we re all excited the gang is back together this wednesday morning after a christmas holiday. a christmas break for each of us. it was a wonderful time. makes us all grateful for this job and we are all back together. feels good. steve: feels great. welcome back, brian. before yesterday. we were here, and griff jenkins was here as well through the entire holiday. hats off to him and everybody else who filled in the chair. brian: must have been tough for him to not surf. griff prefers to surf. steve: i was talking to griff yesterday because is he going to go down today to south florida to go surfing. and i told him the beaches are gone because of beach erosion over the last month. brian: you are kidding. steve: beaches are pretty much shot. lawrence: finally gets to celebrate and there is no beach. ainsley: still waves. brian: waves crash into land. just send you. steve: just smooths out. no roll. ainsley: y all, before christmas we saw the presiden
fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it s nothing like what you might think. not at all. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: this is okinawa, just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answers in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it. chanpuru, something mixed. bits borrowed from all over served up for anyone to eat. but maybe you re more familiar with the name okinawa from this. as the setting for some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of the second world war. how horrifying? for the allies there were more than 50,000 casualties with around 12,000 killed, or missing in action, over nearly three months of fighting.
before president trump is facing a 37-count indictment. griff jenkins is live for us in miami. reporter: good evening. the former president is at his doral state this evening. sources tell fox news that he was meeting with his legal team ahead of tomorrow s historic court appearance. he s not made any public comments or didn t speak to the press when he landed. in social media posts and campaign stops over the weekend, he continues to rail over this indictment and paint himself of traces of victim and promise on truce social. i will appoint a prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the usa, joe biden and the entire biden family. chris christie had this to say in a town hall earlier tonight. listen. he s shown himself and most particularly in his post presidency to be self-centered and consumed. he does not give a damn about the american people in my view. #. reporter: but other rivals are coming to the former president s defense. it reeks o
and we start this friday night with a fox news alert. the u.s.with a supreme courtupre will decide whether donald trump can be kep c t off the 2024 ballot in colorado. with arguments starting on february the eighth, again, the supreme court, they have no.w to consider what is a very important appeal and constitutional issue, and that is whether or not president trump s name will remain on the ballot until. they render a decision. now, also tonight, a big update from the biden familonight apdas s hunter may soon be held in contempt of congresoos. tha we have an update on that. also, the one and only dr. cornel west will join us with m more of his defense, whichor i think is indefensible. the former harvard president igt ahead, did he shoot out tonight? but tonight, we begin in valley. forge in pennsylvania. nearly 250 years ago, during a bitterly cold and wet winter . george washington stationed the continental army on this rural plateau just outside of philadelphiuralu just o
center headquarters. this is msnbc headquarters on the right. the iconic christmas tree in the middle and this is our news proof to you that they haven t taken down the big tree yet. people still enjoying the ice skating in the holiday season. the new year naturally begins with a presidential race as well as a possible trial of donald trump. later tonight we have some developments in that jack smith case. our top story of the new year right now is this official home stretch of the primaries in the 2024 presidential race. president biden is the presumed democratic nominee. there is no big race there although there are some other announced candidates. we even heard from cornell west last year. on the republican side there could be an open race. will republicans decide between trump or his remaining opponents? and how soon does that process start? if you ve been busy, you know, having a little time off or enjoying your holiday food or your new years workout routine or any of the