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friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, im willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. w...

millions of american women, no longer have the constitutional right to an abortion that has been their right for decades now and nearly half of all states women will soon find themselves without any access to an abortion, a 6-3 decision handed down in dobbs versus jackson womens health upholds mississippis ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, in a 5-4 majority went further completely striking down roe versus wade, written by justice samuel alito, it is similar to the draft opi...

Which so many believe is the fundamental, sacred right and could cost democrats the midterm next year? >> history is important here. voting rights, civil rights was never the priority of a white house. we had to make it a priority. i think what were going to see is that we are going to make this a front burner issue. one of the reasons martin luther king iii and i have called this march on august 28th, right past the white house. were going to start at black lives matter plaza, march past the wh...

>> if people only knew how brilliant you are. i came to this conclusion after talking to -- anna has this story down, what shes reporting is spot on and the rev is right about the size and scope and duration of the sort of struggle. the only thing i bring to the table is my intimate knowledge of the depths of the republicans commitment to rolling back voting rights in all 48 states where theyve introduced bills. and im scared of the speed and efficiency with which theyre passing and i guess my q...

Randi weingarten. she is the president of the american federation of teachers which represents more than 1.7 million educators nationwide. the american federation of teachers is partnering with several other education organizations to host this forum. you and i have had a lot of chats over the last couple of years with teachers, many cases teachers who have been striking because of pay. i just want to show our viewers the average salary of a teacher according to the national education associatio...

U.s. before today. obviously the president of the united states does not have any control over what territory belongs to israel or not. what are the ramifications for supporting this? >> youre exactly right. it is essentially a similar bott symbolic move. >> you can argue the recognition of juan guaido in venezuela. the question is why is the president doing this and why is he doing it now? this is a quiet issue for decades now, for years at least, not something that has been a front burner issu...

Libs." republicans have been happy that share that narrative if you will during campaign season. we know we have failed to see that type of strong leadership from congress or this president. the issue here that sometimes it is human yous and we cam minuti like ecology that does have to be right. >> areas of law enforcement, the mueller report, the notion that the president can do no long in his own eyes but a matter of national security. >> versing sanctions as his own department issue yesterday...

Play out over a long time. when you issue a subpoena, that could take years to play out in court. according to my sources, they are on different issues trying to examine their options and issue what they say are more strategic subpoenas, they know it will be a failing proposition to issue a blanket number of subpoenas to these 81 individuals. the response rate is not good. he has not gotten a single piece of paper and according to my sources, nadler only gotten 50%, nadler gotten a 50% response ...

Resilience infrastructures. we have to do all those things. the most important thing at this point is to stop worsening the problem by getting our fossil fuels moving towards renewable energy and stopping continue or addition of carbon emissions thats warming the planet and leaving to all these extreme weather events. >> lets listen to the epa administrator andrew wheeler on cbs, garret. >> it is an important issue that we have to address it. we are addressing. most of the stress of climate chan...

Broader pattern by the house and now it appears they are saying it on the record that this is intentional that they are ignoring these requests for information. this spans across committee. it is oversight and judiciary and as well as other committees. here is the key here. democrats did not come in with guns ablazing and in a hail of subpoenas here. what they did was try to pick issues where there was bipartisan support, for example, on immigration, for example on this gravley concerning issue ...