curiosity and wonder transform into body odor and poor judgment. and then you will, the parents are supposed to learn how to communicate with them. my wife emails me articles, how to talk to your teenager. i'm like, delete. >> your kids are 13 and 10, thank you for the warning, but when your kids watch this what do they say when they are such fodder for your comedy? >> i try not to interact with my children. no, i think they get it. i have a 12-year-old, three good morning. it is saturday, december 7th.

i am alecia menendez with michael steele here in washington, d.c. symone is off today. trump standing by his man, nominee pete hegseth in an an, exclusive interview with "meet the press." we are following new developments in the manhunt for the gunmen who killed the united healthcare ceo in yunnan new york city. we have a lot of news to get to you with another busy saturday morning. welcome to "the weekend." donald trump is indeed standing by his pick to lead the pentagon, despite the growing list of his treatment against women and use of alcohol. in a new exclusive interview with "meet the press" moderator kristen welker, trump said, pete hegseth is quote, doing well now and claims, hegseth

has fantastic support from republican senators. nbc news is, at least six are uncomfortable backing hegseth. there's also the fact that he likes the professional experience needed to lead america's largest government agency. a small point. with his picks, trump is showing us how he will govern, loyalty over competence. unqualified people with serious baggage hand-picked to carryout very serious jobs. joining us now, msnbc political analyst wanita tolliver . her new book, "a more perfect party ," the night diane chisel and diahann carroll reshaped politics is out, we are excited about that. for me illinois congressman and 2020 presidential candidate, joe walsh, and my buddy, joins us at the table. mcmechen morning, nothing says

saturday morning like an advanced clip of "meet the press. " let's watch this clip from our colleague and donald trump. >> it looks like pete is doing well now. people were a little bit concerned. he is a young guy with a tremendous track record, actually. with to princeton and went to harvard. he loves the military and i think people are starting to see it. will be working hard on his nomination along with a lot of others. >> since you bring him up, do you still have confidence in pete hegseth? >> i do. a very smart guy. i've known him through fox, but i've known him a long time. he's basically a military guy. every time i talk to you all he wants to talk about is the military. he's a military guy. >> have you got assurances that he will be confirmed? >> no, a lot of people call me up and said he did he is

fantastic. >> you don't drink yourself, you talked about how devastating drinking can be. how concerned are you that the person you picked for this top job at the defense department, at least according to those who have worked with him, have struggled with drinking. >> i have spoke to people i know him very well and they say, he does not have a drinking problem. mcmechen so, joe, he is a military guy. he's a military guy. every time we meet and talk we talk about military stuff. [ laughter ] that is all a lie. donald trump does not really even know anything about this guy, besides what he sees on fox news. that is the attractive point for him. >> besides the point he is a pretty face. let's get to the point because it is saturday morning. trump does not give a that pete hegseth has a history of treating women like because

that is what donald trump has done. trump does not care he is an abuser and harasser of women, because that is what trump has been. it is the drinking i think that donald trump has always considered to be a weakness, but we were talking earlier, michael, i don't think trump wants to take another hit. he lost matt gaetz, i don't think his ego wants him to lose another cabinet pick. >> i want to be clear, this is a huge job. when you talk about the department of defense, you're talking about the largest government agency. you are talking about an $841 billion budget. we are talking about 3.4 million service members and civilians. this is an important role. to me, some of this speaks to how shallow the trump bench actually is. i think there has been this question of, what will the republican party look like post trumpism? and a part of what you see, i don't think they have actually

built out a bench. >> the only counter to building out a bench i have is that donald trump has called other people potentially for this job, including the governor of florida. that is the reality here i am sure hegseth hurt or did not feel too confident about. when we talk about the size of this agency, the purview of responsibility, hegseth does not have anything substantive to offer in this role. the other thing is the reality of what his nomination reflects to servicemembers who are required and to operate and exist at a standard that does not include harm against women, that does not include harm against women. i am the daughter and granddaughter of veterans here that expectation when you take active duty service members, they will look and say, he is doing it, why am i being held to a different standard? i think there are so many different things at play about what he reflects as a potential

leader of this agency. >> i love it that point, juanita, what he reflects. cabinet officials generally sort of background a little, depending on the department or agency over time. a lot of people know, maybe the secretary of state, or the secretary of health, but they may not know some of the lesser cabinet-- the same standard of who they represent, and they do reflect a little bit of us, which then brings me to the point about how the u.s. senators, the republican senators who now have the majority, how this reflects on them, how their advice and consent role, constitutionally mandated, reflects on them. you have john diarse, at the center of this, put out a tweet saying quote, i just had another substantive conversation with johnny ernst, i appreciate her sincere point and i look for to meeting with

her next week. her tweet was, pete hegseth and i will continue our constructive conversations as we move forward together in this process. we plan to meet together again next week and at a minimum, we agreed that he deserves the opportunity to lay out his vision for our work fighters at a fair hearing. what about your behavior, your vision for our war fighters is one thing, but to your point, your behavior sends a message to those very same war fighters about the person who is going to be sitting in the chair. where does this put u.s. senators right now? i think at the end of the day, they are going to do whatever they-- what trump wants them to do? >> i tend to agree with that, michael, except when it comes to issues of defense and national security. that is why i think tulsi gabbard will be in real trouble as well.

senators fill in real trouble about defense, as they should, and national security. i really do think the hegseth nomination is still in real trouble . i think they will probably toughen up and maybe take one more of trump's, and it could be this one. >> someone like hegseth can afford to lose three republican votes for me that is how the math works out. i want to evoke who you are looking at that will hold the line. and if you are democrats, where you are pressing them to get them to that no? >> i am not sure it is the democrats' responsibility to present these republican senators, i think going back to that. also, the general culture under the republican party under dominant donald trump, nominee after nominee none of these people have the capability. you mentioned tulsi gabbard, she also has a file that fits service people, former within the intelligence people saying, y'all need to look at this file

, you will need to look at this file in private because it is probably fake in terms of her alignment with authoritarian regimes, in terms of her alignment with people like putin, asad, and russia. remember, that is why trump is picking them. he wants that alignment and is seeking that meeting with putin, all the way with offering covid tests in a moment where americans did not have access to them in the early days of the pandemic. another concern about these incompetent individuals who trump is putting up there, is paired that with this urgent desire by his incoming administration to move the civil service, who serve no matter who the president is, they want to clear that out. what that paints a picture in my mind is a clear runway for donald trump to be the dictator on they want. >> there is the incompetence, and then there is the lack of fitness. the problem is, in many of these cases, there is both appearance >> in many cases, there is competence, and the lack of any

cohesion is a part of the chaos model that trump likes around him. >> exactly. and his only criteria is to be an uber loyalist. understand, what he wants patel and tulsi gabbard, and hegseth is, to go out and destroy the agencies they are intending to manage, to get back. it is all about intended retribution. >> when you blow a hole in the middle of the federal government, what do you do then? what happens when you take out these agencies? what do they think this looks like? i am sitting atop an agency that i just cleaved off 20,000 employees me for example, and now the phones are ringing, but there's no one at the desk to answer the phone. >> you put in a bunch of loyalists. >> you put in loyalists who have nothindo with the pin and paper in front of them, and how to answer the call from the irate citizen that has now realized, oh, my service, my

benefits, my assistance is gone, who do i call? is anyone thinking through the rest of this? >> of course not, michael! i don't think anybody on his team is thinking about that. i don't think anyone is. i point to the example on abortion rights. republicans have pushed for this for decades and decades, and then it happens. and then they get pummeled into midterms and it is something the democrats are running on, but there is a longevity to that of what stays in the mind of voters, and was at play. the only playbook they have is destroy, have fun destroying, and point the blame at someone else, hide your hand after you are done with it. you talk about benefits, i am thinking, okay, they have got the social security administration. who is making sure those checks go out to individuals? they impact veteran affairs and benefits, hospitals across this

country for veterans, who is going to lose? it is the american public. that is why i think it is important for democrats to come in and have an explicit, contrasting vision for this nation. while they are doing the battle, fighting donald trump, whatever extremist policies come from his administration they need to fill the vacuum with his clear-- >> but trump is not thinking beyond retribution. >> of course. >> that is is goal posts right there and once he passes it, he is back in mar-a-lago. juanita tolliver, former congressman walsh, thank you both of you for being a witness this morning. a live report from new york city as authorities announced a new report in the manhunt for the person who killed the united health ceo. you are watching "the weekend." hear end." hear easy to apply for the whole family. vicks vapostick. and try new vaposhower max for steamy vicks vapors.

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now to the breaking news we have been watching closely this week, the hunt for the ceo who

killed united healthcare. the fbi offering $20,000 for any word that leads to an arrest. authorities have extended their search beyond new york saying, the suspect may have left the city by bus. on friday, searchers searching central park found a backpack. following all the latest developments, joining us from new york city, priscilla, what is the latest? >> alicia, michael , good morning. a number of detailed coming and focus overnight. first, the fbi is now taking a more public role in this case, announcing that $50,000 reward in addition to the $10,000 that the nypd was offering for any information that could lead to the arrest of this unidentified suspect. the other thing is, police finding that potentially crucial piece of evidence in central park after searching on foot, and with drones, that gray backpack that they believe

the shooter may have been carrying when he carried out this crime, and we are told that backpack is being taken to a lab, where it is going to be inspected for fingerprints and potentially dna evidence before it is opened. they are hoping, according to two senior law enforcement officials, that could lead to clues that could help them find this person or shed or details on this case. as we are talking about the f not involved, we also know there are local departments assisting the nypd, including atlanta police. you may remember that police say that the bus the suspect took into new york city arriving 10 days before this crime originated in atlanta, and of course, they believe that he got back on a bus at port authority and is no longer in new york city. they are urging anyone who has any information to look very closely at these photos and if you recognize that person, to the f vi or nypd tip line, that if you see this person on the street or you believe you see

this person somewhere out in public, to call 911 immediately. alicia, michael pierce >> priscilla, authorities said to me the shell casings at the scene had the words deny, delay, and opposed in marker, can you tell us about what authorities are making of that now? >> reporter: yeah, we know that that is the title of a book, used to describe some of the tactics that the insurance company uses to deny or not pay claims. detectives and investigators have said, they still have no motive. what they are saying, and there was a briefing late yesterday with the nypd chief detective, he says, they do not believe this is personal. they have been speaking with family and friends and it does not appear that the motive here was personal or related to anything in his personal, ryan thompson's personal life. they are also sharing new details about the kind of weapon that may have been used, saying, it may have been a veterinarian pistol. something used on farms and

ranches to euthanize large animals without making a loud noise. of course, they are hoping they may be able to find additional clues about all of this in that backpack. >> priscilla thompson for us in new york city, thank you. we are also following breaking news out of south korea this morning where it looks like president toon survived an impeachment attempt after the majority of his party boycotted the vote. before the boat, president trump 24 apologize for imposing martial law and said, he will leave it up to his party if he will leave office early. even if today's boat is defeated. the consumer financial protection arrow is here. later, democrats narrowed their republican majority of the house. congressman robert garcia will be here to talk about holding line in the second trump administration. rump administration.

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ramaswamy brought their circus to capitol hill this week, meeting with republican lawmakers. trump tapped the parent to leave the task force on government efficiency and both have land to/these across the federal government. neither have worked politics themselves, so there's that. one of their first things could be the consumer financial protection bureau. this week, must posted on his social media platform to, delete cfpb. while complaining there are too many duplicates of regulatory agencies. the director of the consumer financial protection bureau, rohit chopra, joins us now. i had too much coffee, i came in tired up this morning, i really am fired up for this particular conversation. i will admit, when your department was first created, i was suspicious and curious, but have learned by paying

attention and seeing the impact of the level of protection you bring to consumers, and why consumers have come to value that. so, this idea that you have the idiotic receipt now led by these two individuals, coming and saying, we are going to delete this protection, so we can just run a muck, and not protecting those varying interests of consumers, is a problem. how are the folks at cfpb sort of dealing with and addressing what is coming? >> well, i don't even know what it means when you say you are going to delete the cfpb, are you just begging for a financial crisis? that is actually what happened when we didn't have watchdogs over wall street. you know, the

last 48 hours the cfpb announced about $2 billion in refunds for people who were scammed by a credit repair ring . just yesterday, we sued a bank that had harmed disabled and older people getting their social security checks. so, are we talking about just deleting all the laws that make sure when we get a mortgage, or we get a credit card, that the interest is calculated right? i think it actually would be mayhem. so, i don't understand why people would want financial crime, and if they say it is duplicative, who else will do it ? because it was not done, and we saw what happened in the mortgage crisis and the trillions of dollars we lost. >> there was a piece on msnbc.com that i think sort of answers your rhetorical question and the emphasis for

not liking this. she writes, has made it no secret he would like s to branch into lung financial services and potential to build the government into his will and lowering his authority when he can. it's plain how eliminating cfpb benefits musk, if in fact specifically he wants to turn x into a financial platform. >> in the past few years, we have seen how tech companies are lurching into financial services. now, we use our phones to transfer payments even sometimes for buy now, pay later loans. we are not just going to look at the old stuff and traditional banks, we are going to look at these tech companies, and are they actually honoring federal law when it comes to your financial privacy, when it comes to guarding against fraud? and so, we have gotten a lot of pushback from billionaires and their lobbyists when it comes to fairly enforcing the law. i

think this is a very weird, the fund defund the wall street police scheme and we have to stop it. [ laughter ] >> put that on a t-shirt. >> i guess populace is aligning yourself with thanks. >> this whole thing for me is just a grist on the public in the sense that, you have this billionaire who is running around talking like he is some guy that has been working a farm for 30 years, trying to keep a manufacturing company running, who is really just setting himself, and using donald trump. that is the thing, donald trump, you really are easy to punk. i was surprised how easy, i guess you say enough nice things and drop a lot of cash, that is enough.

the reality is, there are real consequences, should this agency go away. there are real consequences if we unleash this tech bro class that wants to go out and introduce themselves to other facets of our life without regulation, without oversight. , to your point about the platform, x, being financial, you have dee virgin, noting x was supposed to be a bank by now. this time last year, musk said in an internal x meeting, it would blow my mind if they could not have someone's financial life by the end of 2024. the first step toward this version is a venmo like payment teacher still in development. x is, it has secured licenses to process payments in 30 states, including california, but has yet to get approval in key states like new york. they are telling you the plan. the question is, what do we do

about it and what is the impact? >> i think that, we have done a lot over the past decade to earn the public's support, and that includes from a wide range of those who were skeptical, including conservatives. and behind closed doors, you hear both republicans, democrats saying, you've got to make sure when it comes to all these new uses of data, all of the big tech companies, that you are on guard to make sure that it does not create massive harm. and great, if more tech openings want to jump in the game, we like that. all we are saying is just follow the same laws that everyone else has to go. you don't get a free pass because you are well connected. >> but they want to knock down those walls. >> this is a five year term. are you staying? >> we serve many offices in the government. we have five year terms, it is included intended to cross over from government to government. we respect the process. if the

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carry out donald trump's drew county him immigration service is starting to take shape. this week, trump nominated ronnie scott for the customs and border protection agency head. scott is responsible for border policies like those in mexico. he has promised to have mass deportation starting day one. the transition team is looking to deport some migrants to countries other than their own. they are preparing a list of countries to which migrants being deported should their home countries refused to accept them. cruelty is the point we have seen before. during trump's first term, families were intentionally separated at the border, children taken from their parents as is meant for crossing into the united states. over 4000 children were separated from their families, an estimated 1400 remain separated today. the extent of that cruelty was brought to light in documentaries. tonight, a new documentary airs on msnbc. here's a look at the film, " separated.

" >> that was the time when i saw what had been talked about and what about in the media, caves locked up in cages, sitting on these concrete or linoleum floors. they thought that showing the world separation through the eyes of people like me, they would scare [ bleep ] out of people that were attempting to come from coming, and scare congress to allow more controversial immigration laws. >> national correspondent jacob soboroff joins us now, executive producer of the controversial film, "separated." it airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. on msnbc. that film, based on his book, "separated inside an american

tragedy." >> jacob, welcome. i have always been a huge follower of your work and very, very impressed about your ability to sort of bring in and crystallize this conversation in the way that you have, particularly given that a lot of folks think that family separation is something in the past. as alicia noted in the opening here, 1400 families are still without their kids, their kids are separated from them. i want to play sound from the trailer of "separated" that gets into the reality of reuniting families separated under trump's policies. let's take a listen. >> we now know this was right from the get-go, someone must have been planning this. >> a federal judge says, young immigrants need to reunite with their parents. >> their assessment formed in the system does not have that much information for what is your mom's name? for every mom her name is mom.

>> talk, if you could about this whole effort to reunite these families, what that looks like and what it potentially could look like in a second trump term. >> thank you, michael and transient, who has been covering this may be closer than almost anybody over the past six years of when this all broke out into public consciousness. the answer to your question is, there are still 1360 kids, according to the department of homeland security, who don't have confirmed reunification, as i have talked to you this morning, hours before this film ramirez on msnbc tonight, that is because this policy was so haphazardly implemented me and i think that is a generous description, so generally cruel . the united states, objectively as a journalist, you will see in the film some of the facts bear that out. the first interviews done by oscar-winner, and you will see things on the screen that say

things like, this is a fiasco, or this defeats the entire purpose, undermines the whole effort of the family separation policy by officials responsible for it. they knew exactly what they were doing. a part of the reason it is so hard to put back together today, not only the record- keeping at the time, also as importantly, these families are scared of the u.s. government, some of them who are still separated, and don't want to respond to outreach from the same government mably took apart back in 2017 and 2018. >> it is amazing. someone said to me, once you take your child to a play center, they have a better process to making sure you are matched with your child should you get separated inside that play center. i had the privilege and joy of getting to watch the film with you at one of your screenings in new york city. one of the things i was struck by is that this is fundamentally a film about bureaucracy. it is a film about both a useful idiot that can be put in place to carry out the worst

machinations of an administration, and it is also about the career public servants who hold the line, and one of the people who really carries the film is this man, jonathan white. i want to take a listen to a clip from the film . >> it is hard to explain to people why they should care about anyone or anything. but the most important word in the unaccompanied children program is children. they are not a metaphor. each of them is an actual child, and a child in terrible danger. if you have children, you need only imagine your own child in a foreign country, not speaking the language, with no parent, with no money, not

understanding how that society works, having been apprehended by federal immigration authorities. >> first, his ability to distill what is at the center of this crisis we are talking about individual children, who are already so vulnerable, they are in a country where they don't speak the language, in a country where they don't have the currency they are off and not protected. that piece of it absolutely broke my heart. i was incredibly inspired by the fact that you have people who have made it their life's work inside the u.s. government to protect those children and in this case, to hold the line. talk to me, what is it you learned about the role those folks play in the u.s. government? >> i swear to god, i got chills hearing you say that, alicia. inspire is the keyword. this is a really tough story. it is a look back at one of the

most shameful chapters in our country's history, according to the republican appointed judge who stopped the policy. it is a really helpful story about the people inside the government who did everything, fought tooth and nail to stop this policy. indeed, they made it so by the way, the 5500 children who went through this will have a lifetime of trauma, i am not minimizing that. it could have been five or six times greater if the stephen miller got his way. it is those people in the face of mass for tatian, family separation by another name, who as you said could hold the line inside and it fire people outside to do the same. this is a film that would not have happened without a woman who also inspires me, diane dwyer, a legendary producer in hollywood who made this film possible. she introduced me to errol morrison. she is responsible for some of the greatest films you've ever seen in terms of documentaries like al gore's "inconvenient truth." al gore said as she passed away, as we were making this film, it is not an exaggeration to say that diane dwyer may

change the world. she reminds me of the people in this film, the jonathan weitz and jaelyn sue logs, and heroes inside the government and people on the outside who stood up because it was a morally reprehensible and stop the policy from happening. i want to use this opportunity, i know there are a lot of people who know diane and note the importance of her to this film and she is an inspiration, just like the people you will meet in the movie tonight. >> the other aspect of the movie , the film is also looking forward. you have got a new trump administration coming in. you already have stephen miller and company planning to reengage in this space through mass deportations. you have nbc's reporting on the trump deportation plan, incoming deportation plan to deport migrant to countries other than

their own. it is not clear if the migrants will be allowed to live and work in the countries to which they will remain deported, also not known which kind of economic pressure, diplomatic or otherwise, or things that might apply once resident elect donald trump is inaugurated in january. how does this ideal now, we are just going to send you back someplace, anywhere, because foreign is foreign, it is no distinction between-- >> michael, that also includes, by the way, families that were reunited under the biden administration's task force that were separated under trump. i can't underscore that enough. family separated by trump work are at risk of deportation by trump, because frankly, under the biden administration, they were only given temporary status in the united states. they are only on a 36 month rolling parole to be here. none of them got citizenship. none of them got it legal status. that is a part of the reckoning

in this film and policy is that, what will make things right for these families that were tortured in the words of positions for human rights by the united states government? the biden administration has fought them on financial restitution. the congress has not delivered permanent, legal status to them . will it take 150 years, like he did to recognize separations at native american boarding schools to make things right for these families separated under the trump administration? and other migrants here in the country was who have faced similar fortunes, as you have described? i think it is important to understand that that includes families who were traumatized by the u.s. government under the trump administration and this policy that was government sanctioned child abuse, according to the academy of pediatrics. >> oaks,er off, really appreciate you. folks, you really should know, 75 p.m. eastern, jacob and rachel maddow will join our buddy, and

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secretary of state, correlating maga influencers to push into the pack in front of the post. political rights, that tow truck, it was secretary of state or bust. trump picked senator marco rubio for the post as well. you tell me. [ laughter ] alicia, whether or not-- look, stories like that don't make it unless they are true, because you did not get the post. yeah, there could be some fun in just saying, this is what happened to ric grenell . but no one gives a about the process that involves you not getting the job. >> i saw the story and to me, this was a michael steele story for a few reasons. the conversation also always happening about loyalty, also the moment we are living in that it would even be a possibility that someone would try to buy for a position like secretary of state via

influencers, that feels like we speak to certain digital influencers. what does it matter? what are we actually trying to drive with the story? i found is embedded in the political reporting, and that to me underlined it. in the case of trump loyals is loyalists, ric grenell did not align. among them, plans to build a $500 million hotel project with trump's son-in-law jared kushner and belgrade, would have been scrutinized. that piece of things is worth digging into, especially given the fact that they have not wanted to go through an ordinary vetting process. >> and that is the thing. i know folks don't think that this is important, and don't consider concerns that are raised about the level of grist that is going to take place over the next four years. it starts with the team coming

in, the head of the team, the president-elect says, i don't want the fbi to look at the people i am surrounding myself with. i don't want the fbi to look into their backgrounds. the ric grenell of state department post, now, grenell probably looked at that opportunity, not only to enhance the transaction, but to enhance others as well. at least someone inside that orbit with, we don't want to mess up that transaction, so we don't need that scrutiny. the reality of it is, this process is one that should be laid bare in front of the american people, because of the impact it had, not just domestically, but around the globe. number two, if we really do believe that the deep state exists, well, this is the prime example of how the deep state works, my friend. because, at the end of the day, just look at russia. look at how that was built and

this is the model being set up in this country right now, where the head of the country just positions his folks in the right spot to get the right kinds of deals at right kinds of transactions without security , that is not a model i think works for us. it is important that the story broke two expos that is the mud line. now, they come back and say, we don't mind the fbi looking at some of our folks, because they are realizing it is harder and harder to pass in these folks through the process, so that scrutiny will play some role. but, grenell is an example of what potentially could happen otherwise. now, marco rubio will be secretary of state . on that note, we feel that mug, we got great gas coming up, including congressman robert garcia, human rights person brandon wolf, priscilla thompson, and leader yvonne hilliard. that is all coming up on "the weekend." e weekend."

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