good day, everyone. welcome to alex witt reports. beginning with donald trump's countdown to inauguration in 71 days. the president elect will return to the white house and today a big transition announcement about who he is not appointing. he says his administration would not include either nikki haley or mike pompeo.

two center maces man on-call, but republicans are poised to take control in january. the house remains too close to call but democrats are hoping most of the 19 uncalled seats would break in their favor. several are in california. democratic congressman assessing the loss but looking ahead to what is next. >> what was at stake is the degradation of american democracy. the political discourse. and one or two years donald trump is going to be a lame duck, but i think that we need to make sure we stand up for people's rights in this country and are looking for on what we can do to win back the house and the white house. acknowledgment of the herculean task taken on by vice president kamala harris and the fight she was able to put up against a candidate who spent eight years campaigning. >> she ran a great campaign and only had 100 days to do it. nobody even thought she could do what she did.

the first day getting all of the delegates and line. raising the money that she raised. taking the campaign out of a hole to where they were neck and neck on election day and inspired a lot of people. strictly reaction to growing concerns over trump's retribution threats. surrogates on the talk shows dismissing it as rhetoric. >> there is no enemies list. there are people who have been opposed to him, but he is focused on the american people. job number one is securing our border and beginning the process of deporting illegal immigrants out of our country. job number two is getting our economy thriving again. becoming energy dominant again. that is his focus. >> we have reporters and analysts in place covering all of the new developments, and we are going to start at the white house, so welcome. what are we hearing from the biden administration today about the wednesday transition meeting between the president and president elect at the white house? >> we expect to get more details about that meeting from

the white house in the coming days. we know that it is set for wednesday at 11:00. president biden and president elect donald trump said to me in the oval office here on that day and at this point we know this is really about showing the american people how this transition is supposed to work. the outgoing president and incoming president together before the cameras shaking hands and having a conversation. we know typically these meetings happen in a way that will give them in time to talk about the things that are in front of the country and potentially some of the things that the incoming president might want to do. the president's national security advisor was asked about the meeting this morning on the sunday talk shows. he was asked what might happen in that meeting. only to hear a little bit of his response. 's be a president biden is committed to the peaceful transfer of power, and responsible hand off from one president to the next. they will go through the top issues both domestic and foreign policy issues including what is happening in europe and the middle east and the president will have the chance

to explain to president trump how he sees things and where they stand and talk to president trump about how president trump is thinking about taking on these issues when he takes office. >> this meeting comes after a bitter campaign where we know president biden when he was the democratic nominee and former president donald trump and president elect donald trump did not speak kindly of each other or to each other in the debate that they did have this past summer. it will be interesting to see what this moment is like for the two of them when they meet together and see what their body language is like toward each other and whether that meeting lasts for 90 minutes as it did with former president obama when he welcomed president elect trump to the white house in 2016 or if this is a really short meeting where we do not see them engage much at all. of course this is coming a day before president biden leaves for peru to participate in the asia-pacific economic cooperation summit where he will meet with 20 other world

leaders and likely this transition will be a part of the conversation that president biden will have to face in south america. >> if it is brief for the unexpected meeting it is not like he has to show him around the white house. he knows where he is going, so there is that to consider. now let's go to west palm beach, florida. donald trump said he would not ask nikki haley or mike pompeo to serve in his cabinet. what can you tell us about that

and then what else is going on in his white house transition? >> that is) donald trump have had a lengthy relationship. i want to hone in on the relationship particularly with former ambassador of the united nations nikki haley that served under trump's administration. they have had quite the rocky and contentious relationship. just briefly to go back for a moment. in 2016 it was nikki haley that endorsed marco rubio running against donald trump for president. of course trump won. he had nikki haley serve as the ambassador to the un. she then ran against him in 2023 in the republican primary. then there was a lengthy amount of time where she did not endorse him and finally did. it was not full throated. she said she disagrees with him and a lot of ways. we have seen and heard from a lot of republican strategists they are desired to see trump had nikki haley come out on the campaign trail. the goal was that she would usher in a lot of her suburban women voters that were supposed to be crucial in some of these key battleground states. that never took place and so why would donald trump on truth social say he wasn't going to welcome nikki haley and mike pompeo into his cabinet? a little bit about what we talked about yesterday.'s transition team is dead set on having trump loyalists in the white house this time around. they want people that is will stick around for the entirety of the administration. if we look back on that it has not always been the case. nikki haley has been critical

of trump. mike pompeo has been critical of trump. you criticize some of his legal woes in the way he has handled it, so this transition team is focused on loyalists through and through. looking ahead to the actual transition and the confirmations in the senate. he was asked about the importance of independence between the executive branch and the department of justice. listen to what he had to say.

>> do you think it is important to preserve the independence that is traditionally existing between the white house and the justice department, senator? >> i think what john kennedy appointed his little brother as attorney general the president gets to choose who he wants be we will have hearings when ever he points as the attorney general of the united states, and i'm looking forward to those discussions and hearing, and i am looking forward to moving quickly with a majority in the senate to get the president's cabinet in place so that he can hit the ground running come january 20. >> pompeo said just moments ago on x he was proud to have worked in the trump administration. nikki haley basically said the exact same thing last night. we do not know who his cabinet picks will be at. we know it won't be them and it would likely be these trump loyalists. >> thank you so much from florida for that. now we are going to go to the gop house security senate majority is preparing for a secret vote this wednesday to determine who will be the leader. joining me from capitol hill once again. break it down for us, julie. who is in the running to take the leadership position in the senate and have we heard anything from president elect donald trump himself on this? >> we have. in the last couple of minutes we heard from the president elect who posted on truth

social and x not really backing a specific candidate, but throwing out some demands that he wants any of those who end up being in and to make sure that he can push through what is known as a recess appointment. meaning anybody he is appointing especially judicial appointments right now that doesn't happen picketed by we have something when he senate and congress are out. to have one person come back and no business is conducted. no funny business is conducted either. it prevents the other party from going rogue essentially. trump wants to bring something back that we have seen before. we have seen with president obama and the supreme court challenging it afterwards, but taking that aside of course we are back in the era where trump is dictating what republicans have to do on capitol hill and now they actually have to listen to him. there are three contenders currently in the running to replace mitch mcconnell. the outgoing longest-serving leader. that includes rick scott who promptly retreated and reposted the former president and president elect saying that he agrees with him 100% and will

do whatever he says pete take a listen to what else we heard from him.>> i bring a business background. i know that to get things done you have to look yourself in the mirror and say what we have to do differently? we can't keep doing what we are doing. we have to be the change but that is what donald trump got elected to do. that is what business guys do.>> a couple of senators also said they would back him, but it doesn't mean that the other ones are out of the running. this will be done via secret ballot as it always is. whoever ends up the next leader of the republican party needs to get a majority of whatever the total of senate seats republicans have ends up being. right now it is 52. could be 53 with dave mccormick the we will see wednesday morning what happens.>> we will look to you to give us the answer of who comes out on top. joining the now. vanity fair special correspondent and political contributor. and access national politics reporter. welcome.

there is a huge amount of soul- searching going on among democrats about the vote democratic turnout on election day. by the shift of traditionally democratic voters switching to the gop. top of line what is your big take away from the selection? >> there is a lot of soul- searching and a lot of finger- pointing. a lot of people mad at each other, but i would say that considering the incumbency headwinds and that harris was running for president for a couple of months. she did an amazing job at. you can see the strength of that in the down ballot races. the senate seats that democrats were able to keep. incredible stuff. wisconsin, michigan, nevada. i do think there certainly is going to be a lot of soul- searching and a lot of thinking and talking and i do think she

did help all of those down ballot races, and that is incredibly meaningful.>> all of this despite trump making gains with black, hispanic, asian voters. even in deep blue places like new york city. this is in spite of all of his racist and xenophobic messaging. how do you explain democrats not seeing this shift in the nonwhite and working-class voters to trump? has the base shifted to a more diverse coalition of voters? >> yeah. i think the numbers speak to themselves. behind all of his racist comments and all of his other shenanigans he is actually campaigning and some fairly diverse places like south bronx. he has gone to coachella, california. i was at his bronx rally earlier this cycle and asked do you not see him as racist, and

they said he is equally racist to everybody. i think it is not something that everybody votes on. if you are the trump campaign i know that very early on his campaign managers were very focused on getting what they were hoping to be marginal gains with black and latino men specifically. in place like philly in detroit and milwaukee. in order to make up for any losses in the suburbs. i think that is exactly if you look at what he went to california and new york. new jersey. it is to find the majority and minority crowds. >> there is plenty of blame to go around for the harris lost. charlamagne tha god is among those who are saying that she ran a great campaign under the circumstances she was given.

in terms of finger-pointing what are the most notable ones right now that you are seeing that you think may be able to be used as lessons for the democrats?>> i think the biggest one has not gotten as much attention. certain everybody is using this to explain their priors, so if you were a person who thought the party was too far left you now have decided that is the answer, and if you are a person who thought the party was too far right you are now using that as the answer. anything that people i am not sure talk about quite enough is the ability to underestimate trump. this guy has run ahead of the polls now in three elections. even in 2020 where he lost he still ran ahead of the polls. in some ways i think in my mind that is the biggest take away. i am not sure that the things that trump can do can be replicated by the rest of the republican party. we have seen if you look at someone like kari lake that they can't. kari lake loses in a state that

trump wins. i do think some of this is unique to trump, which is important before democrats decide to completely redo their whole policy platform. but i also think that there will be a lot in the coming days that we will see what that. >> it is likely republicans will maintain control of the house and that then they will have a unified government and washington, but the gop is likely paperthin house majority things it is going to be extraordinarily difficult for speaker johnson to pass the agenda considering the chaos and internal conflicts that are plaguing the republican-led house. this is really building off of molly's last point. with trump in the white house? >> trump is able to tank a legislation simply with a truth social post. that is the reality. he has republican leaders on both sides who are a lot more trump friendly. he has more ideologically

aligned senators and then in terms of if they get control of the house they are going to have more funding for things like those mass deportations. more money for ice. expansions . the might potentially restructure the affordable care act. you go down the this. there is a lot they can do. you still have these characters in the house and mike johnson will continue to have to wrangle them. they have found a way to coexist and have worked on the relationship. there is a lot more that you can do. trump sums it up himself. he said that last time around he knew nobody in washington. he did not know how it worked. in a recent interview he said i know everybody. i can dialup anyone. >> so what are your greatest concerns and fears about a second trump administration? >> i have a lot.

i would say the number one thing has to be to protect the norms and the guardrails to make sure that the institutions hold. that the courts and the law still work. that we have free and fair elections. that the doj is not completely taken over by the advent. these are things that are really important. we are going to have to see. i think it is quite scary. the one bit of good news i would say is that they had a majority in the house the last two years, and they really had a difficult time passing stuff. because as ideologically an agreement as this group is there are a lot of personalities , and they are rewarded for being personalities and not necessarily for passing legislation, so i do think that works against their ability to passed off. >> please stay with me because we are going to talk about a

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january donald trump and senate republicans gearing up to instill even more conservative justices nationwide and appoint more justices to the u.s. supreme court eyeing two possible retirements they could bring the number of trump justices to five. joining me now is a senior

national political reporter for nbc news. what are republicans planning, and what can democrats do in the meantime? >> the answer to the second question is there is nothing they can really do starting in january. republicans will have the presidency with donald trump returning to the white house and a senate majority of at least 52 senate seats and head in the pennsylvania race. they have not called, but they get them to 53. they only need a simple majority to confirm judges and justices. they currently have 57 lower court vacancies. democrats will try to bring that down by confirming some in the lame-duck session. chuck schumer, the outgoing democrat, already saying they

will use the lame-duck. republicans will have a lot of judicial vacancies to confirm. lower courts with existing vacancies and a lot of attention is going naturally to the supreme court the republican senators are already eyeing the possibility of confirming one if not more supreme court justices. take a look at what the texas republican running to be the next majority leader tweeted. with his historic reelection president donald trump will likely have the opportunities to nominate 2 additional supreme court justices. in other words, a majority of the united states supreme court. who are they looking at him of the biggest names getting attention are the two most conservative justices on the bench who happened to be the oldest . justice thomas at 76 is a couple of years of breaking the record for longest serving justice, so there is some thought you might want to stick around and do that before he goes. take a look at what mike davis has told me. i imagine the justice will want to get out of d.c. as quickly as possible. that is who i would protect.

in terms of who he things is going to retire first on the supreme court. if trump gets that he will have appointed five out of nine. no president since fdr has appointed a majority, and he had to get elected four times to do that before the existence of the two-term limit. there is democratic anxiety that is rising. she is 70 years old and has been battling diabetes since she was younger there is no sign of her slowing down or any sign that she wants to go, but there are concerns about whether she is going to stay around until there is a democratic president whenever that is or if there will be a repeat of what happened with justice ginsburg who ended up lasting on the court and getting replaced by donald trump as well. take a listen to was senator bernie sanders told our colleague when asked if he thinks she should retire. >> some democrats behind-the- scenes quietly talking about the possibility.

to allow president biden to appoint someone who is younger. is that something that you would support or think she should step down? >> no. i don't. i don't think that is a sensible approach. >> that seems to be where the democrats are at least publicly. none of them are pressuring her to step down, which means that she will stay on the court.>> thank you so much. sophia, the supreme court. what is its competition four years from now? get out your crystal ball.>> i think that trump may have won appointment. i think he would be very lucky. after the overturn of roe versus wade i think this country can see what the ramifications of a court's decision our. we are seeing it in

investigative reporting of women dying in terms of not having an abortion. i think this is an area that trump is keenly focused on. he is also keenly focused on who he is going to nominate for the attorney general. he is also very keenly focused on the secretary of homeland security. i think within his cabinet and also broadly inclusive of appointments to the supreme court. he really only has a couple of places that he is interested in and those are the places that he ran on. as we are hearing from trump campaign staffers who this weekend they were told to start packing up their desks because they are going to be re- assigned spaces. palm beach hq. we know that one of the first items that trump will look at is ag. and secretary of security. >> sophia mentions the fall of roe versus wade the most surprising results is that just over half of all women under age 44 voted for trump, and

once again a majority of white women supported him. we know his record on treating women and lack of supporting their right to bodily autonomy. how do you explain this? >> that is a hard question. i think that people don't see the fall. i will say something that will actually feel really bad to say and upset me a lot, but i think the truth is a lot of women do not quite see it yet in their lives. we can see stories, but they haven't seen it or actually lived it. they haven't been in a state where they can't get first trimester medical care because of abortion bans. they have lived in a state where they are told they can't get treated for a miscarriage because they can't get a dnc. it has recently been overturned. the place where it has been the

longest has been texas. we are seeing stories out of texas that are pretty horrifying of women dying, but that is really three years, so i think it probably has not been long enough so that people have seen just how cataclysmic it is to make doctors afraid of republican politicians, but that will only continue. we both know that we saw supreme court justices talk about using the comstock act to ban abortion pills, and i think it is a loser for republicans, but ideologically it is very aligned with where the party is, and i would be surprised if we didn't see more there.>> oh boy. good to see you both. thank you. more money, more problems? next be the co-author of this article joins me to talk about donald trump, elon musk, and big money problems.

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today fresh insight into elon musk and his potential role in the second donald trump administration. the tesla's ceo and billionaire port over $100 million of his own money into the super pack to help elect super pack trump. looking for a role in exchange for his efforts on the campaign trail. to an amino is our good friends. welcome. let's get to what you have written about here. big money politics got a win here. how is he so effective in swing states like pennsylvania? >> it is interesting. when you do into a dive of what happened. you cannot just necessarily say his ground operation was a singular because there were a lot of factors that went into donald trump's win.

what he did that was so fascinating is he funded one largely by himself and ran the ground operation for donald trump. this was a lie because of some changes in campaign laws that allowed campaigns to coordinate with them, and he poured in well over $100 million of his own money into this. you can never say it was a deciding factor, but when i think about elon musk he ingratiated himself with trump and also became this very powerful surrogate on the campaign. it was effective in that he was out there and influential with largely young men who like elon musk, so there are a lot of factors that he went into it, but he is emerged as a conceptual character.'s been ordered but the growing influence generally of wealthy donors?

it has been going on for decades, but will congress keep loosening regulations on super pac fundraising and spending?>> i want to be careful because elon musk was singular because he decided to take such a public role, but this has been going on in one form or another for a long time. just that he decided to go all in and was very public. i do not have a crystal ball into what is going to happen, but i do not think we are going to see this stuff tightened up. in fact it is going away. >> on election night he was right there right and center with donald trump. outlets like the guardian saying that he is almost set up to be a shadow vice president. is this an overstatement? should americans be concerned? are you concerned? >> i think we should be concerned. it was really striking on election night to see them not

just at mar-a-lago, but there is a family photo that was posted. he was standing there with one of his children. this is a very close relationship. we do not know how long it will last. it may last a long time. elon musk has billions of dollars of contracts with the federal government. now meshed himself with donald trump as he is heading into the white house. i think he is going to be looking at him. potentially talk of a government efficiency team that elon musk may review all government spending. this is sort of where we are heading. apparently donald trump is fascinated by the cuts that elon musk made at twitter. he did a lot of slashing of costs, but it did not necessarily go well. the optics of that are what appealed to donald trump. i think we are going to see something as we head into the white house. >> looking for part-time piggy has a few things he is doing

already. the title with that would be to your point about slashing the federal budget and something that he has talked about doing. your colleague assured me that elon musk would not have the power to actually do anything, but does that change with a gop controlled congress? >> i think i am still not sure. i think we will have to wait and see. this is really uncharted territory. he is going to be advising the president on potential cuts. that is sort of where we are headed. i do not know where that lands, but i know that is where we are. we are also seeing his influence in other areas. you have been talking today about the call with ukraine. these are all soft things. they all add up to something. i think you're going to see his

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public health issues. joining me now is someone who is a bit worried about it. a professor of medicine at stanford university and author of an nbc news piece called trump and rfk jr.'s public health plan is not just alarming. it would be a catastrophe. it is good to see you, my friend. let's talk about kennedy who said this week that he wouldn't take away anyone's vaccines, but do you believe him, and what concerns you the most about his involvement in the greater public health world? >> you have to look at some of his actions. i think it's entirely possible to honor what he said it. i want to go with vaccines, but he absolutely can't put into people or put people into positions of power like the fda over the government that could weaken the strength of vaccine recommendations. the process is there are advisory committees. they make a recommendation to the cdc director and fda. these are just recommendations

that the people in political power choose not to or to sign off of. they can use the same political interference to intervene in medical product decisions. including rolling back some things that we are familiar with like over-the-counter birth control. the access to over-the-counter plan b. they can also haul out agencies just by driving out experienced staff and also taking away appropriation dollars because now they have a republican congress essentially. a senate and the house they can try to work with to take away some of these resources.>> in her article this is a line you liken him to having access to all of the data. you liken him to a flat earth are leading the next space mission. the biggest issue for you in terms of damage that he could do to the public health system. only outlined a bunch of things, but if given this kind of overall authority what is

the first thing that you think could tumble that worries you? >> i think the good thing that could tumble that are the existing regulations around drugs, vaccines. things that we are very comfortable with. i just mentioned some over-the- counter drugs. you can actually roll back some of what is existing to date. we talked about some of the medications and some of the access to reproductive medications. some of that could get rolled back by simply having the regulatory power, and then i think it is also maybe the more important thing. the more important thing is there looks to be validation of that sense vaccines somehow people like myself are doctors and are trained to talk about public health. in fact we were spewing lies. he has been damaged. could be reputation. who is going to listen to doctors and public health authorities? those are the very people that

we need to trust when we have these emergencies. >> rfk jr. told nbc news reporter this week he may be given a czar like position with direct access to the trump white house. what would that look like, and does it help prevent any risk by removing him actually a step away from actual policymaking? >> those of us. i worked in the obama white house. every white house has an advisor role, but someone who does not have hands-on authority inside the agencies. that is certainly better than being in charge of the fda. i do not expect they will. i think the white house is our role is right, but you can do a lot of damage. one thing i have seen is that he could easily become the person that gets more attention than donald trump himself. i do not think the trump white house would love that, but i also think what is happening right now is the kissing of the

ring of rfk jr. people have identified him as a person who says yes or no to these health positions. there is a slew of political appointees that want these jobs and they are having to sit and meet with rfk jr. and make sure their attitude matches up with his. unlike others that i have seen and have worked around this one right now has an incredible amount of power. >> what happens to the aca during the trump administration? what is your expectation? >> the goodness is the affordable care act. i worked on that and i am proud of what we did in 2010. including but some republican support for what i will see happening now are still a slate of bills. it can't be on down. i want to make that unclear. you can take reports of the affordable care act and weaken them, but you can't dismantle the aca. you do need to work with congress, and the key piece that couldn't happen during the trip first trumpet ministration

is repeal and replace with what? could they become smarter in four years and find something to replace it with? it's absolutely possible but it's going to be an uphill battle because some of the very entities that trump is positive around. those company started because of the affordable care act. talking about ripping away jobs and access to the many voters that he claims are in his loyal voter base. i think you can weaken parts of it but not take it all away. >> a sobering but good conversation. my next guess has covered 12 presidential campaigns and we are going to ask him if the democratic party failed kamala harris more than kamala harris filled the democratic party. because they have bills to pay? hear me now, paycom! return the world of hr and payroll to its rightful place of chaos or face a tsunami of unnecessary

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exciting. now how do we get trump's agenda done? >> what you saw was an earthquake election. biggest comeback politically in the history of our country. >> republican light makers taking a victory lap on the sunday shows just days after donald trump's big win. joining me now is my good friend. most important thing recently author of the amazing new book american reckoning insight trump trial and my own. you just heard all of those republicans talking about victory. give me your reaction to that and what goes through your mind when you hear the words president elect donald trump again.>> first of all, they are right to be gloating. this was the biggest comeback in american history. you have to hand it to them. it was not a landslide though. washington will still be a very combative place. i do have to say that when i

hear the phrase president elect donald trump it fills me with apprehension and reminds me that we all have to do our part to protect democracy. that is what a lot of my book is about. not about it trump trial and sentencing coming up later this month. so there will be some accountability for donald trump considering he is a convicted felon. he won't do any time as president obviously, but there will be some accountability. the larger point of the book that covers almost all of this year until the election. not quite fast enough to get that in. this is a dangerous man, and we need to all ask ourselves as fdr asked us to do your part.

what is your part in protecting democracy. there are different things that we can do. for me it was bearing witness in the court room and for you it is doing your program and asking tough questions. for other people it might be getting involved in lawsuits if he engages in lawless behavior, which he will do. because he told us repeatedly during the campaign that if he became president he would be a strongman president who did what he wanted and dared people to challenge him. >> given the fact this nearest case fills up the middle third of your book. what does justice look like? what does he sentence them to, if anything? >> the do not know for sure yet the sentencing will take place. we will know more next tuesday.

obviously the electorate has acquitted donald trump. the jury in his case convicted him and it would be disrespectful to the jury in the american criminal justice system for him to do nothing, so you are going to see there is a sentencing on the 26th. you're going to see possibly finds. you could see a suspended sentence where he got probation . that he would be put on probation. most likely in 2029. and you still could see what a lot of people expected, which is that after he leaves office he could be facing some short jail time. that is not likely, but this judge has indicated and i saw him say in court when he said

for contempt if you reoffend i will jail you. he was convicted at the end of that case. i think people assume that the election wipes away these cases. it will end the federal cases. let's be clear. those are dead. this is a state case, and he cannot pardon himself. the judge has some discretion here. >> the 34 counts he is convicted on doesn't get overturned? that is done? >> yeah. a higher court could throw that out. it could go to the supreme court, but that is not considered likely at this point. we are going to see what the judge does later this month. >> which means we will have you back to talk about a. thank you so much, my friend. that is going to do it for me. we will be back at 1:00.

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