karine: look. i'm not going to speak to a random person -- i don't know who is person is what i can say is look, obviously, matt miller will speak for himself. what i can say is, there is -- there are steps that were taken here that's really important and critical. that started with this president starting a framework that was agreed upon by the world back in may. and that was because of this president. that was because he was able to lay out his thoughts, his thinking on how to move forward with this negotiation. what i said before, this is someone who understands foreign policy as i'm talking about the president. he understands how difficult it is. this was not an easy one. and so he has the experience, was able to get that going, to get that started. so this has been going on for some time. it has. i mean that's just the reality of it. that's the facts of it. have we been working closely with the incoming trump administration, their transition team? yes. we have been very forthcoming about that.

karine: that's not what i said. reporter: it's not president biden and it's not vice president -- karine: i'm regretting this right now. regretting all of this. that's not what i said. i said that -- you asked me about what 2028 is going to look like, between now and then. post this president's tenure. that's not for me to decide. that's not for me to speak to. i could only speak about the here and now and that's why i appreciate this job and what i'm doing right now. reporter: and president biden says that he's not going to be out of sight, out of mind. but isn't that what voters basically said that they wanted? is him gone? karine: so, look, this is a president that has served more than 50 years. who has given all of himself, if you will, right? as a public servant. whether as a senator, as a local elected official, as vice president and now as president. i think anybody who has served that long and does it from their heart and soul, because they believe this country deserves so much more, they believe that the am

do you like karine jean-pierre? >> oh, my gosh. [laughter] >> biggest fan.achel: what do you think of the story, karine jean-pierre saying she has the best team in the business. she posted this on x with a picture of her team. she says here's to the best team in the business. i couldn't do it without you. >> this is called smoking your own product. [laughter] >> this is -- you know, so i covered the white house over much of the past 20 years and i have to say -- and we've had some rough ones. >>> .we've had some okay ones. we've had some really great ones. rachel: kayleigh mcenany. >> one of the best. this team and her in particular has to go -- will go down in history as the most ridiculously, absurdly under -- i mean, completely unbelievable, not -- no credibility. she never knew anything. she didn't pull off that she knew anything. she went out there and faked it every single day and what's really amazing about it is that these people, you know, she pulls this off and she still fails even though she's got the entire press basically in her corner, willing

that's what turn people most off about karine jean-pierre and jen psaki.lly when you're working for joe biden that the toughest job on the planet to make that guy to make his or could look at. teasley with the lowest approval numbers that we sing quite frankly since jimmy carter and richard nixon. two weeks to go watch out for the pardons. thank you for joining us. senator chuck schumer pushed back when asked if he misled americans about biden's cognitive decline. >> we did not. what let's look at president biden. he had amazing record use a patriot. becca did not end there, we have the full tape and you will see it. u.s. steel and nippon steel suing president biden for blocking the deal. a full report on that is next. ♪ as we went on the market. one hour's worth of business. this is a monday morning valley, the dow is up 230 points, that would be a half a percentage point. the nasdaq. strong, 1.7% 347 points. nippon steel is suing president biden over his decision to block the deal, lydia hu joins us from pittsburgh read what grounds are they suing? >> go

a member of the outgoing team is karine jean-pierre, the press secretary for president biden.this on social media -- charlie's beside himself already. [laughter] here's to the best team in the business. i couldn't do do it without you. sort of wonder how she would be without them. rachel: wow. charlie: exactly are. no, she couldn't. guy: and, look, in fairness, when you're doing a tough job, and she has one, and you have that camaraderie, you want to pay tribute to the people you work with. but this sort of has the same vibe as someone on the chicago white sox putting out a team photo and and being, like, what an amazing group -- they lost 121 games in chicago this past season. that's the baseball equivalent of this press if shop. i understand that president biden didn't give them much to work with, right? it's very hard to speak on his behalf and defend him. but with all respect, she is uniquely bad at this job. charlie: and she has the entire press corps almost exclusively behind her. they're doing her work for her, and she still is a complete disaster. rachel: that's why i

i think you've seen it, but let's look at it again. >> reporter: thank you, karine. again -- >> i, well, you know -- >> reporter: -- in the briefing, thank you for, you could have stopped taking the hard questions years ago, and you didn't. so we appreciate it. >> over two years, my friend, this is, let's say, one last dance. i don't know how i'm going to fill my dance card. how will i fill that void without you? [laughter] >> reporter: you tell me. [laughter] you tell me. so -- >> start some rumors many in here, i guess. [laughter] if. >> he's getting red too. stuart: you know, brian, they have a cupid of contentious relationship. but i think that's a nice way to go out. what say you? >> it is. jen psaki, i thought, was very -- there was a lot of sparring there too, i thought it was a classy way to go out, and it was good that she kept on calling on him and vice versa. you know, the it's just a shame there weren't more people who were challenging the administration. and i think that's going to be one of the stories, stuart. i know whatever happens between them, unli

let's bring in bill karins now, firefighters catching a small break with the winds but how does it lookn the days to cocome? >> lester, it's important we get these containment numbers up in the next two to three days. because the santa ana winds will return early next week. this is the lowest the winds have been since the fires erupted two, three days ago. as we go through tomorrow the afternoon, thab they kick up a little bit into the 20 to 30 miles per hour range. that really shouldn't hamper any of the fire fighting efforts. we do expect the santa ana winds to return. strong high pressure comes down from the pacific northwest. this increases the pressure gradient in southern california. that is the santa ana winds, and we think we could get wind gusts in the 40 to 60 mile per hour range monday night into tuesday. now, this isn't 80 to 100 like we just saw. but this still is strong enough to cause significant problems, and also the big climate headline today, we just found out that 2024 was the warmest year ever recorded on planet earth. >> bill karins, thank you so much. > now to the

as karine noted president biden will deliver an address on the state department on the united states position in the world as he hands it off to the incoming administration. the state department, as many of you know, is where president biden delivered his first foreign policy address in february of 2021. it was a very different world then. we were still in the midst of a devastating health and economic crisis. with our alliances fraying and fragile. and our competitors and adversaries on the march growing stronger. the president spoke at that time about the urgency of meeting the challenges of this world in a period of profound transition and change. the post-cold war era had ended. the united states was in a contest for what comes next. economically, technologically and with respect to values and vision for the world. a time of change in transition like that has brought geopolitical turbulence, technological disruption, the pressures of an energy transition and more. we have had a lot thrown at us. but as we pass the baton to our successor. the president will report with confidence

. >>> joining us now is nbc news weather anchor bill karins. this is just beyond description.obviously. how did it get out of control so fast? talk to me about the winds. we haven't talked about how dry it has been. i was not aware it has been so many months without rain. >> yeah, the rainy season begins in november and it hasn't rained. that's why we have gone eight months since significant rain in southern california. we knew this high wind event was going to happen. and that by itself was pretty historic. mammoth, 135. kirkwood, 176 mile-per-hour wind gusts. burbank gusted to 90 miles per l hour. so the wind event itself did significant damage. and throw in the mix, this urban wild fire, and that is why we have this just epic catastrophe, thousands of structures lost. when this is all added up, this will likely end up one of the most destructive wild fires in california history. this is one of the fires we are tracking, the big one is the palisades fire. malibu overnight. the eaton fire exploded. the woodley fire is a smaller one. the hurst fire is about 505 acres just to t

white house press secretary karine jean-pierre says it's the best in the business, her words. secretary of state anthony blinken tells the new york times that he and biden made the right calls on afghanistan, ukraine and gaza. two news items on the president. biden angrily brushed off reporters when questioned about his age, he said is no more world leader than anyone he met in your old didi life. he gave out freedom metals, the recipients included hillary clinton, the radical george soros and the soccer player lionel messi did not want to receive a metal wall and sent no one's looking out for him. two weeks to the inauguration, the first full week of trading at 25. a massive storm that hit 60 million americans. a lot going on monday january the sixth 2025. "varney & company" is about to begin. stuart: i think the song is about me, i'm back to two wonderful weeks of vacation. >> you look relaxed. >> i feel relaxed. it is nice to get back to normal to a schedule of getting on with life. >> this is the week to do that. here we go, congress will count and certify the results of t

nbc's antonia hylton reporting from philadelphia, and nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with me. it just looks cold where you are. but what kind of impact are we seeing from this winter storm. >> reporter: it's a little chilly. thankfully i don't have snow piling up on my neck like i did a little while ago. we are looking at a couple of inches piling up on the ground. in some parts of this region, as much as a foot. in kansas, more than a foot of snow in some cases. if you don't have to be on the roads, necessary errands or a job you have to work for in person today, experts say you might want to avoid going out there and it's even worse if you are planning to travel by plane today, especially if you're in the dmv area, in dallas and missouri, that's where we're seeing a lot of trouble with flights. we're at almost 5,000 delays today, and almost 2,000 cancellations. just here on the ground in the city of philadelphia our team has been here all day, on some of the roads that aren't cleared quite as well, we have seen cars slipping and sliding in some cases. that's what's to expect

joining us now, maggie vespa and bill karins. maggie, let me start with you. see a lot of snow. what are conditions like there now? >> reporter: awful and brutally cold. the snowfall was intense. look at these cars. they clearly have not moved since the snow started. i'm realizing how stupid it was to try to walk through this on television, but here we are. the exact numbers i believed to bill. forecasters say this is probably the largest snowstorm in roughly a decade and cleanup could take days as we're talking about a one-two punch of ice covering the roads, the highways, leading to scenes you just saw on saturday and on sunday, the snow rolled in. again, a foot in some areas or more on top of the ice so dozens of wrecks and injuries on the highways, here in the city, a lot of cars stuck, digging their way out to go to work today. they are asking everyone to stay home. and air travel, it is wreaking havoc at the end of the holiday season. a lot of students trying to get back to campus. people who stayed with family a little longer until the new year are stra

karine jean-pierre is not having it. >> no.fortunate is it's one thing if it's an msnbc talking point where we know a lot of people aren't watching. but it's another one it's influencing policy. we know the biden administration devoted a number of resources to going after what they viewed as the biggest concern, white supremacy. you think there are limited resources when you are allocating that money, those people to look into something that at this point there's not a lot of reason to think is a concern for crime in america. you are taking those resources away from looking into people who likely are going to be terminals, we have no idea who's coming across the border so unfortunately this is the position we are in. >> trace: that's exactly right. go after the parents, not the terrorists. kamala harris leading the pledge of allegiance, watch. >> please join me in pledging allegiance to our flag. i pledge of allegiance to the united states of america and to the republic of which it stands one nation under god indivisible with l

. >> bill karins is tracking the fire threat.ll begin with nbc national climate reporter, chase cain. chase, some of the video we're seeing already really doesn't look good. what do we know? what's happening now? what are officials bracing for? >> reporter: well, some good news kate is the fire that was burning in the hollywood hills, they were able to contain that fire quickly. but that is not the case with the much bigger fire burning in the pacific palisades. it exploded to more than 200 acres in just a matter of minutes. officials are working to quickly evacuate people from homes. they've started shutting off power in the area to make sure there aren't any new fires started by potentially downed power lines. the fire is moving quickly. you mentioned the strong sustained winds with potential of winds gusting to hurricane force. imagine you have these dry conditions. los angeles is in a moderate drought. it's been more than eight months since we've had significant rain here in southern california. you have all this dry brush. y

and nbc news meteorologist bill karins here with me in studio.s start with you out there. pacific palisades is one of the hardest hit communities. that is clear. what are you hearing from people on the ground there today? >> reporter: the sentiment like a bomb went off is absolutely true. you are looking at the frame of a car that has been almost melted into the ground here. this neighborhood as we have been saying and repeated all day long is essentially gone. there is fairly a homestanding. there is one home out of the dozens in the neighborhood that we are in. we spoke to one of the homeowners not too long ago in this neighborhood. he didn't have a chance to grab anything. had to leave everything and go and was coming back to find absolutely nothing left. it is heartbreaking here for so many who are returning to just ash and rubble. this neighborhood again, i mean, we walked through. there is barely anything. you don't hear -- eerie, there is no sign of life. you don't hear birds chirping, insects crawling. everything is bombed out and gone. t

nbc meteorologist bill karins is here to give us an update on the conditions firefighters will likely be up against. what can you tell us, bill? >> we can put the shot back up, and kind of give everyone a lay of the land of what you're looking at here. alta dina is at the bottom of the hill, with the fire camera burning below it. the fire burned up the hill. we're at the highest of elevations here. it's breezy today, not the extreme wind storm we went when the structures were lost. today would be a dangerous fire day. firefighters would be on alert. we have these fires that were, you know, started a couple of days ago. they're still scattered around, still trying to get those flames out. if new fires form, we could get more of a rapid fire spread, fire behavior, that would be called extreme. we have red flag warnings for today and tomorrow. it's not just the l.a. area. obviously that's where we have the active fire. all the way down here outside of san diego, we have high wind warnings too. we're on guard in case anything new happens. zooming into the l.a. area. we have two big fires,

. >> nbc news correspondent steve patterson is in pacific palisades and meteorologist bill karins ise, let's start with you. what are you seeing? give us a sense where things stand right now. >> reporter: i wanted to show you this. you're seeing a fire hydrant gushing out water. this is one of the problems fireghters are dealing with. we don't know how this happened. as you know, firefighters need all the water pressure they can get. one of the things they'll do is try to seal this up. meanwhile, the fire fighting effort continues. hot spots is all over. this is the pacific palisades. it's been wrecked, destroyed. this neighborhood completed bombed out. it appears as if a bomb has gone off as officials have said. major fire fighting efforts continue. we see smoldering in every direction we look. there's another fire burning in the hills. fires are burning in los angeles. i have a fire captain here. your name so. >> adam. >> nice to meet you, sir. how is the fire fighting effort going? >> right now it's still red flag conditions. we have active firefighters throughout the pacific pali

. >> let's go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. get us up to date with these winds? >> un until now, the fires had the upper hand. ever since it started yesterday, the winds were in the 40 to 60-mile-per-hour range. last night, they were 80 to 100. now they're beginning to drop off. still extremely difficult for firefighters. but as we head into the afternoon and evening, the wind should go down to 10 to 15 to 20 miles per hour. they're going to get the big planes back up, the helicopters, the super scoopers. and the firefighters are actually going to start to fight back on this blaze. and hopefully we'll lose a lot less homes than we have already. there's four big fires burning within the l.a. proper area. the one we saw yesterday and tracked last night, this is the one that has taken the most structures. the palisades fire as it burned toward malibu. the eaton fire has taken structures with it. woodley fire is smaller. they're trying to get containment on that. the hurst fire has grown quickly. this fire is the problem, the eaton fire. they're taking the fire and b

bill karins, thank you very much. joining us now, cal fire public information officer colin noyce, thank you very much for joining us, sir. let me ask you, we've seen a lot of the phos-chek that's that pink stuff dropped on the mountainside, dropped in some of the canyons. explain exactly what firefighters are trying to do ahead of these potentially dangerous winds. >> yeah. >> so when it comes to the fire retardant that has been dropped on the ridges currently that is still in place and that will prevent any further spread or at least slow further spread of any fire outside of the current perimeter. >> as far as what we're doing to be prepared into the future for this, this ongoing wind event until wednesday evening, we have thousands of firefighters here at on the palisades fire. over 5000 of them currently, and numerous fire engines, numerous air resources to not only continue the suppression of the palisades fire to our ultimate goal of 100%, but also in the case where there's new starts, we can respond out to tho

nbc meteorologist bill karins.ctly where the biggest threat is and what we're expecting tonight. >> yeah, this is la county. >> this is outside of the downtown area. so that's why we're not talking about la city proper, the downtown area like the last time. and we're halfway through this event. it's about a 48 hour event. we're 24 hours in. but last night the winds kicked up. we had those gusts of 50 to 61. case 72, but no new fires have started. we have visible satellite imagery. we could see if there's any smoke plumes. there's none. right now. the air quality actually has been as good as it has been in the last week in la. so, you know, knock on wood or whatever else, say some prayers if we just can get through until tomorrow at this time, then we should be in the clear. the winds will be much lighter now, of course, we still want it to rain eventually, but at least for this wind event will be good. so these are the particularly dangerous situation areas that we're dealing with here. north of the 101 especially.

and then you get issues, without a doubt. >> bill karins, thank you for that update. let's go to new york now, where this morning, president elect donald trump was sentenced to a penalty free unconditional discharge. that was his sentence for his hush money convictions. nbc's lisa rubin was in the courtroom for us. give us a sense of what it was like in there, lisa, and walk us through judge marchand's decision. >> well, chris, it was totally surreal to be there because many people, me included, anticipated that this day would never come, particularly after donald trump won reelection to the presidency in november with 312 electoral votes. a fact that he reminded judge of when he had the opportunity to speak. but in terms of imposing the sentence of unconditional discharge, which mershone did today, that's a sentence that carries no penalty associated with it whatsoever. no fine, no jail time, not even community service or probation. judge merchan said that, look, the situation presented a number of aggravating factors, including the willfulness of donald trump's cond

joining me now is nbc news meteorological meteorologist bill karins.hat's going to happen with these winds of the santa ana winds going to really start up. and are they going to reach gusts as high as 100 miles an hour as they did last week? >> yeah. it's important to note this is not last week's event. last week was like extreme like off the charts. this is a more typical santa ana wind event. can still be extremely dangerous. we still could have new fires. we could have structures that are threatened. we could have new evacuation orders. we just don't know yet if that's going to happen. so what they did this weekend was try to prevent the fires that have already formed from spreading and getting as much containment on those and getting as many hotspots out as possible. so we got 10 million people that are in these red flag warnings. red flag warnings mean that conditions are favorable for fires if they do form the spread. but what's different about this one is now we're put this up to a particularly dangerous situation from the national weather servi

us now, nbc news correspondent dana griffin who is in los angeles, and nbc news meteorologist bill karinse with us in studio. dana, what are firefighters doing right now to prepare for this new round of high wind? >> zinhle, we are in the palisades, and exactly what you see behind me is part of that effort to prevent hot spots from flaring up, once those winds kick back up, firefighters are spraying homes that are flaring up again so they won't be carried to homes that have not burned down. fire officials are combing through the area, trying to ut off the gas lines in certain communities because some of those lines have been opened. we have seen over several days, the efforts where the fire has started. they are reminding people they won't be able to come into the areas because it's just not safe yet. >> thank you. bill, let me go over to you. you were telling us off camera, it's not like the wind gusts are going to be everywhere. but they are definitely going to peak in the middle of the night. walk us through. >> this is not a repeat of last week. 80, 100 mile per hour winds, right thro

karine badawi was a fresh man at the university of alabama.class mates remember him as kind and ambitious and on facebook his father said it is with great sadness, that i announce the death of my son. the president of the university where he had started, i grieve with family and friends in their loss and he asked people to take a moment to play for those impacted —— pray for those impacted —— pray for those impacted. another student was 21 and he had been a student at archbishop shaw high school, which said with great sorrow, we share that uber was killed in is in act of violence and he was a bright and promising young man. we ask the entire school family to pray for the repose of his soul. and the most recent name that we have had is matthew tenedorio, he was 25 and his family have also set up a page on the go fund me web site in memory of him. describing him as a graduate of pearl river high school in mississippi, about 60 miles north of new orleans. he was an audio—visual technician for the caesars super bowl. he was described as having a l

hello i'm karin giannone.art in la — where police say scammers and looters have been taking advantage of devastating wildfires — with one man dressing as a firefighter to try to burgle a home. 16 people have died in the fires, and 16 are missing — and with more strong winds forecast, the threat remains high. one of four fires burning through los angeles, the kenneth fire, is now 100% contained — meaning they have stopped it spreading. but firefighters are trying to prevent the biggest of the wildfires — palisades — from reaching the affluent suburb of brentwood. they are trying to stop the devastation already seen in the palisades village — this video shows the before and after in the upscale shopping area. on the left is what it looked like in march— and on the right is how it looks now. here's emma vardy with the latest from los angeles the race to stay ahead of the deadly fires enters a sixth day. helicopters fly just above the smoke. below, the flames rage. butjust as progress is made, other areas ignite.

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everyone knows tomas he for sure -- >> we will take you live to white house briefing where karine jean-pierre will be fielding questions from reporters live on c-span 3. >> the president and first lady will grieve with the families and community members impacted by the tragic attack on january 1st. they will meet with local and state officials on the ground. the president has been extremely focused on ensuring that everything possible be done to complete this investigation and ensure the safety of the community and provide any and all federal assistance to support state and local officials. since wednesday, the president has held regular meetings with his homeland security team to receive the latest information on the investigation and convey the need to do everything possible to complete this investigation and keep the american people safe. the president has also spoken to the mayor of new orleans and the governor of louisiana to offer support to both the state and local officials, whose teams are in close touch with their teams, and as the president said earlier today, you heard in moments

we expect karine jean-pierre to gaggle aboard air force one. >> brian: thanks. >> lawrence: if he wanted to be secretary of state, he should never have run for president. he is letting us know what is happening, i understand election is over, he is still president right now. >> brian: his philosophy is george constanza, whatever he said, we should do opposite, remember opposite day. then we would have successful foreign policy and he would, too. blinken said i have no regrets about withdrawal from afghanistan. is he an idiot? no one should take a bow after he pulled out of iraq. in comes yiern to iraq and they have not left and we had to go back in and had presence there. craziest thing i. you would think that is his exit interview. the timeline of new orleans, fbi making up ground after giving terrible information. they got the grown-ups in and explained what happened. during the bush years into obama years, we were all over this terrorist. if there was somebody who traveled to egypt and went to a terr terrorist section of egypt, that is where al qaeda was born, stayed a mongst, they wo

i asked karine jean-pierre in the briefing yesterday if the president still feels white supremacy is the -- >> [inaudible] >> thank you, everybody. >> -- the greatest terrorist threat to the united states? >> reporter: i asked the same question of president biden on thursday when he arrived back at the white house. he also didn't answer that question. so we are minutes away to president biden awarding 19 people the presidential medal of freedom. we'll see if the president speaks about the rampage in new orleans and any other news that might come out of the event, but certainly a star-studded event at the white house. a lot of big namesful. molly: absolutely. and james goodall as well -- jane goodall as well. lucas tomlinson, thank you for keeping an eye on it. griff? ♪ griff: president-elect trump is spending the weekend at mar-a-lago after successfully if pressuring his party to preserve pike johnson's speakership. -- mike johnson's speakership. nate foy has more. >> reporter: hey, griff. president-elect donald trump and his team are working to fill out the leadership apparatus in w

karine jean-pierre got questions about it at the podium and she was like, and she said the president while he disagrees with the ruling, he respects the supreme court has this authority. there are people out there who will say why? as in the game change? i think it's change but not in that respect. if we start ignoring the laws, the loss agreements will have about how this is how we operate and if we ignore the laws and allow the loss to bully discarded and ignored, there is nothing holding our society together. laws can be changed and sometimes laws are wrong. segregation used to be legal. people who looked like michael and i and the laws were wrong so we had to changed them and they needed to be challenged. the answer is not disregarding but the incoming president of the u.s. of america believes the answer is to disregard. he does not believe the answer is to abide by. >> i guess it depends on if he likes the ruling. he's in favor of the immunity ruling issued by the supreme court and deploys it in every possible way including civil cases pending against him. i think he picks and c

as the biden team winds down, we've heard from two senior officials, ca karine jean-pierre and told theme's to the best in the business. i couldn't have done it without you". you have to have credibility, kjp has none. she assured reporters that biden would not pardon his son hunter, he did. biden had done more to secure the border than anyone else she said, that's non-sen. she called it a cheap fake when he wandered off. she had a tough job defending a failing president. but to say her team was the best in the business, that's a very big stretch. then there's antony blinken, america's top diplomat and sat with a lengthy interview with the new york times. on the afghanistan debacle, he said biden ended the longest war in our history. come on, man, we were run out of town. on rush cha invading ukraine, he said he and biden navigated the situation to keep us away from direct conflict with russia. does he think russia would have invaded if we had not shown weakness in afghanistan? in gaza, he said the administration wanted to make sure the conflict would from the spread and it did. biden's

press secretary karine jean-pierre will be joined by national security advisor jake sullivan.itor the briefing throughout the hour, and if they get to the point of asking some pertinent questions now, not only about the fire situation which we know is paramount because, you know, fema is part of that. they're part of that leadership. but all the rest of the things that are going around the world with just six days until inauguration day. we'll tap in if we need to, and we'll watch it stem to stern and bring you the headlines. one week away from inauguration day, and less if we're counting by hours, which i am. president trump is sending a message of unity to house republicans ahead of his new administration, and vice president j.d. vance spoke with fox news on sunday for the first post election television interview about how trump is preparing to clean up the quote/unquote dumpster fire left by the biden administration. and first, we a go to west palm beach, florida. >> it's been a busy weekend with president-elect trump in mar-a-lago, and at his estate, and somewhere behind t

outgoing white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre, she struggled to answer question, who's goingemocrats when biden leaves office. watch her response. >> reporter: so -- [laughter] a week from now it's all over. >> yes. >> reporter: between next monday and 2028 -- >> 2028? >> reporter: who's the leader of democratic party? >> oh, my goodness. wow. that is, honestly, that is for people much smarter than i, to make that assessment, that decision. i do not have a -- i cannot predict the future, so that is not something that i'm going to do from here. >> reporter: so no leader of the party. >> that's not what i said. >> reporter: well, it's not president biden and it's not vice president -- >> i'm regretting this right now. [laughter] stuart: why don't you chuck your idea into the ring. who's going to lead the democrats? >> this is a trick question. the donors. that's who's going to the lead. she said somebody smarter than her? no, not smarter, it's somebody richer than her. that that's who picked the last nominee. that's who bumped biden off the ticket. apparently, the democrats tho

press secretary karine jean-pierre just wrapped up her daily press conference, and her message to reportersrescribed's decision to block the u.s. steel and nippon steel merger was not, according to her, about slighting japan, one of the u.s.' biggest allies, but about keeping a business of great national security importance in u.s. control and and u.s. hands. president-elect trump has also said he would have made the same decision, but as u.s. steel now warns mass layoffs will follow and the stock is tanking 5%, what happens next? grady trimble is live at the white house with more on the decision. grady. >> reporter: hey, liz. president biden says he is blocking this deal because he says steel production that powers u.s. infrastructure, the u.s. auto industry and, importantly, defense should be controlled by a u.s. company. here's part of the statement he put out in this morning announcing that he's rejecting the deal. he says, this acquisition would place one of america's largest steel producers under foreign control and create risk for our national security and our critical supply chains.

>> well, karine jean-pierre is right, stu, in the sense that we have not seen joe biden this alive atduring his four years in office. i mean, he's really been active and really busy like we've never if seen since 2021. but, of course, to your point, the goal so to harm the country in the midwest vindictive fashion possible -- in the most vindictive fashion if possible. why else would they be selling off border wall for pennies on the dollar unless it was out of spite and to hurt trump in why else would they ban offshore drilling knowing trump wants to, on day one, drill, baby, drill? why else would he commute the death sentences of, what, 37 of 40 inmates on death row? i mean, this is so small,s it is so petty, it does nothing for the well-being of the unite. zero class, zero integrity, and joe biden will exit as one of the most unpopular presidents we have ever had at least since carter or nixon. stuart: joe, i want to bring you back in just a couple of minutes. i've got another issue for you. meta just announced major changes to its censorship policy. that's what i'm going the call

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. >> with a week to go karine jean-pierre defended biden from the argument that voters want to see himat long and does it from their heart and soul because they believe this country deserves so much more, i think deserves some respect. >> critics note biden is leaving with war in ukraine and the middle east in china on the rise. in fact, today jake sullivan acknowledged when it comes to china's threat from artificial intelligence, it is emerging. bret? >> bret: mike emanuel live on the north lawn. mike, thank you. let's bring in fox news chief political analyst brit hume. brit, good evening. you heard mike's report there. your thoughts on the legacy that president biden leaves behind when it comes to foreign policy. >> well, he made some pretty extravagant statements about how much better off we are all around the world. some of what he said is true there are strengthened alliances in asia groups u.s.a. part or combined bulwark against china's expansionist ambitions around the rest of the world much more troubling picture. the withdrawal from afghanistan is entirely reasonable to say e

because for all of the people in the media media admitting they got it wrong, that they admitted what karinere was saying -- howard: sharp as a tack. >> that is so interesting because a supermajority of the american people and a majority of democrats as far back as a year ago, months before the debate performance, said in the polls that they had serious questions about joe biden's ability to continue doing the job. so if most of the american people saw this, why didn't the media see it? that's the question. howard: it was democrats who ultimately pushed biden out. liz, do the media have to take some responsibility on this? because they kept quoting biden aides and associates and dems as saying, oh, he's at the top of his game, and that was flatly untrue. >> by july of last year, you saw chuck todd say it was an open secret among many of the cabinet members for a couple of years, jonathan martin of politico came out and said the same thing, in july of 2024, well after we started to see the exhibitions of these behaviors and this mentalling cognitive decline or very obvious slowdown. but, yes,

i mean, we have watched karine jean-pierre day after day, has she ever admitted joe biden has a madee biden done that? and then there are politicians who claim everything they do is, quote, perfect. [laughter] jimmy carter was willing to admit that he wasn't perfect. and he wasn't perfect. he made some real mistakes, there's no question about it. but i think we can do a little bit more with politicians in our time who take a step back and look at the direction they're on and kind of figure out maybe they should go in a different direction. paul: kim, the current president, president biden, when paying tribute to president carter, spoke about his character and integrity. and there's no question in my mind that when one of the reasons he won was because he was, he was overtly religious and tried to live that way. and i remember the scandal in 1976 when he merely admitted in an interview, he said i've had lust in my heart, in my heart, and that was a scandal at the time. [laughter] so i think that has stuck with americans from his presidency whenever you think about the policies. >> yea

joining us now, nbc news meteorologist bill karins. bill, larry give me a little bit of the forecast. you are the expert, tell us what is happening and what to expect. >> i am sorry for what you are having to watch and see and everything else. it is hard for a lot of people and there's people out there watching us that have evacuated and are hoping for a glimpse to see if their home is still standing and we will continue to bring you all those pictures. up to this point, the fire has been the wind. the winds have been harsh. we had a wind gust kirkwood, high atop a mountain, 176 miles per hour. mammoth mountain, had a cost of 135 miles per hour. even burbank airport, we had a cost of 90 miles per hour. this was off the charts for winds and let alone a fire at the same time. the two big places, the palisades, which is now up to 12,000 acres, and to be eaten fire, these are the two huge ones. i have heard the woodley fire, they've gotten a good deal of containment. the first fire continues to expand. the eaten fire into the palisades fir

apparently karine jean-pierre is. >> he's going to have an opportunity to speak to all of you. you're going to hear from him many times in the next 17 days about his thoughts about his presidency. i'm going to let him speak for himself. he's had a historic presidency. he's done more in one term than most presidents have been able to do in two terms. and that is a that is just the facts. that is what we've been able to see. >> unfortunately for biden, 17 days won't be nearly enough time to erase the historic cover up of the president's mental acuity from the minds of americans. you saw the videos, you heard the speeches. when you had questions, they said you were crazy. remember, all of it was just cheap fakes. democrats didn't just gaslight you over joe biden's health. they did it on immigration, crime and the economy, too, which led to a generational shift away from the democrat party driving away even the most diehard liberals. >> when you're affected day to day by quality of life issues and all you hear from the democratic party is shut up. >> no, it's not happening. and if

in califora,nd at 1:30 eastern we take you live to the whiteou for a briefing with press secretary karineerre and the fema administrator. we are also standi by for any comments from presidenelt donald trump or his lawyers in his sentencing today in the new york hush case. on c-span2 the supreme court is heinoral argument on t's first amendment challenge that requireshe app to divest from its chinese parent company or face a nationwide band later this month. that is live on c-span2. >> fitness democracy unfiltered with c-span. experience history as it unfolds with c-span's live coverage as republicans take control of both chambers of congress and a new chapter begins with the swearing in of the 47th president of the united states on january 20. tune into coverage as donald trump takes the oath of office, becoming president of the united states. stay with c-span this month for live unfiltered coverage of the 119th congress and the presidential inauguration. c-span, democracy unfiltered. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including sparklig

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hello, i'm karin giannone. world's largest island takes on donald trump — and warns the incoming us president to keep his hands off greenland. hello, i'm karin giannone. there is still no respite from the extreme conditions fueling california's wildfire emergency. the threat of fire in los angeles remains �*very high�*, with strong winds forecast and "critical weather conditions to continue until wednesday". the authorities have been giving fresh updates on the disaster. to last through wednesday. humidity levels remain low. emma vardy reports. the race to stay ahead of the deadly fires enters a sixth day. helicopters fly just above the smoke. below, the flames rage. butjust as progress is made, other areas ignite. in the fires�* wake, residents continue to journey back to where their houses once stood. for one, the reality is overwhelming. oh, my god... oh, my god! she cries. i felt like a zombie since tuesday. can't sleep. you literally cannot sleep, you just replay. sabrina, another palisades resident, picks

in califora,nd at 1:30 eastern we take you live to the whiteou for a briefing with press secretary karine john pierre and the fema administrator. we are also standi by for any comments from presidenelt donald trump or his lawyers in his sentencing today in the new york hush case. on c-span2 the supreme court is heinoral argument on t's first amendment challenge that requireshe app to divest from its chinese parent company or face a nationwide band later this month. that is live on c-span2. >> fitness democracy unfiltered with c-span. experience history as it unfolds with c-span's live coverage as republicans take control of both chambers of congress and a new chapter begins with the swearing in of the 47th president of the united states on january 20. tune into coverage as donald trump takes the oath of office, becoming president of the united states. stay with c-span this month for live unfiltered coverage of the 119th congress and the presidential inauguration. c-span, democracy unfiltered. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including

hello, i'm karin giannone.re is still no respite from the extreme conditions fuelling california's wildfire emergency. the threat of fire in los angeles remains "very high", with strong winds forecast and "critical weather conditions to continue until wednesday". the authorities have been giving fresh updates on the disaster. three fires are blazing — the kenneth fire has been contained. at least 16 people are confirmed to have been killed in the fires. another 16 people are missing — and we're told to expect that number to rise. the largest fire — the palisades is now spreading east, threatening the suburb of brentwood where the vice president kamala harris has a home. anotherfire — the hurst fire — is now 89% contained. the federal emergency management agency — fema — says us military personnel are ready tojoin the crisis team. and as firefighters struggle to contain the flames — those santa ana winds are present and expected to last through wednesday. humidity levels remain low. emma vardy reports. the race