geraldo rivera. >> nice to see you, happy new year. >> what easy going into the new year? of energy and a lot of tension through the election, that's over, we come back, the president-elect has picked his team, they picked the speakers and hakeem jeffries says he doesn't seem shook, it's a close margin in the house, they will need republican unity to get much of anything done. your thoughts on heading into january 20th. >> that's a big question, but i think that first of all, let me say the reality of governing and passing laws is going to meet the harshness of the divided government in washington. i mean, it is, to me, inconceivable to think that the president is going to get tax policy, he's going to get immigration, he's going to get energy, all done, tariffs, all done, in one massive bill, they barely got the speaker of the house elected the other day, and that was only because president trump personally lobbied a half a dozen or eight holdouts -- >> i'll let you finish but it's interesting because you've been around and you've covered it and you say as a matter of leg

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and the american people love to complain about it, but they also love to watch. >> geraldo rivera is back in a controversy tonight. rivera drew sharp criticism with his recent television special on devil worship, but today he found himself in a real free for all. >> i get sick. >> and tired of being an uncle tom. >> here, sucking. >> up, trying to be a white. >> go ahead. go ahead. >> no. >> you sit down. >> hey, you got to be kidding. you have got to be, kid. you got a big kid hey, hold. it, hold it! sit down. >> rivera suffered a broken nose, but he says the show will be broadcast later this month in its entirety. >> well, that's not something you know, i would have done, but there was a lot of hypocrisy. one of the major magazines put the picture of geraldo getting hit with a chair on the cover, and the article said, isn't this awful? look what's happened to television. and yet they couldn't wait to use it to sell their own magazine. >> let's go to the audience. all right. i want to speak to you guys. >> you guys. >> over the years. >> broadcasting has deteriorated. and now, in thi

but i really feel like this is like geraldo rivera going to al capone's basement. >> i was going to make capone's vault. i. >> i beat you to it. i beat you to it. to new yorkers. i beat you to it. and, you know, of course, nothing was actually found there. i just feel like folks are letting themselves get blown, you know, sort of make their minds go sort of crazy, and they're just going to be let down at the end. >> of the day. what do most americans think? i mean, are there polls on on the jfk assassination? >> you know. >> there there are. >> there are polls on everything. >> we've been through this over and over and over again. and what's so fascinating to me is that most americans actually believe, you know, that it wasn't just lee harvey oswald acting alone. and we've seen this over and over and over again in the polls. you see it right there, 65% say two or more people in a 2023 poll. that's actually up from 2013. and more than that, that number. i've looked at it throughout the entire history in every single poll taken by gallup, a plurality of americans have always said it was tw