"chris jansing reports." at this hour, you're hired. president-elect donald trump taps hard line immigration advocate tom homan as border czar, details on the man who had launch the largest deportation effort in the country's history. justice before the clock runs out, the doj zeroing in on what they are calling the most egregious january 6th cases after donald trump said he would consider pardoning their capitol hill rioters. plus, the odd couple, and then some. president biden who's gone from calling donald trump a threat to democracy to trying to convince him to fight for it. everywhere. we'll preview the oval office meeting of the presidents scheduled for wednesday. veterans valor, president biden and vice president harris seen together for the first time since the election, honoring the strength and the courage of our

veterans this holiday. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we start with trump taking the first steps toward launching mass deportations of illegal immigrants and according to nbc news, potentially some who entered legally as well. nbc's julia ainsley has the exclusive reporting. tell us more about it. >> you mentioned homan being named border czar. we understand that hard line senior adviser from the first administration, stephen miller has been named deputy white house chief of staff. if those indications give you any idea of just how far and how hard lined, the immigration policies will be, we can give you more specifics. we are learning the two programs

the biden administration ever started to bring in migrants legally will be canceled under the new trump administration, and those who use those programs could be deported. these are programs, one is known as ch and v, migrants from cuba, haiti, nicaragua, and venezuela, 30,000 per month have been allowed to apply to come to the u.s. legally, and now we understand that those migrants as well as those who came in under a cvp 1 program that allows people in northern mexico to schedule an asylum appointment over an app, they could lose their status if they haven't already been put on a path toward asylum. all together, that's 1.3 million migrants that could be affected unless they have other protections. this is a big blow, chris. these are people who got in line and did it the right way, the right way under one administration. they could soon have the rug pulled out from under them, and be treated as if they crossed

the border illegally. the trump administration doesn't see the protections as valid, and these are the countries that trump wants to crack down on entering the united states. though, chris, we should definitely expect to see legal challenges. i spoke to immigration advocacy groups who say they plan to sue. it will be interesting to see if a case like that gets all the way to the supreme court because even though the supreme court said trump could not undo daca in 2020, it was the wait they undid it, and since then, the court has become much more conservative, chris. >> julia ainsley, thank you. now to how the justice department plans to refocus its january 6th cases ahead of inauguration day. nbc's ryan reilly is following this for us. walk us through the justice department's plans, and why, ryan? >> yeah, there are about 75 people on the capitol violence page that have been identified by sleuths but not arrested. the online sleuths and probably some in the justice department want to get over the line before donald trump is back in the

white house because he's made clear what he thinks about those january 6th cases and i think that's where you can expect him to go, someone who would be willing to stop this prosecution from going forward. donald trump has been very clear that, you know, the justice department was one of the places where he had the most frustrations with both because they were investigating him, and because you had some principled people in the justice department, who found their line and decided that's as far as they are willing to go. it's the only organization that has, you know, this title in his name, justice, and so that's, i think, where his position stands right now. i talked to one of my sources who had recently been working on these cases, and pointed to the first rule in "on tyranny," the first thing you do is don't comply in advance. that's what this is about is not complying in advance, and standing up for the principles of the justice department no

matter what happens going forward, chris. >> ryan reilly, thank you so much. let's go to the white house now where that meeting between president biden and president-elect trump will reportedly include some lobbying for ukraine. nbc's allie raffa joins us with that. we have talked about enormous being broken. this is a norm that's being kept, the incoming president is brought to the white house by the outgoing president. what are we expecting there. >> that's right, chris, and among the topics that we know are going to be discussed during this highly anticipated oval office meeting on wednesday between president biden and his predecessor and now successor, president-elect trump, is, as you said, ukraine. we have known that ukraine has been and for the next 70 or so days of the president's term, going to continue to be a top priority, and we've seen the administration in recent days take action to ensure that ukraine continues to be supported. in recent days approving for the first time u.s. military contractors to, while inside

ukraine, repair u.s. provided military weapons for the first time since russia's invasion. but we know what trump has said about the war in ukraine. he has threatened to cut aid to ukraine. he has said that within 24 hours of taking office, he would end the war without exactly explaining how, and that's one of the reasons we heard national security adviser jake sullivan over the weekend say that this was going to be a top priority during had oval office meeting on wednesday. listen to more of what he had to say about that meeting. >> president biden will make the case that we do need ongoing resources for ukraine beyond the end of his term. because the threat to ukraine will remain, no matter what exactly happens on the battlefield or at the negotiating table, and the united states should not walk away from its commitment, either to ukraine or to 50 nations that we have rallied in defense of ukraine in both europe and asia. >> reporter: sullivan also saying that by the time the president leaves office on january 20th, he's going to make

sure he spends every dollar that congress has already approved for aid to ukraine, and he's going to continue encouraging the trump administration to continue supporting ukraine, arguing that one of the stakes of not doing so are other leaders of world countries, possibly questioning the country's support for them, and that will no doubt be top of mind, especially at the apex summit in peru, that the president is expected to depart d.c. to head to the day after this highly anticipated meeting. chris. president biden and vice president harris are honoring veterans with a wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier. courtney kube has latest on that. and i wonder what the president had to say today. >> reporter: it was a really reflective president joe biden that we heard out there today, acknowledging that this would be his last time standing there on veterans day at arlington cemetery as the commander in chief. he spoke about the things that he was very proud of during his

time, and even reflected back todays before he was president, talking about visits he made to other hallowed grounds like in normandy, bella wood, and gettysburg, reflecting on how important that was to him. not surprisingly, he did speak about some of the things that his administration did for veterans. one of the biggest pieces of legislation that for veterans during the biden administration was the pact act. he spoke about how proud he was to get that passed. it was passed in 2022. and of course it expanded benefits and eligibility for veterans who had been exposed to toxic chemicals, things like burn pits, potentially tens of thousands of additional veterans are now eligible for care because of those exposures. and, chris, during that speech, he also spoke about his own son beau who deployed as a member of the delaware national guard to iraq. he died of brain cancer several years ago. and once again, president biden

linked his own son's cancer to toxic chemicals. he spoke about another controversial decision he made that impacted a lot of veterans during his time as presidential, that was the decision to withdraw from afghanistan. previous presidents had that option to do, so he was not going to leave that to a fifth president to make that decision. one thing we have heard throughout his time as president is how he carries around the number of service members who have been injured and killed in conflicts, and he pulled out a card during the speech today, and read off the numbers of injured and killed soldiers from iraq and afghanistan, and once again, as we've heard many times, he ended his speech by saying god bless our troops, chris. >> courtney kube, thank you. and coming up in 90 seconds, the u.n. climate summit is kicking off in new york as fires burn on both u.s. coasts. the numbers are shocking that we're already seeing about just how hot this year has been. en

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massachusetts. one new york volunteer who was 18 years old died battling this fire. the smokey conditions were mirrored across the country in southern california where the mountain fire has destroyed now more than 170 billions, and is just 36% contained after a week of suppression efforts. with me now, nbc's george solis in ringwood, new jersey. nbc's dana griffin is in camarillo, california, and nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with me in studio. george, i understand there was some rain in that area last night. did it help at all with these fires? >> reporter: to answer that question, take a listen to the leaves here. they are still bone dry out here. so while that rain did help give firefighters a little bit of a reprieve, not nearly enough to make an impact with the fire as we know mentioned, 2,500 acres on the new york side, 25 acres on the new jersey side.

it's 20% contained. they are looking forward to shifting winds to help them with the fire fright. as you look around here, it's a mountainous terrain. it is rocky. it's difficult for the machinery to get in there and build the containment lines. officials confident that they were able to save about 170 structures on the new york side. given that they were able to get some of those people to evacuate momentarily. nothing mandatory, and right now, the outlook is very good. a little early this afternoon, fire officials on the new york side held a briefing to give everyone a sense of how they are looking with this fire that is still raging, take a listen. >> resources have been running and gunning since saturday, when this thing really blew up. today gives us a little time to take a little breather but tomorrow the winds come back. again, don't create any new fires. don't create incidents. that's the best we can ask from the public. >> do you have enough men? >> we're thin right now. >> reporter: chris, these crews

are running ragged. as you heard there, they have been working nonstop. that's just on the new york city. here in new jersey, fire officials saying they have dealt with more than 537 wildfires since october. it's 500 more than the same period this time last year, and then on top of all of that, as you mentioned, they are mourning the loss of the 18-year-old who died trying to clear brush. a tree falling on him. there was a memorial today in his honor, compounding insult to injury as crews are working to get the upper hand on these fires. >> especially around new york city, they're not used to this. dana, they are used to it, unfortunately, in california. the mountain fire just exploded. what's the latest now? it seems like they're starting to get it under control. >> yeah, so no active flames. we just got an update from a pio. no active flames. the number of homes that have been destroyed. the number is going up. it has taken several days for

people to sift through and try to count the number of destroyed properties. i want to talk to you a little bit about what is a dirty burn. that is what we're seeing in neighborhoods like this behind me. you have a home right next door. looks fairly untouched, but then the home we're on now, the property here, it burned to the ground, and you're seeing a lot of this throughout the neighborhood. you've got several homes still standing. the family that evacuated on wednesday, they left with a seven-week-old baby. had just minutes to get out. in ten minutes, they started getting alerts that carbon mo -- monoxide in their homes. luckily the fire is urn control right now. when we talk about containment, 36% at this hour. that's the line around the burn zone to make sure nothing else is going to hop out and start a fire somewhere else. that's the concern for firefighters right now. you have the official santa ana

wind event expected next week. officials are trying to mop up areas that could be a problem zone. for the most part, there's no visible smoke in the area, which is a really great sign. but obviously this has caused a lot of trauma and confusion for the neighborhood. they had a community meeting last night. and they talked about some of the failures, even on the fire fighting side, but the one lucky thing that happened during all of this, there are 30,000 people that live in this fire zone, and no reported fatalities, and chris, and for firefighters, they are calling that a win. >> i was reading in the l.a. times about a woman who has lived in the same house for something like 50 years, and she said, just when she got the text message telling her to evacuate, she looked out her window and saw flames. she lost everything, but her neighbors have really rallied around her. it's unbelievable what those folks have been through. thank you so much for that, dana. >> bill. big picture, the european climate agency says we're on track to set a record for the hottest year.

we have this drought. break down the numbers for us. >> shouldn't come as a surprise. in the beginning of this year, we had a strong el nino, that's where the ocean waters are waterer than normal. you add in the induced climate change, this year the warmest. that's going to keep hang. more el ninos in the future decades, we keep breaking records, putting that blanket of carbon up there in the atmosphere. here's what we're also dealing with, the drought. this is the immediate. this is not the climate, this is actually what's happening now, and this rain event was not enough. you saw georgia crumpling the leaves up there. he's located outside of new york here. barely enough to wet the ground. the first significant rain since the end of september, and unfortunately, the air quality got really bad with all the fires this weekend. it's better now. no unhealthy areas left. the wind is picking up behind the rain, blowing and mixing things. the breezy conditions are good

for the air quality. as you heard the firefighters mentioning, they're getting worried again, going to dry out quickly. winds are gusty. they'll spread rapidly. the rain forecast over the next week, goose eggs in many areas of the northeast, maybe a sprinkle or two. new york down to d.c., and a little bit of rain in the ohio valley, so drought conditions are actually going to get worse. even though we had that little bit of rain. i expect this week, we'll see a spread of the drought conditions. middle of the country, dramatic improvement. a ton of rain over the last week. california and the west, we're waiting for our rainy season to begin. it had a little bit. you notice the rain in san francisco, sacramento, this won't make it into southern california, where the mountain fire is located. it's a start. firefighters take a deep breath. this is better now. we get the rain, the fire, huge storm tuesday into wednesday. on the west coast, things will see improvement. on the northeast, another week

of this, numerous brush fires forming and have to deal with the after effects. >> bill, thank you so much for that. and coming up, a shutdown show down already? why the first big confrontation of the new congress could already be brewing. we'll explain, next. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only only msnbc. reportc at wayfair! y'all it's a gift swap. you gotta swap your gifts. but this pillow is so me. yes, that's because you brought it. no no no. come on y'all! this is exactly what i was wishing for. perfect swap. my turn. what the fudge? now that's a holiday classic. just like you. you got a place for that? i've got something in mind. ♪ wayfair, every style, every home. ♪

democrats today holding their breath and trying to hold

on to hope that republicans won't have total control over the government. while the next senate will have a republican majority, control of the house is still undecided. 17 races yet to be called. nbc's sahil kapur reports from capitol hill. i also want to bring in former democratic congresswoman from maryland, donna edwards, and former republican congressman from florida, david jolly. both are msnbc political analysts. so sahil, where do things stand on control of congress at this hour? >> reporter: well, democrats will need something close to a miracle to pull off this house majority. it's not very likely at this point. it's remarkable. the election was six days ago, and we don't have a house majority. it's clear that the red wave that powered president-elect donald trump to a second term is not hitting the house battleground. so here is the state of play right now. republicans have clinched 213 seattles. they need 218. that's the magic number to get a majority. they'll need at least one more,

214. washington's fourth district pits two republicans against each other. democrats at this time have 205 seats, and as you mentioned, there are 17 races left to call. nine in the state of california, counting at a glacial pace. some republicans lead in others. clearly we have seen a situation where the two parties are trading seats. democrats have flipped a number of republican-held seats in most notably new york, where republicans have flipped several democratic seats in battleground states like michigan and pennsylvania. the likely scenario is republicans will once again have a narrow house majority. that means they'll have control of the house floor, subpoena power and control of all the committees, chairmanships, but they're not going to have many votes to spare, in order to pass president-elect trump's agenda. that's going to be a major test for the republican incumbents hanging on in biden/harris districts. in the senate, republicans have clinched the majority. the outstanding races are

pennsylvania, where dave mccormick leads, still ballots where bob casey has promised to challenge the ballots or make sure all of the ballots are counted before he concedes, and arizona, an open seat, vacated by kyrsten sinema. nbc has not called the race. more ballots coming in there. >> you know how fast congress can move when it wants to. i'm not talking about getting legislation done. i'm talking about the report that elise stefanik is going to be the ambassador to the united nations which means that her leadership position is open, and already there are reports that people are scrambling to take it. what happens on the hill in a situation like that? >> well, between now and january, when they get sworn in, both caucuses will have organizing sessions, and they'll elect or at least nominate their leaders that they intend to take to the floor of the house. interestingly, elise stefanik's

position is of confidence secretary. that is the number four position when they're in the majority. and the position largely has a history of elevating a republican woman. and so you're seeing republican women kind of begin to look at that seat. the intriguing thing about this is elise stefanik, once she is confirmed to be u.s. ambassador will vacate a seat that likely stays republican. she won handily this time. if republicans are wrestling with a two-seat majority, all of a sudden that gets smaller, and then the total wild card here is mike johnson, who barely got the speakership, and barely held on to it, and so many protests to the speakership early on. he has to go through the machine again. the presumption is he will succeed, but watch out, all bets are off when republicans are behind closed doors. >> the president has decided to appoint someone, congresswoman, to the u.n., who has never been a huge fan of the u.n. that aside, what are you going

to be watching as these final races unfold? >> i'm really looking what everyone's looking at, how narrow a majority it's going to be for either republicans or democrats. i think democrats are stealing themselves for being in the minority again. you know, there is a mathematical chance that they could pull it out. but it means that every vote will count. and i think that democrats have shown their ability to stay unified as a caucus, and republicans have not, and so you can expect on some of these issues that involve funding or debt ceiling or any of these itical issues that there could be some divisions that could be exploited by democrats over republican majority, and of course the contests that are going to take place at the committee level, particularly around government overnight and on the judiciary.

i expect that democrats, if they have the minority, they are going to really pursue their agenda and challenge the administration, and republicans are going to do the same when it comes to supporting the trump administration. so we're in for big fights no matter how this goes down, on virtually every single issue that's coming forward. >> david, the odds, obviously, as you point out, as we all know are against the democrats, if they do end up being in the minority. we saw the last time, right, that democrats put up a bit of a fight in the first trump administration. do you think that they have, i don't know, the energy and the organization under hakeem jeffries to do it again? >> they do. look, the last two years over kevin mccarthy and mike johnson's speakership and a slim republican majority was

disastrous. a whole host of governing, including keeping the domestic agencies open. that has been kicked now to december 20th. >> they didn't have total control like they did in january. >> i'm talking about the function of the house. the house couldn't report out bills in its own majority. you saw hakeem jeffries functionally lead the governing tradition of the house. do house republicans organize sufficiently to move their train along to the cincinnati, listen, 52 seats in the senate, if it goes to 53 is interesting. on legislation to repeal the individual mandate or obamacare or change the mandate of the fda or reform the department of education, all of a sudden republicans probably have the votes for donald trump and rfk jr.'s agenda to move that to the white house for signature. >> and then, congresswoman, here's not a shocker, congress is set to extend the government shutdown deadline into trump's

second term. why can't they ever get this done, number one? that's a rhetorical, do you think this could be a sticking point, a mess from the start? >> it could be very tricky for the trump administration. you have forces much more conservative forces within the republican party and certainly in the house of representatives that are going to want to do a slash and burn on federal spending, and i think that that is going to be a challenge for some who are in the caucus, maybe some of those who won very narrow races who are going to be looking in another 24 months to running for reelection. so this could be a real challenge for the administration, and i think as david said, just keeping the trains running, republicans don't have a great history on that, and i would expect that democrats are going to give them what for when it comes to doing

the basic mechanics of governing. >> how do you see this, sahil? >> well, chris, there's government funding, but there are also various other very important tasks that the next congress will have to tackle. there's a farm bill, punting for a long time. there's another debt ceiling deadline in the early middle of next year, and we know how little republicans like dealing with debt ceiling crises. there's also the trump tax cuts, which we'll have to decide whether to extend, whether to let some parts of it expire. more than $3 trillion in tax cuts expiring, and aca subsidies, a big portion expire next year, and insurance premiums coming up with premiums set for the next year, are republicans going to allow under their government health insurance premiums to go up? these are difficult questions, and we have seen how chaotic house republicans, they are going to have to own what that do and don't do. >> the bucket's going to stop there, and two of those are related. there are already conversations

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right now, tens of thousands of russian troops are massing an offensive. the two countries had what appears to be the most extensive change of drone attacks of the war, descending on moscow, on kyiv and beyond. it's unfolding, of course, as the world wonders what it will look like with the return of donald trump. the kremlin is denying a "washington post" report that trump and putin spoke last week. that report claimed that trump warned the russian leader not to escalate in ukraine. joining us now is nbc's meagan fitzgerald, and retired admiral, james stavridis, supreme allied commanders of nato, and msnbc chief international analyst. thank you, both. adding to all of this, russia has 10,000 north korean troops, potentially fighting alongside them. give us the latest update.

>> you know, according to ukrainian president zelenskyy, some 50,000 russian troops are amassed in the kursk region, inclusive of the north cree -- north korean troops. ukraine is preparing for that in the coming days here. and, you know, look, what we're going to see is russia, again, making an attempt to try and take back territory that ukraine sees during their counter offensive that we saw launched over the summer time. here's the thing, we understand that russia didn't need to restructure and shuffle troops that are fighting in the east, which is a primary focus for them, and take them to the kursk region. what we're seeing here is the ability for russia to launch these offensives, and these attacks on two different regions as they push forward to try and take back more land. >> thank you so much for that, meagan fitzgerald.

admiral, the latest moves, what do you see happening here? >> i'm particularly concerned about the addition of the north korean troops. so far it's about 10,000, chris. i think that number actually could grow significantly because kim jong un doesn't care about his troops. doesn't care about his economy. it's a one trick pony. his only export is combat capability. look for that number to grow. here's the good news, such as it is. it will be hard for the russians and the north koreans to operate together. they're not like nato, where all of those nations have been training and fighting together for decades, really. they've got language barriers, operational skill barriers, equipment barriers, communication barriers. it's not going to be seamless. certainly the addition of these north korean troops is very worrisome, that's what i'm watching most closely. >> they need them. i saw the uk defense minister

saying in the month of october, an average of 1,500 russian fighters died, were lost every single day. its costliest month for casualties. so, i mean, we know that the number of troops that were lost have been very very high, tough to get exact estimates, but the highest so far. >> yeah, let me just kind of do the numbers with you, and these are from very reliable sources that i'm cross fixing between the british, the americans, the ukrainians. almost without doubt. 200,000 young russian males killed, 400,000 grievously wounded and another 600,000 have left the country, chris. they have departed in order to avoid the draft, and oh, by the way, those are the smart one, internet savvy, who have some rubles, have contacts in the

west. huge brain drain for russia. put it all together, putin's probably lost a million young men. he's already got a significantly declining population. that's long-term a real problem for putin. what's he doing? your point, chris, he's trying to fill the gap with these north koreans. it's not a sign of russian strength. it's a sign of russian weakness. >> meantime, of course, you have the incoming president, donald trump, introducing this new level of uncertainty. i mean, really for both russia and ukraine. his son don jr. was taunting zelenskyy on social media about losing your allowance. the atlantic put it this way, helping ukraine is europe's job now. how do you believe president trump's return changes the calculations that every side is making right now? >> i think both sides are going to be thinking more about a negotiation. zelenskyy is thinking more about

a negotiation because he sees the skepticism from donald trump, j.d. vance, i guess from donny jr., though last time i checked, he doesn't make policy. all of that skepticism has to weigh on the ukrainians and push them towards negotiation. on putin's side, chris, it's what we discussed a moment ago, the huge manpower losses, the need to rely on north korea. those aren't long-term very good signs. i think as a trump team gets settled in early next year, there will be pressure on both sides to negotiate. >> and maybe vladimir putin wants to give trump what looks like a win, but how do you visualize a realistic peace deal that both sides could agree to? >> these, again, are decisions for ukrainians and russians, but i think how the balance of forces and influence possibly

could come out would be a scenario where tragically, but realistically, putin ends up in control of crimea and the four provinces of donbas. but the quid pro quo for ukraine would be 80% of ukraine, therefore, sales on, democratic, free, a path to nato membership, a path to eu membership, the fighting stops. you can see a scenario like the korean war, chris, where there's a kind of thin demilitarized zone, perhaps patrolled on one side by russia, the other side by ukraine with some nato troops, probably not u.s., but european nato troops. you could kind of see that deal. it will be a tough negotiation because both ukraine and russia will have some serious reservations on both sides about that plan. but that's what a negotiation is. it reflects the reality in the

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we have breaking news in a trial that captured the nation. the delphi murders, the jury coming back with a verdict on richard allen, wh was accused

of killing two teenage girls in 2017 who vanished when they went for a hike. what did the jury decide? walk us through this verdict. >> after seven years, richard allen was found guilty on all four murder charges. this all stems from those 2017 killings of abby williams and her friend lib by german. during the closing arguments, i want to go back to that. that's when prosecutors told jurors that allen, quote, slit their throats, and stole the youth and life away from abby and libby. now, prosecutors argued that this former cvs worker was bridge guy. for those following the case, that is based off of video that was captured on libby's cell phone the day he was killed. now, on saturday, this jury spent about five hours reviewing testimony and evidence, and some of the evidence that was presented included hearing richard allen in his own voice.

jailhouse recordings of him saying in a call to his wife, i killed abby and libby, his wife pushing back saying he didn't. in contrast, the defense tried to poke holes in the time line of the prosecution's time line, that is. the defense saying that allen was suffering from mental instability, saying that he was held in solitary confinement for 13 months, which they say played a role in the confessions at the time. they were really concerned about the state of allen's mental health, saying that he suffered from psychosis after he was held for so long. but today, this jury, after four days of deliberating, 17 days of testimony, and more than 60 witnesses, siding with the prosecution, finding richard allen guilty on all four charges. perhaps a bit of closure for

these two families who have waited seven years for answers. chris. >> adrienne broaddus, thank you for that. now to fema, the federal emergency management agency confirming an employee has been fired following back-to-back hurricanes in florida last month. officials tell nbc news that the employee instructed survivor assistance workers to not visit homes in florida that posted yard signs supporting donald trump. nbc's priscilla thompson has the very latest on that. what more can you tell us about this? >> yeah, chris, the fema administrator did not identify the employee who was terminated, but she did call this incident reprehensible, saying it does not represent the principles and values of the organization fema. and she went on to say, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at fema, and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis is also weighing here.

he's calling this incident, quote, blatant weaponization of government bipartisan activists. he has ordered the florida department of emergency management to investigate this incident saying the federal government, and he's calling it quote, the federal government's targeted discrimination of floridians who support donald trump. now, given that this employee has already been fired, it remains to be seen what exactly that investigation is going to yield, but of course all of this comes as residents in florida are still recovering from those two back-to-back storms. chris. >> priscilla thompson, thank you so much. classes are canceled today, and grief counselors are on the scene at tuskegee university. after a shooter killed one person and injured 16 others at a home coming party this weekend. alabama officials say they have a suspect in custody. nbc's priya sridhar is reporting on this for us. what are the charges he's facing, priya?

>> reporter: hey, chris, yeah, this all unfolded around 1:40 on sunday morning at what was supposed to be a home coming celebration. a historically black university 40 miles east of montgomery. there was a party there. eyewitnesss tell us there were about a thousand visitors and students gathered near a parking lot. there were vehicles blasting music and students and visitors were dancing and making tiktok videos when gunfire erupted. you can see social media videos showing students crouching down. one 18-year-old, latavion johnson was shot and killed. and 25-year-old, jaquez was found near the shooting with a gun turned into a machine gun, and he's now being charged with

possession of a machine gun. authorities also said they are not sure whether or not he actually used that weapon in this shooting. it's unclear at this point whether or not he was a student at this university or whether or not, like i said, that weapon was used in the shooting. we also don't know if there are other suspects. let's take a listen to what macon county sheriff had to say about the scene. >> i never want to see anything like that. we execute on campus, all day, all week. no indication of anything like this might happen. if you've seen some of the videos, there was shooting all over the place. i think there will be multiple suspects. we going to deal with it and try to get every last one of them. >> reporter: we also know that 16 additional people were injured. 12 of those from gunfire. now authorities are asking anyone who has information to bring it to them. in addition, they're looking for any sort of videos from the

scene to try to get a glimpse of what could have happened, chris. >> priya sridhar, thank you so much for that. just moments ago, we want to show you that president joe biden spoke in honor of veterans day in delaware. in event just near the pennsylvania borderer, and during the speech, the president thanked the crowd for dedicating a plaque to his late son beau who was a veteran. earlier, the president also spoke at arlington national cemetery. he was there to deliver brief remarks. here's a little bit of what he had to say there. >> this is the last time i will stand here at arlington as commander in chief. it's been the greatest honor of my life. to lead you, to serve you, to care for you, to defend your. just as you defended us. generation after generation after generation. >> the president also announced an expansion of health care services for veterans at

military bases with toxic burn pits. this is that, he says, that led to his son beau's death. that is going to do it for us this hour. make sure to join us for "chris jansing reports" every weekday 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. keep it right here, our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" next. ty tur reports" next.

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