put all 8 ps martin mcdonagh the theater is the only one in the world that has opened mcdonagh for russiaolds a festival and five festivals have already passed where the theaters came to, we need to tell our viewers who mcdonald's is in mcdonagh, do you know? personally, it's just the states, i'm in order , yeah, so we are 15 years ago. uh, accidentally jumped into the performance west of the great brilliant playwright mcdonagh. we did not know then, no one knew either in russia or in the near abroad. i realized that this is just a brilliant playwright this play. i have to deliver urgently. i mean, i stole the play in the theater and my friends helped me. we rehearsed for two weeks, put on a performance and released for the first time in russia, the orphan west after that russia started up. uh, belarus ukraine kazakhstan, everyone else also discovered this author. yes, shocked, not unexpectedly for me, it turned out that before that for 3 years it had even been published in modern drama. play, mcdonagh, beauty queen, but no one noticed. apparently, there was a time, just the time had come

his fantastic new film, "the banshees of inisherin," is in theaters now our friend, martin mcdonagh,s also back. [ cheers and applause before we get to all of that, democrats will retain control of the senate after news organizations projected wins for democratic candidates in nevada and arizona, defying all the predictions of a red wave and humiliating republicans, especially donald trump, who had been having a full-blown meltdown now that republicans are turning on him and blaming him for their party's catastrophic performance for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause >> seth: i don't have to tell you that going into these midterms, republicans were very confident. they predicted a red wave that would hand them control of both the house and senate, and deliver a strong repudiation of joe biden's presidency some even went further in predicting a red wave, and said, it would be much bigger than that >> look, i -- i think we're going to see a -- a wave election. i think it's gonna be a tsunami. >> not just a wave but a red tsunami. >> we're not just gonn

it gives me great pleasure to introduce the honorable dennis mcdonagh. he served as the 26th white house chief of staff and as principal deputy national security advisor. he believes deeply as he testifies to congress that there is no more sacred obligation or noble undertaking than to uphold our promises to our veterans, whether they came from decades ago or days ago. freeze join meet and -- please join me in welcoming the 11th secretary of veterans affairs, dennis mcdonagh. [applause] sec. mcdonough: mr. president, good afternoon and welcome home. general, thanks for that warm welcome and for your three decades of service and leadership. the delaware guard has been defending our freedoms since long before our founding whenever and wherever the country needs them. we all saw that kind of devotion in the actions of tech sergeant matt keefer, recognized just last friday with the distinguished flying cross for his heroism in afghanistan responding to the tragedy at the international airport in august. you are sending the 160th engineer company downrange in

russian theater as a bush, and why the perm bridge theater, the only one in the world, holds in martin mcdonaghational festival, how mysticism comes to life on the stage and before which performance theatrical corpses were chased by the number 13 about this and not only in the program say not to be silent, the release is already available on the website of beltele radio company also on our youtube channel. together we will be able to make more of the festival of creativity of disabled people of belarus russia in mogilev an exhibition of masters of fine and decorative applied arts competitive audition of soloists, most of the participants, according to the jury, are real nuggets, sometimes not having musical education show a real show on the stage. something tells you that this is life is beautiful, what if you play for the people, if you do something?

to reiterate some of what secretary mcdonagh just explained. just crisp and to the point. this new law and new benefits will only be game changers if we, working together, get the word out about the pact act from sea to shining sea from our veterans, families here in delaware and across the nation. centre benefits that they have earned through the service. that's the key. the pact act which senator kunz and i -- congressman rochester and i are private to support -- are proud to support. it grant actress for three and half million post-9/11 veterans, many who are exposed to burn pits and other conflict zones around the world. to put it bluntly, this bill is going to save lives. a lot of them. i have often heard our president say, all politics is personal and all diplomacy is personal. for him and for me, the issues before us today are deeply personal ones. my father and most of my uncle served in uniform in world war ii. one of them also served in korea. my grandmother was a golden star mother. my mom's youngest brother was killed in action at the age of 19, on a tumor 26,

however, many christians in hollywood are persevering like yellow stone's actor neil mcdonagh.r and show. he is now narrating the annual o holy night christmas on pbs. in "focus" now the co-host of the podcast coffee and bible time. it's great to see all three of you together. let me ask you this and i'll start with you, tara. why do you think hollywood is suddenly saying christians actors are suddenly saying i don't care, i'll risk it all. why now? >> well, i think that we live in a day and age where i think that unfortunately it has become very polarized and it is important for christians to stand firm on what they believe in and the more that your faith becomes real to you, you want to risk it all for him. and that i think is what we're called to do as christians is to risk it all for the sake of christ and his name. >> harris: ashley, what is your take on how hollywood treats christians? i don't think that people are surprised that a more secular society would do that but hollywood also should be looking to reach as many people with its product as possible considering how l

colin farrell's new movie, written and directed by martin mcdonagh who did "three billboards."e they a preview for the oscars or two different animals? >> there is no overlap but they do help to kind of focus and sharpen the overall awards season race. you can kind of read the tea leaves as you look at nominations like these. >> television, did something jump out >> as usual, a mix of some of the cable shows and streaming shows. "better call saul," "the crown," having a great season, "house of the dragon" from "game of thrones" "ozark" and "severance." adam scott as well. >> "white lotus" got a ton of nominations. jennifer coolidge, a lot of very -- don't fret >> good, because i was fretting. i had a fret. >> and dave, thank you of course, you can catch the 80th golden globes january 10th right here on nbc and also streaming on peacock. >>> still ahead, guys, the secret behind one the nfl's fastest teams. what jacob soboroff discovered at practice with the miami dolphins dolphins orst, this is "today" ugugh, this rerental car is s so boring t to drive. let't's be h honest. the

i would start by saying when secretary mcdonagh took over he had a strong emphasis on byenvironmentalosures and worked to establish the connections using his authority under law also be established the service connections as well as the respiratory cancers and that was done using the foundation of which we will build on under the authority provided in the law where we are working with the clinical and research experts along with our experts and interagency partners to leverage the evidence and new research with the data that we've had and are continuing to collect and then continuing to push the boundaries. we are going to as required under law publish a list of conditions that we are actively reviewing and that will be included in the federal register so that the public will have an opportunity to understand what we are looking at, why we made the decisions and provide feedback because while we think we know a lot we know that there's plenty of other information we may not have considered and we want it to be transparent and inclusive. >> the new presumptions process that we've devel

british mercenary joseph mcdonagh.on that i call the great desertion of about 600-700 people, who went home or went to some other part of ukraine where, in their opinion, it would be safer, where, as they thought, they would immediately be given all the equipment and allow shoot a lot of russians where they never get under fire. it's a fantasy that there's a nice place in a war where you can just shoot the russian way, we won't be subjected to horrible artillery mortar fire, tank fire and so on, any of you still want to volunteer for that. a nice place just doesn't exist. however, the west is ready to fight to the last ukrainian and continues to push ukraine to continue the war with russia fine shall times calls on the ukrainian command to inflict strikes on the rear of russia, even on themselves. ukrainian drones are very successful very effective ukraine has no distance restrictions and soon it will be able to reach any targets on the territory of russia , including in siberia, drone attacks will not help win the con