you could find me on social media at ari melber. that does it for us on the beat tonight. check out the special hour at 10:00 p.m., joy reid's exclusive with speaker pelosi. and up next is the reid out itself. >> well, america, we're on the eve of a historic day in this country. as washington prepares for a momentous and unconventional presidential inauguration. not only will joe biden be sworn in as our 46th president, but kamala harris will become the first black woman and first asian-american to ever serve as vice president. meaning the deeply racially divisive presidency of donald

trump will be flanked by two of the most historic administrations in american history. both of which included joe biden. the president-elect arrived in a city on lockdown this afternoon. two weeks from a home grown insurrection sparked by the current president. yet already exhibiting national leadership in this unprecedented moment. they began by showing the compassion for the now 400,000 american dead that has been so lacking all this year, holding a solemn and moving ceremony at the lincoln memorial this evening. illuminating two columns of light to represent those more than 400,000 americans who have died from covid-19. it was a fitting and much belated tribute to those victims of the pandemic. >> to heal, we must remember that it's hard sometimes to

remember, but that's how we heal. it is important to do that as a nation. that's why we're here today. between sundown and dusk, let us shine the lights in the darkness along the sacred pool of reflection, remember all whom we lost. >> while covid restrictions have precluded a large turnout, the national mall will have a field of flags to represent those unable to attend. incoming president biden is also planning a show of bipartisan unity tomorrow. at his invitation, congressional leaders of both political parties will asend services at saint mathew's cathedral in the morning and then in the noon clinton, bush and obama will join him to lay a wreath aft the tomb of the unknown soldier. tomorrow is notable for who

won't be there. unwilling to show his face at the ceremony, trump will retreat to mar-a-lago will he will mark the one term presidentially. is the first time an outgoing president has skipped the successor's inauguration in 150 years. instead trump released a farewell address in a pre-taped video late today. and without irony, he's now complaining about a loss of confidence in our, quote, national greatness. that is despite his efforts to discredit the very institutions that make america great in the first place. in contrast, sources tell nbc news that biden's inaugural address will focus on unity and the, quote, need to bring the country together during an unprecedented moment of crisis. tomorrow ceremonies will take place against the back drop of a heavily fortified capitol with national guard troops reaching 25,000. that is more than triple the number four years ago. and after reports that the fbi was screening the very troops

for potential inside threats. meanwhile the senate kicked off confirmation hearings for the nominees to the senate, defense and treasury and homeland security and the director of national intelligence. i'm joined now by correspondent mike memoli. and no one knows biden like you know biden. and could you just take a moment to talk about the significance of this man's journey, the first -- nearly the second catholic president of the united states, the oldest president of the united states. talk a little bit about what this all means for his journey. >> reporter: well, joy, as i've been speaking to a number of former and current biden officials, i keep hearing the same thing which is that this is the moment that biden was really called to lead at a time of real urgency that is needed at this moment. obviously he ran, joy, for president twice before and didn't see a success in either of those efforts. he didn't expect to be able to run in 2020. he thought when he left the white house with president

obama, he was ending his political career. but then donald trump happened and now the watchword of the biden campaign, the biden transition and in a matter of hours the biden administration is urgency. and that is the message that they've been trying to convey. and i think toe today what i was really struck by as we get ready to see the biden administration roll out a number of executive orders, today was about emotion. we heard, when i started the day in wilmington, the president-elect talking about his son, about how delaware has a piece of his heart. tonight what a striking scene here on the national mall. a real striking contrast with president trump. biden advisers have always said empathy was his super-power and we saw that on display for the first time having a national reckoning of the 400,000 lives that were post but biden feel this is moment is called for unity and that is going to be, as you say, the theme of his inaugural address. he was mocked and criticized

business hi democratic rivals in the primary for his belief that he could bring the country together and the inaugural address he'll deliver is the first test in just whether he's going to be able to pull that off. what kind of message he could deliver do a much larger audience and whether they'll listen to it. a big test ahead for him, joy. ll listen to it a big test ahead for him, joy. you are the guy who knows biden more than anyone. thank you. and joining me now is my friend and colleague ali velshi and give us the feel and the vibe and i saw it myself at the capitol today. for those not lucky enough to see that in person, what is it like down there this evening? >> reporter: it's surreal. it is beautiful, i will say

that. but it is empty. except for national guard and police. there is every kind of police around us. as you said, 25,000 national guard. but i will say this, the message has been clear. that this capitol will not be overtaken by rioters or insurrectionists and this inauguration will go on as planned. as you know, there were demonstrations and protests planned for sunday and then today and tomorrow. none of them have materialized. this city is locked down, the circles from the capitol behind me and the white house have been extending. there is national guard all over this city. it feels safe right now, joy. it is going to be a very, very, very unusual inauguration. but it is underway. the vice president joe biden is at blair house now, it is across the road from the white house. the shadow of the white house are donald trump is spending the last night. as you know, will not attend the inauguration. he'll be out of town before joe biden becomes the president at noon eastern tomorrow, joy. >> we are all counting the minutes. e all counting the minutes.

>> meanwhile, we have a heartfelt good-bye. >> i'm honored. i'm truly honored to be your next president and commander-in-chief. and you'll always be a proud son of the state of delaware. excuse the emotion. but delaware. when i die, delaware will be -- >> the big sendoff, he joins me now. joe biden talks about being a man of scranton, pennsylvania, but whose dad after moving to delaware, told that moving story at the democratic national convention because of needing a job and new start. delaware is where they went. you were there as he gave the emotional address, saying good-bye to delaware for his new

home in the white house. talk a little about that. what does it mean to delaware and joe biden. you inherited the seat he left in the united states senate. i want to let you wrap up what all of this means. >> joy, this was a powerful sendoff from new castle county airport from the beau biden national guard center. i think it was powerful for all of us that joe was overcome with emotion, those of us that have known him, served alongside him, supported him, been his friends for decades, and contemplating the prospect that lies before him, he becomes our president tomorrow. he takes the presidency on at a moment of difficulty for the nation. joe is leaving without his beloved son beau for whom that

national guard center is named. i think there were a lot of -- there wasn't a dry eye in the place as he gave his farewell address. we all send prayers, support, enthusiasm, and as you commented, one of the reasons for joe's calk eyed optimism about still being able to work together even in such a divided country is because that's how we do it in the small state of delaware. it's not easy, it's not obvious, it's not simple, but requires effort and willingness to compromise. we don't have any other choice in this moment when 400,000 americans have died. we don't have any other choice in this deeply divided nation, but to take a risk on coming together and trying to move forward. joe biden is exactly the man for this moment to lead us forward. >> yeah. let's jump into that agenda. it is a big one. it's a lot. there are a lot of asks here. let's put it on the screen.

joe biden's day one agenda, going from pathway to citizenship which sparked rancor on the other side of the aisle to reversing the muslim ban, rejoining world health organization, rejoining the paris agreement, pausing student loans, no evictions, foreclosures. a big list of items. where do you begin in the senate where mitch mcconnell is there as majority leader, and those -- >> if you told me back in december that we would be in the majority here in january, i would have told you i believe in my dear friend stacey abrams, all the organizing work in georgia, i believe in jon ossoff, reverend warnock and their capabilities, it will take a miracle to win both those seats in special election.

tomorrow, those two will be sworn in to the senate of the united states. if you told me a month ago mitch mcconnell would be saying he is open to voting to convict donald trump of high crimes and misdemeanors, i would have said that will never happen in my lifetime. he has publicly said that, on the floor of the senate said that he blames donald trump for summoning protesters, the angry mob that desecrated the capitol last wednesday. i know it will take a lot of hard work and unexpected developments but i remain hopeful frankly because we have no other choice. we have to work hard to protect americans who tonight are facing eviction, who have suffered through job loss, who lost members of their family. joy, we're in the middle of so many crises, it is hard to count them all. joe biden is the man that can give hope, that believes in us that we can move forward. we're going to do our best to make it happen. >> i don't doubt that you will

try. before i let you go, i want to allow you and the rest of us to soak in what the new world looks like. this is some of the confirmation hearings we heard today. i guess we don't have it. we heard people that know what they're doing being confirmed. i'm sure you look forward to having those people to work with. senator chris coons, thank you. up next on "the reidout," a failed -- "the reidout," a failed - mitch mcconnell finally breaks with his old partner in crime. a preview of my exclusive interview with nancy pelosi. usi interview with nancy pelosi. >> donald trump was a stain on our country. i don't think we could have

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the trump show is coming to a sad conclusion tomorrow. like most things trump from the apprentice to trump university, it is going out with a wimp perfect, not a bang. he made the ironic claim that he did what he came here to do and so much more. good to know. in the next few hours, he is expected to issue pardons and commutations. he is reportedly stewing not about the 400,000 dead on his watch but the fact that president-elect joe biden got cooler, more famous people, to perform at his inauguration. he is particularly upset lady gaga, jennifer lopez, tom hanks and other stars agreed to

perform. the stench from his administration so foul, some folks won't show up for his departure ceremony. vice president mike pence, soon to be senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, house minority leader are skipping it. many are busy washing their hair, combing their mustache. if the private rebuke wasn't a big enough snub, mitch mcconnell accused them of feeding people lies. >> the mob was fed lies. they were provoked by the president and other powerful people and tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.

but we pressed on, stood together, said an angry mob wouldn't have veto power, not even for one night. >> for more, joined by ashley parker, brand new white house bureau chief for "the washington post," and michael steele, former republican national committee chairman. friend of the show. ashley parker, congratulations on your new gig. you know what that means, you have a lot of 7:00 hours intruded upon by this very show. thank you so much for being here. i am amused i have to say by this trump going away party no one wants to come to. starts tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. so desperate for a crowd, people can bring five additional guests. everybody is saying no, john kelly, no, mitch mcconnell, on and on. what is the thinking in the white house, forcing low level staff to go so he has a crowd or what? >> not just people saying no.

look at the people, the invitations are sent to, just underscores the state of things. you have anthony scaramucci, you have john kelly, former chief of staff said if he was still in the cabinet, he would invoke the 25th amendment. you have mitch mcconnell who said he is open to impeachment of donald trump. not your top notch party guests for a traditional festivities. i talked to a senior white house official today that was saying they're not planning to attend either. this logic was different. why would i stand in the freezing cold for many hours to say good-bye to someone who i have been in the room with hundreds of times over the course of this administration. inside the white house, they think people will show up, but there's certainly funny invite, rsvp thing going on who they

choose and what responses are coming in. >> listen, former chairman steele, i don't know if you can even, maybe mike pompeo will be there to make sure no one is woke or nobody dishonors slave holders. i don't understand what this is going to look like. it seems like it will be america's most embarrassing people. that kind of is what trump is complaining about, even at his inaugural, he got bands nobody heard of, and now biden is getting lady gaga. the final pass eash. >> you going to whip out some french on me. first off, let me say con frats to my buddy, ashley. well deserved.

wonderful acknowledgment of your hard work. >> thank you. >> secondly, joy, you said something leading into this about trump saying something about he did what he had to do in his 20 minute good-bye today. he did, he did exactly what he set out to do. people need to remember, he started the conversation in 2016 with steve bannon, reince priebus, telling us they were going to deconstruct the administrative state, and they spent four years wrecking every feature of our republic. and every underlying pillar of the constitutional principles and ideas. so yeah. they did what they set out to do, and the country has now returned the favor with the biggest, most powerful sendoff and salute they can by saying buh-bye. the idea that he is sitting here worrying about, talking about who is not showing up, who is

coming, all this other stuff, he is going out the way he came in with a whimper. they aren't going to show up in droves when he says good-bye. that is the quintessential definition of the last four years. >> it is amazing, you talk about what they set out to do, ashley. he had a very specific list of things he wanted to accomplish, build a wall, mexico would pay for, repeal obamacare, grow the economy, bring back manufacturing, coal, none of that actually happened. i wonder when you talk to folks on capitol hill, he did accomplish something for people like josh hawley, nobody knew who he was, that he laid out a ground work for how you could acquire power without accomplishment. you had josh hawley today trying

to block the department of homeland security nominee for incoming president biden, one latino guy trying to block him because of caravans, doesn't like daca, so alejandro alejandro mayorkas. >> it is very much for now the republican party of trump. and he did provide a road map for quick and easy attention, you look at a few newly elected people, qanon supporters, and sort of a way of tapping into that populist base of getting that positive reaffirmation by being highly controversial. you're seeing some people in the republican party publicly desperate to move away from it. while he was president, there was a huge circle that privately

would tell reporters, i don't like this tweet, what he is doing, this is unacceptable, atrocious. ask when the cameras are on on the record, they didn't see the tweet, aren't criticizing the president. it is unclear where the party is going to go from there. you're going to have ted cruz, josh hawley, and people like the republicans who voted for impeachment in the house, we'll have to see what they do on the senate side. >> absolutely. for the party, this is something i know you're concerned about, michael steele, the other big thing he revealed, what the base of the party cares more about than policy or even taxes or whatever is the idea of trying to undo political correctness. you have mike pompeo as i mentioned before wailing on about wokism, saying why are you so people that owned slaves, be nice to them. the 1776 commission, a laughable attempt to rip-off the 1619 project with new version of history that says slavery was fine, it's all good, don't say

mean things about our founders. that's what people care more about, right? people are too woke on campuses. that's what they care about in the republican base. >> i agree with that, joy. there is a legitimate concern about the degree to which and extent to which some of this wokeness gets played out when it comes to conservatives and center right individuals around the country, and it's a fair argument to make, but the idea that you're now coming back around and deny american history and deny the facts as they existed then and as they exist now is where you lose legitimacy. we can be a party that speaks truthfully about our history but has to acknowledge that truth. >> indeed. if the legacy of trump is one thing, it is making the republican the anti-woke partied. ashley parker, congratulations again.

michael steele, thank you very much, my friend. appreciate you. up next, sneak peek at my exclusive interview with speaker nancy pelosi. you will hear her thoughts on trump, on biden, and the road ahead for democrats. we'll be back after this. for de. we'll be back after this

speaker nancy pelosi is not holding anything back. earlier today i sat down with her inside the u.s. capitol, a building that's been transformed

since a maga mob attempted insurrection. speaker pelosi called them terrorists, described donald trump as a stain on our country. >> he's not going to greet the incoming president, which may be appropriate, since he tried to undo the election. we now have for the first time in our history something other than a peaceful transfer of power. >> that's right. >> what does that mean for us. >> i think we're bigger than all of this. donald trump was a stain on our country. i don't think we could have sustained our democracy if he had two terms in office for what he was doing to our institutions and doing to our constitution. he dishonored it. what he did to our people, he denigrated people. he denigrated, dishonored the constitution, denigrated our people, degraded our environment from sea to shining sea, god's

gift to us and beyond that, he degraded that, and he again dishonored our values, who we are as a democratic country. so he in every respect was unworthy to be president, did not respect the office he held, and certainly did not respect the office the rest of us hold as well. i respect the office of the president more than he did for how he mistreated it so in any event, he's gone. we have to, how can i say it, not lessons learned because it was so evident all along, what a disgrace he was, but to find out how we can bring people together. that's our responsibility and again, nobody better than joe biden and kamala harris to do that. >> madam speaker, i will admit it is something for me emotionally to be in this

building, knowing what happened here. for you, is there something about it that it feels different after what happened? >> difference in resolve, that it is vulnerable, which we never thought, and that we have to lift up its protection. this building had not been invaded except by the british in the war of 1812, now by instigation of the president of the united states for insurrection onto the capitol. that's what makes it so tragic. physical things don't mean as much to me. they're symbols. but the impact on democracy, the impact on the people that work here, that's almost unforgivable. >> you know, we spoke a little bit as we were preparing to walk out about maintenance staff that are largely black and brown

folks who then had to come in after all of this and clean up after it. it is so disrespectful to these people, but also to this, to this grand place. >> the injustice of it all. but i have to salute the custodial staff. they every single day make this the place it is for us to do our work, for visitors to come, for press to cover, for staff to serve, and they do it quietly, invisibly until this mob of terrorists instigated by the president of the united states violated, vandalized this building. the custodial staff rose to the occasion, restored it all without complaint. but there's an injustice there

that must be corrected, that these terrorists, slogs who come in here and desecrate this place and that these good people had to clean up their mess, it is just the injustice of it all, it really makes me very angry. >> as you can see, she kept it real. there is a lot more from my interview with speaker pelosi, including her reaction to shocking video released of a member of the mob openly hunting for her inside the halls of congress. full interview airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern after rachel maddow. we'll be back with more on tomorrow's history making inauguration. more on tomorrow's history making inauguration ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (quiet piano music) ♪ ♪

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be the last. >> let this grim era of demonization in america begin to end here and now. >> because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. >> tomorrow the man who made his first run for the presidency in 1988 will be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states, with a goal of restoring the soul of the nation. joe biden will have kamala harris at his side, she will make history as the first woman, first woman of color, first woman of south asian descent to be sworn into the second highest office in the country. joining me, valerie jarrett, former adviser to president obama, and al sharpton, and host of politics nation on msnbc, and

michael beschloss. i want to start with you, valerie jarrett. you know a little something about history and about a presidency steeped in it. i want to play a clip of something that aired earlier this week. this is a group of kamala harris' sorority reacting to how biden and harris are going to govern. on the point of how black women are sort of experiencing this moment, this was an interview by my good friend, tiffany cross. take a listen. >> i'm hoping once they're in office, as they begin to introduce their platform to america that people who did not vote for them will see that they really are for the people. >> i think they will just have to show by doing and i think that will convince them.

>> for years before when the other administration won, lot of people were not happy, but we have to move on and not create a divided country. >> you know, valerie, when you think about an historically black college, black women sororities like the links which kamala harris is a member of, this is like a moment, joyful moment. can we still recapture that kind of joy and history given all of the rest of the circumstances? >> oh, absolutely, joy. first of all, good evening. i think what you just played is more relevant an important. people are listening in a way perhaps they didn't listen years ago. i think this is vice president-elect kamala harris' moment, she's joined by a person who i know so well, joe biden, soon to be president biden.

i get goosebumps watching the video you played of the two of them, what a breath of fresh air is coming to washington. yes, joy, it has been a dreadful nightmare the last four years, but the hope and willingness to reach out to say i will be president for all of america, to talk about the importance of bringing our country together is an important data point. it is also a teaching moment for america. people will learn who the links are, who are the akas, who are the deltas. it will be a new vocabulary, shows inclusivity of america which is our strength. >> yes. and tiffany wrote a book it is a good reason to hire journalists of color to explain it to folks that don't understand it. i want to ask you a question that i asked the speaker earlier, valerie. it is this. they're not going to get a note, the bidens or harrises from the

current president. if you had to leave a note, given all your experience, knowing joe biden yourself, having worked with him throughout the obama administration, knowing former senator harris, vp-elect harris, what would you put in a note to them as advice? >> the reason i'm going to be able to sleep well tomorrow night better than i slept in four years, they don't actually need the note. they have prepared their entire life for this very moment and what makes them special i think as public servants is their commitment to be public servants. this is about us, the american people. that will be the truth north, it will be what they focus on every single day, and won't that be refreshing after what we've been through. my only advice to them is follow their true north which i am very confident that they will do, and to recognize that this moment goes by very quickly. i was looking earlier today at photos i took four years ago.

and in a way, feels like a lifetime ago, another way feels like just seconds. treasure every moment. >> valerie jarrett who knows a thing or two about the exercise of presidential power in office and who is such a great person in your own right. thank you so much for being here this evening. i think the sound america will hear across the country will be the sound of snoring and deep sleep. thank you so much. let's go to michael beschloss and reverend al sharpton. i will start with you on this, michael. this will be the sort of silence and quiet that we anticipate tomorrow with all of those tributes to the dead which we haven't been able to have that catharsis over the past year given all the people that died from covid and the quiet and flags rustling and all that. in a sense, do you think that might be more meaningful than a big crowd? >> i think it will be more

meaningful because it takes account of the moment. if we tried to imitate a normal inauguration with a big crowd, pretending there was not a pandemic, if we tried to take chances with security, pretending there was not a domestic terrorist attack on the capitol and congress on the 6th of january, that would be counter. if we're having a ceremony of unity, reconciliation, which i am sure tomorrow will be, you have to have one that's a little bit in tune with the moment. we americans just as our friend valerie was just saying, we have been through four years of a daily, hourly assault on our democracy, a president who hates democracy, has a lust for power, topped it all off on the 6th of january by trying to take down our congress, overturn a free presidential election, and take down our democracy. that was a near death experience we can't just pretend this is just a day like any other.

>> indeed. and rev, they could have just asked you before americans decided to put that man in the white house, you know donald trump, you know exactly what he was. you and i talked about this before. now that america knows, right, if you look at the country is on the wrong track, 73%. we remain divided over the next four years, polls show most people have woken up to buyer's remorse for those that didn't vote for him. i wonder then how you think that biden should move forward, you know? you have run for president, you know they have difficulty. he has a huge task ahead. this is a deeply divided country where two sides don't just not get along, they hate each other. >> biden has a real situation that no one has faced in many decades. we are dealing with a pandemic which is why i think it was

appropriate and inspiring in many ways, what he and vice president-elect harris did, paying tribute to those we lost. we shouldn't forget tens of thousands of people that died and many of us feel needlessly if we had a president that really had listened to the scientists when he was given the information. he has a divided country. and he's coming in after the very capitol of the united states was under siege to stop an election certification. let's not forget, they didn't just have a fit or riot, they came to interrupt the election certification, the electoral college certification of the president, which was an attempted coup d'etat. to come together, bring all of that together and unite is an awesome task. but guess what, when you look at

all of the adversity, politically and personally that joe biden has had to deal with and overcome, things he couldn't see coming, if you look at kamala harris who had to do the same as a woman, as a woman of color,color, who was always down in her career, they were built for this moment and i hope they rise to the occasion. there are going to be those of us that are advocates that are going to want to put the agenda of our constituencies up front and they were prepared for all of that. i've seen joe biden there for eight years with president obama who had to deal with all kinds of adversity. i've seen kamala harris and know her well having to deal with it. i think they're built for this moment, if anyone is built for this moment. but let's not underestimate the gravity of the moment. >> indeed. reverend al sharpton and michael beschloss, thank you very much. appreciate you guys being here this evening. up next, the end of an era. my parting thoughts as donald

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survived 1,461 days of his tenancy in our white house. >> this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. get 'em out. get 'em out. get 'em out. >> we have low energy jeb bush. >> lyin' ted, and little marco. >> as i say, crooked hillary. crooked hillary. i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. they are the enemy of the people. >> this awful, disastrous presidency will come to its ignominious end tomorrow at noon. by this time tomorrow, joseph r. biden jr., the one-time vice president to america's first black president will be the president of the united states. and kamala harris, a black and asian-american woman will be the vice president. history made.

you might have noticed if you watch this show on a regular basis that i have not referred to the soon-to-be former occupant of the white house with the honorific president, with the exception of when it slips in through the occasional quote from another media source. that omission has always been quite deliberate. my parents were immigrants. i deeply respect the office of the president and all that it, well, used to convey. but from the day that he threw his hat into the ring and rode down that escalator in his tacky new york tower, donald trump has not spent one day acting like an american president. he literally doesn't work. he spent most of his presidency playing golf. it's abundantly clear he never wanted the job, he just wanted the glamour of the job, the marketing. to be clear, we've had 45 american presidencies, some good, some great, some terrible. but we've never had a president quite like donald j. trump. no american president, not even the truly venal ones like andrew

johnson or andrew jackson or nixon, let alone a hostile foreign power like russia, and none them have been as servile as trump has been to the kremlin and vladimir putin personally. >> he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> no american president has used the office so openly and directly for personal profit. now, other american presidents have stolen children from their parents. i mean a dozen of them owned, exploited and enslaved humans and andrew jackson slaughtered indigenous people and separated them from their land a dark art.

but trump found a way to combine every rotten trait of our worst presidents into one stinking hulk. the muslim ban and child caging were like the 1980s chinese exclusion act meets the racist act of 1927 meets the internment of japanese americans by fdr. trump's criminality, self-dealing and corruption make dick nixon look like white santa. santa is black. and the 400,000 dead from coronavirus certainly recall the lies woodrow wilson told about the spanish flu. trump a bit short of wilson's 675,000 person death toll, not that he didn't try. no president has ever launched an insurrection against this country until donald trump did it, while lying so much that he personally ushered in the post fact era. >> the fake polls, the fake everything.

the whole russian thing was an excuse for the democrats losing the election and it turns out to be just one excuse. obamacare is a disaster. it's virtually dead. the most popular person in the history of the republican party is trump. can you believe this? >> this man is a confederate apologist worse than even andrew freaking johnson. his fellow racist one-termer who got one impeached one fewer times than trump did. he's our most unamerican president and will certainly be ranked as our worst president. but it's highly likely that trump won't be our last awful president. his very presence and the fact that a, let's say it, ridiculous man like this became president of the united states at all and then won even more votes when he lost the popular vote for the second time during his re-election effort, that fact is proof that as rotten as trump is, and he is rotten, he can

happen again. i don't know who needs to hear this, but this is who we are, at least in part. let's just take this last four years as a warning. and that is tonight's reid-out, the last one with trump as president. i will be back at 10:00 p.m. eastern with my hour-long interview with nancy pelosi. "all in with chris hayes" starts now. tonight on "all in," the next president has arrived in washington as the capitol lights up and the inauguration awaits. tonight how america gave itself the chance to end its long national nightmare. then, trump's last days and what's next for the party that enabled him. george conway will be here. plus jordan cleper of "the daily show" and americans still under the spell of donald trump. and national mourning on the national mall. how joe biden and kamala harris began the work of processing our national p