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their final report due to be released just ten days from now. congressman greg stand of arizona will join me on what he's learning and on his role in the efforts to secure britney griner's release from russia. plus senator kyrsten sinema, she's getting more criticism from the left after ditching democrats to become an independent. but what does it mean really for the democrats agenda? we will get into the latest reaction and the reality. and the keys to victory in georgia, y'all. senator warnock's with top strategist will break down how it happened, the takeaways for election campaigns in 2024 and beyond. i'm symone sanders townsend and i have something to say. more than 500 days after its

formation, the house january six committee's work is coming to an end. members are now racing to finish the final report which is expected on december 21st. a crucial highly anticipated part of wrapping all that up involves criminal referrals. the january six committee members are meeting virtually as we speak, this afternoon. they have the goal of reaching a consensus today on who should be on their list of criminal referrals. reporters are watching closely for any details on those decisions chairman bennie thompson has already said he does expect of the penultimate criminal referrals to the justice department. a potential looming wave of criminal referrals against a former president and his allies, it's not the only thing congress is bracing for right now. there are other things like a potential government shutdown. it is starting to look more and more possible with the friday government funding deal deadline just days away. does this sound familiar? well, that's because these funding standoffs and shutdown

threats happen all too often, i think. right, now 26 billion dollars with a b is what separates democrats from republicans. it's not an insurmountable difference. congress may end up passing a temporary funding fix the buy more time to figure it all out. you've also got house minority leader kevin mccarthy who is urging senate minority leader mitch mcconnell to walk away from the negotiating table until republicans have control of the house. >> we are 28 days away from republicans having the gavel. we would be stronger in every negotiation, so any republican that's out there trying to work with them is wrong. wait until we are in charge. >> remember those words if the government shuts down at the end of this week. the potential next speaker of the house wanted to grind public institutions to a standstill, leave federal workers out to dry, and ignore congress's most basic mandate,

to keep the governor running. all for the sake of partisan power. joining me now to discuss is democratic congressman greg stanton of arizona. welcome to you, sir. congressman stanton, i want to note to you that i have an ifb issue. i currently don't have the piece in my ear. let's start with the january 6th. we are awaiting a final report and potential referrals. can you tell us what you are hearing about these referrals and i wonder if you could weigh in on if you believe the committee has done a sufficient job of establishing about the threat to democracy is ongoing. or if you think that, you know, they have focused a little too much on trump and it's become slightly a distraction. >> first, happy birthday weekend to you, symone. congratulations. as it relates to january 6th and the issue of criminal referrals, chairman bennie thompson, congresswoman liz cheney, the whole team have done an incredible job of building this case. i trust them and their judgment, that the criminal referrals are

appropriate and that they will make such referrals. and then we have to have hands off. unlike the trump administration, with the biden administration and democrats in charge of congress, we need to reestablish the full independence of the department of justice. this is a country of laws, not men. the criminal referrals are appropriate and they need to do their job, not be afraid of what the political ramifications are of that. then let the department of justice know about their business they are from. >> a government such shutdown is at stake this week. this is about peoples lives, their livelihoods. i'm wondering how worried you are about the push mccarthy is making to drag out this funding fight and force a shut down. >> it's really sad because kevin mccarthy is obviously trying to beg as much as he can to get 218 votes so he can be the next speaker of the house. he's cutting deals. deals that will come back to haunt him but also haunt the united states of america in order to get those 218 votes. and one of those deals, it

increases the chance of a government shutdown. man, how horrible with that before the united states of america. what a terrible impact on the lives of government workers and the services they provide to the united states of america. and also, a horrible for the credit rating on the united states that we are not able to read bipartisan agreement and get things done. it's important that. we need to pass an omnibus budget. we need to come together, democrats and republicans need to come together and pass a budget. it's one of the top priorities we have to do as members of the u.s. congress. it's time to get this done, not play political games, and put the full faith of the united states unnecessarily at risk. >> you know, congressman we often hear about the faith that people have in our institutions. how popular, if you will, the congress is. it strikes me that this whole debate about defund theof votere country, the american people. >> it's totally unnecessary.

we all have priorities, we need to reach appropriate compromise and pass a budget for the united states of america. this idea that we will play political games and purposely wait until one party takes over after january 3rd so that they can then try to jam the democrats on the house, albeit a minority, to cut social security, cut medicare, which many of them have talked about it being a high priority for them, in order to maximize leverage in doing so, that would be really, really bad for the people of the united states of america. they know that these are the deals being cut behind closed doors in order for mccarthy to try to get the votes necessary to be speaking. >> the games that people do not like. well, let's talk about some good news, congressman. the return of britney griner. you want to unenforce one with president biden. you are advocating for her release just days before her return happens. last night in an instagram post,

you were among the people that cherelle griner thanks for her efforts. you were the second or third person she named. you've become friends with brittney griner over the years, i understand. when did you learn she was coming home? how did you have the opportunity to speak to her again? >> i was on air force one when the president was flying from washington to phoenix for the big -- i talk to him directly and made another -- i'm a big basketball fan. as the mayor of phoenix, that was my job before i got in congress. i had seen her develop into a great leader in our community, a social justice leader who was using her voice and so many positive ways. it's such a tragedy what occurred. i asked him about it. he hinted that something big was going to happen at the end of the week. he didn't break any confidentiality but he did hint that a very positive thing was going to happen. that made me very optimistic. look, you mentioned cherelle griner, she is a hero. we should all have a spouse or

loved one in our lives and that would advocate for us at the way that cherelle griner advocated for her wife, britney griner. she showed up at every rally around the country. she timed her statements and interviews, national media interviews, and just right to keep the attention on brittany and the others who are wrongfully detained in russia and around the globe. i mean, courage, strength, and advocacy. just an amazing person. we all owe a debt of gratitude to cherelle. we also have a debt of gratitude to the family of paul whelan who were so gracious. i mean, they supported at the decision of the president to bring out fellow american brittney griner. that is graciousness. we owe the family of paul whelan a very big debt of gratitude. >> a very big debt of gratitude. i know that we are all hoping paul whelan also gets home soon. before i let you go, sir i really have to talk about

senator -- from being a democrat to independent. you posted a tweet in response to the news. we have it on the screen for folks. in this tweet, it shows that you are trouncing her in a hypothetical primary poll. are you considering a senate run in 2024? >> the reality of senator sinema leaving the democratic party that worked so hard to elect her in 2018 to switch to the independent is a matter of political expediency. the truth is that myself and many other democrats would beat her in a democratic primary. she has just lost the fate of democratic voters in arizona -- >> you are considering? you are thinking about a run, congressman? >> i will take the holidays and talk it over with my family. it's a big decision to make a run for the united states senate. i will take a look at it. i know other members of our delegation who are friends of mine are looking at it, as well as a lot of other people. we need to make sure we have the right candidate and can not only win a primary but also in a general election.

because we need to make sure that the values arizona voters work so hard for in 2018, that we have those values implemented, including fighting even harder to get rid of filibusters so we can push abortion rights and the equality act and voting rights act and other actions that supreme court is working so hard to take away. we need to fight to get those in place. and that's the type of candidate we need. >> i. right congressman greg stanton, haven't seen you since i've been on the campaign trail, sir. good to see you. thank you for being here today. >> good to see you. my pleasure. >> all right. coming up, candidate trump, you remember him? he's facing a mountain of legal issues ahead is 2024 run. we will break down what is happening now, what's expected next, plus, ronald mcdaniel, she will be -- our chair. that might be hard for a lot of people because her party was trounced and midterm elections. we will get inside details about how she is pulling that went off. but first, richard louis is

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is feeling some heat from few to print directions right now. the january six committee report will be public in a matter of days. the committee is meeting virtually today on a sunday, nonetheless, with plans to decide which criminal referrals to make as part of the final report later this month. just this week, his namesake business was convicted of tax fraud, not to mention the long, long list of other investigations, including one about election interference in georgia and another about classified documents found at mar-a-lago. while we wait for all those shoes to drop, donald trump has announced his 2024 presidential run. he is the first candidate to do so. we'll these investigations impact his candidacy? let's bring in nbc news senior national political reporter,

john allen, to discuss it all. john, very good to see you, my friend. look, we know congress can't charge or prosecute -- whatever they decide is unlikely to influence the justice department investigation of the former president and all things related january 6th. so what's the potential impact of these criminal referrals then? and you know if any committee members have indicated whether they could or include former president trump, because it's not a foregone conclusion? >> i think that is certainly the elephant in the room. it would be odd for them to refer other people but not donald trump. in some ways, that would be an admission that that committee didn't do what it set out to do. remember, congress impeached donald trump for what happened on january 6th. if they will emit criminal referrals, i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't for donald trump -- several others might also be in that basket. let's see what the committee decides.

there was a meeting today. i have been in touch or try to be in touch with sources on that, i have not heard back. the big effect of all this is the question will republican voters see donald trump has less electable because of all the legal problems. >> yes, that is the question. that is the question. at this, point we don't necessarily know the answer. we don't know the final answer. everything that we've seen up to this point says he's been undeterred with the voters. look at the primaries, right? >> right. donald trump is still winning national primary polling. he also has not done a lot in terms of getting out there and starting a real campaign. i'm in nashua, new hampshire today. no signs of a trump campaign here. talking to people in other early states, they are saying there is no sign of the trump campaign in terms of hiring people, the grassroots organizing that you do, the fundraising, that kind of stuff. you are not seeing that yet.

we will have to wait to see who else is in but there is a possibility of a very crowded primary. >> it was very early to announce any presidential run. in addition to the january 6th, and we will be watching, they're -- hopefully we'll get some news, maybe not today -- there is that a classified documents that were found in a trump storage unit at mar-a-lago. and these were additional documents. it's interesting because these documents were found by a team hired by donald trump's lawyer. we know there is a special counsel now, jack smith, he tried unsuccessfully to hold donald trump's office in contempt for this very thing. what does this new document discovery tell you, if anything, about the doj investigation? >> it tells me that the fbi did everything they wanted, that they were looking for. there were documents out there -- if there is a follow-up on that. if there were fbi searches of other trump properties as a result. they came back and said here's

two documents we found but then certified the -- that they turned over everything. i think we will see how aggressive jack smith is with that in the coming days. it's a serious issue. there's a special prosecutor -- these classified documents -- trump has admitted to taking them. >> very clearly, very transparently taking the documents. it's literally insane. we've talked about 2024. i think there's a lot of chitchat about what republicans will do, what president biden will do. you have new reporting on ronna mcdaniel who appears to be reelected chair of the national committee. she doesn't exactly have a great chirac record. republicans have suffered significant losses, i'm talking 2018, 2020, and the 2022 midterm elections most recently, all on her watch. why does she still have so much support? it's important for people to

understand this. the rnc is the mechanism through which the republican primaries will be run through. >> i'm so glad you asked or that way. there are 168 voters, three republican committee members from each of these states plus the territories that are currently rnc. that's her constituency. in part, what they are saying is that this is not ronna mcdaniel's far -- full. implicitly that the candidates -- his influence on these elections when you're talking about 2018, 2020, or 2022, has really been the primaries that they have lost in spite of the work that ronna mcdaniel did rather than because of the work she did. he got 107 to support orders publicly, more than enough to make her rnc chairman. -- too far from trump and too close to trump. the people who support her saying she will not be

independent in the primary. i want to say one last thing, symone, happy birthday to you, i'm so glad that you join the family this year, we look forward to another great year with you. >> i appreciate you. -- i've seen many a campaign trails with him and we will see many more come 2023 and beyond. nbc's john allen, thank you very much my friend. thank you. >> thank you, symone. >> we've got more ahead, y'all. my political panel will weigh in on everything from the january 6th report that's due out in a matter of days as republicans expect a revenge once they take over the house. we will talk about kevin mccarthy. stay with us, y'all. you are watching symone. symone. kevin! kevin? oh nice. kevin, where are you... kevin?!?!?.... hey, what's going on? i'm right here! i was busy cashbacking for the holidays with chase freedom unlimited. i'm gonna cashback on a gingerbread house! oooh, it's got little people inside! and a snowglobe. oh, i wished i lived in there. you know i can't believe you lost another kevin. it's a holiday tradition! that it is! earn big time with chase freedom unlimited.

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days are numbered. i'm going to keep saying this. it's very important. the clock is ticking. time is running out. members submit their final report and potential criminal referrals all before republicans retake the house in january. political panel joining me now. rishi colbert is a political commentator and founder of black women news media. ashley pratte outs is a former republican and nbc tank contributor. -- political reporter for axios and msnbc contributor. welcome to my lady avengers. i'm happy to have you all with me today to break this thing down. we have been talking about this and we can't repeat it enough. a criminal referral from congress will not necessarily sway the justice department, okay? but the committees work still matters. here is january 6th committee

member republican congressman adam kinzinger. he's talking about the significance of these potential referrals. listen to this, ladies. >> i don't think criminal referrals are pointless. i think the point on that is that it's very clear that doj has decided to take this effort up. i think it will be an important symbolic thing that the committee can do, even more than symbolic, very clearly if congress thinks a crime has been committed here, the doj should investigate. >> really, i think the committee has very clearly established that the violence of the insurrection, the threat of democracy that it all poses, and the former presidents role. do you think that the final report or even potential criminal referrals will make a difference to the public? >> absolutely. i think the january six committee has moved the needle quite a bit. if you look at what happened in the midterms the election deniers went down in flames and so i think what they've done is

established a fact that there was an insurrection. it was against the country and that president biden and kamala harris were elected. if nothing else, that part of the mission accomplished. we still have the special counsel that merrick garland appointed. that's what is going to be the ultimate deciding factor, to see how much additional liability people see from the january 6th committee actions. >> you know, i think this is an important point. i think some people would say, oh, why so much about the january 6th committee? well, because the threat to our democracy is ongoing. actually, with that understanding, it's very -- i'm not shocked but disappointed maybe, that republican lawmakers have endorsed an investigation of the january 6th investigation when they retake the house. do you think they will get enough republicans on board to make this happen? what are your thoughts on the whole ordeal? >> i think it's ridiculous. to your point, symone, they are investigating an investigation and they are doing it to

placate this trump base, the very people who stormed the capitol. it's crazy and it adds on to the empty platform that the gop has and the fact that they don't have a platform still going into the 2024 presidential cycle is just all the more evidence that they are full of empty promises. they are just the party of donald trump. which is exactly why they are going to push for investigations and impeachments rather than trying to legislate, actually move the needle forward it may be a bipartisan way. i believe democrats have done so over the last two years when they've been trying to work through gridlock and restore protections to democracy. it's fascinating to me that this is what republicans want to focus on when they finally have a majority in the house. but it's not surprising. >> well, you know, republicans will have this majority. one of the many men that wants to be speaker of the house, minority leader kevin mccarthy, he is going to have to get this caucus united behind him.

alexei, what is his biggest obstacle at this moment because i do not think he has the votes. >> yeah, even republican lawmakers and aides privately tell axios that they are unsure if congressman mccarthy has the votes to be speaker. one of the biggest ox tickles, as you alluded to, because of this majority is the outside power that the far-right coalition of republicans in the house will now have. people like marjorie taylor greene who is on his side for now but is making demands to be put on committees and given leadership positions by him. other far-right folks, matt gates of course has been in opposition to mccarthy, said he will never vote for him to be speaker. it's those kind of louder really conservative members from the house caucus and other places that are standing in his way saying that they want to change that leadership. they want to change in leadership because they want the party to still be the party of donald trump and carry those types of politics and governing styles forward.

>> reecie, do you think the general public out there, not the political professionals out there doing this every day, do you think folks understand what's happening inside the house of representatives in this race to republicans control in just a couple of weeks? >> of course not. and the general public just thinks that congress is not functional at all. the race for congress is in the tank. that's for a democratic and republican congressional members. all they are going to continue to see is more dysfunction. the reality is that when it comes to being speaker of the house for a republican, republicans always give them hell. i don't think that banner and ride would look very sympathetically as to what kevin mccarthy is going through. this is the party of trump and it's always going to be a little bit of chaos, a little bit of theater, and a whole lot of dysfunction. >> well, we will be watching. separate from the house of representatives, y'all just heard me talking to john allen

about rnc chair ronna mcdaniel. some republicans would like to see her go away. take some of the blame for the red wave that never was. but, ashley, she has the votes to get reelected, it seems. what do you think about all this having to spend time inside the republican party apparatus and what do you think happened if a more extreme challenger gets in the race and prevails? >> well, i think the thing is, being a former republican, i never know what's going to happen. it's always dramatic. it's always theatrical. that's because donald trump has been at the helm of the party. let's not forget that she was installed by the support of donald trump. while there is this whole side network saying that she can be somehow not aligned with trump moving forward in the 2024 presidential primary, i don't really see how that happens, especially since there was a new cnbc poll released and that says only 37% of republican voters and don't want trump to run.

navigating that line moving forward is going to be very difficult for whoever sits in that position. she has shown time and time again that she's not willing to condemn donald trump. she's willing to condemn things that he may say, but not him personally. i think it puts her in a very tough spot as she moves forward with, again, a majority of trump supporters who would want her to not take a stance against him. >> i would not, she's not unlike many republicans in the house representatives or across the country. alexi, can you weigh in on something i was reading about this week, that when republicans retake the house, that they could vote to resent the code of emergency declaration and only two democratic votes in the senate could send it to the presidents desk. this could all result in that first veto of president biden's presidency. i'm struck by this because this basis, had this emergency status, has been the basis for relief, people have come to really rely on, as well as the student debt relief plan. quickly, what are the effects

of ending this? >> as you mentioned, i think access to health care is one of the biggest things. things like tele-health, getting free covid-19 tests and vaccinations, and having access to those things, like different types of insurance plans, all those things will be up in the air or completely removed for some people if republicans move forward to rescind this national emergency declaration, which has far-reaching implications beyond those i just mentioned. >> we will be watching. very interesting. reecie coburn, ashley pratte oats, and alexi, thank you to my lady avengers. after the break, y'all, stay with us because the strategy behind senator raphael warnock's big victory in georgia, we are going to talk to the man behind all of it, behind the winning campaign. we will get into the important takeaways. quinton folks joins me next. let's go! ♪♪

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specific policies, it helped define him as a candidate, it helped define him apart from his party and in sharp contrast to his trump backed opponent, who, i still don't know where he is -- in the end, the strategy worked out. warning us now is the man behind the plan himself. he is senator raphael warnock's campaign manager. quinton, thank you for being here. flow full disclosure, everyone, i used to work with quinten, way back when, as you say. it's very good to see you. let's get into. it what was your vision for what the campaign needed to do to win specifically in this runoff? >> thank you for having me, symone. good to see you again. happy belated birthday. build a diverse coalition across the state of georgia. i knew going in that herschel walker had some baggage that he didn't have a vision for georgia. senator warnock has been working for georgia. we not wanted to expose that. we knew we could do it everywhere in the state. from the beginning we set up

with a mission to have a consistent conversation with every voter across the state of georgia and in the end we were able to do that. >> swing voters were key to this strategy. if you look at the map on election night as i was, senator warnock really ran up his numbers in these rural counties. after he won those rural counties, but he closed the gap. who are some of these swing voters in georgia? how did you know they were willing to listen? >> i think we knew they were willing to listen because obviously we had a blueprint for 2021 when senator warnock won last time we saw these places in counties that we didn't win but for me immediately -- we had to go back there and drive up the vote. when i started i didn't know herschel walker was going to be our opponent. we figure that out and that opened another door. i like to sort of push back a little bit on the notion that when we talk about these rural areas and swing voters, a lot of minorities, especially in the state of georgia, our base,

the democratic base rural areas, a lot of times when you look at states like georgia, when you look at states like illinois, they get left behind because people assume let's just go for the urban areas. chicago, orlando. in the end, there is a lot of voters in the state of georgia, democratic voters. when you set out and you start running these media markets, you will be shocked if i'm that you're talking to your base, you will get some of these voters. i think they will choose the quality and character of the candidates because they are tired of the republican party playing for with their livelihoods and literally their lives. >> this what you made is very important because there are a number of people who looked at the campaign and say it was the metro atlanta area that brought reverend warnock to win. it's absolutely critical that he did well in those metro atlanta counties, the cab, so on and so forth, but he is not the senator now reelected without running up his numbers across the state. he did so, and you all reached

out to diverse voters, but you talk to the base and you also talked to people who are republicans, frankly. you also did something that i think more campaign should do, is this specific outreach of ads in different languages, particularly for the asian american pacific islander community, for example. how critical was that outreach to build a coalition, a growing coalition in georgia and across the country? >> it was huge. we set out at the very beginning to do it in the general. we saw the numbers weren't what we wanted. immediately when we hit the ground in the runoff, i wanted to -- 4% of the vote in georgia. that's huge when you're talking about winning by a couple thousands votes in georgia. it was important for us to do it. the runoff as well as the general allowed us to have the resources to be able to do that. we invested in it. i do agree with your point. you can walk and chew gum at the same time. you can run ads in different languages.

you can run ads that are about issues that really only the democratic base care about but you can also run ads to certain segments of voters that live in places that democrats don't normally go, don't want to listen to democrats. if you have a vision, something that they want to hear, i think that's the biggest takeaway for democrats going into 2024, that we have to communicate. we have to learn to win and compete. not necessarily win, because we did not win all those rural counties. but we have to learn to compete in these rural places and places where democratic candidates don't generally go. >> speaking of 2024, are you going to be managing the potential reelection campaign for president biden? >> i'm focused on relaxing right now. i'm just going to take a break. at the end of the day, i want democrats to succeed. whoever that may be. wherever i can go to help democrats do that, that's where i'm going to go. i was happy to pull out a win here and get senator warnock get a full term, which he dizzy -- deserves. >> all right, folks, quentin

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>> okay. bombshells. oh, we want to see it. the duke and duchess of success -- sussex. this highly anticipated netflix areas is called meghan -- the couples share nuggets about how they met. they talked about how they maintain their long distance relationship while also trying to keep things private. family members and close friends speak glowingly about the couple and maintain that they really just want to be normal. but aside from us knowing that meghan calls harry h. and that she had to learn to curtsy, i saw more bombshell moments in the 2021 interview with oprah. let's bring in our culture critics. -- the morning hustle. and head crack is also host of the morning hustle as well as co-host of this nation. folks, head crack, let me get your thoughts on these first three episodes of harry and megan's netflix documentary. am i wrong for looking for the drama? shame on me, maybe i should

just be happy that they are happy. >> i think we are trained to learn look for drama. a reality shows give us all the table flipping, all the champagne throwing that we hamper for. they are using this one. the perception has been so far a lot of people from the uk, who hold the queen and at the palace and all that other stuff that they speak for near endear, they are really offended by this. whereas we on the american side of things we do like the fact that, hey, we get to peek into their lives and see them being normal. but there are a lot more people who want more of the stuff we got from the oprah interview and all that. i'm interested to see what the next few episodes are going to unpack. >> maybe it's a two part series and they will go on break after the next three episodes and then we will get -- maybe there's three more we didn't know about. what did you think? this is their chance to tell their story and their story is positive. maybe they are building a foundation before they give us

the drama. i don't know. maybe their story is just not that drama filled as we think. maybe they are boring. what do you think? >> i was so board. i fell asleep three times watching it. woke back up and was, like i don't understand what our obsession is in america with the royals. like, i'm just not into it. maybe that's me because i saw these stories just like everybody else. it wasn't enough for me to keep me interested i'm not interested in watching the rest of it to be honest. they said that there is a lot more secrets that's going to be unveiled on sunday when it comes out but maybe i will have to just watch it on a -- because i'm not sure i'm here for. >> i'm going to watch it for all of us. head crack and i will watch and fill you in. >> i will watch it because everything that i've said -- watching wednesday. i have a hierarchy of order i'm trying to watch on netflix. >> that's a little bit more important. >> i'm on season one of the

umbrella academy. eventually i'm going to get to that meghan and harry think. mostly do what i see on social media and tabloids, i don't care. >> you know, what the people don't care about the royals, somebody care about some of these comments meghan made. we are going to move on until they give us something else that we really need to talk about. i want to get in some positive news. trevor noah, you'll know the host of the daily show after a seven year run he has officially said goodbye to his late night audience. he announced his plans to leave the show back in september but he gave a tearful farewell last week. he thanked fans and gave a special shout out to black women. i want to play some of what he had to say. >> a special shout out to black women. [applause] you know, i've been -- i've often been credited with having grand ideas, people like trevor you are so smart. who do you think teaches me?

you know? who do you think has shaped me, nourished me, and formed me? from my mom, my grand, my aunt, all these black women in my life. in america as well. i always tell people, if you truly want to learn about america, talk to black women. >> l'orel, what do you think about trevor's comments, they went viral on everybody's instagram. what are your thoughts? >> i appreciated it. at one point i was a little nervous because then he was, like black women aren't allowed to mess around and find out. >> i was, like where are we going, honey? . >> i got nervous but then he picked it back up and i really do like trevor noah. i'm going to miss him on the daily show, i don't think he should leave to do stand up, why can't you do both, like? there is definitely ill enough time in a day. i think he could've done both, something else might be going on there that we don't know about but, actually, i turned

up a little bit with him. i'm not going to lie but i'm a softie. >> had crack, what do you think? they do appreciate that shout out to the sisters of trevor noah? >> it was authentic. a lot of times, i haven't talked to lore'l about this on the air, if it wasn't for women in our lives, we'd be dead. women are the ones that make sure we get the checkups we supposed to get, everything is decent in order at the crib, and a lot of times when you want to find out was truly going on in america, you've got to check in with a black women because black women go through more than anybody on the planet, especially in this country. when you want to have your post on what the culture is going through or what is being talked about, you've got to get your game from a woman. even tupac was wise enough to know that. >> that's what i'm saying. just ask black women. and just survey us. ask us -- put us on tv to talk about it, right lore'l? >> that's right. that's all you have to do and everything will be wonderful.

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