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>> did i embellish my resume yes, i did and i'm sorry. and it shouldn't be done but i'm still the same guy i'm not a fraud. i'm not a cartoon character. i'm not some mythical creature that was invented. >> republican congressman elect george santos admits much of the life story that helpedget him elected was fiction. but there's a very good reason kevin mccarthy will do nothing about it >> also tonight, what to expect when donald trump's tax returns are finally released we already know that some years he paid nothing in federal taxes. and if you missed it over the holidays, we'll dig into the january 6th committee report >> plus, christmas cruelty governor greg abbott dumps hundreds of migrants into the bitter cold of washington, d.c. on christmas eve, as the supreme court keeps title 42 in place. >> good evening, everyone. i'm jonathan capehart in for joy

reid and we begin "the reidout" with the bewildering tale of george santos. the incoming republican congressman from long island has finally admitted "the new york times" is right. he was not honest about his resume on monday, santos broke his silence and copped to embellishing huge portions of his biography. um, according to merriam-webster, that's called a lie, when someone makes an untrue statement with the intent to deceive what did he lie about? well, he didn't graduate from baruch college or nyu, he didn't work for citigroup or goldman sachs. the "new york post" which got the first interview with santos and is owned by rupert murdoch also called santos a liar. in subsequent interviews, he defended hiactions by saying everyone embellishes their resume >> i'm not a criminal who

defrauded the entire country and made up this fick titianal resume a lot of people twist or ingrandiate themselves i have done so much good work in my career. >> that's not all he admitted to lying about. last month, santos, who is gay, claimed in an interview with the wnyc public radio, quote, we lost four employees that were at pulse nightclub. the horrific shooting at the gay nightclub in orlando, florida. this week, he changed his tune >> did anyone who worked for you perish in the pulse nightclub shooting >> that worked for me directly no >> that's just scratching the surface of what he was not honest about but despite all of that, the congressman-elect remains defiant. in one of those interviews, he said i will be sworn in, i will take office.

one big reason he's so confident is because the incoming republican majority is so thin, they need all the votes they can get. one of those new members, fellow new york republican nick luloeto who will fill a vacancy left by lee zeldin has called for, quote, a full investigation by the house ethics committee and if necessary law enforcement kevin mccarthy, a guy who wants to lead the republican caucus as the next speaker of the house, has said nothing one reason he's kept quiet, mr. santos tweeted his endorsement of mccarthy for speaker only hours after "the new york times" told him they were going to expose his lies. and endorsement he seems to have deleted. joining me now, susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst, and dean obudolla. thank you both for being here. susan, let me show you, let's put up element one house gop leadership aides tell

the "new york post" they knew about santos as far as questions about george in general, that was always something that was brought up whenever we talked about this race. this is the second time he's run, and these issues we assumed would be worked out by the voters susan, if everyone knew, why didn't it make a huge splash until "the new york times" reported on it >> well, because the scuttlebutt was he was just a big talker i don't think anyone expected to see these many lies. you know, everything you outlined in your intro, jonathan, i think that's the least of santos' issues. what he's going to be -- should be concerned about is if he's a fraud and a liar, and he, quote, lent himself $600,000, and he doesn't have the money to pay his rent right now, where did that $600,000 come from? that money needs to be tracked down immediately, because that is going to be one of his

biggest problems moving forward, not just with an ethics investigation, but potentially law enforcement. because when you're lying on those disclosure forms, that's not just the ones with the intent to run for office, but once he does get sworn in, if he decides to go all that way, he's going to get looked at under a microscope >> right and you know, i think that's one of the reasons why incoming congressman lalota said, ethics committee needs to look into it, and there might maybe even law enforcement. dean, you have not a theory, but you have an explanation for why we're just finding this out, all this stuff out about santos, don't you? >> i did i wrote about it for msnbc, but can i just say, george santos is a self-made man, but he self-made himself up we have never seen anyone like this in our entire lives this is like the milli vanilli of politics. at least milli vanilli, they took their grammys away.

he's keeping his congressional seat what i wrote about for msnbc on a serious note is since 1996, telecommunications act that allowed more deregulation of the media and more media ownership and concentration, local journalists have been gutted they have been laid off. there's been mergers so you have less and less local reporters on the beat there so you had a small paper in long island that broke the story during the campaign. one element of it. no one else picked it up the democratic candidate who ran against him said he tried to raise it, no one else would pick it up. the big newspaper in long island didn't sit down with him they republished in 2022, from 2021 it seemed like a lack of resources is part of the problem. less local journalists, more george santoses in the future. let's talk about kevin mccarthy.

let's play what he had to say when he gave a shout out to george santos during the campaign watch this >> i really want to talk about who is the makeup of this new majority you heard from some of them already. you know max miller in ohio, george santos in new york, and you had david from tennessee get re-elected you realized we have the largest republican jewish caucus in more than 24 years. not bad, huh >> okay, a couple things one, i misspoke. that was after the campaign, so george santos at that campaign had won the election but i played that because, kevin mccarthy, leader mccarthy was very vocal, talking, there he is we have heard nothing but crickets, susan, ever since "the new york times" story came out about george santos. why is it that kevin mccarthy isn't talking? >> well, because kevin mccarthy wants to become speaker of the house of representatives

and he needs every vote he can get. it's also worth noting that a group that you showed there, that mckarlthy was speaking to, was the republican jewish association that backed -- caucus, thank you, committee, and what is even more interesting is that george santos, guess what, now he is jew-ish. not jewish because he's catholic, but he is with an ish at the end so he's sorta. i don't know what that means but kevin mccarthy, he's going to find himself in a little bind since the local leaders in new york and on long island basically gave santos a pretty stern talking to, not that it will make a difference he'll still take the oath of office if it's available to him. but mccarthy's just -- it's just one more vote, that's all he sees it's whatever he stays in power.

and frankly, he's got other issues with marjorie taylor greene and jewish space lasers so this is just running the caucus for mccarthy. >> just want to point, rjc is republican jewish coalition. we both got the c wrong, republican jewish coalition. dean, i mean, what does this say about our politics that a guy like santos can be exposed as an out and out liar, every aspect of his life is a lie, as susan raised, just pointed out, where did the money come from? this guy is so stinks to high heaven, yet the leader of the republican caucus, the guy who wants to be speaker, won't say a word about it because he's desperate for that one vote. >> have you heard of this guy, donald trump, jonathan because he was a serial liar who attempted a coup, helped incite a terrorist attack on our

cap capitol, lied about everything, and kevin mccarthy bad mouthed trump for a week after the attack and then went down and kissed his ring. the gop is about party at any cost there's no principle anymore, and look at george santos. why would you think lying is wrong with a leader of the gop, donald trump, lies every hour, continues to lie, and the gop base loves him there are no consequences to donald trump's lying and one quick thing about what susan is saying, there is really criminality that has to be investigated, with george santos said in 2020 is his financial returns, he had zero assets. less than two years later, he has $1.5 million in cash in his savings account. he had a piece of property in rio de janeiro, and in the "new york post" says i don't own any property you have lies, he said he had a salary of $750,000, yet lent himself about $700,000 to run

this campaign. there are questions about straw donors, money laundering a lot of legal issues that must be examined closely here it could be above board, but there could be crimes. >> susan, i don't know if you have the answer to this, but is there any recourse is there any recourse by the voters, by the state party, to basically get george santos -- prevent him from taking that seat >> absolutely not. he was elected, lying is not against the law or against the rules of running for office. as dean just pointed out, we have donald trump. he will probably only be a one-term, if that, member of congress, thank goodness but again, i just want to highlight that looking at that money is the real dangerous part for santos that's where i think he could be very short lived member of congress he's going to go down there defiant and one other quick

thing, did you notice that the first thing that his attorney did when responding to "the new york times" was call it a smear campaign so it's right out of donald trump's playbook go after the media you're just out to get my client >> last word to you, dean, real quick. >> look, i hope there's an investigation. but i'll say this. with all these lies, you can say what you want about santos he's a real republican >> dean and susan, thank you both very much for coming to "the reidout." up next on "the reidout," late today, the january 6th committee released more transcripts of witness testimony including some names that will be very familiar to you. "the reidout" continues after this type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight.

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the house january 6th committee releases a trove of new information today, a new batch of deposition transcripts including unreleased testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson and former white house aide john mcintee who testified that donald trump wanted a blanket pardon for everyone involved in january 6th. trump floated the idea and former white house counsel pat cipollone said no. the transcripts add to the 845-page report released by the committee friday, detailing the extent of trump's plot to overturn the election. alleging that trump or his inner

circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation targeting state officials to overturn election results. that includes 68 meetings, phone calls, or texts aimed at state or local officials 18 public remarks targeting them and 125 social media posts the report also provided damning everyday about trump's state of mind during the attack according to the report, as the violence was under way, a trump aide, robert gabriel, texted someone, potus, i'm sure, is loving this. the decision whether or not to pursue criminal charges against trump now lies with the justice department, but the committee made recommendations on how to prevent another january 6th from happening. notably urging congressional committees to examine a formal mechanism to evaluate barring trump and others mentioned in the report from holding future office under the 14th amendment.

joining me now, charles coleman, civil rights attorney, msnbc legal analyst, and host of the charles coleman podcast. and tim o'brien, senior executive editor at bloomberg opinion and an msnbc political analyst. thank you both very much for coming to "the reidout." tim, i think it's interesting that we have now, we saw reporting in real time, but now we have it in the report, of blanket pardon trump wanted a blanket pardon for people who were involved in january 6th. you are an attorney. you know that, you hear that, it's an official government report what do you think that does over at doj >> well, people don't seek pardons unless they think they have committed a crime and if the president of the united states is seeking a pardon for several to a multitude of people in his own administration, it suggests he was worried he committed a crime or the people around him may have committed a crime or the

people around him may be able to testify against him in a court of law it's also interesting that his own attorneys advised him not to do this because i think it suggests guilt i don't think it should surprise anybody that trump sought to do that i don't think it should surprise anybody that people in his own administration were looking for a pardon as the clock was ticking out on his tenure in the white house. but of course, the american public should worry about it because as the january 6th report showed, the january 6th event wasn't a single day event. it was premeditated. there was planning for it that began months before that date. there were activities that continued after that date. and it was a criminal conspiracy and i think the act of seeking a pardon is just another indication of possible guilt >> and charles, i would love to get your view on that. also, in the transcripts, we have transcripts from a bunch of

people, not just cassidy hutchinson but alley alexander, the stop the steal organizer, brad raffensperger, and also steve mnuchin, who was treasury secretary, and in his transcript, he notes that they briefly discussed the 25th amendment, so you see there, so again, my conversations with secretary pompeo, it came up very briefly in our conversation, we both believe that the best outcome was a normal transition of power which was working and neither one of us contemplated in any serious format the 25th amendment. we should point out in secretary scalia's transcript, he denied conversations about the 25th amendment. but you -- i would love your legal analysis of both this conversation, whether it was serious or not about the 25th amendment, on top of trump saying, hey, blanket pardons for everybody. >> well, you know, jonathan, i think there are two different ways to lack at this, and tim hit the nail on the head with

his remarks about the fact that a large part of what we are seeing here is a person who is embattled with the truth does not want to face it, and is insistent upon using every means at his disposal to go about exploiting different parts of our constitution and different parts of the law, albeit illegally to try to maintain power. i think that on a certain level, there's a shock and awe that's associated with that, but legally, when you get into what the actual report says, you start to see how well coordinated an effort this was and how widespread a campaign it was, and that it was extremely intentional and that there cannot be any question about the outcomethat it was intended an engineered to affect all these things put together, particularly when you start talking about 25th amendment, whether serious or not, these are relatively obscure pieces of the u.s. constitution that most people don't even know about, let alone openly discuss, and the fact that there may have been a discussion to be

signified and indicates there was a clear intention to try to find a loophole, try to find an avenue, a crack, a window, something that was going to allow donald trump to hold on to power, which he was not lawfully entitled to. >> charles, let me get you on one more thing that was trump's state of mind, and as i read before, robert gabriel, a trump aide, texted to someone else, potus i'm sure is loving this. what does his state of mind, how does that play in say what doj could be considering in its own investigations into january 6th and trump's role >> well, looking at it as a former prosecutor, what i will say is anything you can do to bring in the notion of state of mind, you're going to, to bolster the question of intent in this case, if donald trump were to ever be tried, prosecuted, and litigated ipcourt, one of the key elements that's going to be necessary for the government to prove is establishing the actual intent

donald trump had in affecting the outcome, which ultimately resulted so things like this, testimony like this, while another person is not going to actually be able to testify as to another person's frame of mind or what it is they thought or intended at the time, what you can do is put this all together in a way that tries to paint a picture to a jury, to a judge, to a court that says listen, this guy was fully aware of what it was he was doing. he continued to do it. he had opportunities to stop it and he didn't because he had the requisite intent necessary to commit the crimes for which he's being prosecuted for that's how you use that as a prosecutor and ultimately its value and its weight that jack smith is going to be looking at. >> tim, nbc news is reporting trump's tax returns are going to be released to the public on friday this is coming from the house ways and means committee we know from "the new york times" that trump paid $1.1 million in taxes during his presidency, but zero in 2020

i'm just trying to understand, what recourse does the public have, finding out that a former president of the united states paid -- not only paid zero taxes in 2020, but we also know that the irs didn't do -- fulfill its legal obligation to audit his taxes when he was president. >> left you a little speechless because you pay your taxes, don't you? it's strange when a self-proclaimed billionaire decides he doesn't have to pay any. now that we have the documentation, we know in some years he paid none while he was proclaiming to stand up for average americans who have to pay a big chunk of their own income in taxes. i think what we know so far about the tax returns, there's a massive institutional failure at the irs. there's supposed to be a mandatory audit of presidents. it occurred during the obama administration and biden has already been

subjected to it, but somehow, magically, donald trump was not audited, even though he has a more complex financial picture, and arguably more income than either one of those men. so why didn't it happen? it's either because the irs is inept or it's because the irs was in the tank. either answer is not a good answer so the irs needs to be scrutinized for dropping the ball on this more broadly, i think the larger problem we have with donald trump's tax returns are not simply the last six years of his tax returns. it's the last 30 years of his tax returns. we don't have a good picture on the kind of foreign or domestic financial influence that came to bear on him before, during, and even now, before and during his presidency and even now. and this is not a partisan issue. if we believe in good government, whether a president is a democrat or a republican, they should be financially transparent so we know that they are not conflicted when they're

making public policy and we still don't have enough years of returns from donald trump to get a full sense of that it remains a national security issue, and it remains an issue around good government this release should be the first chapter, it shouldn't be the last step. >> tim o'brien, charles coleman, thank you both very much for coming to "the reidout." and up next on "the reidout," the supreme court weighs in on ending covid restrictions at the border as texas governor tells migrants there's no room at the inn on a frigid christmas eve we're back after this.

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today, the u.s. supreme court ruled that the trump era covid policy that allowed border officials to turn away asylum seekers otherwise known as title 42 will remain in effect for the time being the court voted 5-4 to grant an emergency request by 19 republican state attorneys general who filed a last-ditch request to keep the policy in place with justice neil gorsuch joining the court's three liberal justices in voting against the state request. one of the states petitioning to keep it in place was texas whose governor greg abbott warned of

total chaos if the policy ended. the same greg abbott who spent the holiday weekend dialing up the cruelty in jet another political stunt, dropping off besloads of asylum seekers on the street in front of the home of vice president harris on the night before christmas about 140 migrants including children, arrived in d.c. from texas in 18 degree weather late saturday, some wearing just t-shirts, others without shoes and jackets. one volunteer who spent the first couple hours of christmas day helping provide those people with a warm place to sleep and food to eat told axios, quote, none of them knew where they were being dropped off they have no idea they're part of this bigger political game. joining me now, julian castro, msnbc political analyst and former secretary of housing and urban development. secretary castro, thank you very much for being here.

you know, the white house put out a statement reacting to governor abbott's gambit, a long statement, but in part saying this was a cruel, dangerous, and shameful stunt and this morning, on "morning joe," a migrant solidarity mutual aid network volunteer with that outfit, listen to what she had to say this morning. >> the most painful thing to watch, the children that are being thrown into this game that our political leaders think is going to resolve anything. those children are the most innocent among all of this there are real human lives in the middle of all of this who are becoming victims of his stunts, which like this weekend, there's children, not even 2 years old, toddlers that are stuck in the middle of all of this >> julian, people not even

knowing they were being dropped off here your reaction to just this situation, but also what governor abbott is doing here. >> jonathan, it's an important point to remember, these are human beings and it says something about greg abbott that he's willing to be this mean, this intentionally cruel, to have people duped into going to a place, being dropped off on the side of the road many of them without even a jacket on, including as you pointed out, kids. and that kind of cruelty also says something, i think today, about the republican party and where it is, that you have people like abbott and desantis trying to figure out who can be the biggest jerk and thinking that that's a way they're going to get elected perhaps in a 2024 republican presidential primary. so greg abbott is somebody that has been angling to get on the

presidential election track for a long time. i think that he sees this as completely consistent with that. he thinks he's scoring political points by doing that and i really don't know what's scarier, the fact you can have somebody that cruel, that mean in office and such a position of power, or that there's something underneath that which is a base of the republican party that gets its kicks by this kind of cruelty toward people. >> let's look at the cruelty by the numbers. here's how many people have been bussed up to washington, d.c you see there, as of december 22nd, more than 8700 migrants have been bussed to washington, d.c. from the texasborder. this is according to the governor's office, which says another 6,520 people combined were sent to new york, chicago, and philadelphia and julian, i look at these numbers and i look at the video of these families being dropped off, and i'm just wondering,

where is the outrage not the entire republican party is so cruel to think that doing this, as you said, to human beings, to children that surely, clearly there's someone left in the republican party to stand up and say loudly and vocally that this is wrong. >> well, i wish they would there may be a few out there i haven't heard their voices they haven't been doing it very loudly, but i wish they would. i wish they would push back on this because this type of action, these types of stunts, they really don't serve anybody. they don't serve these migrants well they don't speak to who we should be as americans they're not solving the problem in any way and they try to assuage the bad feeling here among some people by saying, well, we're sending them to these places because these are sanctuary cities that have a better infrastructure to

care for them. greg abbott knows full well that that kind of care is going on here in texas, and he hasn't invested in the care and the concern, the compassion that he could in nonprofits, in churches, in other organizations that very much like the assistance to take care of them here at the texas border >> it just adds to the cruelty i'm wondering, can we get back to where we were i guess maybe ten years ago. remember when republicans like john mccain and lindsey graham were part of the republican effort for comprehensive immigration reform can we ever get back to a point where democrats and republicans can get together and do something legislatively to solve the problems at the border because that's what it's going to take, isn't it? >> it really is. it's haunting in 2013, having 68

votes in the senate for comprehensive immigration reform, but john boehner would not allow that on the house floor for a vote if he had, we would probably be in a different position on immigration. i think it's probably going to have to be done piecemeal if we make progress, perhaps with legislation for dreamers and other pieces where republicans and democrats may be able to come to some compromise. i wish that there were a more hopeful, optimistic scenario for comprehensive immigration reform i haven't completely given up, but also being realistic, i don't see that any time in the near future. >> julian castro, as always. thank you very much for coming to "the reidout. >> still ahead on "the reidout," nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engle with a look back at a devastating year of warfare in ukraine stay with us the unknown is not empty. it's a storm that crashes, and consumes,

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the war in ukraine has been raging for almost a year and despite talks of peace from both countries, neither side seems willing to accept each other's terms at the moment. nbc's richard engle takes a look back at the past year of devastation and the ukrainians' heroic resistance. some of this video may be hard to watch >> in the twilight hours of february 24th, president

vladimir putin took to russian state television to announce a special military operation that aimed to demilitarize and denaziify ukraine. minutes later, explosions rocked ukraine's capital, kyiv. missiles rained down across the country. and russia's massive military moved across the border. putin's special operation was clearly war. although putin had long denied his intentions to invade his neighbor, he had openly claimed ukraine was part of russia and demonized ukraine's leaders. putin had already illegally annexed ukrainian territory, the crimean peninsula, in 2014, with little international backlash. this time, condemnation came quickly. >> putin's choice to make a totally unjustifiable war on ukraine will have left russia weaker, and the rest of the

world stronger >> wide ranger sanctions were rolled out, but they did little to deter russia's military ten times the size of ukraine's moved swiftly to surround kyiv but almost immediately, cracks in the mighty russian army began to appear. their advances stalled the ukrainians organized and fought back. civilians banded together. many took up arms to defend their country. it seemed vladimir putin hadn't accounted for this, the will of the ukrainian people led by an unlikely hero, president volodymyr zelenskyy, the nation rallied behind the comedian turned politician, now war time leader. facing resistance and failing to capture kyiv, russia focused its attacks on eastern ukraine moscow called it a change of strategy for the ukrainians, it was a

major victory, but any celebrations were short-lived. as russian forces withdrew from around kyiv, evidence of atrocities and war crimes on a massive scale emerged. first in bucha, the pattern would continue in other liberated areas. ukrainian officials documented 50,000 alleged russian war crimes russia has denied its soldiers are responsible. why do you think this is happening that there are thousands of allegations of russian war crimes here, thousands? >> something was broken with mentality. with them. >> in the east and in the south, russia's bloody campaign continued. with putin's forces firing missiles and artillery to hammer towns and cities often indiscriminately

u.s. officials estimate tens of thousands of ukrainian civilians have been killed and 100,000 russian troops killed or wounded. ukrainians have soldiered on, backed by international support, including $20 billion in weapons and military assistance from the united states. ukrainian troops have used it to launch a major counteroffensive, liberating large parts of eastern ukraine, and then the southern city of kherson, occupied by moscow for eight months, as the ukrainian military moved in, soldiers were given a hero's welcome president zelenskyy called the liberation of kherson the beginning of the end of this war. how are youfeeling today, mr. president? how are you feeling? >> very well >> how is this moment for you? >> the moment is very important. that is the biggest city to us occupied since the 24th of

february, so that is the biggest city, and now it's free. so ukraine is happy. >> there's still no end in sight. ukrainians fear the world is losing interest in the war, as putin employs a brutal new tactic, mass targeting ukraine's infrastructure just as temperatures plummet he couldn't take ukraine as completely or quickly as he hoped, now it seems he's trying to starve and freeze the country into submission. richard engle, nbc news. >> >> that of corn made interne sensation and who is now using his viral fame, we will be right back

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there's a particular chanc seven alter it became a meme sensation of the video of hi proclaiming his love her favorite food revival. >> for me i really like corn >> would you like about cohen? >> ever since i was told tha corn was real taste good >> did you think one wasn'

real >> but when i tried a bit more everything changed i hope you have a court ha today. >> a corn-tastic day >> it's just upon about corn >> it's just upon about corn >> i captured millions it dawned tyreek as a corn kid >> had to rake >> hi, how ar you? >> hi. >> i'm your biggest fan. i know that you are corn's biggest fan. i wanna talk about how h became so famous so, you are out to dinner with your sister and your grandma some guys came up to him tal on tv. you talk on tv about how muc you love corn. how did you have so much confidence to talk on tv >> but because i didn' actually know i was gonna be o

tv my sister just took me to th food festival and there is a watermelon drink and i was eating corn. -- you've got to be in the macy's thanksgiving day parade. you've got to do a commercial. and logarithms kid now what your family and friends think about how popular you are? >> well like my friends like anytime something is going on, my friends in school don't always - like like one of my friends wa like, he is always sick.

he's seen you on tv and we kno it's gonna happen next and then he always for the news >> i like anyone who watches the news that means that they're really smart. >> well, i heard another secret i heard that you and i hav something in common. it's not the love of corn, it' ghana. is it true that your family is from diana or some of your families fro diana? >> well, actually mean my baby sister from america. but yes, the rest of my family -- they all are from ghana. >> well that is true of metoo. i'm from brooklyn and my mom's room diana we have uncommon maybe you are my cousin. maybe we are like relatives. you never know you never know

>> you never know. >> let me ask you this, you di something really good for little kids who are hungry during thanksgiving. you help to make sure that the get lots of food and lots of corn i think that is a great thing. did it make you feel good to know that because of your love of corn other kids would not b hungry >> >> yes. >> it did? what is the next, move what is annexing the corn kit is gonna do >> i have no idea. >> listen, i have an idea. i think it is gonna continue t be amazing and adorable an famous for the best reason what's the best reason to be famous >> no. >> because you're nice young man. you are just a nice guy and we love you we have to love your corn kid. thank you for coming in talkin to me. >> you too

>> i have to say this, i hop you have a corn-tastic day >> same! same to you! by >> bye thank you. >> that is a wonderful corn kid, he has to wreak the corn kid and have a favorite food i tyreek >> corn. >> i, love it thank you tyreek how do your family for me. >> i >> >> it's corn, that's the readout all in with chris haye starts right now getting >> >> that evening from new york, that's chris hayes above run with enjoying their holidays i don't i have it is good to be back. and while i was gone las thursday night, just before th long holiday weekend