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♪ ♪ welcome back to "the weekend." america's two biggest trading partners are preparing for the backlash of a second trump administration. last night canadian prime minister justin trudeau met with donald trump at mar-a-lago. "the new york times" reports trudeau and trump had dinner together with advisers to discuss, you know, some of those threats trump has laid about a 25% tariff on all goods imported from canada into the u.s. just moments ago trudeau left his hotel in west palm beach and said he had a, quote, excellent conversation with trump. mexico's also responding to trump's tariff's plans. the country's president claimed this week a tariff war could kill 400,000 american jobs and could lead to higher prices for americans at the grocery store.

joining us now, democratic congressman brad shh chneider o illinois. he is the incoming chair of the democratic coalition. welcome, congressman. >> congressman, good to see you. not only the new democratic coalition but the house ways and means subcommittee on trade and foreign affairs. i could not imagine someone better to have this conversation with. what do you want folks perhaps in your district to understand about what a 25% tariff on goods from mexico, goods from canada mean for them? >> don't take my word for it. almost every economist is saying that across-the-board tariffs is likely going to raise prices for american consumers. and as we are trying to bring down prices of goods, trying to lower inflation, tariffs are going to raise the cost and likely looked to inflation. >> you have the associated press reported regarding cannabis. there was a question i had with time ryan in the last hour, what do these countries do?

how do they come back. the a.p. is recording canada is examining possible retaliatory tariffs on certain items from the united states should president-elect donald trump follow through on his threat to impose sweeping tariffs on products was said on wednesday. this sets up an idea of a tariff war. as you know, congressman as consumers, they're the ones caught in the crossfire there. >> right. >> what arguments can democrats make in the face of this? because you have this sense out there from a lot of folks that somehow this will be good for them, this will be okay. you flow, know, we are strong a resilient as we are paying $17 for guacamole. >> the last time in the trump administration when he put tariffs on china and china retaliated with tariffs on the united states, and one of the first things congress tried to

do then was create basically relief for american farmers who lost some of their primary markets. trade goes both ways. we need to make sure it is a level playing field, that american companies and american farmers can compete in a global market, that when we do compete we have better-than-even chance to win because we have the most productive workers. our farmers are growing what the world wants. we should be able to win. but when you get into a war of tariffs it takes away the competitiveness of american workers, american companies, american agriculture and starts getting into just a battle of rising prices that will affect consumers in a negative way. >> congressman, president biden was asked for his thoughts on these tariff threats. i want you to take a listen to what he says. >> i hope he rethinks it. i think it is a counterproductive thing to do. look, one of the things you heard me say before, that we -- we -- we have an unusual

situation in america. we're surrounded by the pacific ocean, the atlantic ocean and two allies, mexico and canada. the last thing we need to do is begin to screw up those relationships. >> that was interesting about those comments, congressman, a reminder that what we're talking about are two allies, right? to come in before you are even in office, right, you are still gearing up for your administration and to threaten our two neighbors, we have been talking about it as an economic question, as a question of national security, as a question of foreign relations. it does not make sense there either. >> it cuts across every aspect of how we want to build relationships with our two most important allies. these are our two largest trading partners, to our north and south, canada and mexico. it is going to affect the price of cars, the price of trucks, the price of food, basic goods

negotiated under president trump, the trade agreement was a critical agreement that brought democrats and republicans together. it was good not just for the united states but for all of americans and we need to build upon that. unfortunately, with this administration they seem mob keen on tearing things down, not just in trade but across the board rather than building it to better the lives of the american people. >> so, congressman, you are a member, i understand, of the dads caucus? >> i am. >> is that how that works? nbc was reporting on friday, congress misgomez, a democrat from california, thinks his and his fellow dads caucus members' focus is on point with voters. people are starting to recognize the value of the dads caucus, men who are fathers, men who are

raising kids to be involved in the policy decisions. this is one of the areas where the dads caucus can have a conversation, particularly young men trying to find their way in the workforce and trying to establish their value. talk a little bit about why that is important and why confronting the threats of tariffs can disrupt that if it is not confronted now as opposed to later. >> sure. happy to talk about dads caucus. actually, i'm in colorado visiting my mom. my two sons are with me. i am one of the older members of the caucus, my sons are 31 and 30. they're starting their careers, working to build their lives. i think that's what we're seeing across the board. we know it is hard for families to make ends meet in an economy with inflation. tariffs causing inflation is going to make it that much harder. many families in the united states are dual income families where both the mother and the father are going to work, are

sharing responsibilities. you are seeing dads take on more responsibilities in the home and needing a voice in the policies that are going to affect their families. we need to make sure we have healthy and safe communities, that our kids are getting the quality education they need, that the economy is growing and creating opportunities for people not just to make an income and provide on for their family but to create the wealth that will secure their future. these are issues critical to all families, moms and dads together. dads speaking out and saying we need to lower the cost of child care, we need to make it easier to raise our kids, to give them the health care and education they need to see, all are issues when we speak about and speak about from the heart i think we have a better chance of making that message heard across the country and delivering policy that improves the lives of people throughout the country. >> i find it so interesting, the side-by-side, the conversation that prime minister trudeau had with donald trump, or at least the way he read it out to us and the public, and then the

conversation that president sheinbaum of mexico had with the incoming president and the fact she then felt the need to correct the record on what actually happened on their call and also to school him on what immigration policy currently looks like in the u.s. and in mexico, and this current administration has effectively closed the u.s.-mexico border. meanwhile, you have trump railing about how it needs to be closed. one of the things i have been reminded of throughout this last week is his complete disregard or disinterest in policy, right. he's not interested in what the biden administration is actually doing on the economy, on immigration. there's almost a willful ignorance, and i wonder for you as you head back, getting ready to solve some of these challenges how a congress -- you will be in the minority but by a

hair. how do you legislate with a president who does not seem to be interested in what has been done? >> great point. i'm looking forward to work with the new democrat colleagues. we are 109, probably 110 if adam gray wins his race in california, the majority of the democratic caucus, but we are also a group of moderate democrats. by moderate, i mean people who are willing to work to get things done. it is more of a style than a position, and we will work with everyone on the democratic side of the aisle but we're also more than willing to work with our republican colleagues who are willing to put the american people first, to put politics aside and figure out how do we improve people's lives, how do we improve national security, how do we make sure we are addressing the challenges everyday working families are facing on a day-to-day basis. and the challenge with incoming president trump, and you saw it with the conversations both with trudeau and sheinbaum, is what's said in the conversations and what's reported back out isn't

always the same. we don't know what the position is from moment to moment, day to day, and he can turn back, you know, as i said before, the usmca was a landmark achievement of the first trump administration, and before he comes into a second administration he is doing everything he can to undermine it. it makes it hard to plan for the future for -- whether it is businesses or families or international partners to say, what is tomorrow going to look like or next week or next year when the leader of our country is moving from position to position depending on whoever spoke to him last. >> congressman brad schneider of illinois, thank you so much for being with us this morning. next -- >> thank you. >> -- congressman-elect eugene vindman joins us to discuss democrat's policy fights under donald trump to come. you are watching "the weekend" on msnbc. on msnbc

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♪ ♪ president biden is making a final push to support ukraine before he is out of the oval office. according to reuters, the administration is preparing a $725 million weapons package for kyiv. it comes just as trump picks

retired general keith kellogg as special envoy for ukraine and russia. kellogg's main goal is to end the war between the to countries, but it is concerned that trump's terms could come at ukraine's long-term expense. one example of the struggles the world leaders are facing as allies frantically work to determine who is up and who is down in trump's inner circle and what it could mean for their corner of the world. joining us now, congressman-elect eugene vindman of virginia. >> good to see you, congressman-elect. it has been a treat to work with your brother in the past. now i get to spend time with you as you start on the new venture. i wanted to share with you "usa today" reporting on dangerous territory. quote, the state department, which traditionally help coordinate phone calls between incoming presidents and world leaders has been shut out you have trump's calls with foreign dignitaries. that means the conversations were not held over secure phone

lines, no state department staff were available to offer guidance on the nuance on foreign policy, and no official interpreters were on hand to overcome language barriers that can sometimes lead to confusion or misunderstandings about exactly what was said. two days after the election where trump said he had already spoken with more than 70 world leaders. what message do you think it is important for congressional democrats at this point to establish and send to world leaders ahead of trump's taking power, knowing that this is the environment that they're going to be working in? >> well, first of all, michael and team, thanks for having me. i have listened to your previous segment and it is the first i heard of the dads caucus. that sounds like a ton of fun. i'm just learning the ropes. >> don't worry, he's going to get it.

>> yeah. on to serious topics, look, it doesn't surprise me. in the first trump administration there was a steady ratcheting of access to the president's former and future president's phone calls. initially following normal protocol, most departments and agencies received a read-out of the calls. at some point that was ratcheted down to white house staff. after the infamous ukraine call it was ratcheted down to just political appointees. so this is sort of a pattern that was established in the previous administration, i suspect will continue in this administration. to your point, you know, congress, the senate and the house, are co-equal branch of government. we have an important role to play between the different committees in either the power of the purse or helping guide policy. so we take that role very seriously. i certainly will take that role very seriously, and having previously met and interacted

with a number of the characters that were proposed in the new administration during my time in the white house, there will be some relationships there that, you know, some better than others obviously that i can work with. >> congressman-elect, to this news about the biden administration preparing $725 million weapons package for ukraine, what does that indicate to you about the state of the war in ukraine, about what this administration sees as the opportunity in the waning days of their time in power? >> well, alicia, they're trying to surge as many resources as they can in the last couple of months. i wish this had happened a year and a half, two years ago. i wouldn't say this falls into the category of too little too late, but this should have happened a long time ago. it is this constant metering and ratcheting of support rather than surging it at a critical time that's caused this war to

last two-and-a-half years. so they're doing what they need to do, what they must do in the waning days of the administration in lame duck, but i wish they had done it much earlier. >> so in addition to what the current administration, the biden administration is doing, congressman-elect, you also have "the washington post" reporting that trump's pick for ukraine/russia envoy favors negotiation. kellogg's selection comes as a precarious time for ukraine whose soldiers are exhausted trying to contain months of moscow's advances along the eastern front. they have harnessed star luvg terminals to improve their coordination, dispersing in small assault teams backed by drones and artillery to push back ukrainian forces across the donetsk region. so you have two realities taking

shape much to the point of the administration ratcheting up its level of aiding ukraine's efforts by giving it permission to do certain things that they couldn't before. but at the same time you've got a new administration that's poised to come in and really ratchet back any of that support, at least that's what they've articulated. and it is, you know, negotiations to end the war are a little bit suspect. how do you see this space for ukraine right now, property cute the war to its fullest extent with the resources but at the same time prepare itself to be disappointed by the trump administration? >> well, as it relates to general kellogg my approach with him is more of a wait and see. he made a at the same time i think in the last couple of days that -- something to the effect that a release in authority on

atacms for deeper sites gives the incoming administration some more leverage, some more bargaining power. he's a senior military officer. i was involved in a number of senior-level meetings with him, and so my approach is let's wait and see. everybody wants an end to this war. it just has to happen on terps terms that are agreeable and acceptable to the ukrainians, to the west and the u.s. and not just to the russians. so we need to be very focused on making sure we continue to support the ukrainian regardless of whether we continue to support them, the europeans i think are committed to supporting the ukrainians. those on the borders of ukraine, on the eastern flank, in the baltics and poland will continue to support because they don't want to see russia on their doorstep. so this is a conflict where i believe that the incoming administration is in for a bit

of a rude awakening. the russians are ascendant in the sense that they're making tactical gains but they have the initiative on the battlefield, and right now i'm sure they don't see any reason why they would want to negotiate for peace. so it is going to take pressure on the russians to get to the bargaining table, not just on the ukrainians. >> congressman-elect, earlier michael referenced your brother, elon musk accusing him of committing treason, saying he will pay after the former trump impeachment witness accused the tech billionaire and trump ally of being unwittingly used by russia, a reminder of the focus on retribution by this administration. >> yeah, well, i would say that if anybody's on the cusp of having to pay it may be elon musk because his comments are really false and defamatory, no basis in fact.

so i think he needs to dial back what he said. my brother served honorably in the army. he's fought and bled on battlefield. and even statement that elon musk made is false. so i think he needs to dial that back, otherwise he is the one in jeopardy of having to pay for defamation. >> well, certainly serving and shedding blood on the battlefield is more than elon musk or donald trump have done with respect to our nation's military. just one final thing before we let you go, congressman. you know, there's a lot of serious stuff obviously right now going on but we just celebrated thanksgiving. hopefully you and the family had a wonderful thanksgiving. what's something fun you are looking to do or be a part of when you get to congress that sort of reminds the country that, yeah, you know, we are here to serve and we are here to

also provide, you know, an opportunity for folks to sort of see government in a good way, a good light? it is not all, you know, gloom and doom and dread. >> well, to your point, michael, the folks that elected me to this position in congress, the 51% that voted for me and the 49% that didn't, voted for me to get the job done. so what i'm looking forward to, and we had a little bit of an introduction to this during orientation, but is meeting with my republican colleagues. i met a number of them. they come from military background, they come from diplomatic backgrounds. i think we can get things done together. i hope to find common ground. we will have a couple of opportunities in the next couple of months during different events to interact, and so i look forward to getting to know my colleagues, both in democratic caucus and maybe

joining the dads caucus. i think a dads caucus ought to be bipartisan frankly. i think maybe we can make that happen. and getting to work for the american people and the voters in the seventh congressional district. >> congressman-elect eugene vindman of virginia, thank you so much for being with us this morning. got a quick programming note for you. next saturday be sure to tune in for msnbc's latest film feature-separated" based on the best-selling book by our own jacob soboroff, looking at the trump family separation operation at the border and the fight to reunite them. that's next saturday right here on msnbc. ♪ giving that's possible through the power of dell ai with intel. so those who receive can find the joy of giving back.

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got a hold of an e-mail. she wrote him an e-mail in 2018 saying he routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character. on behalf of all of the women, and i know it is many, you have abused in some way i say get some help and take an honest look at yourself. penelope hegseth wrote, stating she still loved him because that's what moms do. she wrote, i have no respect for my man that bullies, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. that's pretty much everyone nominated by trump. you are that man and have been for years, and as your mother it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. what say you? >> i say you have to read what nbc news standard says you have to say. >> why don't i read it. >> why don't you. >> the initial e-mail was sent

in 2018. mrs. hegseth said she disavowed and apologized in a follow up e-mail. >> but who knows you better than your mom because she birthed you, powdered that bottom so when she says that she knows you. >> but you don't need this e-mail from mom. >> you don't. >> it is the fact one off as a nominee with allegations like this against him, that is an issue on itself, to have a pattern of nominees who have credible accusations of this specific variety shows an absolute disregard for women, for a baseline standard of what would be just from basic vetting in the past. i also think it opens up a question about morality and the value of an administration that you are coming into. >> no, i agree with that. i think it says a lot about, you

know, folks out there who disregard these types of things. you know, i look, i know how my mama raised me and i know if my mama ever said something like that about me, i would be mortified. but it was beyond that, what it would say to the world that there is a character flaw that someone that close to you recognizes, that apparently someone like donald trump putting you in a position doesn't really care about to your point. >> and let me say, in an institution, right, if we are talking about the department of defense, if we are talking about the military that is having a reckoning of its own -- >> oh, right, right. >> around sexual thought that has to be dealt with at an institutional level, you actually should want someone who says, this is a priority. we want everyone who serves in our armed forces to feel that they are valued, to feel that they are safe. >> right. >> how can you state possibly that is a priority, that you are trying to maintain that sense of morale if you are coming in

saddled with this baggage. >> and that's at the end of the day what it all boils down to because it is that morale. these words are, you know, sort of bullet board kind of phraseology words that people who rely on the leadership, they look at that and they go, this is what your mama thinks of you, what should i think of you? >> did you see dana nessle wrote about the message it sends to survivors to have this sort of nominee? >> some my way of thinking i don't understand how it translates for 52% of women who voted for -- for this, but there we are. that's just me. next up, the coo of bluesky joins us to talk about the social media company's exploding popularity after the election. you are watching "the weekend."

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i grudgingly left elon musk's twitter for bluesky and suddenly social media is fun again. that's a headline from "vogue" more than a year ago. bluesky was created to be a de centralized social media outlet, meaning one that allows users to create and modify their own algorithm so you have the power to find content that you

actually want to see by people you actually -- get this part -- want to hear from. since the election, users have been fleeing x en masse, myself included, and then just like that "vogue" writer have found a new home in bluesky with daily usage on the app now climbing by about 500%, and the coo of bluesky rose wang joins us now. welcome, rose. i've been looking forward to this conversation. >> thanks for having me. >> we're very excited to talk to you. rose, you said something that i want you to unpack for me, which is that people are tired of the algorithm deciding everything. that got an amen from both of us. tell us what it would look like to not have the algorithm deciding everything. >> absolutely. we are used to being trapped in one algorithm that's controlled by a small group of people and they decide what we see, what type of content gets taken away,

who to promote, and decentralization means a more democratic way where users get to vote with their feet. so on bluesky there are about 50,000 different feeds that somewhere been created by other users. so there are feeds that are like either about cats, maybe about five cat feeds, more than 250 swiftie feeds, and various other feeds that are either organized chronologically or based on what your followers are liking. you can even use a politics filter to turn off politics or turn it back on, depending on what your mood is that day. so we're -- you actually get to interact with real people and have fun conversation, again, in a safe environment. >> so what is that like? you know, i mean i will be honest, x is a hellscape. it is not even -- yeah, it is that. so what is it that people find out of the gate so appealing? i get that the backside, i can

sort of gear information and folks to what i like, but overall what is the goal here for folks? really, what kind of experience are you looking for the user to have at the end of the day? >> we're looking for users to decide for themselves what choice they want to have. it is about having user choice again, and so today in our world we have social media that looks a lot like a small group of people who decide everything, what your moderation experience is no matter where you are in the word, who you get to interact with, and most times it is either biggest brands or the most polarizing posts because at the end of the day most social media platforms are trying to win over advertisers and not the end user. so what we've done at bluesky is we have prioritized the end user as our primary citizen on our platform. so what we care about is does the everyday user with, you know, only a few hundred

followers, do they have a great experience? that's what is happening, is they're actually meeting real people, people with only a few hundred followers are getting hundreds of likes on their posts because they're no longer tied to an algorithm that's not promoting them because they're not paying for it. >> one of the big challenges, of course, for all social media platforms is the concept of moderation, specifically how you fact check, what your responsibility is to those who spread propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, while also cultivating and allowing for an environment that welcomes various perspectives and points of views. how are you at bluesky walking that tight rope? >> well, i just heard you guys talk about what the responsibility is to women, and i think first of all there are so many women on social media platforms and most of these platforms are run by men.

bluesky is run by two women, me as the coo and jay graber as the ceo. one of the biggest differences is we just put safety as a priority. what did that look like? it means last year when we had invite codes we didn't open it up because we wanted to have a stronger moderation team. we brought over aaron rodderic who used leads us here at blues. it goes back to user choice. there are so many things between intolerance, hate speech and people having a bad experience that isn't governed on most social media platforms. there's deepfakes, rude posts, speculative information, and so on most other platforms there's nothing you can do about those types of content. on bluesky any user can go and create a labeler and that can sit on top of our moderation service, where if you don't want to see political content there's

a labeler that hides all of that content for you. all you have to do is subscribe to that. so it is this type of approach that gives power back to the people, that allows social media to evolve and change without waiting on us, a smaller company, you know, a handful of people to make that change for you. >> and then there's always the -- one of my favorites, the block which i already had to do. i had one person who thought they were just going to bring all of that ish over to bluesky and start talking crazy, crazy crap. i went the block, and it was such a good feeling. it just, you know, because it was such an outlier and that's the one thing that i will say in the time that i've been using it, that stood out. it was not the norm. it wasn't being regurgitated and pushed towards me because i had one, how should i put this

politely? crazy person say something wild and stupid and then that opened up a cavalcade of other crazy persons saying wild and stupid stuff, not fact based, not reliable information, pushing lies and distortion, that i did feel a little sense of control even in that very simple thing because my feed was then clear. it wasn't like this inundation. i think that experience is something that's important. you talk about, in fact, jay graber, the ceo, talks about how bluesky rose out of twitter's ashes to challenge x and thread. if someone bought or bluesky went down, everything is open source she said. what happened to twitter couldn't happen to us in the same ways because you would always have the option to immediately move without having to start over.

talk about that as a founding principle for bluesky. >> we say that we're billionaire proof, and oftentimes people are like, does this mean there are no billionaires involved with bluesky? what we mean by that is you don't have to trust us. we have built bluesky assuming that the future in this -- or that the company in the future might be a future adversary. what does that mean? it means if someone buys bluesky or if we're no longer here, we want to make sure that bluesky is still open and that means you own your data and you can move to greensk or something else. if it changes to something you absolutely hate, you can absolutely go somewhere else. when we say trust us, we mean trust our infrastructure, trust the process. that's a much more democratic way for us to build social online. >> i have a question from one of our producers.

she wants to know what we are calling posts on bluesky and also we would like to know about verification. >> when our team talks about making a post, we call it posts. we know other users came up with other names. >> original. i like that. very original. >> yes, verification is something that keeps coming up, and what we've done so far with verification is we will label impersonators within a few days, and to give you an idea twitter's verification system took a couple of days to a few weeks to get people verified. what we are doing is labelling impersonators, and then we have a new way of verifying in a way that gives you the control so you can use a website domain as your user name. so msnbc can be @msnbc.com. why is that exciting?

it is because in the future you can click that and maybe it will go to msnbc.com. so we really want to send people from bluesky to the open web. we think that bluesky's just the lobby and there's so many interesting experiences to discover versus on most other social platforms they're trying to depromote links. if you post links you are punished, versus on bluesky we encourage everyone to post links because it is all about content. let's share what is happening today. go and use bluesky to go and discover and route through the rest of the internet. >> it is a lobby where they want you to go to other places, meanwhile we've been at the casino where they're trying to keep you there as long as possible. rose wang, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> rose, a pleasure. a reminder for folks at home, "the weekend" is on bluesky now. give us a follow @theweekendmsnbc. you are watching "the weekend." more after this. "the weekend. more after this.

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with it. clearly spending $6.2 million of it on a banana duct taped to a board is art. >> so whenever i see things like this i think to myself, maybe i'm just not smart enough to get it. maybe it is too conceptual. tell me if i'm wrong. >> you are one of the smartest persons on the planet, the fact you did not buy it and not to mention your children would have a lot to say about their trust fund otherwise if you did. because to hand it off to them and say, hey, baby girls, here is a banana for your future education. >> no, i'm doing the opposite where i currently have my children running around the house with produce and tape, like, hang that up, take a picture of it, call it art. >> i just want to let y'all know how that would go over in my neighborhood. not that good. i just -- the idea you would spend that kind of cash, but if you got it, why not? that's what we do here. >> think about the commentary on the part of the artist.

>> yeah. >> think about it. to anticipate that as a possibility. >> and know that there was somebody foolish enough to buy it. >> take it down off -- not just to buy it. i would have -- here is one thing. if i had bought that banana i would let that banana rot on the wall. i would not have taken it down and ate that banana. >> don't touch my banana. leave it right there. >> i spent a lot of money on that banana. >> those maggots are worth $6.2 million. you know, this is what we do in america now, we spend that kind of cash. >> all right. >> i'll leave that there for you to sort of chew on. more to discuss next. you're watching "the weekend." can you believe this? >> pun intended. pun intended. >> after a $6.2 million banana, there's more. there's more ♪♪ now with vitamin d for the dark days of winter.

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