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than i gave. thank you to team rubicon. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks at nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i'll see you at the end of tomorrow. >> you know, the monday after the thanksgiving holiday weekend, it always has kind of a drill sergeant feel to it for me. because you get this -- you know, you have this nice holiday. you've got -- hopefully, you've got thursday, friday, saturday, sunday off. it's one of her only big long holiday periods like that. but the monday after thanksgiving holiday weekend, back to work! on the double! especially because we just have this short period of time before people are off again around the christmas holiday. so i always feel like this specific day on the calendar, the monday after thanksgiving, is always the day where it feels like the to-do list is so long and you're not able to do

everything. you see that in the new cycle today too. although, in politics, i feel like right now we're in this moment where it feels like we are back to work, for sure. that post thanksgiving vibes here. but in politics, or back to work on two very different but parallel tracks. because on the one hand, congress is coming back into session after the first time after the midterm elections. that creates all sorts of normal political news right? it poses also its of normal political questions. democrats now know they will only control both houses of congress until january 3rd, which is when the new congress will be sworn in and the republicans will then take over the house. so anything the democrats want to get done, while they control both the house and the senate before the republicans take the house on january 3rd, democrats have got to do it now. which might make you think they'd been in a hurry to get stuff done in the limited remaining time. right? i mean, the clock is ticking here.

it's only 36 days until the republicans take over the house. you might think because of that that the democrats are planning on working around the clock for all of those 36 days. right? making use of all of the time that they have left to get as much done as possible before the republicans arrive and then nothing can be done. alas, that is not the approach. of the 36 days between now and the republicans taking over half of congress on january 3rd, the senate is planning on having work days on 15 of those 36 days. the house is planning on having work days on 12 of those 36 days. that's it. the other days are like, holiday, travel. mondays off. i don't know. they're still gonna try to get some important stuff done. the senate had a procedural vote tonight to make marriage rights u.s. law coast to coast.

right, now the reason same-sex couples can't get married all over the country is because the supreme court, the u.s. supreme court, said laws banning same sex marriage are unconstitutional. but since trump appointees joined the supreme court, now, the republican appointed hard-line conservative super majority on the court is threatening that they're gonna reverse that decision on marriage. they're gonna let republican controlled states, once again, start banning same sex marriages. they're threatening that they may do that. that, of course, will throw millions of american families into legal chaos. so the idea of passing a federal law in congress now to make marriage a nationally protected right in law, that's basically to try to protect same-sex couples and their families from what the conservative supreme court majority is threatening to do to them in their next session. that procedural vote on marriage passed the senate tonight with support from all democratic senators and 12 republican senators.

you see the 61 yay votes. they needed 60 to get through the hurdle. with 61 votes on this tonight, it looks like this might be something they'll be able to pass before the lame duck is over. that's a big deal in terms of civil rights law in this country. as senator amy klobuchar was just talking about with chris hayes moments ago, senate is also gonna try to pass a law that would clarify how the electoral count act works. so it will be clear to everybody that they'll have no legal leg to stand on the next time republicans want to try to overthrow an election result by chasing down for the vice president and threatening to kill him with a mob. that electoral count act is an ancient american set of laws and procedures that does have ambiguity in it that the trump side tried to exploit when they directed the mob at mike pence on january 6th. on january 6th this clarification of the electoral count act would,

presumably, preclude anybody from even trying to hint that they had the legal right to do that. it is possible that they will get the electoral count at reforms done as well. the house ways and means committee, they also effectively have the same little 36-day window to review the tax returns of former president donald trump. now that the courts have ordered those tax returns handed over to the committee. now, there are no outward signs of any action, any urgency on the part of that committee to actually get those tax returns in their hands and start their review. it is to my mind inexplicably quiet over there on the ways and means committee, given that they have this incredibly limited period of time in which to review those records, which it took them years to get. now that they've theoretically got the right to access them, there appears to be no rush on their part to actually do it. which i do not understand. holiday shopping, hair washing, whatever else you've got going on there.

while this clock ticks down. they haven't got the records yet. so, as congress comes back after the midterms, there are all these kinds of normal political things going on. the democrats will be picking their house leadership on wednesday this week. they're gonna be picking their senate leadership on monday next week. the house republicans are gonna have to decide if they are in fact picking kevin mccarthy as the speaker. even though he's the clear front runner for that job, mr. mccarthy appears to be in such a weak position among his fellow republicans that there's an interesting live question now as to whether it might take multiple rounds of voting before he or someone else gets a majority vote to be speaker. that would be interesting. nothing like that has happened in the u.s. house in a century. the last time that happened was 1923, i believe. but even that, it's still kind of -- that's all stuff that's on the interesting edge of what counts as normal every day politics, and all of its normal

frustrations and dramas. at the same, congress is back to work, all these normal political processes are playing out, there's also this second summit parallel track on which things are happening adjacent and connected to our politics. that second parallel track is really not normal politics at all. one of the things we're gonna be checking in on tonight this hour is the decision by at least one republican-controlled county and the state of arizona that they're going to refuse to certify the results of the last election. this last election that took place this month. in arizona, as you know, the republican candidate for governor who lost is refusing to admit that she lost. the republican candidate for secretary of state, who lost, is also refusing to admit that he lost. the republican candidate for attorney general, who appears

to have lost, but it's going to go to an automatic recount, because it's really close, he has filed a lawsuit against the state trying to force the state to overturn that apparent result and just declare him the winner regardless of the recount even though he's behind. and as crazy as that sounds, you should know that he has a partner in that lawsuit. it's not just him. the republican national committee, the national republican party, has joined him in that lawsuit. so things are already a little cuckoo for cocoa puffs in arizona, in terms of whether or not the republicans there believe in elections anymore and intent abide by them. but today, as the deadline for counties to certify the vote in arizona, with one republican-controlled county refusing to certify, despite the deadline, we are now entering into territory that has a lot of minds in it. this raises the prospect that the county that's refusing to certify will likely be sued for refusing to certify. that means we're looking at the

prospect that, in fairly short order, we'll be looking at a court order that directs the county to certify the vote even though they don't want to. at that point, will be hard up against the question that a republican party that doesn't accept election results might also be a republican party that refuses to abide by court orders. at which point we're pretty much in the abyss, and we've left politics behind in favor of something that looks more like brute force. so this one county in arizona refusing to certify, on the one hand, you can look at it as kind of an obscure little local election abnormality. on the other hand, this is a signal for something that could sort of escalate very quickly. and that is happening over on this arcing stray voltage crackling edge of what otherwise looks like normal politics today. we've got that going on in arizona.

today, in california, a new judge was chosen for the trial of a man who's accused of breaking into the home of the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and bludgeoning her 82 year-old husband with a hammer, fracturing his skull. those legal proceedings continued to unspool today in california. and in washington today, continued deliberations in this edition trial. the criminal trial of members of a pro trump paramilitary groups who are accused of trying to overthrow the government by force on january 6th last year. the leader of that group that is currently on trial for seditious conspiracy, stewart rhodes, is a former congressional staffer for republican congressman ron paul. we're awaiting the jury verdict and that massive sedition trial in washington, d. c.. also, today, we got guilty pleas from the gunman who livestreamed killing ten african american men and women at the buffalo supermarket in may. the judge today asked him in

court, one by one, but each of the people he murdered. the judge named each of those victims and asked the man one by one if he murdered that person because of their race. the man answered yes each time, ten times, for each of the ten people he killed. with these guilty pleas today, he'll do life in prison with no possibility of parole. he's a white supremacist. he says he killed all those people in buffalo because he was helping to set off a race war. just like the guy who shot up the mother emmanuel church in charleston. just like the guy who shot up the walmart in el paso. just like the guy who shot up the synagogue in pittsburgh, just like all of them. and simultaneously, and while that's going on, we've got the leading presidential contender for the republican nomination in 2024. this holiday weekend, he's having a nice thanksgiving with kanye west, the rapper who just lost all of his corporate sponsorship deals when he started saying he was going to

go death con 3 on the jews. -- just hosted mr. west this weekend. and also, this man, for a -- what was apparently a very nice thanksgiving differently here at the former president's home. >> when you look at these things like abortion, it's popular. people like abortion. hate it, but it's true. and you can thank the jewish media for that. abortion's popular. sodomy's popular. being gay is popular. being a feminist is popular. sex out of bed locke's popular. contraceptives, it's all popular. that's not to say it's good. that's not to say i like that. popular means the people support it, which they do. and it sucks, and it is what it is, but that's why we need dictatorship. that's unironically where we need to get rid of all that. when you took take control of the media, take control of the government, and force the people to believe what we believe. >> that's why we need a dictatorship. force people to believe what we

believe. we need a dictatorship. unironically. so that clip is from people for the american. they have a project called right-wing watch for the monitor and document what's going on on the ultra right, on the far right fringe. that's a great service of the time. i'll tell, you it becomes a fire alarm system for the whole country when someone from that fringe, someone from that fire out of the political spectrum, ends up having a thanksgiving dinner with the republican parties leading candidate for president. >> here's the pathway. we have one more election where white people can make the decision. the white people have to make the right decision, and then trump's gotta get in there and never leave. that, to me at this point, is the pathway. it's time to shut up, elect trump one more time, and then, stop having elections. we've gotta talk about the fundamentals of our world view,

and what it would look like to build a society based on our distinct worldview. it looks like a society where women don't have the right to vote. it looks like a society where boys and girls get married as teenagers, and start having kids. and they don't use birth control, and they have big families, and a high birth rate, and it looks like women wearing veils in church. and it looks like women not being in the workforce. banning gay marriage is back on the menu. banning sodomy is back on the menu. banning contraceptives is back on the menu. and basically, we're having something like taliban rule in america in a good way. we're having something like a catholic taliban rule in america. who cares. enough of the jim crow stuff. who cares. oh, drink out of a different water fountain. big [bleep] deal. oh no, they had to go to a different school. that water fountain in that

famous picture was worse. who cares, give, up chunk out of the water fountain. it's the same. you know? and even if it was bad, who cares. who cares. it's better, better in general. we all agree. it's better, it's better, jim crow segregation was better. almost all of that was posted for people for the american way, they monitor right-wing watched on the stuff in the far-right, which is usually only of interest for people who study the far-right but is suddenly becomes totally relevant to everyone else in the country when a guy like that suddenly ends up invited to the home of the republican party's leading presidential candidate to have a private thanksgiving dinner with him. that guy and former president donald trump. i should tell you he's also a holocaust denier. i'm not gonna show you clips of him denying the holocaust, but they are there.

he not only explicitly calls for the imposition of a dictatorship in this country, he explicitly creates hitler, says jewish people should not be able to participate in the u.s. government, and now he is having a nice private dinner with the man most likely to be the next nominee for president of the united states. so yeah, back to work. back to work on this split screen. in politics, we've got sort of normal-ish questions about, what are the democrats going to get done in the lame duck period? are they nothing working enough days in the lame duck period? they acting with enough urgency saying they're about to lose can control of congress? well the house republican leader get enough votes to become speaker on the first bout? we've got all the sort of normal politic headlines here on earth one, but it's all simultaneous and adjacent to the death con 3 on the jews guy and a holocaust denier eating turkey and stuffing with the

leader of the republican party at his home. and i feel like since this came to light over the holiday weekend, most of the talk in political circles have been about whether or not this is bad for trump, whether or not this is going to reflect poorly on him as the leader of the republican party. whether this is something that might hurt him in some way, whether might be mistake for him, or whether this will slide off him as well. okay, the reason groups like people for the american way monitor guys like this and keep track of what they are saying and doing is not just because a guy like this might have an incidental effect sunday on some real politician who interacts with him. no, reason it is worth keep keeping track of holocaust denying racist agitators who advocate race war and, i kid

you not, burning women alive in america -- the reason why you monitor guys like that is not just because of their potential future impacts someday on other people have power. it's because of their power and the damage that they want to do. and guys like that, neo-nazi agitators getting a big proverbial hug, getting a private audience with the republican party's next presidential nominee, yes sure, that reflects that political candidate and his party, but more importantly, it's great for the nazis. it's a super charging thing for them, for their perceived legitimacy, their reach, their ability to get their message out to people, to operate, to recruit and to do what they want to do. which in this guy's case is turning the united states of america into a whites only, no jews allowed fascist homeland under a dictator who who would like to be donald trump. it is hard to have regular, every day normal politics

alongside this kind of politics as well. but that's where we are. and the violent ultra right will benefit greatly from this moment. whether any right-wing politicians do as well. joining us now is kathleen baloch, she teaches history at northwestern. she's the author of bring the war home, the white power movement and paramilitary america which is a seminal text. professor, i really appreciate you making time to be with us here tonight. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to ask you about my job, my role in this and the role of our conversation about this. because i feel like one of the things i've learned from your scholarship and the field that you've contributed so much is to understand that when you get ultra right violent white power movements adjacent to people with real political power, yes it may be looking at how they influence people with political power, but one of the perhaps more immediate impact is that it tends to supercharge and promote and help do their work.

these people who are or on the far, far ultra right. i don't want to be part of that, i don't want to amplify this guy's message, but i feel like trump just put him in a new level of the stratosphere with political influence. >> absolutely, and we can talk about that without saying his name or directing people to his websites or any of that. i think the issue here if we step back a moment from the news cycle part of this and think about how it sits in a broader historical context is that this is an activist that trump is claiming not to know even though this person was involved in the unite the right rally in charlottesville in 2017, he was involved in january 6th. this is a longtime player, so the claims not to know who is leaves us speechless at best. but the bigger point here is what this kind of a meeting unlocks for the future. because i think the only place it would take issue with your

opening monologue, which was excellent as it is always, is the idea that this movement would like trump to be the dictator. they will take it because he's there, but trump is not the point. the point is the seizure of power. the point is the white ethnostate. the point is all that violence against populations that are targeted by this movement that has been unleashed in an ad hoc fashion, but would be unleashed in a much more systematic way if and when these people begin to amass political power. so what we have to think about is not only trump but also all of the other people in the gop who've been shoulder to shoulder with this particular activist. including marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar, including several others and the people who are also presumptive nominees in 2024 who have not taken the opportunity to decry this meeting. i saw that mike pence did

eventually today and okay, perhaps there's a delay because of the holiday weekend, but the fact that the gop is not coming out full-throatedly against this is a notable escalation in how much they are allowing extremist politics to shape the party. >> if republican politicians aren't playing enough of a sort of gatekeeper role on this affair, not quickly and uniformly and unequivocally really condemning the sort of thing which i hear would make sort of a difference in terms of how much space is unlocked for these sort of groups to operate on the right, is there anything else that the rest of the country can do to try to mitigate the harm that is caused by this type of embrace by a figure like trump? >> the list of action needed is long and extensive. one of the big ones is, i think i have seen not only in the news media about on twitter and in personal conversation, the

sense that because these big deny her conversations were pushed back in the midterms, and trump didn't do as well as he hoped, and the response was lacklustre, and perhaps we're out of the woods. the most important thing to remember with the white power movement is they probably don't care that much about who the dictator is. trump being out of power would not stop this groundswell. this is now a social problem that we all face regardless of what is going on in sort of, what did you call it, world one politics as planet what is going on as usual. we now live in a world where these activists are ebola. they're throwing up showing up to school board meetings, or targeting our communities, their acts of violence like the ones in buffalo. but also much smaller and equally devastating acts of violence very regularly in our society. this is going to take a full scale social response that is not just about politics. it's about do we care about

harm to one another or do we accept it? >> kathleen blue, associate professor of history at northwestern and the author of a very important book that everybody should read which is called bring the war home, the white power movement and paramilitary america. i have it in hardback and paperback because i read it first when it first came out. i read it and consulted it so many times and a lighter copy of it to carry around. professor, we really appreciate you for being with us. thank you for talking with us tonight. >> thank you very much for having me. >> much more ahead tonight, on this monday night.

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they frog marched them right out the front doors. apple daily was an independent pro democracy newspaper. it was the last remaining independent paper operating in the city of hong kong as of last june, following escalating crackdowns on journalism by the pro chinese government. after that raid in june, authorities froze the assets of the newspaper, and then they started arresting not just executives but also journalists who worked for apple daily, reporters, columnists. and so apple daily shut down. they have no assets to access, they have no way to pay people or fund their operations, their employees were being thrown in jail and so the last pro democracy independent newspaper in hong kong was forced to close. and this was the scene outside the apple daily offices on the final night of publication. all these people gathered outside in the rain to show their support to the journalists inside who were for

one last night doing the work of the free and fair press in hong kong. people outside held their cell phone flashlights waving at the journalists inside, and from the inside of the offices of apple daily, the journalists waved back. there was a photograph of that show of support those journalists could see in the street below that became the cover photo for the front page of the final print edition of apple daily. the headline there says hongkongers bid a painful, tearful farewell to apple daily.

response from our viewers. the story has had some story trailing ends. a few weeks after they shut down, even on the shutdown, it is no longer an ostensible threat to the pro-china government, authorities arrested even more editors and writers from apple daily in addition to the ones that they marched out of the office. now, the paper's editor-in-chief along with five other executives and writers for apple daily have just pled guilty to the criminal charges that were brought against them. charges of colluding with foreign powers just for working at a pro democracy independent newspaper. charges like that can carry a maximum sentence of life's life imprisonment. but again, that's the editor and chief and five other people from the paper who just pled guilty to those charges. again potentially facing life imprisonment for the crime of doing journalism.

and the newspaper's founder is facing similar charges, but he's not pleading guilty. his trial is slated to continue next month. this is all happening in hong kong amidst a sudden and rare outburst of protests in mainland china. this weekend saw protests in cities all across china, sparked by opposite to the government's strict covid lockdowns. it's almost impossible to overstate how unusual it is to see any kind of public protest, public opposition in china nowadays, let alone large crowds protesting in multiple cities. this is an authoritarian country. the chinese government's crackdown was very hard, they made it almost impossible for people to protest at any scale at all. but look, here they are, people chanting and demanding freedom. and yes, the spark of it was about covid lockdowns, but it's everything. in shanghai, protesters there called for the chinese communist party to leave power, call for china's president to step down. that's a sentiment that is almost literally unspeakable in china.

in the capital, beijing, protesters chanted freedom of the press to each other across the river. call and response, freedom of the press, freedom of the press. an unofficial symbol of the demonstrations has been a white sheet of paper held in the air by protesters as a symbol of all the things they are not allowed to say. you might remember seeing russians arrested in russia after russia invaded ukraine. russians arrested on the street for nothing other than holding a piece of paper or piece of poster board with nothing written on. well now people in china are doing the same thing showing that they are not allowed to speak. things are very tense and scary in china right now amidst all this bravery from the chinese people. nobody really knows exactly how the government is going to respond. there are fears that a violent crackdown is coming. but those white pages of course are a reminder, you can shut down every last pro democracy

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to actually take the vote on certification. mojave county flirted with maybe refusing to certify their election results today, but ultimately after two long meetings they did vote unanimously that they would certify. cochise county had previously tried to insist that they would only count the votes by hand, something they proved immediately and definitively unable to do. you may remember that. they also ended up a man in their hand count when a court ordered them to do so? well today, cochise county declined to certify their election results and decided they apparently don't care about their deadline to certify. they say they're gonna talk about certifying again at another meeting the going to hold on friday of this week. but again, today is the deadline by which they needed to act. they did not act. because of that, cochise county

is now facing two lawsuits to try to compel them to certify the vote. the question then of course immediately arises, if the courts do end up ordering cochise county to certify the election results, will cochise county obey the courts order or will they defied, and if they defy, and then what happens? there's another deadline rapidly approaching. december 8th. that's the deadline for the whole state of arizona to certify the election results statewide. now theoretically, if cochise county makes it to december 8th, while still refusing to certify the votes for their county, theoretically that would mean that arizona would certify the vote count for every county except cochise county. cochise county would not have their votes added to the state vote totals. if that happens, which would be crazy, that might actually end up resulting in some races have the results flipped. cochise county votes very heavily for republicans.

if none of that county's votes are gonna count, because the county won't certify them, then some arizona votes races that went to republican counties might end up flipping to the democrat instead. once you subtract on the heavily republican votes from coaches county. that would of course be completely nuts, particularly because the reason the coaches county supervisors aren't registered certifying the election results there, is because they don't think anything fishy happened in their county, it's because they heard other things that they thought sounded bad in other counties, specifically in maricopa county, which is arizona's biggest population center. today the maricopa county board of supervisors agreed enormously to certify their election results, but they only took back result after a tense, 4-hour long public meeting filled with a very exudes site-able group in a very packed auditorium. >> shame to hell to maricopa county for dragging our fine arizona straight to the toilet. >> this is vote trafficking at

its finest. i've seen the criminal element. you are vote traffickers. you are a vote trafficker! criminal! >> you're not losing friends because of the way that you handled this election process. you're losing friends because you are evil and corrupt and you know it. >> i came here today to get an up close and personal look at the southern traders to the united states constitution >> again please >> sitting at that desk. the voting booth >> your time is. up >> a time for peaceful revolution. those who make peaceful revolution impossible make a violent revolution necessary. >> that was maricopa county, arizona today as they nevertheless voted to certify the midterm election results. joining us is, yvonne sanchez, she's a washington post reporter in maricopa. she's there to watch the whole thing unfold. thank you for being with us

tonight. >> thank you. >> so, we watched a lot of the footage today from the public comment period and we pulled sound from people we felt showed some of the depth of feeling and the ragged edge of rhetoric in that room. can you tell us more about what it was like what the supervisors are sort of up against what it took this vote count? >> sure. i've been a political reporter here in arizona for 20 years. some of that time was solely dedicated to covering maricopa county during sheriff joe a pious tenure. there are a lot of these days during his time in office, and i can tell you not one of them had that auditorium has packed as it was today. one of the things that the cameras were not able to show where the sheriff's deputies who were lined up against the wall just sort of underscoring the potential security concerns

that they have had. this is a state that has had a lot of threats in the last years since the 2020 election. the other thing that i don't think viewers got to fully appreciate was nearly every time someone took the podium to thank the supervisors and election workers for their work for fulfilling their duties, many people in the crowd started coughing. and you had lots of people in that room coughing, really trying to drown out the comments that were being made thanking these people for their work. it was a long meeting. a lot of people had a lot of things to say. legitimate concerns about serious issues that did happen on election day with a lot of printers. but the board reiterated repeatedly that no one was denied the wrote to vote, and ultimately the results were accurate and they were fair the supervisors said.

>> do you believe that this is being either driven overtly organized or otherwise connected to the republican gubernatorial candidate kari lake, the republican secretary of state candidate mark finchem who lost, or are refusing to acknowledge that the last, also the republican attorney general candidate who appear to law, spot is going to a mandatory recount. he nevertheless suing to have the election results overturned and him declared the winner regardless of the week out. those actions by those top of the ticket candidates in arizona. is that the organizing effort behind what you saw today? is it connected are are these things happening on separate tracks? >> well, i can't yet say specifically who is beyond this thing. we have a lot of public records of trying to determine what that organization behind the scenes looks like, especially in some of these rural counties. what i can say is that these

candidates and these republican activists who for two years have been stoking mistrust in our voting systems continue to message that sort of distrust -- mistrust -- on social media. meeting today i was sitting next to a couple of women who are having conversations with people sitting right in front of me. and they kept flashing social media apps. one of them was telegram, and they were communicating for anna kari lake channel. i can't specifically say what she is saying behind the scenes if anything to try to stoke this. kelly ward, the state republican party chair also seems to be very supportive of these efforts, as well as other activists with some pretty high-profile groups. pro trump youth groups that have essentially taken over the

state republican party over the past four or five years. so i think that they see this as a productive way to air their grievances in front of their local government and it seems as though they are willing to blow past some of these really important deadlines, potentially jeopardizing the votes of tens of thousands of people, many of whom are voters in ruby red coat she's county. >> yvonne sanchez, reporter for the washington post. as a crucial deadline today, but as you point out to be a lot of important milestone deadlines that it coming up over the next week and a half or two. i know we will be talking with you again as you continue reporting on this important story. thank you yvonne, appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> i'll be right back. stay with us. 100% carbon free... is it possible? ♪♪ aes has been leading energy transitions for decades...

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