the guy is a national treasure. i'm sorry to see him go. >> he's not going anywhere. he's still going to be around. >> that's true i'm glad because he can win as needed in his fifth provisional path -- i was really glad for the conversation. thank you for doing it. >> see an ex week, have a good one. good day to all of you from here in new york. welcome everyone to alex reports. we begin with some new aftershocks to the dinner that is shaking up washington. trump's defense of his meal at mar-a-lago and county west. of course they're known as ye. white supremacist nick fuentes. now drawing a reaction from president biden. >> mister president, what do you think of donald trump having dinner with the white nationalist? what do you think that, sir?

>> the white house followed this up with a statement saying bigotry, hate, antisemitism have absolutely no place in america. including mar-a-lago. holocaust now is reporting and dangerous and must be forcefully condemned. trump also under fire from republicans today for not using the opportunity to condemn racism and antisemitism. >> every occasion that the question of white supremacy or neo-nazism or denying the holocaust comes up, you've got to be absolutely clear in your communication that this is not acceptable. >> meanwhile, the first saturday of early voting in georgia senate runoff which are more than 79,000 voters according to the washington post. that is more than double the number from 2018. we're gonna bring you an update on the race there. also new today, the house committees january six investigation.

a promise the committee's report will make all the evidence in the case public. >> we are close to putting down the pen. and i think that word is going to set out in a i hope ferry -- what took place, what led to that attack. and all the circumstances around that. we're also going to be releasing the evidence which may be the most important thing. transcripts, the documents, the emails. we want to make sure that that's put before the american people. we certainly don't want the jim jordans of the world to cherry pick anything not disclosed and -- false or misleading narrative out of it. >> days after president biden said he will attempted assault weapons ban. outgoing house majority whip james clyburn says he hopes both sides can come together to get it done. >> we've already passed bills in the house. we're trying to get the senate to act. we've done this. we do have a --

we need to -- fundamental fairness and what is right. >> as republicans prepared to take control of the house, another location today of the types of investigations they plan to launch. >> we are going to take the intelligence committee from what was an impeachment committee and partisan committee back to national security. there certainly are issues with respect to hunter biden's laptop. our committees are to focus on national security and our adversaries. we have real adversaries where the committee has been focused again. >> right now, the president is wrapping up the weekend with his family in nantucket before he heads back to d.c. for a very busy couple of weeks. let's go to nbc's ali vitali joining us from washington. ali, welcome my friend. what is at the top of the presidents agenda? >> this is about to be a sprint to the end of the year. because democrats have a lot of things on there to do list before the end of the year. before the house flips control

officially to republicans. chief among them is going to be funding the government, funding it at this point runs out in mid december. all parties involved have already been working towards with the consensus on that is going to be. you and i both know having done many of these government funding deadlines before. typically there's always that flurry of action right before the deadline. certainly as congress comes back into town at the beginning of next week, we're going to be looking to see what the contours of government funding are going to look like. if there are any snafu's coming along the way. that's not the only thing here, either. on the democratic side, they want to work on things like passing election reform and same-sex marriage codification. the wheels are kind of already grinding in motion on both of those fronts. then there is what's going on with republicans right now. which is figuring out of your kevin mccarthy, how you're going to get to that magic number of 218 votes to become how speaker. now that you know that republicans are going to have control of the chamber. the margins are gonna be really thin. republicans actively thinking about what that's going to look like. democrats to frankly. but that's --

their priorities for the start next year. you can hear it when you listen to republicans on the sunday show. you also hear adam schiff giving the democratic mindset around this. listen. >> he's been the leader of our team. he's going to stay the leader of our team. i certainly look forward to when we get past -- we can get to work. at these committees back to doing the job they're supposed to do. >> mccarthy's problem is he can't get the 2:18 without marjorie taylor greene and paul -- matt gates. and so he will do whatever they asked. ken mccarthy has no ideology. he has no course edible lease. it's very hard to get to 18 that way. it's even more difficult to keep to 18. >> alex, we saw what it was for speaker nancy pelosi to work with really tight margins. mccarthy's is going to be even slimmer. what schiff is teasing out there, at the idea that there are a lot of different ideologies that he's going to keep on board.

this is going to be real juggling act to see for kevin mccarthy as we head into this new divided period of government come january. we've got about six weeks left of a really, really busy activity on capitol hill. we're going to see them try to push through a lot of legislating black six weeks. by the way, we're still waiting to see what the make of the senate is going to be with the georgia runoff. >> hundred percent on that. we're glad you're on the job. thank you, ali vitali. we're gonna bring in peter baker right now. which were very glad to do. msnbc political analyst chief white house correspondent for the new york times and coauthor of the divider. trump in the white house 2017 to 2021. let's get into it as i say i hope you had a good thanksgiving, my friend. the president, speaking of thanksgiving, spending the holiday weekend in nantucket in according to bloomberg family discussions have included whether or not he's going to seek a second term. what do you think ultimately could be the sighting factor. >> i think the family's important to joe biden on this kind of a question. has been multiple times in the past.

whenever he has run or not run. that has been in some ways a family decision in 2004, for instance. he was thinking about running for president. he was meeting with his advisers. -- she writes about who she was against it. she was sunbathing at the time. decided to make her opinion known by going into the house. into the kitchen, finding a sharpie pen and writing the letters and oh on her belly. then walking through the rumor has been was meeting with his advisors. he got the message, he didn't run for president that year. the candidate had a meeting -- he likes to tell, but timmy likes to tell. in 2018, i think it, was she decided he was going to run. they said you need to run against trump. it's important for the country. his -- he is always taking their opinions very seriously. one of the important issues for him to decide on is whether he still has work he can get done. whether he thinks he can win in 2024. what this means for him in terms of age. obviously, he's the first oxygen and we've had in the white house. that's obviously a factor for

the family as well. -- how much do you think the trump factor is weighing on him. he beat him. he's probably thinking the country can suffer through another trump presidency. more heat even get the nomination. how much do you think that plays into it? >> i think it's an important fact for him. i think if he thought another republican running other than trump, it might not be quite as compelling for him to run. he is certainly motivated by keeping trump out of the white house. he has said repeatedly that i'm the only one who's ever actually defeated him. which is true, of course. and therefore, he believes and worries that there isn't any other democrat out there with the same capacity to defend against trump. we don't know if trump's gonna get the nomination at this point. looking less likely than i had before. still the odds favorite at this point. i think that some of the factors and pretty keenly as of joe biden awaits his decision. >> in the meantime, as you will know, democrats preparing to defend the president from the onslaught of investigations

proposed by the upcoming republican house majority. what can you tell us about the so-called war rooms that are getting underway outside the white house? >> there are two different aspects of this situation if you are the white house. you want to look at one -- the legal aspect. it will be handled by the lawyers. what subpoenas do you respond to. how do you respond to them. what testimony do you provide. what testimony do resist if you decide to get the trump route of resisting. congressional inquiries. and there is the public relations aspect of it. there is the instant response aspect of it. how do you put out responses to any claims that are made by republicans that you don't think are fair. you don't think are accurate. obviously hunter biden is a big factor there. republicans have made very clear that they plan to go after the president son. they're accusing him of various conflicts of interest and so forth. the white house is going to be very aggressive i think and pushing back and saying that these allegations are unsubstantiated over their selective right over there going to do to push back.

it's going to be an ugly period going forward, no question about it. but they're not going to see the field, i don't think. >> do you know if hunter biden will have to put together his own legal team. or if he'll have access to that which exists already in the white house. >> he has a legal team already. he's under investigation. there's a real possibility that he could face indictment on a number of charges. we don't know yet. there is still a federal investigation going on. there is indications that it might start to come to some sort of conclusion at some point following this election. he does have a legal team obviously out there. they're interested in his interests. his interest ministers are the same thing as his father's interests. the father wants to defend his son. but the father as the president also has to be wary of what this means in terms of his political situation vis-à-vis the hill. the institution of the office of the presidency. >> let's move to donald trump specifically. who as you know, is facing considerable backlash remington or tuesday at mar-a-lago with white supremacist mix one tase

and yay. formerly known as county west. trump claims he had no idea who fuentes was. is it conceivable, peter, given how you know donald trump and with your writings and following him. is it conceivable that he didn't know anything about one tastes? >> look, is it conceivable? i suppose it is. obviously. but we've seen this line from him before. every time hands of getting support from somebody who is toxic. he says i don't know who that person is. i don't know anything about him. david duke endorsed him, he says i don't know anything about david duke which of course seems hard to fathom since many people in the country know who david duke's. the former klan leader. i think that he often uses that profit station of ignorance to defend meetings or support that he otherwise would be happy to take. he hasn't exactly got out of his way to the announce these people. he in fact usually cultivates their support. then tries to pretend that he doesn't really know what they stand for when they come under

scrutiny. i think that is pretty hard to imagine that a former president could have a staff that would allow somebody like nick fuentes to show up at his dinner even if an announce. even if not specifically invited. without some sort of a vetting process. possibly again. it's not a very organized system sometimes with him. but it does speak to i -- think it speaks to larger issues. >> let me pick up on the word ignorance there. because if it is true, peter, that trump didn't know who fuentes was. then he's admitting someone he didn't know was able to get close access to him and to mar-a-lago. how damning is this admission considering donald trump is currently under investigation for storing classified documents there. it is stunning that a president of the united states is so blindly unaware of who he's associating with. >> it's hard to imagine. no other president i could think of would have dinner with somebody who they did not know who they were. had not been vetted by their staff. even a former president has a process to protect them from

exactly this kind of thing you. wouldn't want to be associated with certain people. therefore, you want to have a staff that would protect you from that. whether he doesn't have a staff that is empowered to do that. whether he doesn't care. whether it's disorganized. we can certainly speculate on that but you're right it does speak to his organizations the services right now. i think that mar-a-lago has always been someone loose in that way. it is a private club as well as the residents. people come in and out of there all the time. who were invited by some of the club members that may not be the kind of people that you would want their. instances in the past where somebody i think charges as being a foreign agent was managed to get access to mar-a-lago. certainly instances where people have wandered on or been brought in by members who would normally not get anywhere near a white house or a president. that's always been a concern even when he was in office. >> peter baker, never can -- i look forward to the next one. thank you so much, my friend. right now, everybody, live look

in a soggy philadelphia's millions of americans are heading home on what could be the busiest travel day of the year. heavy rain in a few thunderstorms in the eastern third of the country causing headaches at the end of thanksgiving weekend. let's welcome nbc's -- ronald reagan international airport in arlington virginia. before we get to the skies. let me show you my cousin starting her right now. listening to this broadcast. she's under huge rain assault in michigan. so i'm watching her -- the rain >> how about the flights there. the weather impacting the flights. are you hearing rumbling. >> first drive safe. anybody who's driving. specifically all those who are friends with anchors that msnbc. please drive safe. it's a bit of a trick question. there's a lot of grumbling because everybody said it back to work. the airports are not doing that badly. in fact, where i, matt eca, washington, reagan airport, doing very well. americans brought in almost all of their flights early this morning. so when you go to the board, you see red. initially you think there were

delays. they got flights in here early. we'll see how that afternoon wave goes. i don't wanna call it a success yet because of course it's a noon. we'll see how it goes in the afternoon. keep an eye on the hubs. this is what experts say. keep an eye on the places where airlines are base because that is where we could see those domino effects. that's where we could see some major pain. take a listen to what the managing editor of the points guide had to say. >> unfortunately, when cancellations and delays start happening, it is not the original. houston is a major hub for unit airline. dallas is obviously a super hub for american airlines. if things started go badly in those two airports, you have cascading failures. unfortunately, a flight from new york to dallas, you wouldn't think would be impacted. if that plane has to get there from dallas to new york to get you to get to charlotte. then katie by the door because of weather starts happening -- >> right now, houston and

dallas doing pretty well. map says eight cancellations all day. about 350 delays. that's not so bad. one of the stories here is that he will remember it was a nightmare over the summer traveling around this country. there were thousands of flight canceled tens of thousands of delays. airlines have beefed up their staffing. they know that congress is going to be watching this period of time. and so it appears as though well-established through today they were ready. >> that is very good news. listen, it is what it is. the airlines can't do anything about the weather when it attacks. gotta just go with it and be safe. thank you so much from d.c.. we'll see you again. meantime, storm system is affecting travel today. already spawning a tornado in which the nhs. new orleans history day. within minutes, that tornado tore off roofs in uprooted trees, winds nearing 100 miles an hour. fortunately, no one was injured. now that wall of storms has moved east. but major travel hubs -- let's go to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman who's

following it all for us. you heard cal derek. he mentioned, very busy travel day. you are tracking the storm. what's catching your attention? >> hey, they're. alex we're looking about storm system that impacted louisiana yesterday. now impacting the northeast. we're seeing heavy rain like your cousin said -- we're seeing the northeast, mid-atlantic also new england. we're going to be watching this. we're going to see that rain pretty steady through this afternoon. we could likely see delays. let's go ahead and take a look at radar. we are watching some rain throughout the east. eastern part of the nation. we're looking at a really heavy rain where we see the darker colors. the yellows, the reds, the oranges. that's where we're seeing the heaviest rainfall. portions of the northeast into mid-atlantic. even the southeast. we could see some thunderstorms to the. some of them could be severe. portions of the carolinas. we're gonna be watching that very closely. where you see those brighter colors. that's where we're seeing the heaviest rain. this is what we're expecting in terms of impacts of the airport later on this afternoon. likely seeing delays. catch it with kyle later. through boston, new york city,

philadelphia, d.c.. possible delays through charlotte, atlanta. also salt lake city. we're looking some snow falling in the northwest. i'll show you that in just a second. seattle, you could likely see some delays as well. it's gonna be a tough on the roadways as well. so we're looking i-90 from boston to buffalo. probably seeing ponding on roadways. those windshield wipers going overtime. new york city to chicago on i-80. -- i-95 for. looking at slowdowns as well. this is what it looks like in terms of the storm are looking at that area of low pressure moving throughout the northeast. we're looking at heavy rain falling this afternoon. there is a low severe risk. we could see the chance for severe weather in portions of the mid-atlantic. southern new jersey into d.c.. down through the virginia as well. we're looking at the chance for strong winds. we're seeing the winds gusting right now. 35 miles an hour at some point. that's going to cause some delays to the airport. we're expecting rainfall anywhere from half inch up to an inch of some spots. maybe a bit more to up to an inch and a quarter where you see the yellows. we look to the northwest.

there's gonna be a coast to coast storm throughout the week. for today, we're looking at persistent snow showers continuing in the mountains. we're gonna see heavy snow. we're going to see winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour. in the northwest, we're going to see up to a foot of snow in some spots. that's going to help the snow pack there. back to you. >> skiers are we going to see. that seems can early but it gets the fees and bring it on. thank you very much, michelle. and again today. millions of americans will be shopping to round out this holiday weekend. despite sky high inflation, americans would be spending more this season. early black friday results, mastercard reporting a 12% jump in retail sales and brick and mortar stores compared to last year. >> for traffic this year is better than last year. it's really about sales. our sales are well above last year. more importantly that well above pre-pandemic. >> i like going to the source to see the products itself. especially if it's something i want to try on. >> beyond the stores, shopping reaching new heights.

adobe reports record online black friday sales of over nine billion dollars. nearly two and a half percent higher than a year ago. but tomorrow on cyber monday, alice expect more record spending exceeding 11 billion dollars. that be 5% higher than last year. there was a lot of talk out of the midterms that trump may be losing his grip on the republican party. so where is republican outrage over his dining with a white supremacist? next, new words the one about trump staying in power. aying in power you sleep better and longer when you need it most. its non-habit forming and powered by the makers of nyquil.

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house campaign. joining me now, anthony scaramucci. founder ascribe rich capital and former trump white house communications director. who is clearly getting the spirit. given that the scent of the reindeer there behind you. good to see you, my friend. let's get into this would campaign finances -- it's kind of a shady business as these days. money comes from so many undisclosed sources. what role do mega donors play and how will trump be impacted if and when the trump off the trump train. >> first of all, great to be here. thanks for having me. i would say that the mega donors have less of an influence on donald trump's campaign, frankly, in 2016 when i was on his campaign finance team. we had a big problem with megadonor's. a lot of them had signed up for the never trump category. interesting we enough, a lot of those then gave to his inauguration fund. and gave to the transition team. but i think that they are more or less in solitary now at people like ron desantis or

secretary mike pompeo. i don't see them coming for donald trump this time. won't matter. he can get the smaller donors. i think he got something like an average ticket is $61 in 2016 from the smaller donors. that's his base. they still have a fervent support. it might be slightly smaller. but it's there. they'll write him the checks, unfortunately. that is the case. >> so question here. if he can't use the hundred and 10 million he's already got to run for president. what can he use it for? >> there is advertising. he can support other candidates. obviously, a lot of money was raised to defend the stop the steal sort of situation that this false allegation about the election. the reason why he hasn't prosecuted any lawsuits at all trump himself knows that that is a big lie. he says it repeatedly but he knows down deep at the big lie. just look at his actions.

he's not spending the money that he raised to fight that election fraud. he knows there was no election fraud. he can use it for under candidates. he can use of trump support in his base. he just can't use it for the presidential campaign. which is why he announced so early -- the stuff that he's raising now he can put towards the campaign. and thinking out solely for several reasons. one of which was prosecuted -- so if you could raise some money quickly and to potentially block other candidates or intimidate other potential candidates from joining the race. >> anthony, you know, he's been criticize for fundraising tactics use on the small dollar donors. the ones that were particularly part of about the tight race. you have a georgia. herschel walker's campaign claimed that a least one committee associate with trump camp 90% of the contributions that were solicited exclusively on walker's behalf. so how is that allowed. when people donating say $5 to win their own state.

don't even know the money's not being spent in their state. >> this is the cynicism in politics. if you look at the fine print when they're sending that donation. no one's reading the fine print. it just gives these people that are receiving the donation unbelievable latitude and discretion as to what to do with the money. you and i both know that there is no shame for donald trump. and so he will raise money. he'll do exactly what he wants with the money with impunity. and this is the frustrating part about it. the weakness in the republican parties that there is nobody in senior leadership that has the backbone to call him out. obviously liz, cheney did. adam kissinger did. until about people like senator mcconnell or kevin mccarthy as an example. they just don't call them out. they could put an end to this nonsense a long time ago. they are still fearful. >> funny you talk about backbone. because the founder of the lincoln project gave this

morning. here's the quote. republicans who right now are acting very bold and the donors are acting very frisky. as trump starts winning primaries, they will bend the knee, they will break, they will fall, they will all come back into line. do you agree, anthony? do you think the big donors come back of trump starts polling better? >> unfortunately, i do agree. that's exactly what happened in 2016. we couldn't get the money from them but we got it in the inaugural funding and we got in the transition team. you've got a reams of ensuring the reelected in 2020. so yes, the money follows winners in politics. it's very cynical to say all of this. but it's more important to state the facts. those are the facts. >> he has been somewhat on the defense since his pre-thanksgiving dinner with ye and the white supremacy cystic 20's. you were his former communications director. first of all, re-surprised by this? what do you make of how he's reacted to the criticism? >> it's sort of like what peter

was saying earlier. it's right out of his playbook to deny, deny attribution, deny that he knows people. he did it with david duke. he realizes that this group of people are fervent supporters of his. and so therefore, by denying this stuff. he sort of feels like he can get the moderates to. that's basically his strategy. hill continue to prosecute the strategy like that. the question will be what will happen to those moderates this time. will they break in trump's favor. i'm talking even moderates in the republican party that actually vote in the primaries. if they break in his favor, he's going to get the nomination. if they decide that he's old news, if you will. they'll go with another candidate. remember, he is very tough on the campaign. he's very tough in the debate. it's not clear to me, frankly, that governor santas will run

at this time. if you look at governor desantis's age relative to donald trump, he could sit this one out. clearly run in 2028. he's very program guy. he's very data dependent guy. governor desantis. it looks like don trump will be the favorite to win the nomination. listen, it's a sad day for republicans. no one's willing -- no one in public service is willing to go after him the way that he needs to be gone after to put it into this nonsense. >> let me ask you one here. trump claims that he didn't know anything about fuentes. reportedly the nurses as trump employed -- were you surprised how easy it appears to be for fringe elements to get access to donald trump and do you believe trump didn't know who fuentes was? >> no, look, kind of person he knew who he was. he does this all the time. it's a constant lie it's. a constant misdirection. it's a repetition of a lie.

i think that's another big thing for the former president, if your piece of thing often enough, it will create enough disinformation around the information that a lot of people believe it. that's what he did with the election fraud issue. that's what he's doing with 20s now. they'll be something that he'll be reporting about 3 to 6 months that'll have same sort of facts said and he'll make up the same sort of lies. >> they need to come back in 3 to 6 months and call him out if not before, my friend. certainly. >> hopefully sooner. hopefully before the easter decorations are up. >> count on it. thank you so much, anthony. meantime, brown picking your lunch to work you soviet sheep option but nowadays, we're going to explain ups and downs. and caught on video. a construction worker confronting a motorist who threw litter out his window. e provider if an oral treor you. oral treatments can be taken at home and must be taken within 5 days from when symptoms first appear. if you have symptoms of covid-19,

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it comes as russian forces a shell the city of kherson dozens of times of the past few days. people in that city rushing to get out anyway they can. meanwhile, check out this picture showing the harsh reality of life on the ground. widespread power outages. plunging ukraine, see if they are in the center of your screen there. it's just near darkness that can be seen on satellite images from space. nbc's ellison barber's and keep with more on this. alison, welcome. what more can you tell us. particularly about the darkness, the persist in the country? >> for now -- situation as it relates to electricity power it. it's improving. elise is here relates to the massive air strikes we saw on wednesday evening that took out power for some 12 million customers as of yesterday evening. presidency with saying that they cut that number in half and 6 million people were still without power. later this morning, late afternoon. prime minister of ukraine said that they had about 80% of

power back on for customers. it's been a slow push but a steady buildup to dealing with some of the issues that came from the massive missile strike that took place here on wednesday. that being said, the system itself, with the situation is still very difficult. there are schedule emergency blackouts. earlier in the week, you have energy officials say they were hoping that because they were able to get some of the systems back online. they could also limit some of the planned schedule emergency outages. this is a constant difficult struggle for people in this country. we saw in kherson, shortly after that city was liberated. there was a situation where all of the infrastructure there were so badly damaged that people were having to consider whether or not they could stay and survive the winter months without access to water. without heat, without power. now in that city, we're seeing a situation where on top of concerns about just having basic things in your house like

running water a, bit of heat in these winter months. they're also coming under heavy attack there. heavy artillery in the last couple of days as well as air strikes and there just been this massive line of cars of people fleeing the city. for what feels like -- of that city. celebrating their liberation to now people being forced to leave. listen to some of what those who are fleeing have said. >> >> so the heaviest fighting right now is taking place in the south a central part of the donetsk region. despite intense battles in a little pocket the last two

weeks, the uk's ministry of defence says really be territory there. they've seen very little change of it between ukrainian and russian control. despite those incredibly intense battles. >> alison barbara, comprehensive report for which i thank you from kyiv. it may be one of the biggest concerns for air travelers today in recent events will not make them feel any better we'll have that next let's go now to some ups and downs and what's up your spending thank you inflation government figures show the average u.s. household spent $433 more last month for the very same products and services about a year or go. the biggest increase, spending on food, at work, school. up more than 95%. . don't let santa smile for you there. most wall street investors are down with the frown amid all the losses. especially in the tech heavy nasdaq exchange. those investors losing nearly seven and a half trillion dollars in just the last 12 months.

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stop thinking, 12 days after he announces 2024 campaign. a declaration that if iran the sentence runs for president, elon musk will back trump's florida rival. it came to an extension 21 mosque was asked directly if he would support desantis in 2024. joining me now, don calloway, democratic strategist, ceo appliance three strategies and founder the national voter protection action fund. susan del percio, republican strategist an msnbc political analyst and david jolly, former republican congressman from florida. national chairman of the serve america movement and msnbc political contributor. i hope my family had a wonderful thanksgiving. good to see you guys. let's get into this first with you, don. when must korean citrus in our county, might've thought he was in the tank for him. are you surprised that he's breaking for desantis. >> no, i'm not. elon musk has shown himself to

not be too savvy of a political operator. let alone a business operator with what he's doing the twitter. right now, it appears -- david and soon isn't known -- it appears that the mooch is right. the republican money into republican interests i guess which elon musk considers himself a part of is as we see in hip-hop, rolling with the winners. right now, it does not appear that donald trump is the biggest winner on that side of the ticket. given what happened to him not only these midterms but in the 2020 election. the safe money right now is with people who are more clean cut and don't see the mean things are allowed. right now, that's looking like desantis has that energy. we saw would glenn youngkin 2019 in virginia. but the policies are just as bad. democrats will be -- every bit as vigilant and every bit as organized as though trump was running. >> susan, you have 58% of the gop base still wanting trump to run in 2024. overall, since -- so if only 34% of the country

wants him to run. how small is his base. why is it always appear to be much bigger than it really is. >> just because you make the most noise, doesn't mean you are the most people out there. donald trump supporters tend to be very loud. the pcr rages things. they get attention. having 30% of republicans is plenty if you have ten republicans running for president. that's what we have to see what happens. what does the field look like? how does it shake out. that will also go to the issue of money. >> so it remains to be seen who would perhaps earn that race. but some top florida republican say there are willing to change laws to allow rhonda scent is to run against trump for the gop presidential nomination. and not have him resign while doing so. he is reelected as governor. is that a good development?

>>. no, i think that oasis officials have served other term. and voters really have indicated in most races that doesn't matter. ron desantis which is overwhelmingly reelected with the knowledge of florida voters that he would be seeking the white house. there is the interesting thing about the chapter desantis is about to enter. it goes with elon musk endorsement. ron desantis has been very disciplined, very scripted. his image has been very crafted. it is hard to maintain that discipline and had crafted image when you enter the national stage. elon musk called ron desantis a centrist. that is a death no in republican politics. next, poll right into buescher income out and say right desantis is our guy. that is exactly the wrong image that around desantis wants. and the end of the day, i don't think in 2024 we need to listen to billionaires for who to vote for. but i will tell you what. this is a new stage for desantis. does he want the affiliation with you on. musky wants his money. but does he want the affiliation that comes along

with it. >> interesting. don and then there ca. another potential gop candidate who enter the primary wing this week sort of. he announced some level of a campaign in a social media video. then he went to mar-a-lago with a white supremacist have dinner with donald trump. what is your best estimation of what is happening there? >> this whole thing. i was hoping i never have to talk about this on national tv. i feel like yay is something of a -- he's been with us for so long. he's given me my culture so much. at this point, he is an anti black white supremacist. some of that has to do with his mental illness. some of that has to do with the loss of his mother which he's never really recoup from. frankly, some of that has to do with some ideas that he if you -- kind of their all along. he's really adopted this rich man billionaire mentality. but to surround himself with nick fuentes and jason miller in my low -- it's really just a set indication that yay is --

he's gone, he's not the same guy. he is deeply invested in a philosophy that i don't want to see anywhere near the reigns of power in american leadership again. i will say that it's all a function of seeding roles in american politics in american leadership to these people -- deeply unserious people like kanye west, like donald trump, like herschel walker. me susan and david earl them to believe in a time where there was an alfonse tomato or a walter cronkite who properly chronicled these things. i just really hated the american experiment has gone down this path. i think that da's symptom of that. he certainly not the core cause. >> well said. thank you for doing so. susan, that dinner we're talking about. what it does this illustrate how easily fringe players can get access to trump. by the way, -- now says he wants to run for leadership of the rnc. saying that he wants to go to voting machines. another perpetuation of trump's

pick ally of election fraud in 2020. does the republican party want pillow dude in leadership? >> probably not. but again. if you do have a very loud and significant amount of face behind you, it does matter. if donald trump backs mike lindell, there's a very good chance that he would be gop chairman. my guess is donald trump won't. because lindell is still a little bit of a loose cannon. and it won't obey and fall in line behind trump like the current chairwoman does. the aunt dinner having an antisemite known antisemite sitting with the president -- former president of the united states. it's unacceptable in every circle. and the fact that more republicans haven't called it out yet is a sign that piece still haven't gotten over trump. they really need to if they

want to move on. because this cannot stand. i'm old enough to remember four years ago would stood and what didn't. >> so david, i'm curious, your take on the cast of characters in trump's orbit since the announcement. i'm going to ask maybe just this once. hopefully so based on what don was saying in his i guess chagrin -- do you see yay at all as any kind of a serious contender? >> now, look, don's voice is the most important one on this. what i will tell you as we look at -- we do have to look at trump's decision to dine with kanye. someone who recently referred to the jewish media mafia and hanukkah as a result of financial engineering. there are challenges -- that still decision by donald trump to embrace kanye in this moment. i think it's critically important how we talk about this alex. this is mainstream republicanism. if it's not being denounced, if

you these actors are not being kicked up by the republican party writ large. this is now mainstream republicanism. we have to approach it that way. because there is no distance, no contrast now between those who are willing to support donald trump as he continues to affirm his affiliation with these actors. i just think by referring to a donald trump problem -- it gives the rest of the party a pass. we just can't do that going into this next election cycle. >> don, susan, david, you guys on this thing for the weekend. i'm thankful for you. we'll see you again soon, i hope. meantime, it is a bad news, bad news, bad news scenario for trump and his taxes. that's coming up next hour. t hour ugh! advil dual action fights pain two ways. advil targets pain at the source, acetaminophen blocks pain signals. advil dual action. covid-19. some people get it, and some people can get it bad. and for those who do get it bad, it may be because

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