>> the democratic national committee is going to be having elections in the coming months. specifically an election for a new leader. it is really important that as this party, the democratic party tries to rebuild, and win the midterms, and the presidential in 2028, that we do some introspection. there were so many people who after joe biden's disastrous debate performance said he should stay in the race. despite all the evidence to the contrary, with the voters and what we saw with our own eyes, and the next person to lead that organization and should not be one of those people who had the bad judgment to defend him staying in the race, it would've had more disastrous consequences than when democrats experienced this week. >> scott? >> translator: costco has been forced to recall over 80,000 pounds of butter. the ingredients list didn't say that it contained milk so the fda stepped in and forced a recall. my heartache tonight is, when did america become

this stupid? >> you got a couple seconds. >> i've been a writer for 30 years, i still don't know how to use a semicolon. can we eliminate it? it's like a, with an attitude, i don't know, how do i read it? it doesn't make any sense, can we get rid of it? >> no semicolons, thank you very much, laura coates live is up now. breaking tonight, little mark on the more, senator marco rubio for secretary of state, so how will the pick land with the faithful? democrats on capitol hill lick their wounds and search for solutions as one lawmaker floats a provocative idea. the shadow cabinet of democrats that lawmaker live with me tonight. preparing for the promised retribution, how the doj is getting ready for trumps 2.0 administration. tonight, on laura coates live.

tonight, the biggest pick yet for donald trump's second administration. learning tonight that he is ready to choose marco rubio as secretary of state. it would be a huge role for the florida senator, whose become a serious foreign-policy hawk, especially on china and iran. trump's choice did not appear to be an easy one , a source says the president-elect was leaning toward former trump acting director of national intelligence as of this morning, of all times. he shifted to rubio after calls and conversations with rubio allies. a big caveat you've heard before, we're hearing trump could change his mind until the offer is formally made. maybe even afterwards. we find the pick a surprise, we're not the only one. not least because of the heated insults they traded in 2016. >> don't worry about it.

>> you've got to do better than those. >> the guy has a number one, number one absentee record. doesn't show up to vote. that's why [ inaudible ] do not like him. >> he's always calling me little marco, i'll admit he's taller than me, he 6'2" which is why to understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5'2", have you seen his hands? they're like this. and you know what they say about men with small hands. you can't trust them. >> how much has changed in just eight years. if there's anything we do know about trump, it's that he's willing to bury the hatchet if you show loyalty. his relationship with rubio has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, after all, rubio was a finalist for

trump's bp this time around. remember this during the 2024 campaign cut some in maga world worried that rubio is to establishment. for example, don junior. >> i have a good relationship with marco but there is some truth about having someone does more establishment in there, wouldn't the senate rhino, wouldn't they love that? i joked, i said that about nikki haley, it gets her, by the time my father's hand moves off the bible in the swearing-in process, on january 20th? 12:00 p.m. january 20th, the second it goes off it would be like, impeachment, gone. that's how fast it would be. >> while some of the maga faithful may be raising an eyebrow, rubio will certainly give comfort to many traditional republicans, even former congressman gop congressman, adam kinsinger says this is good news. make no mistake, rubio has aligned himself with trump's foreign-policy views ,

including skepticism toward ukraine. he's just the latest picked up a lot trump's foreign-policy and national security team a go telling cnn that trump has asked gop corpsmen mike walt to be his national security advisor. it'll be a tough role to fill considering trump turned through four, yes, four in his first term. walt would juggle the ukraine conflict and the israel hamas war, already two tall orders. trump also picked gop chorus woman for united nations ambassador. that brings us a total of seven pics already. there's a lot more of course to go. joining me now, the coauthor of find me the votes, republican strategist aaron perini, political commentator and senior spokesperson for hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, karen finney, glad to have all of you here. i'm going to begin with you, the source telling cnn that trump is

likely to pick rubio. for the new york times, of course, he could still change his mind. will he, you think? >> probably not at this point. what's fascinating is the reporting that he was all set to name as late as this morning, and then changed his mind at the last, at the last minute. this reflects the tension that is going on in trump world right now between the maga, the people who want maga faithful in all top positions, and people looking for more reassurance with traditional republicans who can work, who can work on compromises, and reassure the country. and, before rubio, it's a mixed bag so far, i would say susan wilds is reassuring, because even though she was the campaign manager, was not viewed as the ideological vengeance seeker, but then you get steve miller as deputy white house, deputy

chief of staff, he's full maga. i thought when trump put out the tweet that pompeo and haley were out and would not serve. that was a pretty big message to the mager faithful crowd that he was going in their direction but then he picks rubio. the one to watch coming up is attorney general. >> that's going to be a huge one, that will set the tone about whether it's retribution that he's after or that he's going to focus on something else. focusing on rubio for a moment, distinct people, frankly, rubio is a hawk, the idea about ukraine and support, here's what he said about ukraine and what he would do, listen. >> i think the ukrainians have been incredibly brave and strong standing up to russia but at the end of the day, what we are funding is a stalemate war and it needs to be brought to a conclusion, that country is going to be set back 100

years. that doesn't mean that we celebrate what vladimir putin did or are excited about it but there has to be some common sense. >> how does that align with the republicans are feeling about the support for ukraine? >> you've heard many within the republican party for most of the totality and the war between russia and ukraine who said we want to see leadership, a path forward, we want to know that there's oversight on the money being spent. that's reflective of where that started and where that has evolved into the party a few years down the road. for marco rubio, should he become the final selection for secretary of state, there are a number of good things that will happen, he's liked by his senate colleagues saw confirmation would not be a terribly difficult process for him. when you are looking at so many geopolitical conflicts that are going to be inherited by the second trump administration coming out of the biden administration, someone who not only has been in the foreign affairs committee in the senate, understands this and knows their colleagues to be able to step into this role

very efficiently, senator rubio has become very close to the president, and it has been eight years. what happens in a primary, we all forget sometimes in politics you can be brutal in a primary and put your arms down and come together, you've seen a lot of that in the republican party over the last eight years. >> imagine nikki haley. both hands up. >> donald trump understood that he didn't necessarily need her politically for this, and she wasn't fully willing to step in the way marco rubio was. senator rubio has become a good ally, that's why he was on the short list for vice presidential nomination. >> don junior has expressed skepticism, so has rfk junior, which, >> if we're listening to rfk junior, i know trump is, that's a very frightening proposition for a host of reasons. >> but he's not listening to either if he chose him. >> but here's the thing. axios was reporting that we know about the selection process is trump watching how they do on television and whether or not

they will be loyal to him. it doesn't really, who cares if he's a hawk or this or that? he's not going to be running the state department. he's going to be perhaps the manager, but the actual policy as we saw in the first trump term will be run out of the white house. whatever marco rubio thinks or believes doesn't really matter, because trump is going to be the one driving the policy. and his job is going to be simply to execute that policy. what will be interesting to see as we saw in the first trump term, a mass exodus of career foreign service officers who knew the countries in which they were serving very well, the loss of that institutional knowledge and talent was decimating to the department of state and our foreign policy. i suspect we will see that again because there were so many who felt like they could not enact the things that trump was asking. >> in a universe of those who could have been picked, for the

democrats looking at that universe and that landscape, is rubio a safer bet? >> the way democrats are looking at it, trump won, he's going to appoint, he's going to ask who he wants to serve in his cabinet. i agree he'll get confirmed fairly easily but it's more about what trump plans to do than it is who the individual is. i will say, as the first latino to serve, trump also gets the showmanship of that, and the importance of that. >> there are two things i would say about this one, anyone serving in the president cabinet, their position is to advise and implement the president policy, that shouldn't surprise anybody, and they can disagree and if somebody disagrees they can resign their cabinet post. but that hasn't happened. we have said it. we understand [ inaudible ] we understand that senator rubio, but let's understand that senator rubio

would be taking this with full understanding that he is implementing parts of trump's agenda, and i actually think the trump team is very smart to be having video and showing how these people carry the message for the president because if you are the chief diplomat, if you're the secretary of state, if you're going across the world, your ability to deliver the message on behalf of, >> it's a beauty contest, come on. >> what's wrong with having good messaging? >> michael wants to weigh in on the beauty contest. >> i want to weigh in on, you raised the question of whether he could be easily confirmed. she probably can, but the real question is, are there going to be confirmation hearings? >> because of the recess. >> the big issue on the table right now, wednesday the senate republicans will be voting who is majority leader, scott, who is trump's pick, is making it clear that he wants to pave the way for recess appointments. nobody has to go through confirmation. >> will that help scott become

leadership? >> it could help him with, it's a secret ballot, who knows how senate republicans were nobody's watching boats. coming back to the big one, the ag pick, here's the reason they don't want confirmation hearings for whoever he picks for that position because you know every democrat will be asking him these confirmation hearings, will you allow donald trump to direct you, who you're going to investigate, who you're going to prosecute? how is a trump pick going to answer that question? trump has made it clear that's what he wants, that's what he expects. he's talking about retribution. that's going to be a very difficult response for an ag pick. in the senate hearing. >> every time you saw an ag as it started, whether it was jeff sessions or bill barr, temporary ones, there were all of those who believed that they would be perfectly in line with trump and they would adhere to the principles you describe

about advising and fomenting but when it came down to it, there was a crisis of, constitutional crisis a lot of times as well. >> the department of defense is going to be a tougher one, the question is going to be would you be willing to use american troops on american soil against american citizens? that is going to be a tough question. i think potentially they don't want these hearings because they'll be very embarrassing if you get someone like rfk junior, testifying, the questioning, it will look like a clown show very quickly. >> that would be on democrats, if they want to behave like children in the hearings. >> susie already says, no clown show, they will listen to her. we'll come right back, thank you so much. two other pics are revealing where trump will certainly focus his attention, to karen's point, mass deportations. one is a very familiar face, immigration hardliner stephen miller. trump is set to pick him as deputy chief of staff for policy.

miller was a top immigration adviser in trump's first term, advocating for separation of families in that policy and banning targeting people from majority muslim countries. he made frequent appearances on the 2024 campaign trail saying things like this. >> who is going to stand up and say the cartels are gone? the criminal markets are gone, the gangs are gone? america is for americans and americans only! >> then there's the other immigration pick. member how trump called kamala harris the borders are even though she wasn't actually called the borders are? he liked that title so much he picked one of his own. tom homan. he was once trump's acting director immigration and customs enforcement, and at the republican convention he made it quite clear what he wants to do. >> i got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that joe biden has released in our country in violation of federal law. you better start packing

now. >> i want to bring in former acting director of i.c.e. under the obama administration, good to see you, john. trump is planning on deportations on day one. listen to the incoming orders are, frankly just tonight. >> we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats first. that's what the focus will be, there's over 1.5 convicted criminal aliens in this country that we are going to be looking for. >> you know him quite well, set the scene for us. how is it going to go down? are there obstacles that would prevent or slow the process? >> they're talking about focusing on the worst first and frankly, to give him credit those are things during the obama years when i worked with him, but the reality is there are not 1.5 million criminal undocumented immigrants out there to take. i took a look before we went on at the 2019 numbers, the last year before

trump with i.c.e. stats before covid, 129,000 convicted criminals were deported that year. it wasn't a lack of political will during the trump administration. tom had a large voice, it's just that there aren't 1.5 million criminal aliens out there to apprehend. what tom is talking about are some stats that came out late in the campaign for individuals that would be for various reasons haven't left. as he knows, those reasons are beyond 's control, their home countries want to come back, their individuals serving prison sentences who i.c.e. can't touch it until they complete their prison sentence for individuals were successfully able to prove that if they return to china or russia they will be persecuted or tortured, and thus entitled to legal protection. what troubles me is the rhetoric. i get where the appeal is to the american public, let's focus on the worst first, let's get criminals off the streets, the bottom line is they're just not there. >> because of that fact, that

that's not the scope that you're talking about, the next question everyone has is, say you go to the worst of the worst. what happens to everyone else? the term mass deportation, if there's not a criminal mass of true criminals what happens to everyone else? >> i want to be clear, there are convicted criminals in this country. there are gang members and individuals who are at large and committing serious crimes. i.c.e. is focused on the population during the bush administration, the obama administration, the trump and biden administration. i.c.e. has a laser focus on the population. not a person is booked into a state, federal prison or jail in this country without i.c.e. knowing and taking action. now you start talking about numbers, the said ministration has been clear about the numerical goals, 1 million deportations in the first year, 11 million over the four years. and the demographics are clear, 50, 60% or more of the population has been in this country 15 years. 4.4 million children of an

undocumented parent, you can't get into 1 million a year without dipping into that population. the criminal numbers just aren't there, the at-large gang members, and at-large criminals who have not yet been arrested is tedious work, slow work, when you talk these big numbers that means you're getting after that larger population of people who have been here a long time and have u.s. citizen spouses and children. >> how do you avoid the very real possibility that there could be racial profiling going on in trying to determine who are the people that ought to be rounded up? i know you said that i.c.e. has their eyes on the people who are the criminals or are potentially those who would be deported first. it's also the real possibility that you have to make a number of assumptions to determine who those people would be, and being right in the end perhaps would not excuse violations of the fourth amendment and beyond.

>> that's a very serious issue, and first of all al tell you that most of i.c.e. is done through biometrics. it's done through fingerprints, you might find a record of the individual apprehended at the border, you might find a record that the individual might have a visa. one thing we're talking about is the undocumented population, and people who are legally, committed a fraud offense. i think one thing that's going to have to happen, he needs resources. he needs to increase the size of i.c.e., and you look at the 2019 trump numbers, they're nowhere near 1 million. they're going to want to expand ice but they're going to dip in the state and local police, that's where the civil rights concerns become pronounced. they want to empower local sheriffs who want to get in the game to pull people over and call if they suspect them of being a migrant. that's difficult without the proper training. without the biometrics, without the access to the databases that federal officers have, and as we've seen in these

programs, programs where you convert state and local law enforcement, you end up with racial profiling, you end up with assumptions being made based on skin color and other things that violate the fourth amendment. so, my concern is, all this multiplier talk, local law-enforcement in the game, the military in the game, to minimize those risks. >> that's the concern that will persist until the training resources or the realization of the constitutional amendment is fully realized. a long way to go before all of this comes to fruition, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks, laura. >> up next, democrats dreaming up ideas to break the nightmare they find themselves in. justice soto mayor stepping down, biden, what about a democratic-led shadow cabinet? the congressman behind that new idea joins me next. later, call it elon musk camping out down

there with donald trump. what does he have up his sleeve? is everyone in maga land on board?

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>> the democrats nightmares breaking into a fever dream. some party members are putting ideas about how to respond to a second trump presidency and some ideas, more outlandish than others. let's take the temperature of the room. first up, the dream that supreme court justice sonja soto mayor could resign and be replaced by a younger justice. >> i think that's a very good plan. it's something that should happen. justice soto mayor has been a more than able justice, i know she may be having some personal issues that she contends with well serving on the bench, but, i don't want justice soto mayor to be another ruth bader ginsburg in terms of staying too long. >> democrats, snap out of that one. she is staying put. next fantasy? president biden resigns allowing vice president kamala harris to ascend to the

white house. >> there's one promise left he can fulfill, he can resign the presidency in the next 30 days. make kamala harris the president of the united states. he would absolve him from having to oversee the january 6th transition, of her own defeat, and it would make sure that it would nominate the news at a point where democrats have to learn drama and transparency and doing things for the public. >> again, democrats, you might want to wake up, that's not going to happen but it would force trump to throughout anything with 47th president on it. there's one more idea. a shadow government similar to the uk. a group of lawmakers that mirrors the cabinet and publicly challenges them. say senator elect adam schiff , as

shadow attorney general, congressman gregory meeks, secretary of state or colorado senator michael bennet as treasury secretary. that idea isn't just from a strategist but a lawmaker, joining me now, the man behind this idea, congressman wiley mikell, a democrat from north carolina. no dream music needed, you're in person with us. congressman, why do you think this is the way to possibly challenge this administration. >> this is something that can definitely happen, they've been doing it for over 100 years in the uk. this is an idea, if we do the exact same thing against trump we're going to get the same results. we have to step up our game, we have to go toe to toe with trump and it's not just about saying what we're against, it's about saying what we're for and putting our best messengers out there to go toe to toe. at the u.n., we should have someone going one-on-one with her, talking about what we would do better, and why the choices they make are wrong.

>> it would be somebody who acts as if the union were a response they would get every time there's a major speech or press conference, they would have their own issue or white papers, what would this look like in practice? >> it's about accountability, keeping public pressure on every member of the cabinet when they step out of line. you have someone who is there, ready to call them out. that's something we don't have. you've got an issue with the epa, the spokesman taking the counterpoint right away on your show. that's the point of it, something were leadership, jeffries, schumer, they can appoint folks, and we've got a ready match to go toe to toe. and it's worked well in the uk. >> there are some who would look at it and criticize it and suggest you would be delegitimizing this administration. not simply giving an alternative accountability vehicle. what do you say to those who would question this as a ploy to try to undermine a decisive

victory? >> i think it's about making sure that they're accountable. that's the point of it. and like anything, you start from scratch, you get to do it our own way, our own american way, they certainly have, they done it for a while in the uk but, what i want to do, i want an answer, i want a message on our issues, i want to talk about the stuff that we want to do so in the next election we say, trump is deporting families, this is the policy we would put in place. that's what you get with a shadow cabinet. you start looking, fill the spots, look at our amazing messengers who can take that task. >> i wonder how that would be different for from the leadership that would have their voice on these issues as well, if there's some support behind it but there is a colleague of yours, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who asked about accountability. she asked why they split their tickets between trump and democrats, and if they actually did that.

some of the most common answers i want to share with you, i'm summarizing here, working class antiestablishment and change. why didn't the voters see trump that way and what did the democrats do to counteract that? >> we've got to do better, and elections are very simple. change versus more of the same, and to this small slice, felt like trump was their best bet for change but the same voters in places like north carolina and arizona, and michigan and wisconsin and nevada, they voted for democrats for the senate, for the governor of north carolina, so, i see it as a mixed bag with all this stuff, but we've got to do a better job talking about economic issues, issues that matter at the kitchen table. those are the things that the democrats who won in those states did a good job with. >> that would be part of the message of a shadow cabinet. >> absolutely, 100%.

>> we'll see how it works out, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks so much. >> up next, fear and loathing inside maine justice, new size of concerns inside the doj about a donald trump return. who you might pick to leave the agency, and what a trump doj has in store. plus, the man who may be influencing some of these pics, just how close is elon musk getting to donald trump?

>> there's one thing donald trump hasn't yet talked about since winning the white house. retribution. talks about it all the time on the campaign trail. >> the hard-working americans, november 5th will be our new liberation day, but for the liars and cheaters, and fraudsters and censors and imposters, who have commandeered our government, it

will be there judgment day we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs, i am your warrior, i am your justice. for those who have been wronged and the prey betrayed, i'm your retribution. i am your retribution. >> some could very well in his retribution at the justice department. the same doj investing him several times including the trump russia probe. his handling of classified documents and the investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. the last two led to charges against him, the classified docs case that was tossed out, the election case will likely end once he takes office and doj employees are paying attention to trump's warning of retribution. political reports they are terrified of trump's return. joining me now, the reporter

behind the scoop, josh gerstein, for politico, josh, welcome. you report that there's a sense of dread, 115,000 doj employees, a lot of them are careers, meaning they're not political appointees, how are they preparing and accepting or not his return. >> a lot of them went through a trump administration already. that was very turbulent for the justice department. i remember jeff sessions was going to be fired today, rob rosenstein is going to be filed. there was a case where there was constant warring between the justice department and the white house, back and forth at a level and the people i've spoken to are convinced that this new administration, the second go round for trump is going to be that but taking up an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude in terms of chaos,

upheaval, and as you were mentioning earlier, the potential for retribution against the justice department, the justice department being asked to turn its focus on entities that people are not interested in prosecuting. like fellow prosecutors from new york or georgia, or prosecutors within their own department. >> i've been a career prosecutor under two administrations. that's not tenable, sustainable, to have them operating under that sword of damocles with the work they have to do to think, is this the day that what i'm working on is taken away, or i'm punished for doing my job, and it's not just the doj employees, we had mark slade on our airwaves today, a national intelligence lawyer. and there are others outside a doj employee who are so worried about retribution, that he is advising them in some respects to leave the country for a while. listen to what he said. >> i'm not saying sell your

home, move overseas, never come back, i'm telling certain clients, a small number that, take a vacation. for inauguration, and let's see what happens in the days or week or two afterward. >> are some trump critics considering this? >> within the department, especially the people that are the most concerned at this point are people that have ties of any kind to the investigations of trump. to the prosecutions of trump, to special counsel jack smith, to special counsel robert mueller. anybody who served in a minor or arguably trivial capacity in any of those investigations is concerned, maybe at the higher level that they can potentially be prosecuted or targeted. by the new administration, and at the lower level the concern is that they might be shuffled off to some desk in the corner of the department or sent to alaska or something like that. where they're going to be

marginalized for trump's entire term. they have to think carefully about the professional consequences of whether they want to stick around for that. >> what is trump's vision of an aging this time around? he had several and of course, we've seen jeff sessions, bill barr's and beyond, how he viewed that particular role, loyalty was essential. has that changed this time around? >> i think he's probably still looking for retribution and looking for people that will carry out his vendettas and target people in the way that he's always talked about prosecutors targeting people, he believed the democratic prosecutors did this to him, did this to other people and he wanted to see that done for him. there are people around him that are trying to focusing more on an agenda of reform, they think there needs to be changes in the way the department does things and they might desire that he appoints someone who maybe would be seen as a more competent manager, 115,000 employees. it's not a trivial workforce to try to

manage. he might need somebody that can be taken seriously in leading that kind of department. rather than somebody that's going to come in and flail around, which i think is the way trump views his attorneys general having been the last time that they didn't get the job done, you see these arguments being made to trump behind the scenes, and we don't quite know yet what type of person he's going to pick. >> the firing of fbi director james comey, is intended for the fbi director of for your administration. do you see christopher wray as holding onto his job in his next administration? >> i think it's going to be very difficult, and the things that they've said about christopher wray, the things of the republicans on capitol hill that are closest to trump they say that they gave him a chance

to try to fix a lot of the problems that they thought they saw coming in to the administration in terms of trump's concerns about surveillance directed at his campaign for his campaign advisers the last time around, 2016. they don't think that ray has done enough to reform the place. my sense is that we'll see chris ray depart, one way or another sometime before or after the inauguration. and trump will have to see about potentially appointing a new fbi director. >> which adds a different layer to the idea of instability and the absence of knowledge in a particular sector. a very important one my thank you so much for joining us. >> nice to be here. >> up next, elon musk cited at mar-a-lago nearly every day since the election. new details on how he's influencing donald trump's staffing decisions. the so-called ice maiden, trump's term speaks. what susan wiles is telling donors about trump's day one. plans.

>> we have a major production in a key senate race, democratic congressman ruben gallego will beat republican kari lake for one of aririzona's senate seats. that gives democrats another seat in the senate, a seat previously held by independent kyrsten sinema, the republicans are very much still in power there. drago has been in congress for 10 years. lake previously ran for arizona governor in 2022. narrowly losing to governor katie hobbs, a controversial figure whose election denials haunted her

senate run. this now means it will be 52 republicans and 47 democrats in the senate, the pennsylvania senate race is still outstanding. elon musk has been spotted at mar-a-lago nearly every single day since trump won the presidency. just yesterday they were seen on the golf course with their families, that's musk right there with trump's granddaughter, the lawn achieving uncle status. that's not all, trump and muscat sitting together on election night. they've also been seen enjoying dinner together on the patio. now sources have described trump as being enamored with musk. look at this interaction from election night, that was shot by donald trump's granddaughter. >> we have to get elon. that gorgeous, perfect boy. >> this isn't just a budding

romance. musk is exercising influence with the president-elect. he's been on multiple calls with world leaders including ukrainian president zelenskyy. he's been weighing on staffing decisions, even putting out an endorsement for senate leadership, backing rick scott as majority leader. i want to bring in teddy scheiber, a reporter for the new york times. teddy, what else are you hearing about how elon musk is exerting his influence, and also, what's in it for him? >> sure. i can confirm it's every single day at mar-a-lago, he is in every single meeting, he is interviewing every single person for every single job and so much that you forget that he is not on the committee at all, and mcmahon who are the leaders transition team, from what i've

heard is not really putting his thumb on the scale that much, he's not introducing new people, he's betting the existing that have been put before him, expended to be spending so much of his time, he's been at mar-a-lago since tuesday night with one brief sojourn back to texas. >> what's in it for him? >> i think elon sees his mission as existential. he's known for being single-mindedly devoted to a task, even though he is ceo of multiple companies at the same time, he is putting in the elbow grease, and it's not clear, obviously he's going to get his own people in there, we are reporting at the time that elon has recommended people from spacex to the team, but i think elon sees this

mission of saving america as existential. he sees it as personally gratifying, for people i talked to, elon is enjoying his moment in the spotlight, enjoying that we're talking about him and having fun. >> i wonder how long the fund will last, both trump and musk known to be mercurial. let me ask you about what trump's soon to be chief of staff told a group of mostly tech industry donors. what did she say? >> i'm here at the rockbridge network biannual meeting, which is a group of wealthy younger tech friendly conservative donors, and there is no greater sign of this network influence the fact that the entire trump senior brass spent much of the day in las vegas talking with this group of donors, including susie wilde making her first postelection comments to date, and when she told the group

that trump is going to be, on day one reinstituting the number of executive orders that joe biden retracted on his own day one, so we have eos, eos repealed, coming back, wiles was getting face time to this group of wealthy people, a lot of them frankly are people who know musk personally. >> what kind of executive orders? >> she didn't specify. and, obviously there are a number of things where trump has debatable executive authority to move quickly, but one of the messages emphasized the need people in the room was they wanted to move quickly, that happened four years ago happen where trump was hemmed in by his own staff. that's why the transition is so important, they want to be, they only have two years to govern, not four. >> elon musk, if he's there for two years or not, thank you so much for joining.

>> you bet. >> up next, a wicked mistake. a highflying stunt and a military honor 160 years past due. tonight last call, right after this.

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on the outside of an airplane in the new mission impossible trailer. the outside of an airplane. check it out. >> you always been on the right side, brother. i have no regrets. neither should you. >> i need you to trust me. one last time. >> is that the last time? the eighth mission impossible movie to come out, mission impossible the final reckoning comes out in may and could be the last of the franchise. finally, today on veterans day, harriet tubman was posthumously commissioned to the rank of brigadier general in the maryland national guard. here is maryland's governor westmore talking about tubman's legacy. >> this is a person one of the greatest marylanders we've ever known and someone who is willing to risk her own

freedom, her own safety, her own life in order to help others. that is patriotism, heroism, it's only appropriate that we have a general harriet tubman. >> a long time coming, but appropriate indeed, the patriotism, the heroism of the true north star getting her title after all. thank you all so much for watching. anderson cooper 360 is next. how this video