a very good day to all of you, from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to "alex witt reports". we begin with some breaking news we just learned a short time ago that president biden will host president-elect donald trump in the oval office on wednesday morning. as trump counts down 72 days from today to inauguration, we will have a report on that in just a minute. also in the battle for control of the house, 17 seats are not yet called, 11 of those uncalled house seats are in california, democrats are holding out hope to control the house at the same time analyzing the electoral aftermath. >> we've got a strong message from the hispanic community in michigan is particularly complicated because of the mideast issue. where people on all sides are hurting, are angry, art raw, and they don't know who they are going to support -- it is

not one, each of those segments adds up to a little loss. when it comes down to it, it is economy, economy, economy, i am talking to a lot of those women, and women's health decisions matter, but they are more worried about how they can buy -- milk and eggs are up. two sets of races remain uncalled at this hour, we have some breaking news on that front, as well. we will bring you the details in just a moment. new this era, trump hints of the trump administration's first order of business on day one. >> the first day, he will start with the border, the american people have been clear as a bell, the border is a crisis, and we can close it. the good news is i expect president trump on day one to take some executive action to make sure our border starts the process of closing. >> we've got reporters and analysts in place covering all of these developing story lines for us and we will begin with

the breaking news and nbc's j trailer, in part palm beach, florida. what are you hearing about this meeting between president biden and president-elect donald trump at the white house on wednesday, i believe 11:00 a.m.? >> that's right, alex. what we know is that it is not unprecedented. a meeting of the outgoing president and incoming president to do so at the oval office before inauguration day is the symbol of a peaceful transition of power. why that is incredibly notable is because it didn't take place whenever trump left office, he did not invite then incoming president biden in 2020 to the oval office, also didn't attend inauguration and also never conceded the election itself. what we are seeing here has been a long president over the course of literally centuries in this country but is not something donald trump afforded to then incoming president biden, but over the past couple of days, what we have seen from president-elect donald trump has been him narrowing down what is going to potentially be his cabinet, the folks that he

is going to lead with over the course of the next few years and to take you back quickly to what we saw in 2016 through 2020, in the trump administration, it was one of the most tumultuous, the administrator with the most turnover we have seen in recent decades, over 20 different officials ended up leaving office during his ministration, we saw four different chiefs of staff, two different attorneys general. this time, trump is focused on loyalists, people he believes will stay with him through the course of the administration. he is not as focused on actual elected representatives or senators this time around, instead those that he believes will be in his corner the entire time. that being said, one person he is particularly focused on for secretary of defense is florida congressman mike waltz. now, waltz was asked yesterday if you would consider serving in trump administration, take a listen to what he said. >> i am a soldier, the president of the united states calls you to serve, you have to take that very, very seriously. regardless of who he puts in, we need real reform in the pentagon.

everything day by seemingly costs twice as much, delivers half as much, and takes twice as long as it should, add the soldiers, sailors, marines, they deserve better, and we need to get a culture of accountability into that place. >> reporter: now, alex, we haven't seen too much of president-elect donald trump over the past few days, which is pretty rare, we are seeing him campaign of course multiple times a day in the weeks before this. he has been holed up behind me in mar-a-lago having conversations with lord world leaders, dozens of world leaders across the country, and also narrowing down the cabinet list of who he is going to serve with. we expect to see some appointed officials over the course of the next remaining days and weeks leading up to inauguration day, alex. >> jake, we will circle back and see you again in the next hour, thank you. meantime, breaking news in one of the most heated races in the senate. pennsylvania's democratic senator bob casey's campaign, one day after the associated

press called the race for david mccormick, and then he claimed victory. nbc news reports the race is too close to call. we are going to go to nbc's julie circuit on capitol hill. julie, welcome. what is senator casey saying about all of this? >> reporter: senator casey is not conceding, as you mentioned, the race is still too close to call, but mccormick leading by a little bit more than one half percentage point, with a little more than 100,000 votes, and 100,000 votes to left account according to the secretary of state, that is why casey's campaign released the following statement saying "pennsylvanians deserve to have their voices heard and as state officials have made clear, counties across pennsylvania need more time to tabulate remaining votes." they say some of these counties could end up favoring casey,

which is why they need to exercise patience. i talked to many other officials, they said they potentially want have a result until a week from now, sometime mid next week, perhaps, at the earliest and that is because some of these provisional ballots overseas ballots, as well, have not yet come in. the secretary of state as i mentioned said at least 100,000 left to count, and having spent time across the state, alex, that is not surprising. pennsylvania does not start counting their ballots until polls close on election day, that is the starting bell, not the final bell, but despite all of this, though, mccormick steam filing unsuccessful lawsuits trying to challenge a number of provisional ballots they say could have some defects on that. those lawsuits were dismissed for now. mccormick steam, again, claiming victory, casey's team saying, not so fast in one of the closest senate races we are watching. >> and just for perspective, you mentioned about 100,000 outstanding votes or so, this half percentage point right now, mccormick is leading casey by 30,000 votes, 31,000 votes, pardon me. so, it stands to reason, all those votes need to be counted. let me ask you also at the very latest on the house majority.

what is going on, there? >> reporter: well, the house has not been called, yet. i am standing right now facing the entrance to the lower chamber. we still don't know if democrats or republicans are going to control it, what we do know is whoever leads the lower chamber will have to govern with a very tight majority, similar to what we have seen from republicans in the last two years, they had just a five seat majority, both parties made gains, flipped some seats on election night, there are still 12 races that are uncalled at this point. several of them in california in purple districts. pelosi, the former speaker, the speaker of maren is still with a lot of influence among democrats, had some tough words for not only president biden, but also kamala harris and the direction in which democrats took their campaign this time around. she did, though, praise the way house republicans and democrats grander races, saying, this is why we are seeing democrats potentially having an opening to regain control of the lower chamber. take a listen to what she said. >> in places where the republicans were raging with their vote for the president

and the senate, house members did very well. as i said, it's still a possibility that we can win, but that's just that it's a possibility tells you that the house ran against the tide." >> reporter: so, pelosi giving credit to democrats, to hakeem jeffries, who would become speaker if democrats ricci -- retake control of the house, she is giving them credit while again lamenting what democrats at the top of the ticket did. that being said, though, speaker mike johnson, the current republican speaker is already saying he is feeling optimistic that they will keep and maybe expand and grow their majority in the house. jeffries again saying because of those uncalled races, not so fast. >> yeah, well, that is why we have you where you are today, in case anything comes in. thank you so much, my friend. we will see you again, julie. let's go to a new nbc news report revealing the justice department plans to focus on arresting only the most egregious january 6th rioters in the remaining 72 days before

president-elect donald trump is back in the white house. the doj is expecting to focus on charging those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers before trump is expected to shut down the years long investigation. joining me now, we have nbc's ryan riley. ryan, big welcome. how many more suspects could be charged before trump gets sworn in? >> if you look at the fbi capital violence page right now and you were to scroll through that, you would see these hundreds of photos, many of those people have already been arrested, but there are 75 people on that list to the fbi has deemed as priorities by featuring their photo on their own website, who have been identified by online sleuths, these online sleuths have told me, and that information is in the fbi's hands, so that actually kind of works out to a pace of about one per day before inauguration day, if they want to get these over the line. what the justice department typically does here is focus their resources on the most

violent crime. that is just generally a doj policy altogether, but now that there is a smaller window, they really are narrowing down and saying, okay, here is where we can get past the finish line, but i think there is going to potentially be some resistance potentially from within the fbi, because the fbi is a conservative leaning law- enforcement organization. there has already been a lot of offices that weren't so enthusiastic about bringing these cases, there is a lot of support for donald trump within the fbi, and the question is whether or not any of those officials are going to sort of try to slow walk any of these cases before they want to get them over the line. but, even if you charge them, i think, from federal prosecutors, including one former federal prosecutor i spoke with yesterday who worked a lot of these cases, you get as much done as you can and charging these cases before someone -- even if that case is going to be dismissed down the line, there will be a public record with overwhelming evidence attached to it, showing what this person did on that day, at -- and for especially getting justice for the victims of january 6th, that really is what i think is

on prosecutors' minds this week. >> a couple of questions here, first of all, isn't the doj and subsequently the fbi supposed to be completely nonpartisan? you said it is conservative leaning. that might be in the way in which an individual votes, but in the office isn't it supposed to be completely nonpartisan? and secondly, you say there are about 75 still outstanding, it has been a few years they have had to hunt these people down and bring them to arrest or speak with them at least, is it a manpower thing that why it is taking so long? >> i mean, frankly, you are correct that it is supposed to be this nonpartisan organization but that is just not the base of what my reporting has shown over the past several years, a lot of these cases have been slow walked by fbi field offices. you just don't have people who have the buy-in, and there are people who have quit the fbi because they didn't like how these january 6th cases were going. they bought into the same propaganda that a lot of this same people who stormed the capital on january 6th bought into. you know, making illogical comparisons between the storming of the capital and saying black lives matter protests, for example, when those are apples to oranges, those aren't really the same at all. but one of the messages that

really stuck to me when i spoke with a prosecutor this week is when these cases went to court, and when american citizens were presented with the evidence, the overwhelmingly, in his words, made the correct decision and that was really something that stuck with me. as much of a struggle as we have as a country, the jury system, for all its faults, is pretty high up there, it is pretty accurate, most of the time. just watching all this evidence flow in, it is really remarkable for these people who did that work to say that, you know, the click of a button, or at the send of a message, all that work could be done. >> yeah, so, the january 6th rioters , they are certainly hoping trump makes good on his campaign promise to pardon them. how high, and how valid our expectations that trump will grant pardons, even for violent offenders, ryan? >> that is a question. i have been asking the trump campaign this for a while and

they haven't wanted to get into the details, they wanted to get past the campaign. what they told me earlier in the spring is that this was going to be done on a case-by- case basis. but, like i said about the evidence, there is just really overwhelming evidence here, so if any of these folks are pardoned, there is zero doubt what they did, right? that is on video. you can play that for the american public as many times as you want, and whatever you do with a pardon, as someone has already been convicted, the record of that, the fact of that does not go away and the fact of what happened on january 6th does not go away, either. that is sort of what sergeant tignall emphasized with me when i spoke with him yesterday. >> needless to say, we have a few more questions on this, we will see you back in a couple hours. thank you, ryan, for that. ryan is also the author of "sedition hunters," and that is a fabulous book. you can look that up. meantime, we will bring in peter baker, msnbc analyst and chief correspondent for the white house, and a

correspondent for the bloomberg, equally fabulous. good to see you, both. all right, peter, coming off of that ryan reilly january 6th report and how that all transpired, how it ended, did you ever imagine that we would be here, post election, talking about a second president-elect trump? do you wonder, sometimes, how is this possible? >> well, obviously, on january 6th or january 7th, 2021, you never would have imagined that. he was seen at that point as finished, even his own party was abandoned him. it felt like he was a pariah, that he was going to be shuffled off to mar-a-lago and live in exile. but, we have seen over these last four years, that those assumptions were always wrong. i think what is really striking is there had been this belief, perhaps, that historically, he was an aberration. he even put it aside january 6th that he was a fluke president, he got it on the electoral college but really lost the popular vote by 3 million votes, but this is sort of an aberration, and that he would, in fact, be remembered as an asterisk in

history, but that is not the case, clearly. he clearly is not an aberration, he represents something fundamental about where america is right now. people who don't like him can't understand how people who do like him think about him, and vice versa. we are in this very polarized moment. you are either pro trump or anti-trump. for the moment, at least among those who choose to cast ballots, a majority of those people are for trump and i think they decided that january 6th wasn't disqualifying, the convictions on 34 felonies not disqualifying, court verdicts on sexual abuse, fraud, taxes, not disqualifying that they think it is all part of the persecution of him, as he puts it, or they just don't think it is relevant to the question of whether they can afford groceries, or the border is under control. >> i am going to ask you both about the no scheduled meeting we are just hearing about 11:00 a.m. on wednesday that president biden has invited and president-elect trump has accepted a meeting there at the white house. it is only a week after the election, so kaylee, you first, what you think is behind such an early meeting? >> i think president biden, and

frankly, vice president harris, are really trying to signal that they want to have this peaceful transfer of power. this is something we have talked about obviously for months, really casting this election as something that was about the threat of democracy, so they are trying to show that they are the opposite, what they have painted trump as for all of this time but this is really the first time we are seeing joe biden and donald trump in the same room since the debate so i am really going to be watching the dynamics between the two, but this is also going to be a hard pill to swallow. joe biden really ran as an anti- trump candidate in 2020 and again in 2024. he is going to be face to face with somebody who could really be undoing some of his greatest accomplishments, so that is going to be a very interesting dynamic that i am watching for on wednesday. >> 100%. what about you, peter, with the timing? does this feel soon? or, is it typical a week afterwards that you will have a meeting?

>> it is not particularly unusual. i think obama had trump in, roughly the same time in 2016. i would have to go back and look it up, but it is relatively typical after the election because you want to set the tone, you want to set the tone for transition, you want to be able to say that we believe in this peaceful transfer of power and by doing so, biden is having an implicit jab at trump who didn't, of course, as we just said earlier in the segment, invited him to the white house, and didn't believe in the transition of power. clearly, just recently in the campaign, i shouldn't have left the white house in the first place, he should have somehow stayed in power, even though he wasn't elected. so, biden is trying to model, as we were just saying, good behavior, in fact to say that all the things they complained about, as you are right, they said, trump were correct and they were the ones who were upholding the traditions, the standards of the united states. >> peter, let me ask you, about what is new today which is what they are calling at the new york times, lulu garcia published her interview with speaker nancy pelosi. let's take a listen to what she said. i hope we have that sound bite. >> because the president endorsed kamala harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a

primary at that time. if it had been much earlier, it would have been different. but, that's not -- we are not here to agonize, we are here, again, to organize on how we go forward. we are going to have fresh, new talent, perhaps kamala among them, that is up to her, to go forward for the next election. >> so, peter, it kind of appears pelosi is the -- saying that biden is the one who forced the democrats' hand, is that your take, as well? >> yes, i think pelosi has made it very clear that biden has a great deal of responsibility of what happened here, both by staying in the race originally, deciding to run for re-election at age 80, and then refusing to drop out right away after that disastrous debate, and of course as she is saying here, by anointing kamala harris without opening it up to a competition. now, who knows which of those scenarios into the counterfactual world would have produced a different result,

but that is where democrats are right now and i think it is striking to hear nancy pelosi, who has been a strong ally of president biden, who helped him get his most important legislative agenda items through congress, who was central in some ways to his legacy, being so critical of biden. >> kayla, send question to your interpretation of what nancy pelosi is saying there if you want to read between the tea leaves, and also ask you what you think was behind joe biden's very quick endorsement of vice president harris? >> i was not surprised about these comments from nancy pelosi because she was one of the lawmakers that took a bit more time to really endorse harris, after biden quickly endorsed her, on that weekend, and so, i am not particularly surprised, there. we have also reported that nancy pelosi and kamala harris were never that close despite the fact that these two lawmakers come from california, but there is a school of people who felt as though biden should have never run again, and that possibly if there was some sort of quick primary, that may be a different result could have

happened, but at the end of the day, this is the path that they went on as a party, and at the same time, i think that a lot of democrats would have had difficulty running in this cycle because there is just such intense pain among the electorate about the economy and donald trump became more popular frankly than ever because people remembered the economy under his presidency, as one where they had more money in their pocket and that was just going to be a tough political environment for anyone to run in, and some people have also argued that harris did not focus enough on the economy, she focused more on democracy, on abortion, and they really didn't speak to the needs of the working class and that is why i think we have seen some of the criticisms that we have from people like bernie sanders who felt that the party has really abandoned its electorate and has become a party of the elite. >> okay, peter and akayla, i will ask you to stick around because we are going to talk about the effort to trump proof some national security policies before inauguration day. we are also going to talk an interesting point president biden made in his first speech before the election.

we are back in 90 seconds. seco.

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house. we are going to bring back in peter baker and akayla garnder. peter, what is behind president biden reminding americans of the timing and result of his legislation? >> well, look, he is feeling sensitive for all the reasons we talked about in the previous segment, he understands his legacy will be that he is effectively a trumpet sandwich, he is the guy who came between two trump terms and he is the asterisk in some ways in the trump era rather than focusing on the things he is proud of, which is all these legislative items, the largest climate action plan, lowering the cost of insulin, recovering from the pandemic, all sorts of social spending and so forth, not to mention the infrastructure program. and i think that he is understandably upset that those things seem overshadowed at the moment and the question is whether or not history will look at him more kindly down

the road, but right now, his legacy is that he is the president who failed to keep trump out of the office. that he had once evicted him from. >> no getting around that one. let me just say on the climate issue, he has pledged to pull the u.s. out of the paris climate accord and there is nothing stopping him from doing so, save the fact that he has to give a one-year heads up there before being able to do so. so, akayla, the vice president struck a different tone during her postelection marks, with one word taking center stage, let's take a listen to that. >> while i concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. the fight, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation. that is a fight i will never give up. >> 20 times, we heard the word "fight" during her concession speech. how do you interpret her choice of messaging, versus president biden's? >> well, i think vice president

harris is really setting herself up here potentially to run again in 2028, but i also think this is very corded to who she is as a person, she is a prosecutor, she really has marked her career all about justice and fighting for the rights of people and i think that is why we have seen her messaging lien so hard into abortion, into democracy, because those are issues that are really natural to her. but i'm really interested to see how the party shapes itself over these years to come. who is going to be the badge in 2028? particularly because she lost so badly in this election, will democrats get behind her in 2028 scenario? >> let me ask one more quick question, i will go to you, akayla, with the biden administration, which is accordingly trying to trump proof some of its national security policies before his trump ends. what does that look like and can it be done? >> it is going to be difficult,

frankly, is what the answer is, here. we know donald trump has already started making calls to world leaders, and really the two conflicts here right now of course is the middle east and ukraine. president biden's administration says they are really trying to dole out the final money they have allocated for ukraine, there is about $2 billion left for companies to really have some sort of at least short-term, long-term assistance in terms of weapons, and then in the middle east front, we know that netanyahu and donald trump have this close relationship and he might not be as inclined to negotiate when it comes to something like the cease-fire, if he knows donald trump is going to be in office in a few months, so he is facing a really impossible task, but he will be going to two major international summits in the week ahead, g-20 and aipac. but, he has a lot less legislation with the world leaders that he did a few days ago. >> for sure. akayla garnder, peter baker, thank you, both, so much. what we know about the fbi investigation into some racist text messages. they are terrible! next. next.

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postelection races -- racist text messages sent across this country, many of them, school- aged children and college students. the fbi has certainly launched an investigation and one state attorney general says some of the vile messages can be traced back to a vpn in poland, but officials have no idea where they originated. here is part of a report from nbc's >> reporter: social media sites have been flooded with people from new york to florida, who say that they have gotten these racist messages. freeman and others believe that the texts may have been sparked by the current political climate. >> i think that it is intentional to scare people of color, black people, into a reality that we don't want to go back to. >> reporter: the wording of the texts a pair to differ, some have different spellings, others address individuals by name but the theme is consistent telling individuals they have been

selected to pick cotton. all of the people nbc news spoke to who got these messages are black. >> okay, joining me in the studio, charles coleman, former brooklyn new york prosecutor, now civil attorney, msnbc analyst and host of "the charles coleman podcast," and let me add, a good friend to this show. now, i don't even know what to say about these, they are just vile. but, what do we know about the content of these, and the timing of these texts? i mean, the election is over, why send them? >> the reason why you want to send the is because the election is over. now that the election is over, the people that are in favor of white's primacy, the people who have advocated, and pushed, and wanted this day to come with the return of donald trump and everything that he stands for in their eyes are now trying to send a very clear message to some of the most impressionable, some of the most vulnerable pieces of our union, our children, and trying to inflict the level of psychological harm and damage to let them know this is a new day, we are returning to what

we had hoped had been four years ago, but for now, we know it is going to be donald trump at the white house and this is what we have to look forward to. >> these were reportedly sent across 20 states, but my question is, how did they target just black people? >> well, that is the scary thing, alex, because what we know about the investigation that the fbi is conducting is that there have been some leads that have been found, but this, to me, scratches the surface in terms of what we are in for and what we can look forward to. when we have people who are using technology to enact what i will call domestic terrorism with respect to the amount of emotional and psychological trauma that this sort of thing inflicts, and racialized trauma that is associated with actions like this, the question then becomes, if you can precisely target in this manner, what else are you capable of? i feel like right now, this is an indicator that we may just be scratching the surface of

what people have been putting together and getting ready to do not just for the past four years but literally for the past eight years since donald trump took office and didn't get a chance to put it into completion. >> what do you expect the investigation by the fbi to entail? and digital breadcrumbs -- are there going to be enough to find out who is behind this? >> that is going to be the question and i think some of it is going to take time to develop because you are going to in some respects have to wait to see if there are patterns that emerge or if you can figure out if this person or these groups of people are going to wait to strike again. but, here is what people need to be concerned about, alex. we are in the month of november, now. we are likely going to see a different turnover with respect to the doj and office of civil rights once donald trump is inaugurated and takes office. in that case, what happens to this investigation? does it continue? is he going to appoint an ag who is pushing this as a civil rights issue and going to look into this? because these, at their core, amount of federal hate crimes

on a number of levels, but you have to have an ag who is willing to push that as an agenda. >> hang on, you just said federal hate crime, is that the charge that could be brought if they find out who is behind this? what would that entail? >> it could be a federal hate crime because you are basically making racialized threats against a specific group of people against their protective rights, and that is something that can be construed and indicted as a federal hate crime. the question is, are you going to have a doj and office of civil rights that is strong enough that they are going to go forward with an investigation with the fbi and then with the prosecution once they find out who may be responsible? >> i have never heard of anything like this, have you? >> i haven't, but at the end of the day, what we are looking at is the next generation of the . what we are looking at is the next generation of white supremacy, it is white supremacy on technology. this is not at all substantially different than burning a cross on somebody's yard. you're just sending it directly to their phone with the use of targeting and technology. it is the same trick, the same playbook, just updated with new tools.

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we can do so effectively and address the issues of people that live here, standing up and using donald trump as a bogeyman, whatever, you know, okay, great. what is that doing here for the people in the county where i live? homelessness is a problem, lack of affordable housing is a problem, and i have been working on these issues trying to get local leaders to pay more attention to it, to inject some of the ideological components that have made that difficult, that is what we need to do to get the country to stop voting for donald trump and the maga agenda. >> effective governance. duly noted. after the election, you told the wall street journal that harrison democrats appears to close to the parties progressive flank saying "the extreme left is leading us into a ditch." do you think that is why donald trump won the election? >> absolutely.

by the way, i would not use the word "progressive," okay? i am a progressive. i believe aggressive is about helping people, it is about dealing with marginalized members of our community and giving them opportunity, standing up to racism, standing up to transfer via, standing up to bigotry. but, sadly, a part of the agenda has come down to defund the police, abolish president biden five, radical identity politics. one of the issues in the campaign was there was an initiative in california to toughen punishments for shoplifters for basically robberies. vice president harris wouldn't say how she stood on that issue, okay? look, i am in favor of a lot of very progressive policies, but there are key policies that we have failed on in a number of these blue states that people have noticed, and i have already listed them, but certainly, crime, the abolish president biden five issue, the radical identity politics, just the inability to provide effective government.

we had a major problem, in my view, in king county with a lot of the government agencies here with people not coming into the office. you know? the pandemic has been over for a couple of years, we have many government agencies that don't require to come into the office, at all. forget two days a week or three days a week, or four days a week, at all. and meanwhile, the services have suffered, all right? if we want to take back this country, then let's show that we have progressive principles, that we are willing to go to work to help people, not just mal the academic slogans that make us feel better. >> washington congresswoman marie president biden six, one of the most bondable democrats in the house looks like she could win her rural red district, despite her constituents voting for donald trump three times in a row. when asked by the new york times if the democratic party will change after this crushing election cycle, she said, "it is a lot easier to look outward

to blame and demonize other people, instead of looking in the mirror, and seeing what we can do. so, the democratic caucus held a virtual meeting on thursday, first of all, sir, were you on that call? >> i was not. >> but, do you sense overall for the party there is a level of soul-searching going on? >> there is a level, whether or not it translates into action is what i am concerned about, and marie is a good friend, i was a strong supporter of horrors -- hers two years ago when she ran. she hits the nail on the head. we need to figure out how to appeal to working-class people with a message that respects them, with a message that doesn't, you know, dismiss them as trump supporters, and somehow that makes them bad people. you know, what we can do to help them? i think marie's message, and marie won, i know they haven't called it yet, but i looked at the numbers, she is fine. jared golding, don davis, dave vasquez, these are people who ran in off districts and they

ran on a more common sense message, rejecting some of the ideological tenants that have got the democratic party in trouble and the people responded to it and in trump winning districts, they won and i hope our party looks at that. i want to be clear again, i'm not saying, we have to be centrist, we have to bump moderate, i prefer we have common sense in the policies we adapt to help the working class, to recognize their frustrations and struggles and recognize that not everyone is going to go off, get a four year degree and become an engineer, so what are we doing to support the people who want to work for a living? i think we need to listen to people like marie. >> let me ask you one quick question with donald trump having made a lot of foreign policy practices during the campaign, he vowed to bring peace to the middle east, and also would end the war in ukraine in one day. you are a ranking member of the house armed services committee, do see that happening? and it is worth noting that

elon musk was on donald trump's call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy yesterday. any idea why? >> i don't. i could speculate, but that is not really the point. the important thing is the pure fantasy of donald trump's position. you saw what president putin said today, he said donald trump's promise in the war is empty campaign rhetoric. putin is responding to trump's weakness. look, trump is the one who said he doesn't want to support ukraine. he doesn't want to arm them to defend themselves, and putin knows this. so, unless trump changes that position, unless he makes it clear right now, mr. putin, in this war, we are going to keep helping ukraine to defend themselves, that puts ukraine in an impossible position. yes, we need to get to a peaceful, negotiated settlement, but you don't get there if you abandon ukraine, because putin says, well, trump is coming in, he is not going to help ukraine. why would i signed a peace deal, i will just go all the way to kyiv. so, trump's sort of fanciful, i

will magical bring peace to the world, just because i am president thing, is about to run headlong into reality. >> i wonder if voters will ever hold him accountable for that? i guess we will see. >> we have to keep working on that, alex, as you know, yes. >> congressman adam smith, good to see you, sir. thanks so much. it is usually a problem out west. next, the wildfires causing all kinds of problems here on the east coast. east coast. mom's side and your dad's side, with some serious detail. ♪♪ trace the journeys and history that shaped who you are today, and see the traits they passed down. your connections to the past are all waiting. see just how gifted you are for only $39. ♪♪

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multiple wildfires burning in the middle east and they are feeling skies with smoke. many states under red flag warnings, and they are a historically dry season. let's go to george's lease in reading, pennsylvania, where a brushfire there has exploded in size. welcome to you. what other crews doing? bring us the latest? >> reporter: yeah, alex, as you mentioned, these are receives -- seems usually out west but we are seeing it in the east, reading pennsylvania is burning right now, fires don't have a sense of containment they tell me it might take four or five days with personnel here to suppress this fire, we are told one firefighter was injured just because of the mountainous terrain out here. evacuation orders when the fire broke out and a pretty scary scene with those glowing embers. good news, those orders have been listed -- lifted so those people have been able to return home but some are terrified

because we just don't know what the winds are going to do. on that front, official saying they caught a break, winds have died down somewhat so they are able to get in there and make sure these lines are contained to make sure this fire doesn't spread. we have also seen firefighters overhead, dumping water over these mountains to make sure that fire does not spread. as you mentioned, these fires are not just here in pennsylvania, we have seen them in new york and new jersey, hundreds of acres burned there, prospect park catching on fire, as well, very scary. officials calling those the lungs of the city, and we know if you are in new york city, many of those lungs filled with smoke because it is just all over the area. out west where the california fires have been, luckily some of the santa ana winds have also started to calm down there. so, firefighters catching a bit of a break, but make no mistake, these dry conditions really leading to these perfect conditions, a perfect storm, if you will, for these fires. right now in pennsylvania, fires seem to be mostly under control and firefighters hoping it stays that way, alex. >> thank you so much, george,

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