are kind of upset and new yorkers and liberal ones that are not upset at daniel penny and think he'sno, because the one thing common for all new yorkers we're all scared on mta subway from time to time and a lot of americans and new yorkers saw that daniel penny was a second victim of the situation and not really a murdering vigilante make them out to be. the first charge dismissed and you cannot trust at vin bragg and getting to implement the perverse form of ju justice to convict daniel penny and saving face and justifying the prosecution. that's what i'm scared of and scared this was a ploy and think majority of new yorkers do agree with what you said and people are scared on the subway and understand what daniel penny d. rachel: take us back to when this happened. if i recall, numerous people get shoved onto the travion green murders in the subway. >> yeah, you gauge crime in new york city, a lot of people talking about going up in subway systems. rachel: if he gets charged and losers are new york city residents and no one will step up to defend him like that young man heroically

. >> breaking news last night from "the new yorker." i heard the pete hegseth investigation was in grave danger from my insights in the senate before a letter dropped this weekend and before the whistleblower news came out last night from "the new yorker." a fact check about his behavior and now penelope hegseth, the mother of pete hegseth, told her son he should, quote, get some help. and accused him of abusing multiple women in a newly unearthed email from her back in 2018. the email was obtained by "the new york times" from another person with ties to the family. in it, penelope wrote, in part, you are an abuser of women. that is the ugly truth and i have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. nbc news has not independently obtained the email. the message was sent in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from hegseth's second wife samantha. their marriage ended after trump's choice to lead the department of defense impregnated a fox news coworker with whom he was hav

in a statement to the new yorker, an advisor said the claims were outlandish and came from a disgruntled associate. meanwhile, the "new york times" is reporting hegseth's mother sent him an e-mail in 2018 during his second divorce, calling him, quote, an abuser of women, penelope hegseth writing i have no respect for any man who lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. nbc news has not independently obtained the e-mail, but mrs. hegseth says she apologized almost immediately and disavowed the first note. >> he's very, very smart. >> reporter: and on saturday, president-elect trump naming kash patel as his choice to take over the fbi. patel, a fierce trump ally and outspoken critic of the bureau. >> i'd shut down the fbi hoover building on day one and reopening it the next day as a museum of the deep state. >> reporter: patel would replace trump appointee christopher wray who would have to be fired or resign to clear the way for patel, a former public defender, prosecutor and trump national security official. >> he's experienced in not only putting criminals b

we saw over 450,000 new yorkers leave last year alone. on is because of the policies of the democrats. mass spending, mass taxes. i live in upstate new york, by the way. this is the largest agricultural district in the entirety of the northeast. we need the fossil fuels that we have. >> anita: she is talking about the rising costs. let's put them up and see what people are paying for energy costs. for new york households, electricity $126 a month, natural gas $135, motor feel $102, home heating oil $224.54. i did the math. it's almost $600 a month. if you add all these things up. so why should new yorkers be expected to make up the difference for this? >> and they shouldn't be but you know what, i tell you, you have a coconspirator here, right? you have the state of new york. they have been regulating and taxing the stuff for years. they are getting a lot of revenue from oil and gas production, and to try to blame specific oil companies for their policies, it's absolutely ludicrous. most of the pollution is being done in places like india

this reporting from the new yorker which hegseth's team diminishes but doesn't outright deny comes after news that he paid off a woman who accused him of assaulting her. he calls it a al encounter and was never charged with a crime. the question, though, is are these allegations, all of it, and even if they are, how many senators are going to be willing to hand over the keys to the biggest and most deadly military on earth to a man who is facing deeply troubling accusations not just about his behavior but about his ability to manage an organization and a team. joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles with the skinny on what's happening in washington, and nbc news national security correspondent courtney kube, who covers the pentagon for us. ryan, i want to ask you about what's happening on the hill. he's meeting with a number of senators today. what is the word on hegseth? are senators going to be okay with all of these very serious allegations? >> reporter: you do get the sense that the drip, drip, drip of accusations against pete hegseth is starting to become a p

the new yorker said subway banter strangled.e he gets some form of accountability here. >> to the person who cannot tell the difference between execution, someone shot on the back and daniel penny protecting occupants from someone who said he wanted to harm people, you are the threat to society. you are the threat. it is telling. i am worried about the moral confusion. he is going to be the one assigned to prosecuting this case against the suspect. we know he is one of those people who cannot tell the difference between right and wrong and i hope the new yorkers step up and do what needs to be done. >> is he going to prosecute against these threats? prove to us it is color-blind. >> for many people, we don't think he should have done nothing on the train. it is whether he could have subdued the threat without ending his life. >> he was breathing after the interaction. because there will also be a civil case that is brought as well. we will see how that plays out. i hope that mcdonald's employees doesn't just get employee of the

you have been a new yorker your entire life. should people feel safe in this city going into 2025?e honest, no will yo take my family into the city and i haven't for the last five years. >> and that's unfortunate. they feel safe bail reform. people deserve to feel safe. unfortunately, todd, if you have taken the subway, i know many people watching have. whether they are here as employees or here on vacation. you all feel that unease and that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you see someone, you know, mumbling incoherently on the train or doing something aggressive to their fellow passengers. we all felt that unease. and, unfortunately, until we start cracking down on petty crimes and. we will still feel same feelings as long as we tolerate this behavior. >> todd: sad time was i used to take the subway and never felt that it shows it is possible. it's just that the current policies and policies to your point over the last five plus years have led to what we see in our once great city and horrific events like sunday's. joe borelli thank you for your time. happy new year to you

susan glasser is here, staff writer for the new yorker. andrew desiderio, senior congressional reporter for punch bowl news and neil carpio, who i have not seen in ages and i'm thrilled he's back on the department of justice veteran and former acting solicitor general during the obama administration. madam glasser, to you first. your reaction to the report by your colleague jane mayer about pig -- pete -- i kept saying that, i thought i shook it but i hadn't -- pete hegseth what does this say about how donald trump is picking people? it just keeps getting worse for this guy. >> steph, if you haven't read the piece by jane in the new yorker, i highly recommend it. it's so voluminous. this isn't just a report from a single disgruntled employee, as that statement that you quoted said. there is enormous amount of information in there, spanning multiple jobs that pete hegseth had. the allegations are disturbing. they remind me, in some ways, of the conduct that sank john tower's nomination to be secretary of defense back in the first george h.w.

i can take the subway wherever we need to go and i want all new yorkers to feel safe which is why we added so many national guard over 250 more people to make sure that your ride is safe. >> raymond: joe, she even doubled down yesterday on x, the day of this arson, where this poor woman was burned, and also yesterday two stabbings on the same new york city subway. >> yeah, this crime only happens to be the one that gets the headlines but two people were stabbed, one fatally in queens. but this is a woman who is just disconnected from reality. you can't have both things. you can't have safe sub ways and at the same time need to call in the national guard, the people who come to serious emergencies and place them on every subway train and platform. those two things aren't the same, they can't exist in similarity. and unfortunately for her, the picture she's trying to paint is not the one that normal new yorkers face. i challenge her, leave your police detail at home, get on the subway late at night, early in the morning, go by yourself and see how you feel. because you'll feel like reg

"the new yorker" cites documents from two previous jobs. c news has not seen the documents and hegseth's attorney declined to comment monday morning. walk us through these accusations. >> these are troubling allegations that come two months away from when pete hegseth could be expected to go before confirmation hearing for the first time not only is there "the new yorker" story that just came out this morning, in which it details a history dating from 2013 to 2016, when he was a top aide, veterans advocacy organization, in which he was alleged per a whistleblower report, that was prepared by multiple employees of that organization and given to senior management which the new yorker has obtained, we have not obtained at nbc news, this document ourselves, but in it it alleges not only financial mismanagement, but also sexual misconduct, repeated intoxication and actions, for instance, at an allegedly new orleans strip club in which pete hegseth is accused of leading members of his organization to there and then was intoxicated to the point he

but this is also, you're seeing on the heels of not only "the new yorker" article but also "the new york times" publishing an email that pete hegseth's own mother sent to him several years ago as he was going through a second divorce to his second wife. this was an email from his mother in which she has recanted and said she apologized for the words she stated to her son, but she told him that she -- he was not treating women right and was ashamed that his treatment of women. we should note also this morning there was a trump campaign senior adviser and a transition adviser, jason miller, did go on tv airwaves a bit ago in which he did say about pete hegseth, notably, when it comes to pete hegseth, there aren't any concerns and we feel very good about his positioning for being confirmed by the senate. that's a rather explicit statement from jason miller, which is in contrast to what has been about a week of mostly silence from his camp. >> all right. vaughn hillyard, thanks for all the latest reporting on all things trump transition. >>> tara, senate republicans were asked about these ne

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keeping new yorkers safe. and it doesn't matter if they are documented or undocumented.ause some of the criminal aspects in this city are preying on migrants, asylum seekers and undocumented on so many levels. this is not about protecting just certain parts. everybody. everyone in the city should be protected and should not be the victim of violent crime and that was the conversation i had with the border czar. we shared that same belief. and we are going to pursue that same belief and i am looking forward to that pursuit. thank you. >> martha: all right. fascinating. that was mayor eric adams in new york city, just sat down with the incoming ice supervisor and the border czar tom homan who has decades of an experience working on the border and who is working with the incoming president-elect, donald trump, to remove criminals who are migrants. that is at the top of the list and this is the first time we have seen homan sit down with a democrat mayor and it sounds like they saw eye-to-eye on what the goals are. let's bring in larry, your reaction to what we just heard fr

all the worst. 2024 tonight at 11 on cnn. >> new yorkers held a vigil earlier today at the new york subwayp, where a woman was brutally and horrifically murdered this past weekend. she has yet to be identified. police say a fellow subway passenger lit. the woman, who is believed to have been homeless on fire, literally fanning the flames and then watching her burn from a nearby bench. authorities say the suspect, 33 year old sebastian zapeta-calil, is an undocumented migrant from guatemala who had reentered the country illegally after he was deported. his last known address suggests he is homeless as well. on tuesday, he was charged with first and second degree murder, as well as arson. today, mayor eric adams suggested the possibility of federal charges. surveillance video of the gruesome act, which we are deliberately not going to show, rocketed around social media and refocused attention on issues involving crime, homelessness and immigration. our gary tuchman joins us now from coney island subway platform. gary, i wonder what riders have been telling you tonight about their level of fe

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, your time at the veterans now, this appearance came after a report in the new yorker that said pete hegseth was forced out of two veterans advocacy organizations that he led over, quote, serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety and personal misconduct. >> among the allegations, according to a whistleblower complaint that the new yorker obtained hegseth was often drunk on the job to the point of needing to be carried out of work events, and that he and others sexually pursued the organization's female staffers in response to that report, hegseth adviser told cnn, quote, we're not going to comment on outlandish claims laundered through the new yorker by a petty and jealous, disgruntled former associate of mr. hegseth my sources tonight are cnn political commentator margaret hoover, who was, i should note hired to give advice as an outside consultant to one of the organizations that hegseth was reportedly forced out of. and also, former trump campaign adviser david urban. and so, margaret, let me start with you. given given your experience, i mean, what can yo

hegseth's attorney declined to comment but in a statement to "the new yorker' an adviser said the claimse, quote, outlandish and came from a petty and jealous former associate. they referred nbc news to a previous report with hegseth. meanwhile, "the new york times" is reporting hegseth's mother sent him an email in 2018 during his second divorce calling him, quote, an abuser of women. penelope hegseth writing, quote, i have no respect for any man that belittles and lies and cheats and sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. nbc news has not independently obtained the email but mrs. hegseth told "the times" she apologized almost immediately and disavowed her original note. >> pete is the type of guy that he has great work ethic. he is very smart. >> reporter: on saturday, president-elect naming on kash patel to take over the fbi. an outspoken on the bureau. >> i'd shut down the fbi hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. >> reporter: pattell would replace christopher wray who is in five years in a ten-year term. he would have t

this week the new yorker's jane mayer published on shell reporting with new allegations against hegseth. that reporting alleges that during hegseth's time as the head of a conservative veterans group, he was repeatedly anticipated while acting in his official capacity, so much so that he needed to be carried out of the organization's events. it includes allegations that hegseth once took his staff to a strip club where he was so drunk he tried to get on the stage and dance with the strippers. his own staff reportedly had to intervene to keep hegseth from getting thrown out. of a strip club. it includes allegations that hegseth treated the organization funds like they were a personal expense account for partying, drinking, and hooking up with women on the road. there are allegations that on another work trip, hegseth at a bar, drunkenly chanted kill all muslims, kill all muslims. in response to the new yorker story, hegseth's lawyer said we are not going to comment on outlandish claims laundered through the new yorker, and then went on to a technical ability of award-winning investigativ

hegseth's attorney declined to comment on the "the new yorker" article. news has reached out to the trump transition team for comment but have yet to receive a response. hegseth's attorney told "the new yorker," quote, we're not going to comment on outlandish claims laundsered through "the new yorker" by a petty and disgruntled former associate of mr. hegseth's. with us garrett haake and david rohde, executive editor for national security. what could the new reporting on hegseth mean for his chances of getting confirmed? >> it could potentially complicate his path to confirmation in two different buckets here. both the questions it raises about hegseth's personal character, which i think will come up in confirmation hearings and private meetings with senators even before those hearings begin, much like we saw with matt gaetz just a few weeks ago, and second, in his management style. this is based on a whistleblower complaint from the veterans group hegseth briefly ran which only had about a dozen employees, in the process of being nominated to lead the sin

a recent siena paul showed almost 60% of new yorkers want a different governor than kathy hochul. she's in trouble and that's why you have this scheme of throwing money out the door to low income voters in new york in order to get them to vote. there is good news. daniel penny, the absence of bad news, had he been convicted this city would be even less safe, even more scared than they are right now. i tweeted this out, i felt confident that if something horrible happened on the subway train, the good people of new york city would respond and had he been convicted and sent to jail that would not be any longer the case, there's a huge vertically just a black lives matter making these threats, they threatened to riot, to have people show up, no one showed up. i think black lives matter is over. stuart: a spent force and that will be a good thing. you can op-ed, trump just outfoxed biden and his corrupt family again. i think biden is going to pardon his family? >> i think you wants to and what donald trump did with the kristin welker interview on meet the press was put that aside becau

claims launders through the new yorker. and then went onto attack the credibility of award winning investigative journalist jane mayer. and now, tonight, literally just a few hours ago, nbc news released new reporting alleging the concerns about hegseth's drinking continued through his career as a host on the fox news channel. nbc spoke with ten current and former fox news employees who described hegseth's drinking. two people said on more than a dozen occasions during hegseth's time as a cohost of fox and friends weekend, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. one of the sources said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month. one former fox employee told nbc everyone would be talking about it behind the scenes before he went on air. he should not be secretary of defense, another former fox employee said. his drinking should be disqualifying. now in a normal world, the allegations against pete hegseth would doom his nomination the way similar allegations doomed john tower's nomination 35 years ago but

mob outside the courthouse is the rest of new york, and i think that we have already seen that new yorkers are fed up with the policies of alvin bragg and many others, this jury is new york, they were selected from this population, they did not just immediately acquit, they deliberated, they divided and ultimately they came together on the lesser charge. keep in mind that this lesser charge, they could have secured conviction by just deciding that he had what was called blameworthy conduct, i mean, it's an incredibly low standard, and they said no. now that it's after of course rejecting the higher crime, the more serious crime last week by simply dead talking, but they did not to reach a unanimous decision in that. so there is possibly one or two holdouts last week that change their mind, obviously this weekend. what is also interesting about this verdict is it does have some blowback on the recently filed a negligence case by then the lee family against penny, now those cases represent a threats because they are under standard for torts and civil cases have a preponderance of reonable do

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. >> with the suspect still at large, are you urging new yorkers to avoid central park? drones? i know they recently started doing that in the park. it was also wondering, any indication, when he gets the city bike that he is a member? sometimes if you are not a member, you can pay to use that. i don't know if you can tell. >> as far as the part about the city bike, i will leave it to the detective. we are encouraging new yorkers to go about their daily lives in business but to be alert. we are putting that picture out, we want people to take a look. if they see or hear anything suspicious, we want them to call 911 and reach out to the detectives. we put heavy deployment in manhattan. we have put additional resources out. the drones are up. aviation is out. canines are out. incidents like this, we don't spare and expense. we put all resources out there to support the mission of the chief of detectives and keep new yorkers say. we will have new yorkers out there throughout the tree lighting and in manhattan as well. as more information develops we can support the chief of

new reporting from the new yorkers raising new questions about pete hegseth, his pick for defense secretary and democrats are uneasy about trump's pick to leave the fbi, kash patel. patel is the ultimate trump loyalist who makes his money of selling trump gear and has little management experience in federal law enforcement. here is garrett haake without the cash patel details. >> reporter: trump's embattled selection for secretary of defense pete hegseth them capitol hill following shocking reports about his personal conduct. he met with republican senators. a new article from the knocker revealing the contents of a previously undisclosed 2015 report written by former employees of a veterans organization he ran alleging he was repeatedly intoxicated,, quote, to the point of needing to be carried out of the events. the new yorker reporting he was eventually forced to step down. >> it suggests you have an alcohol problem. >> reporter: nbc news has not independently verified the report. hegseth's attorney didn't verify but the adviser said that claims were outlandish and came from a petty and

and "the new yorker" submitted many questions to mr.nd to his lawyer and gave him two days to answer them. and instead of answering any of the questions or refuting anything in the story, they just said they would have no comment. so, obviously, this is of utmost importance. we need to know whether someone who might be the top person in the defense department has a very serious alcohol problem. amna: jane, there's also now a body of reporting looking into hegseth's personal story as well, multiple marriages and infidelities that have been documented, also troubling details from a police report related to a sexual assault allegation back in 2017. this weekend, "the new york times" also published an e-mail from his mother in 2018, in which she says in part: "on behalf of all the women, and i know it's many, you have abused in some way, i say get some help and take an honest look at yourself.” we should note that his mother has since disavowed those comments in speaking with "the new york times.” but, jane, what does your reporting show ab

we are encouraging new yorkers to go— we are encouraging new yorkers to go about their daily lives and to take a look, if they— we want people to take a look, if they see, or hear anything suspicious, we ask them to call 911 and — suspicious, we ask them to call 911 and reach out to our detectives. with incidents like this we — detectives. with incidents like this we put a heavy deployment into manhattan, we put additional resources out, we have — additional resources out, we have the _ additional resources out, we have the drones up, aviation out, _ have the drones up, aviation out, we _ have the drones up, aviation out, we have canine out. studio: _ out, we have canine out. studio: as they take the last question worth summing up what we have heard, police confirming brian thompson was shot and killed in a targeted shooting this morning, in new york, they got the first 911 call at 6.46, the details there from the police, saying that he was a light skinned male, distinctive backpack wearing a facemask, he approached mr thompson, shot from behind, fired again, the gunjammed. he unjammed

joining me now is journalist and historian garret graf, also with me susan at "the new yorker." great to have you both. i'm eager to get your thoughts on what is a fairly kinetic situation here. susan, you've studied and reported on trump and his inner sanctum up close. i kind of wonder how trump's attitudes and on addictions and alcoholism is factoring in here on his pick? >> that's a really important point you raise. first of all, we should say trump has obviously chosen mack. confrontational nominees for some of these key positions in the government. you know, fbi director you mentioned, kash patel, hegseth, and the defense department tulsi gabbard, the national intelligent. those are very radical choices. and what's interesting is that the conversation here is not about the radical and extreme views that they espouse. it's not about the -- the agenda to essentially blow up large swaths of the national security apparatus of this country, but whether certain personal behaviors are such outliers that that might be the only disqualifier. and, you know, i think that it does appea

there are startling new allegations from the new yorker. it reports that hegseth was pushed out of his roles at two veterans organizations. among the claims are financial mismanagement and repeated incidents of public intoxication. a hegseth adviser said they wouldn't comment on what they called the outlandish claims, laundered through the new yorker by a petty and jealous, disgruntled former associate. those are their words. hegseth himself stayed mostly silent on monday when those allegations were making the rounds up on capitol hill mr. hegseth, can you respond to these allegations in the new yorker article that came out misconduct allegations your time at the veterans so that article suggests you have an alcohol problem. >> okay. thank you guys. >> all right. thanks, guys. let's go. thank you guys. thanks, guys. exit right here. behind you. let's go guys yes you go. all right. thanks. thanks, guys all right, as for those senators, some are signaling their support the pentagon needs a serious course correction so i'm going to have a lot

lots of other new yorkers have and what daniel penny did was simply not criminal.agic that the person who was, that jordan neely, who was so out of in that moment that he died and nobody wants to him to have died including daniel penny. he didn't behave in any way that was criminal in this case should not have been brought. >> martha: we remember the video of daniel penny and his first discussion with police. he did know that the person that he had restrained had died afterwards. he said "i didn't want to injure him." i was trying to protect the people on the train. it appears that's what the jury thought as well. it's interesting the jury was deadlocked on the first charge and got through this one fairly quickly today. what's your take on it? >> i have been the attorney waiting for a jury to come back many times and it's stressful and you can never know exactly what's going on in the jury room but it's very clear from the police who interviewed daniel penny didn't immediately bring charges, from the eyewitnesses on the subway who said they felt threatened and they

the new yorker by a petty and jealous former associate. me is courtney kube, and nancy perish, founder and ceo of protect our defenders, an organization dedicated to ending sexual violence in the military. courtney, tell me first about what was going on at fox and what was the extent of the concern of these coworkers who spoke to nbc news about him, and what is the state of his nomination among republicans, senate republicans? >> so this was ten current and former fox news employees. some of whom worked directly with him on the show fox and friends, the popular saturday morning or weekend show that he's been a host of. and these people all gave us a very similar picture of what they saw during their years working there over the course of various times, from the time pete hegseth started working at fox news. they described cases where the show would start at 6:00 a.m. he would show up in some cases only minutes before the show was about to start. the staff, the producers would be concerned, was he going to show up at all. and at times he wo

new yorkers.y're the ones that are punished as the taxpayers under this charade of the super fund. >> this is what i wanted to ask you is do you think this is going to push up prices? >> it can only push up prices. they are going to essentially regulated these companies and the companies are going to tax them and the companies will pass it on in the form of higher energy costs, higher gas prices which is going to have an inflationary effect. new york legislators and the governor are literally living in a climate lala land where they think they pass these bills. first of all the premise is we'll have less storms if we punish the companies and they help pay for it. there's just no there there. the storms aren't happening. when they bring up these storms, it's like they are finding, your chance of winning the lottery is very low. they are finding these oh, here is a storm here and there but there's no climate trends and the idea somehow making companies pay is going to make a difference? this is a po

you have to pay more money to come in all of these energy policies are going to cost new yorkers. term unfunded liability number that is astro no, ma'am nickel new york is not going anywhere soon unfunded licketds are huge. problem with pension contributions. when you add it all together, it's a failed state economically. >> dozens of energy firms and businesses in their advocates have urged hochul to veto the bill. bad public policy that raises significant questions and constitutional concerns. moreover it's $57 billion price tag will result in unintended to consequences and increased costs for households and business its. david, what do you think? do you think if she gets enough pressure she will veto it or is it going to stick? >> no. i'm sorry, new yorkers but there is a very slim chance. ceaghts is not a working family's party. far left governor and like letitia james far left a.g. they are bound to this ideology. i feel bad for new yorkers. i have family in new york. your bills are going to go up. >> ashley: our bills are already high. anything she does is not going to help o

magazine this statement, we're not going to comment on outlandish claims laundered through "the new yorkernd jealous disgruntled former associate of mr. hegseth's. nbc news has not seen the whistleblower report cited by "the new yorker" and the magazine says the report compiled by former staffers and sent to hegseth's previous employer. hegseth's attorney declined to flns and the trump transition team has not responded to requests for comment. jake sherman, founder of punch bowl news and national security editor david rohde with me in studio, elise jordan back with us. so jake, if democrats all but know pete hegseth can only lose four republican votes and get through, correct me if my math is wrong, how are republican senators weighing a report like this? i wonder if you're hearing anything? it's early. >> well, if he loses four he's done. he cannot -- on the floor at least. if he loses four votes on the floor he would not be confirmed. number one, you could just see -- you could name pick your -- take your pick of who might vote against him, not only based on these allegations, but based

you and i, all three of us are new yorkers. we travel the streets. how many jordan neelys do we see on the street every single day? that is something has to be done. of course the prosecution did whatever they could to deflect that argument. to make sure it was taken out of the trial. there is a lot of objection about that but those jurors have to sit down and have the common sense. these are jurors that resides in new york city. these are the same jurors that walk the streets like three of us do. they experience what happened on that day not to the extreme, because that -- those interactions are strained but they certainly see what has taken place. and they must think to themselves, daniel penny had to be justified. obviously there are those in that group amongst the jury that believe there was justified. but if you are talking about the second count, really is daniel penny did you know there was a risk that when you put jordan neely in a chokehold may result in his death? that is the inquiry. >> martha: that becoming the issue of negligence potenti

aishah, i am a native new yorker and always said that new yorkers are bold, brash and brave. when there is an issue, we step in and help and we assist. but when you start to think about the consequences of stepping in, and we have seen some high profile situations around the country when people are stepping in. aside from the civil actions, if you step in and are a good samaritan lots of jurisdictions, new york included, you can get ed in assisting someone if you don't do it properly and then it inflicts add en injury. a sad state of affairs. i hope there are individuals to step in. what would it have taken to 911? not anything other than help, there is a horrible situation, a victim. you need to come and assist and hopefully law enforcement can get there to save the situation and apprehend the individual. it is a sad state of affairs. if things don't change, it will just get worse. >> aishah: such an egregious example of it happened this week with the woman set on fire in the subway train. she was sleeping and this illegal migrant sets her on fire. we have video of it if we

far and wide in order to use the viewing public as a force multiplier, and the commissioner said new yorkersst came to the us from guatemala in 2018. so far, no charges have been filed, but investigators are questioning him and trying to figure out a motive. police had been offering a $10,000 reward for any information on the incident. they have also not yet been able to identify the victim, but police are crediting the public and their own officers for working together to solve this heinous crime. now as we reach the end of 202a, we're reflecting on the shadow of the war in the middle east, and what may happen in the region in the year ahead. we've been hearing from the leaders of different faiths, including a christian reverend and a muslim faith leader, about the impact of conflict on them and their communities. let's speak to gideon sylvester, who's a rabbi at the british united synagogue. he joins us from jerusalem. thank you very much for being with us. i wonder whether you think in the year ahead, 2025, there can be more peace than there can be more peace than there has been in 202a?

when asked for, that they were not going to comment on outlandish claims laundered through the new yorker. i want to read that nbc news reporting which is that pete hegseth drank in ways concerning his colleagues at fox news according to former and current fox employees. two said more than a dozen occasions during his time as cohost on fox and friends weekend, it started at 6:00 a.m., that they smelled alcohol on him. one source said they smelled alcohol as recently as last month and heard him complain about -- the trump transition team said they are disgusting allegations, non-founded and falls. anyone peddling these lies are sickening that's the sort of character management lane of critiques or concerns about pete hegseth. jeff, you've been doing a lot of reporting on what i would say are -- concerns. a person with a worldview that's fundamentally at odds with liberal democratic norms and that should be worrying as well. >> what's interesting where this intersects with jane's reporting is his book, american crusade, and when she calls trump a crusader. a holy war and calls for arming ph

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of course if these big companies that provide energy to new yorkers have to pay more they are passed ers. alaska and hawaii, new york has the highest energy rates in the country and by and large it is due to energy policy at the state level and the tax structure. this burden placed on oil producers will require customers to pay more. this is a person who is disconnected from the reality of affordability in new york state and she's from buffalo. she knows how cold it is in upstate new york and knows how much new yorkers rely on fossil fuels to heat their homes and power their automobiles and other appliances. this is going to result in nothing, this is not going to end climate change, nothing more than new yorkers having to pay and go into their pockets even deeper to provide energy. ashley: is this going to be challenged in court? >> of course and there will be federal charges in federal court and i think according to a lot of legal analysts the companies will get more favorable years in federal court. how does new york level finds against french energy companies, saudi energy compani

office that has repeatedly failed to put the safety of new yorkers to politics.er penny used a choke hold to strain menacing lunatic, jordan neely in a subway car 2023 that led to his death,da alvin bragg's officent charged with second-degreed, manslaughto the defendant with no criminalld record, proud marine that stood up and no one else would get charged? but on friday at the jury announced it was deadlocked so at thexwel behest of alvin brags office, judge maxwell t wiley directed them to come back after the lesserd because charge of criminally negligent homicide of, outrages. but the jury rejected that as well. if anyone is guilty of criminal brnegligence here, it is the fos like alvin bragg and his assistant d.a., virtual signaling and soft on crime rimeapproach have caused enormov painer and suffering to everyday new yorkers whose lives matterte too. alvin bragg of course humiliaten after wasting millions ofof taxpayer dollars in crazeda st criminal prosecution against donald trump, of course election night victory. but he released a statement saying ovehe

the revealed, mail comes at the same time that "the new yorker" uncovered new details about what kinds been and could be at dod. according to jane mayer who wrote the piece, a trail of documents corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues indicates that hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two non-profit advocacy groups he ran, veterans for freedom and concerned veterans for america in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual improp impropriety and sexual misconduct. as a triumph of neoconservatism and helped promote the troop surge in afghanistan was flagged for public intoxication on the job which led to multiple incidents. the detailed seven-page report which was compiled by multiple former employees and sent to the organization's senior management in february 2015 states that at one point hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining dancers on the stage of a louisiana strip club where he had brought his team. according to the same report, under his leadership, the koch brothers-backed concerned veterans for america, had become a h

the new yorker. quote, once or twice a year, he attended burisma board meetings and energy forums that took place in europe. end quote. speaking with abc news about his qualified commissions to be on burisma's board. hunter biden didn't point to any of the usual qualifications of a board member. hunter biden had no experience. natural gas, no experience in the energy sector, no experience with ukrainian affairs. as far as we know, he doesn't speak ukrainian so naturally the media has asked questions about his board membership. why was hunter biden on this board? if your last name wasn't biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the of burisma? i don't know. i don't know. probably not. so go back and talk about his time on the board. remember he joined burisma's board april 2014, while the kingdom had an open money laundering case against burisma and its owner, the oligarch bill chayefsky. on august 20th, 2014, four months later, the ukrainian prosecutor general's office initiated a money