at. >> we start this hour of the weekend with breaking news. the devastating wildfires in los angeles have now killed at least 16 people. wind driven flames have scorched more than 37,000 acres and destroyed or damaged more than 12,000 structures in the greater los angeles area, la county. l.a. county residents are now under a smoke advisory. new. this morning, mexico and canada are sending firefighters to assist efforts. governor gavin newsom has now doubled the number of california national guard personnel supporting first responders in. cal fire. says it's receiving assistance from several other states as well arizona, colorado, idaho, nevada, new mexico, oregon,

texas, utah and washington. tens of thousands of residents are still under evacuation orders, including many in santa monica. joining us now is santa monica mayor lana negrete. >> mayor, good morning to you. give us the view from santa monica. what this means for your residents, for your constituents. also, if you could tell us about the communication you're having with governor newsom, with l.a. county officials, with fire officials as well. >> well, right now, we still have no active fires in santa monica. >> however, you know, in the days past, we did lift some mandatory evacuation areas to warnings. but however, our san vicente and northern, the northernmost part of the city, remains in a mandatory evacuation order. and that is because with the winds, which you can maybe hear behind me with my windows rattling, are picking up and they're expected to monday and tuesday. >> we just want to keep our

residents as safe as possible. i have been hearing constantly from county supervisor lindsey horvath, assembly member zabir. they have been extremely instrumental in things like making sure we got the national guard when requested. as well as just getting us information constantly. and so i really do appreciate our county and state and federal partners. senator ben allen i did i was at station five a couple of days ago when president biden and governor newsom and padilla came and were briefed. >> there they also initiated at that time, which was early on, that there was going to be support, air support. so we are hearing of support. i'm working closely with our county supervisor and our local leaders here regionally to unlock things quickly as we need them. >> but in santa monica, we are a supportive agency right now. >> we do have firefighters

supporting, of course, in those areas, and we have multiple law enforcement agencies supporting us besides the national guard. >> and right now we are in this mode right now to really serve the communities around us to do staging. >> and already we are providing space for support efforts so that people can get insurance payments immediately to help them. >> you know, right now, with those financial concerns of figuring out where to stay, we also had a special meeting on friday with the full city council. >> the city council has been working as one unit unanimously, swiftly, quickly, to think of all of the issues ahead, like rent gouging and making sure people can offer their airbnb homes. >> so removing red tape, unlocking anything and putting forward anything that we can policy wise to really just make sure that we're serving all of those impacted by the fire as quickly as possible. >> you know, madam mayor, for people that aren't familiar with the area, you are about and we

put the map up, you're about five miles from the palisades where the fire is raging. it is quite close. you see those images of the ferris wheel and the smoke right behind it. reuters has reported about fire survivors feeling forgotten. this is from saturday. black and latino families, the report says, have lived in altadena for generations. many residents told reuters they were concerned that government resources would be channeled towards high profile areas popular with a-listers. while insurance companies might shortchange less affluent households that don't have the financial means to contest fire claims. have any of the residents within santa monica expressed similar concerns to you? >> well, our residents right now haven't been impacted by losing their homes. and, you know, in terms of themselves personally, now, they might have family members or they do. i know myself, i have friends and family members. we have members of our organization and the city of santa monica, the fire department, the police

department who have lost their homes. our santa monica-malibu unified school district is connected in that way as well. i have not heard that. and what i can tell you is with my dealings with insurance commissioner ricardo lara, he has been extremely instrumental. i mean, he put the immediate moratorium on any of those residents who had their policies canceled. we are hosting at santa monica college saturday, january 18th from 10 to 5 and sunday from 10 to 1. they will. ricardo lara will be there. they will be walking people directly over to the insurance providers to get checks. that is regardless of race or creed. that is just whoever needs those things. we are actually very close to palisades. altadena is much farther. however, santa monica remains a compassionate community to help facilitate anybody who needs help or assistance. but right now, we have not heard those concerns from our constituents. and in fact, we are also working to stage another spot for state

farm. i'm working feverishly right now to have a space large enough that will be up to 30 days, so that people again can come and get the resources that they need immediately. and i know there's a lot of concern around that with everything that happened in terms of policy cancellations. >> mayor, mayor, you mentioned a little bit ago that you're not dealing with or seeing any active fires in santa monica, given the, the, the reports and the monitoring of santa ana, santa ana winds that are picking up this weekend and the gusts in particular, up to 80 miles an hour that are be that are to be expected. do you have concerns of, you know, this this fire sort of retracing his steps, reigniting in some way given the unpredictability of the winds as they come off off the pacific? >> right now, we don't have that concern. i will be in the cal fire update at seven. these

updates are happening with multiple agencies very frequently, and i just want to give a big shout out to cal fire. they are also being absolutely amazing. ladwp providing, you know, direct communication between even their ceos and people on the ground to give us up to date information on wind, weather and concern. right now it's at mandeville canyon. so, you know, we were less concerned with those residents north of san vicente that are most west, but those that are east touching the brentwood area, because, as you saw, it really creeped over and there was a couple structure fires in that area. we are staging and prepared. we are up staffed. we are continue to up staff between partner agencies and our own. but right now with the winds, we are always watching. you know, there's no way to predict which way they will go. but we do feel that santa monica should be, you know, safe through monday and tuesday. but we are asking people to stay inside if they can wear a mask when they're

outside, because right now what we're experiencing is the ash. you can hear my voice. it's very dry. the ash is covering cars. it's outside. so i think what we're going to be seeing is being impacted by school closures. and, you know, people who have medical needs really trying to just keep keep the roads clear for emergency responders. but right now, we aren't so concerned with santa monica in part in terms of that area. the only thing that is impacting a sliver of our residents is those that have ladwp. they have a do not drink order right now. >> mayor, i want you to take a listen. this is the pastor of pacific palisades church, which was destroyed in the wildfire, talking about how a community rebuilds. take a listen. >> this is awful and horrific, and i'm not sugarcoating anything, but i know i'm the power of the methodist. i know the power, though, of everybody in this community, all the faith. we're all saying we're going to work together and

rebuild. >> mayor, i understand communities are very much still in this, and leaders like yourself are veryuch still in this. and this is a moment to moment situation. things could shift at any time when the conversation finally does shift to what it will look like to rebuild, what it will look like to rebuild in a way that is even more resilient than it does now. what role do you see yourself taking? do you see the city of santa monica taking in the essence of that rebuilding? >> personally, i'm born and raised here. my daughters, dear friends and i walked this space with senator ben allen the other day and seeing where my kids spent covid and where we frequent every weekend, and seeing my friends businesses burn to the ground was really heartbreaking. but my family business and our city went through may 31st, 2020. we lost many businesses. this is completely unlike anything we've

ever seen, but i saw how the community came together and how surrounding communities and people outside of the state of california and outside of the country came together to help us. our community in santa monica is so compassionate. people are just wanting to help. those that are impacted are staging themselves everywhere to help in various ways. and so i have a lot of faith in all of our local leaders coming together. the regional support. we are getting support from other countries, from other cities. i have faith that we will build. la is a resilient city. we have been through a lot and we are coming together, putting politics aside and we are united. our santa monica city council is full of members who are very smart and come from different backgrounds that are standing and using their personal experience, whether serving in the army, whether working at the county, whether being in law to use their own personal background and resources to bring together

legislation that will cut the red tape to make this rebuild happen swiftly. and i'm going to church this morning at 930 at saint monica's. we are praying for our community. we are coming together, and we will make sure that not a single person is forgotten and that we will be a partner and providing resources to everybody as quickly as possible. but this is very heartbreaking. i have never seen anything like this in my life, and when i walked to the site, it was something like a war zone. it was apocalyptic and my heart breaks for everybody who has lost everything in this fire. >> mayor lana negrete of santa monica, thank you so much, mayor, for being with us this morning. i want you to stay with msnbc all day as we continue to follow this story. at 11 a.m, eastern los angeles mayor karen bass. she's going to join city and county officials for an update on the situation on the ground. we're going to bring that to you live. and for more information on how you can contribute to the relief efforts in california, scan the qr code

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former attorney general eric holder, and many more. why is this happening? listen now. >> as confirmation hearings for trump's cabinet picks begin this week. officials have yet to be placed on the senate schedule, but one in particular is causing problems for democrats and republicans alike, axios reports. senate democrats have forced a delay in scheduling the hearing for trump's pick for director of national intelligence tulsi gabbard, accusing her of failing to provide required vetting materials. this as trump barks outlandish demands for the united states to somehow absorb canada, greenland and, you know, the panama canal. joining us now, former cia director and msnbc senior national security and intelligence analyst john brennan. >> it's nothing like american globalism at work, right? >> symone, it's really it's really crazy. director brennan, i'm very disturbed. and i know every time i talk to you, i am quite disturbed. >> it's almost like a counseling session when you come here, when

you come for foreign policy and international affairs. >> this this particular time, i am disturbed because in the aftermath of the president elect's press conference last week, i heard journalists say in their analysis afterwards, well, you know, president trump for a long time has been very into this idea of territorial expansion. and i paused because that gave me lots of pause. that sounds like what people were saying about vladimir putin prior to his not just invasion of crimea. and then actually prior to his incursion into further into ukraine about a couple of years ago. and do i have this wrong? because what the president elect is saying about greenland, about canada, about the panama canal, frankly, but specifically greenland and canada? to me, that goes against what the world order has been since world war one, post world war one, about sovereignty and integrity respecting borders of other nations. this sounds like the language of a dictator. >> well, it is the language of a

dictator or a wannabe dictator. there is no distinction between what donald trump is saying and what vladimir putin has done in ukraine, in terms of ignoring the sovereignty of another country and just taking it over because they believe that it's in their interest to do so. and that's what donald trump said, that it's in us national security interests to take greenland, take the panama canal. again, this is inconsistent with everything that we have seen over the past century, as far as the respect for the international norms and standards and treaties that that undergird all of these relationships that we have. so donald trump is somebody who just believes that he has this, you know, power to just ignore all of this. but i know it's sending real shockwaves, not only internationally but also here domestically, because i do think there are a lot of republicans in congress who are just, you know, you know, feel that this is absurd and it is absurd. >> you know, it is absurd, but it also speaks to the mind of the man himself and how he sees the world and his role in it and, and how others view him. so

it was very interesting to hear justin trudeau, who sat down with our friend and colleague jen psaki on insight with jen psaki when she brought this up. let's listen to his response. >> i'm assuming he didn't bring up his intention to publicly say he was going to annex through economic means, your country. >> it actually, it actually sort of came up at one point. >> and then we started musing back and forth about this. and when i started to suggest, well, maybe there could be a trade for vermont or california or from for, for certain parts. he immediately decided that it was not not that funny anymore. >> and we moved on to a different conversation. >> it's just there for me that that moment just says so much about what this is, is about for donald trump, where he doesn't see that there are consequences that that there are other views of world leaders about this, that he's going to confront real

time when he becomes president. how do you, given the roles that you've played in our government, the conversations you've had with presidents? when you hear this, i'm sure part of your brain just just kind of goes, well, this is crazy as hell. but the other side of it, the more important side says this is also potentially very dangerous. and how do how do we as citizens really prepare ourselves for what could potentially come in this space? just the rhetoric. not just the rhetoric, but potential actions given particularly some of the people that this president is nominating at dod for national security. >> it's very dangerous because we don't know whether or not this is just rhetorical broadsides he's sending. but the message it sends to the world is that boy, the americans really are going to be pursuing these types of agendas, irrespective of the interests and the national sovereignty of other countries. the united states has

been looked at for the past century as being the leader of the western world, being the defender of freedom and liberty. and here is a donald trump who was saying the exact opposite, that we don't care about other countries and what their interests might be. we are going to do what he. donald trump wants to do. and that is not the reflection of, i think, of the united states people. and i do think that the congress is going to have real heartburn if donald trump tries to exert military or economic power and coercion against some of our closest neighbors and closest allies. denmark is one of our closest nato allies, right? it has come and helped us in afghanistan, the war on terrorism. if there's anything that we're concerned about with greenland as far as either chinese or russian encroachment there, the danes will work very closely with us, as will the people in greenland. so the things that donald trump is talking about, it just reflects his inexperience as well as his just assertiveness, that he believes that because he's going to be the president of the united states, he can do what he wants. and it really

does flout norms as well as the what the united states has stood for so many years. >> okay, so there's trump, director brennan, and then there is the team that he is building around him. so let's talk about tulsi gabbard and her nomination. on friday, she reversed her past criticisms of section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. it had made some republican senators nervous about her nomination. she had public comments on friday. she said that the program is crucial and must be safeguarded to protect our nation, while ensuring the civil liberties of americans. talk to us about section 702 and what you make of that flip flop. >> well, section 702 is the authority that congress has given to the intelligence community to collect intelligence on non-u.s. citizens who are believed to be serving or living abroad. but sometimes in that collection, you pick up information about u.s. citizens. and so there have been some changes that have been made to the section 702 authority that tries to protect the privacy and civil liberties

of american citizens. but i think what this reflects is tulsi gabbard knows that her nomination is really quite questionable in terms of getting the approval from the senate. and so, therefore, i think she's trying to make these adjustments in order to win some favor and support from those members of the intelligence committee in the first instance, who will vote on her nomination. but then more largely in the senate itself. but again, i think this does not address the real questions that people have about tulsi gabbard's lack of intelligence experience. some of her statements that she has made that parrot, the comments of vladimir putin, as well as her trafficking in a lot of these conspiracy theories. so there's just a lot of questions about tulsi gabbard's nomination that i think still have to be resolved, irrespective of her flip flop on the section 702 authority. >> what kind of experience have passed? dni had had, because i do think that that is something that maybe folks out there don't understand why, when folks like myself say, tulsi gabbard is unqualified to be a dni because

she doesn't meet some of the basic qualifications, i would argue in terms of experience, what are some of those? >> well, when we look at some of the people who have served there, including the current incumbent like avril haines, bill haines, she was the deputy national security advisor. she was my deputy at cia. she also served as the legal counsel for the national security council, worked at the department of state and also on the hill. so she has a wealth of national security experience. jim clapper was in the defense intelligence community for decades, and he served in the obama administration for seven years or so as director of national intelligence. dan coats, senator dan coats, he was in the intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee. these are people with experience, but also with tremendous integrity, people that you knew that were going to carry out their responsibilities, irrespective of how the political winds might be blowing. and they needed to have that objectivity and honesty in order to ensure that the president of united states, as well as policymakers, really understand what the situation is globally. and so tulsi gabbard doesn't have the executive experience. she doesn't have the

intelligence background. and she also lacks, in many respects, the common sense because of what she has done in terms of visits to syria and things that she has said, you know, over the past several years, which which, you know, quite rightly raises questions about loyalty to the efforts of the united states in that role. >> so, well, this is why we need a hearing. john brennan, as always, just thank you for your service, sir. we appreciate you coming up. no more fact checkers. that's according to mark zuckerberg and other tech billionaires. they are just ready and willing to appease trump as he heads to the white house. we're going to get into it next on the weekend. who needs facts? >> to avoid digital threats? just turn on nordvpn, improve your protection against trackers, malicious websites and trackehey, take a moment.tes and malware do you know who we are?

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inauguration, even changing company policies to improve their standing with his administration. meta and facebook owner mark zuckerberg met with trump at mar a lago on friday, according to semafor. this is just days after announcing the platform would end its fact checking program also announced sweeping changes to the company's hate speech policy and the dissolution of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs. i just feel like as someone that has been on facebook and instagram and instagram and threads, right, all the things, i think two things. one, i don't know what the look was mark zuckerberg was going for in his little video. it was given like freshman at hbcu and two, what i, i feel like it's only the biggest that were constrained with their hate speech, with their with their with their speech restriction. because and i don't know why we need why the bigots need a platform. that's what i don't understand here. but maybe maybe i'm wrong. >> look, this is for me. this is

all about credibility. and the zuckerbergs and crew, the, you know, the billionaire bros. what the hell? they call themselves lost it a long time ago. and the reality of it is the capitulation. the, you know, changing of how they platform their social media just tells us how credible they are. and they're not. i mean, facts don't matter now. and that's very clear because you've got an incoming president who lies, who lies and who will continue to lie, and they don't want to be in a position where they have to fact check that they don't want to be in a position where those who access that platform call out the lie. right. and so they want to now be able to counter-program against the lie, against those who want to fact check real time and say that was a lie, and then have it, like you just mentioned, having all of this bigotry, craziness, ugliness come in and inundate the space because that then

becomes more powerful than the fact that the president of united states just lied to us. so yeah, i they have no credibility. i don't use i got off facebook a long time ago. >> instagram. >> you're on instagram. >> instagram. so like mark zuckerberg did this because he knows y'all are not closing the instagram accounts, right? we might not be on facebook, but we're using instagram. he did it because he he he's not going to see the backlash in terms of people leaving the platform. and that's a reality. >> can i just illustrate this? because i'm sort of trying to figure out what what this could possibly look like. and the intercept got some leaked meta rules. here are some examples of newly permissible speech on facebook and instagram that are highlighted in their training materials. i actually don't want to read any of these things because they're all so awful, but they're about immigrants. they're about the gay community. they're about the trans community. and if all of those things. >> yeah, i mean, they're too

awful for the bigots. this is for the bigots and the people who who hate other people. this is not for anybody. this is not for most americans. this is for the people that want to be internet bullies. and i just i don't understand that is not about fairness, the internet. why do the bigots need a platform? >> i also thought it was interesting. did you see this, michael, that in their statement they said, well, if they can say things on the floor of congress, they should be able to say, well, i wouldn't use the floor of congress right now as my metric. >> i wouldn't use the floor of congress as my metric. but if you're telling me that on the floor of congress, they say gays are freaks, because that's one of the things that's maybe that one congressman does. but that's my point, right? so what? so are we mimicking the congress or is the congress mimicking us? and so where where is the line in which we as a society say that, you know, putting suggestive comments about beneath the picture of a young girl under

the age of 17 is okay? is that what we're saying now, mark zuckerberg, you can do that. you're okay with posting pictures of young children, of young girls with suggestive language beneath their picture, because that's now permissible on your platform. so that's what this is about. and so when parents get upset and, and upset and, you know, just put out by this, where do where do they go, how and when and bad things happen because of what you're platforming. you're going to sit back and go, well, we're not responsible. section 203 we're protected. we don't have we have no responsibility here. it's just a platform bull. it's more than that and you know it. >> it's sad because what do we do, alicia? i don't even know what we do because i'm not getting off instagram. but i don't like this. >> i don't like it either. what we're going to do is talk about jack smith leaving the justice department just days before

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to extend her restrictions. that's temporarily blocking the release of smith's final report on his investigations into donald trump. joining us now, msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor christie greenberg, welcome, christie. >> christie, what do you think? >> this is such a mess? >> i thank you. >> you just summed up the last two years just i mean, so you've got two volumes of this special counsel report, the january 6th volume and the classified documents volume with respect to the classified documents volume. >> merrick garland kind of took himself out of it. he said, we're not going to publicly release it. and the reason is because, well, there is still this ongoing appeal of judge cannon's dismissal of the case against the classified documents, case against these two co-defendants. and so there could be some prejudice to them.

so we're just not going to publicly release it. we want to just release it to a few members of congress. i mean, that's absurd. in a week from now that, you know, trump's justice department is going to dismiss that appeal. and so why don't we just drop that appeal now and go ahead and release the classified documents, report to the public? that's something that the public, i think is entitled to see from the incoming president, who's going to be charged with once again protecting the nation's secrets. so that piece was confounding to me that that doj made that decision. as to the january 6th report, i mean, judge cannon has no jurisdiction over this case, right? it's on appeal to the 11th circuit. with respect to those two co-defendants, she's got no skin in the game. and yet these co-defendants know if they want something done for donald trump, you go to judge cannon. so that's what they did. she halted the report despite the fact that

january 6th was not her case halts the report for three days after the appellate court can look at it. appellate court looks at it on thursday and says, yeah, you can go ahead and release this, no problem. but they didn't kind of do the belt and suspenders of also vacating her order. so the co-defendants go back to judge cannon and they say, hey, why don't we have a hearing which we know she loves to do, and she knows she's got eight days until donald trump takes over. and these reports would never see the light of day. so what is she doing? she's doing what she needs to do. like she's like a real housewife who got the assignment. she's trying to create a storyline for herself for this week, to be able to create drama, to be able to make sure, to punt this until he can come in and try and bury it. hopefully the 11th circuit stops it. they've already said these reports should be released. nothing about what's in the january 6th report is anything to do with judge cannon. and just yesterday she ordered doj to say, tell me more about why the january 6th report

has nothing to do with these defendants. about half an hour ago, doj said, has nothing to do with these defendants, and you don't have jurisdiction. so hopefully the 11th circuit comes in and tells her to knock it off. >> what do you think all this. i'm sorry. go ahead. >> no. >> go ahead alicia, because i my comment is not going to be good for tv, but go ahead. >> well i'm not sure mine is either. which is. what is she. what do you think she believes all this fealty is, is getting her. christie greenberg. what is she aiming for here? what's at the end of this road for her? >> well, i don't think. at least right now, there's anything at the end of the road for her because she's very useful to donald trump. exactly where she is. you know, where mar-a-lago is. she's pretty much the only game in town. the cases generally get wheeled out to her. there aren't that many other judges in that division. so i think for right now she will be where she is. but she's clearly aiming higher. she's aiming either for the 11th circuit court of appeals or maybe even to the supreme court. again, i don't see that in her

immediate future, but that's clearly the goal here to curry favor. i mean, again, i hate to say that about a judge, but we have seen this movie time and time again from her, where every time she goes wildly outside of the law, i mean, her her rulings are lawless. she defied 150 years of precedent in saying that the special counsel was improperly appointed. i mean, she she all of her rulings in this case were so outside the bounds of law and always in donald trump's favor. so at some point, you need to call a spade a spade and you need to say something else is afoot here. >> well, i'll say this. >> something else is afoot. she's in the tank and she has been for day one. and it's unfortunate because she is a stain on the entire judiciary. she's not credible in the role that she plays, and it's unfortunate that we find ourselves subject to this neophyte judge who doesn't even know the, the rules of, of precedent and procedure. and so

from, from that standpoint, i'm of the view i don't care how you release it, just get the damn thing released. because we have we have nickled and dimed around this. merrick garland has been wholly useless in this process. completely useless. the most timid person at justice period in the history of the organization. even at this hour, in the face of everything else, knowing what happens on january 20th. well, i don't know if we should put this out because something may come. nothing's coming of this because it's all gone at 1201 next tuesday. next monday. so what's the point, christie? i mean, i mean, citizens look at this and they go, this has been a complete a complete cluster for the american people relative to our judicial process. how do you restore that faith? where where do we begin to get back this idea that our judiciary,

particularly since donald trump is going to stack it with more judge canons, is impartial and a place where you can go and have those scales balanced in a way in which you can receive some justice, or that we can at least see it in working. >> well, i think the first thing is you don't take yourself out of the game, which is what merrick garland did here with respect to that, that florida classified documents volume of the report. right. you have to move forward. there is information that is in that i think would be very valuable for the american people to know in that report, for example, jack smith said, we will be able to prove at trial with unclassified evidence why it is that donald trump kept those documents and what he plans to do with them. that, to me has always been the $64,000 question. do you just keeping them for his personal trophies? was he looking to sell them or provide information to others? who else was involved that may be coming into this

administration? like you can't as democrats, you can't take yourself out of that. you have to try and fight those fights. i think as to other judges, i mean, i don't foresee the doj, particularly under donald trump's personal lawyers, running it like they're not going to be speaking truth to any to power for any of donald trump's judges. but i do think there is a real role here for state prosecutors. i'm hoping that jack smith, with respect to other people who enabled donald trump on january 6th, i'm hoping that he provided some of that evidence with respect to the fake elector scheme, to some of those other state prosecutors who can have a role here in really protecting rights under state constitutions. so i think we have to keep speaking truth to power in any way that we can. >> all right. kristy greenberg, thank you very much. really appreciate you coming on. so this week, folks, is officially president biden's last week in the white house, how he plans to connect directly with the american people. well, we'll

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has taken place during those years that i think give us more context and understanding, not just of the man, but of the moment that we find ourselves in. >> yeah. >> you know, i think there's a lot about joe biden that people discounted in many ways. and, and took for granted in other ways. and, and i think in the short, in the short lens of history, that's going to be really, really obvious. a year from now. and they'll begin to appreciate what he tried to do. look, he made some huge accomplishments as president, there's no doubt about that. but i think to your point, alicia, that that's just one part of a bigger story that he's been able to tell and share with the country since 1972. >> joe biden got into public office in as a county councilman. right. and then he became a united states senator

when he was 29 years old. so to me, that says that president biden knows what it was like maybe a long time ago, to have been a young person with ideas that wanted to contribute, a young person that wanted to have a seat at the table. and i think that that has carried him throughout his career. i know that there are many there are many just different vantage points and lenses with which to view the president and his life of service. and i just want to encourage people to take a look at the fulsome history of his service here. a man who has dedicated his life to this country and frankly, someone who, when he left the white house in 2012 after the obama administration walked out of the white house with a son who had just died, and a political future that the people said was over, and joe biden has defied the he said it was over. he has defied the odds again and again and again and has been called to service. and i just think his story is a is really a remarkable american story. and i'm grateful. >> it was just fun.

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sunday morning. we're going to see you back here next saturday and sunday at 8 a.m. eastern. be sure to follow us on social media at the weekend msnbc. a quick programing note today on inside with jen psaki. prime minister of canada justin trudeau joins jen to talk about his decision to resign and his relationship with trump. you can catch that interview at noon eastern right here on msnbc. velshi continues our coverage now. good morning. ali. >> well, that was a weirdly non-fun party atmosphere. >> hand over to me. given that it's your first birthday. >> thank you. >> i don't mean to be scolding you babies. >> thank you. thank you. but i wanted to. i'm not going to say what i was told. >> there was going to be cake. >> you scared my hat off. >> i have, i will say there are a lot of amazing benefits to our

viewers and us to have had had you on every weekend for the last year, but some of it's been very personal. >> like, i now get to start my show. coming off of your energy every weekend, which i love, and i just wanted to remind our viewers of a little bit of the fun we've had in the last year. >> take a look. >> oh, that does it for our very first edition of the weekend. velshi starts right now. hi, ali. >> i slept well last night. i got up ready to watch the show this morning. thought i'd give it a little bit of a club vibe today. >> as you can see, i was at a rave all night. can you see my vest? oh, yeah. >> you see the vest? ali? i'm glad we're discussing it. >> it's giving papa smurf and ia2 hour show just like yours. >> so now i just got to. i got to face off with michael. i feel like i've done many times, but i. there you go. you're looking good, my friend. you're looking good. >> you know. it's 420. ali happy 420. >> to all that celebrate. totally. is that changes the whole game. very interesting. there's perogi. hey,