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our 2 of "america reports." >> john: i am john roberts. the race for dave mccormick. chuck schumer invited him to washington for orientation. democratic senator bob casey has refused to concede and help taxpayers around the hook for $1 million to have every ballot that was eligible recounted and a few that apparently worked. >> sandra: the new senate majority writing "this is a blatant attempt by the democrats to violate the rule of law firm for over a week it has been clear that dave mccormick won the election. senator casey needs to concede. he will join with his reaction in moments. >> we began with alexis mcadams live in our new york city newsroom. >> most people at home that are watching about this thing wrapped up days ago. democrats and some election boards are breaking the law and admitting it to overturn the

results in the senate race in pennsylvania counting relatives that do not have the required signatures or the right dates but say people break the law all the time. >> mostly because i think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country and people violate laws anytime they want. for me if i violate this law, it is because i want a court to pay attention to it. there is nothing more important than counting votes. >> people are paying attention now. this comes days after the race was called for republican senator elect dave mccormick after beating out bob casey. kacey still will not concede. the race is heading for recount. it is costly. we are talking about at least a million dollars for taxpayers. senate majority leader elect is calling on casey to concede is democratic senator john fetterman thinks his counterpart

will do the right thing. right now, doing everything they can to make this right, suing at least 4 p.a. counties. >> i'm not going to second that. i think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country. people violate laws anytime they want. for me if i violate this law, it is because i want a court to pay attention to it. there is nothing more important than counting votes. >> right now, it is business as usual. his team saying they can do everything they can to get back on track and focus what is next in washington, d.c., looking forward to his time in d.c. >> john: what a mess. >> an assistant editor for "the wall street journal" and a fox news contributor. your reaction. >> it is amazing. breathtaking. open defiance of the law.

not trying to make a legal argument. we know how to follow the law because we don't feel like it. as your viewers can probably guess, this isn't some obscure old provision of law. this is very clear in state law. you have to sign and date the ballot and is very clear when you go to the commonwealth of pennsylvania website. it tells voters what you have to do. commissioners and officials, it is an outrage. we are not hearing much sadly from state officials. this would be a moment for the governor who has given the impression that he is one of the more sensible and reasonable moderate democrats supposed by the left-wing to show that he is not a partisan hack. i don't think we are hearing much. >> sandra: "the washington post" editorial board on their nose at the rule of law in pennsylvania. elections need rules and they

must be applied equally and consistently. here is rnc chair whatley on the recount. >> we have legal filing by the bob casey campaign filed by marc elias where they have called on votes that are cast by individuals who are not registered to vote to be counted. they have taken every step that they can to try and engineer votes that would overturn this margin. >> sandra: we will watch that and see where that goes next. there is continued reaction over this moment and this revelation this morning. >> joe and i went to mar-a-lago to meet personally with president-elect trump. it was the first time we have seen him in 7 years. for those asking why we would go speak to the president elected during such front times especially between us, i guess i would ask back, why wouldn't we?

>> we are here to report on him and hopefully provide you insight that will better equip all of us an understanding these deeply unsettling times. >> sandra: why wouldn't we? because this is a man about which you said these things just recently. >> this is not a reach. i could go back and talk about nazi germany without any concerns whatsoever. if people can't start drawing the parallels, you are just stupid or have your head in the sand or you're one of them. >> as important as trump's fascism is in the lead story every day cozying up to dictators, his obsession with hitler, he is killing us. he is putting us at risk. he is making us afraid to have babies. >> the second trump administration would destroy the department of justice, would

destroy the fbi, it would destroy the federal government's rule of law. >> sandra: if you truly believe those things to say them on national television that he is a fascist and comparison to hitler is worth noting and that he would destroy democracy. perhaps that would mean reason not to, but they did. the reaction has been fascinating. >> they are catching it from all sides as they should. i tend do not want to attack people when they do the right thing after doing the wrong thing for so long. that series of clips was not journalism. now what they are saying is after roughly a decade of that, not journalism, we are going to report. >> sandra: did they wake up or note their ratings? >> it's interesting where the business strategy goes from here. if this is msnbc, we are going to move toward the center and a news-like product.

that would probably be good for the country. this has been a big problem in our politics for years that donald trump was treated as something different where the rules of journalism needed to be thrown out the window to cover him. that has led to a lot of really horrible news accounts and also terrible environment. i think it is great if they mean it. they are going to have trouble explaining to bosses and customers can't remember the last 10 years. >> sandra: "f" is a big word. they might agreed with that question. sunny hostin, they are certainly not pleased over at "the view" with that meeting. >> i don't think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at mar-a-lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story. >> and again, are they interested in going back to

journalism? news networks are not, if you want to cover a story as a journalist, the president of the united states, president-elect is a newsmaker. it's not weird that you would want to go talk to the newsmaker. you might learn something and get some news for example. >> sandra: it's great to have you here. it is certainly something everybody is talking about. when you look at the degree to which the normalize the word "fascism" when describing trump and his leadership. >> john: do you mean as they did after his madison square garden event? listen here. >> what we are seeing play out before our eyes is the normalization of this information, though normalization of lies. trump republicans are allowing a descent into fascism by not standing up. where is the moment?

where is mitch mcconnell? where is speaker johnson. guess where he is? speaking at the rally. the normalization of the most degrading difficult violent things they can imagine. that is what happens when fascism takes over it. that is what they are attempting to carry out. >> john: let's go down to mar-a-lago and sit and chat for a while and talk about stuff. if you are that committed to the fact that you hate the person that much, why would you ever go meet with them? >> sandra: it is a threat of what will be at this person is in power again. >> john: the power that trump really has as the returning president, and they want to be part of it as opposed to the opposition. and see how they feel after he takes office. maybe they will go back to their old ways. >> sandra: we will see if viewers are buying it. >> john: declining rates.

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parents with the jacket that was discarded after about murder as well as you can see the black brim with a logo. a hat underneath it which is consistent with the hat that is observed in the surveillance footage after the murder. >> we also heard from a woman who lived with his brothers in athens. she was there when police arrived at their apartment that day after the murder. she is the one who identified ibarra. two officers who went to ibarra 'apartment -- when officers made him come outside, they noticed he had several injuries. >> i noticed on his right arm, his bicep, there was a scratch which i identified as potential defensive wound. on his left arm, he had a forearm scratch very similar in my mind, it looked like fingernails scratches to me.

while he was sitting there and speaking to us, i noticed on his left wrist below the palm, he had a puncture, maybe half an inch wide. >> laken riley's mother was very emotional while the court showed photos of the scratches. the defense questions how fresh the scratches were. only the state has called witnesses so far. it is unclear when the defense will begin calling bears. we now know that both of ibarra's brothers have been subpoenaed to testify in his defense. >> john: thank you very much for the update. we will get back to you as the court progresses. now that spirit. >> what we see is not mass deportations are going to have a negative impact on the u.s. economy. some of these people are doctors and nurses. >> sandra: democrat lawmakers threatening to stand in the way

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said promoting dei was the second most strategic goal. it comes to the promotion of dei, have one thing to say. spanish for get out of here. president biden signed an executive order within months of coming to office ordering all federal agencies to promote diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility across the agencies including promoting and installing a chief diversity officer to get that done within the workforce. the voters rejected that agenda within this election cycle. a senior trump campaign spokesperson said the media will be covering this differently if harris had won. >> most of the mainstream media wants to denigrate donald trump and his picks saying they are not that. not giving him the credit he is due for not only winning electoral votes but honestly winning the electoral college. if this were on the other side

if this were vice presidents harris coming with these kind of numbers, they would be lauding her as running the greatest campaign this nation is ever seen. >> former fox post pete hegseth is expected to carry out anti-dei changes within the military if he is confirmed. he has spoken out against dei before. this was the reaction on msnbc. >> this is someone who is known to be a white supremacist and also demands our attention. it shows us that trump has gone off the rails. he was never really on the rails. there is a heightened sense of impunity that should alarm us. >> first lady jill biden sounded off on that on x with a couple of expletives. "this blank has to stop. opposing dei initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. a big part of the reason we got our blanks cake.

on the media to find voices that will diagnose what is happening for politics and not make it worse. >> sandra: thank you. >> john: let's get one -- institute fellow and the former policy director for senator chuck schumer. democrats are still even now playing the extremist cards. calling pete hegseth a white supremacist because he says the military should not be in the dei business. which prompted michael derosa to tweet this. "this stuff has to stop. opposing dei initiatives does not make you a white supre supremacist. conversations and demonization's are big reasons we got our -- kicked. voices like this in the left are turning the democratic party into a joke. it seems like a lot of people in the democratic party still has not gotten the message of november 5th. they are in denial.

>> i don't oppose peter hicks at because of where he stands on dei. i oppose him because he is wholly unqualified to be defense secretary. no profile on defense issue. >> he is a multiyear veteran. >> he goes on tv and labs like made. he's got tattoos like me. >> and he served in the military for decades. >> john: does having a tattoo disqualify you from being secretary of anything? >> he is wholly unqualified. my opposition to him has nothing to do with dei. he's going to run the most important agency in america. he is just not qualified, and there are plenty of people who are. >> john: what you say about that? i have known pete hegseth for a long time and his heart is in the right place for the mil military. >> i think the pentagon is legitimately scared of pete hegseth because of his opposition to dei. the defense department is

spending around $86 billion right now on various dei initiatives. as someone whose brother has served in the navy for a decade, that is insulting to me. it doesn't make any sense why my brother should be required to sit in trainings about white rage and how he could be a better soldier by keeping his white supremacy and check when all he does is dutifully served his country honorably. i think that is a very noble aim. i think the opposition does stand toward his opposition to those things. >> john: he believes the democratic party is still out of touch and has not realized where it is screwed up in this election. >> democrats are taking the wrong lessons for why they got whipped two weeks ago, 13 days ago. it is because culturally, they are out of touch. the woke ridiculousness of the democratic party is being overwhelmingly rejected by mainstream americans. >> john: did the democratic party go way too far to the left and got itself out

of mainstream america? the code that is one of the issues in which democratic party was out of touch. they missed it on the border as well and on crime, they needed -- their policies were right but their language was wrong. i also think this. joe biden had 4,000 appointments. two of them were transgender. in some ways, in a real manner, this issue is overblown. look at somebody like matt gaetz who was just appointed to be head of attorney general. what boxes is he checking? he is a guy they are holding a report about cocaine use and sex with underage people. why is he qualified for this job? how does this person get to the top of the chain? >> you say that biden appointed transgender individuals. running literally through every department in the federal government. counting brendan carr who is not nominated to be the chairman of the sec to write this on x.

the sec's most regent budget request. the agency's second-highest strategic goal starting next year the sec will end its promotion of dei. if it is the second-highest strategic goal, it is more than appointing two transgender people to your administration. these programs were running through literally every department in the federal government. >> in particular, the concern was on the appointments, the concern was the total rewrite of title ix that change the definition of biological sex eroding women's sex based rights to their own personal restrooms. that biden administration did that enforced that on school districts across the country with no carrot for how that affects women like myself. that is a massive problem. that's not just a cultural change for that was enforced by the biden administration pair there has been no apology from joe biden or kamala harris on the issue at all. there was a rebuke by the voters to that radical ideology.

>> john: does the democratic party need to recalibrate? >> they need to recalibrate. i think the republican party needs to recalibrate. i don't know how you get into position where you are saying a person who is a se ex-x offender and cocaine addict and hiding a report and the u.s. house of representatives, the biggest cover-up in history, he checks the box. >> asked a very diverse group of voters that voted for donald trump. >> john: we've got to leave it there. good to see you. thank you so much. >> sandra: we are tracking the trial for the illegal immigrant accused of killing georgia student laken riley. telephone records are shared in that courtroom. we will get monitoring those. the court room for live upgrades will bring up to you as we get them plus this. >> the system as it is, the way we do health is already very belief maybe he will make it worse. my head is not exploding about

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afford to enforce its own immigration law. they don't have a clear idea what to do with the millions of people that came here illegally under president biden. many of those who have been told to go back home. >> cost a lot of money, estimates say $88 billion, $88 billion to just process and deport 1 million people. do the math. how is he going to pay for it? >> what do you want to happen to the millions of people who are here? do you support people who are here illegally that have committed crimes? do you support them being deported? >> i support treating all of god's children with dignity and respect. >> even criminals? >> dignity and respect. >> no legitimate claim to a silo "cruel and racist." say "donald trump plans to declare a national emergency and utilize the aliens asked to

conduct deportations. this is cruelty should be allowed in america. we are going to fight it every step of the way. other democrats warned that deportations could destroy the economy. >> i think if you look throughout the country and all the business sectors and all the sectors that rely on immigrant labor, i think it will direct our economy. >> there is millions of immigrants who have come across the border under president biden. they cannot legally work. >> fox news keep saying they get benefits. they don't get benefits. >> increasing inflation. none of those are things that our neighbors want us to be doing. >> if people are here illegally, they are not working. they are not being pulled from the workforce if they are being here illegally. >> as democrats talk at the cost of deporting illegal immigrants, americans are shocked at the cost to care for them.

they have spent $5 million caring for illegal immigrants. they expect back cost to double next year to $10 billion. >> john: there is no question that the cost befalls a lot of us. every taxpayer in america. >> sandra: president-elect trump speak to run the department of health and human services to shake things up. targeting big food to make america healthy again. he is ready to push back. let's bring in dr. marc siegel. welcome to you dr. marc siegel. he's got several different plans he is laid out so far. among them, he's talked about fluoride. what do you know about fluoride in water? what do we need to know about this? is his bid to remove it a good thing? >> well, you know, we have to be careful. 72% of americans have fluoride in the water they are drinking. that has been since the 1960s and it cuts down on calories by

25%, sandra. recent studies include one of the university of southern california have shown that if you have too much fluoride when you're pregnant and exposed to too much fluoride, i will tell you what that is in a minute, it can cause developmental issues in young children and attention deficit disorder. that is of concern. what is too much? the epa and the fda has set standards of about .7 milligrams per liter. american dental association agrees with that. american pediatric association agrees with that and the cdc agrees with that. i'm sure you are thinking about this already. is it always limited to that? in other countries where this has been extensively studied, you are sometimes seen twice that. we do have fluoride in our toothpaste. i think the real question is, can we limit the amount of fluoride that kids are exposed to while at the same time

getting the great benefit of cutting down on calories? i would like to see how about a long-term study about the cavities versus the effects of fluoride? in europe where there is no fluoride in the water, you can see that a lot of people have terrible teeth. it really helps prevent cavities here. i think the issue is decreasing the amount to the minimum so that we don't affect devel development. >> sandra: that will surely be discussed and debated. in his bid to make america healthy again, he has won some over. he has skeptics of course. even the skeptics like bill maher say at a minimum, our health care system needs a shake-up. >> the system as it is the way we do health is already very [bleep]. maybe he will make it worse. my head is not exploding about it. he has certainly said some crazy

[bleep]. he has certainly said some crazy [bleep]. [applause] we do need shaking up. >> sandra: is this a case of anything is better than what we've got? >> this is the part i am excited about. we have a sick care system. we need a health care system. we need to get the people before they get sick. approve their food and fell down on ultra processed food which is loaded with chemicals that make you want to eat more. msg, salt, sugar's. they load you up, you get obese and you get the problems i treat in the doctor's office. if we can get people to exercise more and eat more produce -- where the subsidies go, we are getting somewhere. i'm all for that. cutting down on food coloring which can lead to attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder. he is in the right place.

he's going to come up against huge lobbies and congress that don't want this to happen. food lobbies and pharmaceutical -- which does a lot of good in the world. this is where the struggle is going to come. if food prices start to go up as a result. >> sandra: final thought on this picture. everyone is talking about the fact that he was seen on the plane eating mcdonald's after calling for banning hundreds of food additives and chemicals. how did that sit with you? >> i loved it. how about a sense of humor in this country? how about a sense of humor for once? the guy who says get rid of additives is chomping down on mcdonald's. let's laugh. >> sandra: he takes his mcdonald's ice-cream cones very seriously. dr. marc siegel, thank you. >> john: our local mcdonald's finally had to

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>> i think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country. people violate laws anytime they want. so for me if i violate this law, it is because i want a court to pay attention to it. there is nothing more important than counting votes. >> john: "precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore and people violate laws anytime they want." >> the rules passed in legislation by the pennsylvania state legislature. and just matters with these particular officials feel on this particular day or week as they are counting these ballots. the thing that is making me crazy over all of this is that we haven't heard from governor josh shapiro. the secretary state involves, this guy was on the philadelphia

board of elections back in 2020. he was incensed about trump's claims about election fraud so much so that he testified before the january 6th committee. he did an interview yesterday with a local affiliate in pennsylvania. he was asked to grade himself on how this election is going. you know what he said? "very smoothly." all according to process. as is county officials are openly defying the law. this is crazy. no wonder people have distrust of the sister and you have the secretary of state of pennsylvania say nothing to see here, everything is fine. >> john: here is the result of the election. mccormick is ahead 48.8%. the margins are narrow. the votes are not. 17,479 votes separate them in any kind of a recount, it would be difficult to overturn the margin. the kc campaign appears to backdate illegal committee. we agree with the commonwealth's

court ruling that invalidating misdated ballots disenfranchises pennsylvania voters over irrelevant determine voters eligibility. it sounds like they are saying. >> the county officials are saying things like these are just minor clerical errors that we are just going to subjectively decide what we want to do. they don't decide. there are rules. the rules are created by the pennsylvania state legislature. the pennsylvania supreme court has affirmed these rules. these county officials don't get to choose. they don't have that power. the fact as if they are acting as if they do and defying the law in this way is quite troubling. >> john: this is the case of eau claire, wisconsin, who are fed up with their school districts gender support plan. they have gone to federal court. saying in part in their pet petition, school districts across the country covering

nearly 11 million students have adopted policies to facilitate minor students often of any age, changing their gender identity and schools, names, pronouns, and bathroom use in secret from their parents. supreme court has not granted yet. do you they will? >> it will be friday. we could hear if they are going to take it up or not next week. i think one of the most chilling aspects of this case and the school district, this is what staff were taught. directly from the training manual. parents are not entitled to know their kids identities. that knowledge must be earned. >> john: what? >> before the supreme court which is what this is about. these school district and apparently a thousand other school districts across america are single-handedly removing, robbing from parents exclusive authority to raise their children as they see fit.

>> john: we will see what the supreme court does. particularly twice in the same day. >> sandra: with a budget of over $8 million, why has the pentagon failed its eighth straight audit?

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>> the pentagon has failed its seventh straight audit. chief washington correspondent michael manuel is on it. with a budget of $8 billion, where did all that money go? >> the size of the defense department. $4 trillion in liabilities. elon musk reacting on "x" sounds like a dog for doge. it's president-elect trump's idea. having elon musk cut bureaucracy and cut wasteful spending. the chief financial officer of the defense department insists the agency has turned a corner in its understanding of the depth and breadth of its challenges. some suggest it could make years for the pentagon to finally pass an audit. the chief financial officer saying in a statement, quote, momentum is on our side. there is strong commitment and belief in our ability to achieve an unforced audit opinion. incoming trump officials say

that's not good enough. >> most of the people making these decisions from healthcare to the department of defense are failing on effectiveness. they have no accountability. the pentagon has just failed its seventh consecutive audit nearly a trillion of audit. they can't even tell you where it goes. this is exposing for the public the extent of that rot and waste. >> the national authorization act requires the audit. there will be intense pressure to stop this streak of pressure at 7. sandra. >> thank you. we'll be right back. best buddie. yep, had them my whole life. c'mon bo! so we got him and he is a, an absolute joy. daddy's puppy. once we got on the farmer's dog he just attacks it, it's incredible. they're so tuned into you and they have such, such personality. being without a dog, i don't know,

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>> just before we go, sandra just wanted to make a clarification during our political program, jim kesler had a reference to matt gaetz. he is a sex offender and a cocaine addict. gaetz denied all of those allegations. that investigation ended with no charges filed.

so at this point there is an ethics investigation in the house that has not yet been released. we will see if one day it is released. no charges were ever filed. he denies all of the allegations against him. >> got it. that does it for us. that was a fast two hours. big day and a big week. thanks for joining us, everybody. i'm sandra smith. . >> it is the beginning of a week that no doubt brings an awful lot of news. america reports, day in and day out. i'm john roberts. we will see you again tomorrow. the story with martha starts right now. >> all righty, hi, there, guys. happy monday. i'm martha maccallum. this is the story. ahead today i will speak with james blair, a vital part of the trump team. this man has a big political future the pundits say. he is a political operative credited with a major part of the trump election strategy. what he saw early on and how he put it