing in my memoir how the situation actually was in sochi. i adopted a brave face, and they said well, as the british royal family says, um, never explain, never complain. i survived the dog didn't bite me. so let's leave it at that but i mean there's no other explanation for it. it's a little a small attempt to test the waters you know how resilient a person is, how strong its power play basically coming up next, more global crisis as rebel forces advance in syria's 13 year long civil war, the staggering human toll of this conflict from up close, we go back to my archive and meet those caught i

. >> you don't want to go george gascÓn ma, please.ys no hip hop was our baby. >> this was our culture this is our music. we created it and then here come the beastie boys. and we were afraid that we were going to lose it you gotta fight for your right to play. and then when we started listening to their music, they really were funky and they could really get busy. so we were like, okay, all right i'll be it. >> i love brass monkey, monkey who? >> we got the bottle beastie boys come out where people will thought would be a pop hip hop group. nah, they was straight hip hop. beastie boys was dope, you know what i mean brass monkey junkie. >> that funky monkey licensed to ill really spread like wildfire and introduced a lot of people to hip hop culture. >> can you give us some definitions of the ls l l l l stands for ladies love, legend and leather. >> long and lean lover of ladies. last of the red hot lovers looking for a little look and learning the one you're liking. just a lot of ls >> the guy's only been talking about yourself. how m

district attorney george gascon.chance for freedom is possible, but the new da nathan hochman is making no promises. >> you have to review thoroughly the facts and the law. >> number four, the chief executive officer of insurance giant unitedhealthcare gunned down in new york city. brian thompson, in town for a conference, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of december 4th outside of the hilton in midtown manhattan. it appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes. on december 9th, the nypd announced 26 year old luigi mangione had been arrested in altoona, pennsylvania, while eating at a mcdonald's. he was in possession of a document criticizing the health care industry. a police official told cnn mangione has been charged with murder, among other counts, in state and federal court. mangione attorney denies his client was involved in the killing. number three, a georgia nursing student murdered on her morning jog 25 minutes into that run, laken riley was killed. >> this community, all of georg

district attorney george gascon. the chance for freedom is possible, but the new da, nathan hochman, is making no promises. >> you have to review thoroughly the facts and the law number four, the chief executive officer of insurance giant unitedhealthcare gunned down in new york city. >> brian thompson, in town for a conference, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of december 4th outside of the hilton in midtown manhattan. >> it appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes on december 9th, the nypd announced 26 year old luigi mangione had been arrested in altoona, pennsylvania, while eating at a mcdonald's. >> he was in possession of a document criticizing the health care industry. a police official told cnn mangione has been charged with murder, among other counts, in state and federal court. mangione attorney denies his client was involved in the killing. number three, a georgia nursing student murdered on her morning jog 25 minutes into that run, laken riley was killed. >> this community, a

district attorney george gascon. the chance for freedom is possible. but the new da nathan hochman is making no promises. >> you got to review thoroughly the facts and the law. >> number four, the chief executive officer of insurance giant unitedhealthcare gunned down in new york city, brian thompson, in town for a conference, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of december 4th outside of the hilton in midtown manhattan. >> it appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes. >> on december 9th, the nypd announced 26 year old luigi mangione had been arrested in altoona, pennsylvania, while eating at a mcdonald's. he was in possession of a document criticizing the health care industry, a police official told cnn. mangione has been charged with murder, among other counts, in state and federal court. mangione attorney denies his client was involved in the killing. number three a georgia nursing student murdered on her morning jog 25 minutes into that run, laken riley was killed. >> this community, all of georgia and the entire country

district attorney george gascon.he chance for freedom is possible, but the new da nathan hochman is making no promises. >> you have to review thoroughly the facts and the law. >> number four, the chief executive officer of insurance giant unitedhealthcare gunned down in new york city. brian thompson, in town for a conference, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of december 4th outside of the hilton in midtown manhattan. >> it appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes. >> on december 9th, the nypd announced 26 year old luigi mangione had been arrested in altoona, pennsylvania, while eating at a mcdonald's. he was in possession of a document criticizing the health care industry. a police official told cnn mangione has been charged with murder, among other counts, in state and federal court. mangione attorney denies his client was involved in the killing. number three, a georgia nursing student murdered on her morning jog 25 minutes into that run, laken riley was killed. >> this community, all

district attorney george gascon. the chance for freedom is possible, but the new da nathan hochman is making no promises. >> you have to review thoroughly the facts and the law. >> number four, the chief executive officer of insurance giant unitedhealthcare gunned down in new york city. brian thompson, in town for a conference, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of december 4th outside of the hilton in midtown manhattan. >> it appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes. >> on december 9th, the nypd announced 26 year old luigi mangione had been arrested in altoona, pennsylvania, while eating at a mcdonald's. he was in possession of a document criticizing the health care industry. a police official told cnn mangione has been charged with murder, among other counts, in state and federal court. mangione attorney denies his client was involved in the killing. number three, a georgia nursing student murdered on her morning jog. 25 minutes into that run, laken riley was killed. >> this community,

and this is it's remarkable because we have george gascon was also defeated. this was it took for me a little bit too long, horace cooper. but, you know, californians, democrats. right. this is not you don't need to be a conservative to want your family to be safe in schools or on the street, or to not want your your neighbors, your fellow state citizens to be sleeping in tents on the street. because this is more than california, right? this is whether it's biden and kamala harris and the crime initiatives. this is really about a party that has led them down a road that nobody really wants in so many states. >> make no mistake, the ultra woke warriors are behind the whole mission to allow an open season on innocent americans. when innocent americans, whether black, brown or white, are asked, what should we do? they want more law enforcement and they want greater punishment. any microeconomics professor will tell you if you want more of a particular human behavior rewarded. if you want less of that behavior, sanction it. i'm asking the governor of new york fire

minted district attorney nathan hochman sounded defeated, soundly defeated, we should say incumbent george gascon last month after his predecessor recommended resentencing and even clemency. nearly 30 years after the brothers were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of their parents. hochman's office is now preparing for a key hearing set for the end of january that could determine the brother's fate. nathan hochman joins us now. thank you for your time this morning. so you've had a little bit of time, a few weeks to review new evidence in this case. the defense lawyers say point to abuse by the boy's father, as well as court documents from the previous trials in the 90s. you said you wanted to go through. given what you've reviewed so far, where do you stand today on supporting the resentencing of the brothers so, pamela, the menendez case is on three different tracks. >> the first track is a habeas track. that's the track where they filed a motion in may of 2023, and they said basically that there's new evidence that should compel a new trial. that track is basically set for a new respon

. >> reporter: then the los angeles district attorney george gascon said loyal and eric's sentence shouldarole be removed. >> reporter: but before that could happen george gascon was voted out of office and the new da, nathan hoffman said, hold on. >> i will do a thorough review of the facts. >> reporter: and after the brothers menendez will rejoin the great wide world or stay where they are in their small one. >> our thanks to "dateline's" keith morrison for bringing us that report. >>> so while the menendez brothers' netflix show was one of the massive streaming hits on the small screen this year, 2024 was also a big year for movies filled with must see blockbustersers, indies and documentaries. joining us to recap, movie critic alyssa wilkinson, she recently released her top ten movies of the year. thanks for joining us. let's start with your big picture thoughts on the year -- in the year in movies as people -- are people fully returning to the theaters now post-pandemic? >> we're getting to numbers that match last year's numbers so it's nothing like pre-pandemic but one thing we have

. >> reporter: but before that could happen, george gascon was voted out of office, and the new d.a., of the facts. >> reporter: and after, the brothers menendez will rejoin the great wide world or stay where they are in their small one. for "dateline nbc," i'm keith morrison. >>> up next as we approach the end of the year, last-minute tax tips to help you keep more of your money or even boost your return for next year. 'm having te getting around but i want to live in my home. i can do it with the help of a barber, personal shopper, an exercise buddy. life's good. when you have a plan. ♪♪ it's payback time. all these years, you've worked hard. you fixed it. you looked after it. when you have a plan. maybe it's time for your home to start taking care of you. we've invested in our home, we've worked on it, we had a whole lot of equity just sitting there, you paid down the mortgage, invested in your home. i guess, you could say, your home owes you. if you're 62 or older and own your home, learn how you could access a portion of your home equity to give you cash. a reverse mortgage can p

el fiscal george gascÓn habÍa pedido una de las dos cosas, que sea un nuevo juicio que subiera una nuevas no estÁn". hay muchas emociones de tristeza, pÉrdida, de frustraciÓn y hasta de ansiedad por todo lo que se nos exige. karla: ¿cuÁl serÍa la principal causa de estrÉs navideÑo? >> una causa que es muy tÍpica en este momento es el gasto de dinero, la parte financiera, los regalos que tenemos que probar. >> todas estas invitaciones sociales, todos los lugares donde tenemos que ir, tambiÉn que te tienes que ver bien, tienes que estar alegre, tienes que estar feliz. todas esas demandas sociales que ponen mucho estrÉs y mucha presiÓn. las redes sociales vendÍa juega un papel importantÍsimo, estas familias perfectas, con el Árbol perfecto, y uno sentirÍa que no se lo merece. >> es que esa comparaciÓn es tan daÑina, por quÉ Él sÍ y yo no? karla: por eso estamos aquÍ, vamos a ayudarlo a aliviar ese sentimiento, poder disfrutar de las fiestas como se debe. >> ten tus realidades claras, con quiÉn quieres pasar esta Época, cuÁles son las cosas importantes de esta vida, tomate tu tiempo para cui