the fu fighters. i had to look at my phone for the lyrics. >> that turned into some party with the strokes. >> it was a danceoff. >> everyone was dancing on tables. >> my hair got stuck on woody harrelson's sweater button. >> we were there until 5:00 in the morning. >> and we would crawl home to bed. >> seems like they have quite the time. be sure to catch us tomorrow at 12:00 eastern where i'm going to sit down with jon chu, the director of "wicked." that does it for me. "the readout" with joy reid is up next. >> tonight, on "the reedout" -- >> i, gerald r. ford, president of the united states, pursuant

to the pardon power conferred upon me by article ii, section two of the constitution, have granted, and by these presence, do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto richard nixon. >> it was a pree.tive pardon that sparked a lot of controversy, because president nixon had likely committed crimes but hadn't been charged. 350 50 years later, joe biden considers s preemmtive pardon. and trump considers a plan to deport people to countries that aren't their own, and some of the countries he has in mind

are telling him no. we begin tonight with the trouble with donald trump's national security picks. among his many controversial and unqualified selections thus far, tulsi gabbard, his choice for director of national intelligence, looms as perhaps the most concerning of all. that's the message from nearly 100 farmer national security officials who say they're alarmed at the prospect of her leading the nation's intelligence community, overseeing all 17 intelligence agencies, including the cia, and briefing the president daily on intelligence matters. in a letter obtained by nbc news, the officials noted several of her past actions call into her question the ability to deliver unbiased intelligence briefings to the president and the entire national security apparatus, and should consider in closed session all information available to the u.s. government when considering

her qualifications to manage our country's intelligence agencies. the official said the senate must carefully evaluate whether she's equipped for the job, given that she would be the least experienced person to hold that position since it was created in 2004. the letter singles out one of her most questionable acts, the congresswoman made a secret trip to syria and met with its dictator, bashar al assad. after which she said she was skeptical of u.s. intelligence findings that assad's regime was behind a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of people. she continued to defend her visit with assad as a candidate for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination, including when she said this in 2019. >> do you think assad is an enemy? >> he's not the enemy of the united states, because syria does not pose a direct threat to the united states.

what is is assad to the u.s., what is the word? >> you can describe it however you want to describe it. >> i'm asking you how you describe it. >> my point is whether it's syria or any of these other countries, we need to look at their interests are counter to or aligned with ours. >> the officials also cited her penchant for parroting russian propaganda and her history as an apologist for vladamir putin. she posted this three days after russia invaded ukraine in february 2022. >> presidents putin, zelenskyy, and biden, it's time to put geopolitics aside and embrace respect and love for the ukrainian people by coming to an agreement that ukraine will be a neutral company. >> this week, three former aides told abc news that her views on russia have been shaped by consumption of russian state media, saying that she regularly read and shared articles from a

russian news site. of course, tulsi gabbard isn't the only one of trump's picks coming under scrutiny. pete hegseth faces an uphill battle with even some republican senators. in the meantime, his lawyer says his name has been submitted to the fbi for a back ground check. after days of mixed messages over whether he would switch horses and back ron desantis as defense secretary instead, today donald trump publicly backed the former fox weekend host, posting on social media that hegseth's support is strong and deep. much more so than the fake news would have you believe. pete hegseth tonight said he spoke again today with iowa republican senator joni ernst, and trump spoke with nbc's kristen welker about hegseth's prospects. >> it looks like pete is doing

well now. i mean, people were a little bit concerned. he's a young guy with a tremendous track record, actually. he went to princeton, he went to harvard. he was a good student at both, but he loves the military, and i think people are starting to see it. so we'll be working on his nomination along with a lot of others. >> since you bring him up, do you still have confident in pete hegseth? >> yes, i do, i really do. i've known him through fox, but i've known him for a long time. he's basically a military time. every time i talk to him, all he wants to talk about is the military. >> have you gotten assurances from senators that he's going to be confirmed? >> no. >> do you think he can make it? >> i think he will. a lot of senators have called me up saying he's fantastic. >> you don't drink yourself. >> no. >> you talked about how devastating drinking can be. >> yeah. >> how concerned are you that the person who you picked for this top job at the defense

department, at least according to those who have worked with him, has struggled with drinking? >> but i have spoken to people that know him very well and say he does not have a drinking problem. >> joining me now is the president and ceo of media matters and charlie sykes. angelo, i've known him through fox, that is the way donald trump seems to decide who he wants around him, whether they're either a billionaire or he pardoned them in the past or has some other relationship with them personally that way. but in this case, it's someone he saw on tv, he likes the way he looks and talks about america. that's not the way we normally choose people for an important job like the department of defense, but what do you make of that, and i'm sure media matters has a rich history of some of the things that pete hegseth has said, and some of the things that tulsi gabbard has said. and when you go through your own archives on these two people, what do you make of it?

>> there's a revolving door between fox and the incoming trump administration and the past trump administration that. is one of the criteria for getting a job. you said something in your intro that hit the nail on the head, which is that he does think of this as theater, as central casting. that's sort of disturbing, given all we know about rising authoritarianism, because the reality is authoritarianism is theater. so part of hegseth's role is to play a part. he sort of sees him as somebody that is going to be out there representing the idea of -- he was in the military, a radical shift in how we think about that role and our own public life. in terms of what they said that's disturbing, hegseth is especially concerning, because he's a christian nationalist. obviously, his misogyny is prevalent. but he's somebody that is a christian nationalist, and he

really believes that islam needs to be eradicated from the world. he sees the military as not just a part of american foreign policy, but sort of as a flaming sword for jesus, and that is going to poison the advice that he gives to trump. and gabbard on the other hand, she's a fox figure too. she was on air there 122 times in the last year. she guest hosted all the time and she was with tucker carlson a lot. she's not a credible messenger. she's pushed ed ed a long hist radical ideas, and that is something now that in this new capacity, if she gets into this role, she's going to deal with the fringes and put them directly in front of trump in a way it used to have to filter through a coup of tweets.

now it will go directly from infowars to donald trump. >> yeah. charlie, i think angelo has concisely put together what one of the challenges here is, right? donald trump's depth on issues is not very deep. it's sort of -- it's fox deep, what he sees on fox, what looks and sounds good to him. for a lot of his base, the information that they take in comes from social media, from places like inininfowars as doe tulsi gabbard. and pete hegseth's world is shaped in the ideas of the way he thinks society ought to be. but these are managerial jobs. the defense secretary is managing 3 million people, managing a giant organization with a big budget. he doesn't have any experience of doing that. so i want you to talk about that, and also specifically tulsi gabbard. she's going to come in there and whatever r.t. has fed her in her life, she can feed that to

donald trump. here's tulsi gabbard talking about russia. this is tulsi gabbard in her own words. >> putin has made very clear all along that their security, in his mind, is what is at stake here. >> i don't want to interrupt you here, but putin also said ukraine is not a country. >> it's not strategically possible to think that ukraine is going to beat russia. you hear joe biden say this is putin's war, this is putin's fault. it's putin who is the one who is solely responsible. well, the united states and some of these european nato countries are fueling this war. >> charlie, this is her tweet in 2015. showing support for putin. al qaeda attacked us on 9/11 and must be defeated. obama won't bomb them in syria, putin did. the agency she is being tapped to head was created in 2004 as a result of trying to prevent

another 9/11. your thoughts? >> okay. so, i mean, this goes right to the heart of it. it is not simply that they are unqualified and have quirks like drinking. these two nominees pose a real present danger to national security. they are dangerous to the security of the united states of america. now, this is crucial, because of course, donald trump wants to portray himself as the advocate of the military and a strong united states. but with tulsi gabbard, you have somebody who has been parroting the propaganda of some of the world's thuggish authoritarians, including vladamir putin. the fact that she's been mainlining russian propaganda which will now, reasonably you can assume, will be part of the way that she tries to influence the president of the united states. pete hegseth, you know, the drinking is bad and, you know,

would alone be disqualifying, as well as his allegations about treatment to women. but he is also an extremist. he is a trump loyalist, who has, i would say bizarre ideas about the role of the military, the role of the united states, and this is something that i think the senate needs to focus on, and the american people need to focus on. do these two nominees make the united states stronger and safer, or do they bring into the very heart of the federal government real dangers, and with tulsi gabbard, umm, you know, where actually does the information come from? what are her instincts? this is an administration that claims to be america first, yet here now you have somebody at the right hand of the president of the united states, with access to the most sensitive intelligence this country has, who has been a toady for

vladamir putin. if this was a liberal democratic president bringing in a russian or a chinese stooge into the oval office, the republicans would have their hair on fire. and yet this is exactly what donald trump is doing. >> i mean, russia -- angelo, the russians are gleeful. they're saying trump's cabinet will dismantle america. that's what they think. can you very briefly, this is the horse shoe though, right? i would have considered tulsi gabbard to be on part of the left. it's like a horse shoe thing, where she believes a lot of propaganda, but it's not clear her idealology beyond that. all of the conspiracy theorys now come to donald trump's door. >> that's important to consider going forward. a lot of things, the narrative they're telling is that they're incoming mechanisms of peace, that they're for peace.

that's the part that is so disturbing. any criticism tied to russia is viewed as this is just the deep state trying to continue forever wars. so we have to be careful when we talk about this. >> you're right, and the weirdest thing about this is that in a way, a part of donald trump's appeal to some people who voted for him is they saw him as a peace candidate. that's how you get an obama trump voter. people who were anti-war voters in some cases voted for trump because the other side had liz and dick cheney on it. there's a weird horse shoe thing happening. thank you both very much. coming up, there are reports joe biden is considering preemptively pardons some of trump's potential targets. is that a good move? s potential. is that a good move?

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the use of a preemptive presidential pardon, one made before any crime is prosecuted, was most famously issued in 1974 by president gerald ford on behalf of then disgraced former president richard nixon. it was a very unpopular decision at the time and cost ford his

credibility and re-election. while it was never tested in court, it set a modern precedent for tex he extent of a presiden pardon power. that power was used by jimmy carter when he pardoned vietnam war draft dodgers in 1977. but it goes much further back, including lincoln allowing pardons to allow former confederates to be pardoned if they took an oath to the union. we learned of a number of republican lawmakers who reached out to donald trump in hopes of receiving one of those preemptive pardons though they never came. >> he reached out to me to ask if he could have a meeting about a presidential pardon. meeting t a presidential pardon.

>> and it appears that margery taylor een still wants one, tweeting in response to joe biden pardoning hunter biden that trump should provide republicans with a blanket pardon, too. joe biden is considering announcing preemptive to dr. anthony fauci, liz cheney, adam schiff, and former joint

chiefs chairman general mark milley. while not unprecedented, the question is, should biden do it? joining me now is melissa murray, nyu law professor, msnbc legal analyst, and co-host of "the strict scrutiny" podcast. thank you for being here. i want to read to you what senator-elect adam schiff, who served on the january 6th committee, the committee that conducted those questions that we just saw in that clip, he served on that committee and he said, i would urge the president not to do that, not to issue preemptive pardons. i think it would seem defensive and unnecessary. give me your thoughts on that, because adam schiff didn't commit a crime, he just ran a committee that uncovered potential crimes committed by donald trump. that's why trump hates him and so many other people that testified. if joe biden were to issue preemptive pardons to them, would it feed the idea that they

had committed a crime? >> well, i think that's certainly the worry here. as representative now senator-elect schiff has said, he believes this is unnecessary because what he did in the moment was righteous. he wasn't committing a crime, he was actually performing his constitutional duty. he had these responsibilities in congress and he was simply performing them. to be pardoned for it is to indicate the underlying conduct was somehow criminal, and therefore worthy of presidential clemency. again, we are kind of in an upside down world where we're thinking about these presidential preemptive pardons because we are anticipating a new administration that is bent on vengeance and retribution. that's never been where we were before. and that's why this seems so untoward. but may actually be necessary given the things that those who are likely to have this authority going forward have

said they will do. >> and so there are a couple of peak places to go here. number one, when jimmy carter, president carter pardoned people who dodged the draft, there was a great feeling in the country that the vietnam war itself had been wrong. when lincoln pard oned those wh waged war against the u.s., a lot of people say it emboldened the confederacy to form things like the klu klux klan. in the case of these people, the fear is not that they did something wrong, it's just that donald trump was so angry that he was investigated and called a fascist by someone like mark milley. but it's not about putting them in jail, but basically bankrupting them by dragging them into court hearings and ruining their lives. if they get this pardon, for instance, could he still go after them anyway and still force them to litigate up to the

supreme court whether or not he can still charge them with crimes, and would the supreme court even side with them given the makeup of the court? >> again, a presidential pardon, especially one that preempts certain conduct that might be viewed as criminal in nature going forward, that will sort of free you from the criminal prosecution. but we've seen this administration say very clearly that it is not limiting itself to contemplating the possibility of criminal prosecutions. they're also thinking about civil liabilities. it's worth noting that donald trump was not just the subject of a number of criminal prosecutions but the subject of civil investigations, as well. in certain cases, i'm thinking tish james' civil liability lawsuit in new york state. he was found to be libel. the trump organization was found to be libel in that context. so it's also the civil

liability, which can also be incredibly resourced and expensive and could bankrupt something. that's not within the scope of a presidential pardon, nor are state level prosecutions, and that is the worry, that there might be some red state or red city prosecutor eager to press charges against one of these individuals. >> just to give it some context, in 1866, the supreme court approved preemptive pardons involving a former confederate senator. >> john roberts, of course, in trump versus united states case, regarding his presidential pardon power, the president's authority to pardon in other words is conclusive and precollusive. do you believe that this court's feelty to donald trump to do whatever he wants, that if he decided to let his -- or ask his

justice department to still go after someone who joe biden had pardoned, do you think the supreme court would protect that person? >> hard to say. this is a court that definitely has shown an interest in protecting certain individuals and has given donald trump sweeping immunity and any president going forward sweeping immunity. i wonder if there are feelties to the office, not necessarily to the man. i imagine it could be the case that having said the pardon power is conclusive, that applies to all presidents exercising it. we've had other courts that made that clear, as well. this is a vast power, and there is no other analog to it in the scope of presidential powers. what is unusual it is grossly underutilized. you think of it in the context of bill clinton pardoning mark

rich. but there are lots of low level offenders who could be pard onned and they're not. for those who are on the enemy's list, might you also be thinking about use thing authority for other individuals who have been wrapped up in the justice system for nonviolence, low-level offenses. >> i will leave aside the fact that donald trump is potentially pardoning over a thousand people from january 6th, 2021. he's going the pardon them, and god knows what that is like when those people are showing up in the walmart or home depot next to some of the police officers that they harmed or even maybe in some cases almost killed. so we're in for a wild ride. melissa murray, thank you so very, very much. up next, trump just named two of the people who will carry out his imgrant crackdown. we'll talk about that. plus, his new documentary

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deportation policies. last night, trump announced the selection of two career officials to manage the border. recordny scott, former chief of the u.s. border patrol under presidents biden and trump, will lead customs and border protections. and caleb patelo will serve as head of i.c.e. he's worked for the agency for roughly two decades. they will implement the policy designed by kristi noem at nhs, stephen miller at the white house, and tom homan who trump tapped to be the border czar. during trump's first administration, miller and homan designed and implemented what one official called the most brazen child abuse program implemented by the u.s. government. tomorrow night, msnbc will premiere "separated" a documentary by erol

morris. morris spoke to a former federal official working in refugee resettlements who described how the child separation policy used existing programs to separate families. >> the unaccompanied children program, which i worked in, was essentially hijacked for a purpose for which it was never intended, nor authorized in law. it was a program designed to be a child protection program for children who enter the united states without parents, and was instead used as a tool to take children from their parents. >> and joining me now is msnbc's the one who interviewed rodney scott back in 2018, when scott was chief of a san diego sector. jacob joins me now. jacob, i want to read a little bit of the letter that rodney scott sent to you. the angry letter writing this --

>> but they were cages, right? >> yeah, he wasn't happy about that, joy, and thank you for having me back on. especially to talk about "separated" in light of the election. i see it as a totally different endeavor now. we talked about it before, about what had been. and now really as what will come, and when we talk about what will come, it's some of these officials like rodney scott who i interviewed in 2018 who ultimately -- which ultimately became the basis of the book, which became the basis for this film. he was not happy that i called cages cages, but that's what they were, and nobody had ever taken children from their parents in the history of the united states of america and have not since, other than the trump administration to scare people from coming to this

country. that is just point of fact. >> we now know that there are some cities in texas and in florida, they're setting up already potentially to set up, i guess what one would call internment camps, i don't know what else you could call them. sanctuary cities are preparing to defend their communities based on interviewing some of these people taking charge of this policy and doing all the research that went into that, what do you expect to see happen next? >> what i expect to see happen, joy, is what i don't think the trump administration expects to see happen. what the movie reminds me of today, which perhaps it didn't before the election, when i watch it back today, it is the people of the united states of america in reaction to the types of news stories and actions that you just read headlines to that stood up and stopped this policy. when i reported from the floor of the convention, we saw those

mass deportation signs, everybody thought what is this? is it really going to happen? and the polls say the people support mass deportation. but in the face of some of the headlines you read, in the face of a mass deportation policy, which is family separation by another name, the american people will, i believe, do what they did in the summer of 2018, which is stand up and stop this policy, creating the only major policy reversal of the first trump term. it wasn't left or right but universal condemnation that the global thought war morally reprehensible. >> 1300 of the 5500 children are still not back with their parents. i would imagine that per your reporting, we should not expect there to be any attempt to do that at this stage, now that the same crew and some new faces are back in charge. >> not only that, joy, but those 1360 children without confirmed

reunifications today, and the rest of the 5500 children who were separated from their parents, are all at risk of deportation. i cannot underline this enough, are all at risk of deportation with the incoming trump administration. they do not have permanent legal status in the united states of america. the biden administration has given them rolling permission to stay in the united states for 36 months that has to be reauthorized every 36 months. so if the trump administration said it's time to get out of the country, they could do to. and based on tom homan, the incoming border czar has talked about this, that is not out of the realm of possibility. >> yeah. neither are things like denaturalization. people who are already naturalized citizens who could lose that. there's a lot on the table that you will be covering. jacob, thank you very much. you can watch "separated" tomorrow night right here on msnbc at 9:00 p.m. eastern.

up next, trump is acting like he's the king of the world. that's after the break. of the . that's after the break

a certain kind of american hub russ is on full display with trump acting like he's not already president, which he won't be until january 20th of next year, but the ruler of the world. the incoming trump administration is preparing a list of countries to which it wants to deport immigrants when their home countries refuse to

accept them. that means sending nonmexicans to countries other than mexico, say like the bahamas, panama or grenada. it's an arrogance that other countries that policies that have nothing to do with what trump wants. these are sovereign nations, and let's not forget such a plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people to countries where they don't know the people or even the language and have no connection to the culture or means of survival. it's not even clear if these deportees would be allowed to legally work and live in those countries. in the case of mexico, trump plans to use the threat of tariffs to try to force that country to comply. the president of mexico said she does not want to accept non-mexicans sent from the united states. while the office of the prime minister of the bahamas said it was presented with the idea of

accepting migrants from other countries by trump's transition team and firmly rejected it. trump, of course, is not yet president, but he's clearly missed the memo. this weekend, he'll join french president macron in paris for the reopening of the notre dame cathedral five years after it was devastated by fire. joe biden, the actual current president, was invited but opted not to attend. joining me now are my two guests. erin, i want to start with you. what struck me about this attempt by the incoming trump administration before it each takes office to kind of muscle parts of the caribbean, grenada and turks and caicos and the bahamas, saying you need to take these migrants and say the same thing to mexico, treating these countries as if they are colonies or plantations of the united states. and what do you make of the fact that these countries thus far are saying no?

>> yeah, i mean, the caribbean -- the colonial history of it is pretty striking, joy, and you have the bahamas saying, yeah, you don't get to tell us what to do anymore, fyi, talk about missing the memo. we talk about resistance to the trump administration is going to look like domestically, but what we're hearing out of the bahamas and mexico is a glimpse into what that might look like abroad with. the bahamas saying we're not going to take migrant it is trump tries to deport them, mexico saying the same, other countries on his detour to wherever this is do the same? and if so, where is he going to mass deport these people to? this is a day one promise he made to tackle illegal immigration. and it is also worth remembering in his first term, he promised to remove all illegal immigrants from the united states. that didn't happen then. i'm not saying we should. take him seriously.

he promised to impose tariffs, he did that. but just as you were saying, joy, these people are in so many cases fleeing for opportunity to just think that they can be dropped off somewhere, where they may not even have the opportunity to build a life, to, you know, to be able to earn a living. you know, there's no plan beyond, you know, we're dropping them off at your door and you take it from here. you know, i really just -- it doesn't team like a well thought out plan, at least at this point. there are a couple of countries saying we're not interested in this plan. >> and the thing is, when he's mimicking people like ron desantis did and what the governor of texas did, when they were shipping migrants and in the case of detan sis, going into texas and picking up people in texas and shipping them around the country, flying them to new york and martha's vineyard, he's internationalizing that same sort of strategy. but you can do that in the united states, because it's the

same country. and what do you make of the fact that one of the big groups of people that ron desantis did this to were venezuelaens, and the president of venezuela is operating a trumpian style autocracy, he would be sending venezuelaens back to him, many of whom fled because of oppression. the community there in venezuela are generally republican leaning, they like trump. but how do you think that's going to go over in a place like florida, when he is shipping people from venezuela, not to martha's vineyard, but back to venezuela? >> that remains to be seen here in florida. sadly, i think it might actually go overwhelm. we have seen just the callous attitude from a lot, not only in the venezuelaen community, but the cuban community, just get them all out of here and ship them back. you talked earlier, and erin made a good point, i never suggest taking the trump administration at their word.

but remember, they said this first wave, joy, of deportations were going for focused on the criminal undocumenteds. so what sovereign nation is going to say, okay, send me all of your criminal undocumenteds, unless it's going to be repatriated to the country of origin. it shows you that this is not a well thought out plan, and trump thinks it is an imperial presidency where hi can, through magical thinking, do what he wants. no nation on earth is going to say if you're focusing on criminals, send them to our country unless it's their country of origin, joy. >> exactly. not well thought out. let's go to this other issue. the working class voted overwhelmingly for trump across racial groups. his base is among working class people, but here's what the guardian wrote, in a recruitment process that mocks his appeal to working class voters, he's tapped a gallery of mega rich

backers that will give him power to cut spending on public services that are used by the poorest and most vulnerable. at least 11 picks are either billionaires or near billionaires or married to billionaires. your thoughts on that, erin? >> you know, joy, i'm reminded of the democracy summit that we went to at howard university a few months ago where we were talking about this very subject, what impact will the modern day oligarchy have on our democracy? there's been reporting on billionaires and their influence on the supreme court. but that influence also shows up in our public education system, in our health care system, and now these are people who are going to be running not just influencing but running agencies. how will that power translate into policy? that's going to be a really important thing for us to pay attention to. eight out of ten of the world's richest people are americans who made money in tech.

and several of those people have anti-democratic views. >> the billionaire and near billionaire are coming in promising to slash the money. first the social security, then the pentagon, the military, a lot of working class military folks are about to find out their benefit also be sunsetted. they're coming after health care. how do you think that will go over with his base? >> look, first off, i wouldn't call this a cabinet. this is more of a cartel court in service of the king. they're there to do trump's bidding and get away with as much as they can in terms of their own self-enrichment. when it comes to his base, joy, you have to remember as well, look, almost a quarter of a million of them died, paid with their lives during the last trump term during the pandemic when he advised them not to do certain things and they followed. i don't think unfortunately the base is going to come around to this type of thinking.

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well, friends, we made it to the end of another week, so it's

time to play our favorite game, who won the week? back with me are my guests. who won the week? >> well, joy, it would be the first of many to come in the future, but vladamir putin won the week. mike johnson this week, the speaker of the house, confirmed ukraine funding is done for the foresee able in the next congress. and kash patel head of the fbi, tulsi gabbard, incoming appointment. vladamir putin, the winner of the week. >> i hate that that's true. all right, cheer me up, erin, who won the week? >> oh, i've got one that will cheer you up. i'm thinking about somebody that was brilliant and funny and a dear friend, it's you that win the week because it's your birthday weekend. so much love, i'll definitely be

celebrating. happy birthday. >> thank you much. the only thing i can say to that, who won the week is kenld rick lamar won the week. it went to number one on the billboard charts. it's like seven of the top ten billboard songs are his songs. he has a show in toronto, canada. the award winning rapper is like the king of the music industry right now, and also going to be playing in the super bowl in the halftime show. kendrick lamar won the week, y'all. love y'all, friends. that is tonight's idout." follow