breaking news tonight from the department of justice a federal judge unsealed documents that appear to indicate an ongoing federal investigation into a potential scheme involving bribes in exchange for presidential pardons. according to documents which are heavy ri redacted the investigation involves a possible offer by a redacted individual of a substantial political contribution in

exchange for a presidential pardon. or reprieve of sentence. the documents do not name individuals and do not name trump or any other white house official. the white house declined to comment. the "new york times" reported that donald trump and rudy giuliani have discussed as recently as last week the possibility of rudy receiving a preemptive pardon before he leaves office. it's not clear who raised the topic. in a statement, giuliani cross-claims t cross-cla claims the story is a lie. lawyers in new york have been scrutinizing giuliani's business and finances linked to an attempt to gin up information about the biden family in ukraine. giuliani denies any wrong doing. for more i'm joined by congresswoman of california. and former fbi general counsel.

and former senior member of the mueller investigation. msnbc national security and justice correspondent. i'll start with yo, what do we know. i have looked through and leafing through this indictment. a lot is blacked out. so we don't have any idea who the person is but what are we actually know from the indictment? >> a couple of things. you're very rite to point out this is redacted. there's a will the of questions that we can't answer. what we can say is that since at least august of this year there has been an ongoing federal criminal information into a possible scheme somebody was going to pay bribes for a pardon. the court documents which you have been showing relate to a opinion issued by the chief judge. she's somebody who maybe familiar to the audience.

familiar to weissman. she over saw the special counsel mueller grand jury. the judge released this today unsealed part of this today. with its redactions. not identifying any particular individual. because she made a ruling on whether or not a federal prosecutors could look at certain communications between an attorney and other people who may have been involved in the scheme. part of that we have some information from the search warrant. a search warrant that was conducted on at least fwo offices. two offices. as a result of that search warrant the team in attin agent that executed. got r50 digital devices. ipads and computers and several ter bites of information. e-mail communications they were able to find several crimes or

criminal activity and i'm reading from this. namely a secret lobbying scheme in which a redacted person and redacted person acted as lobbyist to senior white house officials. without complying with the registration requirement of the disclosure act. there are laws you have to comply with if you lobby the white house or congress. that's something you have to follow. they did that in order to secure a pardon or reprieve of sentence for redacted. we don't know the individuals involved this this that may have been executing this. we don't know the white house officials. the president not named. it's unclear if he had knowledge of it. they i uncovered a conspiracy scheme in which the redacted name offer substantial political contribution in exchange for a presidential pardon.

or a reprieve of sentence. for folks that closely follow the michael cohen saga this is similar to the legal arguments that came up there. prior to him pleading guilty. essentially there there was a dispute about what prosecutors and federal investigators could look at. with respect to communications that occur between an attorney in his client. when there's a crime fraud exception which has come up. an attorney cannot exist purely for the purpose of shielding documents if investigators ever ask for them. if you were my attorney and i was involved in a legal activity with weissman i couldn't communicate you just to shield us and documents from being uncovered if the purpose of that was to just further the fraud and the scheme that he and i were involved in. that's how it came up. the judge decided to unseal it today. we may get more documents in this case in the future. the real ar heart of this the

background information would tell us what the scheme is about and detail the specific nature of the allegations that were being looked at. the section is completely redacted. not only missing names but the heart of the investigation. we do know it exists. importantly, i'll conclude on this point. we know that it exists to the point where probable cause existed for a search warrant to be obtained. clearly other evidence is developed that led to this point. and now what appears to be a multi-month investigation at least into this. >> very quickly. just to clarify, there's a piece of language in this indictment. the political strategy to obtain a presidential pardon was parallel to and distinct from redacted role as an attorney for redacted name. is the allegation that the person that is being investigated was the attorney

for the person who wanted the pardon or that the attorney was the person that wanted the pardon? >> it's unclear. i'll be careful not to speculate. there's a couple follow on sentences that are redacted. clearly somebody had a role here an attorney advocate. reading further, it appears to me because there was a third party that was involved in these discussions that allowed the judge to say if i'm communicating with you, if you're my attorney. that's a protected communication. witness you involve third parties you break the seal of the confidentiality and the privilege. that gave the judge a reason to rule on august 28. that the prosecutors could begin to review this. it's early in this. we're taking a quick look. and more reporting needs to occur. >> thank you very much for making that information available.

all right. let's bring in our guests congresswoman. i have a ton of questions. i'll go to you first. we're having all the discussions about pardons. and it's all happening on a day when william barr the attorney general of the united states went to the white house today to discuss one of the things we know he came out and said the election was noft fraudulent. and told the president of the united states that as well. and president with the chief of staff. when you throw that in in addition to the reporting about rudy giuliani. also at least reportedly seeking a pardon. something he denied. you have all of this pardon talk happening. for you, as a member of congress, where does this sit with you? >> first of all when i think of the nerve of them going after pardons this way or the story of giuliani. i think of all the people who are in prison who really

rightfully deserve a pardon. now we're talking about folks who want to buy the way through an administration. we know this has been a pay to play administration from day one. and i think about next year when president biden and harris are sworn in. when they go into each of the agencies, can you imagine the amount of corruption that we're going to find? this is just an example of it. this is the way this administration has conducted itself from day one. if you think about the trump hotel. bha is that? foreign dignitaries pay for hotel rooms and never stay in. they know is buys favor with the administration. we'll find it all over the place. >> the judiciary committee. i assume there will be a hearing about this. as the democrats move forward and think about this. you were part of the mueller investigation, there is so much here. we should note we don't know any of it is related.

don't say i'm making them related. all of them are in place. we have miles taylor. a former official at the department of homeland security. who said that donald trump the president of the united states offered pardons to immigration officials who broke the law. shut down the border. you'll get a pardon. if you get in trouble i'll pardon you. after he was told it was illegal to deny all immigrants access to the southern border. you have the michael flynn pardon. with language in it that says for any and all possible offenses within the investigation authority or jurisdiction. any and all -- on and on and on. language we have heard when gerald ford offered nixon a pardon. and similarly when jimmy carter pardoned people who dodged the vietnam draft.

lastly we have sean hannity who we know advises the president in addition to doing a tv show saying you should pardon yourself and your family. advising him to do blanket pardons for kin. what do you make of that? and throw in this reporting. >> to that litany i would add there was the commutation of the sentence of roger stone. favorable treatment. just to follow up on the congresswoman's point. if you step back from the sensational news we have unfolding right now, let's remember that this idea of a sort of pay to play. that you can have a bribery scheme to pardon. it's possible because of the way that this white house has kperdsed its pardon power. -- exercised pardon power. normally in democratic and

republican administrations everything is a pardon party. it's a long process filled with career people vetting pardons. and it's because that is has been thrown out by donald trump that you have this possibility of being able to say this is what's alleged in the opinion by judge howl. which is i'm going to make sure there's a lot of money that goes to the campaign in exchange for which i will get a pardon. some things jump out to me. first, this is very similar what judge howl did here is the similar to what happened during the special counsel investigation. which was the prosecutors wanted to see attorney client privilege -- potentially privileged information. and said to the judge, we would like to have your permission to see this. we don't think the attorney client privilege applies.

and the judge agreed in a written order. we did that with manafort. what we're seeing today is the judges decision redacted. notably the department of justice opposed it being unsealed. and the judge said no. proposed redactions to me. i will unseal the fact of there being this investigation. i will deep under seal the names of the people. that's what happened here. it's similar to what happened in the special council investigation other than we didn't oppose having a redacted opinion. released. the whole idea is have as much as possible released. the others as tom mentioned, two schemes that are out lined here. a lobbying scheme and a pay to play pardon scheme. with respect to the lobbying scheme the judge does drop a footnote she says it's not clear

that this meets the lobbying standard. the violation of the disclosure act. there is cold water thrown on this by the judge. with respect to the bribery scheme, one thing that's really important to know, i'm not trying to get ahead of this, you would not engage in a bribery scheme in exchange for pardon where you give a huge amount of money to campaign if you didn't have some assurance that somebody close to the president was going to have influence. it doesn't mean necessarily the president. but you're not going to give that money unless this is really a fraud scheme. unless you have some assurance that there is going to be somebody on the inside who is going to be able to deliver. so, this remains to be seen what happens here. but it certainly is tang lizing and clear that the chief judge thought it was important to get the information out into the

public. >> just to show you the redactions. when i tell you it is like blacked out page after page after page. okay. we don't know much. a lot of it looks like this. congresswoman, i remember when republicans thought bill clinton should be raked over the coals if not dragged into court over the mark rich scandal. i wonder if you are ears are deafened by the out rage you're hearing from republican colleagues including republicans on the judiciary committee about this. you have donald trump having stated during his presidency break the law, i'll pardon you. you have his one of his favorite lawyers saying take out this gentleman and shoot him. because he was in charge of elections and said the truth. that the elections were clean. he's saying it's a joke. if he did something wrong, he's got a friend in the white house.

he can pardon me. there's a lot going on. >> yes, there is. if you think about it sit back and recount. it sound like you're talking about a criminal syndicate. it's this way. there's the fund raising scheme he is saying direct will lying to people. saying you will contribute to my legal defense funds so we can over turn the election. when actually 75% of the money goes to a political pack called save america. which is what he's going to use for goodness knows what. maybe after he leaves the presidency it will pay for rallies. maybe his campaign debt. the culture of corruption is throughout the administration. and again i can only imagine what we're going to find. this is what we have seen from day one. and that's just talking about him. what about when we get into the cabinet officials? and his family members. because there was a culture of

corruption pay to play from the beginning. he normalized this behavior. it's not surprising that people outside of the white house in the private sector would think nothing of bribing for pardons. why not. people have bribed for everything else. >> last thing. we have all of this taking place in a moment where you have william barr turning a sham investigation of the mueller investigation and the investigation into donald trumps campaign ties to russia into a special counsel equal to mueller. you have that. and the possibility bh this is said and done trump simply pardons everybody including himself. my final question is it possible we might see the president of the united states pardon the whole lot of them. this criminal syndicate. and himself. can he get away with it? >> so, i think we will see a

will the of that. it is not at all clear that it's legally possible to pardon yourself. i'm not sure -- i'm sure the president will try. i'm not sure it will work. something that's really important here is why did the chief judge want this opinion out now? and i think it's in part to answer your question, which is what she is doing by having this out there is casting doubt and also sort of push back a brush back on the president saying you're going to pardon people, you better be sure that there's been no pay to pla here. if the president carries through on that, that is a federal crime. so that to me is i'm trying to think about why this is coming out now and the chief judge is doing this. it's for the people who are going to be seeking pardons. it is a crime to -- doj is

investigating this. to have a pay to play. i think that could have a brush back effect on the number of pardons we see coming out of the white house in light of the doj investigation. >> absolutely. i wa to mention the former campaign attorney and federal prosecutor who called for chris krebs who certified the election was clean to be taken out and shot. which he said is a joke. that's the te nor of the administration we are soon to be losing. thank you so much. up next, we all knew it would end this way. new reporting indicates trump plans to continue his childish tantrum all the way to inauguration day and beyond. plus, as the covid crisis grows, scott atlas slithers away from the white house. leaving a legacy of deadly failure and unleash herd immunity on the sickened and exhausted nation. smoothies, and do even more.

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donald trump with his tiny little hands behind his tiny desk continues to rant and rave about election fraud. despite his attorney general saying today the justice department found no evidence of any fraud that would have changed the out come of the election. trump has had nothing to say about the coronavirus pandemic. that killed 270,000 people in the u.s. and counting. urgent action under trump is never going to happen. a bipartisan group of senators maybe working on a covid relief bill. we can only hope it's completed by the government is scheduled to shut down december 11. it's likely we'll have to wait 50 days for the new biden add mirs to implement its plan. and they have a plan. we know the members of the economic team. who will be tasked with rescuing millions of americans who are facing financial ruin and a wave of infection.

that isn't the only mess trump leaves mind. republicans are grappling with the frankenstein monster they built. suppress voter turn out in the crucial georgia run off. one of their own had this to say about the threat the election workers received. >> mr. president, you have not condemned the actions or this language. senators, you have not condemned this language or actions. this has to stop. we need you to step up and take a position of leadership. show some. this is the back bbone of democracy. all youf who haven't said a damn word are complicit in this. >> former candidate for u.s. senate in south carolina and founder of dirt road pack. and former republican congressman from florida. who is no longer with the party.

thank you for being here. i want to get more into what mr. sterling said. the georgia voting implementer. and let me play another part of his remarks today. they were powerful. >> doint think we have it. i'm talking about senator perdue and kelly loeffler. two people who i support in the election booth. they need it step up on this particular thing. and that's me speak k as a republican. not in the office. i'm kind of pissed. when they called for us to resign the senator sorry the president called a fine upstanding lifelong republican an enemy of the people. that helped open the flood gates to this crap. the crap is death threats. he was very passionate in

talking about the fact people are being threatened. lives are threatened. his wife was threatened. that's what trump unleashed on his own party. >> that's the great danger in trump's behavior. and the silence or complicity of the republican allies on the hill. is this culture that he's fuelling the flames he's fuelling and the danger he's creating. understand the constitution is working in this moment. it's keeping trump's powers in check. we'll have an orderly transition. joe biden will be the next president. courts are throwing out contests. the danger is in trump using the bully pulpit to incite what could be violence. and at the end of day it's a reflection of the past four years. in the handling of charlottesville. the pandemic. the marchs throughout the country. he cannot deescalate and address the needs of the nation.

he only addresses his political and personal interest in the moment. shame on trump, shame on the georgia senators who are sitting in silence and allowing this to happen. >> i think the shocking thing is lindsey graham who you ran against. he said if we nominate trump we'll be destroyed and deserve it. now what you have is republicans destroying each other. and this mantra that's been created you are not allowed to say that joe biden is the president-elect of the united states. that goes against the dogma. you have graham who made comments like well i hope joe biden is willing to go to trumps inauguration. knowing that isn't true. celebrating in iowa as a republican who won by six votes. great day in the morning. this lady won by six votes. he doesn't want signature matching in iowa. 3% black people. in georgia, we can't trust that. the openness of graham in

particular sort of nefarious behavior and very light defense of democracy. if any al auto. is flag rant. what do you make of that? >> it's shameful. it's sad. many of the folks and graham was probably the top of the list have forgotten what the job is. to be public servants. serving the public. the most important thipg that we have is as american citizens is right to vote. that is the corner stone of the this democracy. to see them playing games with that, to just willy nilly say we can throw out millions of votes because it just doesn't benefit us politically. it's shameful. the next time student next year goes into a political science class, i hope a professor has a class just on leadership. you'll see graham at the head of the class. we deserve better in this nation. we sent ou sons and daughters

over seas to risk their life for democracy and other nations. and we got members of congress right here who doing everything they can in order to rip away the democracy. in this great nation. and it has to stop. >> it is shocking to me that the majority of voters in south carolina would return someone like rinds gram to power. who has been nothing more than a tote for trump. that's the kindest thing i can think of to say about him. who vowed to stop from getting a job in the department of budget chair. let me show you the introduction of herself today. >> like the vice president-elect's mother, my mother was born in india. and america came through for her when times were tough. we relied on food stamps to eat. section 8 housing vouchers to pay the rent.

we relied on the social safety net to get on our feet. i'm here today thanks to my mother's grit. also thanks to a country that had faith in us. and that invested in her humanity and our dreams. >> i'm old enough to remember the republican party would want someone like her in the party. right? and meanwhile what they want is somebody like loeffler. who is worth $800 million and doesn't care if anyone in her state gets relief from covid. from the recession. i don't get it. and attacking an asian american woman nominee how does that build the republican party? >> it doesn't. what you're seeing is the very beginning of the republican party becoming the opposition party. the irony, what is not lost on the american people. all they are asking is take care of the working class people in a

pandemic where the economy is leaving them behind. a k shaped recovery. republicans are happy to take care of the business community and the investor class community. democrats are saying don't leave behind the working class. what congress is leaving behind is the programs that support sustained income for the working class that suffered the most. the american people see that. that's why the republican party lost seven of the last eight presidential elections in the popular vote. >> meanwhile donald trump raised $170 million for a pack the money will be for him. not for anyone except him. he's getting it from people bho are broke. amazing. the face of the trump administration many covid failures. has left the building. is it too late to avoid a catastrophic deadly winter? we'll be right back. solving.

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the coronavirus situation in the united states is dire. hospitals are overwhelmed as cases have gone up. with more than 4 million people infected in the month of november alone. while trump might try to down play the virus his own government has an internal map showing that nearly the entire united states has become a covid hot spot. and haven't experienced the surge that will come from thanksgiving. i'm joined now from cardiologist.

and florida became the third state to surpass 1 million cases today. after texas. and california. i watched earlier -- msnbc earlier talking with a miami the mayor of a miami city. about their complete frustration they can't oechb have a mask mandate. they can't do anything. the governor of the state said you cannot do anything to close businesses to make people wear a mask. nothing. you can't even fine them. what is going on? >> great question. as we say what's going on. unfortunately the governor desantis is completely shown a pattern of mishandling the virus. at first i thought he was just misinformed. but it appears that he actually

doesn't really understand the level of the severity of the pandemic. and he's actively making decisions to ensure that florida will become the epicenter of the pandemic. in the next few weeks to months. because of the decisions. he is actually preventing the mitigating measure to to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. we'll be left with no option such as measures like stay at home orders. lock downs. that no one wants to have because they have detrimental effects. he is not doing his job. and there's quite a few leader around the country not doing their job. they'll wait until the bodies start piling up to resort to reactive measures such as stay at home to get the pandemic under control. as far as we can see, there's no measures being taken place right now. it's unfortunate.

>> there's the panel in charge of determining who should get a vaccine when it comes out first. which is not an immediate panacea. not everyone in america can get a vaccine tomorrow. somewhere in the middle of next year. the first groups would be healthcare workers and residents of nursing homes. florida is the state with the oldest base population. the most senior citizens in the country live in florida. it's a state with disproportionate numbers and one of the reasons you have death there. do you get the sense people like the governor are seeing a vaccine in the future and deciding they don't have to lift a finger to stop the virus because the vaccine will fix it. >> exactly. governor desantis is actually thinking that it's the vaccine is a silver bullet. he just buying time until the

vaccines come out and think it will somehow slow is this downhill moving train. unfortunately that's not going to be the case. this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the pandemic. and florida will pay the price. we have elderly population. and we have a large vulnerable population. and therefore the death rates are expected to go up exponentially. there's no mitigation measures to prevent that. unfortunately, there's probably a few million people listening to this cast this tv cast right now and i guarantee unfortunately that percentage of the folks watching this will be dead. by the end of the year. if not a lot of the folks watching this the family members will be dead. in the thousands. and even more than that, a lot of folks will have friends and folks that they know who will be

dead. this is a fact. and the fact that the leadership doesn't appreciate this is appalling. there's a leadership vacuum where trump -- responsibilities. biden needs to step up and communicate with the american public. that's why i have been saying that the covid task force under biden needs to communicate with the public directly and holding daily briefings. in conjunction with the trump administration task force. so we can get the messaging correct. and pursue a unified approach. so we can get the american public on board. right now we have to pursue a mentality where folks have to do for themselves because the leadership is not doing their job. >> some of the people who will be dead will be healthcare workers. there's a strike already about some nurses in new york. already on strike because they don't have enough ppe and

equipment. my last question, what good will a virus be if folks are afraid to take it? i have had conversations with doctors who are black. there's skepticism among people worried about the vaccine. and don't trust it. what do you say to those people? >> i don't think folks really appreciate the level of distrust right now. for the healthcare system. in particular the covid-19 vaccine. i would estimate based on the folks i know. 80% of the folks i know. educated or not. they're not going to take the vaccine. or wait until folks get it and see how it reacts. and then make the decision after that. and the statistics out there estimate at least the latest poll indicate about 40% of the folks african-american say they will get this vaccine. i think it's an under estimate. it will be a real issue.

and it will increase. folks simply do not trust the vaccine. we need to make an information campaign and inform the public. >> indeed. always greatashby, always great talking with you. be safe. thank you very much. up next, republican senator kelly loeffler is trying to rehabilitate her image ahead of the crucial georgia run-offs. i'd say she's facing an uphill climb, but at this point, it's more like supporting mount ev let. stay with us. e supporting mount let. stay with us now temperature balancing, so you can sleep better together can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. can it help with snoring? i've never heard snoring... exactly. no problem... and done. so you can really promise better sleep? not promise. prove it's our cyber week special, save up to $1,000 on the new sleep number 360 smart bed and adjustable base. plus, 0% interest for 36 months. ends monday.

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in just 35 days georgia will hole its two senate run-off elections, and never kelly loeffler, who once posted an ad comparing herself to aunttilla hun is now trying to convince people she's a friendly neighbor. >> what we need now is a business mind. we need someone who understands how to not only write paychecks and sign paychecks, but how it feels like wait on that paycheck. >> mm-hmm. it's hard to believe that loeffler really truly does understand the dire financial crisis that millions of americans who aren't receiving a paycheck and are facing evictions are actually going through today. according to "forbes," the is the richest of the senators, worth at least $108 million. her former primary opponent may have best described who kelly

loeffler really is. >> she's desperate to hide the fact that as the owner of the new york stock exchange she spent $30 million trying to buy a senate seat. after a private coronavirus briefing she dropped millions in stock, she profited off the pandemic while too many georgians lost everything. >> joining me now is jemele hill, contributing writer of "the atlantic." in addition to what we already knew for kelly loeffler's pec t penchant for making money off her senate job. her husband's firm sought to profit off the pandemic, taking advantage of the pandemic's effect on the housing market to gain control of the digital mortgage sector leading to rapid growth for their money. i don't even understand why she's still in the race, do you. how she's even polling at, like, 10. >> yeah, i don't get it either. i mean, this rebrand that she's trying to do is just so disingenuous, it's so fake.

everybody knows that on top of her being rich, some of the things that she has said as the nation was having a national, you know, sort of, you know, reconciliatory moment about race and a bunch of different serious conversations in this country, and she let it know how she really felt. >> yeah. can we play that real quick? let's play it real quick because we have that. here she is talking about how she feels about black lives matter. >> this is a very divisive organization based on marxist principles. this week they threatened to burn the system down, literally and figuratively, if they don't get what they want. i mean, this is an organization that, you know, seeks to destroy american principles, and i had to draw the line. >> i mean, all lies. to the point where were own team, the wnba team that she owns 49% of, the atlanta dream, they can't stand her. >> yeah, i mean, that's what people need to understand, okay? first of all, people may not know this, but wnba players, they don't make the same as nba

players. not anywhere close. so every paycheck they get matters. for that entire league, because it wasn't just the atlanta dream, it was other teams that participated in making sure that the league knew how they felt about kelly loeffler. for them to do that, knowing what they risk, that should tell everybody what they think of her, and for that matter, how low and little they think of her character. i mean, these are women who do not have a lot to risk or who have a lot to risk, excuse me. so for them to go against somebody who theoretically signs their paycheck, that should say everything. i mean, i think it's important that we have this conversation, joy, because the wnba players' role in this particular run-off is huge. it cannot be understated. when reverend raphael warnock, her opponent, when they first decided to support him, to advocate for him, to use their national platform to increase the awareness of him and his candidacy, he was polling at 9%.

now he's in a run-off. that's how much their involvement has meant and it shows you it wasn't just about their disdain for kelly loeffler, it was about principles that reverend raphael warnock has about how he is in alignment with principles they believe in. he believes that black lives matter. he understands, you know, what it's like to be part of the working class and what it's like to not know where your next meal is coming from. we're talking about a man from very humble beginnings. so her trying to rebrand herself as this woman of the people is just a lie. kelly loeffler has proven to be nothing but a clown. >> the thing is she's not from georgia. again, there is nothing wrong with moving to another state, you know, but she is this, you know, very wealthy elite, you know, very rich woman who moves from illinois to georgia. and then starts to try to play in the rural part of the community. but now she needs the voters in metro atlanta, and so she's trying to pivot back. this ad with the black lady in it, i'm not sure what she thinks she's rebranding there, but she

found one person she can pull out of the sunken place and say "she likes me." i don't understand the shift. are there trump voters in atlanta that we don't know about? >> i mean, maybe somewhere she unmasked one. i have no idea. maybe she stirred the tea cup. i don't know what happened, but the truth is in atlanta they let people know the side of history they wanted to be on when it came to the presidential election. i don't know why this would go any differently. and considering that the wnba players are still actively campaigning, considering reverend raphael warnock, his profile has risen so dramatically since he began -- began his run. i mean, he's got people like stacey abrams behind him. he showed the doug collins ad. he really has a lot of force behind him. but i think the thing that people need to realize is that it's not just -- they're just not doing this to in opposition to somebody who has no place in the senate, but they're doing it because in their mind this is a good candidate.

the wnba players, they met with him. they talked with him. they wanted to know what his principles were. what he stood for. >> absolutely. >> and he impressed them. that's why they decided to support him. it wasn't just about opposing kelly loeffler. >> absolutely. and as you said, taking major risks to do it. financial risks to themselves. always a pleasure to talk to you. thank you very much. that is tonight's "reidout." "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. watch that. tonight on "all in," breaking news of a bribery for pardon investigation in the trump white house. tonight what we know about what and who the justice department is investigating. then the increasingly dangerous unhinged reaction to donald trump's loss. >> someone's going to get hurt. someone's got to get shot. someone's going to get killed. and it's not right. plus, bryan stephenson on the trump administration's lame duck rush to execute prisoners and a closer look