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♪ ♪ good afternoon. i am yamiche alcindor in washington, d.c. welcome to this special hour of msnbc. we are following the latest developments for mar-a-lago as president-elect donald trump works to fill his cabinet and work on day one priorities. this hour we will look on the impact of trump's potential impacts on the courts, justice and ordinary affairs. today's sunday shows had republicans downplaying the threat of trump downplaying perceptive enemies for retribution. ♪ ♪ >> the working people of this country are extremely angry.

they have a right to be angry. >> talk about the economy. talk about peoples economic struggles. convince people we have better policies and better vision. >> there is no enemies list. yeah, there are people who have been opposed to him but he is focused on the american people. >> i don't think any of that will happen because we are the party against political prosecution. >> we begin with what is happening at mar-a-lago, where we have heard very little for the president-elect this weekend. donald trump is faced with the task of filling key roles prame and no doubt a crush of high profile names are vying for his attention. joining us now from the unofficial trump transition headquarters in west palm beach, florida is nbc news' jake traylor. we understand we are getting new reaction from someone who now knows he will definitely not be in the trump cabinet. tell us about that. >> reporter: that's right,

today donald trump on true social said mike pompeo and nikki haley, two people that served in his first administration, would not be serving in the upcoming administration. those two with donald trump have had a long relationship. i want to honing on donald trump's relationship with nikki haley because it is contentious, it is one that has been a bit of a roller coaster over the past year. take us back quickly. remember, in 2016, it was nikki haley that endorse marco rubio, who was running against donald trump in the 2016 race. trump, of course, won the white house and took nikki haley in as united nations ambassador.

in 2023, nikki haley ran against donald trump and had a lot of negative and critical things to say about him. she eventually got out of the race and endorsed him but it was not a full throated endorsement. in fact, she said there were many things she and trump did not agree upon and in the last few months we have seen a lot of them encourage nikki haley to come on the campaign trail with them, hoping it would record a lot of her supporters, specifically suburban women in crucial swing states. that never took place. what is the line here? why would donald trump choose to say he doesn't want to have pompeo or haley and a second administration? some sources i have been speaking with at the trump transition headquarters, they are dead set on this administration being focused on having trump loyalists in the administration, those they believe will stay in their corner for the entire course of his admin. when you look at haley and pompeo, they have been critical of donald trump. haley called donald trump unhinged an six -- pompeo criticize donald trump's legal woes. >> it is really interesting. trump loyalists really means you were not critical of him, we saw nikki haley say some things that were negative when it came to how trump was running his campaign but a lot of great reporting. thank you, jake . let's go to

capitol hill. there are plenty of questions about the new power dynamic in congress. republicans have already reclaimed control of the senate. now they are faced with deciding who will be the new senate majority leader. just a few moments ago on social media, the president- elect himself weighed in on the discussions. trump broke, quote, any republican center speaking -- seeking the coveted leadership position in the united states must agree to recess appointments in the senate. additionally, no judges should be approved during this period of time because the democrats are looking to rent through their judges as republicans fight over leadership. that is what you are hearing from donald trump. julie tsirkin joins us now. julie, where are republicans right now when it comes to deciding who will be the next senate majority leader? >> reporter: well, just moments after president-elect trump posted that message, rick scott, one of the three contenders in runny to succeed mitch mcconnell said he 100% agrees and he will do exactly what trump is asking any leader to do. rick scott has been giving endorsements from maga world,

elon musk, sitting senators, as well. he is the longshot running against the two johns, as we call them, the number two current republican in seed senate leadership and senator john cornyn of texas, who, by the way, urged trump publicly not to win ahead of wednesday's leadership elections. clearly, trump is not clearly heeding that call. the thing is that selection happens up by secret ballot and closed doors. they have to get a majority of republican congregants, they have 52 seats, they might have a 53rd if dave mccormick's racing pennsylvania's coffee. we will see what happened but we will see what happens. >> for all we know he could tweet a name or post the name of the person he wants to be senate majority leader. i want to ask you about how

lawmakers on capitol hill have been reacted to the election result we saw this week. julie, what we've been hearing? >> reporter: republicans are excited. they feel like they have a mandate in the senate. they will have the biggest majority we have seen around here for democrats or republicans in years. they want to pass large sweeping proposals, tax codes, some of them went to investigate democrats that led investigations against the now president-elect, they want to make changes at the southern border but when you look across the aisle, yes, there is still hope, very slim hope the democrats can still take control the house. they are really doing some soul- searching. i've been talking to a number of democrats, you have too, yamiche, trying to figure out who their future is and who their future leader is. listen to this democratic congressman from massachusetts

early with alex witt. >> we need to seriously re- examine how we are talking about the economy so we can actually push back on this and have a reasonable agenda because this is the bottom line. if we don't have a rational approach to these issues, whether it is transitions, economic issues, what is going on at the border, anything else, then republicans will succeed at just shoving their radical agenda down the throat of every american. ♪ ♪ >> seth moulton faced criticism for comments he made about trans athletes but his point today is that we should be able to have these tough conversations that at the end of the day what we hear from a lot of democrats what is what we should be talking about. >> certainly, a lot of soul- searching and a lot of blaming all-around from the democratic party. thank you, julie. >> on day one, the president- elect, donald trump, has promised to carry out a laundry list of initiatives. take a listen. >> he says, you're not to be a dictator, are you?

>> i said, no, no, no, other than day one. we are closing the border and drilling, drilling, drilling. other than that, i will not be a dictator. >> i will watch the largest deportation program of criminals in u.s. history. we will get them out, yeah. >> the moment we win we will rapidly review the political cases of every prisoner unjustly victimized by the harris regime. i will sign it on day one. >> on day one i will end the devastating gas export. a lot of people don't know that. i will immediately terminate the green new scam. >> one day one i will sign a new executive order to federal funding. we are going to cut federal funding for any critical race theory, transgender program and other inappropriate sexual or political content on to the shoulders of our children. >> on day one we will end inflation and make affordable -- america affordable again. >> on day one of the trump presidency, i will restore the travel ban and suspend refugee admissions and stop the resettlement and keep the terrorists the hell out of our country. >> folks, we told it was a laundry list. joining us now to go through this is msnbc contributor and

national investigative reporter for the "washington post" and also the author of three books that deal directly with president-elect trump and his presidency. the first is the very staple genius, the second, i alone can fix this and zero. the rise and fall of the secret service. we have talked a lot about donald trump together. donald trump has shared his list of priorities from day one. we sought in that sound, day one, day one, day one he is saying. what do you think you will actually prioritize we think about what he will do when he gets into office? >> clearly, yamiche, he believes he was reelected in one of the most amazing political comeback stories ever by his attacks on the biden- harris economy and by his

repeated claim that immigrants are harming our country. there is no evidence to support that, but he has been able to successfully convince a lot of voters they are at the root of problems with people getting jobs, problems with our economy, problems with crime. again, there is no evidence for that, but it is part of how he was reelected. i could see him making those very much the top priorities. you know and i know from commenting before that he had republicans around him in his first term who were very concerned about some the things he was launching or did not have a legal basis and would be dangerous for the economy or the public. they afforded him at every term or they discouraged him and told him, just so you know, this is illegal to close down the border. it is not legal in our country to do that. often times they were successful. this time around, that crowd is pretty much gone. there will be very few people telling donald trump know or telling him something is illegal. there may be ports that do

that. you asked the question, he made a lot of claims about day one, day one, day one. donald trump is going to try to deliver things with the stroke of a pen on day one. i think it is totally feasible he is going to start an effort to roll back all sorts of green energy initiatives on the biden administration day one with the stroke of a pen, all very likely he will start with, as we said, this round in the vote, immigrants, the ones he considers illegal. that could be pretty chaotic. remember, the travel ban against certain countries that had muslim religions did not work so well for america, it did not work so well for those countries. it was ultimately found unconstitutional. we will see what happens but those are his big east.

>> one of the great things about talking to you is that he has this dual expertise of donald trump and, of course, national security. how much do you think he will make good on the threat to go after his political enemies. the guardrails will not be the same as they were the first trump administration you might have someone within an attorney general that is completely loyal to donald trump, even over doj policies or even the constitution, some critics have said. what you make of that? >> it feels to me like, you know, you nailed it. the doj, choosing an attorney general is his number one priority. there is a reason for that. he feels he was unfairly attacked. and prosecuted and investigated. actually, you know, people can debate whether or not we should have >> x amount of time investigating certain things that have to do with the overturning of the election, his efforts. for the first time of history he blocked the peaceful transfer of power. was taken to c1, yamiche, mishandling of classified

records and just drop -- obstructing the department of justice in returning those records, concealing them, hiding them and lying about them. that is in where donald trump will want to pick out certain iconic figures he believes are representatives of this unfair witch hunt. it was not unfair. there will be one or two people he will single out. it seems like he is leaning towards jack smith, who, actually basically inherited the investigation of the classified records case in the election overturning case from the department of justice prosecutors. >> a lot of names, i think, are prepared that jack smith is one of those people who he has been looking at is sort of a top

priority. thank you so much, carol, for your great reporting and your three books, your fourth and fifth are coming up. thank you so much. >> nest, in his first term, donald trump attended -- upended the court system appointing hundreds of judges and supreme court justices. what happens next time around? we will explore that question after the break. ♪ ♪ k. ♪ ♪ giving your family the security and peace of mind they deserve. we don't have to worry about whether we lose power or not. if the utility company does not come through, our generac does. after the hurricane happened, we just want to be prepared for anything. 8 out of 10 home generators are generac, with thousands of satisfied customers. number one thing to prepare for is extended power outages. don't make it so hard on yourself, have a generac home standby generator. and owning a generator is easier than ever. special financing and low monthly payment options are available, and if you call now, you will also receive a free 5 year warranty valued at over $500. call or go online now to request your free quote. gum problems could be the start of a domino effect

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with three supporting court justices currently in their 70s, many are wondering how conservatives will continue to shape the court during a second trump term. joining me now is msnbc senior and national reporter with a great new article out on this. how prepared are republicans prepared to see conservative judges during trump's second term and what we see from his administration this time around? >> extremely well prepared, yamiche, is the short answer. they will have a senate majority of at least 52 seats. they are head in pennsylvania. that will be 53 seats. they can do nothing to stop them because justices and supreme court justices will be comforted by a single majority of senators and they will likely have party unity on this project, even if a couple of moderates decide to break away from some of the judges or justices they consider to extreme, democrats will not

have the votes to push them through. they can consider vacancies on the lower courts, 47 of them right now. democrats could use the lame duck to confirm some judges. former president trump just put out a post on true social saying there should be no judges approved during this period of time, suggesting the lame duck. there is nothing republicans can do to stop democrats. when they get control in january, there's a lot of attention being paid to the supreme court. there is not a vacancy right now but a lot of chatter in conservative legal spaces with two aging conservative justices, the oldest one and the most right-leaning one, justice samuel alito is 74 years old and justice clarence thomas is 76 years old. many are wondering if they will see the next couple of years as the opportune moment to have their seats secured in conservative hands for 10, 20, 30 more years.

it would not change the margin much but it would give them a much longer time and make it harder for democrats to cut into that margin. >> as you bring up the older justices, there is talk of justice sonia sotomayor, appointed by president obama. there are some republicans, i should say some democrats, who are wondering whether or not she should retire during president biden's remaining time in the white house. the theory is democrats could maybe replace her with the younger, more liberal judge. would not change the balance but it would ensure that democrats at least don't lose anything. this morning on "meet the press" senator bernie sanders was questioned about this very theory. listen to what he said. >> some democrats behind the scenes are quietly talking about the possibility should justice sotomayor step down to allow president biden to appoint someone who is younger. she is only 70 years old. is that something you would support? do you think she should step down? no, i don't. >> have you heard any talk of

this? >> a little bit, yes. i don't think that is the sensible thing. ♪ ♪ >> sahil, how real of a possibility is this? >> it seems very unlikely at this time, yamiche. in part, democrats have another six or seven weeks left in the year before they have to hand over the senate. she would have to retire very quickly and they would have to move very quickly. there is precedent for this in 2020 when justice ruth ginsburg died, justice amy coney barrett was confirmed in one month flat, less time than democrats have now. democrats are feeling very justice -- i am not sure democrats have it in them to do that but the real time to have that conversation was earlier this year. in april there were democrats who were nervous about justice sotomayor and if she would stick around for however more many years to get the trifecta again.

then they shut it down and said that was not an appropriate thing to ask her to do. looks like she is staying. >> definitely something we will keep our eye on. thank you for your reporting, sahil kapur. >> coming up next, as israel ramps up attacks on southern lebanon who is speaking often. we will break down how the relationship could influence the situation on the ground and what comes next for israel and gaza. ♪ ♪ gaza. ♪ ♪ sts up to 8 hours.

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>> there is no information on the battle over the pennsylvania senate seat. several republicans are taking aim at a democratic leader, chuck shumer, for not inviting republican dave mccormick to a new senator orientation. his absence would prevent him from participating in wednesday's gop leadership elections. nbc news is not called the pennsylvania race and incumbent democrat, bob casey, is not conceded as votes continue to be counted in the razor thin race. a spokesperson for chuck shumer says we will invite the winner once all the votes are counted. it is also worth noting that democrat ruben gallego has not been invited, either because they have not been called yet. for more in this contentious race, we are joined by emma barnett. thanks for being here. where do things stand when it comes to the vote counting. >> yamiche, as you said, nbc news has not called this ratio.

it is important to note for viewers that the closer a race is, the longer it takes to call. i want to pull up the numbers of where things stand. currently, senator bob casey is trailing dave mccormick by .6%. some of the outstanding balance that we are waiting to get information on include provisional ballots, overseas ballots and military ballots. if the race gets in a .5% margin there would be an automatic recount. i want to show you the presidential numbers from pennsylvania because president- elect donald trump won the state of pennsylvania by 2.1%. 2.1% is significant because we just saw how close this races in pennsylvania. the senate race in pennsylvania. that shows you there so many split ticket voters in this race, people who voted for donald trump and then voted for senator casey. one of the reasons that might be is because senator casey has such a legacy in pennsylvania. he is a three term senator who served in washington 18 years. his father was a governor of pennsylvania. it is no surprise this race, the senate race, is so close. as we said, i will just emphasize again, nbc news has

not called this race. one other mage news is my major news organization has. after that announcement, dave mccormick held the victory press conference in pittsburgh. listen to what he had to say. >> we knew on election night we have won because the math was just clear. there was no way for senator casey to win. we have to move on to changing the direction of the country. >> that is where mccormick stands right now. he says the math is indisputable. i want to pull up a statement from senator bob casey's campaign, this is from mattie mcdaniel, the spokesperson for bob casey, it says pennsylvania's desserts had their voices heard and as state

officials have made clear, counties across pennsylvania anymore time to tabulate remaining votes. a lawsuit was filed by the mccormick campaign in philadelphia county late last week. what do they want? they wanted two different things. first they wanted additional observers in philadelphia county and they wanted the provisional ballots to be counted in buckets, rather than by one by one. that request was denied by the board of elections. governor josh schapiro and the secretary of state, al schmidt, have urged pennsylvanians to remain patient as every ballot is counted, yamiche. >> patience will be key, thank you for that reporting. now to the mideast. the israeli military has ramped up its attacks this weekend, according to officials. idf strikes in lebanon in northern gaza have killed dozens, including children. this comes as prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he has spoken to president-elect donald trump three times since election day. netanyahu said the talks were designed to tighten the further stronger alliance between israel and the u.s. we have more live from beirut with more. tell us a little bit about what more you know about the damage from these latest airstrikes. >> reporter: good afternoon, i will start here where i am in

lebanon between southern lebanon and the southern suburbs of beirut behind me, which has the stronghold, 55 people, at least, were killed in the past 24 hours. among them, as you mentioned, children. this is one of the highest one day death tolls since israel invaded lebanon back on october 1. airstrikes, as well, in gaza, specifically, the situation in northern gaza. we are waiting, this is apocalyptic. we spoke to a local official there a few hours ago who told us that some members of a family were currently trapped under the rubble. 30 other members of their family had been killed by an israeli airstrike, 400 days, yamiche, of incessant airstrikes have completely wiped out families from the registry. according to the u.n., they have looked at fatalities over

a six-month period and they went through a very thorough verification process and they came to the conclusion that 17% -- 70% of fatalities from this war where women and children, the highest number of dead were children between the ages of five and nine. the u.n. also warning there is an imminent risk of famine in northern gaza. it is not a question of weeks, but rather days. this is because they say israel has not allowed enough food and enough aid to enter northern gaza and the u.s. has imposed a 30 day deadline to increase that aid. tuesday that deadline is up. what, if any, repercussions will there be? we will find out then. >> as you are talking about sort of all the things going on already, in just a couple months, donald trump will be in charge here. what has been the reaction to donald trump's reaction -- win

in the region and how might the region change with him in charge? >> reporter: i can tell you anecdotally here in lebanon, it is not uncommon for people to mention the fact that donald trump has a lebanese son-in- law. he was very involved in the trump campaign and they are making the family connection that they hope will compel donald trump to go the extra mile. he wrote a letter to lebanese americans a week before the election vowing to end the destruction and end the famine. they are like, you promise to end the war, how are you going to do it?

in israel, the polls show the majority of israelis wanted trump to win, so did the far right israeli government. the feeling is there they will have the freedom to expand settlements in the west bank, attacked nuclear sites in iran but as one advisor to a high level politician here told me, they're looking at trump, not as a republican but as the trump doctoring, which is inconsistent and unpredictable, but it is also very much transactional. he has told benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, he wants this war over by the time he comes back into power in january. -- so interesting they call it a trump doctrine. thank you for your great reporting. >> joining me now is retired four-star general and msnbc analyst, thank you for being here, general. there have been at least three calls between benjamin netanyahu and president-elect trump since he was elected. what do you make about the contact between the two leaders and how will it affect the region when you consider how they are already in touch this much. >> there is a great deal of uncertainty and unpredictability on what is to come. in lebanon and in gaza, the war will still be going on. the hatred, the destruction and humanitarian disaster in both

gaza and southern lebanon are simply appalling. having said that, there are some, i suppose, optimism on the part of the israelis that they will be allowed to prosecute the war. they have killed half the 30,000 hamas fighters already. they want their hostages back. they want hamas neutralized, of course, on the ground. a similar thing is happening in lebanon with hezbollah with the idf largely shattering their chain of command. all of this is problematic. there is a humanitarian disaster of the first-order going on. trump's interventions, at this point, won't change much . >> i also want to ask you, of course, about the rebuilding of gaza.

the biden administration made the rebuilding of gaza a big part of these proposals. i wonder, how do you think donald trump will approach this? some are even worried gaza may not even exist in four years, it could be annexed by israel by the time donald trump's term is over. what you think about that? >> i think it is highly unlikely the idf will remain in gaza war in southern lebanon. they tried that before at the invitation of potential guerrila warfare. where is the coalition in gaza, the united nations peacekeepers that can take charge of this terrible destruction, 2.4 million men and women under conditions of intense warfare. there is no diplomatic solution at all in sight. so i think we are going to see the misery continue in gaza, in particular, but the idf will be

trying to get out of there and handed over to somebody else for what will turn into a 20 year process to try to reconstruct normal life in gaza. >> wow, 20 years. thank you so much for your expert analysis, general. coming up next, donald trump >> the last four years railing about what he perceived as a weapon iced geode j -- doj. others think it is just around the corner with his administration. i will talk to a former prosecutor about what concerns him most about the incoming trump administration. ♪ ♪ ministration. ♪ ♪ which makes planning your financial future easier. so call unitedhealthcare today to learn more about the only plans of their kind with the aarp name. and set yourself and your future self up with an aarp medicare supplement plan from unitedhealthcare. speaker: who's coming in the driveway? speaker: dad. dad, we missed you.

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♪♪ the sense is that the retribution talk is done? >> donald trump has said this time and again, success will be a retribution and success will be our vengeance. >> that was former republican presidential candidate and trump supported vivek ramaswamy on abc's this week this morning. he said donald trump will not go after his political opponents, in contradictory rhetoric where they have said they would punish trump's

critics and perceived enemies. joining me now is a former federal prosecutor and staff writer at "politico" so thank you so much for being here. you wrote in "politico" this week, we just witnessed the greatest failure of luck federal law enforcement in american history and you going to say biden administration and attorney general merrick garland made historic missteps and should have quickly prosecuted january 6 rioters and trump in parallel. is there any way that trump could end up facing accountability for that? >> look, i think the biggest mistake, by far, by this justice department, excuse me, was waiting to open the investigation to trump and his inner circle in earnest for a year and a half to two years after they took office. frankly, i think it was only after the january 6 committee publicly embarrassed them with their hearings and their pretty excellent work that in the summer of 2022 they finally sort of picked things up.

in terms of my concerns about coming you know, whether or not this is resolvable in any way that we could find some kind of accountability on trump, i have to say this case is over. i think it is dead for good. you know, he is now back in office. he was elected through democratic means and we have to take that very, very seriously. i heard talk already from people who say the case can be dismissed and can be resuscitated after trump leaves office. that is wishful thinking. if he thought it was a real problem, he would just issue his own pardon. -- i also want to ask about trump's second term. is there a chance career doj officials will be asked to execute cases against trump's perceived enemies? if he picks a loyalist to be the next attorney general, what are these options here? i ask you because you are a former federal prosecutor. what would you do if you were tasked to prosecute someone like this, dick cheney, for instance. >> any prosecutor out there who has any qualms about what they're asked to do, no one is a gun to your head. your option is to not do the thing you are being asked to do if it will fail obligations or

even potentially laws. those obligations are each and every lawyer's to monitor for themselves unless there is another area, right? lawyers and prosecutors have agency. everyone there has agency. no one will be twisting ours. their option is to decline to charge the case. >> i also want to ask you about the enemies list. special counsel jack smith is likely near the top of that, according to a number of experts. how concerned you think jack smith should be when it comes to being targeted? >> you know, the concern, i think, for him, quite honestly, is the congressional investigation that is likely to ramp up. we saw the first of that with the letter from jim jordan to the justice department telling them to disable the communications. those can be very time- consuming. what we saw with peter struck and text messages, some of these investigations could stir up very strange but yet embarrassing ancillary information that can be exploited. in terms of potential critical

or criminal liability, that is extremely low. not to say that trump or his attorney general may not want that to happen, they may not succeed in getting a grand jury to return an indictment but jack smith is in the d.c. area and working in d.c. so that case needs to be brought before a grand jury in d.c. and tried before d.c. jury and a d.c. judge. it is inconceivable a d.c. jury would convict jack smith on those charges. >> i want to ask you something about a harris ally democratic operative told me this week. he said that democrats and prosecutors made trump a martyr. there is some correlation between prosecutors and democrats. what you make of that argument as a former federal prosecutor? would prosecutors come together and say we will hold back on her case? >> yes. yes. absolutely. this is a very good point. not so much, okay, we all have a situation where federal prosecutor has something and

federal prosecutors have things and who should pursue what? i have written about this before. the start of the biden administration, merrick garland and the justice department sort of indicated what they would be investigating. they should have consulted with the d.a.'s office in new york in the d.a.'s office in fulton county. my suspicion, not something i could confirm but had the doj done that but neither are they deities would have gone forward with their cases because the doj would have effectively preempted them. i think that was one major concern for both the d.a.

in new york and the ga in fulton county that there was accountability problems. this could have been managed more carefully and needed to be at the start. >> what do you make of the state prosecutions? do they go away? >> we will see. the case in new york is tricky. they're supposed to be ascendancy. we will see if that goes for. that case could end up in limbo, it could be handled on appeal during trump's second term. georgia , you know, that case is really, really in limbo. i would not be surprised that that is kept on ice for a while and eventually, for one reason or another, dismissed for trump, at least while he is in office. eyes thank you so much for coming on, ankush khardori, former federal prosecutor . still ahead, president biden will meet president biden -- president trump in the white house on wednesday. we have a live report next. ort power outages can be unpredictable, inconvenient, and disruptive to your life, posing a real threat to your family's comfort and safety. when the power goes out, you have no lights, no refrigeration, no heating or air conditioning.

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country made. i have said many times, you can't love your country only when you win. >> president biden is remaining true to the words he echoed throughout his presidency after the election loss. as vice president,, harris, there is a meeting scheduled with the president-elect on wednesday. aaron gilchrist joins us now. what are you hearing about the meeting from biden administration officials and who will join the president this weekend? >> reporter: yamiche, we expect to get more details from the white house before the meeting wednesday morning. president biden and president- elect trump could have their most senior advisors with them

before this oval office meeting or it could just be biden in trump in that space both men know so well. as you noted, president biden promised a smooth transition to the next administration. i think that is really what this meeting is about. it is an opportunity for the american people to see the outgoing president of the process beginning the transition to the next administration. national security advisor jake sullivan was asked on one of the sunday shows today what happened in this meeting. he said they would be talking through both domestic and foreign policy issues and that the president would try to explain to president-elect trump how he sees things. of course, this is an opportunity trump did not afford president-elect biden in 2020. he did not concede any did not invite biden to the white house. that was followed by four years of bad blood, of bitter campaign season this year. we know there was a phone call on wednesday. trump described that is very respectful. maybe we could see at least that much in front of the candidates on wednesday, yamiche. >> president biden says he

wants to make the most of the time he has left in office. what do we know about his plans to close out his term? >> reporter: when president biden ended his reelection big, he told them he wanted them to be productive up until the end of the administration in january. the biden administration is working to speed up president biden's legislative achievements and get money out the door for things they can pass. we know the press secretary was asked about the final days, the final 70 days or so just the other day in her press briefing. she pointed to an effort to get judicial nominees confirmed, she talked about getting disaster assistance to recent hurricanes is. the president's national security advisor said again today getting a to ukraine before biden leaves office is a big priority. the president will meet with other heads of state next week in meetings in brazil and peru. they will talk about economics and things of that sort. we know there is an effort to put on pressure on hamas to get

in and to the war, yamiche. that is a key policy focus for president biden and his administration in their closing weeks, yamiche. >> what to be a fly on the wall when president biden tells allies and other people that he thought america was back but it actually went back to trial. thank you for your reporting. >> we have been talking about this here on msnbc but potential retaliation from donald trump was the major theme on saturday night live, the show's first postelection cold open shows the cast members attending to curry favor well throwing their colleagues under the bus. >> the rest of us voted for you at least once. >> i voted for you 50 times in pennsylvania. [ laughter ] >> 92% of black men voted for kamala. i was one of the proud 8%. for me, it is brother donald x trump all the way. [ laughter ] >> we are so excited to debut our new impression, hot jack trump. [ laughter ] >> that's right. that's right. it's me, hot jack trump.

they finally got the body right. [ laughter ] >> but from now on, we are going to do a very flattering portrayal of trump because he is really my hero. [ laughter ] >> he will make an incredible president and eventually king. so everybody -- [ laughter ] >> hilarious, hilarious take from "snl" so thank you so much for watching. that will do it for me, yamiche alcindor. our coverage continues after a short break with politics nation and the reverend al sharpton. ♪ ♪ sharpton. ♪ ♪ ...with horses let's take a look at those scenarios. j.p. morgan wealth management has advisors in chase branches and tools, like wealth plan to keep you on track. when you're planning for it all... the answer is j.p. morgan wealth management.

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