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us this morning. it's increasingly clear it is donald trump's world, and we're just living in it. the most powerful rocket ever built, blasting off from texas yesterday with its creator, elon musk, looking on with the president elect of the united states, donald trump, wearing a hat, said 45 and 47, making the trip with his billionaire buddy to take in the launch just days after they both attended a ufc fight at madison square garden, where the winner did trump's signature dance. after the knockout. all of this as president biden prepares to step off the world stage this week, the first sitting president to visit the amazon seeming to wander into the jungle the g20 leaders, apparently due to a scheduling conflict he is

stepping off the stage as this made for tv cast of characters steps on stage for the new trump administration this is what forced golden does to your belly fat. >> whoa! >> do you want to stay on? you got to play by the rules. but it's up to you, steve. >> i don't think i've washed my hands for ten years. really? i don't i don't really wash my hands, ever. i think not. >> that's what kind of house we live in. it's pretty sad. the branding absolutely missed the mark. >> you were in charge of branding star. you're fired all right. >> joining us now to discuss all of this stephen collinson, cnn senior politics reporter mark preston, cnn senior political analyst meghan hayes, former director of message planning at the biden white house brad todd, cnn political commentator and republican strategist. welcome to all of you. thank you for being here. stephen, i was actually reading your your column this morning with elon musk to watch this rocket

the degree to which the world that we're leaving, the world that we're entering contrast with one another. right. >> and this relationship between donald trump and elon musk is fascinating. you know, the the most interesting orbit was not the one that rockets were blasting off to from texas. it's the one between trump and musk and everything that brings you know, the potential of someone, a genius in the middle of government. but all the conflicts of interests that that brings. but i think what we're seeing is you're right. this move trump is already exerting power two months before he actually becomes the president. you're seeing it domestically. you're seeing it internationally. emmanuel macron, the french president, is already looking to invite trump and musk to an ai summit in paris in february just showing how everything is changing very fast. people are reacting to trump. while president biden is basically slipping off the international stage. >> you know, republican consultant said to me, brad, it

was not brad said to me the other day, it's almost the beginning of the new era of the american oligarch, right? and it was it was interesting that he said that it's not fear necessarily, because the american oligarch, the wealthy have always run the government here in in washington. but it is amazing to have the wealthiest one of, you know, most powerful person in the world right next to donald trump. and then you have to wonder their buddies, right now. but i don't know very many relationships that that donald trump, you know, fosters and maintains. >> well, it's often hard for two egos to let's be candid, male egos of this size to stand next to each other in the same space for a long time, particularly with these two. but megan hayes the democratic congressman, jim himes who is, to be clear, a serious guy on the intelligence committee, he said this, quote, we're becoming the world's first nuclear armed reality television show. i mean, he's not wrong. >> everyone running to the cabinet has been been on tv. who knew that was the pipeline

to be in a cabinet secretary or be qualified to run major agencies in a government but i also am wondering where is jd vance in all of this? i know he's going to the hill today, but he's been basically missing from trump's orbit or not seen in trump's orbit for several weeks now. and it seems like elon musk has taken that spot in trump's mind. >> so, well, what jd vance is doing today, brad todd is shepherding matt gaetz who we didn't have in the made for tv match but is like the most controversial of these picks. well, i jd vance has been pretty integral actually behind behind the scenes in helping vet cabinet nominees and helping pick them and giving them given the president elect to see a lot of him because this is going to the stage is now going to move to the u.s. senate, which is territory jd vance knows well where he has more relationships than donald trump does. >> i think the other thing that's kind of remarkable about some of these picks is some people are feigning shock at some of his selections but these people all campaigned with him when if you were at a trump rally you saw a litany of speakers, some of whom were are now going to be in the cabinet, it's almost like a shadow government was on stage there. so i think the voters are

that's why you see, the polling shows the voters are a lot less surprised than a lot of the beltway classes. yeah. >> stephen, the other piece, part of your piece that stood out to me as well. and that i think that some of what we just saw captured a little bit of on video is this idea of trump as a cultural force, right? you wrote a little bit about that. the trump dance in particular. we have now seen kind of across sports fields there does seem to be a sense that there were people who were not publicly embracing trump, who, in the wake of the election results, seem willing to do that, and that that cultural shift stood out to me as much in kind of thinking through what we had today news wise, as anything else. right. >> he's putting himself in iconic situations. you know, he's standing there yesterday with his chin in the air, watching this rocket go up almost like there was some credit to accrue to him for the elon musk. and i guess he was basking in reflected glory

because musk is now part of his inner circle. i think there's been a lot of talk about, okay, this is all going to blow up right? they can't stick together. there's a lot for them at stake. if they stay together. musk gets more power. he's inside the middle of the government. trump is hanging around with the richest man in the world. he is a force multiplier in terms of power. he's a massive non-state actor, and i'm sure when trump was watching that rocket go up, not only was he impressed, but he had to be thinking about musk's power. musk is not just a great ally to have. he would be a terrible enemy if if they did break up. if you like. >> there's also been some conversations about the ways in which these two men are alike mark in ways that i mean, let's be candid, right? donald trump has the kind of profile. there's not a ton of people out in the world that he necessarily could relate to, right, that are on his same level but these two men, both

share fame they share in particular, you know fathers that both describe as you know, overbearing and very prominent in the early years of their lives. and i mean, to steven's point, if they do sustain this relationship there is a ton at stake. >> look, there's probably a bond there to your point that that we don't quite even understand yet. that's still developing. >> family photos, which is bizarro, which is bizarro and let me say this as well donald trump has been very disciplined, hasn't he, over the past week? >> no. people say he's not disciplined. he named matt gaetz. he nominated him. yeah. but yeah, but he hasn't been sending out tweets like at all hours of the night saying that people are coming after him, like on the i understand we lowered the bar considerably so you can step over it necessarily right. >> like i get that there have been a lot of elon tweets or x's and quite a few trump truth social posts, but i do take your broader point. >> yeah, it's just it seems it seems that trump is is really

the whole idea that trump has a mandate, i think is is a false narrative. right? i think that he has incredible support from the american people. but a mandate means that you're going to get everything through. and i think that we're already seeing some pushback from, obviously, senate republicans saying that matt gaetz isn't going to get through. that doesn't mean that donald trump isn't going to get 95% of everything else that he wants done. but the idea that a mandate, i think is overstated. >> do you agree with that? >> i think we decided in 92 i'm old enough to remember when we said bill clinton had a mandate with 43%. so yes, every president actually does get a mandate but mandates are like muscles. you have to use them to make them bigger and so i think that the trump administration would be a mistake for them not to come out with a fairly bold agenda early on. the trick is to do an agenda that helps you get into the other side. that's the mistake that barack obama made. it's a mistake joe biden made is to come up with things at the very beginning of their administration that helps you get democrats i think that's the trick. if i'm in the trump administration, i'm trying to spend the next month and a half trying to come up with that

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>> your goal is to get to vegas. that's money time. and i understand the assignment. the emirates nba cup continues. watch on tnt and stream vr sports on max i think if there is an ethics report out there that is being or that has been completed, then i think the senate >> i think it would be helpful. everybody's talking about it. it apparently was just about done. i think it would be helpful. >> i've already talked to him. he just said listen, he wants a shot to be able to lay out his vision for the department and also to respond to these various said, hey the the confirmation hearing is the place and chance to do that. >> republican senators calling for more information on donald trump's choice to be attorney general. the president elect not backing away from gaetz mr. president are you reconsidering the nomination of matt gaetz? >> no and starting today senators will get a chance to speak with gaetz himself. >> vice president elect jd vance bringing gaetz for meetings with key republican

senators who will be involved in the confirmation process. gaetz's arrival back on capitol hill comes as the house ethics committee is scheduled to meet and weigh whether or not to make their report on gaetz public. a report investigating allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor and illicit drug use by the former congressman do you have to understand that my clients are only two out of the over dozen witnesses that testified? >> i was present for two of those. and so what i'm telling you is just a fraction of the evidence that's available. of the thousands of documents the and the 25 subpoenas, 12 witnesses. well i do think that it's probably at the tip of the iceberg tip of the iceberg. >> he says that, of course the lawyer, brad todd, for two of women, one of whom says that they witnessed matt gaetz having sex with a 17 year old, their 17 year old friend. can you take us behind the scenes on the hill about what the dynamics really are here? because it really does. part of the reason this is such a problem, i mean, there's

twofold, right? there's a lot of senators who don't really like matt gaetz very much, but it also potentially puts them in difficult positions as they face their own senate races. first in a primary and then a general election. >> if you were trying to confirm matt gaetz in the house, it would be a unanimous vote because they'd be glad to get rid of him. but i think the senate vote, it might be easier to confirm a bellhop from trump tower than matt gaetz. i think it's that tough. and you know, this is of its own making, right? he polarizes people on purpose, and he polarizes his colleagues on purpose. and he trashes the institution on purpose. and it's helped him out with his fundraising back home and in his own race but it's going to be a real problem here. i think if he actually gets a hearing, which i'm skeptical of he probably performed pretty well. he's a he's kind of a rock star on the house side in hearings at grilling witnesses. but i think these one on one meetings with senators, they're going to give him the courtesy of explaining things and then they're going to politely suggest the president pull the nomination.

>> what do you think? listen i'm of the conspiratorial class on this one. no, no, no. i really am okay. okay. so this is how i think it plays out. i think matt gaetz is on the airplane we've seen reporting on this. he's on the airplane. this idea is hatched. okay. for him to become a nominee for attorney general. he knows within a few days that this house report is going to get released. okay. either way he gets the support now of the maga community. who thinks that democrats and haters of donald trump are just trying to take down matt gaetz. now, if they're successful in doing so, matt gaetz becomes a pariah within a community. when that report was going to get released anyway but yet he has already established support or if he gets through, then donald trump gets what he wants, right? i mean, he gets matt gaetz there, but everyone just says, oh, my god, like who is he going to put in the department of justice to brad's point, you could put anybody in there. it doesn't matter you just put anybody in there as long as the does the job that you want them to do, it doesn't have to be

matt gaetz. it could be matt barnes or matt thompson. it could be any matt >> as a child of the 80s. i know a lot of fans including my husband it's totally understandable that donald trump would want major reform in the department of justice, which has tried to undermine him, throw him out of office, stop him from getting elected. >> all that it's totally legitimate and plenty of republicans agree with that, including to recommend he pull matt gaetz's nomination. they'll find someone else to do what they and he want at the department of justice. all right well, you heard it here first from brad todd. >> all right. still to come here after the break, casting call, two more tv personalities joined donald trump's team. democratic congressman steve cohen joins us live to discuss the incoming trump cabinet. plus debris and smoke filling the air as a house in ohio explodes. that's one of five things you have to see this morning >> saturday at nine on cnn hey, ron. >> sometimes you just need a moment self-care has never been

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we're posting on social media. this morning. we're seeing and noticing that trees and power lines have toppled onto homes, actually trapping residents inside. it took an over an hour for this fire department to rescue one of the individuals from inside of this house or trailer. and here is another home split in half because of a tree that toppled on top of it okay, now here's the culprit. this is the bomb cyclone that we keep talking about. this catchy term, which actually has its roots in a meteorological phenomenon known as bombogenesis. it has to do with when the storm drops a certain amount of pressure. what you need to know is that it's a powerful storm that's got a lot of energy, a lot of wind gusts over hurricane force and again, taking down power lines. that means people are going to wake up this morning in the dark. now, the storm is not over. we have several rounds of rain, snow and wind to go. this will last right into the early parts of the weekend as yet another what we call an atmospheric river unleashes a torrent of rain and snow across the west. >> casey all right, derek van

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to stop me. run while you have a chance. >> wednesday night dynamite live tonight at eight on tbs >> this just in to cnn. the white house is set to announce a new support package for ukraine. defense secretary lloyd austin telling reporters it would be up to $275 million and include rocket systems and artillery. it comes as another major policy shift from president biden as he attempts to bolster ukraine in the last months of his presidency. the administration is now giving the pentagon the okay to send anti-personnel landmines to that country. and this comes after biden gave ukraine the green light to strike deep inside russia with these long range missiles, the first strikes coming on tuesday. russian president vladimir putin, responding by lowering the threshold for their use of nuclear weapons. russia now saying that any attack

supported by a nuclear power could be met with a nuclear response. the state department, slamming that change in policy. the change in this policy in itself just highlights russia's hypocrisy. >> russia is suggesting here that they would use or could use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear non-nuclear states if they undertake the same kind of aggression that russia itself is inflicting upon ukraine and its people. >> and new overnight, the u.s. embassy in kyiv has been closed. that's something that hasn't happened since the invasion started back in february of 2022. apparently, there's a risk of an aerial assault. cnn's international security correspondent nick paton walsh is in kyiv. for us, this morning. nick, what can you tell us shut since the invasion, you wouldn't really see around it

any other signs of the concerns expressed by us diplomats life is kind of going about as normal. >> kyiv is so used to the regular bombardment, but it's a very specific piece of information from us diplomats here saying they're not coming to work. and basically telling other american citizens to take cover. some of the guidance around this, suggesting it's not necessarily a response to putin's nuclear saber rattling. it's hard to define exactly what the kremlin head means when he changed the doctrine, other than simply to be able to use the word nuclear again and escalate people's anxieties. because of that, the embassy shut today, and possibly for maybe just today because of the concerns about a larger aerial assault across ukraine and possibly the capital, too. i should point out, kyiv was hit hard over the weekend, one of the worst attacks for months frankly. so that may be the reason why you're seeing ordinary life continue around us but as you mentioned there, the remarkable fact now that the biden administration seems to be day by day by day, trying to increase the tools that ukraine's capability, i think it's a reflection of how badly

kyiv, sadly, is doing for its soldiers on the battlefield, losing on multiple fronts along the east to russian forces slowly advancing and also, i think we are in a remarkable moment here that i'm standing in front of an american diplomatic facility saying it's closed because they're concerned it might get hit by russian strikes. that's a stark change from where we were a week ago. i think a reflection, perhaps of concerns in the biden administration that russia may seek to retaliate after they gave permission to ukraine to use those longer range, attacking missiles to hit targets inside of russia. they did that in the last 24, 48 hours. and indeed ukraine overnight saying they hit more targets, probably with different weaponry inside russia as well, that there may be i think this closure is a part of a wider concern across the nato alliance. we're hearing that some european embassies are limiting their facilities today, perhaps out of a shared concern. there may be some kind of response. would it be targeted towards nato

members, diplomatic facilities or just across the capital, as you've seen over the past months intensifying? we don't know, but we're in a starkly different chapter in this war casey, than we were just a week ago and certainly, indeed we are and you really put that into stark relief for us. >> nick paton walsh. thank you. i really appreciate that. and actually, briefly, stephen collinson, i mean, the big picture here, i mean, this is the biden administration is taking all of the tools that they have and trying to deploy them right here at the last minute before they have to leave office. and what what does that set up here across the world? big picture. >> well, it's always been clear that even if biden won the election there was going to be some kind of negotiation next year about ending this war that's become more intense by the fact that trump won and he's made no secret of the fact that he wants to end the war. this is all about creating situations on the ground that advantage zelenskyy in the eventual negotiations that come everyone knows what it's going

to look like. there's going to be a divide putin is going to get his reward for the invasion. he's going to bite off more ukrainian territory he's trying to get as much as he can. he's trying to expel ukrainians from the kursk region of russia to set up the negotiations it's all about the terms. does ukraine get some kind of path to nato? does it get some association with the eu in a way what the president is doing, while it's escalating the situation, it is giving trump some tools because putin is doing so well right now in the war. i don't think he's going to make it easy for trump in ending this war he's going to drive a hard bargain. >> very interesting. >> all right. let's turn back now to the evolving trump transition and how u.s. companies are preparing to deal with the president elect's trade policy to this. >> we're preparing internally for what may be coming from the new administration. as we look at potential impacts. certainly

would add product cost. >> it would add product costs. that is a very dry way of saying it's going to get more expensive. that was the cfo of lowe's and that was their earnings call yesterday. and basically saying that if they enact donald trump's proposed tariffs your products would get more expensive. the walmart cfo john david rainey, also told cnbc yesterday that while that company never wants to raise prices, there will probably be cases where prices will go up for consumers. the statements coming as other retailers like elf beauty, autozone, columbia sportswear also warn they may have to raise prices to offset heavier tariffs. this, though, is a key part of trump's economic agenda if i'm going to be president of this country, i'm going to put a 100, 200, 2,000% tariff. >> they're not going to sell one car into the united states. we'll put a tariff of approximately 100 to 200% on each car, a 25% tariff on

everything they send in. just notifying john deere, right now, if you do that, we're putting a 200% tariff on everything that you want to sell into the united states. if i was mr. tariff, i would say, please get me a pr agent. i have to straighten out it's one of the most beautiful words in the whole world. the word tariff it's more beautiful than love more beautiful than love well, brad, i mean, look the reality is americans chose to send donald trump to the white house in no small part because they're upset about the economy. >> they're upset about inflation tariffs are inflationary. basically every economist will tell us, and there does seem to be some tension inside the evolving trump transition around this. like who's going to be treasury secretary, who's going to be commerce et cetera. i mean, where do where are we going on this? >> well, first off, you know we talked a lot in the campaign about how kamala harris wasn't telling her base. no, there was no element of the democrat base coalition that she was

resisting. donald trump is telling ceos big business, which long has been a republican ally. he's putting them on notice that they can't just take for granted that he's going to do what they want. i look at that clip and i see walmart. you know, back in the 80s, walmart grew by marketing that it sold things made in america. so there's going to be a new niche here, a new niche for companies who want to promote american manufacturing, promote bring back jobs here. i think people will respond to it. this is something trump has believed for a long time. it's things that americans voted for. and i think you'll see that his tariff policy will be pretty popular i mean, mark, i will on the one hand, i take your point about trump and his base, but americans have also shown like they want the cheapest thing on amazon more than they are willing to, you know, spend more money. >> it sounds really good to say that i'm going to do it, and to threaten that i'm going to put a 200%. i mean, it plays so well, but the fact of the matter is, is that it is going to boomerang back on on the average consumer again. does it help try to push does he not do it? i mean, does the threat in itself help to you know, help

position us against china? maybe. but the fact is if he enacts it, i mean then all bets are off. >> i just think a lot of his policies are not actually geared towards working class people. and a lot of working class that have sent him to the white house. so i think that we're going to have a real, real reckoning here of the the reality of what his policies actually do. i mean, he lost manufacturing jobs when he was president before. i mean, they were talking about the chips and science act, and that's bringing america or bringing jobs to to america. so i just think there's going to be a real reckoning here with working class people. and we'll see what happens. >> but, you know, the tariffs that he put in place on aluminum and steel, the biden administration kept after running against him. so tariffs are an effective tool. >> but all the economists that looked at his economic plan during the election were saying that this is going to put over $4,000 of costs back on the average family. so i think that we'll just have to see what plans actually go through. and what actually happens. but going back to the working class people, i think is going to be a real problem for the republican party heading into the midterms in 2028. >> i think you're right that it's an opening gambit, right? the number will change, but i wouldn't bet

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expected to meet today to weigh whether or not to release their report on matt gaetz. >> the former florida republican congressman who has now been picked to be donald trump's attorney general, he was at the center of a years long investigation into alleged sexual misconduct with a minor, as well as illicit drug use. if it's released, the report would contain the testimony of at least two women who told the committee that gaetz paid them for sex and attended drug fueled parties with them, where one of the women witnessed him have sex with a 17 year old. >> they testified that they met up with with matt gaetz for his appearance on fox news, met up with or traveled with, do you know? so, so mr. gaetz paid them for the tickets to come to new york for the trip and they went to broadway shows while they were there. >> what show did they see? i'm just curious now. pretty woman about a sex worker. yeah i had not even thought about that.

interesting oh pretty woman. >> joining me now to discuss democratic congressman steve cohen of tennessee. he's ethics committee and served alongside gaetz on the house judiciary committee until gaetz resigned from congress last week. congressman, thank you very much for joining us on the show. >> good to be with you again. >> so we are expecting the ethics committee to meet today. unclear whether they will vote on releasing this report. i know you've already called for them to do that, but what's your sense of what they are actually going to do? is the pressure from house speaker mike johnson going to impact republicans and mean this report never sees the light of day? >> well, it's really not from house speaker mike johnson, even though he has power. his power is he's just a conduit for the power that comes from mar-a-lago and so that's the fear is trump. he's the he's the bad guy. and i don't think they'll release i think five five and a55. it won't go out but it should go out because the american public has a right to. they don't have a right,

but they they need to see it. they need to see who's been nominated to be the top law enforcement officer in the country. and it would also be a teaching tool to the congress people, including myself, i don't know. i the salacious things the sex and the 17 year old and the drugs, and that's wrong and bad and illegal and blah, blah blah. but there's stuff in there about taking a bribe. i want to know what kind of did he get $50 and vote for something or $500 or something else. that is kind of a quid pro quo deal. they said he used his congressional perquisites for people that was unauthorized. i don't know what they mean. did somebody vote him? did he give his voting card to somebody? and they voted for him or what? he whatever he did. i don't even understand from the charges. and then there's some other things in there concerning using his campaign fund for personal expenses did he charge the the plays and the and the tickets to new york and the hotel room to the to his campaign members representation allowance, which is illegal. those are the kind of things that would be a very good tool to teach congresspeople more

about ethics but also is a prophylactic so people will think, i don't need to do that. the ethics committee needs to be strong. it needs to be respected and that would happen if this was released. so i think there's a lot of things to look at. it's been reports have been released after people have resigned in the past from florida um matter something that he was only there for about a year. eric massa massa. and so they've done it and but to a higher office, if you're going to leave and go home and be out of the public eye going to try to be attorney general and have influence over government and the american people, and you've got information about the person that might be relevant to the senate confirmation hearings. yeah, you got a duty to release it. and if doing an injustice to the to the house, to the institution,

to the system of checks and balances, to democracy and to this country. >> congressman, some former or current members of the house, markwayne mullin sticks out in my mind as now a senator they have talked about personally experiencing matt gaetz, matt gaetz bragging about some of the behavior that may be detailed in this report. do you have personal experience? have you seen matt gaetz brag about having sex about other things that show up here? >> he made some statements to me when he was a freshman that i found just kind of amazing and shocking, and i just was on the i just had to look forward. we were in the committee room and he i guess he thought he was a young guy and he was getting started and and i sponsored a decriminalization of marijuana laws and he came up and he said something. and i just thought, my god i can't believe he's saying that to me. so it's consistent with what he what did he say? >> i'm not going to go into it, but it's consistent with what he's been charged with. >> can you give us a little bit more detail? what did it relate to? i mean come on.

>> i know you want to you want to do something that mika and the other mika does, and i know you don't want to go to palm beach, but we're not going to give you something exclusive that mika and joe don't get. not that i quit watching mika and joe. they're off. >> um. so, sir, let's talk for a second about democrats and how you push back against the incoming trump administration because obviously, any party that's not in power often views itself as the party of opposition. there are some who look at how democrats push back against trump in his first term that they felt went too far, perhaps. i'm curious what you think democrats did right and wrong in pushing back against the first trump administration and how you should do it differently this time. >> well, you know, the first time was really a shock because of his conduct and some of the things he said about just women in particular and and the way he used the federal government to enrich himself. i mean, the people that stayed at trump tower the trump hotel and the

monies he charged, the secret service and they they took flights in europe not to stop and they made him go to scotland and take a 40 mile drive to trump's hotel, where they stayed. it was all he was he drifted totally. and it was improper volume. emoluments clause was violated. so it was terrible. i don't want to say we're inured to it, but we know he's going to do it now with the supreme court saying he can't be he's got a privilege. he can't be sued if he's if it's in his official capacity, he's he's he's, you know, al capone selling liquor right on the main streets of chicago. he's got no, no, no guardrails at all. i think we need to stand up and let the american public know that when we think he's wrong and he's violating the emoluments clauses, and he's going to do it constantly. i mean, that's just kind of the way he does it. and that's the way people he admires putin, he runs russia, he's an oligarch. he's got lots of business interests and he's got does things for his friends. and same thing for xi and and i'm sure a kung pao whatever his name is in north korea, he does the same thing

to kim jong un. >> okay congressman kung pao pork. uh you very much. >> you. speaking of pork >> no it's rock n roll. >> rock n roll. i'm sorry. >> elvis johnny cash, very nice. jerry lee well, we're a hat friendly set. >> so good come back. >> james carville here's your morning roundup surveillance video in the laken riley murder just moments before she was killed off of a nearby trail. experts experts testified tuesday they found the dna of the defendant, jose ibarra under riley's fingernails. something unlikely to have happened by accident. >> it has to have some sort of scratching or contact with the inside of the nail. these were shorter nails, so it wasn't like they were long nails have contact with the state has rested its case against ybarra. >> the defense will continue calling witnesses when the trial resumes. in about two

hours. today, one direction star liam payne expected to be laid to rest in england. the musician died last month after falling from a hotel balcony in buenos aires. so far, three peop connection with his death plan. the state, offering 1400 acres near the southern border to build detention facilities. no word yet from the trump campaign. the trump transition on whether they'll accept. all right, let's turn now to this. the future of the education department as we know it hanging in limbo. donald trump has vowed to send education, quote, back to the states we're going to take it all >> we're going to send it all back to the states. i believe that school choice is the civil rights issue education dollars to follow the student rather than propping up a bloated and radical bureaucracy in washington, d.c., which is what we're doing

now. ultimately, we want to close the federal department of education, and we're going to do that. >> and now he's apparently got his choice to spearhead that effort. republican donor, former pro wrestling executive linda mcmahon mcmahon has, of course, spent plenty of time in republican circles in recent years, and she served in trump's first administration as the administrator of small business and is the board chair of a pro-trump think tank known as the america first policy institute but of course, before she entered republican politics, she was the ceo of the wwe, which she co-founded with her husband if this is my last night as co gm in this ring >> oh no no >> our panel is back to discuss that. and of course the other donald trump pick we learned about yesterday, which is doctor mehmet oz, to run the

centers for medicare and medicaid mark preston, i mean, she's very cool i mean, you see her drink that beer i mean, yes, i hadn't before today, but yes go back to earlier in the show the era of the american oligarchs. >> she's incredibly wealthy. but even more so she has been involved in this trump policy uh, formation prior to the election. so talk about going into the department of education and literally what they want to do is to try to piece it out to other departments, to other cabinets, and then move maybe the corps out into the hinterlands, you know, you know, out into america. it'd be very difficult for them to do it, but it is going to be a huge fight. >> megan hayes, what is the risk, the political risk to doing what they say on the department of education i think there may be a lot of people out there that don't realize the extent to which the department of education may actually be involved in the lives of children in their own communities yeah. >> i think this just goes back to what we were talking about with working class people and people with families. the department of education pays for things like special needs programs and states for and

funded programs that you know, there's a lot that goes into public universities. it comes from the department of education. i just think that we don't realize the extent of what these departments do. and so maybe it'll be a good wake up call for the rest of america to see what these departments do. but i do think this is going to impact greatly just the basic standards of education, and it will impact their children and their education that they're receiving you know, i think this is going to be a great debate. >> if we the there's no question that we're going to continue to have federal support for education, the dollars that we're spending on kids, on special needs kids, we're going to continue to do that. we're going to continue to but if you think 3900 employees in washington are making your kid's school better, then you're just crazy. and this when we started the department of education, it's the newest department we started it in 1979. >> america was forgetting about the department of homeland security otherwise, i take your point. >> america was first in education. we started it. we're a long way from first. now, i think it's okay to stop and say, hey, maybe trying to control things from washington is not working so we can continue to fund schools with federal dollars but we don't

need 3900 people here in washington running it i don't actually know that we know what those 3900 people do. >> i'm not saying that some of those people don't need to go. i just think that there are more programs housed within that department than people realize. and i think if you start breaking it apart and start taking money away, it will impact people in their daily lives with their children's schooling. yeah. >> all right i do want to leave you with this today. the celebration trend in the sports world, the trump dance ymca trump's double fist pump has been a rally staple for years now, usually to the ymca. if we could keep playing that, that'd be great. but now the dance jumping from rallies to sports monday night, u.s. soccer star christian pulisic busted out the move after scoring a go ahead goal against jamaica on sunday. it was pro football players hitting the trump dance after big plays raiders rookie brock bowers in the end zone. lions player za'darius smith with a quick move after getting a sack and titans wideout calvin ridley

celebrated with teammates after a long score before it was called back on penalties. and one of trump's favorite sports ufc not left out oh he did the trump dance ah, he was ufc champ jon jones hitting the dance after knocking out his opponent while trump watched from the front row at madison square garden this weekend joe jones took his celebration next level. he handed the champion belt to trump for the photo op after his win but mark preston the trump dance now all the rage. >> okay, so just watching it right now, i think ridley did it best. i think everyone else does it too fast. if you're going to do it you have to emotionally do this if you ever see how trump moves his hand i've studied trump. i played him many times in debates. it's like this. >> this is why you're the perfect person to talk about this. and i will say this was widely celebrated at the republican national convention. i thin