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us. >> reporter: yeah, and he went on to say that that's when people started to run and try and get away. they were chased down alleys, down different corridors, different canals. and he says there was a real sense of fear, people went into hotels, trying to seek safety. but also want to bring up what you said earlier, important to note that we are also seeing video come to light on social media that nbc news has confirmed, has verified, showing moments when a palestinian flag was pulled off a building, we have seen israeli fans going down escalators of the chain station saying death to the arabs, let the idf win. we have not been able to confirm the timeline of those events, when they happened. was it before, after the game. but this is still an active and ongoing investigation. >> meagan fitzgerald in
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amsterdam, thank you. that does it for us this busy week. i hope you have a restful weekend. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 aim pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin this hour with president-elect donald trump's preparations for his second term in the white house, 73 days away. on thursday, trump announced his first key appointment, naming his campaign manager susie wiles as his white house chief of staff, the first woman to ever hold that position. in an exclusive interview, my colleague kristen welker asked president-elect trump about the price tag of his announced campaign promise of creating the largest deportation operation in u.s. history. he said, quote, we have no choice when people have killed and murdered, they are not staying here, there is no price tag. joining us now, kristen welker,
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moderator of nbc's "meet the press." always a pleasure, my friend, to see you. you have that 15-minute plus conversation with the president-elect. what stood out to you from that conversation? >> well, jose, always great to be with you, thanks for having me. what stood out is that president-elect donald trump is feeling emboldened after that decisive victory this week. he believes he has a mandate. he described it this way, a mandate to bring, quote, common sense back to the country. i said, okay, so what is your first order of business? is it tariffs? is it your mass deportation plan and he pointed to the border, jose, as you just read. he said he has no choice but to enact that mass deportation plan. he said he wants to make the border strong and powerful. but, again, when i tried to drill into the details of it, what would it look like, how much would it cost, he said there is no price tag. i think a lot of understanding
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how this mass deportation plan would actually work, would families be separated. we'll be pushing for answers. he said he had spoken to 70 world leaders, pretty notable, including president zelenskyy of ukraine, but said and at the time of the conversation he hadn't spoken to president putin yet. >> and we also mentioned that susie wiles is set to become trump's chief of staff. what do we know about her. >> well, look, susie wiles is a long time operative in florida. she was the campaign manager for this third campaign of donald trump, and then it is widely seen as being the most disciplined campaign of all of them. i have to tell you, i've been talking to allies inside trump world and they cheer this move. they think she's the right person for this position. she's widely respected in political circles, in republican political circles and trump world and that's tough. a lot of people excited about this announcement. >> and i know you pressed the
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president-elect also on other possible names for other key roles in his administration. >> i did. i didn't get very far, but let me read you kind of where we are in terms of our reporting. secretary of state, he's eyeing seminar marco rubio. that's been one of his biggest defenders on the campaign trail. of course, they ran against each other back in 2016. but now he's a real ally. ric grenell eyed as a top position for secretary of state. other people he's eyeing, missouri senator eric schmitt, potentially for attorney general, and matt whitaker who served at the top of the doj in his first administration, you see some of the other key names there, including mark pompeo he's eyeing for secretary of defense, kash patel, another conservative firebrand. one thing that is notable, if you think about his first administration, he brought in a
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number of people who were long time career politicians or people who had served in government before. the question is, will he still bring in people who have that type of experience or will there be more outsiders? we're tracking this very closely. >> and kristen, lastly, we're set to hear from the vice president's running mate, tim walz today. what can we expect? >> yeah, that's right. and he's going to speak in minnesota, and i anticipate he will talk about the hard-fought race. he will talk about the importance, i would anticipate, of a smooth and peaceful transition of power. that's what we heard from vice president kamala harris, what we heard from president biden, when both of them spoke. and, by the way, president-elect trump told me that the vice president and president basically delivered that message to him when they reached out to him when she made her concession call to him, saying that the importance of a smooth transition is paramount.
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he said he agrees wholeheartedly. this comes four years after january 6th and the violence on that -- >> before i let you go. sorry to interrupt you. i'm just thinking, you that have such broad depth of knowledge and when you are preparing for "meet the press" on sunday, which is must see and under your leadership it has been extraordinary, what are the things that you're thinking about and you're taking into consideration on a friday, getting ready for sunday? >> it is a great question, jose, broadly speaking, i'm thinking are we hearing from a diverse set of voices to address the current moment? i think this week we will, we're going to hear from senator barroso, he will talk to us about the fact that republicans are poised to take control of the senate. and we'll also talk to senator bernie sanders, someone who has been quite critical of the race that was run by democrats saying basically they failed to really connect with working class
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voters. we made sure this is a conversation not just for washington, but for people all over this country to deepen their understanding of this moment, jose. >> and no one better than you to bring that to us. kristen welker, thank you, my friend, appreciate it. joining us now, former democratic senator bore bra boxer from california, brendan buck, and tara dowdell, democratic strategist. trump's first decision after winning was naming susie wiles as chief of staff. what do you see in that? >> well, it is interesting because i do see some identity politics for the party that rejects part of what gave her the advantage is the fact that she is also a woman in addition to -- she ran a campaign that won. she ran a winning campaign. but she also is a woman and trump knows that he does have weakness there. so i see that as a part of the calculus. >> how do you see some of the calculus that went into both the trump campaign and the harris
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campaign and where do you think that calculus was successful and where was that calculus unsuccessful? >> well, as someone who worked on a lot of campaigns, i part company with some of what the hand wringing and the finger pointing that is happening on the democratic party side, i think that the campaign was a well run campaign. i think objectively speaking it was a well run campaign. but it was a campaign that was run within just a little over 100 days. so, to run in an effective campaign in 100 days to define yourself when you've been playing second fiddle the entire time and no one really knows what the vice president does really in any administration, right, so, to have that short runway is not helpful. also, i think vice president harris was treated like an incumbent, despite having limited power and authority, she was treated like she had power and authority by the voters. and then lastly, i think inflation, immigration, i part company there too. that's a global phenomenon.
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countries around the world are seeing a rejection of the incumbents. not just here in the united states, just like inflation is high here, we have done better than the rest of the world. it is high everywhere. it is $17 for a hamburger in the capital of ethiopia. >> and, senator, i'm thinking, you know, trump talking about with kristen welker about his mass deportation plan, has no price tag, what do you see that looking like? >> ugly. so ugly and sick. and, you know, i'm in a border state. in this state, we're going to be the loyal opposition. and, you know, i want to say to the folks out there, i hope you'll give me this chance. >> of course. >> there is no sugar coating it, i want to say i was humbled because i thought we would win with our message of optimism. i did not think the american
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people just take this border issue, wants to see families torn apart, and our governor has already stepped up and said, we're going to protect our laws and the rights of our people. so, there is going to be an opposition when trump does the right thing, we'll all be saying, wonderful. but if it goes into the dark, dark corners that he suggested, there are going to be voices even though diminished in nuhe senate, i've been there when there are only 45 democrats and we made our way back because we were truth tellers. but, anyway, i really appreciate your giving me the opportunity. >> no, no. and, you know, i want to actually kind of get a little bit more into this conversation if i could because, you know, stinging loss, the message of optimism, i'm using what you're saying was not the successful one. is there, do you think, a possibility in 2024, i should say 2025, come january of 2025,
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for there to be a period of what traditionally in politics we have called honeymoon phase? is there a honeymoon phase possible with donald trump? >> that's up to donald trump. i mean, he knows what it means to families to fear being split up. he understands that. i'm sure he does. he doesn't have too much compassion. i think he can be told that. if he decides that he is going to reach out and do some things for the people that did leave us, you know, it wasn't a realignment so much that we lost our numbers in terms of working people, and some black voters and hispanic voters, if he decides he wants to truly change from being this dark figure to being an optimistic figure, we'll all welcome it. we will all welcome it. but if he goes down those
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corridors, it is not going to be soft, it is not going to be quiet. >> i'm thinking of the many discussions that at the time speaker boehner was confronted with on, for example, immigration, comprehensive immigration reform, paul ryan certainly had a little bit of that. but boehner certainly dealt with that and was unable, if not able to deal with that party within his own party, within his own caucus. is there anything with what you saw this past tuesday could, could give republicans, if they do pick up the house, but in the senate, and at the white house, any possibility of what the senator was saying about being more humane? >> i don't think there is any appetite in the republican party for what we were talking about in 2014 to the 2017 area, talking about how to deal with people who are here, path to citizenship, earned right, all
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of those things. that's out the door at this point. the immigration is obviously central to republican politics today, but all about enforcement. i think how donald trump handles that issue early on is going to be very much defining of his term. we know that he's talking about a mass deportation. i think everybody -- democrats need to recognize that donald trump ran on immigration because it was working for him. it was popular to talk about being really strong on immigration. however, there are limitations on what he can do and how he handles this could have a real impact on his legacy. we are still in a democracy, one of the limiting factors in democracy is popularity. small p politics. if donald trump overreaches in a way, people think, let's get rid of people who aren't here legally and that sounds good, if you start seeing it in a very different way, if you're ripping families apart, that overreach could be extremely unpopular. donald trump, we know anything about him, he's in politics for the glorification of himself. he wants to be really, really popular and he starts doing things that he sees are very unpopular, i think he's going to
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have a different view on how he approaches this. >> and want to talk about federal officials are now investigating racist text messages that target black people, especially college students, but there were some high school kids that also got these and messages say they have been chosen to be picked up and brought to plantations. wondering, this grotesque nature of -- i don't know how to describe it, but what does it tell us about what the national discourse is currently and is there any possibility of changing from the grotesque to at least the respectful? >> donald trump has a history of division. i mean, going back to the central park five, back to housing discrimination, wanting to have a blacks versus whites season of the apprentice, to actually bearing that out in his campaign. because he's a good salesman, he did a good job of harnessing racial resentment while at the same time talking to some of the very voters that racial resentment was being weaponized
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against and telling them a completely different story. so i don't see that changing because one thing that donald trump is is consistent with his actions. and so, those actions have been consistent throughout his life and career and to the extent that he can leverage racial resentment to continue to dominate, because he won leveraging it, so why would he stop? >> senator barbara boxer, brandon buck and tara dowdell, thank you for being with me this morning. so appreciated. up next, control of the house of representatives still hanging in the balance. we'll have an update on where the most competitive races stand at this hour. and breaking overnight, dozens under arrest in amsterdam after israelis and jews were violently targeted after a soccer game. a live report next. plus, a pro-trump latino family that found the american dream in las vegas tells us why they're not very concerned about trump's promise of mass deportations.
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16 past the hour. this morning, the battle for control of the house is coming down to the 24 races that remain uncalled at this hour. yesterday, democrats flipped a key seat in long island, new york. but they need to win 19 more seats to take the majority. nbc's ali vitali joins us now from capitol hill.
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ali, great to see you. what races are you watching for and what is going on? how much longer is this whole waiting game going to go on? >> this could be going on for a few more days, it could even take weeks if we're using 2022 as precedent here. some of those california races in 2022 took until december to call. i think a lot of people who typically spend time in this building are hoping that it takes a lot less time than that. but we always knew to prepare for the long haul when it came to call the house. in large part pause we knew it was going to be a game of tight margins and that certainly is what it is shaping up for at this time. you see there on the screen, democrats at 200 seats, republicans at 211. we know the magic number is 218. both parties hoping that they are the ones to hit it and then move past it by one or two. the margins are going to be the story once congress actually comes back to town. but when you look at where the outstanding races are, there are some key ones that could flip and democrats are watching
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closely, arizona's sixth congressional district, around tucson, where they're hoping to flip a republican seat blue, they're also hoping that for a seat out in oregon, around the portland area, that's one they're feeling confident about. and then republicans for their point are looking closely at california, being able to hold on to the seats they already have there and expand their majority slightly. the same can be said for seats in arizona -- in alaska and maine. those are going to take a little bit more time because the state has significant rural populations that might vote by mail. but also alaska and maine use a ranked choice voting system so innately that takes a little bit of extra time too. both of those seats in alaska and maine could end up being flipped in the republican column. so both parties seeing things that they are anxiously awaiting results for that could speak to this larger question of who actually is going to control the house come january. >> ali vitali on capitol hill,
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thank you, friend. appreciate it. up next, we'll hear directly from one latino family on why they're happy with trump's election win. plus, trump says there is no price tag on his plan for mass deportations. we'll talk to a top lawyer from the aclu on their efforts to stop that. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. h. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. i'm right at home, out here on the land. and i'm in my lane on the shoulder of the interstate. because this is where i come from. i've been showing up here for nearly 200 years. and i can't wait to see what's next. hats off to the future. nothing runs like a deere™ my life is full of questions... how do i clean an aioli stain? use tide. do i need to pretreat guacamole? not with tide. why do we even buy napkins? thankfully, tide's the answer to almost all of them. —do crabs have eyebrows? —except that one. for all of life's laundry questions... it's got to be tide. ♪ for all of life's like a relentless weed,
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key battleground state. overnight, nbc news projected he won the state of nevada. that's the first republican nominee to do so in 20 years. according to exit polls, latino voters in nevada split evenly for harris and trump. four years after latino voters voted for joe biden by more than 25 points. nbc's david noriega joins us now from las vegas. good morning. you spoke with a latino family about how they voted. what did you learn? >> jose, we have been hearing a lot about the latino voters this election and this surprisingly multiracial coalition that the republicans appear at least for now to have built. as you know, we have been covering the story this entire election cycle and this one family i've been in touch with for months helps explain a lot of what's going on. take a look. >> mario and mirena alvarez found the american dream in las vegas. >> would you like some coffee? >> with his job in the
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supermarket and her job in a casino, they bought a house and raised three children. now they wonder if their kids and grandkids will inherit that dream. is it still possible to do that for the younger generation? >> that's my main concern right now. what is going to happen to our new generation? now days, they're not even able to move out of their houses anymore because everything is so expensive. >> life wasn't expensive as it is right now. >> reporter: we first met mario in february. he was seriously interest considering a vote for donald trump. at the last minute, he broke for kamala harris but today he's not upset about the results. >> i'm kind of like more happy than upset. why? because donald trump is going to help the country with the economy. >> reporter: the whole household is happy. >> initially i did not agree
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with him. and then i started seeing that he was not afraid to speak his mind and i noticed that he was not scared to say what he felt regardless of what people would say and i think i respect that about him. >> reporter: so you liked his kind of brashness, his personality? >> yes, i would say yes. >> reporter: they're not alone. across the country, donald trump made huge inroads with latino voters. according to nbc exit polls, 55% of latino men nationwide voted for trump. 19-point jump from 2020. among latina women, an eight-point game. while vice president harris won a slight majority of the latino vote overall, trump increased his support 14 points from the last election. the top issue among latino voters, like it is for the alvarez family, the economy, with immigration a distant fourth. they both crossed the border illegally as teenagers, but became citizens under president ronald reagan's amnesty. they see themselves as different
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from migrants crossing the border today. in what way? >> the people coming here are the criminals. you know? they're running away from their law. >> reporter: despite having close family members who are undocumented -- >> migrant invasion. >> reporter: -- they don't believe they'll end up in trump's cross hairs. do you worry about them? >> yes and no. because the ones i know they're doing good. they're not breaking any laws. >> i believe he's going to start deporting all the bad people. >> reporter: trump won over the alvarez family and many like them. whether the economy improves and who exactly he chooses to deport may determine if he keeps them. >> my family is latino and a lot of them are immigrants. but at the end of the day, we're american. >> reporter: jose, as we make sense of things, it is important to remember that this isn't just about latinos or any other minority. nearly every demographic group expressed similar discontent and
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moved toward donald trump in this election. majority of latinos did vote against donald trump and for every family like the alvarez family, there are others deeply worried about what a second trump administration has in store for them and their loved ones. >> david noriega in las vegas for us, thank you very much. appreciate it. donald trump made deporting undocumented immigrants a centerpiece of his campaign. he did that as a centerpiece of his campaign in 2015, 2016. he promised this time to start that effort on his first day in office. but has said very little about how it would actually work. with an estimated 11 million people undocumented immigrants in the u.s. cost would be huge, not just in money, but also the impact on families and communities. with us now, former florida republican congressman carlos curbelo.
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thank you for being with us. how are you and the aclu seeing this and what are you doing to prepare? >> thank you for having me. we have been preparing for nearly a year for a second president trump term. we were caught off guard the first time. and this time we're not going to be caught off guard. we're preparing for nearly a year for various policies. as you said, you know, i argued the family separation policy the first time around. he hasn't ruled that out. they're talking about mass deportations and including use of the military. we think that's flatly illegal and are prepared to challenge that. when we see the details of that actually happens. but, you know, the bottom line is as bad as things were the first time around, we think they're going to be much worse for immigrants and your setup piece was a good one, but i unfortunately think that people are fooling themselves to think they're only going to go after
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criminals. they're promising mass deportations. that goes well beyond people with serious criminal records and so we're prepared for the worst. >> you know, lee, it is an interesting question, i think back on the history of the united states and deportations and we can go after 1986, after that, you know, comprehensive immigration reform that was signed by president reagan. but there were massive deportations during the obama administration. there were massive deportations and there were deportations as well under the first trump administration. but, lee, how do you as an organization decide how to focus on fighting against what is an overreach of the constitution, and what is the u.s. government's legal responsibility to deal with its border and migration?
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>> yeah, what you're asking is the exact right question and a really hard question for us. we have limited resources. and we need to pick and choose which cases we're going to go after. one of the things that trump team did the first time around was try to enact so many policies that would overwhelm us. what we'll have to do is pick the most egregious policy to go after them, but will have to be coordinated with city and state governments, with other ngos, and with, you know, people in civil society to really have an organized effort. and i think as you know, as you pointed out, it can't just be in the courts. we need peaceful pushback by the american public and it has to be a national effort. and i think what i look back on is in family separation, we went to court and won that, but it wasn't without the public pushing back and saying, look, we wanted reform at the border, and we also want reforms to
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various immigration policies. but we can't do something like put the military out on our streets, looking for immigrants. or separate little children from their families. so this is going to have to be a national effort and we're going to have to be strategic and wise about how we use our resources to go after various policies. >> and, carlos, you know, all of this that lee is talking about, when one has to pull back the curtain, and see and say what one sees. donald trump's policies, views, and semantics around immigration, undocumented, and migrants was successful. how do you square that? >> well, jose, i think we have to understand and accept donald trump has a political mandate to meaningfully address immigration. now, how aggressive he gets about that will determine whether the public continues to
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back him or not. we certainly saw that in his first administration. i think there was some support for tougher immigration enforcement, but when they started separating children from their parents, that's when the public support just collapsed and, of course, the trump administration had to back track and stop that. so -- >> stop that but still thousands of kids and as of today, there are still thousands of kids that have not been reunited. so, yeah, these things work, but that doesn't take away -- >> my point is, to your point, he does have political support to aggressively enforce immigration law. now, if he goes too far, he could lose that political support and, jose, you're seeing the results of a lot of these races, the senate races, the house races, republicans in tough districts are going to be in a very precarious situation in 2026.
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history indicates that. the second midterm of a presidency is very tough for his party. so i think even in congress, if they go too far, if the public stops supporting trump's immigration policies, you're going to see some pushback, but without a doubt, he is going to launch a significant deportation effort. my guess is they're going to check to see what is the highest number of deportations there have been under any administration. i think it might be obama. and they're going to try to surpass that number. >> i want your thoughts on this, the fact of reality is that people outside the united states are still willing and in many ways eager to make the dangerous trek to the united states, to try and get asylum because of the need to survive. listen to what a venezuelan migrant traveling through mexico had to say.
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>> among the things she says is that they're not bad people, they're not all bad, they're just humans like everyone else. and that in mexico, where they are, they have been kidnapped, raped, abused, which is something that we hear over and over again by all the migrants that cross mexico. lee, there is the universal definition of asylum, right? and every country can have different asylum laws, but these men, women and children, they're willing to do anything and everything to try and get asylum here in the united states. what do we tell them, lee? >> yeah, i mean, this is a horrific situation if we close down our borders and don't have any asylum. we promised after world war ii
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we wouldn't send people back to danger without a hearing. as you pointed out so many times, people don't want to leave their country unless they have to. there are people in real dangerous situations, dire situations, who need asylum. and i think this narrative that was put out there by president trump that all the people are coming are criminals is simply not true. we need to move away from that abstract notion andpeople fight their lives in real danger. no one is saying we can't reform the screening process, but to shut down the border completely, the people flying danger, that's not consistent with our values or what we promised after world war ii. >> thank you very much for being with us today. appreciate it. up next, violent attacks in amsterdam against jews. bringing back some really dark memories from history. israel's president calling it an
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41 past the hour. breaking news out of amsterdam this morning. unbelievable and disturbing scenes overnight. at least five people were injured and more than 60 were arrested in what dutch officials say were violent attacks targeting israeli fans following a soccer match between israeli and dutch teams. joining us now from amsterdam is
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nbc's meagan fitzgerald. what happened here? >> reporter: jose, good morning, good to be with you. according to dutch and israeli officials, what we saw last night and into the early morning hours of today was an antisemitic event. that's what they're saying. and you set the stage here for you, according to the commissioner, the police chief here, in the city of amsterdam, tensions have been rising leading up to the days before that match we saw play out yesterday. he said that israeli fans burned a palestinian flag, that they attacked a taxicab. and so this is sort of what the nature of the feeling felt like around here. and we had an opportunity to speak with fans. they said they didn't realize that. they said they had a good time, they went to the game, they came back from the game, there was police presence outside of the stadium. when they took the train, making their way into the center of the
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city here in amsterdam that the mob, they say, started attacking them. i want you to hear what an eyewitness who was there had to say. >> everybody ran. and then they started to attack, run to the rivers, throwing flash bombs, whatever they saw in the street. we are frightened. we are frightened. >> reporter: it is also important to note that we are seeing some video coming in on social media that nbc news has verified and confirmed that shows the moments that he's ra israeli fans were going down the escalator and saying death to arabs and let the idf win. was it before or after the game, we haven't confirmed yet. what we saw play out yesterday
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and into the early morning hours is something that city officials say is absolutely horrific, unacceptable and not something the city tolerates. this is an active and ongoing investigation to figure out the bits and pieces of what led up to this. who was fully responsible for this. but, again, this is a story that we will continue to track very closely. >> and i'm looking forward to getting more on this in the following days because, you know, one thing is a chant, one thing is one thing, and then what happened and what we have seen subsequently happened are two totally different things. thank you for that. appreciate it. up next, the elon musk factor. just how impactful was the billionaire's involvement in donald trump's presidential victory? plus, trump clashed with federal reserve chair jerome powell in the past. what he said when he was asked if he would step down and leave his position? you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. tn you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. u. you can treat it anytime, anywhere,
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more. joining us now, susanne craig. it's great seeing you. when you step back and look at this election, how impactful was musk in the success of trump? >> victory has 1,000 fathers. it's a truism and it's hard to parse out in a situation like this what the secret sauce was. musk was influential. he decided six months or so ago that he was going to go all in for donald trump. he created a super pac. because of changes in the law, he was able to coordinate with the trump campaign. he more or less funded the get out of vote effort for trump. he poured almost $200 million of his own money into hiring firms that hired canvassers throughout the swing states. it was a very significant ground effort funded almost alone by
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him. >> billionaires came out in full force for both trump and the vice president. the harris campaign had far more money than the trump one did. how different was musk's involvement? there's not only just the hundreds of millions you say he put in, but there's also -- he brings a lot of unique followers. >> he does. i think there's two things. it's important to note that both candidates had very wealthy backers. that's all the case. i think what was singular about musk was his willingness to step up and fund that effort and then also be a surrogate on the campaign, a very visible one. he was at campaign rallies. he was also in the president's ear a lot, just on -- we're talking about get out the vote. one of the things i think musk was influential in doing was
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turning donald trump on to the idea that he should promote early voting. donald trump famously was -- has criticized that, has told people to vote on election day. early voting is subject to fraud. musk was one of the key people who turns him on that. there's numerous examples like that. now you are seeing him emerge as a very significant figure already in this early days of the transition. >> yeah. the fact that -- correct me if i'm wrong. i think joe rogan announced he was supporting trump in the final hours before the election after musk was in another interview with joe rogan. >> i think that's so important. you look at the -- a lot of the discussion that you and i have had and people have had on this network has been about the women vote. that was going to be a deciding factor for kamala harris if she was going to win. i think when we look at this election, i think one of the
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57 past the hour. the federal reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point. the move widely expected and coincides with the central bank's goal of getting inflation to 2%. when announcing the cut yesterday, fed chair jerome powell was asked this. >> one of the president-elect advisors suggested you resign. if he asked you to leave, would you go? >> no. >> do you believe the president has the power to fire or demote you and has the fed determined the legality of a president demoting at will any of the other governors with leadership positions? >> not permitted under the law. >> joining us now is dominic chu. powell was appointed by trump in 2017. what has trump said about powell since then? what can we expect? >> more recently, trump has laid
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into the fed chair about policy decisions that he has characterized as being political. trump has accused powell and the fed of putting rate cuts on the table a way to boost democrats in this election cycle. currently, he doesn't want low are interest rates. just in the last few years, there was a point when the president-elect was berating powell and the fed for raising interest rates. that powell nomination in 2017 by trump had trump actually calling powell a strong, committed, smart and wise stuard of the fed. fast forward, and trump said even if the president can't order the fed to act a certain way on interest rates, he should have the right to put in comments and have a say on policy. as for what happens next, powell told reporters the election results will have not an impact on fed policy. he said we don't know what future policies from the next
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trump administration will be, nor when they will be put into action. that could change the economic landscape to a certain degree and lead the fed towards different actions. jose, right now, trump's former treasury secretary told cnbc that trump will focus on tariffs, lower taxes and economic sanctions on countries like iran at least in the early going. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. see you tomorrow night on "nbc nightly news." for now, you can reach on social @jdbalart. watch clips from our show on youtube. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the trump transition, take two, is well underway with plenty of buzz surrounding the top jobs and history being made
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