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betting process. with new reporting on allegations of sexual assault against pete hegseth his. ik to head the pentagon. we go inside the scramble for protect blue cities and states from a trump-proofing takeover. it's a tug of war between those eager to fulfill trump's promises and those who are determined to resist them. i'm melissa murray in for ayman mohyeldin, let's do it. we come on the air tonight, we have a very clear view of what donald trump will do when he is sworn in to office in just 63 days, including who he wants by his side in the oval office. he has been making these cabinet level picks so quickly and so controversial that even "saturday night live" had to have a go at it. take a look. >> wait.

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he said it was consensual and not sexual assault. it comes a day after "the washington post" first reported a memo detailing the alleged encounter was sent to the trump transition team this week who said she is a friend of the accuser. but it goes beyond this allegation. here is what hegseth recently said on a podcast about women serving in combat roles in the u.s. military. >> i think a huge one is women in combat and quotas. i think the way they pushed that under obama in a way that had nothing, zero to do with acy efficacy. >> you don't like women in combat? >> no. >> here is what democratic senator-elect melissa slotkin of michigan had to say about that. slotkin is a former cia and department of defense official. listen in.

>> i was at the pentagon on thursday and there is absolute, like, hallway constant chatter and concern from senior women officers but i've heard from folks i've recommended to service academies, young women starting their career saying will i be able to accomplish what i want to accomplish here? i don't think it's an understatement that there is real stress in the force right now. >> there is also new fallout over trump's pick for attorney general, former florida congressman matt gaetz and the ethics committee involving allegations of sexual assault by matt gaetz. today whether the report should be made public or if he had spoken to trump about it, house speaker mike johnson had this to say. >> no, he did not. the president and i have literally not discussed one word about the ethics report not once. i didn't even know it until the middle of this week when it was

announced in the press. what i have said with regard to the report it should not come out. why? because matt gaetz resigned from congress. he is no longer a member. there is a very important protocol and tradition and rule that we maintain that the house ethics committee's jurisdiction does not extend to nonmembers of congress. i think that would be a pandora's box. >> to hold the report is met with opposition from other republicans. here is what senator rubin of oklahoma had to say on nbc's "meet the press." >> should the house ethics committee release that report, senator? >> absolutely. and i believe the senate should have access to that. now should it be released to the public or not? i guess that will be a part of the negotiations but that should be definitely part of our decision making. >> amid all of this backslash, speaker mike johnson spoke on

fox news today. here he is. >> we will evaluate all of that at the appropriate time and we will make the appropriate decision. there may be a function for that and we will have to see how it plays out. >> nbc news correspondent julie more on this. >> >> reporter: there are new allegations tonight concerning donald trump's most high profile cabinet picks and talking about pete hegseth and trump tapped a couple of days ago. his intention is nominate him to lead the pentagon to serve as the secretary of defense. this is the largest federal agency with the largest budget of any, a very critical post at a critical time. the allegation being confirmed by hegseth's attorney who does say that he paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault and had her sign a nondisclosure agreement back in 2020. this woman saying that the

assault happened back in 2017. "the washington post" reporting that a memo was given to the trump transition team detailing allegedly what happened that day in a hotel in california. again, hegseth's lawyer describing hegseth as completely innocent, saying that the alleged assault is, quote, a consensual encounter and, also, largely blaming the woman. he offered a different explanation for what happened. he said that, quote, this woman is trying to squeeze mr. hegseth for money and needed to come up with, quote, a lie to explain why she had not come back to her husband's room that night. now nbc news is out for more on this, of course, but this is just one of several controversial picks that trump has announced so far. the biggest one that is maybe overshadowed the rest like tulsi gabbard and even rfk jr. is, of course, matt gaetz who we have been talking about all day and all week. he was supposed to have a report come out against him from the house ethics committee who was set to meet on friday of this

past week to decide whether to release a report that culminated a multi-year investigation into alleged sexual misconduct and allegedly drug use. that investigate began when the department of justice ended their investigation into gaetz and ultimately decided not to charge him but not clearing him of any potential sex trafficking allegations. this is relevant because that is the exact agency that gaetz was tapped to lead. now there is bipartisan concern and bipartisan consternation. i had new reporting sources telling me that privately at least nearly 30 senate republicans are saying that gaetz is unqualified, that he will not make it through the confirmation process which is going to be grueling and involved several background checks and a lot of information that could come to light. they also want to see that report come out from the house ethics committee. the only problem is that house speaker mike johnson said he will strongly recommend against it, doubling down on that today saying that the senate doesn't need to see that report in order

to continue in their vetting process of mr. gaetz. that as senate republicans, especially on the senate judiciary committee, want to see that report, want all of the facts to come to light as they are scrutinizing this pick to head the department of justice. >> thank you for that report. joining me is melanie stansbury of new mexico. congresswoman, welcome. you've outspoken about these cabinet selections and a lot to unpack about gaetz and hegseth alone. what is your general reaction to these two men in the broader landscape of unorthodoxed cabinet selections? >> thank you for having me on. obviously the trump campaign promised a shock in awe campaign when he was the nominee. here we are. i think every single day and on the hour sometimes we are shocked and awed by the folks

they are not nominating. i think one thing we have to ask ourselves does it really surprise us that somebody who is an adjudicated sexual predator himself is nominating two men of the two most important cabinet positions that are also cued of that. it is clearly he is choosing loyalists who will do histories bidding and promised they would purge the ferguson of those not loyal to donald trump and that they would not maintain the status quo and that is, obviously, what we are seeing. i think it's important that we really identify how dangerous these picks. matt gaetz is not qualified to be a.g. and hegseth should not be near the department of defense. two days ago they announced they are starting to draw up names of senior leadership that are in the department of defense who are involved in afghanistan and we believe this is, in part, to try to purge senior officials that would stop donald trump from using the military for his purposes. so these are not just shocking

but dangerous picks for these cabinet positions. >> let's go further on this question of danger. these cabinet picks have come quickly and much more quickly than when donald trump won in 2016. this new reporting suggests that the trump transition team has bypassed the standard vetting protocols including the background checks on some of these picks. are you worried about the national security because so many corners seemed to have been cut with the process of vetting and investigating these nominees? >> absolutely. that is part of why donald trump is trying to get recess appointments. what he is essentially trying to do is to rewrite the checks and balances that congress has on the executive branch which is exactly what they did with the supreme court. he sacked the supreme court with folks that shared his point of view and in their final ruling of this session, gave him unlimited executive power. he is now trying to put political pressure on the senate

to basically give a green light to anyone who he wants to put in, whether they are qualified or dangerous so they can go in and perjury -- purge the ferguson and carry out his agenda. i think he is absolutely pressure testing the system to see what he can achieve. >> that pressure testing may be especially in the case of matt gaetz. many of your colleagues in the senate mentioned they would oppose gaetz's nomination to the attorney general and still the lingering question of this ethics committee report that your colleagues in the house have undertaken. what do you make of speaker johnson's proposal to withhold that report, given that matt gaetz is no longer of congress and they don't have jurisdiction over him? do you think the public has a right to see as well? >> absolutely. it's very clear that on a bipartisan basis, the recommendation was going to be to release the report. it is not an accident that he was nominated two days before that vote was taken.

and that he stepped down so that they could make the argument. now it's important to understand that mike johnson is onald trump's guy on the inside and he was made the speaker and anointed the speaker by donald trump and if you saw last night in the madison square garden ufc fight, he was standing right behind our next president pointing at him and cheering him on right before he went on those morning shows this morning. so this is all a very coordinated effort. there is no longer any guardrails going on and, unfortunately, with mike johnson likely to be our next speaker of the house, i think we are going to continue to see more of this kind of collision. >> congresswoman melanie stansbury, thank you for joining us. coming up the mad dash for trump to cities and states before he takes office. all of that and more is up next. all of that and more is up next. that is taken once every 8 weeks.

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one of the key aspects of the job of a state attorney general is challenging a president's policies if those policies are -- your constituents. when president is promising cracking down on protester this comes a requirement. donald trump returning to the white house, state attorneys generals and governors and mayors and local officials are working to trump proof their states. they have a key advantage in this is that they have done it before. there is actually a playbook for resistance to donald trump. but a key disadvantage is the fact that donald trump has done this before, too. he has not only learned from his first term mistakes he is more emboldening now.

the biggest fight could be trump's day one plan for the largest mass deportation in history. democratic governors are vowing to fight trump's plan to round of millions of undocumented immigrants. the big question tonight, are they prepared? this isn't just about immigration policy. are they prepared to fight back if the new administration rolls back environmental regulations or protections for reproductive rights or attempts to use the federal government to quash protests? trump's first administration was defined in part by protests and resistance including the women's march the march for our lives and black lives matters and immigration rights protests and against the so-called muslim ban. "the new york times" is reporting that marching in the streets doesn't seem to be part of the early preparation to resist trump 2.0. so with just 63 days until donald trump is back in the oval office, should it be? joining me to discuss all of this is brad lander, the new

york city comptroller and a democratic councilmember in los angeles. your office put out a competitive report that the threats of the donald trump administration could pose to economies and infrastructure and their people. what is your biggest concern right now and what are you doing to prepare new york city for it? >> as you say, the biggest short-term concern is what if there are mass deportations, including we got 60,000 asylum seekers in city shelters but we shouldn't forget in the long run there is billions of dollars that the federal government uses to fund our public hospitals, our public schools, our housing, and we are afraid that will get weaponized, too. they will say you won't get your school lunch money until you throw your lgbtq students under the bus and no money for the public hospitals until they stop providing abortions so we have

to be clear on the ways we protect our people. >> you've been involved with immigration issues and both of your parents came to the united states as undocument grants from mexico. how is los angeles and california preparing for the trump second term and the threat of mass deportations? are you similar concerned? >> i think there is a lot of concern and a lot of fear in our communities but, as you said earlier, we have done this before, we have been here before. luckily, in california, we have just a great infrastructure of a lot of nonprofits that know and are trusted by the community and we know how to fight back and we know how to win. one of the gislation we pass this week make los angeles a city where we do not coordinate are ice and protect them no matter what their status is so we will be ready when the time

comes. >> in this election cycle, republicans made enormous gains in big cities democratic cities in fact, throughout the country. this election was, obviously, referendum in favor of donald trump but was also it a referendum on the prospect of democratic governance in these large cities where many individuals worry that they are spending lots on taxes and not getting the kinds of services that they want? if that is the case, what are large cities like new york and los angeles going to do to respond to an electorate drifting to the right? >> voters are pissed that housing is not affordable and we are not doing enough to build housing and keep it affordable for tenants. they don't feel safe in their neighborhood. they see folks sleeping on the streets. i think democratic leaders in new york city and los angeles, all around the country, we have got to wake up and deliver on the bread and butter issues that matter to people to make sure the jobs they have cover the

cost of living and our answer to donald trump has to be both to protect people from all of the harms he is going to cause and we have got to show up better to deliver safer and more affordable more livable and better-run cities. >> councilmember martinez, california saw a drift to the white in the central valley not too far from los angeles. are you also worried about the prospect of a deepening red electorate in the golden state and what it means where there is citizen outcry over the homeless issue in those cities? how do you plan to respond? >> i think the concerns are valid and housing is very expensive. inflation has been high. i think in los angeles we are giving folks a vision how to get out of that and raise the minimum wage for tourism workers and we are building housing that

is not profit-driven. luckily, the voters in los angeles, you know, they heard that message and they voted to pass measure a which we know is going to put more money into building affordable housing and mental health services and making that infrastructure robust. i think if we can understand the frustration and anger on the grassroots level and give the correct vision and path forward, people will be on our side as they have shown many times in the city of los angeles. >> another big question in this election was the role of the media and the rise of nontraditional media outlets like podcasts and what not. what hasn't really been mentioned is the fact that local newspapers and local news media have fallen off the page in recent years. how does the fact that we are seeing a diminution in local news coverage, how is that contributing to the rise of disinformation and how does it affect the way that large cities like new york and los angeles do their business? >> i think we have seen as a

result a real nationalization of local politics. if people don't have good news courses how will they be connected to local politics? so, yeah, this has to be more a part of our politics. one thing we did with the new york city pension fund, we try to make sure it shows up on the side of safety and security of those workers who it represents so we sued fox news for losing $780 million of lying about the election. we have to bring integrity back to the media and the local level is a critical place to start. >> councilmember martinez, california is in the throes of a major affordable housing crisis and republicans are looking to cut off funding and undermine the housing. what impact will that have on

the city of los angeles and how will l.a. respond to those threats? >> it would have catastrophic effects. gnome to los angeles but the entire country and hurt working class people and the million of people who voted for him in l.a. county. it's not something i think -- i certainly don't agree with it but, liked luckily we recently passed a new measure that is going to help that. we are going to have to shift some money around from our budget and see how we prioritize those issues. tend of the day, we are not allow working people to be hurt by any of the national policies that come through. >> new york city is also pretty unaffordable. what are you doing to prepare for any efforts to undermine those funding sources and hud? >> so at the local level, we are using every resource we can. we started experimenting with social bonds and we have issued

$2 billion to finance 7,000 units of deeply affordable housing. we also want to make common cause with people in red states. they need their housing and infrastructure money also. we have got to work hard to prevent that money from being cut because we can do creative things at the local level, invest our pension funds being make more creative use of our bonds and use every tool we have got but we have to fight at the federal level to preserve the housing and education and health care and infrastructure money that all american communities rely on. >> thank you both for joining us. up next, we dig deeper in to trump's dark immigration plans, specifically who he is bringing back to the white house to help him do it. back to the white hou him do it. ackie! (♪♪) evan, my guy! you're helping them with savings, right? (♪♪) i wish i had someone like evan when i started. somebody just got their first debit card!

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donald trump fulfill his campaign promise of mass deportations on day one. he is bringing back the former director of ice tom homan who has a decades long career in immigration and law enforcement dating back to the 1980s. he is perhaps best known as the father of the family separation policy that marked trump's first term. trump is also bringing back one of his longest serving aides, stephen miller who will serve as deputy chief of policy. miller also played a central role in the family separation policy. he also crafted quotas for undocumented persons and craft trump's executive order for the travel ban. miller was also a featured speaker at trump's now infamous campaign rally at madison square garden. there, miller claimed that america is, quote, for americans only. with me to unpack all of this is

msnbc political around maria, founder of the future media group. as well is silky shaw. welcome. maria, first to the nbc news exclusive reporting about the trump administration seeking to build new immigration detention centers near major u.s. cities. he is also said has he will restart the family detention program which advocacy groups have strongly criticized. there have been thousands of abuse cases in these detention centers including horrific examples of sexual abuse. what are you concerned about this? >> first thing i'm going to say it again even though i know people are going to say well, that is extreme, maria. one way to make sure this doesn't happen. that is for president joe biden immediately to create a pathway

for citizenship, immediately, so undocumented people are protected, first of all. >> is that realistic given the lame duck period? >> is it realistic to talk about mass deportations? right? it's completely insane what donald trump is talking about and his crew of men who think it's great to separate mothers from their children as a form of punishment. what we need is we need people who are on the inside to stop alerting allies about where these detention facilities are going to be built. i have seep what those detention facilities look like when they are built really fast. essentially they are like large circus tents, it means they have no windows, no heating, no air-conditioning. and the facilities are gross and disgusting. so that is just the facilities. but then in terms of abuse inside, i've been reporting on this since 2011 and the situation is only gotten worse in terms of sexual abuse, child

abuse, psychological abuse, torture, rape, and what happens in the detention facilities is after you've committed all of those crimes on the people, you deport the evidence. if you deport the person who was assaulted, there is no case. so if you have a criminal mind, you know exactly where you're going to go and look for work today. >> silky, tom homan and stephen miller made clear their thoughts on migrant communities and said they are prioritize deporting so-called criminals first. but it's really unlikely that a mass deportation plan will end with simply deporting just criminals, yet many among the migrant community who believe they will not be targeted if they are law ing. what explains that between the way people perceive it and how can migrant families protect themselves right now likely there is a fair amount of profiling of individuals

regardless of their status as we go forward? >> yeah. at first, i want to say i agree completely with maria that there are things that the biden administration can do right now. currently, ice has proposals out for seven new detention centers and we are encouraging the biden administration to rescind those proposals immediately and ice has a lot of gregs discretion t release people. i want to emphasize that point. on this question, i mean, i think the thing about tom homan is that he was actually working at ice under the obama administration when we did have really high levels of deportations of people living in the interior of this country. and it was through the criminal legal system, through local jails, through massive expansion of detention that we saw then,

and, you know, as you said, we will see more and more. they are trying to build more and more facilities and whenever a detention center is it in a community, people are most likely to be targeted and we actually have a study we put out that showed if there are 50 beds nearby, sometimes is two times to be targeted. if there are 800 beds, six times more likely to be targeted so that is a concern and it will target people rampantly and this is what we know. i think we should be careful to kind of do the thing where we argue that some people are deserving and undeserving because they are going to be rampantly target anyone and we should actually make the case for everyone who is on the list. >> maria, there are 8.3 million undocumented workers in the american economy. despite the effort to deport undocumented persons, economic experts argue that this is going to be devastate the united states economy and make the food supply more precarious, have also real consequences for the

housing market. has the trump administration really thought this through? >> they really thought this through, that is another question, right? i'm wondering what is it going to take for the american people who voted for donald trump to feel satisfied that he has delivered on the question of mass deportation. is it going to take the images of babies crying for their mothers for people to say, donald trump has done mass deportation or is it going to take, you know -- will they understand when, all of a sudden, the guy who makes their food at the local diner is gone, but taken the time to look at the face of the man making their food that he is now gone. what will sadly happen is undocumented labor is coming to the united states and it's coming in through massive amounts of corruption on the border and people who are trafficking workers into the united states.

so you may feel that there is going to be increase in prices. >> steady supply. >> yes but there will be an even more underground labor market where there is no protection for the middle if is there a minimal protection now. so it's just going to go underground but the question is for the people who voted for him, what do you want to see? because -- how will you know it worked? because we know that more money now is spent on detention and deportation. the whole industrial complex, than all federal law enforcement agencies combined. that is where our tax dollars are going. >> maria and silky are sticking around. after the break, we are going to discuss what is being done to protect undocumented families before donald trump takes office again. the next hour, my panel reacts to president biden's major shift in policy now allowing ukraine to use u.s. arms to strike inside russia. .s. arms to strike inside russia.

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immigrant rights groups across the country are gearing up to fight the incoming trump administration. president of the new york immigration coalition recently told npr the country, quote, already conserved one trump administration and are preparing to do it again. they are doing so through ground organizing, posting know your rights presentations and meeting with state and local officials to discuss lines of defense and building trust with those who are undocumented. legal services are also being streamlined to promote access as well. maria and silky are back to discuss this. you say trump's plan is terrifying and you've fought against thee deportations before. what are the lessons you learned in your work under previous administration, including the obama administration which had record number of deportations. how has this helped you to

prepare for the incoming administration? >> i think there are a lot of different lesson learned. earlier on the show, people were talking about sanctuary policy. that was one of our biggest fire walls against mass deportations and the way they happen is often through the criminal legal system. i know is there a lot of talk about the spectacle that is going to be made with the national guard and the military and i don't doubt those things are going to happen but the way we have seen these deportations carried out before is through having local sheriffs working really closely with ice and all levels of law enforcement and local police and we have heard the trump administration will bring back in full force the 287g program and deputizes local police. a lot of counties and cities and states have a lot of ability to prevent that from happening and really pushing for even stronger sanctuary policy which will be so critical. i also think so much of, you know, what -- was saying know

your rights and community defense networks and we need to do a lot to make sure that people know their ability to sort of protect themselves and have things in order if somebody in their family is targeted and making sure we are doing the most robust work both in terms of community defense and legal support. all of those things will be critical and i think that, you know, in so many ways, this is one of the biggest challenges right now is that there has been so much anti-immigrant sentiment that will be harder coming into this new administration because, you know, there has been so much scapegoating around immigration. >> maria, we have thought about the whole immigration question and the deportation question as a question of deporting americans from latin america and central america. new reporting today from nbc news say the trump administration may try to document chinese first and sian

american groups rush to prep. none of this is surprising against is against the chinese. what are your thoughts about the sequencing of this and how it will impact the politics around mass deportation? >> it will be geo politically destabilizing because many of the grants coming are also from africa. it's going to be geo politically destabilizing. you know, in terms of what people can do, it's a real difficult moment, right? because -- again, we have been through this before. maybe not the chinese community feeling so specifically targeted. you know, what you say to people? don't open the door. if someone comes knocking, you don't open the door. that is a way of noncompliance. if they come -- first of all don't let them in p.m. once you

say you can come in, then they can take you, that person, that person, that person, they say they just came for you but there are other people in the home, they are going to take everyone. this is another way in which they are going to do this. for these communities, i've reported extensively undocumented workers in chinatown. there is so much vulnerability. i'm getting right now from people telling me in the state of california, which is protected, that women are losing ten pounds since the result of the election. they can't sleep, they don't know what they are going to do. sadly, there isn't a whole lot that we can do besides that noncompliance. there is not going to be a lot of legal remedy for this. so we have to prepare people to just, you know, you're going to be strong enough to survive this, not everyone will survive it, though. that is for sure. >> silky, hours after trump's win was declared, ice began planning how it would ramp up

were surveillance in immigrant communities. you wrote that we should examine stephen miller to coordinator with local sheriffs to round people up. how are you and fellow advocates preparing for this brewing storm and how are you working with local government like sheriffs in order to counteract some of these pressures from the administration? >> i think it's a huge challenge. i do think in the sort of abandonment of a pro immigrant stance this election cycle is hard and the, quote, unquote, migrant crime wave sort of exacerbated this idea. i think people are feeling desperate which is why is there a narrative we are going after the people who are, quote, unquote, criminals. but what we know is that the u.s. has long been one of the world's leading incarcerators and we have to remember that a lot of that is about where

housing people who are black and brown and this is sort of immigration detention and what is happening in immigration is an extension of that. and against scapegoating around economic security, in security. so i do -- i do want us to be careful to not sort of push this and say actually, no, we need to protect everyone. so i think working with local officials is going to be absolutely critical in building up that fire wall and making sure people know what they can do. also stopping the extension. for 20 years i've been fighting against the expansion of immigration detention and we have blocked many new facilities through local organizing and working with officials and stopping these facilities from going up. i think that is going to be a really important way to block the mass deportations from happening. >> all right. thank you both so much for those insights. after another break, we are

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this week as haiti swore in its new prime minister, masses of residents fled the capitol port-au-prince due to a surge in violence. this comes after years of political instability in haiti and it was exacerbated in 2021 by a devastating earthquake and the assassination of the haitian president. in the wake of those two events, gangs have moved to seize power throughout the nation. now as half of haiti's population faces acute hunger, nonprofits have been unable to deliver aid to the embattled country. nbc news correspondent has the

latest. >> reporter: tonight in port-au-prince, masses are fleeing to safety. scene frantically packing their lives in to cars and escaping what once had been considered one of the few areas in the capitol safe from gang violence now. nonprofits are left unable to fly in. >> massive concern. we got 20,000 pounds of supplies sitting on the floor that need to move. >> reporter: it was days ago when a spirit airlines plane was struck by bullets seven times as it was preparing to land in port-au-prince on monday and instead diverting to the puerto rico and leaving one on board hurt and the others terrified. faa the next day pausesing slights for haiti for months because of political instability. three years since the haitian president then was assassinates and the prime minister resigned leaving behind a vacuum of

power. gangs have been violently fighting for control ever since. they fired the interim prime minister on sunday by the council and on monday, this man was being sworn in as the new prime minister. the state department said gang-led efforts led to this. >> everyone is very scared. everyone is very concerned. and i think everyone is tired of the situation. >> reporter: chris to have garner says an ambulance of theirs was ambushed on monday and vigilantes attacked the ambulance as three young people were rushed to the hospital for gunshot wounds and two of them were executed just outside of the hospital waiting to treat them. with volunteers and workers nearby. >> they are traumatized, shocked. it's really the first time, like, msf stuff is directly assault or aggressed by anyone

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