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allies warn donald trump has a mandate and mission. the new names announced for top jobs and what they tell us about his plans for a second term. plus, a split ticket silver lining? democrats scoring some down ballot wins in places that kamala harris lost. are there lessons for the party going forward? and terrifying moments after planes are struck by gunfire over haiti. three u.s. airlines suspending flights as we get a look at the damage including bullet holes inside a passenger cabinet, our tom costello is tracking it all. if there is a unifying team from donald trump's unfolding administration, it's been clearly stated by his border czar. get the hell out of the way. it's kind of a rallying cry coined by tom hohman. >> i have heard them say they are going to stand in the way. they will make it hard for us. a suggestion, if you are not going to help us, get out of

the way. we are going to do our job with you or without you. >> it is both a warning and a statement of fact that will resonate far beyond the border. trump is a man with a mandate determined to pull off what he promised. shut down wars, gut climate regulations. to do it he is choosing loyalists who will not thwart him like disloyal staffers did. four sources confirmed to nbc news that kristi noem is his pick. customs, border, secret service. another of trump's staunchest allies senator marco rubio is expected to be the next secretary of state. for trump, there may be one variable to all of this. his legacy. will his desire to be seen by

history as a great president provide an opening for moderation? nbc's vaughn hillyard is in palm beach. ken dilanian joins us from washington. tim miller is host of the bull podcast. with me in studio. new york times reporter jeremy peters. good to have all of you. vaughn, so what do these choices tell us about donald trump's mindset and how he is moving through this process? >> it tells us he was willing to name his top diplomat as somebody who just years ago was highly critical of him. and the type of leadership that he represented. i'll leave it to jeremy to rehash his march of 2016 interview with marco rubio at the time. one i referred back to on the news he would be the intended pick of secretary of state.

at one point it was marco rubio highly critical of donald trump's leadership. we saw the one hawkish senator on iran, chain, cuba take a softer approach. it was more representative of the trump foreign policy agenda the last two years. one that led him from in 2018, being highly critical of the trump administration's decision to remove u.s. troops out of syria. openly critical of the trump administration's decision to hear over the course of the last year, suggesting the way to end russia's war in ukraine is to come up with a settlement agreement. that could potentially seed some ukrainian land to russia. in the two's relationship, we have seen somebody in marco rubio who with every passing

year has become increasingly critical of his democratic opponents calling joe biden demented last year. somebody who has gained the trust and respect of donald trump. and at the same time, who has the bona fide reputation of somebody who will reliably be a defender of nato and u.s. alliances with our allies. and somebody compared to the likes of rick ranell, a isolationist and critical of u.s.' allies. somebody they believe will represent the basic tenants of what the u.s. has long proclaimed itself in its own role in these alliances and on the global stage. >> he is right about that. i know you talked to marco rubio. jeremy, seems to me there's two ways looking early on how to

get into this administration. one is to just be an out and out loyalist. the other is to see the error of your ways and become an out and out loyalists. >> right, or completely capitulate to the reality that in order to advance your own career, you have to do what donald trump wants you to do. and vaughn is exactly right. i sat with marco rubio days before his campaign ended in 2016. i interviewed him in florida, their shared state. rubio said most countries around the world that are failures are failures because they deposit their hopes in a person. a strong leader who comes forward and says put me in power. that is exactly what he is doing. the rhetoric reminds me of third world strong men. that was marco rubio in 2016. and i vividly remember conducting this interview with

him. he was practically vibrating with indignation. that's how strongly he felt donald trump would be a disaster as u.s. president. >> i covered a few of his rallies. the other, he was a good speaker. but, nothing he said was going to convince a lot of those people not to back donald trump. very few people had heard of kristi noem until the controversy of her shooting her dog. she joins h list of loyalist hard liners. all of them have been very clear about wanting to lead a push against illegal migrants. talk about her and what she brings to this mix. >> it is a lot clearer on the immigration space what will be

happening in this administration than the foreign policy. rubio is not naturally aligned with maga. everybody that has been appointed around immigration roles is fully on board with the donald trump deportation agenda. stephen miller. tom hohman. and to get a sense for how hard line he is, sean hannity was trying to talk him down saying there might be more humane ways to do this. kristi noem did accept afghanistan refugees. a little criticism from the maga side. but has indicated there will not be much daylight between her and donald trump when it comes to the border issues so while it is kind of. it remains to be seen, this is

one where they will do what they said they were going to do on the campaign and the personnel is aligned with it mark peoleta was on fox new this morning and here is what he has to say about about possible changes in the department of justice. >> only in the federal government with a deep swamp do career employees think they get to run the joint, as it were. president trump was reelected with an overwhelming majority of an agenda by the american people popularly supported so deporting millions of illegal alien out of this country. securing the border, banning dei. all that destructive stuff that the biden administration let run wild. getting boys out of girls' sports. those are the things the department of justice are going to work on and the department of justice employees, career

employees, are going to support and if they don't want to support it they should leave. >> i want to add to that. rfk jr. said donald trump could or should replace some of the 600 people at the national institutes of health on day one. let me understate the question. does this have the potential when you listen to him, when you listen to rfk jr. , to be a transition unlike anything we have ever seen in modern history? or is that an exaggeration? >> i think it has the potential to be. that's the keyword. and we'll have to see how much they have the stomach for where they want to put their focus. some of that stuff could be bluster. what is the department of justice's role in random youth sports leagues and who is allowed in and who is not? that is not a small government

conservative view. that is not sending things back to the states. that is a very draconian view of the expansiveness of the federal government. is that in plans or just bluster from a guy on fox news trying to audition for a job? i think a lot of that remains to be seen. they plan to restructure the federal government and i think they will be career employees that survived the first trump administration that will be on the chopping block this time as they try to reorient that. to have more control over the various agencies. and that might happen more acutely in certain areas than in others depending on where the the attention is. >> let's not talk about just the comings but the going. you have new reports on the fbi director chris wray preparing for an exit years before his term is due to end.

what's going on there? >> more shattering of norms. the fbi director would be independent and serve a ten year term. no one has fired an fbi director. donald trump fired the first one. hired chris wray. a republican. and now, appears poised to replace him. we are getting reporting from both camps suggesting wray is prepare to be replaced and trump intends to replace him. look, few agencies in the government trump has been more critical of the last four years than the fbi after they raided his home in the classifiedment dos case. he has not aimed a lot of personal vitriol at chris wray in particular. but it really does seem like it is headed in the direction of wray leaving before his term expires and the names we have heard to replace him run the gamut from chilling to normal. so kash patel, a total maga

bomb thrower person who has argued there are corrupt people in the fbi who need to be prosecuted and mike rogers, a much more mainstream person who rand for the senate. a former fbi agent. so depending on who get that's job will tells that job will tell us about that. >> we want to talk about kash patel. a lot of people may have not heard about him. about the role donald trump wanted him to play. according to former deputy national security adviser charles, has as a political executioner who would root out people who are not as loyal as they should be. what are the consequences of giving someone like that the reins of an entire u.s. intelligence agency? >> that would require senate

confirmation. it is not impossible. we have seen republicans go back. commenting these fights saying they won't confirm somebody as out there as this. and they have. so, how kash patel may have a role in the administration confirmed or not, it would show you how many of the guardrails that were around president trump in from the 2017 to 2021 period have fallen off. kash patel was only prevented from doing what he wanted to do. imposing what were effectively loyalty oaths on staff. there were people like the president's former counsel around to say wait a second. this is not ad good idea. it may not be legal. and it would be terrible for

morale and probably unenforceable. i don't know if there will be that many people around in a second trump administration empowering people who really are there to do what they think the president wants them to do. >> so, on the other end of the spectrum, tim, let me ask you about the theory out there that i posited at the top of the show, whether trump's legacy could essentially help to moderate. susie wiles has been known to be a more mainstream factor. do you think legacy matters to him? that could have some impact on the decisions he makes or instructs other people to do? >> i don't know if legacy is the word i would use, but i do think that as strange as this might seem, the elite opinion

matters to donald trump. getting accept cannes. having people bend to his will. so we'll know more in a month. we'll see how much this matters to donald trump. but the rubio thing is an example. you might see wall street guys, businessmen get appointed to the administration for the run trump wants the people that he was the elite in manhattan. when he was the guy from the boroughs. he wanted their acceptance. he wanted them to praise him. now, to have them sitting around that table, you remember those cabinet meetings from the first time calling him sir, saying great job. right? i think his ego cares about all that. so i don't know whether he has the long term view to really think about legacy that much. but i think his ego might in some ways shield from some of the worst possible choices that he could make. >> i will put you in an impossible position. but in the 30 seconds we have

left, how proud he was of the four star generals who came to work in his administration. and in the end, he loved having them around. he loved saying look, you know how smart they are. how accomplished they are. but is not exactly bffs with them now. >> right. i remember back in cincinnati, ohio, he touted his selection of mad dog mattis who would oversee his military. it didn't take too long before mattis left and said before the 2020 election he was somebody who was trying to divide and not unite the united states of america. he had never seen the president of the united states operate that way. the question for all of these guys, is just how long do they foresee themselves in these roles because donald trump

doesn't have a strong history of keeping folks around and better yet, for some of us considering going into positions, we saw eric schmidt. he has four more years as a u.s. senator. so if he had gone through and taken the job of being attorney general, you know, how long would that job have lasted under the pressures of the trump white house? not clear. >> vaughn hillyard, ken dilanian, guys, thank you. in 90 seconds why a major ruling on the fate of donald trump's hush money conviction has just been delayed. plus, the big legal loss for his former chief of staff. next. f staff. next.

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sentencing as a future president because the same constitutional concerns that would animate for example prosecuting a sitting president, those apply when you are sentencing somebody who is about to be president. according to them. they say his time right now need to be absorbed by planning for his presidency. and you have the da's office saying look. there are conflicting values for us. we want to uphold the jury's verdict. we believe in that verdict. and we believe that it was reached with a presumption of regularity. on the other hand, the office of the president presents special constitutional concerns. >> i want to play what the da said after donald trump's guilty verdict. >> while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors by

following the facts and the law and doing so without fear or favor. >> there is so much involved in this. thousands and thousands of hours. the amount of stress that comes from prosecuting a case against someone like donald trump. there is no one like donald trump in terms of a defendant in his fame and notoriety. >> there is no play book for it. so they are trying to figure it out themselves like the defense lawyers and all of us are trying to i don't think anyone has any magic actions with advice on how to handle it. what the da's office will try to do is maintain the conviction in a way that can preserve it. preserve it against a clear onslaught of appellate review. look, trump is going to go to

the second circuit, the federal court now to try to get the federal courts to review it. that is his way up to the supreme court. which can review this on a number of constitutional grounds. so he will try to get this in frontover the justices on the supreme court as quickly as he can. what the da's office wants to try to do is preserve the conviction. a lot of work went into it. he was convicted and the fact is that the reelection of donald trump as president does not implicate any of the legal issues that underpin this conviction. the conviction stands on its own. it has little to do with the fact he was reelected as president. so they will try to thread that needle to make sure that it withstanding appellate review now that he has been reelected. >> so while trump's cases are in limbo, the supreme court rejected former trump white house chief of staff mark meadows' request to move his

georgia election interference case to federal court. what was dehind that decision? >> literally the decision is a one line rejection of his petition to the supreme court. what mark meadows wanted was to move that to federal court. in particular, he wanted to defend himself under, he wanted to say he was immune from prosecution as basically, as close to the president as you could get. rub off on him the way you could rub aladdin's lamp. he should have been immune too because he was involved in the same decision making. i don't know that would get any better adhering at a federal court than the state court. it consumed a lot of time. and that might have been the

ultimate victory. he has a lot more sway over the federal courts. he has a stronger argument to make that he is sort of in the fold of the presidency again. the argument will get a little bit stronger but this is something where i think it is a long shot to say the least. >> all right. duncan, it is great to have you here. it has been a bit. lisa, i see you in the hallways but it's good to see you as well. thank you. coming up u.s. flights hit by gunfire over haiti. the dramatic images of the aftermath and what the major airlines are doing about it. rl. embarassing, difficult to talk about, and could be peyronie's disease or pd, a real medical condition that urologists can diagnose and have been treating for more than 8 years with xiaflex®, the only fda-approved nonsurgical treatment

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we now have it officially confirmed from the trump vance transition, a statement from the president-elect. that congressman mike waltz, a republican from florida, will be a member of his cabinet as national security adviser. it includes something of a biography. he was an army special forces colonel. in the armed forces 27 years, deployed in combat. the biography calls him an expert on the threats posed by china, russia, iran, and global terrorism. he is a senior member of the house armed services committee and foreign affairs committee

as well as the permanent select committee on intelligence. a couple of notable things we should say about this announcement, we were talking about how much donald trump has shown he likes to surround himself with associate with people of a certain level of success. he includes in this biography credentials in foreign policy. mike has been a strong champion of my america first foreign policy agenda, writes donald trump. and will be a tremendous champion in our pursuit of peace through strength. it is official what we have confirmed that congressman mike waltz will be donald trump's national security adviser. meantime, at least three u.s. airlines have suspended flights to haiti after two planes were hit by gunfire from gangs that have overrun the capitol of port-au-prince. look at these images. bullet holes that tore through the cabin of a spirit airlines

flight. nbc's tom costello is reporting. so what do we know? >> it was inbound from fort lauderdale. some of the bullets pierced into the cabin. thankfully, nobody hit. though one flight attendant suffered a minor injury. we had a second case of a jet blue flight leaving port-au- prince hit by gunfire as it took off. headed for jfk airport. we don't think the pilots knew about the gunfire. but once on the ground, they checked the plane and found a bullet hole. the bottom line, jet blue, american, and spirit have canceled flights into port-au- prince an the faa tells us it is considering banning flights

into port-au-prince. at the moment it is almost a moot point because the airport is closed. >> it was normal until there was a loud bang, crash sound. >> i could hear three distinct crack, crack, crack over the back of the plane. >> as you know, haiti has been racked by gang violence for years, about 80% of the capital is controlled by gangs. there is a kenyan led international police force on the ground trying to bring stability but it has not had much success. they are completely out gunned by these gangs and there is a lot of discussion about increasing their numbers turning into a u.n. funded

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in a divided country, look no further than the unfolding bigger picture of election day results. yes. it was a resounding win for donald trump but democrats are showing strength in stats where trump won. ruben gallego became arizona's first latino senator who appealed to voters who supported trump at the top of the ticket. >> for the republicans, thank you so much. and again, we are not going to, they took a chance on me, we are not going to agree all the time. and i am going to always seek the imput and we are going to find middle ground where we can. but at the core i will always defend the constitution of the united states. >> his win flips a red seat

blue. and democrats won senate seats, too, wisconsin, nevada, michigan, a governor's race in north carolina. even in pennsylvania where trump won, democrat bob casey is keeping it much closer. a signal that democrats can find a formula that defies trump's popularity. nbc's allie is on capitol hill. good to see you both. if we can believe it, it is one week out from the election. congress is coming back. with control of the house still a long shot for democrats, are you hearing any kind of formal post mortem going on that looks ahead to 2026 before 2024 is settled? are they going to take the wins as they come in, or are folks in devastation and finger pointing phase of grief? >> i think people are out of that initial phase of grief. and into the looking for bright spots phase.

it is apt you have former congressman crowley here. new york is one of the few bright spots for them. if you think two years ago, they really faced a walloping in that state from republicans in competitive districts. that is how republicans won the mayorty two years ago, now you see democrats regaining back some of that ground. flipping three seats in the state of new york and putting themselves in a position where the margins are not overly in republican's favor. as we are looking at this race still coming in, 206 to 2015. i have had several senior democrats say to me having more than 200 seats, that being able to bring back the majority of their incumbents in competitive districts is a bright spot for house democrats. is this is way that wayn'ted it to go? no, but tame, they feel buoyed that they can make a consistent

stand as the minority party and use the tight margins to their advantages. we have seen the way democrats step in when republicans own conferences have become unruly. that could be another story as we head into this next congress. the other piece of this on the senate side, i'm fascinated by the ways in which one senior cr said to me this was a trump wave, but not necessarily a republican wave. you can make that case in new york, but you could also make that case on the senate map you showed earlier, in nevada, michigan, wisconsin, and arizona, democratic senators were able to come out on top. either keeping their seats or winning them anew despite the fact trump overall in that state. that is a story democrats will be eager to replicate and tell. >> so let's talk about new york. six years ago, you ran against alexandria ocasio-cortez in your district. she held it. though so not one of the three

that were flipped. but she is an unapologetic liberal. she goes on instagram and asked folks who voted for trump but also voted for her, why. and we picked a couple of the answers. one voter said it is real simple. trump and you care for the working class. another one wrote i felt both trump and you are real. again, just a couple of many examples. but what do you take away from that? is it authenticity? with trump voters is that one of the lessons? and what do you see hope for 26? >> i do think that both aoc and trump are disrupters in many respects. outliers to some degree. i think people kind of like the

showmanship of trump. and so i think that those answers, maybe those questions really should be posed in those states unlike a safe democratic district like the 14th in new york where alexandria ocasio- cortez is the congresswoman should we ask the states like michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, arizona. the states where you saw trump win, but you saw democratic senators win or north carolina, stein in the governor's race. where trump won the state of north carolina. ask folks in those states as to why they split their tickets. that is even more warranted. >> the democratic governor of kentucky andy beshear has an op ed. he says earning trust and showing people you care about them requires we talk to people like normal human beings and we are not afraid to share our why. my why is my faith and i share it proudly. i vetoed anti-lgbtq legislation

last year because i believe all children are children of god. and whether people agree with my decision, they know why i'm making it. i wonder if that is an oversimplification or if you are one of the folks out there. i heard this when i was on the trail. i heard from people. i don't think we are as divided as we say we are. i want to be able to have a conversation with people who are running for office. i want to be friends with my neighbor even if we vote in a different way. >> i do think the harris walz team were pummeled in states in the competitive issues on transgender rights. and, i think that had an effect. i think in many respects. people respect the need for

people to address issues. i think there are ways in which democrats should have been talking about this. i think also that vice president harris took a real turn in 2019 before she ran for president in 2020 to the left. after my loss and i think after the creation of a more left wing within the democratic caucus. myself and mike capuono who lost up in boston. that came back to bite a bit. it was hard to take those positions in 2019 and not have them used against you in 2024. >> thank you both. president-elect trump tapped who he will use as u.s. ambassador to israel at a critical time in the middle east. we'll have that next. . we'll have that next.

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bring about peace in the middle east. we have monica here. aaron, i did a quick google search of mike huckabee and israel. i covered the governor. i probably interviewed him the first time decades ago when he actually was governor. he has been going to israel more than 50 years. he has called for the eradication of hamas and was with a group of evangelical leaders after the war started. he called what he called in a gaza border town a butt punch and led a tour group for senior adults out of florida. he has been there quite a bit. he obviously has some experience as a former governor. i wonder what you make of this

news. >> it's an intriguing choice. i would huckabee's strong ties to evangelical community, loyal to trump, amplifies strong views to israel. it is consistent with many of his other choices. he has chosen a former u.s. senator, former house member. and hoe how he has gone to the republican political establishment in reflecting trump's strong commitment in the israelis will be exceedingly pleased with the choices and the election. and mr. trump's security point. >> white evangelical christians have been some of the biggest

supporters of israel. earlier today, president biden met with israel's president at the white house. what can you tell us about their conversation? >> yeah. just to add to what you were discussing there, chris, it is notable that this announcement is coming when it is just a week after election day and when the trump transition team is rolling out the other major positions like the potential treasury secretary or who will be in charge at the pentagon. the fact you see the ambassador of israel today is an important sign of the importance they are placing on the post. at the white house, there is a significant relationship between the president and the leader of israel. and yes, prime minister netanyahu is somebody who has more of the political capital when it comes to decisions in israel and president herzog you are seeing on screen alongside president biden has more of a ceremonial role. but they spoke about the difficult issues that remain in

israel when it comes to the conflict with lebanon and the war in gaza. the hostages that are still being held by hamas and both leaders committed to trying to do everything possible on those fronts. here is more of what they had to say to each other a short time ago. >> mr. president, welcome back to the oval office and the white house. you have been a friend for a long time. a personal friend. and you know my commitment to israel is ironclad and we share a deep friendship. i said you don't have to be a jew to be a zionist. >> clearly a zionist mr. president. >> they didn't take any questions from the press there. but we should also note that the families of hostages being held in gaza. american relatives were here at the white house for a meeting with national security adviser jake sullivan to get an update hoping to have any possible outcome on a cease fire deal

that would see them be released and come home. >> let me go back to mike huckabee. there are many different roles that ambassadors play in the world. some people might call cushy jobs that have in beautiful places with beautiful places to stay. and then there are more challenging places where actual the hard work of diplomacy gets done. what is the role of a u.s. ambassador to israel and what will be the challenges for mike huckabee? >> i was thinking the last career appointment of, you have to go back to the bill clinton, george w. bush administration. the last two ambassadors, former secretary of the treasury and the deputy secretary of state were both political appointees but they

also embodied individuals who actually had experience in government and knew their way around the middle east. in huckabee's case, this is a political point. i think the role of huckabee will depend on how donald trump wants to use him. where have been instances where they have to learn from israeli officials what the policy of the u.s. government is because the president they are delivering messages through other emissaries. there may be others who may be used by the presidents in the national security adviser to open separate channels with the administration. that could be quite embarrassing for a sitting u.s.

ambassador to have to learn from an israeli official what the policies of his own government are. so i'm not sure whether or not that will play out in the trump administration. but the overall test here is reliability, consistency and loyalty to donald trump. >> and he is very well known. a frequent commenter on knox fews and his daughter is the sitting governor of arkansas. monica and aaron, on this breaking news, thank you both very much. and still ahead, women denied abortions in idaho take the stand as they sue the state over its strict laws. the emotional testimony we have heard so far ahead. far ahead. honey... but the gains are pumping! the market's closed. futures don't sleep in the after hours, bro. dad, is mommy a “finance bro?” she switched careers to make money for your weddings. ooh! penny stocks are blowing up. sweetie, grab your piggy bank, we're going all in. let me ask you. for your wedding, do you want a gazebo and a river? uh, i don't...

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