a disgusting attack. the question is whether democratths will attempt to use the actions of a lone lunatic to chill political speech. now, iliticaf sol , this is beca their grip on power is beginning to give way on tw o major fronts tonight in politics and across social media. l now for them. elon musk s successful purchase of twitter is a total invasion of their inner sanctums. like an intruder waltzing into their living rooms, turning on fox news, maybe makingandwic a sandwich and then using the bathroomh . om how dare he? meanwhile, most regular people see ilan s desire to kind ofat housecleaner at twitter as just plain common sense. s after all, we ve discovered there is a lot of fat to cut their welcome to day in my life as a twitter employee, then m made my way down to this logt cabin area. i don t know what this w is , bt is really cool and please, my friends, to kind of unwind the bit who also found thiso th really cool meditation room that i thought was super neat.
me. i do.tion and i do this every day. it s a good question.of and frankly, it s none of your business. you re really very nosy. really y.now, usually this is e i launch everyone into the weekend with anothernologu thought provoking monologue. but tonight we re changing ton things up as most of you know, on fridays we typically doow, no our leftovers segment at the end of the show, but nott am anymore. greg s leftovers. yes. oh, feels like the end of the show. it s time once again for the leftovers segment. dr. drew called that thing that proves greg and his staff needd professional help. actually , it s whereofessi d the jokes that we didn t use this week. but we can t eat without our guests. he always gives me a thumb s up during exams. host of dr. drew after dark, no. drew the name. she talks business like it s nobody s business. most of the evening at it at six p.m. on fox business, liz mcdonnel. birthda tomorrow is her birthday over 50 and she doesn t look a da
the freedom that matters is the freedom to speak your mind, the freedom of speech. that s the most basic and essential of all the freedoms. and that s why it s enshrined in the very first amendment to the bill of rights. it s central not simply to freedom, but to humanity. it s not opposable thumbs that separate us from the animalsk. that s our power. words in the beginning was the word, declares john . at the opening of the fourth gospel, the word the word is the most important thing that we have. take away our ability to choose our own words, and we are no longer fully human. we are subjects. we re chattel. authoritarians understand this. above all, that s why they hate freedom of speech. in fact, if you gave them a choice, they d let you have a fully automatic 50 caliber machine gun before they allowed you to say exactly what you want with a gun, you might be able to kill people, but with words you can expose them . with words you can change the world. in fact, there has n
to render judgment r on the unprecedented moral atrocities our leadership class has committed over the past twos years. the shameless lying, shamelthe arrogance, the stupid the total incompetence, the unfairness, the relentless and vicious racism toward the majority of the americans rm population, all of whichlation. together amount to, yes, attacks on democracy itself. if you believed in democracy, you would not act like this. dec no one has ever run a developed country with this degree of recklessness. puniquestion is , is anyone ever going to be punished for it? that s what s really on the ballot. this november eight . so for republicans, the election should be easy. nothing you should ever for a second underestimate their ability to screw it up anyway they may. but the template formber success is right in front of them. just run against joe biden. there may be people out thererug who feel sorry for joe biden, pl but there s absolutely nobody who thinks or can arguo feeled
majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays