they found messaging now, ari? >> appreciate it. i want to thank all of our experts and reporters here thanks to each of you and happy holidays. i will tell folks thank you for spending time with us s thank y spending time with us what we just saw was a loss. jamming through to get the vote that trump and elon musk wanted after blowing up a bipartisan deal. a big development, a big loss, they have time left over the week tonight avoid a government shutdown but that is the news tonight. "the reidout" with joy reid is up next. ♪ with joy reid is up next. ♪ . good evening, everyone, we begin tonight with breaking news from capitol hill. moments ago republicans failed to pass a paired down spending bill that would fund the goffment and provide aid for hurricane victims and farmers -- government and provide aid

for hurricane victims and farmers. a taste of what is to come. we are here full stop. elon musk and donald trump, who swear they have a mandate, tanked a bipartisan bill that would fund the government and provide funding for other things more broodily. this forced us to ask a question. it should be familiar to trump since is also the title of an "'80s" sit come, "who's the boss." is it the great oz? , elon musk and demand they do not pass the bill. they are clapping like trained seals saying okay, boss, okay. or the guy he owns, donald trump who has to issue his social media on his truth

social thingy and wait for someone in the media to screen shot his post and post them on twitter for him. in the past 24 hours, if the past 24 hours is any indication the answer is elon. yesterday, musk showed the world what he got for his $200 million investment into trump be sides his fortune balloons 84% to half a trillion and, likely control over the agency's regulating, his 300 plus government contracts and plus tax cut, by tweaking out on twitter and demanding that republicans in congress quote stop the steal of american tax dollars by tanking the bill to fund the government. this is a bipartisan bill. republicans previously agreed on. musk did not care about that. demanding a total shutdown and boycott of any legislation

until trump's inauguration on january 20th. elon musk. foreign-born billionaire that uses ex-twitter to leverage his agenda threaten any republican that voted for the bill with primary challenges, funded by him. meaning, in his view he does not just own trump he owns every single elected republican in washington. sweet deal for a government contractor who is ineligible to be president himself and no one elected. this bill, this bill that elon hated so much would of extend it through march and give $100 billion for disaster relieve. and assistance for farmers and extension of the farm bill and pay ridge for the most unproductive congress in

decades. musk's 150 tweets. triggering mass he's -- hysteria. >> does musk have too much influence? >> i don't think so there is what the american people voted for. >> elon who came a couple weeks ago and treated like rock stars welcome to the party, we are glad to have them. >> what happened was plane ways dog did its job [ laughter ] >> trump frankly was mia or sunning himself on the patio at mar-a-lago having a cheeseburger and a coke while daddy was working? but he did finally pipe up hours after musk's initial twitter tweak out adding to musk's demands that congress raise the debt ceiling right now. actual president biden is still in office. now, biden for his part, not spoken publicly about this mess and the looming shutdown

because white house officials believe not without any founding this is house republicans and president-elect trump's problem to deal with. the double discord created an awkward situation where trump looked like he was following musk's commands not vice versa and left many openly wonder whrog was in large? >> what do you make of the role that musk is playing here? who is in charge do you view in terms of who do you have to negotiate with? >> that is a great question and i don't have the answers right now. >> reporter: other democrats are calling musk, not trump, the president. president musk. and, texas congresswoman crockett posted this picture. it is worth 1,000 words. naturally, the bru-haha descended washington, d.c. into chaos with the house canceling the initial vote and then late today republicans negotiated with themselves to present a paired down bill that funded

the government for three months while providing money for disaster relieve and farm assistance and debt relief a deal that trump made sure to endorse before elon weighed in to steal his shine. financial markets as you might imagine did not enjoy the chaos, not the billionaires that bankrolled trump love. they are waiting for his bonaza that leads me back to the debt relief thing that trump is demanding the democrats have said they want to get rid of the debt ceiling. if they want to get rid of it i would lead the large. >> his plans raise the creeling and there are more than one democrat that think the debt ceiling idea is absurd. in a nation that could just print money. let's not pretend trump has a

goal here he only does what helps his pockets. in order for the fat cats to keep their tax cuts that he gave them in 2017 and expand them further, republicans would have to explode the debt once again t. will cost us trillions to pay for the tax cuts, they are not free. and the money will have to be borrowed from somewhere. hello social security trust fund. if they don't have a debt ceiling they don't have to have a fight about what they can and can not do with our money, see? if you really want someone to thank or better yet blame for this mess, you can look no further than the conservative- dominated supreme court. with the citizen united ruling determined corporations are people who can pump almost unlimited amounts of money into our politics to get what they want and who they want in office. and what big money wanted in this recent election was donald

trump's tiny fingers on the leavers are power. and apparently e long elon musk's weird fingers on it. funding expires friday night, meaning tomorrow night, they are scheduled to adjourn for the holidays. shutdown starts at 12:0 1 a.m. next joins us ally, it is my first chance to publicly congratulate you. the is going to make me lose less sleep because i have to get up and watch but i will enjoy it. congratulations you are a great journalists and you deserve it. let's get some journalism on it right now who is in large? trump or musk? >> reporter: excellent question. the hill is sending me out in their typical chaotic style

that we are accustomed to in the last two years. leadership put something on the floor of the house that they knew was going to fail and failed to the tune of dozens of republican lawmakers voting against their own leadership's bill that they negotiated only among themselves. the reason these funding deals have been negotiated in bipartisan in the past because most republicans, that same cluster of about 40 people who never vote for continuing government resolutions to basically just keep the lights on, they never vote for them. they need to reach out to democrats in they are going to have a deal f they are going to keep the lights on. the goal has always been do not shutdown the government but the chaos is the point for many members that don't like to vote for government funding deals but don't want their leadership to e tend a hand to democrats. what we just saw on the floor it failed, no one has now refer

today to the rules committee. i was talking to congressman chip roy, one of those no vote republicans, there was an open question about if they were going to try a different method to try the whole deal again and most likely see it fail there. it is not clear that is the next move. and so they really are left sort of throwing their hands up. i do think on the musk-of it all there is a lesson to be told. not just my gosh it is going to be chaotic it is also that leadership needs to take the cue n. this case it was the speaker who got slimmed but on the other side of the building it is senator thuid who watched the way republicans negotiated, they thought they had a plan and then donald trump came in from the wings and utterly tanked it on his own team. so, yes, there say musk factor here, but this only really fell apart here when trump came in over the top and said i want to

kill it let's start from scratch. >> here is the problem with that. that is great reporting but then he said he was for the bill republicans came up by themselves and that failed if trump is all-powerful why are they not taking orders. they jump when elon musk says jump. >> reporter: i think musk provided for many of the conservatives that do not like voting for this type of regulation, he provided them a massive energy burst of cover saying see, we should not do this. trying to message it. it was trump that came in and complicated the process, now i am going to add in the debt ceiling. not something that is on the table. i know it seems to be in the same pot of how this is how we keep the lights on but they are different things. this is a leverage point that

democrats were looking at for how they can try to shape and use tight margins to their advantage in a washington that is going to be fully republican- controlled. trump new that. he introduced the debt ceiling introducing it back in. that is how he alienated the same people who were cheering when musk got into the brawl in the first place. it is a careful balancing act. one that as much as trump is powerful i still maintain that there are some members here who are not just going to do what he says because he says it. that is true on the senate side, true on the house side. certainly it is a congress that his less detractors in than before. the thing is if you only keep threatening primary challenges, a, at a certain point you got to make good and b, you got to make sure you can do it. >> you know who can fund it? not trump, he is not liquid. you know who can fund them? elon musk, he can fund them. coins and pocket going he did it. he will have a lot more

authority than trump thinks maybe he should have. congratulations again, thank you very, very much. as she mentioned democrats are unified when it comes to the republican-induced kayiot. hakeem jeffries made it clear who they blame. >> the musk/johnson proposal is not serious. it is laughable. extreme maga-republicans are driving us to a government shutdown. >> moments after he said that, jeffries walked into a close door meeting with his caucus where members clanted "hell no" to the new proposal. and joining me now is one of the members. robert garcia from california. wow. congressman. this is something to watch today. and, you know, it is interesting. there are conservatives that like to refer to democratic party as the mommy party and

republicans as the daddy party. but at there moment they have two daddies, two alternate daddies, not clear who is the dad in charge. it feels like musk but is that how it feels on the hill? >> reporter: absolutely. we are beginning to witness the elon musk precedency. no question. and trump is now the vice president to elon musk administration. the republican party here in the house completely bent the knee to elon musk. he says something, they jump t. is insane. the deal negotiated by speaker johnson, jeffries and the senate was tanked because of elon musk sending out messages on x. this is insanity. new administration developing at the head being elon musk and the fact that we have the richest plan on the planet dictating what the united

states congress should be doing is completely insane, dangerous and americans should be concerned. >> there is even talk, marjorie taylor green always good for a weird idea is floating the idea that the speaker of the house should not be mike johnson it should be elon musk. is that something that more than just she is saying among your republican colleagues? >> absolutely. i think that mike johnson will have hard time staying on speaker in january considering this disaster unfolding right now in congress. remember, there was a partisan deal that was negotiated. we are talking about $100 billion of disaster assistance. it is so the table for north carolina, for florida, my home state of california. all now completely gone and wiped out because of what elon musk really wants and what trump really wants is to eliminate that debt ceiling to transfer all of the wealth and

hardworking miles an hours, working class people and give it to the top 1% to the billionaires to elon musk companies and all of the rich friends that is what it is all about. they gut social security. >> it is giving bank heist, eliminate the debt creeling to increase the size of the tax cut. it is clear the tax cut is the point for the billionaire class. to get to the next step the idea is that trump at least would have to become president. if january 6th next year he says pass nothing. pass nothing until trump is inaugurated how would it happen? if we are in a shutdown government how does the january 6th formal transfer of power, the formal acceptance of the college results play out if there is mike johnson not speaker, if there is no speaker on january 6th our producers were trying to do research and understand if you can do the

january 6th ceremonial meeting. >> reporter: that is correct. congress has to certify the election. the only way to certify an e selection to have a speaker that is gaveling us as a congress. trump also knows he needs to ensure the speaker is in place so elections can be certified and he can be inaugurated on inauguration day. that can turn into a mess if they don't figure it out. but want to go back to one other thing that you said. why does musk want congress not to do anything? a government shutdown for musk means he can then focus on insuring that debt ceiling is all he cares about is not in place, he can continue to make money and wealth from middle class and working class people, give it to himself and his companies, and at the same time he can care less about the millions of americans impacted by government shutdown.

i think people need to understand a government shutdown actually means our tsa agents at the airports, folks that are in air traffic control at our airports as l millions of people are not going to get paid during the holidays. what republicans want is to ensure working class people don't get a paycheck and transfer their wealth to musk. that is what it is all about >> that was going to be my next question. go through some of the other things. last time we had a shutdown for a few days, national parks closing, all of the museums get closed. security guards don't get paid. people that clean the capitol. we are talking about low wedge federal workers going without during the christmas holidays. >> reporter: that is right. that is what is the most cruel about this salute moment. while elon musk is arguing and advocating for a complete shutdown he can care less about all of those tsa agents, folks cleaning our buildings.

people that need social security to ask questions. careless about the military. they are depending on a paycheck. and, remember, is that they actually won't get paid come that next pay holiday. it means folks who are putting presents on credit card and making choices on what to buy for their kids or families during christmas will not have the security of knowing if they will get paid. we are talking about impact its to millions of people and by the way the federal workforce, 25% of them work outside of d.c. so, these are our neighbors across the country. musk is a billionaire. the richest man in the world and he has to be stopped >> yeah, he will definitely get paid. that tax cut he will get paid dig time. congressman, robert garcia, thank you very much. much appreciated. coming up, as the shutdown looms, we are getting a clearer

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it is embarrassing. it is shameful. to take this bill, to take this bill, yesterday, and congratulate yourself because it is shorter in pages but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine. i am sick. to have it and go forward to the american people and say you think there is fiscally responsible. it is absolutely ridiculous.

>> that was right-wing republican congressman, a critic of the leadership spending bill bashing his republican colleagues. meow. joining me now is political analyst claire plkclaskal. and author of the book juanita tolliver. he has never been for cr. he is a tea party, who should do a full funding of the government. >> he is angry. but chip roy saying the same thing that speaker jeffries saying and the democrats. they don't care about fiscal responsibility. all they care about is clearing the way for donald trump to do another tax cut just like he did in 2017 for the ultrawealthy, billionaires and

while he is making his statement. i appreciate 38 republicans voted against this a couple minutes ago. shocked when republicans go against trump. i admit that. that was shocking for me to see that number. but, what i do lope is that democrats continue to hold the line against this and communicate what it means. trump and musk prioritizing wealthy people over basic people >> you know, claire, you know, i was saying to the congressman in the previous block. republicans are called the daddy party. the way i see that they like a tough daddy. the daddy they really fear, the daddy who really leads them right now is the man trump once said, i could of said drop to your knees and beg and he would have done it. that is how much sort of, you know, boostfulness that donald trump used to have when it came

to elon musk. does not seem like he can get musk to drop to his knees and beg. elon musk is the one who is a billionaire. >> yeah, there is ketchup fly tonight. donald trump looks tiny right now and he hates to look tiny. he looks small compared to elon musk, everybody knows elon musk did this and trump just said me, too, at the end of the day. secondly once trump weighed in he has been flying high. he has been saying everyone loves me now, everyone is in love with me. i am the time man of the year. he can not even get his party to vote for what he wanted them to vote for. he has about 40 people saying no. just under 40 people in his party in the house. that shows weakness.

i am telling you joy, there is a train wreck coming with this trump/musk thing. we know what musk is going to do cut spending and the people that voted no tonight are the ones elon musk needs. they are the fiscal conservatives. they are the ones that will do what dog wants them to do. and trump will throw them under the bus. >> to your point, claire. i want to read this. trump transition put out, i will throw it out to both of you. a response to trump being called president musk. you can almost feel the ketchup in the response. as soon as president trump released his official stance on the cr, republicans on the capitol hill echoed his point of view, president trump is the leader of the republican party.

full stop. that sounds desperate. ♪ desperado. >> come on, trump is upset that he is in the backseat and musk is in the driver's seat. it is important that democrats have made that clear. even when talking about the deal. elon/johnson bill. this is what that was. trump was late to the party as claire said. he hates the reality that he sees it. all about pr and appearances. i think when i think about the impact that elon musk will have on the trump administration is that it is just going to speedup the craziness just like we saw today. him sweeting or posting at 4:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m. yesterday. that is what prompted a lot of the pie ral. posting 150 times online about lies that are contained in the bill. that is something that was implanted in the minds of republicans and said, sure. he followed up with the

threats. deploys a lot of trump's tactics. the thing is, he bought twitter to do it. he has a larger platform, a deeper wallet. when he says he will pay for you to be primary he can back it up. same as 2024. >> and trump can't. trump has long talked -- he lived under stronger men. if it is his father or if it is roy cohen. or putin who, you know, his son claims helped bail them out when he went $900 million debt. he got the money from some strong person and now it is musk. he can bankroll and write checks. trump can't. what elon musk wants is clear and what the other billionaires want is clear. the trump tax cuts. the corporate rate went to 14% as high as 39% depending on taxable income to a flat 21% that was in 2017. if you now extend that the trump 2025 tax cuts would increase taxes on anyone making

less than $360,000 a year. and it would drop the taxes of people like elon musk down to the basement. musk is focused he wants that money. trump is not going to stand in his way. how could he? >> yeah. here is the deal. donald trump never spent money on anybody but himself. he is the head grifter in our history. the history books will be written about all of the grift that trump, from tennis shoes to bibles to his son getting billions from saudis 10 minutes after he left the white house. it is a long list of grift. and, elon musk is kind of the opposite. he just spend $250 million to put trump in the white house. trump loves him because he is the richest man in america because he wants to be around people like that. but he will not stand for being

minid. he is now mini-me to musk. trump will not stand for that. so, and by the way, this deal, the tax cuts, it blows up the deficit. this deal that musk thinks he will cut $2 trillion from the government, no taxes on tips, no taxes on social security. no taxes on rich people, no taxes on the oil companies, all trump did was campaign on spending money. and the idea that musk thinks he will back him up when he tries to cut government is laughable. >> i think the cut, though, is for things for regular people. look at the cuts in this bill. they were for cancer research programs for children. it was for snap benefits, like the cuts are there it is just for things that actual he help people >> and helping people who voted for trump. meanwhile k someone put a milk carton and put j.d. vance on it.

i think we might of made him up. i don't think he might be a real person. he gone. >> yes. what is he doing? he is not here. i don't think he is relevant. let's call peter theil and have j.d. vance to say something. >> billionaires are in charge. now, setbacks and serious soring prices in moscow and war fatigue. how trump can reverse the tides and improve putin or maybe elon musk can. they can work together or elon will do it. that is next together or elon will do it. that is next (sneeze) (♪♪) new alka-seltzer plus cold or flu fizzy chews. chew. fizz. feel better fast. no water needed. new alka-seltzer plus fizzychews. how easy is it to play the lottery with jackpocket? step one grab your phone.

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. today, russian president, putin, held his yearly news conference, an event best described as a closely orchestrated annual cocktail of pomp and state tv camp. designed to project power by answering questions from the press and the public. over the course of a 4 1/2 hour event, putin insisted that russia is strong, despite facing setbacks from the war on ukraine. and the ousting of assad. he said he was ready to talk to trump who he claims he has not spoken to in years.

that is interesting considering that bob woodward reported in his recent book that trump and putin had as many as seven private phone calls since 2021 that trump denies. it all comes as the threat of awe autotocracy threatens the united states. how do we avoid becoming russia 2.0. the man that literally wrote the book. author of "on freedom" i happen to be reading, again. thank you very much timothy snyder for being here. an interesting development that may of changed the calculation a little bit today is that we found out that trump, our would- be strong man, is answerable to a bigger strong man. not putin, elon musk who also allegedly, according to reports, has lots of conversations with putin what does that do to the calculation

on how americans should deal with trump? >> reporter: i think that is a good place to start. i wrote a piece a few weeks ago called submission chain. voters like trump but trump is submissive to musk and musk is submissive for putin. that is what we got now. we got a cluster of oligarchs who are the real power in our country n. terms of how to recest you have to do what -- resist you have to do what you were doing, name it. >> and i think that is a great point. once we now identified that it is international and i am always trying to sort of get folks to focus outside of the united states to see how these oligarch interact. if it is argentina or trump or venezuela or hungary, they

interact with one another. how might we expect donald trump now that he has got this oligarch on his back, essentially, musk, how do we expect him to operate to still project power domestically and not lose face? >> reporter: that is a great question. we are now passed the reality show. that is the election and into something that is more like reality that will be trump's next time in office. in reality trump does not have money and musk does. in reality, trump can issue threats and musk can enforce them. in reality, musk is the person to whom trump owes debts. it will be clearer as time goes on. so, i think we are in a moment where trump's prestige but the nature of what the precedency is really in question.. >> it is interesting, it reminds me of what ukraine was, right, before it was liberated in its present form. it was a dutchy of the kremlin. it was a separate country technically but answered to another country.

i want to go back to something we have been repeating a lot. something you said first, do not obey in advance. in retrospect all of the people bending the knee to trump, running to mar-a-lago including the prime minister of canada, it now seems a bit absurd that they have been running to try to appease trump as if he is the bossman when it turns out as you said, he is the littlier boss plan that answers to bigger bosses. >> reporter: the idea now that the republican party is the party of two daddies, that is where we ended up. or three if you count putin. i can not help it but refer back to ukraine and russia. that is the part of the world that i work on. it is really striking that we seem to be reliving the russia 1990s. you have an aging less competent president surrounded by oligarchs making the decisions even with respect to his successor is. personally i don't think it is stupid for j.d.

vance to be quiet right now. the less he is visible the more plausible he will be and sooner he is plausible as a successor to trump. i think he is playing this smart. staying away from all of the nonsense. then what you are saying about ukraine. the crucial thing is for the population to organize horizontally and resist that is what the ukrainians were able to do and got them out of what we are moving towards, a russian dominated oligarchy. >> how do we do that? give us steps. >> reporter: the first thing, name it for what it is. and the second thing, you have been doing a great job, do not treat them as heroes, but flawed human beings. look for alternatives of power. like countries abroad or american cities that can do the right thing and make it hard are for them. what it is about. turning the government into a

way to make individual people rich. that, as we have seen, once you realize that not all republicans are going to go along with that. they are never less principals for example. if you let them take over you will not have a sovereign country anymore. congress will not matter, the supreme court will not matter. this has been clarifying to us in the last few hours >> it has been. including the fact that in a sense some of the tea party republicans might wind up being kind of resistance to the things, even though we may disagree with everything else they believe in, if they don't believe in a foreign-born oligarch taking over the united states you never know what kind of weird alliances can happen. thank you very much, really, really appreciate your time. coming up, all eyes on willisnext move after georgia

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despite the scrutiny over her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor on the case. the appellate court said the lower court decision did not prevent the appearance of improprity. if willis is not able to win her appeal the case would have to be reassigned to a different county prosecutor which may prove difficult given the complicated political and novel nature of the case. joining me now is trial attorney and host of the katie fang show. let me put up a list of those indicted. there, some pled guilty already. but, is it possible that the case could go forward with just fani willis on case. why would her whole office have to be removed? >> well, i mean, this decision was just bad and wrong on the law and i want to make sure it is clear it is a 2-1 decision, joy, i invite everyone to read it because it lays out the law

in this case. fani willis'office, the entirety was disqualified. she, being willis, can not proceed in the case. it gets kicked back to a prosecuting association with somebody can decide whether or not if a, if the case gets prosecuted at all, and b, if it goes to another prosecutor. joy, this decision was a hammer in search of a nail. it is an outcomed determined thing. the reason why it is outrageous is as happens with the trump first term now about to be second trump and everything trump adjacent the law does not mean anything. this is wrongish. the reason why is the descent makes it clear. the judge after 2-1/2 days we all lived that hearing for 2- 1/2 days. judge made it clear there was no actual conflict of interest. so, in georgia the law says no

conflict of interest you do not disqualify or up to the trial judge that is why it is so important. as lawyers when we do evidentiary hearing you do it in front of a trial judge who gets to be the finder of fact, the person who applies the law. he sat there, watched them, listened to the testimony, determined their credibility. now these two judges that sit on an appellate court think they do a better job. it is absurd and i am grateful for the descent but look, the descent was just in the minor in this incidence >> do we know if the judges are trump appointees? >> reporter: you know, they -- all three of them are republicans thank god one of them knew what justice looks like. there are 9 justices on the georgia supreme court, so, willis filed immediately a petition for rite of cert. it is discretionary, though, so you got to have them agree to take it. like the supreme court of the

united states. but it is interesting because if you look at the standard on a rule 40 in georgia t makes it clear if it is an issue of up most public importance they should take the case. they should take this, joy. >> let's talk about this. it does email, you just put up trumps, he is like a cat with 9lives, he has gotten away with just about everything. classified documents case went away. jack smith case about the insurrection case went away. the one that held on is the and will not be dismissed what are the chances that trump gets sentenced in the hush money case? >> reporter: i mean, all things considered the only judge standing tall and straight in the face of absurdity, legal absurdity. he could, he could sentence him and abstain or stay on the execution of the sentencing until the end of the four year

term, as stupid and ridiculous as it sounds that would be the right thing to do. if trump makes it to the end of the four year term who knows, that would be the right thing to do. or, i am not going to sentence him until after it. you can blame the supreme court. any of the immunity nonsentence created legal obstacles. but, he is the only who how has given the other side, as in trump side, the opportunity to make arguments. he considered them and he rejected them so far and he also said that, you know, nonofficial conduct does not give you presidential immunity. let's be practical, joy, why do we manage expectations. the criminal case was going to go on the back burner during his term, so it was not like he

was going to be prosecuted. but now the practical implications is with her off of the case what about all of the other defendants? yeah. >> yeah. >> and those that pleaded out. they are like okay we are the only ones paying the price for what was done? >> we will check. i know i got to go. they troyed to get out of the plea. and the judge was like peace out. those stay but everyone else is a criminal, too and they should be prosecuted too. >> katie fang, thank you, my friend as always. we'll be right back. my friend as always. we'll be right back.

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