right now on "andrea mitchell reports," close calls. new election updates this hour with control of the senate and the house still hanging in the balance. votes still being counted in some key governor races. steve kornacki at the big board. battle lines. former president trump lashing out against ron desantis as party elites turn on trump after many of his candidates lost on tuesday. president biden at the

global climate summit today in egypt before a g20 in asia and a showdown with china's president. i will be joined by former u.n. ambassador samantha power at the climate summit. as ukrainian troops retain kherson from a retreating russian army, and vladimir putin now faces isolation, sits out the g20. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. this veterans day, as we thank all of those who served and their families, at this hour both the house and the senate majorities are still up for grabs. nbc's house projection shows republicans holding the slimmest of possible majorities with 27 races still not called. in the senate, overnight, numbers expanding democratic senator mark kelly's lead in arizona as well as a growing lead for democratic senator

catherine cortez masto in nevada. the count continues for them as well as the governor races in those two states. joining me now from the big board, correspondent steve kornacki. you were up late. take us through everything we learned overnight about the two states after the latest vote counts. >> democrats drew much closer in nevada. i think they drew closer to victory in arizona. start in nevada where catherine cortez masto has been trying to overtake adam laxalt. the margin last night came down to under 9,000 votes. you see it there. there are ballots to come. there are 20,000 ballots that are still left. how many of those are actually going to be counted -- some may be spoiled. some may require what they call ballot curing process where the voter has to be contacted, has

to come in, verify a signature, has to fix an issue with the ballot. we're not sure exactly how many more votes are to come from washo county. it's one of the big counties in the state. it's where reno is. there was a drop of votes last night that helped cortez masto cut into laxalt's lead. the big source of outstanding votes then is clark county. biggest county in the state. it's where las vegas is. there's at least 50,000 votes we have been told left to come in there. we expect them to favor the democrats. to what degree is the variable here. if cortez masto is able to win, say, 55%, 60% of the votes, that could be enough to overtake lax laxalt. there's votes in the rural areas, douglas county, we expect to get an update later today that should help laxalt. should move his number up. the question is determining how many votes are left in clark county.

i should add, there's also several thousand provisional ballots there that should favor the democrat as well. cortez masto has been performing very well in these updates we have been getting from clark county. if that continues, she certainly does have the votes on paper to overtake laxalt and win this state. if she's able to win this state and defend the seat, then democrats would just need mark kelly to hang on in the senate race in arizona to hold the senate. democratic win in nevada and arizona, they have the senate majority without needing georgia. kelly's lead is 115,000 votes right now. it is the early votes late arriving, they came in over the weekend, the day before the election. a bunch were added in last night. it padded kelly's lead. there's a huge batch of votes, 290,000 of them, that were dropped off in person by voters on election day.

bit of a mystery about exactly what those will look like. there's a possibility those are going to be a very republican friendly batch. even if they are, kelly's lead at this point is getting so big that masters would need a massive, massive number with those remaining ballots to actually overtake kelly. democrats feel good about their chances in arizona. in nevada, tight one. but they have a potential path there. >> steve, let me briefly ask you about arizona's governor's race. >> that's the big difference. you see mark kelly leading with 115,000 votes. if there's that final batch of votes, and if it ends up being a very republican friendly batch, that's an if, but if it does, kelly with that margin, very well may be able to withstand it. take a look at the governor's race. katie hobbs is not running as well. her lead is 26,000 votes and change. basically 27,000 votes. depending how that big final batch of votes looks, she could

get caught by kari lake than mark kelly caught by blake masters. >> again, very briefly, i know i'm pushing my luck with you, because you have been at it for so long. on the house side, there are 27 not called seats, as i get it. the republicans need only seven to go over the top of 218. democrats need to run the table with 21. correct? >> yeah. democrats need -- you are looking at the list here. these are all the uncalled house races that are left. one of them actually was just called for democrats late last night. we have to update this list. everything else here that's not colored in is an uncalled seat. you can see so much of the action is in california. look at all of the california races that are uncalled. a lot of this is going -- democrats are going to have to get a couple breaks elsewhere. the count in california in some cases can take weeks. democrats are really going to

have to light up just about every one of these blue. but they do have an outside chance. the model says republicans at 220 right now plus or minus seven. that means there is a scenario where democrats could get that 218 in the majority. >> steve kornacki, let me just add to all of the praise, you have been unbelievable. from day one. thank you from our viewers. it's just a home run for you. >> andrea, it's kind of you to say. appreciate that so much. >> get some rest at some point. >> eventually. let's turn to phoenix and vaughan hillyard. speaking of people working all night every night. arizona election officials continue counting mail-in ballots, they issued a statement pushing back against donald trump's false claims about fraud. >> reporter: right. there's been no evidence of any fraud that has been presented by anybody involved. donald trump or any of the republican candidates who are

presently -- you are looking where the numbers lie. the big question is, we're going to get another drop tonight. these number should be more revealing to us. it should give us a better indication of whether blake masters has a shot at catching up to mark kelly tonight. especially the extent to which kari lake has a chance of passing katie hobbs. as we have seen in the last two days, those numbers are expected to continue to go in democratic favor. then there's the 290,000 batch of votes that were hand delivered. mail ballots hand delivered on tuesday. steve was talking about that. it's important to break down why we expect those to go towards republicans. in 2018, they actually went towards sinema by rough math by a 57% to 43% margin in democrat

favor. that helped her win the senate seat. we saw two years later in 2020, donald trump win them by 55%, 56% to 45%, 44% roughly. now, we expected this to trend in the similar direction or republican expect it because compared to 2020, there were 100,000 more individuals that chose to hand deliver their mail ballots this go around than last go around. the expectation is because of skepticism of the mail voting process, that's why republicans are contending not only in the senate race but the governor race that they have a shot and wait until tonight and tomorrow to see how those drops look. >> we are staying tuned. nevada, that's where we find stephanie gosk and john raulston. stephanie, so much of the focus is in northwest vegas. what do you expect to hear from officials today?

>> reporter: they have a routine now. they like do a press conference at 2:30 eastern time. they do the drop in the evening. we hope to get an idea of how many votes they are going to drop tonight in this press conference. there's been a lot of scrutiny on the pacing of this count. there are a couple of things to keep in mind when you talk about that scrutiny. the first is something that joe gloria brought up yesterday, which is that all of this mail-in ballot processing is something relatively new. it happened because of the pandemic. then they introduced, in 2021, a law that every registered voter in this state received a mail-in ballot. that means the vast majority of votes cast in this state are mail-in ballots. they can only process them here, depending on the staff, the machines they have and the space that they have. i asked gloria yesterday in his press conference if he had more space and he had more people and more machines, could this

mail-in ballot processing go faster. it could. but it will be up to the state of nevada to determine whether or not they need to go and do that. i would be curious what john has to say in terms of whether he thinks there's an appetite to improve that situation in elections to come. >> stephanie gosk, thank you so much. john, mr. nevada, so far the results come very close to your predictions. are you bullish about cortez masto? >> andrea, if the trends continue as they have been going with cortez masto and as steve pointed out picking up 55%, 60% of the votes that are still out there in the urban counties of washo and clark, she's going to win. that's if the trends hold. she has gotten over 60% in every batch that has been reported in the last few days. that's going to bring her way over the top of a 9,000 vote deficit.

laxalt will pick up votes in rural nevada. i would guess 3 or 4,000 will be added to his lead. they will be overwhelmed by the votes in urban nevada. how many are left? that's a very good question. probably about 70,000 or so, maybe a little bit more than that. then you have to add in provisional ballots and mail ballots that have been talken out to be so-called cured, fix signature problems. that's another 10,000 plus with all those ballots added together. right now, she's looking pretty good. >> it looks to me, just as an observer here, that governor sisolak has a tougher climb. >> yeah. i think he is too far behind, even in the most optimistic scenario, to catch up to joe

lombardo, the sheriff. i would like to see what those numbers show tonight and how much further behind he falls when those rural numbers post maybe this afternoon. i think he fes bad right now. >> thank you very much. we will be watching and keeping track with you. joining us for a look at the big picture, senior editor dave wasserman. give me your best shot. >> the house is going to come down to california. what we see is that democrats have gotten a disproportionate number of breaks in the last couple of -- last 24 hours or so. we have seen democrats trending in the right direction in connecticut's 5th, illinois's 17th, washington 8, a race gone

the democratic way. colorado's 8th district was close. i don't believe nbc has called it yet. the republican conceded. we have seen the house estimate go down from 222 seats for the republicans to 220. keep in mind that all of these outstanding california races, we don't really have a good sense of the nature of the vote that's out. if all of them break in one direction, then one party could really reap a big benefit. >> let's talk for a second about lauren boebert, the controversial colorado congress member. too close to call. i forget what the latest projection is. >> it's still not a callable race. i think a lot of democrats were prematurely doing a victory dance. yesterday, republicans got good news when lauren boebert retook the lead because some of the late counted in-person and mail ballots had been trending her

way, particularly in pueblo and mesa county. she's been able to reclaim this lead of over 1,000 votes. i think it's difficult for the democrat to overcome that with what i understand is still remaining, which is not very much. we will see in the days to come. >> on arizona, nbc is waiting for more votes to come in before making a projection in the senate race. you seem confident senator kelly is far ahead. >> he is in a great position. although, nbc has not called this race. look, catherine cortez masto, you know, you would rather be her than adam laxalt at this point given what we know about the nature of the outstanding ballots in clark county. mark kelly is in an even stronger position than that. >> if both of those were to break the democrats' way, then georgia and the big runoff december 6 would be less critical. it would just be icing on the cake for whoever were to get that. >> right.

that could be a difficult situation for republicans. keep in mind, if senate control is not on the line, that makes it more about the candidates who are running. brian kemp was a very popular republican who turned republican voters out. he will not be on the ballot on december 6. a pure candidate versus candidate matchup in which their backgrounds and flaws are a little bit more scrutinized by voters rather than purely nationalized, it plays a little bit into raphael warnock's advantage. >> the libertarian third party candidate who pulled in 2% of the vote there in georgia is also not on the ballot in this runoff. that can play either way. it would really be in the democrats' benefit if they could lock it up in arizona and nevada and take the leadership issue off the table. then they could just focus on trying to get warnock over the edge.

>> yeah. that libertarian protest vote, i don't think many of them will turn out. >> good point. thanks to you. invaluable help. >> thanks. running man. donald trump pushing ahead with a tuesday announcement of his 2024 candidacy, despite pushback from his closest advisors to not step on the party's runoff race in georgia. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. ♪♪ what will you do? will you make something better? create something new? our dell technologies advisors can provide you with the tools and expertise you need to bring out the innovator in you. [coughing] hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? robitussin. the only brand with real honeyand elderberry. did you know some of your detergent's fragrance disappears in the dryer?

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this week's elections delivered huge blows to donald trump. most of his candidates lost, including in key battleground states. trump is still sending out invitations to a big mar-a-lago announcement next tuesday, despite warnings from his own advisors to wait until after the georgia senate primary. >> i'm advising the president to hold off until after the georgia race. >> if this is the primary criteria for selecting candidates, we are probably not going to do really well. >> i think governor desantis is the biggest single winner of the night. he will almost certainly become the rallying point for everybody in the republican party who wants to move beyond president trump. >> trump escalated his attacks against ron desantis on thursday, dubbing his potential 2024 rival, ron desanctimonious

after his victory tuesday in florida. joining us now peter baker and ashley parker. welcome both. ashley, donald trump has been counted out so many times before only to rise again and be backed by republicans. you get the sense this time could be different. what do you think? >> this moment is obviously something i have thought a lot about and reported on. this moment feels very similar to the aftermath of january 6th where it felt like republicans, who were sick and tired of trump's antics had a moment to rise up and move the party past him. then, of course, we know that didn't happen. january 6th is hardly the first time. there was what he said about mccain when he began his first presidential campaign in 2015. there was the "access hollywood"

tape. there's an element of deja vu here. in talking to republicans, operatives, donors, strategists, you are right it does feel like another one of these potential opportunities where they are facing this question of those who want to move past him which is, there is potentially a moment and how can they do that? how do you message that to not just the base but even a republican party who doesn't really love an anti-trump message and at most feels like they voted for him twice, they like a lot of the policies, they kind of liked his presidency, they don't like the chaos, they don't like the antics, the controversy, that's a very nuanced line to move the party past the former president who wants to be president again. >> let's listen to clark county nevada election official joe gloria responding to trump's lies about the slow count. >> obviously, he is misinformed two years later about the law

and our election processes. which ensure the integrity of elections in clark county and the state. >> getting that pushback because it -- obviously, we know how this misinformation spreads and the truth never catches up online. when donald trump puts this out there, peter, it leads to suspicions. we saw the stupid circus of the arizona audit and all the time and money that was spent on that and the confusion in the public mind. there's no fraud going on, no miscounting in the normal processes in arizona and nevada. they do it very slowly. >> yeah. they do do it slowly. it's frustrating for everybody. it does, of course, lend itself to people like trump who want to spread unfounded conspiracy theories. i think that that's an issue that those states need to think about in terms of making sure their credibility is protected against that kind of -- those lies.

donald trump has never cared about facts. facts don't matter to him. he basically says whatever reality suits his needs. that's the reality he is choosing now. he would rather stir suspicion and uncertainty in order to justify his own defeat in 2020. he doesn't want to admit he lost. the more he can say the system is broken, the system is awash in corruption and fraud, the more he can justify the fact that he lost to joe biden, which is something he has had a hard time accepting. it's setting the stage for two years from now. one thing that's striking is not only did a lot of election deniers go down in defeat, a lot of them accepted the results. they accepted the verdict of the voters. they did not, in fact, echo donald trump's claims of some sort of problem here. they accepted the system as it is, because there was no massive fraud, there was no massive corruption. i think that they are breaking

away from trump in their own way as well. >> you saw it in new hampshire and in new york and pennsylvania. none of these people are denying that they lost. you had concessions in a lot of these races. did dixon concede? >> she did. >> let's explain the desanctimonious. >> on the eighth day, god looked down on his planned paradise and said, i need a protector. so god made a fighter. someone who challenges

conventional wisdom and isn't afraid to defend what he knows to be right and just. so god made a fighter. >> ashley and peter, that's why trump called him that. it was that ad that triggered that donald trump response, ashley. that's pretty amusing. >> it was that ad and it wasn't that ad. it came from that ad specifically. but donald trump has been bothered by the pretty clear ascent of ron desantis for some time now. trump's people have long denied it until recently. desantis' people said nothing to see here. he had been workshoping nickname s for some time. this is how donald trump responds to someone who he

believes is a threat is bullying publically and, of course, a famous nickname. >> peter, i wanted to catch up about your reporting on ukraine and vladimir putin and decisions in the administration. general milley is urging diplomacy by ukraine sooner rather than later. looking ahead to a very tough winter and the bombing by russia and white house advisers pushing back. what can you tell us? >> exactly. these internal discussions happening at the white house. general milley, the top military advisor to the president of the united states, he is pushing for diplomacy sooner rather than later. his point is they will reach a stalemate for the winter, in his view. he pointed to satellite imagery showing russians digging trenches. therefore, his argument is that the ukrainians have done better

than anybody expected on the battlefield should try to cement those wins at the negotiating table. find a way to end the slaughter of the people at a time when they are at their strongest. there's a lot of pushback, a lot of doubt at the white house. i think they would like to negotiate a solution at some point down the road. they believe it's too soon. jake sullivan, the national security advisor, said yesterday, we're not pressuring ukraine. they want to make sure they are not seen pressuring ukraine. they think general milley is too far out in front. >> one political footnote here, which i should have mentioned. ashley, you have a bunch of state legislatures, in michigan, where whitmer had so much success, and they flipped the legislature to democratic from republican, and they are on the verge of doing that in pennsylvania. this becomes important going

forward, especially with 2024. >> yeah, that's right. in michigan specifically, it was a story for whitmer. she won a big victory against a trump endorsed maga election denier. she lefted -- lifted everyone on her coattails. people are looking at her as a likely next generation leader in part because she will be able to accomplish, they think, so much more with full democratic control throughout the state. >> she did it despite the kidnap attempt, the murder threat, death threats, takeover of the state capitol. she emerges successfully as a standout democratic leader. thank you so much, ashley. thank you, peter.

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visit findahandspecialist.com today to get started. florida's east coast is recovering from the devastation of the rare november category 1 hurricane, hurricane nicole making landfall wednesday before moving north as a tropical depression. a resident just south of daytona beach saying homes and businesses once separated from the ocean by backyards are now vulnerable. >> it was that same trifecta of ian, king tide and nicole. it made us so unstable that things started collapsing. >> kerry sanders joins us. it's the first november hurricane to strike the u.s. mainland in 37 years. >> reporter: it's horrific here. the catastrophe is visible over my shoulder. you can see homes nailed by not

only the hurricane force winds and the category 1 storm, which we talk about 74 mile an hour winds, but it came on top of an unusually high tide called king tide. all of that water came in. i will show you just over here as we zoom in, you can see the home here that's precariously on what was a foundation of sand, much of that has given way. that's why, as you see, there's a couch there and a few other items. people have been coming back to their homes and going in and trying to fish out things. but it's too dangerous. you look at the images we have of building inspectors now going from building to building. they are taking photographs to first document what happened. they are pointing out the fact that in some cases, there are buildings that may look safe. they may not look like the ones that are falling in. but nonetheless, could give way. they are urging people, please do not go inside those buildings, inside those homes. just a short distance from here,

in daytona beach shores, you see condominium and hotel buildings. from the drone, they look like they are close to the water. on the surface, they look safe. indeed, the building inspectors and structural engineers say 22 of the buildingings in the daytona beach shores area, hotels, condominiums, need to be evacuated because at this point we know of several of them, maybe at many as seven, that may have to come down because they are unsafe. all 22 are being examined today by the building inspectors. they are seeing cracks and everything else. this is certainly going to take time for them to sort all of this out before you can go to that next step which is starting the idea of a recovery here. >> just a disaster. i saw on your piece, some of those are high-rises. if they have to come down, we are talking about so much displacement. what a terrible situation for florida. thank you.

turning back to politics, the undecided contest for house control. garrett haake joining me now. if the republicans hit the 218 magic number and win the majority, the focus is going to shift to kevinccarthy who is trying to project strength. >> he will have a very difficult job ahead of him, a final exam for if he wants or can earn the job as speaker. the bottom line, he will have to win two votes, one to get the majority of the support of his conference behind closed doors. that's relatively easy. another on the floor in which he needs to hit 218. there are some republicans, matt gaetz who said, they will never vote for kevin mccarthy. what can he promise to the people who oppose him? what might he have to give away to get to 218? it's a very challenging

situation. you are dealing with 200 people who could be like joe manchin who have demands all the time as you try to lead that conference. within the last hour, we learned he is not the only republican that might have leadership challenges. mitch mcconnell, whose hold on the republican conference had looked much more secure of late, especially after the lackluster showing of some of rick scott's apparatus, we have marco rubio saying he thinks senate leadership votes should be delayed. it's not clear who a consensus alternative to mcconnell would be. he is someone who is, come january, would be in position to be the longest serving leader in either party's history if he can get re-elected. watch this space. we will see what's going on with these cracking at the seams here of the republican conference in both chambers. >> you have my attention. is marco rubio trying to be a

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and the g20, president biden stopped in egypt today addressing the u.n. climate summit and stressing the need to preserve a cleaner and safer planet. >> the climate crisis is about human security, economic security, environmental security, national security and the very life of the planet. my administration has led with a bold agenda to address the climate crisis and increase energy security at home and around the world. >> joining me now, from egypt, is u.s. aid administrator samantha power, with the president at the global climate summit. thank you, ambassador power, for being with us. president biden coming to the climate summit after the u.s. and other industrialized nations were criticized by the rest of the world for causing climate

change. the president outlining what the u.s. is doing. are you concerned that if republicans take control of congress, this could be the last major piece of climate change for this administration? >> well, first let me say, andrea, that when the president came to cop last year, he was able to talk about america coming back, coming back to the paris treaty, coming back to efforts to dramatically curb emissions when there had been rollback of the regulations put in place in the obama years. this year, he is coming having secured a $368 billion investment in combating climate change. it doesn't get old here at a climate summit. you can hear almost a gasp again as people grapple with what that means. it matters not only in terms of the united states lowering emissions and meeting paris targets, which we need to make more ambitious, but making that

investment, it will bring prices down everywhere. that means more solar, wind, access to renewables at a cheaper price in places contributing to emissions. climate change is upon us. i have traveled recently in the last couple months to somalia, experienced its fifth straight failed rainy season, which is unprecedented, and pakistan, a third of which ended up under water because of unprecedented flooding, melting glaciers combined with monsoon rains the likes of which no one had seen before. part of what president biden committed to this year as well is increasing our funding for so-called adaptation, helping countries adapt to the climate emergencies that are here already, even as we accelerate efforts to bring down emissions. >> you have been really the road warrior for this administration. i've been tracking your travel. ukraine repeatedly.

you came from lebanon, focusing on the food supply and the issue of putin reportedly backing off of the grain deal to export grain from the black sea through that blockade. there's so much at stake. the war in ukraine has increased pressure on western europe to continue to rely on fossil fuels. there's a lot of criticism the u.s. is going to have to rely on fossil fuels longer than the administration would want to because of the war. how do you see this all evolving? >> i think in the short-term, obviously, countries are grappling with significant energy insecurity. countries are worried about how they're going to get through the winter. they are worried about the prices for fuel and the prices being charged by putin. not only putin, as supply is deliberately diminished on the global market, driving up

prices. what i saw, speaking to lebanon, not a country we think about in this context, but because fuel prices are so high and electricity is so scarce and rationed in a country where nothing like that was even conceivable before the current economic crisis there, we now see an appetite for solar that had never existed before. because more solar is being made in more places, the prices are coming down. you are going to see more and more communities as well as the private sector, as well as governments in a sense voting with their feet. this higher price in the short-term for fuel and as you say, even the short-term reliance or return to carbon in a way that's damaging, no doubt, for the environment, but nobody is comfortable with that dependence. it broadened the constituency for moving away from depending on putin. >> you were in ukraine as well where ukrainian troops today,

according to president zelenskyy, have entered kherson, a critical point. the russian army has retreated from that stronghold. putin has decided not to show up, even at the g20 where he would have to face world leaders. he is isolated in the world community, in multilateral organizations. he has a veto in the u.n. security council. you know this better than anyone. but he lost ground in the general assembly and in the u.n., hasn't he? >> absolutely. i think the weaponizing the food has played a major role as well as every member state of the u.n. has an interest in raising their voice against unprovoked aggression and brutality of this kind. every country in the u.n. thinks, what if somebody did that to me? how would that feel? they have an interest in international law and territorial integrity being preserved. they have an interest in bringing food prices down.

just about everything putin has done has driven fuel, food and fertilizes prices up. that's not winning him any friends on the global stage. also, what his forces are experiencing on the battlefield, that's not the kind of battlefield performance that putin would wish to bring to an international summit. the fact that the russian forces have lost the battle of kyiv, the battle of kharkiv, kherson, that's not instilling in the russian people the kind of pride that putin has boasted that he was going to be the one to restore for the russian federation. this is a difficult time. i will say, andrea, what we know from i'll territory that's been liberated in ukraine, there are joyous scenes. it's incredibly moving. i think one could spend all day looking at kids and grandmothers coming out and greeting those soldiers, seeing not only the ukrainian flag go up by the european union flag go up in downtown kherson.

at the same time, we know as russian forces withdraw, we learn about thehorrors perpetrated during the occupation. we are working to document the war crimes that we know are now uncovered. >> as you started your career wriing in bosnia about again -- genocide, do you believe there will be accountable for the horrors? >> the ukrainians have done all kinds of things so far that nobody believed possible. experts everywhere, including those very close to putin who thought they would be able to win this very, very quickly, i can also draw from my own experience as you mentioned in bosnia where nobody thought there would be accountability for the war crimes there or that slobodan milosevic would end up behind bars.

establish the proof and continue in the case of the united states to support humanitarian security, economic efforts and war crimes documentation and things can turn quickly. >> samantha power, we looking at live pictures. victorious pictures of the liberation of kherson. i want to say, it's so moving, despite the bombings, despite the horrors of what they have experienced. you have been such a standard bearer for the resilience of these people and people around the world, as you travel globally the last two years. we have been watching. thank you very much. thank you for what you are doing. >> thank you, andrea. honoring our heroes on this veterans day. a medal of honor recipient sharing a powerful message to his brothers in arms. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. rts" on msnbc.

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on veteran's day we come together as a nation to express

our profound gratitude for all you have done and continue to do. >> vice president kamala harris standing in for the president at arlington national cemetery today as he's in egypt. we honor the men and women who have fought for our country and we salute one iraq war veteran and his band of brothers. the second battle of felusia, staff sergeant david villa's birthday. they were ambushed, trapped in the dark, facing relentless firing to save the members of his platoon. for his heroism he was awarded the medal of honor by president

trump. he joins us now. he served since years in the u.s. army. his new book is "remember the ramrods." david, we honor you. thank you for being with us. take us back to that day. it was your birthday. your birthday was yesterday. happy birthday. >> well, thank you very much. >> what was happening? >> i tell you, you get in your life moments where, you know, you realize there's not a dental plan or college debt that makes men and women kick down doors or clear roads of ieds. for years and years after the war i thought what motivates us to do what we do in battle. it's not the hatred for the enemy. you have to love. you have to love each other. you have to love this country. that's what i experienced, unconditional love in the worst

possible environment in the world. i saw men of different skin colors, different religions. we love differently. we cancel each other's votes on election day, but we love each other and trusted each other. that's what our military is made up of. america needs more of what we have in the military today. doesn't matter who the president is, what party controls the house or senate, america is worthy of our defense and sacrifice. i'm proud to be a part of that generation. >> you're such a breath of fresh air after all the toxic political rhetoric of the last couple years. you formed a brotherhood with your unit. you were reunited with them at the medal of honor ceremony. tell us about this bond. >> you know, andrea, for years i thought i missed the war. a lot of veterans we had validation in combat. we had purpose.

we think we miss combat. what took me 15 years to find out and why i wrote this book is that i didn't miss the war. i missed being needed in a fight. i missed my validation, my sense of purpose. i missed the men that i was serving with. that was my family. so once we had an opportunity, life takes us on -- winds blow us around the army and life takes over. you're fixing your kitchen floor and stressing out about a car that needs repair. you think wait a minute. there are people going through the same thing. i need them in my life. they need me. we're back together. we'll go through life together, the ups and downs of life. we're losing far too many veterans who are forgetting who they are and the ramrods will never forget who we are. >> let me say, david, you're no ordinary man.

none of you medal of honor recipients are. you honor all of us because we stand in awe. i remember watching from afar and you were in the middle of it. thank you for your service. thank you for being with us. the book is "remember the ramrods." we'll remember them and we'll remember you. that does it for me on veteran's day. take a moment to honor the service of all who served. remember to follow the show online on facebook and twitter. thanks for being with us. have a restful weekend. chris jansing reports after this. rts after this just buy any footlong in the app, and get one free. free monsters, free bosses, any footlong for free! this guy loves a great offer. so let's see some hustle! at fidelity, your dedicated advisor will work with you on a comprehensive wealth plan

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