Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. We're so happy you're here. There is a lot to get to today, including the political civil war, already threatening to tear apart Trump's grip on the Republican Party. It's one that pits Elon Musk against Steve Bannon,

and it's underway, even before Donald Trump is inaugurated. There's also news about a stinging defeat

for Donald Trump and his ongoing legal battles with E. Jean Carroll, but we begin with a celebration,

a celebration of a life well-lived. We're talking, of course,

about former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away Sunday at his family home in Plains, Georgia,

at the age of 100. Jimmy Carter's life was a quintessential American dream, a peanut farmer

who ascended to the White House, a nuclear engineer who brought a plain spoken

folksiness to our national politics, a man so guided by his faith and decency that after

a brutal defeat to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential contest, he forged a post-presidency

that completely redefined what service to one's nation

and your fellow man could look like.

This weekend, President Carter will be brought to Atlanta, Georgia by motorcade, where he will

lie in repose at the Carter Center.

On Monday, January 6th, he will be flown to Washington, D.C., where he will lie in state

at the U.S. Capitol

and where thousands of mourners are expected to pay their respects to him.

A state funeral at Washington National Cathedral

will then be held on January 9th,

where former President Carter will be eulogized by, among others,

his longtime friend, President Joe Biden. President

Carter will then be flown back to Georgia, where he will be buried next to former First Lady

Rosalind Carter, his wife of 77 years in a family plot next to a willow tree at the edge of a

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