in t cheountry. ( ♪ ) because we know, even the smallest things are sometimes the biggest. tonight, let's listen to trump in his own words, let's play "hard ball." . >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington a. year after donald trump's election shocked the world, he remains unpredictable. tonight, we look at president trump if his own words, we'll examine the way he's conducted himself in the goldfish bowl of the oval office, he's delivered on the promises he's made and delivered his setbacks. they have a charitably mixed results. it has never ceased to keep our

attention. let's lock at key moments from last year. >> i pledge to every citizen of our land that i will be president for all americans. >> we're in the process of putting together one of the great cabinets that has ever been assembled in the history of our nation. do you like it so far, everybody? this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. douglas is an example of somebody that has done an amazing job being recognized more and more, that i noticed. >> i want to pray for arnold for those ratings. we had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. but we had a bad court. i have nothing to do with russia. i have to tell you, it's an unbelievably tough subject. nobody knew it cob so complicated. >> i never said repeal it and

replace it within 64 days. >> the world is a mess. i inherited a mess. whether it's the middle east, whether it's north korea, whether it's so many other things. if you don't catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it's very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, i'll go along with russia. it could have been china. it could have been a lot of different groups. >> coming from a different world and only being a politician for a short period of time, how am i doing? okay. i'm president. okay. i'm president. can you believe it. right? i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer, not a government lawyer but a russian lawyer. it was a short meeting. i think from a practical

standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. it's called opposition research or research into your opponent when we finally get a chance to repeal and replace, they don't take advantage of it. so that's disappointing. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recuse himself. almost immediately after he took office and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. they should have approved health care last night. but you can't have everyone everything, boy, oh, boy. >> north korea best not make any threats to the united states, they will be met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen. i think there's blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. we have to close down our deposit. we're build tag wall wouldn't

you want to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now. out. he's fired. he's fired! you know the saddest thing is that, because i'm the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department. i'm not supposed to be involved with the fbi. i'm not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing. let me tell you the only one that matters is me, when it comes to it, that's what the proils will be. you've seen that, you've seen it strongly. >> joining me now after that is shannon pettypiece, a columnist for the washington post and jason johnson, an msnbc political contributor. i don't know wherewithal go with that venue, how is history going to ens caps late all that when they put together the donald trump american presidency. >> when you look at his

statements, that's unprecedented. no president has ever spoken like this, made these sort of bold proclamations and statements. when you look at his actions and what he's done and accomplished. i think this past year, it's pretty modest. >> pretty modest or bad modest? >> i think modest in the sense he hasn't done that much. >> he's kept our attention. i am stunned. i want to start with historical knowledge. jason is shaking his head. i remember dan quayle used to make statements like the holocaust is the worst this thing happened in history. what about way back in nantucket in the 18th century we're talking about here, early 19th and this guy is talking about him as he he's a anybody. >> he's being recognized more and more day-by-day frederick douglas. of all the things you played in there, there is one i absolutely

agree at the very end when he said, i'm the only one that matters, that's the thread that's running through all of this it's not just the profit united states, it's about donald trump, whether he's unhappy with this country or this country, how she being perceived, bullied, how his attorney general has been the nfl owners, all about him in each case and it has in a sense been a magical voyage of discovery. >> did he say it's a part of his experience and fantasms. all this is a dream, all that matters is my ego. it doesn't seem to matter there is nuclear weapons in north korea. n how does he size up with that guy. >> how does that short fat guy match up to me. i'm no expert in the subject. but he's commonly described as a narcissist who can only see things from his perspective.

but it is at the very least we were saying entertaining, the rest of us are watching him learn about frederick douglas or the president is not supposed to get involved with the justice department or learning that he can heck reform is so hard. >> he does have schtick, jason. he does know he does certain techniques like you're fired. you know that's a funny line. he understands the! tech to this act. >> he's a carnival barker, a performer. honestly, if we had different music in the background, it remind me of that land of confusion, phil collins, like that strange video with puppets, every other time you see him he is ranting about something, he's never pleads. when you look at george bush, obama, clinton, these guys, every once in a while they'd wakeskating up and say, i'm the president. he doesn't seem to like the job and he's in a constant state of

rage and doesn't seem to accomplish much. it's bizarre to see for eight months in office. >> even people who like him, his friends, what would agree with your point he is a nars sift at the end of the day. he views the world through himself, he is constantly in a state of combat. that's where he is best, fighting. his friends and enemies will say. >> he wants to hold on to his 38% whatever it is, he made many promises to the campaign trail. he kept some of them. such as ending the paris climate deal. let's watch. >> we're going to cancel the paris climate agreement. >> for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated, regulations are killing our country and our jobs. >> we will also immediately stop the job killing transpacific partnership. >> some of his promises were a

lot harder to keep than he realize like repealing president obama's health care. let's watch. >> real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing obamacare. we will also have an efficient and responsible federal budget. no more waste, no more throwing away taxpayer dollars. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> on some issues, he did an about face like labeling china a currency manipulator during the campaign, but not now. let's watch. >> we will build a great wall and mexico will pay for the wall. i will direct my secretary of the treasury to label china a

currency manipulator. >> i promise you, i will not be taking very long vacations, if i take them at all. there is no time for vacation. we're not going to be big on vacation. >> did you see chris christie shaking his head, this is very important. i see a lot there the wall, there ain't no wall. >> no. >> there's not going to be a wall. it was a good demagoguery thing. health care, he can't seem to do it. he may try to do it this fall. he is ill asking regulations, business loves this stuff. he's killing all the environmental regulations, china the climate thing, he's trying to kill it. so some things he did that he succeeded at that nobody likes, some things he's never going to get done. >> at this point what he's been most successful at is undoing obama's legacy, systematically undoing the past eight years of obama. on the health care front, doing as much as he possibly can to

undo obamacare from the executive office. so he has been very successful in undoing those eight years of obama and the dereaganlation front. >> and daca, too. >> yes. >> why is he doing this to spend so much effort on things because he wants to get even with obama? >> it's partially that, it's things he can do. few look at the categories, he's been able to do the deinstructive things to undo things. he hasn't been able to do the constructive things like build economy. that's not unique to donald trump. nobody seems to be able to. >> it's easier to get rid of the mandate tan create. >> than to de-fund the insurers, which essentially cures obamacare. if you mention daca, the iran deal, the paris transpacific, you go down the line, it's quite easy to take things apart and let them fall apart. it's another to build it. >> doing things i wanted him to do no more stupid wars and build

up this country with infrastructure. i don't see a lot of infrastructure. i worry about why he wants to get the scab off the iranian deal, keeping the iraq war going, or afghanistan i should say. he doesn't seem to be that particular into war as president. >> no, in fact, he's letting everything continue that obama was doing, everything continue that bush was doing and, chris, agree with you. the one thing that i thought a president trump who puts his name on everything would, do i thought he would be building. i thought he would be building. >> why not? wouldn't the unions love it? >> i think the fact that he hasn't been able to get that through, his own congress has been probably the greatest failure of this presidency from a policy standpoint. >> anyway, president trump argued he would be a great president, because he knows how to make deals. let's watch him at that. >> i will bring america to a new level. i will negotiate deals that nobody can negotiate like i do. nobody, i know everybody i'm

running against, nobody can do the kind of things i can do. don't forget i have been in business. i will make a lot of money, which i will do for the country now. i have been focused on money and jobs and that's what i do. that's what the country needs. >> it's supposed to be you cajole and go back and forth. everybody gets in a room. we end up with deems. >> if i get elected president, i'm going to be in the white house a lot. i'm not leaving. we have deals to make. who the hell wants to leave? >> the question is, sharon, when is he going to cut a deal? he doesn't seem to have a better deal with the iranians or anybody in the world. we have no deals out of this asia trip. no bilaterals, multi-laterals, nothing. there is nothing going on with his republican congress which is about to lose next year probably. if he's ever going to cut a deal, he better do it pretty soon. >> some of these trade deals take a long time to do. to get done. he does these little incremental deal, get a country to buy some

military equipment in exchange for something. but those are very marginal deals. the biggest thing i'm surprised about is congress. you would have thought that possibly, he would have been able work out some better deals and negotiations with congress. but, obviously, unlike in past deals, where you are negotiating one on one with someone, congress, doesn't, it's not hundreds of people at a time. >> that caught him off guard. it's almost like he's given up his hands. >> theoretically, he is not traditionally a republican or a democrat. he's there for himself. so he could reach across the aisle in a way that others haven't. by my count he's made one deal across with the democrats. that was this temporary three-month extension of the spending deal. >> not on the tax be ill. >> he hasn't in a big way. i think he got caught up in the traditional washington zero some politics, his team is the republican. democrats certainly aren't going to reach out and help him.

it's been basically politics as usual albeit with a more flamboyant guy. >> why doesn't he cut deals with conduct schumer? why is it they need to get 52 out of 55 republicans, the same old, all it takes is three republicans to say no and it all crashes and burns. why doesn't he reach over and grab five or ten from the other side or write a tax be ill the democrats are willing to go along with? >> i don't think trump understands how to make a deal on equal footh. most of it is i have money. you need know get this thing done. he's talking to people, i don't need your power, your assistance. everyone around him is cutting deals, jared kushner is cutting deals, paul man a the part is cutting deals, pap top slus cutting deals. >> those aren't the deals, deals about not going to prison for a long time. anyway, coming up, trump's trouble with the truth. the washington post has been counting auto trump's

falsehoods, an average of five-and-a-half a day. we got some of the biggest whoppers, his all time favorites of his. plus, automatic people, places or things trump has gone on twitter to insult. this is "hardball" where the action is.

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>> welcome back to "hardball." the washington post has been tracking all of the president's falsehoods. last month it reported he makes five-and-a-half or misleading claims a day and is on track to reach 1919 claims by the end of his first year in office. here are a few of his favorite, most repeated claims. let's watch. ? i have to say, the whole russian thing is what it's turned out to be. this was the democrats coming up with an excuse for losing an election t. whole russia thing

was an excuse for the democrats to lose an election. it turns out to be one excuse. obamacare is a disaster. it's virtually dead, as far as i'm concerned, it really is dead. i predict thad a long time ago. president obama after a long period of time was able to finally push it through, but push through something that's failed, failing badly. the insurance companies have made a fortune with obamacare. obamacare is a wreck, it's destroying lives. >> obamacare is finished. it's dead, it's gone. it's no longer, you shouldn't mention, it's gone. there is no such thing as obamacare any more. >> with the highest tax reform in the world, we are having the longest tax cuts in the history of our country. >> we are working to give the american people a giant.

>> we are unleashing a new era of american prosperity, perhaps like we've never seen before. >> we have the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches. in the last ten months, we have followed through on one promise after another. i didn't have a schedule, but if i did have a schedule, i would say we are substantially ahead

of schedule. >> i don't have a schedule, but if i did have a schedule, that would be also better than anybody else's. you wonder what this guy's golf cart looks like. 3, 2, 1. >> he dpradz himself along the way, too, he gets an a-plus for everything, including the response to the hurricane. >> you see a part of our new culture, everybody gets a trophy, starting with me, for being me. >> someone gave advice on your annual performance review. don't ever be objective about well, i really could have done better, i did great. i'm the best. i'm the number ten, i'm outperforming all my expectitions, why not say you are doing it? >> i think this bombastic p.t. barnum is a part of this. he's his only up man t. guy that says the governor is here. he says, donald trump is here. >> he's pretending to be his own pr guys, john burman, he does

this, also what he has perfected, his supporters believe it, republicans don't believe it, they go along with it. whenever something turns out to be not what he want itself, it's not his fault. i did this, congress didn't do it my way. >> people say why are you lovef laughing about this guy? there is a mart that is comic as well as tragic. it is ludicrous his behavior t. only way to react it is tighten your man warm. you can't be constantly mad about a clownish act. the "new york times" has been tracking his twitter accounts to talk about the people, places and things he insulted, projecting he will reach 650 by tend of his first term. please, maybe just term. he hit all his targets two weeks ago. does the fake news media remember when crooked hillary clinton, as secretary of state, was begging russia to be our friend with the misspelled reset

button? obama tried also, but he had zero charisma with putin. >> how about the nfl players in that, too. >> i think the greatest tragedy of going to 280 characters doubles our chances of going to war. >> 6:30 in the morning he starts, he gets the washington post, he gets it at 6:30. he begins. >> can you tell when he's watching tv and reading the newspaper. that's when he starts the twitter operations, of course, like everything else, he says, that is 100% true next, trump's dismantling of all things obama. he has this obsession with his predecessor. this is "hardball, where the action is.

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back to "hardball." it's been ev department since he claimed his predecessor was born if kenya, donald trump holds a deep personal grudge against former president obama. even leaving the white house, he dismantles and den greats obama's legacy, let's look at the things he said about obama and the obama administration over the last ten months in office. >> to be honest, i inherited a mess. it's a mess, at home and abroad,

a mess. in the last eight years the past administration has put open more new debt than nearly all of the other presidents combined. there the iran deal made by the previous administration is one of the worst deals i have ever witnessed. >> i have ended the obama administration's war on call. and we have gotten rid of a lot of really bat pieces that were signed by president obama. believe me obamacare is collapsing. it's dead, gone. there they voted because they believe the lies of president obama. >> i don't draw red lines. president obama drew a red line. ways the one that made it look a little better tan it was. but that could have been done a lot sooner. >> they asked me, what about race relations in the united states? i have to say, they were pretty bad under barack obama. >> you look at what happened

with bush, obama, he didn't even want to talk about it. but i talk. it's about time. somebody has to do it. i would like to denuke the world. i know that president obama said global warming is the biggest threat. i totally disagree. >> barack obama never said it took place because of radical islamic terrorists. he never said that, right. he didn't have to say. >> if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls a. lot of them didn't make calls. i like to call when it's appropriate. from there is another absolutely terrible deal from the previous administration. see how nice i am. i say the previous administration as opposed to the obama administration. >> anyway, we are back with our guest itself. this revenge talk against obama, did it start with that humiliating rift that the president did of him at the press dinner a couple years ago, when he made fun of him for

being the moderator of that television show "the apprentice." ? >> trump was sitting with the washington post at the time, it was one of his lowest moments. it may have something to do with that. in fairness to trump, previous presidents have always bashed their predecessor. that's not new. the obsession is. 134g in the trump psych ki, he needs to have an opponent to go against. you can play a similar reel against hillary clinton, certainly with little marco and lying ted and low energy jeb, but there's something extra about obama. >> just slow down when you said low energy. >> but there is something extra about obama and he benefits, the reason he's president is because of a backlash to obama and unfortunately there is i believe a racial component in that that drives everything. >> the base of his base. >> shannon, it seems to me he

keeps obama in the news. the president sort of retired until recently. he hasn't been out there beating the drum for the democratic party, raising a lot of money. he stepped back, which is the dignified way to go. this guy keeps bringing him back in for those that likes obama, i think it emvats obama and the importance of his eight years, i think for those that dislike obama, which there is a large percentage of this country that comprise trump's base, i think he knew there was a lot of dissatisfaction among people with obama. i think that is what he has tried to tap into. they really like his attacks on obama. >> jason, i hate to throw this at you but i will, it seems he only plays for whites. >> yeah. >> i mean it. whether it's immigrant people generally or it's from below the border or latinos or its muslims, generally, when he says

muslim, that audience applauds how much they don't like muslims because of who they are. african-americans with this. i always thought the birtherrism was to build the first 20% of his coalition and build on the hating of mexicans and muslims and the high 30. it was connexted like a big cake. right? >> his loathing. a multi-layered cake with lots of white slices, but here's the thing. his antipathy through obama. >> angel food. >> exactly. he's angry at obama for not just being successful, but a successful black guy. part of that is is an ananema of "star wars" few strike me down, i will come back more power. . the fact that he keeps talking about obama grandizes what he

did. he makes the former president more powerful every time he talks about him. >> i do agree there are racial tensions underneath oul all of this maybe he doesn't intend it to be that way, but it is perceived that way, and certainly by the alt right. by racist elements in the country. they perceive it to be about race. same thing with the persistent attacks on plaque athletes. >> they can say sobs. maybe it's not the way, to call them sobs, that's their kind of patriotism. >> talking down. >> we will have some fun now, if those people are deadly serious. you may want to watch something else, i'm sorry, this is what he is. like fredo in our requested godfather." he wants us to know, he's smart. i'm smart michael, that's ahead.

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a thanksgiving video calls president trump broke with tradition and touted his own administration's achievements. take a look. >> i know it's hard to be away from home at this time of the year. we're doing well at home. >> and in new york, protesters briefly slowed the macy's thanksgiving day parade. they talked about ending daca brought to u.s. as a kid. now back to "hardball." welcome back to "hardball." another thing that separates president trump from his predecessors is the way he talks about his own intellect in the campaign. in his first month in office he

'made the point to boast about his intelligence. >> so here i am, great schools, great brain, great success. i went to an ivy league school, i'm very highly educated. i know words, i have the best word. look. i went to the great wharton school of finance, i was very good, a good students and all that stuff. >> i was a good student. i always hear about the elite the elite, they're elite? i went to better schools than they did, i went to better schools than they were. if putin likes me, he thinks i'm a good, smart person. i hope he believes it, actually, he's right, ial politicaliant. you know that right? then they say is donald trump an intellectual? trust me, i'm like a smart person. >> as i mentioned before, trump's apparent need to prove his intelligence is reminisce september to fredo carleoni he was smart. there you go.

>> i can handle things. i'm smart. i'm like everybody said, i'm not dumb. i'm smart. and i want respect. >> we are back with our guests. it would be ludicrous to compare that to anyone else but donald trump. the fact that trump says it, i know words, i have great words. what does that mean? >> i was out doing the department cure when he walks to get on marine one. he came over and did a little impromptu press conference with a reporter. this was one of those moments, he said, i'm smart. you know, i went to good schools, like he was still trying to tell us, to convince us, like, why don't you like me and still trying to seek our approval and still that guy from queens who wants everyone to like him and wants everyone to like him and think he's a big deal. >> everyone fredo never gets into a contest with his own

brother. >> with the guy behind you as you were saying the hail mary, it was all an assassination plot. it was terrible. it's sad. i think that to claim you are smart is probably the first example of when you are not smart. >> when they say i'm the emperor, he's done. michael jordan never has to say he's best. when you know, you don't have to say it. when he talks about the things she and does when he has nothing to show for it. >> i will give you an example of bragging at work. babe ruth. he pointed at center field the next pitch 350 feet. that's one. muhammad ali. 6th round. i'm sorry, he delivered. this guy doesn't deliver. it's okay to brag if are you going to do it. >> exactly. it's not bragging if you have really done it. >> who said that? muhammad ali. >> it was fredo. >> anyway, trump says he's smart. it seems health care may have outsmarted him.

let's watch. >> i have to tell you. it's an unbelievably tough subject. nobody knew health care could be so complicated. >>ing will harrisburg told hus, she went and waded in that pool first and saw how deeply confrontational it is the doctors, pharmaceuticals, everybody wants a bigger piece. >> there has been a few moments like that, where he says, hey, listen, this is tough stuff. this is harder than anyone would have thought. yes, it is. >> someone in american history should have thought of all that. >> you had no previous political experience. you only knew people in washington from fundraisers. yes,less difficult. . if youing a knowledge that, people might give you an easier time. >> the truth is, somebody that criticizes trump for all kind of things, i don't think trump is

dumbi dumbing. you don't get where you are supposed to be. he is aversed in things and he is into governing. >> we can talk movies and sports, i might come up missing or manhattan. >> i'll give you hockey. i never group the flyers came to philly after i left. i'm sorry, they're advanced as i knew, when versace was killed, i said who is he? i know nothing about fashion or design. i'm iloued to, i'm not a designer. anyway, secretary of state rex tillerson expressed a different view of president trump's intellect. he called him a moron after a july 20 meeting at the pentagon with members. what do you think? if they overheard the word, i'm going to speak more on that issue. >> i don't think there was any confusion there. part of it, that's why he is constantly saying oh, i feel so smart and intelligent. i'll tell you this, especially when it comes to health care,

trump has done terrible things on race and national security. health care is the single greatest thing i don't blame him. i blame the whole republican party. they had eight years, the fact that they couldn't come up with a plan. >> you think the great irony is obama did their plan. it was from the heritage foundation, it was a conservative approach. it wasn't single payer. it was basically a corporate business solution relying on lots of profits for the insurance world, pharmaceutical business that love this thing. right? >> to an earlier point, maybe if he didn't despise what obama did so much. he could have fixed it. >> why doesn't he do it? it's right to do, he doesn't do it. why doesn't he do what we tell him to do. >> the best part of that tillerson ting, he went on and on how nbc is reporting on this nonsense, he called the president of the occupation a moron. >> he couldn't admit it, either. another character from the

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papers, get the papers. >> here's our own president two times. >> chicago is a disaster, a total disaster. >> he doesn't stop. he doesn't stop. >> our warmest admiration for this ancient culture, it's an ancient culture, and its customs are ancient. >> this is a hot potato. i think it's three quarters english. i've heard guys -- i spent a lot of time on the corner, but, yu know, it's time to get out of here, it's time to get out of here. i think it is a locution or something. it's funny to hear from a well-educated president. >> a very smart president who has the best words. so much so he has to use them twice or people won't understand them. i think it's two things. i think he may wonder if people are really listening to him, and i don't think he knows what to

say. as much as he's good as being quick off the cuff. in formal settings he's anxious and repeats himself because he doesn't know the next thing to say if he's not just riffing. >> often it happens when he's on teleprompters. he's reading words somebody else wrote for him, probably the first time. he goes, yeah, ancient culture, really important. so he's agreeing with the guy that wrote the speech, but really he's just agreeing with himself. >> apparently. >> if on the -- >> he's president of the united states. >> it might also be a bit of branding son so branding on some of the points where he wants to repeat it. sometimes you have to brand names, repeat it and bang people over the head. i would agree, sometimes on the formal remarks, he'll also be reading from the teleprompter, and it sounds scripted and awkward. he'll take a moment and pause or thrown in a trump phrase, and i'll tell you, it's going to be like we have never seen before,

and then you believe me, and then get back into the -- he knows he has to inject a little bit of him into this. >> the bigger question i raised at the beginning of the hour was this black friday, if you will, is the question of how he's managed to keep our attention. every morning he gets up and tweets. how does he manage by 6:30 in the morning. i get in the car and listen to the latest on sirius xm. he's ahead of the papers and made news by 6:30 in the morning. what do we make of his ability to command our attention? you can't go to an evening in washington. it's all about trump. we say he only talks about himself. here he's the person everybody talks about. dana, your column is fabulous. you have great material. >> this is a great show, a great show, chris. we said at the beginning the one

true thing is it is all about himself. >> how does he get us into the story? >> he succeeded in gaining the attention, but the whole idea of the bully pulpit is you use it to advance your agenda. he's got all our attention. >> but jimmy carter, i pay tribute to him, could have kept our attention 24/7. he's constantly putting on a reality show that's never stopping. when he got elected, he began a four-year reality show, 24/7. >> four to eight years. i'm old enough to remember when people complained that obama gave too many speeches. he doesn't have a policy agenda. it's a trump agenda. it's focussed on him. between twitter and his coverage. >> how does he do it? ble. >> he taps into the fuel of american politics which is rage. he elicits or brings rage out

from people who don't like. >> my dad said i could have a 24 hour radio show when i was growing up. i don't think it's as arresting as this guy is. i'm trying to have a point. it's closer to his in talking. this thing inside him that has to constantly be enraged and passionate about being him. >> exactly. >> i don't think most of us could make this up. who would have thought to go after nfl players or ucla basketball players and say you should thank the president of china? to go after this gold star woman or wife, families on twitter. most people it wouldn't have crossed their mind to go after some of these things. yeah, they are so outside of the realm of anyone's idea of possible that we can't stop. >> that's a hell of a list that don't like you. every day i don't care with african americans don't like me. i don't care if hispanics or

muslims don't like me. i don't care because i have scranton and ear ri. >> this is why they haven't replaced obamacare, why we don't have a tax bill or immigration legislation or infrastructure. it's because we keep getting distracted. we're willing, particularly those of us in the media to follow the distractions he throws out there and make it all about donald trump. but nothing has happened. >> but if hillary were president, we'd be arguing about education programs and serious business. we'll be right back after this. november is epilepsy awareness month.

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want to thank shannon and dana and jason. that's hardball for now. thank you for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. >> good morning. >> wow. that was a great thanksgiving. >> it's friday, november 24th. hope everyone had a great thanksgiving. happy turkey day. >> willie, how was your thanksgiving? >> the food, the game. there was a fistfight at my dinner table. it was incredible. >> katty? >> a lot of turkey. i'm still waiting for it. >> elastic band pants. >> all right. okay, tight pants. a