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Still walking that line, protecting the rule of law, and that's robert mueller. >> could not have said it better. that is our list. that is the most for 2018. >> thank you for watching. next year we'll be on the ice. >> not a bad idea. >> announcer: this is an msnbc special presentation. i'm very consistent. i'm a very stable genius. touchdown confirmed! so [ bleep ] proud of you guys! >> 2018 has been a wild ride. >> bipartisan. >> irrational. >> obstruction. >> the whole thing is ridiculous. >> paul manafort -- >> michael cohen -- >> rick gates. >> all the president's men are guilty! >...

Senator elizabeth warren said good-bye to 2018 by diving into the 2020 presidential race. the massachusetts senator's bid is the first of many expected in 2019. in north korea leader kim jong un warned washington not to test the country's patience. he said in a new year address that he is willing to meet with president trump in 2019 but may seek a different path in the u.s. makes unilateral demands and pushes sanctions. now back to "the year's 10 most." we are back with "the year's 10 most," which brings us to number 5 in our countdown, and it has to do with what happened one night in nove...

Welcome back to "the year's 10 most." as we march forward, number 7. legal eagles. >> so this is my favorite. this might be one of my favorites. these are the people that are on our shows every night, they're the people we cover outside of courthouses, the lawyers. >> busy season for them. i look at this as three buckets. the prosecutors -- >> the grand jury in the district of columbia today returned an indictment presented by the special counsel's office. >> the defenders. >> president is entitled to pay hush money to anyone he wants during the campaign. >> and the explainers. >> even if ther...

>> and i think what susan glasser's getting at there is that these celebrations, the lives of people whose whole careers and families and lives were about public service, felt so devastating. in washington there was a palpable sense of loss, of all that's been lost by our current politics. and i think it's impossible to divorce the way a lot of people feel about the current state of politics from the loss of those three individuals. >> and the optics and the theater surrounding the presence of the one man who stood apart from the five presidents, and that's our current president. from his entr...

It is up to us to voice that. >> we're going to washington, everyone! >> what has become apparent is the size of the wave and the rebuke of the republicans. >> they made every republican in the country suddenly feel insecure. >> i loved some of the stories that didn't end well for democrats. the new faces in the democratic party. beto o'rourke was really fun to cover. from beginning to end, he gave a great speech, he dropped an f-bomb. >> i'm so [ bleep ] proud of you guys! >> sorry about the f-bomb. we have no control over what's in the concession speeches of various candidates around the cou...