good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. doj do over. with matt gaetz gone, will senate republicans be more inclined to back trump's new pick for attorney general? what we know about pam bondi and

her history as an election denier. plus, is it a cabinet or a casting call? trump leans heavily on tv personalities from pete hegseth to dr. oz as he staffs up a new administration. but does much time on the airwaves qualify you for time in the political trenches? and snow surprise. millions of people across the midwest and northeast hit with their first big winter storm of the season. i'm looking at you, browns players, making snow angels a day after temperatures were in the 60s. there it is. that's a football game. we got a lot to get to on this friday. but we start with donald trump. wasting no time and pivoting to another florida loyalist for his attorney general pick now that matt gaetz is out of the picture. this time it is 59-year-old pam bondi, former florida attorney general and trump impeachment lawyer known as a fierce defender of the president-elect and also an election denier. she issued this warning back in

mid-2023 about what would happen if trump got back to the white house. >> the department of justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted. the bad ones. the investigators will be investigated. because the deep state, last term for president trump, they were hiding in the shadows, but now they have a spotlight on them and they can all be investigated and the house needs to be cleaned out because now we know who most of them are, there is a record of it, and we can clean house next term and that's what has to happen. >> trump's announcement of bondi came just six hours after gaetz withdrew his name from consideration. trump transition officials say it was gaetz's call and we heard from gaetz himself just a short time ago, saying he will not rejoin congress in january. he also lodged some complaints about his failed attempt to become ag. >> they go and dredge up false years old allegations of the

most salacious and click bait-y flavor possible. if the things that the house ethics report were true, i would be under indictment and probably in a prison cell. but, of course, they're false. i could have answered all the questions. i could have engaged in a months long fact battle, but we don't have months to go through that. >> no matter why it happened, it marks a major defeat for the president-elect and win for senate republicans who stood up to him in what could be the first fight over his picks. rather than showcasing trump's absolute mour over his gop allies, it revealed his limits. i want to bring in ryan reilly. david aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county who knows,

and melanie saturday zenona, go all of you. donald trump went with gaetz because he wanted him to take a sledge hammer to the justice department. so, obvious question is, is that who pam bondi is? we just heard her saying they need to clean house. >> good to be with you. he was swinging for the fences when he kent with went with mat he went with someone who could. she's not a revolutionary. she will engage in political rhetoric, especially on fox news, but it is the pam bondi who i know who edited her comment halfway through by saying the bad prosecutors. i was concerned when matt gaetz was appointed. he would have torched the building. he would have gone after all of trump's enemies. pam bondi will engage in the same type of john durham-esque

investigations we saw under bill barr. but in the end, i don't think we have any real concern that adam schiff or anthony fauci will be perp walked in an orange jumpsuit. >> ryan, feel people in on more of pam bondi's background. >> i think, you know, in addition to being the impeachment lawyer, she has been this television presence to what you're saying at the top of the hour. she was a fox news guest host and makes a lot appearances as david just mentioned. i think one moment that sticks out for me is after donald trump lost the 2020 election, she held that presser in downtown philadelphia, being browned out by beyonce from protesters playing in the background and made false claims on television . she fell away from that in the leadup to the capitol attack, but the reason for the press conference at four seasons total

landscaping is because she had that first press conference in philadelphia and was he spreading flies. she claimed that donald trump had won pennsylvania, which he did not, he lost pennsylvania in 2020 and that led up to the january 6th attack on the capitol. gaetz was more in the middle, in the thick of that, direct relationships with january 6 rioters. but she is in that record altogether, though there is a big sigh of relief when you're comparing her to matt gaetz. >> what is the reaction to lawmakers in what has been a rapid turn of events? >> a huge sigh of relief from republicans as well. i think with matt gaetz dropping out, interest will be a reluctant to put up roadblocks. there are a lot of ways for

trump bondi. she doesn't have the baggage. i think it is worth noting here, three of the people part of donald trump's defense team during his first impeachment have now been named to significant cabinet and administration roles within donald trump's new administration. not just pam bondi, but elise stefanik and lee zeldin, both members of congress at the time and part of the crew defending chum during the first impeachment. i think now that matt gaetz is out of the way, it will put the spotlight on other nominees. rfk, his controversial extreme views on vaccines, pro abortion rights support, a problem with republicans, and tulsi gabbard who spewed talking points that were propaganda from the russian government. that spotlight will shift. they have done under the radar.

now on to the next controversial nominees. >> the ap reports and i want to talk a little bit more about pam bondi, accused of bribery years ago because of a campaign donation from donald trump. what can you tell us about that and do you think anything to melanie's point, anything that could be seriously problematic for her confirmation? >> i think she's going to glide through because she's the second choice and i think she is popular among republicans. matt gaetz was hated by republicans. tulsi gabbard was a democrat. their nominations are in peril. pam bondi will slide through. the check, i looked into that, when i spoke to her about it back in 013, she referred me to a "new york times" article and found that the check that trump sent her was written and signed days before the article came out

that informed there was a trump investigation going on. she released 800 pages of documents showing this was never discussed donald trump. the timing of the check doesn't look good. as far as if there is any evidence of quit pro quo conduct or bribery, there is none. >> did you get a sense this was a one-time show of opposition to a uniquely flawed candidate or does it tell us something more about the willingness to stand up to donald trump. >> i don't think it was trump's intent for this to be a strategic route to pam bondi. i think he wanted gets. pam bondi now looks like a very reasonable choice. she may have gotten more an

significance and more criticism. she's an actual lawyer. former prosecutor, been elected state wide. i think that at the end of the day, the matt gaetz nomination clears the way for a lot of republicans to say, okay, listen, we -- i think it now makes it easier for the other nominations. >> david, you also know, you know each other from florida, you heard what they had to say, they dredged up the salacious and click bait-y allegations. is he going to go away quietly or is he already look for his next gig? >> he's running for governor in 2026. >> you think so? >> oh, yeah. he's not going back to congress.

he could. he could go back to the next congress, but they would release the ethics report. he's going to run for governor and claim to be a martyr. the investigation of matt gaetz for child sex trafficking did not start under merrick garland it was ended and dropped under merrick garland. it was started by bill barr. there was evidence there, but in the end, the department of just found there was not enough evidence to take down a congressman. a congressman. they did not think that they were both credible enough to go after matt gaetz. doesn't mean he was cleared. doesn't mean he was conrated. they didn't have enough evidence to charge. >> let's talk about the other folks out there, i think that

the names that have been mentioned are the one, rfk, gabbard. i wonder what you're hearing on the ground, because of the most recent ref ligss against pete hegseth, he may be the one who is in the most trouble or what are you hearing generally? >> he is the most problematic at this point. he had some comments saying he doesn't support women in combat, that could be a problem with joni ernst, very supportive of women in contract and more generally. there are see serious and legitimate questions of whether he's qualified to lead an agency as large and complex as the pentagon. i do think kind of big picture here, the natural deference that republicans are going to want to

give trump, the natural posture is to defer to jump generally. they don't want to come out publicly. there is no reason to yet. but a lot of these conversations behind closed doors like pete hegseth, listen, everything is going to come out. you and your families are going to go through the wringer this is something you're willing to do, keep that in mind. it is going to ramp up the scrutiny on the nominees that are republican. >> three days ago, it was coming out from the transition team he was ing hard and then sent

his vice president. susie wild is someone seen as a little more moderate. she also, by the way, she has extensive toys in florida politics. how do you view this of the inner workings of the trump transition team and the administration? >> it is a huge relief for everybody involved except for maybe donald trump. easy wiles, i know her. i think that they all see the gaetz thing going down as a relief he was a pinata and get him out of the way, but he could have been confirmed and it could have been weeks and weeks of zrokss of getting the other tom nominees through.

this was a good development. >> ryan riley, dave aronberg, melanie zenona, thank you. the judge in donald trump's hush money case has officially canceled next week's sentencing date and opened the door to arguments whether the case should be dismissed outright. i want to bring in lisa rubin. explain the new order and what happens now. >> judge juan merchan suspending donald trump's sentencing, that was originally scheduled for next week on november 26th and instead scheduling briefing on a planned motion to dismiss by trump's lawyers. that is in lieu of perhaps substitute for this motion that they had already had to set aside the verdict after that trial. now they want to wipe the slate entirely clean and get rid of the indictment. that would mean setting aside the trial vert, but preventing the office from moving forward with any aspect of this case

whatsoever. we know the they wanted to put in their receipt on december 20th. he said no, he said december 2nd, the d.a.'s office opposes it by december 9th, no reply briefs. . juan merchan is getting himself ready to render a decision on that motion to dismiss. sometime before the holidays. his wording is very careful in this one page order with respect to the sentencing. he's saying it is adjourned to the extent that it had been scheduled for november 26th. what he's not saying is that the expensing is adjourned forever or indefinitely. >> he's given about ten days.

wouldn't you assume they were working on this. >> i would assume they were already working on this, particularly because they ceded some of the arguments in a series of letters. one letter too the d's office and another letter earlier this week to judge merchan. they have to put greater meet on those bones. to the extent that todd blanche and emil bove were hoping for a restful holiday, they're not going to get that. they're going to spend this holiday really fleshing out the constitutional arguments as to why it should be improper for donald trump to be sentenced in this case, this is already completed. >> is there any conflict of interest while he's been -- trump said he wants him at the number two? >> i don't think there is a conflict of interest right now. if this briefing is still going

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we are following coast to coast storms, one that is dumping heavy rain on water-logged california, the other that is bringing the first snowfall of the season to parts of the midwest and northeast. but for all the headaches the storms are causing humans, some zoo animals are having the time of their lives. otters at the milwaukee zoo today burrowing and wrestling in the snow. maybe skiers will like it too. sam brock is reporting from scranton, pennsylvania. what are you seeing out there? >> reporter: check out the trees. you have inches of accumulation on the branches, in the valleys, three to six inches is what we're looking at as that starts to climb. mountains, up to half a foot and higher. also, people i'm talking to are saying a week ago here in northeastern pennsylvania, in the 50s and 60s. now you have snowfall, a little late in the season, but they said it is better late than never. this morning for millions of americans, wintry weather is finally here, a far reaching

storm system from the midwest to the northeast bringing some of the first major snowfalls of the season. >> i have not seen snow like this in a bit of time. so i think it is the best thing ever. >> reporter: the weather delivering relief to many states stuck in drought-like destruction. >> i think it is very important that the weather stabilize a little bit. >> reporter: snow striking the midwest overnight blanketing the browns and steelers game in cleveland, the home team celebrating their win with a snowball fight. >> my first snow day in chicago! i am so happy! >> reporter: but the storm system also ushering in dangerous conditions too, including wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour, just outside chicago. icy conditions trapping the semitruck on a slick bridge. a mixture of snow and ice, hampering driving conditions along the west coast, as california copes with the

atmospheric river. officials in northern california warning of mudslides. >> the best thing for folks to do is stay home and off the roads if they can during the storm. >> reporter: back east, the jekyll andside weather shaking things up. >> just two days ago we were in fee t-shirts and now loading salt trucks. >> reporter: are you ing it is a white christmas? >> i hope so. if it could last until then, i would be happy. >> i'm excited. >> reporter: at least the holiday season has officially kicked off. in scranton, sam brock, nbc news. back to you. >> thank you so much for that, sam. from t-shirts to salt trucks to bill karins who is here to break down the forecast. i was watching the game last night, my family has been bragging about how mild it is there. not now.

>> this storm, it is amazing that -- remember the jennings creek fire, we talked about that for the last two weeks, blowing smoke in new york city seven inches of snow on top of that. we still have areas of snow in central pennsylvania. the majority of the heavy snow is over with. and the highest total i've seen, high point, new jersey, little bit below 2,000 foot elevation, 20 inches of snow. highest in pennsylvania, 17. cat maryland, it is still snowing and it will tonight, we're starting to add that up. chicago, three inches. these are the first snow of the season, milwaukee, three, cincinnati, two, indianapolis one inch. in new york city, a few flakes were spotted overnight. we still have areas of slick travel and, of course, the higher elevations, not a lot of

extra snow out of this. there are blizzard washings in effect for the spine of the appalachians where they get it tonight. out west, it is still pouring. and san francisco about to get into the mix through napa. see pictures of flash flooding later today this is the area of greatest concern that will make for rough evening travel around san francisco. the flash wood watches as we go throughout tonight. saturday night, we end this big heavy rain event. sacramento could get two inches. everyone wants to know what does thanksgiving week look like? we got changes coming. this is wednesday, rough in the rockies, some rainy weather heading through the tennessee and ohio valleys. by the time we get to wednesday evening, not many airport problems, thanksgiving day itself looks to be worse. that's where we're watching that storm heading to the east, a lot of heavy rain, thunderstorms to

deal with throughout the mid-atlantic. the northern edge could be snow. the parade in new york, the forecast is rain and chilly rain at that. thursday evening, some snow heading to the north. as far as people traveling go, make sure you have your travel plans set, don't go canceling or changing anything yet. keep an eye on the forecast if you're traveling on thanksgiving day through atlanta, charlotte and up the 95 corridor. >> still six days to go until the parade. >> the worst thing would be a rainy, cold parade. >> thank you. coming up, donald trump's casting call, the president-elect and former reality star steps up with tv savvy picks for his administration. what does that bode for his second stint at the white house. second stint at the white house. (vo) whether your phone's broken or old, we've got you. with verizon, anyone can trade in any phone, any condition.

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donald trump's decision to replace matt gaetz with pam bondi for attorney general does fit a pattern. loyalists who make good tv. his new administration potentially packed with former tv personalities like pete hegseth and sean duffy and frequent guest elise stefanik, all familiar to fox news viewers. tv host dr. oz, tulsi gabbard and kristi noem. bondi herself was one of trump's most vociferous defendants during his first impeachment trial. >> we're here tonight because

they threw due process, fundamental fairness and our constitution out the window in the house proceedings. that's why we're here. because they started in the secret bunker hearings, where the president and his council weren't even allowed to participate when they're trying to impeach him. >> well, pair all of these tv savvy picks with trump's well known cable viewing habits and it begs the question, how will tv influence his team and his judgment? vaughn hillyard is covering the trump transition, meredith mcgraw, national political correspondent with politico, mark mckinnon back with me. vaughn, take us into trump's decision-making process, do we know how trump is making these decisions and whether or not they are being influenced by what he sees and has seen on tv? >> reporter: right. all of us here have been talking to sources about who these potential pick considerations are, we hear from some sources

directly connected to those throwing their names into the ring and others talking to donald trump batting around names as potential prospects with him. in several of the instances, there have been these sort of head turner picks like matt gaetz who appeared to be a last minute pick, of course. matt gaetz is a frequent presence on the airwaves. pam bondi last night, hours after matt gaetz drop out, pam bondi from fox news to other right wing outlets, has been a frequent presence over the last nine years, since she endorsed donald trump over marco rubio. one other example i would give is like mike rogers, who from michigan who is under consideration to be the fbi director. this morning, he was on "fox & friends" and with the banner there, noting weigh he was under consideration to lead the fbi but hours r dan scavino said he called donald

trump and donald trump assured him mike rogers had no chance. so fox and other outlets are being used as a place to go and try out. and for someone like mike rogers this morning, apparently it didn't work out, he was informed over tweet that donald trump would not be choosing him. >> it was interesting the way the conversations have been going on surrounding what we know donald trump loves cable tv. jim himes reacted to the choice of dr. oz, we are becoming the world's first nuclear armed reality television show here. just spit balling here, but what if the attorney general and the secretary of hhs fight each other in an octagonal cage. sarcastic, maybe, but in all seriousness, donald trump wants people who are good communicators. nothing wrong with that. but does that mean you're a good manager? >> the difference between '16

and this election, trump was an accidental president. he was surprised he was elected. i was there that night and i saw the look on his face. this time he knows what he's doing and what he wants. his loyalty, are you a disruptor, are you good on television. that's how donald trump got elected. remember, this is a guy who ran against somebody who on paper maybe had the best resume ever to be president, hillary clinton running against donald trouble whose only qualification for the office was that he had been on television. he had a successful entertainment show. in modern politics, the ability to communicate is essential. that's how trump won. he understands that in order to get policy done, in order to get legislation done, you have to have effective communicators. so it makes a lot of sense he's putting people in place that know how to communicate. >> so, meredith, something you know about, politico reports that congressman mike waltz who used to be trump's national security adviser has, quote,

used fox news to get ahead, the florida republican made at least 176 week day appearances on fox news between the start of 2023 and election day, more than any single member of congress over that time period. is that just an acknowledgement, if you want to serve in the trump administration, tv is one way to get there? for a start? >> well, like mark was saying, tv has been an important feature of donald trump's political career for years. and it has been a feature of his cabinet. in the first white house, there were a lot of his cabinet secretaries who were known to go on fox news and we know that during this transition, donald trump down at mar-a-lago in the room where they're reviewing candidates has two tv screens, aides have been showing people clips of the candidates and photos of them and trump likes to think of himself as sort of a

casting producer. and he likes to say when people are out of central casting, and so how they appear and how they sound on television is really important to him. and i do think in this era of modern politics where people -- politicians go on tv constantly, social media presences, for trump, he views television as an important tool for communicating and getting public buy-in for all of the policies he's going to be trying to implement, but it is also a way to keep your base together and keep your supporters in line and informed too. >> so, mark, back to his first administration, his first press secretary, sean spicer, a lot of interviews as rnc chair before joining the white house. he struggled at times to carry out trump's messaging. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration,

period. just the other day, he sat down with martin luther king jr., i would call him a civil rights leader. >> he says it is -- >> he's using the words that the media is using. at the end of the day -- hold on, hold on, hold on. >> the president himself called it -- is he confused or are you confused? >> no, i'm not confused. >> i think he lasted six months and one day in that job. there are a lot of others who couldn't do or say what donald trump wanted and they were gone too. we know some of trump's picks now have been on the front line now to disinformation. i wonder if you think there is a line anymore that some people will draw? >> not in the current trump world. sean spicer lasted longer than scaramucci, we may be calling him mr. secretary now, he's on the list for the secretary of the navy. he survived. his television presence, he's done a lot of it since then.

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more than two weeks after election day, the final u.s. senate race has been called. republicans will have a 53-seat majority in the upper chamber in the next congress after incumbent pennsylvania senator bob casey conceded to republican dave mccormick. he lost by just over 16,000 votes. >> i just called dave mccormick to congratulate him on his election to represent pennsylvania in the united states senate. i want to thank the people of pennsylvania for granting me the privilege of serving them for 28 consecutive years in public office. thank you for the trust you've placed in me for all these years. it has been the honor of my lifetime. >> nbc's ryan nobles is on capitol hill. that's a throwback to when he first went in the senate and you actually made a gracious

concession speech. but i wonder what dave mccormick had to say and any idea as well when the house might finally have those races called? >> reporter: yeah, well, to answer your last question about the house, that's up to the state of california. they're counting ballots there. there is a number of house races in the golden state that are yet to be determined. we do know that republicans will end up with control of the house, the margin of that victory is still yet to be determined. but it will be extraordinarily close. now, back to that pennsylvania senate race, talking about something that was extraordinarily close, it was that race, a margin of 16,000 votes, which is why it took some time to call it. republicans were really pushing bob casey to consteed for some time. but they were waiting on every vote to come in and it got to the point where the race went to a recount. as that recount played itself out, it became pretty clear that casey was not going to be able to make up that margin and he was gracious in his concession and dave mccormick was gracious in accepting victory. he said in a statement that

senator bob casey has dedicated his career to bettering our commonwealth, deena and i extend our sincere gratitude to senator casey, treise and their family for their decades of service, hard work and personal sacrifice. the big reason why this is important, chris, is that we now know what the republican margin of majority will be. 53 seats to the 47 that will be held by those who are democrats or caucus with the democrats. that means as we watch this confirmation fight battle out over these picks by donald trump, it means that republicans or the republican nominees could only lose four votes and still be appointed to their positions with the tie breaking vote by the vice president elect jd vance. we know what we're dealing with in the senate. we're still waiting to see what happens in the house. >> i have a cheat sheet here. california, 13 and 45 still to be called and iowa one.

time will tell. >> reporter: don't blame it all on california. iowa. >> there you go. ryan nobles, thank you. another group of space tourists as they're called took off today on a brief and very expensive cosmic journey, courtesy of jeff bezos' blue origin. the private aerospace company took six passengers on a ten-minute trip to the edge of outer space. marissa parra joins us from the telemundo center in miami with the latest st on this new spac race. how did things go? >> i'll point out for people watching, this is very different than a lot of the launches you and i talk about on here. this is not a launch the international space station where they're there for three months, six months, all of it lasted less than ten minutes. blue origin is very different. these space launches are actually going to suborbital space if we will. we're talking about vertical launch, vertical landing, they spend all of ten minutes in

total with this whole experience. but there were a couple of things that made this different. this was the ninth crude flight with the re-useable new shepherd and there was a couple of firsts. the second trip for a married couple, they held up a number two sign to document this momentous moment because this is the first time that a married couple has taken two space flights together. and then top left, emily calandrelli, the space gal, she is big on educating women and in s.t.e.m. and inspiring the next generation of space explorers. this was her, a woman, mind you, very studied on the effects of space, and what this entails. she describes the shock and the awe in those moments and space. here's what we heard when she landed. >> i didn't expect to see so much space and i kept saying, like, that's our planet. that's our planet. we did it. we did it. we did it. we did it. we did it.

we did it. yes. i'm the 100th woman in space. >> you're the 100th woman in space! >> oh, what a ride. >> the joy is so contagious. as you heard, she is the 100th woman in space now, another first today. and this is something within the context of what we're seeing this week. nasa has tapped spacex and blue origin for artemis missions to return humans to the moon. within the context of this larger space race, of course, we're seeing yet another moment in space tourism. it is all connected, chris. these companies doing work together to eventually make space an inhabitable place for humans and inspiring the next generation. the thing that was so striking from astronaut hank, these are the world's newest astronauts, he said you don't see the borders, don't see the division, all the lines that divide us from up above. we're all on this fragile small planet together. inspiring moments and touching

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the dea's long-standing practice of randomly searching passengers and seizing their cash at airports has now been suspended. the justice department shut it down after an investigation uncovered signs of racial profiling and civil rights violations. nbc's ken dilanian has more on this. ken? >> the justice department has ordered the drug enforcement administration to suspend its long-standing product tis of searching passengers at airports and seizing their cash after the department's internal watchdog raised concerns about potential civil rights violations and racial profiling. the doj's inspector general found dea agents and local police partners have been stopping partners at airports because they bought a last minute ticket and demanding without a warrant to search their bags. the searches are supposed to be voluntary, but the report found passengers often felt compelled to agree for fear of being delayed and missing their flights. if the agents found cash, they

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