unfriending you because of something small, it's because you're really, really hurting my values. >> at the core. >> yes. >> thank you, appreciate it. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. thins look a little different in my immediately ambient presence. that's because i'm in boston tonight. the reason i'm in boston tonight is because massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is going be joining me live right here shortly for her first tv interview since donald trump was elected to be the next president of the united states. elizabeth warren is here for her first tv interview since the election. very excited about that. that's coming up momentito. but first, storytime. and like lots of good fictional stories, this one starts with a song. >> that old beach boys song, bomb iran. ♪ bomb bomb bomb

anyway. >> when arizona senator john mccain was running for president in 2008, he was asked about the contentious issue of our relationship with iran. he was running for president at the time, but he nevertheless responded to that question by singing bomb, bomb iran to the tune of bar-bar. bar-barbara ann. people were listening and it was hilarious. when john mccain ran for president in 2008 and this is years into the war in iraq 2007/2008 and there was anxiety about how the war in iraq was going and how long it had been and how long we were going to stay and why were we there in first place? and john mccain said during that campaign that as far as he was

concerned, war in iraq that went on 100 years, that would be okay with him. he was asked a clarifying question on that. he revised that to say actually he'd be okay with a thousand year war in iraq. when john mccain was running for president in 2008, russian troops crossed the border into a tiny eurasian nation called georgia. john mccain responded to that little war there by saying that he knew he spoke for every american when he said, about that russian war in georgia, quote, i know i speak for every american when i say today we are all georgians. meaning, we are all at war with russia the way georgia is. i don't know that he spoke for every american when he said that. but he really was suggesting as a presidential candidate that the united states, in spirit at least, was with war at russia, that we wanted to be at war with

russia, in that moment we should be at war with russia because of what russia had done to this country, georgia. and i don't defend what russia did with georgia, but russia is no small thing when it comes to having a war, right? us having a war with russia? that's a big deal. while john mccain was running for president, there were these few instances when he said things that made people a little skittish about how he felt about getting us into wars or keeping us in wars. i think particularly people were a little worried about how psyched he seemed to be at the prospect of a war with russia. you might remember, this is a time when george w. bush had famously said he looked into vladimir putin's eyes and he saw a man he could trust. he had seen vladimir putin's soul by looking into his eyes. when john mccain was running for president in 2008, he was mostly aligned with george w. bush, right, they were of the same

party, sort of of the same marching order, but this is how he talked about vladimir putin. >> putin, my friends, i looked into putten's eyes and i saw three letters, a k, a g and a b. that's what i saw. >> that's how john mccain used to talk about russia and putin. that's how he sort of frequently threatened or promised war with russia while he was running for president in 2008. in this storytime story, what's truly amazing after all that is what happened next in that 2008 presidential campaign, which is that in in story, in this storytime, the russian government freaked out about that. they're very worried about the prospect of bomb bomb mccain becoming president of the united states, totally hostile with putin, ready to go to war with the slightest provocation, even in connection with a country with which we had no connection

whatsoever. what the russian government did when they freaked out about john mccain becoming president of the united states, what they did was they hacked into the rnc, they hacked into the john mccain campaign's e-mail servers and they stole and published tense of thousands of internal john mccain campaign documents and published tens of thousands of internal republican national committee documents about john mccain and about the mccain campaign. it was all just designed to expose and unnerve and publicly embarrass him. all this stuff that they stole, they hacked it and they stole it and they leaked it, all of it showed infighting. it showed negotiating about what policy positions this supposedly principled politician would take in order to get the maximum political benefit out of it. they published some nasty personal internal stuff, fights and messy decision-making about john mccain's would be vice presidential running mate, right, sarah palin. russia stole all those documents by hacking the servers in this

story and the american intelligence community in this story, they caught them in the act, the american intelligence community announced publicly that they caught them, russia, former soviet union was playing a huge psychological operation on the american people to influence their election. they'd stolen these developments, they were releasing them during the course of the campaign to influence the appearance of the american public so russia would get its preferred candidate in the election, not john mccain and in this story, even though they got caught, that russian op to try to basically influence our pick of the next president of the united states in this story seems like it worked. at least as far as we can tell it worked. you're never able to tease out all the reasons why any candidate lost one particular election in this story. you're not able to perfectly tease out all the reasons why bomb bomb mccain lost in 2008 but in this story this russian op to hurt john mccain definitely hurt him, might have hurt him enough to cost him the

presidency. but in this story, that's not the end. if that whole saga thus far is not john le carre on crack for you, what happens next in this story is even weirder and more nuts and more unnerving because in this story the day after that presidential election where russian intervened apparently to try to defeat john mccain, keep him from becoming president, in this story, the day after that election, we were hit with news about the election we had just gone through and the news we were hit with the day after the election was way more unnerving than anything we had learned before. even with what the intelligence community had already told us about, right, what we learned the day after the election was way worse. it was an order of magnitude worse. all right? here's the situation. russia didn't want mccain as president. russia hacked and stole documents, released them to the public to try to make mccain lose the election. u.s. intelligence caught them, but they weren't able to stop

them. russia really did apparently influence that outcome. that's all bad enough, but then, but then, but then in this story, the day after john mccain lost that election, thanks, russia, the russian government admitted publicly, they bragged publicly that they had been in contact with john mccain's opponent in that election the whole time. in this story, russia admitted the day after that election that they had been in contact with the barack obama campaign. during the campaign, the whole time they were running that psychological operation on the american people to try to influence our election, they'd been in contact with john mccain's opponent, the russians had, quote, despite repeated denials by the candidate's advisers that any -- excuse me, despite repeated denials by the candidate's advisers, russia said it was in contact with the president-elect's team during the campaign. there were contacts before the election said the russian deputy foreign minister.

think about how that story would have blown up if this were a true thing, if this were a true story, if the obama campaign had been in cahoots with a foreign power during the election, they'd been in contact with russia secretly throughout the campaign against john mccain while russia was interfering in our election to screw with john mccain. and think about, i mean, in this story when we learned that on day one president-elect barack obama we also learned that it wasn't over, the russian government that day bragged on the extent of the context they have, the extent of the contacts between the russian government and the campaign of this barack obama who had just been elected. they talked about quite a few members of the president-elect's campaign staff staying in touch with russian representatives. imagine if that was day one of barack obama being president-elect. imagine if that was how barack obama came to washington.

i mean, it turns out it's not how barack obama came to washington. storytime is over. that never happened in 2008 with john mccain and barack obama. but what i just described is exactly how day one went for president-elect donald trump. that exact thing just happened on day one. today's headlines were dominated by this. president obama has been unusually aggressive in planning for the presidential transition, the white house started planning it a year ago because they wanted to make sure to get it right no matter who the next president was going to be. it's interesting. it's going fast, too. when george w. bush invited president-elect obama to the white house six days after the '08 election, that was seen unusually fast for a first meeting after the election. obama was at the white house meeting george w. six days after that election. six days. that was seen as very fast. this time obama made it not

quite a day and a half, just a day and a half before he had donald trump up to the white house. so it was seen as fast before, it's lightning now. the transition is starting. and protests continue to spring up around the country in response to the shock election results where in particular tonight watching large protests in baltimore and a few other cities around the country, as these basically organic, spontaneous protests continue to erupt, as protesters converge on trump tower where president-elect donald trump still lives in midtown manhattan. his transition team has physically moved to d.c. and the transition is under way. and one of the things that's really, really important about that, about the transition, perhaps this year above all other years, is that the transition being under way right now means that donald trump is getting his first real access to high level american intelligence information. this is no longer just the

generic overview he got in the candidate's briefing during the campaign. he's now getting, as far as we know, the president's daily brief, which includes things typically like covert actions taken in secret by the u.s. government and the the u.s. military. actions designed to never be disclosed to public other other countries. top secret operations. top secret surveillance. unbelievably proprietary close held data that you and i will never know about, that even the vast majority of the upper-most people in government will never know about. remember, the whole reason we got this briefing process in first place is because fdr freaking died right after he got re-elected in 1945 and when vice president harry truman got sworn in as president thereafter no one told truman we had the atomic bomb until after he'd been president for a few days. when truman became president, he had no idea that we had that. that's why we started briefing candidates for president and

presidents-elect on their way into the oval office. so no one would be blindsided the way truman was. now there are these top secret briefings that go to the president of the united states and as of today president-elect donald trump gets them, too. and today the russian government said it was in contact all along with the trump campaign during the time that the u.s. intelligence agencies say the russian government was interfering with our election and leaking all the documents from the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic party dribbling out this massive document leak against clinton in a way that undoubtedly lengthened her odds against donald trump in the u.s. presidential campaign. during the time that u.s. intelligence says that was happen i happening. the russian government today said their contacts with the trump campaign not only existed during time of the campaign but they've continued all this time. what was the quote there? quite a few members of the trump campaign. imagine if something like this

had been disclosed ever about any other presidential candidate or any other president-elect? imagine if something like this was disclosed, publicly admitted by the russian government when barack obama had just beaten john mccain and barack obama was on his way into the white house. imagine what would have happened had we learned what the russian government says are leaks about that campaign and about that hostile foreign power that intervened in our election to try to pick the u.s. president. that is now what has happened with the trump campaign. and now, because he's president-elect, the u.s. intelligence community has to decide what they're going to tell him, what would you do? what would you tell him? for example, would you tell him about any spies that we've got working for us inside the russian government? or inside the russian military? american pilots are making

bombing runs in syria these days, we're actively engaged in a part of the syrian civil war. russia is sort of on the other side of that conflict. they've got their one creaky old aircraft carrier over there in the syrian theater and everything. let's say hypothetically that we've got incredible intel on how we're going to outflank russia in that military fight or what russian will do next because we've got a spy high up in the russian government that has secretly fed us that information unbeknownst to the russian government, let's say that information is really important for american national security for military strategy for other things we're doing in the region that all hinge on this one secret that we stole from the russian government and they don't know that we've got it? would you tell president-elect donald trump that information? would you tell him the name of the spy that we've got in putin's inner circle? hypotheticcally. do you tell him hypothetcally

what the cyber command is going to do to nuke his bank account for hacking into our election. can you trust the president-elect with that information? quote, russia said it was in contact with president-elect donald trump's team during the u.s. election campaign despite repeated denials by the republican candidate's advisers. quote, there were contacts before the election says russian deputy foreign minister. he says we continue this work without giving details of what the contacts were. that really happened today. imagine how that would have shot through the political system in 2008 had this been barack obama in the race against mccain and not donald trump in his race against hillary clinton. there are elements of the u.s. government particularly on the national security side that in one way or another they persist through the comings and goings

of different administrations, right? but even though the agencies of the national security apparatus and military and the intelligence field, they're affed by mostly career folks who stay there year in and year out no matter who the president is, ultimately all those agencies really do in a specific way answer to the president. and in a certain reductive way all of the intelligence agencies in the unite, this multizillion dollar apparatus we've got, it all exists specifically to provide information to one person, to the president, to steal secrets about the world, to steal secrets from other countries in order to help the president make high level decisions that no one else is empowered to make and no one else is trusted to make. sensitive intelligence information it's compartmentalized, the most sensitive isn't just compartmentalized, it's incredibly closely held, but the most closely held anything, the

president can see it. the president gets to see everything. this president-elect said he would plan to meet with russian president vladimir putin after this election even while president obama is still in office. the two candidate classified briefings that this president-elect got during the campaign, both of those reportedly included detailed information on the russian government hacking to influence our election after both of those briefings from the intelligence community donald trump said publicly he didn't believe the intelligence, he didn't believe the agencies. it was a bogus claim, just made up, just public relations. donald trump's most prominent adviser with intelligence related credentials is retired general michael flynn who was forced out of his job and who last year kind -- there he is -- with russian president vladimir putin. trump's last campaign manager before kellyanne conway, paul manafort, he ran an investment

fund for a russian aluminum mag nature. he was fired as trump's campaign manager after his name turned up on secret handwritten ledgers that show that a pro putin despot in ukraine had paid him millions of dollars for political services of some kind. now at a time when the u.s. intelligence agencies say that russia was running a psy-op, a psychological operation to inflnce us in who to pick for the next president, russian said it was in contact with the trump campaign while it ran that op to affect hillary clinton. if you're the director of the cia, the director of national intelligence, today what did you tell him? i mean, as of today, what do you do? do you give donald trump as of today our best sources, our best methods, our most secret stuff about russia? do you give him our best dirt on putin? our biggest plans about putin?

tell him about our spies in putin's government? and what do you do if you're president obama right now deciding exactly how you're going to hand over these keys? we are in uncharted territory in so many ways. elizabeth warren is here tonight live, next. stay with us. your insurance company won't replace

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today bernie sanders said he would not rule out running again in 2020. four years is a long time from now. but i'm not ruling out anything. he has a huge role to play in

the next iteration of liberal politics in this country b also a truth that in 2020 senator sanders will be 79 years old. donald trump is already the oldest person ever elected to the presidency. he'll be even older than ronald reagan was when he was sworn in in january he'll be 70 years old. senator sanders right now is already 75 years old. since donald trump was elected to the presidency this week we've heard a little bit from senator sanders who released a statement in response to the election results. he said today in a radio interview that he endorses minnesota congressman keith ellison to be the new chair of the democratic party, which is interesting. so since trump's election we've heard from senator sanders. we've heard from hillary clinton in her concession speech, we've heard from president obama and his gracious remarks from the white house wishing all the best of luck to his successor, but when i think about what's about to happen next in the democratic party, what happens next in

politics for all of us in a way but specifically for democrats and liberals in this new era we're now in, the new era of president trump, the one person i really, really, really want to hear from yet who i've not heard from yet is massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. luckily she's here tonight. >> thank you, good to be here. >> on a personal level, as a human being, as a citizen, how are you feeling about this election? >> well, it happened. and there was a time to be really despondent about it, but the way i see it now is that we pick ourselves up and we fight back. that's what i think it's all about. >> a lot of liberals in particular are despondent, people talking about moving to canada. i'm running into people on the subway. literally today twice on the subway in new york city and once in the airport as i was coming here to meet with you, people who looked at me and started to say something to me recognizing

me from tv and broke down in tear. i keep hearing, you can't move to canada, you can't go into your shell, you can't be despondent, you have to fight. but fight how? >> look, let's start with the fact because you really do have to acknowledge this. this is painful. this really and truly hurts. and we have to remember how donald trump started this whole campaign. he started it with an attack on mexican americans and then he took the escalator down. and his entire campaign was fueled on racism and bigotry, attacks on women, attacks on african-americans, attacks on latinos, attacks the on muslims, attacks on people who were disabled. it was one attack after another. and that means we have to think about what this means for america and where we go forward right now. and so the first part i start with, on any part of this is

that donald trump brought a kind of bigotry to the fore that we've never seen so publicly in our politics or at least not in a very, very, very long time. so what are we going to do about that? that means for me what we're going to do is we're going to stand up and say there's a lot we'll try to work with you on, there are aot of places where there are going to have to be compromises, there are things we're going to end up losing because we don't have the white house, we don't have the senate, we don't have the house of representative. but on those core issues about treating every single human being in this country with dignity, on that we stand up and we fight back. we do not back down. we do not compromise, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. for me, that's the starting place on how to understand what's happened to us. >> one of things i've been thinking a lot about is the number of people, particularly

young people, young adults who because of president obama's policies, because of what he did, they came out as having been brought to this country as kids undocumented. >> yes. >> they came out, made themselves known publicly, made themes known to the government as being here without documentation. those people are wondering if doing that means they're going to be subject to what trump has described as a nationwide deportation force that will come round them up. what do you think about that? what do you say to those people? >> what i say is to the whole rest of us, too, is what happens next in this country is partly about donald trump, partly about a republican senate, partly a republican house. but it is more about the rest of us and what the rest of us say and what the rest of us permit. you know, donald trump did not get the majority of americans voting for him. they did not. that's not how it worked in this election. but he is the president. that means he will have certain tools. but we are the american people.

and we speak for the american people, and we have the values that have made us a strong country. so here's how i see this. you can either lie down, you can whimper, you can pull up in a ball, you can decide to move to canada, or you can stand your ground and fight back. and that's what it's about. we do fight back. we will stand with those who are here who were told, come out of the shadows, we welcome you. we will stand with them. and we will standith them every day. that's what we have to do. >> when you say that, i'm going to push you on that. people are thinking about what they can do in their personal lives, like even people who have been politically involved and now feel like they have to do something they haven't yet done before. people who haven't been politically involved, people maybe who haven't voted who want to do something to protect their country. do people plan to shield their neighbors from deportation?

is that the level of planning they should be doing? >> let me put it this way. i think we start with two things that we can do. one is we can volunteer and the second is we can stay connected to each other. the first part about volunteering is get out there and volunteer for planned parenthood, give a couple hours a week or to any other organization that really matters to you, an environmental organization, an immigrants right organization, somebody who is working on economic justice, someone who is working on financial reform, get out there and volunteer because volunteering is a way to say we're making these groups stronger. this is one way our voice will be heard. it's not all going to be heard in washington. this is how we're going to have our voice heard. and the second part is we've got to stay connected to each other. this is what we can now do through the internet. this is how we can now do it. i have elizabeth warren.com. we stay connected by e-mails every four or five days where we

talk about substantive issues. we talk about the fights that are coming up. because we have to be ready to mobilize on specif issues when the time comes. we're not going to fight every issue every minute of every day. we're going to be smart, we're going to be organized, we're going to use our time and our talents in a strategic and careful way, but we are going to fight back. we are not turning this country over to what donald trump has sold. we are just not. >> we're now seeing, including tonight, big, vocal protests and they're pretty spontaneous. >> yep. >> nobody planned on donald trump being president anywhere in the ideological number line but people who were upset about it by the thousands turned out last night and by the thousands are turning out tonight. we're seeing huge numbers of people in baltimore tonight and some other cities. do you think that is healthy. do you support those protests? do you encourage people to

protest? >> people are upset and they're right to be upset. this is our country, and people have a right to have their voices heard. what happened on tuesday, we could let our country head in that direction, in the direction that donald trump offered in his campaign to lead us or we can say we are a better people than that. we have a right to be heard, but we also have an obligation to listen. you know, part of what happened on tuesday is what donald trump offered up with this kind of toxic stew of bigotry, but there were millions of people across this country who voted for him not because of that bigotry but in spite of that bigotry. there are millions of people across this country who voted for him because they are angry

about what's happening in this country, because they are worried about what's happened in this country and because they are hopeful that he is someone who will come in and break a system that is not working for them. it is not working for them economically. it is not working for them politically. you know, the way i understand this election is that the american people voted for significant change. this economy is working for a slice at the top and it's leaving everybody else in the dirt. people hanging on by their fingernails. and this political system is working for a slice of those at the top and shutting everybody else out. the american people want to see change. our job now is to try to give

some direction tohat change, to force that change in a way that not only opens up for more and more families, but that helps us build a future that works, not just for some of our kids, but a future that works for all of our kids. >> massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. can i keep you pinned to that chair for one more segment? >> you bet. >> we'll be right back. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me.

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we're back now with senator elizabeth warren. her first televised interview since the election. i was just talking to the control room for a second in the break. donald trump has tweeted tonight about the protests in the street that have erupted in response to him being leektsed that these are professional protesters who are being paid to be in the streets. incited by the media -- excuse me. >> wait, if they're being paid how are they incited by the media. >> he didn't say paid. that was me. it wouldn't be happening organically, just because the media is telling them to be there. seems like the important thing to me is it appears that donald trump is tweeting again which may be a hallmark of his presidency. he's gone after you personally and in very specific terms.

he has -- even on monday night he called you pocahontas again making fun of her american heritage. he called you a terrible human being. being the target that you have been for him, i wonder if that actually gives you any sort of opening for some sort of contact. you've never met him, have you? >> i've never met him. you know, actually what i would like to be the opening? donald trump said that he wants to adopt glass steagall. he has said he wants to raise the minimum wage. donald trump has talked about family leave. donald trump has said he will protect social security. man, we got some places there where we could overlap, and i really do want to say, heck, you want to do things that really will help build a little more economic security in this country? count me in. i'm ready. i'm ready to put aside all that. we don't have to tweet at each other about it. let's do this things and make them happen.

now, on the other hand, if you think the way we're going to build economic security in america is we're going to turn loose wall street to do whatever they want to do and run up whatever risks they want to run up, then crash the economy again, no. we will fight that one every step of the way. and if you think the way we're going to help this economy along is we're going to get rid of health care for 20 million americans, we're going to kick people with cancer to the curb on pre-existing conditions, we're going to tell 24-year-olds that they're taken off their parents' insurance policies, then the answer is no. and we'll fight you every step of the way. but really is important. you got to stay listening in this. if donald trump will advance the kinds of policies, the kinds of measures that can be helpful, then, man, let's jump up and work with him. let's make that happen. because these are things not

just that democrats want. these are things that americans want. you know, those kind of core things, like debt-free college and raising the minimum wage and expanding the social security and reining in wall street, those are the kinds of things that two-thirds to three-quarters of all americans support. that's republicans, independents, libertarians, democrats, all of us are in on that. that's an american agenda. if donald trump will go in that direction, we'll help him, we'll help him on that. but that's what it's got to be about. >> in terms of -- you mentioned affordable care act. a lot of people are trying to decipher whether or not the affordable care act is at as much risk as republicans say it is. as far as i can see it the republicans in congress have already proven they can repeal

the affordable care act and land it in a bill on the president's desk because president obama has had to say no to that. president-elect trump has said he would sign it. i see the affordable care act at being at very grave risk. i see row versus wade at grave risk, i see the consumer protection bureau at grave risk. am i overstating it? or do you also see those things as being on the precipice. >> i see all those things at risk. i see all those things the and more at risk. but that's why i say volunteer just to stay in the game right now and stay connected to each other because we're going to have to have these fights. we're going to have to be organized in these fights. we're going to have to drive these fights. and you know, donald trump did prove that he can listen to the american people. he proved that. he listened to all of them. he didn't get the majority of votes. but he listened on the economic

pain that a lot of americans are feeling. he listened on the anxiety that a lot of americans feel. our job is to make sure our voices get heard. he said he would be president of all the people. then let's hold him to it and let's help him do it. and let's make it clear what that doesn't include and where it is we will fight him every step of the way. >> can i ask you three very quick lightning round questions. >> okay, i'm ready. >> have you spoken with hillary clinton since the election? >> yes. >> how was it? >> good. look, it's hard. it's really hard. she worked hard. she has had 25 years of public service, longer. she's been out there. she has fought for women. she has fought for children. she has fought for health n.

she has fought for human rights. that has been the defining feature of her life, and this is hard. in is hard. i respect what she has done and tried to do for this country and for people around the world. >> do you want to be the chair of the democratic party? >> no. >> you can do that while still being a senator. >> i know. but look, i've made this here. i'm into this fight, but i'm also into constructively what we can build. i want a lot of voices in here. i want a lot of people helping make this happen. that's what matters to me. i don't need a title. believe me. i will be in this. >> the democratic party needs a new chair, though. do you have a favorite -- i mention this in part because congressman ellison was endorsed by senator sanders today.

will you be involved in that at all or do you see that external of your responsibilities? >> no, no, i talked with congressman ellison. i really, really like keith. i think he's terrific and i think he would make a terrific dnc chair. i just recently heard that howard dean, literally just a few minutes ago, that howard dean. >> he said i'm in. >> i talked to him. fine. i'd like to hear what his vision is. but i want lots of democrats in, engaged and ready to go. >> who are you going to pick as your running mate in 2020? you see what i did there? >> no, no, no. that is a long way off. what we've got to do right now is we don't have energy to waste on that. what we have is we've got to line up our fights, where it is that we're willing to say we're with you and we'll help you and we'll put wind in your sails president-elect trump and where it is that we say on bigotry, on

prejudice, on turning loose wall street, on saddling our kids with too much debt on student loans, on canceling health insurance, where we say, no, we'll fight you every step of the way. you start every fight by being clear so that the people on the other side understand these are the places i'll help you, these are the places i will do everything i can to block you. we need to be clear on that as democrats, we need to be clear on that as progressives. we need to be clear on that as americans. and we need to send that message to donald trump tonight and tomorrow and a whole lot of days into the future. >> senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts, thank you. you're the only person i chase around the country. you only let me know i can interview the day of. then i'm constantly buying toothpaste at an airport and chasing you down. thank you. we'll be right back. (vo) maybe it was here,

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and we fight back. we do not back down. we do not compromise, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. for me, that's the starting place on how to understand what's happened to us. >> elizabeth warren speaking with mow live moments ago in a studio that's like nine feet from where i am right now. joining us now is the host of "all in", the great chris hayes who stayed late with me to talk about that interview and watched it live as it happened. thank you, my friend. >> absolutely, anytime. >> first, let me ask you if you think elizabeth warren is one of the de facto leaders of the democratic party now more than she was before. >> frankly, she and bernie sanders are, i think, in some ways the kind of leaders of the party at this point. and they struck, it's interesting, they struck some more notes. basically, they said look, on

anything where we agree, on issues that we believe will help working americans, whether it's breaking up the banks or increase minimum wage or a jobs bill perhaps, details to be seen, we can work with you. and on anything of these core values in bigotry and targeting americans, we will fight you, bernie sanders said we will be your worst nightmare. i think that's a good opening line, but -- >> mm-hm. >> here's the problem. i said this to jeff merkley on my show. i said let's say the first two items are number one, an infrastructure bill that would provide macro economic stimulus, and democrats say we want to work with you on that. a victory on that builds political capital for the new president trump. and the next is the deportation force. now you have, maybe help the economy but given political capital to someone who is using that political capital to pursue

one of the things that you hate and are going to fight against, and that is a conundrum for the democratic party, for ever one of those in that senate caucus who are essentially the last bulwark of democratic party at the federal level. >> and what are the mechanisms that they've got? when sanders and warren talk about fighting tooth and nail, you saw how fierce elizabeth warren was in expressing how hard she would fight and how uncompromising she would be. bernie sanders said we'll be their worse nightmare. jeff merkley sounded very much like the supreme court is somewhere where he will lay his body down in terms of doing the right thing bit supreme court. what are their options? >> a lot of it has to do with the norms of the senate, mitch mcconnell. a determined group of 40-plus senators can really slow things to a crawl, not just with a filibuster with all kinds of procedural gimmicks, i remember

talking to harry reid and they talked about the way they extended the fight. even if they thought they couldn't win, they talked about extending the fight, make them eat up the clock, eat up the clock. there are all sorts of mechanisms and parliamentary moves. does mitch mcconnell move to destroy any of those. do they get rid of the filibuster, cradown on the parliamentary tactics that have been used so successfully in many respects by mcconnell and his caucus back in 2009 particularly. >> and when that happens, and there are no procedural options within electoral politics for stopping things, that's when things get really, really, really radical. >> people need to understand what you said last night, that there are institutional checks throughout, and everybody needs to do their part in playing a role in those checks. >> yeah. we live in a republic, and our

democracy is part of our republic, but we've got other stuff, too, that we need to be aware of. chris hayes, my stalwart friend. i miss us talking like this to each other, even if it is through a camera. we should do this more on each other's shows. >> i totally agree. >> thanks, man. lots more ahead with us, stay with us. can help you take on a new job, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com.

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call in the state of arizona. tonight they've called the state for donald trump. and not by any considerable margin. we still, however, do not have a call in the great state of michigan. they are still actually counting the votes in michigan. you can see how close it is there, less than 12,000 votes out of many millions cast. donald trump's lead right now is still too close to call. in new hampshire, they are still counting votes. they've got 2% left to count. right now hillary clinton is in the lead in new hampshire, but it's a slim lead, only about 2500 votes after, out of about 700,000 cast. for those of you who are feeling either elated or saddened by tuesday night's results and the statistics say more of you are saddened since hillary clinton won the popular vote, this kind, these kinds of results as they come in, they'll probably not be

of interest to the party-affiliated section of your brain, but if you are a cynic, it's further proof that your vote really, really, really does matter. it matters if you vote third party. 2500 votes difference in new hampshire? it's less than the population of dunnbarton. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> last night i suggested that elizabeth warren could be busy four years from now, running for president, and i'm glad you narrowed that down and got her to admit that she's running for president. she didn't say no, i'm not running for president. in politics, that means you're running for president. >> that means yes, with an exclamation point. >> she may not be the only woman in the senate running fou