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and oh, what a strange trip it's been. it is the friday after the election, and we still don't know who is going to control congress. we do, however, have a much better idea of what happened. first though, let's get the latest on where things stand. arizona looks even better for democrats this afternoon. more votes were counted last night and once again they broke well for senator mark kelly. hobbs extended her lead against kari lake. although the margin is tighter. and catherine cortez masto is getting closer to adam laxalt, with another update from the clark county registrar in a little while. stay tuned for that. and as for the house, there are a handful of seats left including lauren boebert in colorado which is likely to go to a recount. many of the rest are in california where it could take weeks, yes, weeks, to get results, and the count is so

slow out there, even the l.a. mayor's race is uncalled. so let's talk about what happened, get the big picture once again, and it comes down to two things. abortion and democracy. in states where one or both were under direct threat, "the new york times" writes, democrats tended to defy political gravity. whether through referendums on abortion rights or candidates on the ballot, who had taken anti-democratic stances in the very places where mr. trump tried to overturn the last presidential election. or as our friend tim alberta said, succinctly, people preferred out of touch to out of their minds. now with most of the blame for the not so great candidates being laid at donald trump's feet, sometimes in scathing mockery, with the new york post, the former president is lashing out or melting down, depending which former ally you speak with, and in a long winding set of messages on social media, he went after the new york post,

fox news, "the wall street journal," rupert murdoch and ron desantis, basically warning all of them, but most directly desantis, i made you, and i can also destroy you. so follow along, as we split our vision between what's left of 2022 and what might happen in 2024. joining me now from north las vegas is nbc's stephanie gosk, and in phoenix, is nbc's vaughn hillyard. so vaughn, it tightened a whole lot last night. what can you tell us? >> i think it's going to be a race between the two, tabulators taking a quick lunch break but by 8:00 local tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern, on the friday night, after the high school football game, to look back in because we will be looking at the latest ballot drop. the question is will this latest ballot drop be the one that indicates where the senate is going and the governor's race.

there is a big difference between the gap for mark kelly and blake masters right now and kari lake and ms. hobbs and the mail-inballs hand-delivered on election day, and toward donald trump in 2020 and that is what everyone is waiting for and frankly blake masters knows those to turn out in enormous ways, to benefit him. we're talking about more than 20 percentage point difference between him and mark kelly. so we should, we could have an indication whether that happens here tonight. if in fact blake masters appears to still be in contention, that would be good news for kari lake, and her quest to overcome katie hobbs, but if blake masters is essentially even among those returns here with mark kelly tonight, you could be looking at, over the course of the hours ahead, essentially mark kelly feeling pretty good about where he stands in this race here. again, we're still several hours until we get that ballot drop. but that is a big question mark

as we wait for the returns to come in. >> so for tonight, in arizona, even though they said that they're going to keep counting over the weekend, we might get a maybe, or a good indication of where it's going tonight as vaughn was saying. i don't think we will get a good indication tonight from nevada, am i wrong about that, stephanie? the clark county registrar will come out today but yesterday he was giving us numbers on still counting and finding out last night, and i assume the same thing today and there's so many left? >> listen, i'm a competitive person by nature and i will take on vaughn in that race to see, not holding any punches, not taking any prisoners, going to beat vaughn. >> we'll see who wins and then we will all spend the night in vegas. >> we will go to vegas, and whoever wins, or whoever loses, gets the bill. i'm going to say that. i'm going to come, too. back to the news, stephanie, talk to us about what's

happening. >> back to the news. back to the top election official in clark county, he told us yesterday there were about 50,000 votes that still needed to be processed and they were looking at saturday to get the vast majority of mail-in ballots processed. and if you look at the last 48 hours, what you've seen is, you've seen basically the lead that adax laxalt had be whittled away every singing night. that's what we saw last night when 31,000 votes were dropped and now you're down to a margin of under 9,000 votes. and if the mail-in ballots continue to break the way they have for cortez masto, you could see that lead erased. the question will be by how much and how quickly. we hope to get a sense here today in the press conference, with joe gloria, how many votes they're going to drop tonight, and when that's going to happen. >> so we will watch for that 2:30 news conference. and you talked about laxalt and

cortez masto. and what about sisolak and the update last night and how he is doing in his race? >> at this point, it does seem out of reach, given the way the votes have been breaking so far, it is going to be a much harder climb for him to come back against joe lombardo, and that race is a lot harder to determine. you know, he's got a tough road ahead. >> he's got a larger gap between the two of them. stephanie gosk, vaughn hillyard, thank you very much. i will take you both up on that offer of vegas. especially because no matter what, i win, because i'm not in this competition. joining me now is the "washington post" political investigative reporter josh dotsy. let's talk about donald trump. he had a night last night on his social media. and i'm not one to want to talk about his individual, what do they call them tweets, whatever he has, but these were something

else, and that, i know, is saying a lot. what's going on? >> well, there's certainly a feeling here that he is very perturbed by how his involvement in these races has been categorized and the backlash he has gotten from the republican party, lots of leaders, lots of people who are usually loyal to him are not being loyal to him right now. and there's really, there is a sense that he is on the ropes. and there's a lot of his advisers who are saying he's in a definitive crouch, he is quite angry at how some of the candidates performed, we've seen him continue with some of his fake claims about fraud, and you can see him now, and time will tell, with who makes any sort of long term prognostication, people have been proved wrong so many times by donald trump before, but he is at a diminished stature right now within the republican party. you have ron desantis, you have many others who are looking stronger, and you have a lot of

candidates that he backed that just did not do so well on tuesday night. and you have multiple investigations going on right now into him, his conduct, january 6th, the mar-a-lago documents case, the georgia efforts to overturn the election here, and you have a number of people who heretofore had not been calling for the republican party to move on, calling for the party to move on, and he has not taken that well. part of the reason also that the truth social posts have been so hot, i think, there has been a hurricane coming into florida, and his club has been closed for several days, and he also likes to go to the club and have dinner with people, he's not been able to golf, so you've had a former president who basically is sitting and basking in a night that was not that much fun for him. >> given what he has posted on social media. tuesday, november 15th, coming up, jason miller basically said that yes he is going to announce and it is going to be tuesday, i know a lot of folks including jc

miller publicly saying she hold off on that announcement until after the georgia runoffs. what happened with that, that decision-making process? why is trump not listening? >> he was not inclined to do that. i mean polling before the georgia runoffs, like some of the advisers wanted him to do, and the comments with herschel walker, it would have seen a lot of weakness in his mind and he took a lot of votes he did not want after the results on tuesday that might show that, that might show weakness and then tuesday, what the campaign looks like, is he able to attract a lot of top talent to work for him and a more fly by the seat of the pants campaign like he had in 2016 or more of a big apparatus like he did in 2020, and you know, a lot of his folks are not necessarily dying to come back in and work for him. they're not on a linked in, looking for other jobs, but you know, there are a lot of people who have been around him for a long time, have not been subpoenaed, he has been enmeshed in investigates, who really are

not dying to jump back in. so one of the things that i'm watching a lot next week is to figure out once he says this, what can he actually stand up around him, and one of the other things that we're going to see him try to do, if he looks at his advisers, is to force republicans to show some fealty to him and elise stefanik came out with a statement endorsing him and other republicans doing that, and a lot of people haven't and i think one of the reasons he wants to get in early is to force everyone to make a decision on his candidacy, before others are in the race. >> really interesting, josh, thank you very much. and joining me now is republican strategist and former communications director for the rnc, doug, good to have you again. let's continue the conversation we've been having which is what happens to the republican party when donald trump refuses to go quietly into that good night, as he's refusing to do. what does it do to the georgia midterm, or the georgia runoff race? >> well, what we know is the attention isn't focused on georgia right now. it is focused on donald trump.

a lot of that attention is negative energy. but donald trump often has played the role of a bad guy, a healed professional wrestler and you can cheer him and boo him, as long as you're paying the money to buy the ticket and sit in the seat, he is happy with, that he wants to be the center of attention, he clearly wants to have fealty from republicans as josh mentioned earlier and we're seeing how much of that is going to happen and what price republicans are going to continue to pay. >> how does that affect kevin mccarthy's contest to be speaker of the house, if the republicans win, that is still an if, and elise stefanik, as josh just mentioned has already said she will support donald trump in 2024, and if kevin mccarthy feels he has to do that, what sort of position does that put him in, in his contest for speaker? >> well, look, it's the same position he's been in for a long time, and most republicans have. katy, every book, tv show, or movie, that we've ever seen or read, on this topic, tells us

the same thing, when you make a deal with the devil, it comes with a price, and that price doesn't go away, and so you see right now, some republicans are saying it's time to move past trump, but frank sinatra used to sing, i've heard that song before, we'll see how long that lasts. but otherwise, republicans are constantly put in this position, and always hust ling to score points with donald trump and we know that donald trump doesn't give points, he only takes them away, one at a time. >> and so i guess the republican party, with donald trump demanding loyalty, not winning elections, and we're not just using this one as an example, it's 2018, 2020, and now 2022, there's a pattern, and when you've done all of the analysis, you've seen that the places where democrats did great, did well, and defied the odds, were places where donald trump was trying to overturn the election and the candidates that he chose, that he pushed, were the ones who were clinging to that lie, and saying that they wouldn't certify the results of an election. kari lake is having, you know, a

harder time than i think anybody else, and it looks like mark kelly, it looks like he is in a good place, and will be able to keep the senate rate and of course, the race has not been called yet. if republicans can't move away from trump, because he won't let them, what's going to happen to the republican party? >> well, deja vu all over again. and look, katy, mitch mcconnell was right, when he said several months ago that republicans have a candidate quality problem. we saw it throughout the country. a lot of these, not all of them, when a lot of them were first-time candidates and certainly trump-endorsed candidates, and yes they won their primaries but like in the case with dr. oz, if you win with a third of the vote, you're not really getting majority. in fact, two-thirds of the party voted against trump. but these are trump centric, my pillowization candidates. this is all about maga, and the metaphor i would hope that

republicans take, we'll see, is that the trump hotel in washington, d.c. is closed. use that as your metaphor to leave this behind, leave these trump-y celebrity wannabe candidates behind and start focusing back again on principle. this is what mcconnell essentially was talking about when he complained about the candidate quality. as he was funding a lot of those candidates in then. >> what do you make of what happened in colorado though? his hand picked candidate lost handedly to senator michael bennet. >> one, it is colorado, a tough state, and a good sknd but a state, what a big surprise, that donald trump went after, because he wasn't sufficiently in line with all things trump. and if trump goes after you as a republican, this is a lot of the conversation right now, you've got a problem with your base, your base isn't going to show up as much, and therefore, you have a tougher time on election day. >> listen, your base is the one that votes you in on a primary and if the base is demanding fealty to trump, that puts you

in a tough position where you have to talk about how the election was stolen and perpetuate that lie that he is hanging on to, and if the base doesn't put you in a position, or doesn't vote for you, you can't run in the general and if the base forces you that far right, then the general becomes almost impossible. it is a tough position to be in. one of your own making but still a tough position to be in. doug heye, thank you very much for being with us. always good to have you. >> thank you. and still ahead, what happens at the d.o.j., when donald trump makes his 2024 run official? we've got new reporting on what the attorney general is thinking. plus, is twitter alert? is it over? is it done? is this social media site coming to its end? what is happening there today that is getting folks predicting that this really is the end. and on this veterans day, new reporting on what one group is doing to right a wrong. >> they served our country. i'm sorry. >> the worst thing that can happen to a soldier is to be

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. it is all about official. donald trump is running for president for a third time. president trump's long-term adviser who only wednesday was saying trump should wait until after the georgia runoff to announce that he is running, said trump will make official himself, will make it official himself next week, beyond the effect it has on the georgia runoff, donald trump's running, there is the effect it might have on the d.o.j. investigations into the former president. so joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. i know you've been doing some reporting about merrick garland's thinking. what can you tell us? >> yes, katy, on the mar-a-lago investigation in particular, what people familiar with his thinking tell me is that the attorney general does not believe that it's his role to consider the political or social ramifications of indicting a former president, of whether there could be violent backlash, his only job as he sees is

whether the facts in the law support a prosecution and whether anybody who did what trump is believed to have done will be prosecuted. there is a lot of evidence on the record in support of the idea that if you take classified documents home from your job, you get prosecuted. in fact, there was a woman just sentenced to three months in prison in february, who took classified records home from her job at pacific command in hawaii. there was an fbi analyst who just pleaded guilty last month to taking home classified documents, and what's interesting, is the prosecutor in that case is a prosecutor who is now advising the case. and he is a trial lawyer. that's another sign that this thing is coming closer to fruition. they are bringing prosecutors with trial experience on to the mar-a-lago team. experts i talked to said at this point anyone who has done what donald trump is believed to have been done and what the public records charge he has done would have been charged for now. and what we don't know is the

aggravating factors is the obstruction of justice, and did donald trump tell anyone to lie about the evidence of classified records. >> i don't know that this has happened and i don't want to get over our skis, but if he does get indicted, during a presidential run, does he go on trial during that presidential run? does this end in a fine? is that possible? >> there's nothing in the law, or the constitution that would prohibit a candidate from being tried. if he becomes president, that's another story, as you know, but yes, i mean garland told lester holt, in an interview, and the people on fox news say that this remains the case, that donald trump's candidacy, or lack of candidacy, is not going to affect his decision about whether to final charges. >> so interesting. we will watch as it develops. ken dilanian, thank you very much. twitter, let's talk about twitter, because it might be on the verge of collapsing. three more of twitter's top security safety and privacy executives announced their resignations. and cnbc reports that elon musk

has told twitter employees that he's been forced to sell billions in tesla stock to keep twitter afloat. at the same time, twitter blew a pay-based verification system intending to bring in revenue, appears to be on pause, after an embarrassing and costly impersonators bought themselves a blue check. with me now is insider columnist lynette lopez. let's talk first about these impersonators. they bought themselves a blue check and said i'm nintendo or i'm eli lilly. >> or i'm tesla. >> or i'm tesla. >> and i just rammed my car into a building. on auto pilot. things that would embarrass musk and things that quite frankly not to be pretty smart on the platform to see that are fake. you got to look at it a little bit more. certainly more than we've been used to this this world of scrolling that we live in. it's made the platform a lot more messy. but even from the back end, you know, sources are telling me

that things are getting buggier. obviously, you fire half the staff, you get rid of safety protocols, you get rid of all of the things that kind of, all of the people who had institutional knowledge, and things start to break down on the platform. on the back end. and then when those problems start to compile, you'll start to see it more on the front end as users. >> a butch of -- a bunch of firings and resignations and if you're looking at your account, should you identify your phone number or identifying stuff that you think is private, that i don't know, if there is nobody running the privacy center at twitter anylonger, might not so be so private or so fortified against a hacker. >> this gets into some stuff the engineers have been talking about at twitter. elon is making them change things so fast, this is classic elon, without asking any questions that the engineers feel that they themselves might

be held responsible for privacy problems, for security issues, and -- >> and that's an fcc violation, right? >> it is an ftc violation. >> ftc. >> so they're ringing alarm bells to say hey, you know, the regulators need to step in and figure out what's going on here. i think also this is a call to our legislators that we need privacy legislation in this country, to hold the people who are keeping our digital information even more accountable. for the way that they run their businesses. so you don't have this kind of firehose of nonsense and potential security issues. >> so elon also warned that the company itself might go bankrupt. he said he had to sell a lot of money in tesla stock. >> i could have told him that. i actually, i actually wrote a piece saying that, in april, i wish he had read it. >> is it twitter that will go bankrupt or elon musk that might go bankrupt? >> well, elon has options.

he can continue to sell tesla shares like he has been doing, to raise cash, he can try to get more debt on twitter which i don't think is possible, there is 12 billion already, and the bankers would have an issue running that, lending that money yeah anyway. he could have tesla buy. it i wouldn't be surprised if he did that. when he was invested, and his cousins were invested in solar city in 2015, 2016, and it was going bankrupt, he had tesla buy it for stock, because he didn't want to lose money on that deal. and he will lose a lot of money on this deal, twitter is bleeding ad revenue, and that's 98% of his revenue, and you know, he has to do something. >> and you also have a lot of people who were fired or resigning that know how to build a social media site. and twitter's not the most complicated of the social media algorithms, and buildouts. could we see a twitter competitor come in soon? >> please. if you think you can do a twitter competitor, please do it.

please do it now. >> maybe we stay off social media and live our lives and don't focus on being on the phone and scrolling all day long. >> why should we give up social media because some guy -- >> because -- >> because some guy with a billionaire crisis is having to exercise securities on all of us, on the platform. >> it's a good thing. maybe this is the break we needed. maybe this is the moment where we pull our heads out of the water and we say ah, the air is great, and i can breathe again. >> i enjoy the air. i don't have twitter on my phone. i just use it when it is on my computer. i just feel like we're all personally responsible for having healthy social media methods, i do not want to give up twitter just because elon musk said so and broke. it that's ridiculous. >> i am happy to see twitter die. >> well, okay. >> well -- >> not the people who have jobs but just social media. i'm tired of scrolling. >> i'm tired of scrolling, too. and i'm tired of everybody thinking social media is the answer to all of our communication problems. you know.

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reports that we can get from the automated mail ballot processing system, because all of the ballots, minus tomorrow's mail, have been run through. so these estimates that i'm giving now are based on those numbers. last night, we ran 12,309 ballots through, and they were reported in last night's report. as of this morning, we received 104 pieces of mail, which is obviously a lot lower than we have been. we have one more day tomorrow to pick up mail. and that will be the last of the mail. we know that right now, based on what we saw in the vault this morning, we've got a little over 50,000 ballots that still need to be counted. 15,900 ballots are currently in tabulation behind us here. being tabulated. there are 34,130 currently being worked on by the counting board, and as soon as those are complete, they will be sent

directly to tabulation. again, the same exceptions are in place. the cure, which runs through monday, those are included in that number, and then the provisionals, and that number has not changed but staff has been diligent in working, going through those, to determine which ones are eligible to be counted next week, after we get our report from the secretary of state, with all 17 counties listed there, so we can identify anything that was done illegally. i want to remind voters that the cure, my staff is still currently working on that. please take advantage of calling the line. 702-455-6552. today, we'll be working 7:30 to 5:30. over the weekend, saturday and sunday, that hot line will be working 8:00 a.m. to 5:00. and monday being the last day for the vost voters to take care of the cure, from 7:30 to 5:00 p.m. and again that number was 5,555.

oh, that's on the provisionals i'm sorry. the active cures that are still eligible to be cured by voters is 9,659. so with that, i'll open it up. do you want to start? >> how many ballots have been cured? >> that would be, whatever the math is, on 14,569 minus 9659. so it looks about 5,000 have been cured through the system. yes? >> it takes about 20 minutes or so to get through? >> i would have to check on that number, i know earlier in the week there were about 20 individuals who were working that hot line. i believe we've increased the number on that hot line. once we've finished with the majority of our counting torp, we will be able to shift staff over to increase that number, so if you're getting those reports, i'll be sure that i look into that, so that we can create

support there. [ inaudible ]. >> no, not yet. some are in the counting board being processed. the numbers that i gave you today, everything we're dealing with now, it is inside of that group of the dropoff box and the mail that we got on wednesday. >> okay, so joe gloria giving his update at the clark county registration office, he's the registrar, yesterday, we got 12,309 ballots, those were counted yesterday, 104 mail-in ballots came in through the mail today, not very many, and there's just one more day now for mail-in ballots to get there, as long as they were postmarked by election day. he says in total, about 50,000 still need to be counted. 15,900 are currently being tabulated. that's happening right now. i think maybe we'll get that number tonight. and 34,130 are in what he is

calling tray inspection and counting board. they're going to be counted as they become ready. not all of them will be counted today. so potentially getting about 16,000, maybe a little bit more today. and that's going to tell us a lot about where this race is going. there's also 5,555 provisional ballots that need to be counted and will be by wednesday. and 9,659 ballots that still need to be cured, and a reminder, curing is when somebody comes in and shows that their signature matches their i.d. just to fix that on the ballot, matching the signatures. so we're going to get more information tonight. it will show us where this race is going. unclear though if anyone will be able to call it after tonight's update. so a lot to go there in nevada. also, 2024. we're talking about 2022, but let's talk about 2024, because that race is basically started. but before anything happens, the atlantic's tim alberta argues

there are four lessons the gop should heed if they don't want to extend their losing streak. one democratic turnout is going to be a boon in the post-dobbs era. two, bad candidates are an incurable and fast-spreading cancer. three, voters prefer out of touch to out of their mind. and four, trumpism is toxic. joining me now is the atlantic's tim alberta. his latest piece is titled "trumpism is toxic and three other lessons of the midterm elections". >> i've laid them all out. first one, post-dobbs era. democrats are going to be fired up. >> katy, the most amazing statistic i think of the entire election as far as i view it, in 2021, when glen youngkin, the republican, won the race to become governor of virginia, obviously this is pre-dobbs, this is while roe v. wade was still the law of the land, the voters who turned out in deep

blue virginia, the number of them who said that abortion was their top issue, in turning out to vote in that election was 8%. 8% of all voters in virginia said that. fast forward to this tuesday, nationally, that number was around 30%, and across a number of battleground states, that number got as high as 35, 36%. so what you're now looking at is give or take a third of all voters said that their number one priority in this election was abortion, and that is of course a direct consequence of roe v. wade being struck down, and abortion policies being sent back to the states. and what you can see now, clearly, especially with hindsight, is that republicans, despite having all of these tail winds, a struggling economy, inflation, crime, and unpopular president in the white house, despite having all of these fundamentals working in their favor, democrats found a way to turn out their base in historic numbers. and what was the mechanism for doing so? it was abortion.

all of the metrics we have at our disposal suggest that. so if you're a republican now, you got roe v. wade struck down, you got what you wanted for 50 years, but there are clearly some devastating unintended consequences of that. >> what about bad candidates? >> i mean this one is just, you know, a lot of folks want to focus on the fact that just trump's endorsed candidates lost. but it's not just that, katy. it is what those candidates did to their own party down-ballot. this was an exercise in self sabotage. look at a state like michigan where i live, you have democrats now in control of the state house and the state senate, both chambers of the michigan legislature which will have enormous implications for governing, you will see democrats right now putting together an agenda that they never in 100 years thought they would be able to pass this coming january. and democrats took back both chambers because michigan republicans nominated three far right unelectable candidates at the top of the ballot for attorney general, for secretary of state, and for governor.

so it's not just that those individuals lost their races, it's that they cost republicans several competitive congressional races, and they cost them control of both state legislative chambers, and again, that's a pattern we saw play out elsewhere. >> three voters prefer out of touch to out of their mind. kind of the same as candidate quality, right? >> a little bit but here's the thing, katy. we should not take the results of this election to suggest that republicans were ineffective as painting democrats as being out of touch. mistake, to some degree, republicans were very successful in painting democrats out of touch particularly on crime and to some extent on social issues particularly around, sort of pronoun usage and school curriculum, and gender identity, there is some data in the exit polling suggesting that republicans were very effective in painting democrats as out of touch. but ultimately even the voters who said that they thought

democrats were out of touch on those issues, they still voted for the democrats. why? because in state after state, what we saw in the data was that these same voters thought that the republican candidates were too extreme. particularly on this issue of election denialism and doubting our system of elections and the legitimacy of these outcomes. so voters clearly seem to have a choice here between do i vote for a democrat who might be out of touch on the economy and on crime and on some of these other things or do i vote for this republican who i think is out of their mind, and in almost every case we saw, that they chose the former. >> what about trump-ism being toxic? >> so yes, i mean i think anybody with, with a set of eyes and a set of ears can figure this one out, i mean look, the trump has never been a majority candidate, okay? you covered the campaign in 2016 just like i did. this is somebody who won the republican nomination in 2016 by stringing together a bunch of plurality victories against a large and fragmented field and lost the popular vote to hillary clinton by 3 million, and then

his party lost the house badly in 2018, and then lost the senate in 2020, and he lost the presidency by 7 million votes to joe biden. and then of course, we saw what happened tuesday night. trump-ism has never been appealing to the middle of the electorate. but what we saw tuesday was really the bottom falling out in that sense. and really, it's hard to see how any of that could suddenly change in 2024. these voters who decided the outcomes in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, some other states on tuesday, those voters in the middle are as hostile towards trumpism as we've ever seen them, and it is hard to see how that changes. >> tim alberta, always goods to have you on. that was very clear. appreciate it. >> thanks. and our world has nine years to stop catastrophic warming, according to a new climate report. just nine years to significantly reduce greenhouse gases. the president addressed the crisis today in egypt, at the u.n.'s cop-27 conference.

joining us from cambodia where the president is headed next is nbc news correspondent carol lee. so the president addressed the crisis, but that study says nine years, and did he say that we're going to change everything in nine years? >> well, he did try to rally the world around addressing climate change, and part of what the president's message was in his speech was that the u.s. is leading on this issue. he had some momentum there, pointing to the $375 billion investment that is in the democrat's inflation reduction act, and that is geared toward climate change, so he is using his own achievements to make the case to other countries to say hey, this is something we really need to deal with. and to call on them to make similar commitments to reduce emissions. take a listen to the president. >> the sum total of the actions my administration is taking,

puts the united states on track to achieve our paris agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 to 52% below '25 levels, 2005 levels by 2030. >> now, kate katy, the president apologized for his predecessor former president trump withdrawing from the paris climate accord and he announced his administration is taking some new steps to to try to reduce methane emissions. and as for that goal that the president said the u.s. is on track to achieve, to basically cut emissions in half by 2030, some experts say that is actually not the case, that the u.s. is on track to reach more like 30 to 40% of a reduction by 2030. >> thank you very much. and it is veterans day today. and while we honor the service of our men, women in uniform, the v.a. says there are thousands of dead veterans whose remains go unclaimed for years,

some even decades. nbc's aaron gilchrist tells the story of one group working to right that wrong. >> reporter: they come from miles away to say goodbye and thank you. >> they deserve all of the dignity and respect that this nation can muster. >> reporter: about 100 people, even playing a part in the military funeral at south florida national cemetery. ♪ >> reporter: the service, the picture of precision and respect. >> sergeant charles gayerar, 1917 to 1918, world war ii. >> veterans of the korean war and vietnam and world war ii, honored on this day and not a single mourner there knew any of them. the crowd all strangers, volunteers who came to pay their respects to some of the nation's thousands of unclaimed veterans.

>> we don't ever want to be forgotten, whether it is our families, and these men and women served our country, i'm sorry. >> the worst thing that could happen to a soldier is to be forgotten. >> well, the veterans would have been forgotten if it weren't for the missing in america project, since 2006, they have located and laid to rest nearly 6,000 veterans, mostly cremated remains in funeral homes and tucked away by years and even decades. >> how does that happen? how does decades go by? we have found civil war filters and vietnam and the gulf war. it is unbelievable. >> many of the remains are vets who experienced homelessness, outlived loved ones or had families who couldn't afford the burial. >> we had one today that the daughter didn't want anything to do with her father and had become distant from each other. >> the veterans administration

reported, estimated that the remains of between 11,000 and 53,000 veterans may still be unclaimed. the inspector general calling for the v.a. to quote, improve the final disposition of unclaimed veterans' remains. >> in an interview last week, secretary of veterans affairs admitted there is work to be done. >> i can guarantee you we will get our hands around this consistently what the country expects and actually what they deserve. >> for now, it is falling to volunteers to give unclaimed veterans a proper burial. ♪ >> and so each head stone here is the soldier's name and four words, you are not forgotten. >> nbc's aaron gilchrist reporting there. and coming up next, we're going to talk about the races

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if the democrats end up losing the house, new york state will be largely to blame. republicans flipped four new york house seats, including the house of the dc seat, congressman d-ccc seat, sean patrick maloney and now he is blaming the media and aoc for his loss, and i want to talk about the sean patrick maloney interview done with my colleagues at "the new york times," but also some of it was larger, in the way races here in new york, maloney was asked about aoc to be fair, he didn't bring her up on his own but what do you make of him pointing to her and saying she didn't really help. >> i think that points to a larger schism inside the democratic party, aoc represents the progressive side and i think spm as he is known is more of a centrist, so that's that tension there, and i think sean patrick

maloney feels, you know, he's just lost, it's a tough week for him, and i think he's trying to find people to blame. >> so i went up to his district a week or so ago, and i heard a lot about crime up there. is crime a big issue in westchester? from what i was seeing, no, but they seem to have gotten the message that crime in new york city was rampant and scary. >> one of the other people he blamed was the new york post and the news corp saying basically that new york city media market, which had put, you know, crime on the headlines day after day, had infused his district which is not crime ridden with the perception that crime was a huge problem and once again he's in the new york city suburb so they're inside that media market. they get the television ads. they get the tabloid spillover. and that may have poisoned people's minds against him. >> it is not just his race. basically long island is all red now. and the republicans did most of

their cleaning up in that part of new york. what was going on there? >> well, i think it is the same dynamic. and i think if you look for the 2024, those have been the competitive districts again. and certainly the republicans did very well in three and four, as well as one and two, for out on the island, but those were very slim, we're talking one or two percentage points, same with donald trump, patrick maloney's district, i think all of those seats will be in play in two years as well. >> and we started the show talking about why democrats faired so well across the country, and part of it that they faired really well and defied expectations in places where democracy and abortion were threatened and felt urgent. it didn't feel as urgent here and unfortunately it didn't feel like it would be outlawed here in blue new york, voters didn't feel that way, and lee zeldin, even though he voted not to certify the 2020 election, i think they don't feel as

strongly that lee zeldin was as strong of a threat, given the makeup of new york and the legislature. is that part of why crime was so effective here? >> well, to be sure. i mean ironically, abortion was kind of de-fanged as an issue in new york, because unusual has such strong abortion protections. and i think you saw that in other deep blue states. so whereas zeldin may have been against abortion, is against abortion, it doesn't play as a big issue in voters' minds. >> jesse mckinley, always good to have you. thanks so much for joining us. >> of course. that is going to do it for me today. it's friday, everyone. happen hallie jackson picks up our coverage next. don't go anywhere. t smell clean? downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks, make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. my name is wendy, i'm 51 years old, and i'm a hospital administrator. when i talk to patients you can just see from here up

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