described what he saw in a bathroom, all our laundry. you devastated area. just pick a date, pick a >> in driving around some of these areas, there literally looked like war zones. there are downed power poles, electric wires. there are still some smoldering fires. it is not safe. >> also today we're getting a look at the heartbreaking images of what is left standing. reporter annette arriola from our station knbc toward remains in altadena. >> the altadena senior center is gone. >> the girl scout center right off of mariposa and santa rosa, which, by the way, my kids have gone to for several events is still standing and there's really no reason as to why one just pispeaker: my little cleanermiracle is beckett. [christina perri, "a thousand years"] i have died every day waiting for you. we wouldn't be where we are without saint jude. and in turn, we wouldn't be where we are without those people that have donated. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now... now available: boost max! better coverage than i do. >> sounds like linda has you home survived and why the entire beat. >> only in coverage and plans rest of the block is gone. >> in fact, we've driven to through a couple of these side streets and it's just so, so sad. >> you have one home standing

completely intact. and again, everything else around it burned to the rubble. and even those that did survive with maybe some minimal fire damage. we were talking, my photographer and i, enrique and i, about the fact that a lot of those homes that are still standing still have >> only in coverage and plans ♪ who knows what tomorrow will bring ♪ (dog whines) ♪ but as for me ♪ (knock at door) ♪ i'll wait and see ♪ ♪ and maybe it'll bring my love to me ♪ ♪ who knows ♪ ♪ who knows ♪ one agenda. one senator says damage. >> they have smoke damage. threats of mass deportations on >> so when people, residents, day 1st may have been greatly homeowners return to what is exaggerated. left, they will still have so >> yeah. so there's this much to deal with. and of perception that somehow there's going to be a gathering of course, the folks who lost it all. busses out in the city square, >> our hearts just break for and everybody's going to have to them. load up and go out. that's just >> annette arriola there of kmbc. thank you for that. in our not how it happens in real life. >> this will take a long time. next hour, bob fenton, the deputy director of fema, he is >> this will take some dollars. but again, if somebody has on the ground in california, and committed a criminal act, if he can tell us how help is somebody has a final order of getting to people who removal from a court, we should desperately need it. a very good not just ignore that. >> also new today, a developing gray area over exactly which day to all of you from msnbc january 6th rioters might world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone. to alex receive a promised trump pardon. witt reports. we begin this hour vice president elect j.d. vance with the breaking news, of course, and the latest on the offered some clarification. devastating wildfires in los angeles today, a critical day >> if you protested peacefully on january the 6th and you had

for fire crews who have made some progress against the area's merrick garland's department of two biggest fires and are racing justice treat you like a gang against the arrival of more member, you should be pardoned if you committed violence on powerful winds that are expected to last through midweek. at that day. obviously, you shouldn't be pardoned. and least 16 people are dead, 16 there's a little bit of a gray area there and a new concession reported still missing, with the death toll likely to rise. over today that russia's war against ukraine may not end before the 100,000 residents are under inauguration like trump said it would. evacuation orders. california >> but the transition team is governor gavin newsom gave still holding out hope. updates on meet the press earlier today, announcing he >> well, we would like to see a signed an executive order ceasefire in any minute, any suspending the state's costly day. i think that would be a environmental review process for positive, incredibly positive homeowners and businesses first step on both sides. seeking to rebuild their everybody knows that this has to properties. the governor also said that he invited president end somehow, diplomatically. i elect trump to visit the state, just don't think it's realistic but has yet to receive any to say we're going to expel response. newsom added that he every russian from every inch of took trump's threat to withhold ukrainian soil. disaster assistance seriously. >> senate confirmation hearings begin tuesday, including for >> i call for him to come out, pete hegseth, trump's choice for take a look for himself. we had defense secretary. we're going support from the president of to bring in right now for a good the united states, joe biden, conversation. we have stef with 100% reimbursement, all the kight, political reporter for axios. molly ball, senior resources you could hope for or political correspondent for the imagine constant communication. wall street journal, and eugene

i'd like to extend that to the daniels, msnbc political president elect. i don't know contributor and coauthor of what he's referring to when he politico's playbook. this is talks about the delta smelt and going to be good. let's get into reservoirs. the reservoirs are this. molly, first to you. out completely full. the state reservoirs here in southern of all of trump's choices, who do you think is likely going to california that mis and disinformation, i don't think face the most scrutiny on advantages or aids. any of us capitol hill? >> at least of the ones responding to donald trump's scheduled so far for the coming week, it's definitely pete insults. >> right now, thousands of hegseth. i think, you know, firefighters are battling at least three major fires. the two there's already been a lot of discussion of the various biggest blazes, those being the scandals that he's facing. he's palisades fire and the eaton also going to face a lot of fire. they are 11% and 27% now scrutiny for on policy and on contained. those two fires have how he plans to run the pentagon. you know, the damaged more than 12,000 senators, particularly those on structures. many of the city's the relevant committees, are going to have a lot of detailed residents, now grappling with the heartbreak of losing questions about what it is everything they own. exactly he's proposing to do, how disruptive the plans are >> seeing our home go down, our that he and the president elect memories are just everything have for that massive department about it. it's yeah, we're that, you know, covers so much hurting a lot. the further you territory and so much money in go up, it's just an absolute the government. so i think wasteland. >> sometimes you get knocked that's the one that that that down, but we're just not going most people's eyes are going to to be knocked out. you know? be on. and, you know, the it's we you fall down and we get senators want to see how he does under tough questioning, what they can learn from him and what

right back up. >> we have meteorologist denise they have found out about his isaac, who's covering all the background. it will also be wind advisories for us, and nbc's ellison barber covering interesting to see on the other the scene in the pacific side of the dais, you know, what palisades. so, ellison, day six. is the nature of the questioning, both from the now battling these fires, how democrats? how tough are they on are residents feeling about the him and the republicans? you ongoing efforts? know, there are a lot of >> you know, they're incredibly republicans have serious questions about this nomination. frustrated. and, look, the winds that they keep saying, officials and even though they want to keep saying the winds are appear to be team players and be picking up. and that's part of as supportive as they can of the why they can't let people back party and the president elect, into their homes because it's we're going to hear some tough questions from them as well that not safe. we're wearing masks now because we've seen that wind are really going to signal, you start to pick up. and when it know, how how good a chance he does, it's kicking up debris and rubble that's been left behind. has of being eventually confirmed. but i mean, look, this is just >> eugene. so big picture here. one example of how much people the senate is split with 53 have lost here. this was republicans, 47 democrats, which someone's home, none of it means the gop can lose no more standing now. i mean, next to it, when you look further down, than three votes to confirm a you see the same thing. the nominee with such a narrow margin. who do you think the house next to it, totally gone. senators are to watch this week? you can see the water, the beach there. and you understand really >> yeah, i mean, some of the ones you're looking at right quickly why people talk about this neighborhood, this here are the right ones. but, community of the palisades, as being a tiny piece of paradise. you know, susan collins, it is beautiful, but here a murkowski, kind of that normal reminder of just how vicious group that we're always talking these wildfires were. it's about. >> i think mitch mcconnell is

interesting because in a lot of one that folks haven't talked these neighborhoods, you'll see about a ton as someone to watch, homes like this just completely destroyed. and then across the street there's another one but he also sees himself as part destroyed, but then one down there that's still standing. of the legacy. he clearly we've spoken to people who know doesn't have a problem sometimes their homes are still standing, saying the opposite of what either from seeing images on the donald trump wants. with pete news or hearing from neighbors. hegseth. obviously, joni ernst but they say to us, what do we is at the top of that list to do, though? how do we come back and rebuild and live in a see how she feels about this and community when so much of it when what this is going to look looks like this and is gone? like. >> i think at the end of the they're also concerned about air quality and what it would be day, the balance that these like even if they could get senators are going to try to home. that being said, right now strike both in on the dais when they aren't able to come home to he's going through his confirmation and when they actually have to vote, is get extra supplies to take with whether or not it is worth it them to wherever they're staying now or just to assess the damage. and we've heard from a for them to go against donald lot of people that they're trump this early on. right at really frustrated by that they are frustrated with city the end of the day, if pete officials for the response, the hegseth ends up being a bad initial response, or what they see in some ways as a failed secretary of defense, people aren't going to say, you know, response, and also the you know what? i really think that senate shouldn't have communication that is happening confirmed him. they'll talk now with residents about what they can and cannot do in terms about donald trump. they'll talk about pete hegseth himself. right. and so they have that the of accessing their homes. they say there's just a lot of counter to that is they've already seen with ernst how much confusion. i want you to listen directly from some of those of the blowback comes by coming community members. we've met at

checkpoints where they're being out front and saying you're stopped and told they can't come uncomfortable with things. so i think that's the balance that home or come assess the damage. these folks are trying to take a listen. strike. and it's going to happen here pretty quickly. it seems >> i'm very concerned about interesting. >> steph. axios reports that being able to rebuild our trump's cabinet disrupters are community right now. there's starting to soften their views. nothing no banks, no markets, no so who are they and what key schools, nothing. there's no issues are we talking about infrastructure, there's no here? water, there's no power. >> yeah, we have already seen >> so that's my first concern. some pretty significant shifts >> i know the city recently had from some of these controversial their fire budget cut. so i picks, including tulsi gabbard, who is one that i believe is think with that cut budget they've been doing well. i mean going to have a really tough it's really tragic to see the time, potentially have the how understaffed we are. so i toughest time once she finally gets in front of senators for think that's one area in which her confirmation hearings. she's i'm disappointed. >> as you can see these winds one who has recently said that she now does support section 702 picking up again right now. this is one of the things that is surveillance powers. it's going to make it challenging, something that she was very extra challenging in the coming vocally against while she was in days to continue to contain congress. she did not support these fires. and it is one of a the continued use of that. she number of reasons why fire says that some recent changes to officials are saying we can't let people home just yet, that authority allow her to now because we're not sure it's entirely safe. there are get behind it. we've also seen hotspots, fires that are rfk jr, who has in the past been reigniting in homes that look critical of the polio vaccine, like they're no longer burning, but they're still not safe for now saying that he is supportive residents to get home to. but of the polio vaccine. you know,

that being said, the complaint just a few weeks ago, mitch we keep hearing again and again mcconnell was the one who is they feel like they're not getting that information as really, very strongly demanded that anyone who would get a directly from city officials as real, you know, a real look at they wish they were. but the other thing we keep hearing from these cabinet positions would people is how grateful they are have to be clear that they're supportive of the polio vaccine. for the firefighters who have mitch mcconnell had polio as a been out here, because while so many people have their homes looking like this lost in child. and then last, we have pete hegseth, who, you know, has rubble, some of them, they are said repeatedly in interviews still standing. and they know right now, especially those that he did not think women firefighters are working day and should be in active combat roles night to create a situation in the military. and after he where they are preventing their had several discussions with creating control lines and joni ernst, who is a combat preventing the fires from moving veteran, he has since been clear more to other homes. and we saw and said that he does support that firsthand yesterday. we were with a team from cal fire, women being in the military. so as they were battling a flare up these are just three examples of of the palisades fire that was ways where some of these controversial, controversial in mandeville canyon, and it was picks recognize that they have some issues with some of these inching close to people's homes. senators, even when they're facing a majority in their own three firefighters running upstairs. we saw them with hoses party, that they feel the need stopping the fire from hitting a to kind of tailor some of the house. they were able to save stances they've taken in the that property and many others. past. >> i have a question for you, that's what they're trying to do stephanie. just a second. but on still day in and day out. but that note, molly, just let me ask you quickly if someone says for so many residents, the devastation of all that they something, what if it turns out have lost, on top of feeling

like they don't know what's to be lip service during a going to happen next, is confirmation hearing and then weighing on people a lot. they get put into office and they're able to do their thing? >> alex. okay. ellison, thank how much can they be held to you so much. got to say, it is very disturbing, though, to hear the wind picking up there around what they had said in a confirmation hearing? i know you you, which is exactly what said that. is there anything southern california does not that makes them stick to it? need. but thank you very much for the live report. joining me >> well, i mean, this is the now is nbc news meteorologist denise isaac with a look at the role of checks and balances, right? it's congress and it's forecast. and again, these the public that holds them weather conditions, how they're going to impact the fires. look, accountable. if they're if they these powerful desert winds. we do something that contravenes what they said that they were heard them right there. when are going to do, there could be a they going to die down. yes. public outcry. it's on us in the >> and it really all depends on media to, i think, point that out and see if people object to where you are alex. >> because over the palisades, it. and then also congress has a yes, it increased to 24mph. but role in, you know, holding towards the eaton fire we're hearings and holding cabinet talking eight miles per hour. so it really just varies. but what officials to account. but i think eugene is exactly right. we're expecting is that later on ultimately, all of these potential nominees know that this afternoon, around 3:00 or what they do reflects on donald so pacific time, the winds will trump, and the buck ultimately become onshore, and that's stops with the president. so expected to at least decrease to ultimately, it's going to be up between 0 to 15mph. so hopefully to donald trump to decide whether what they are doing is that will be the window that in keeping with his agenda or firefighters need to at least not. and if they do something battle these fires. but because that is not what they said that by tonight we're talking about

these winds ramping back up once they were going to do, it's up to the president to decide whether that's a firing offense again to 40 50mph. and then or whether that was what he wanted in the first place. tomorrow is when the next event >> okay, back to the question i comes in of that high pressure want to ask you, steph, because you report that trump previewed coming in and expected to at least increase our wind speeds. his plan for 100 executive orders when he visited capitol hill last week. what can you and we do have now a fire weather watch in place for tell us about that one? >> yeah. so during this closed places like escondido, el cajon, door meeting with senators donald trump and his longtime down towards baja california, adviser stephen miller, who is excluding chula vista, san diego most known for his hawkish and carlsbad. so only pretty immigration stance, stood up and much coastal towns are not told senators about some of included in this fire weather their aggressive plans. starting watch that goes from monday all on day one, they plan to really the way through wednesday. hit the ground running on >> so critical fire danger for january 20th, and they're all. over the next three days we already starting to prepare. what they've told senators is have this area of high pressure coming in bringing those 100 executive orders that they downsloping winds. so santa ana plan to roll out, and many of winds develop once again, gusts these are addressing immigration and the border, which, of course, is no surprise if you've 40 to 70mph. >> humidity levels are extremely been following this campaign low 5 to 15% when it comes to over the past few years, this has been the number one issue humidity. >> dry vegetation i mean it's for them. and one, one of those extremely dry outside. plans that that stephen miller laid out for senators in this >> so this will enhance the fire meeting was reinstating title threat for southern california. 42, which, if you remember, was

>> and usually i mean this is the rainy season for this area. a pandemic linked policy that >> so what's happening. was initially put in place when >> well we do have a high covid was first breaking out in pressure sitting off the pacific coast. and this is allowing for 2020 and was only recently ended all storms to pretty much take a under biden in 2023. and this northerly track towards canada essentially allows immigration officials to very quickly expel and the pacific northwest. >> that's where we're seeing people who cross the border most of the action, meaning that without even giving them a chance at asylum. and what's northern california, southern california, we're staying pretty important here is that this policy is a public health bone dry. >> and this will be the case policy. it is usually used. it's pretty much the entire week. by supposed to be used in, in link next weekend, a storm system may to public health concerns. so bring a few rain drops, with the question here is how stephen accumulations less than a quarter of an inch. alex, back miller and others in the trump administration coming in decide to you. >> okay, that is not enough, but i guess every bit helps. thank to choose some kind of disease or illness and use that as cover you so much. appreciate that. joining us right now we have to reinstate this policy. >> yeah. eugene, one final barbara ferris, a survivor of question to you. and it's kind the 2018 malibu fires who lost of in the tenor of what we were her family home in la from the talking earlier. we've seen donald trump go after palisades fire. so look, this california's democratic governor, gavin newsom, since the fires broke out. newsom was has got to be hard. any way you pushed back. but will the look at it, how are you doing? governor have to find a way to and do you have any family still somehow get on trump's good side in the evacuation zones? and are if he wants to get assistance for his state? they safe? >> hi, alex. so good that you're >> yeah, because the answer is reporting like this.

>> i am also an extreme weather probably yes. right. a lot of these governors, you've seen survivor. them try to figure out how to >> no, i don't have any family talk about trump without getting in the zone. everybody's been on his bad side or staying on his bad side, at the very least, evacuated. i think i'm hoarse because of all the air quality. i guess gavin newsom could stay on his bad side personally, but it's pretty awful right now. hope that he keeps his state on >> excuse me. the good side of trump. >> no, i totally get that. and obviously, president biden has are you able to. do you have said, you know, 100% for the for masks and stuff? when you do go the next six months, the federal outside, you can't stay indoors government taking care of the all the time. >> well, we've been staying rebuilding here in california, indoors all the time out here in that is not something that malibu. all of our utilities donald trump has to continue. it have been shut down. so for all would seem right after six week long we've been out of months, what happens then? i power, gas, no internet. we are think that is the kinds of things that gavin newsom and his able to drink the water, which team have to think about. what is extremely important. but the does he have to do to make sure palisades is suffering. everyone that the promises he's made is now an extreme weather about these, the rebuilding of california, the rebuilding of survivor. the climate change, the pacific palisades in los the effects of climate change angeles, what does he have to do are we are witnessing and to make sure that donald trump continues that? >> yeah. all good. you guys said experiencing. my heart is it would be a good conversation. breaking. my hometown where i thank you all three. and i look grew up. >> my mother lived in her house forward to seeing you again. so when we could see that jack for 58 years, and many of her

smith rather. yeah. jack smith community members are in their report that donald trump is so 80s and 90s. desperately fighting to keep >> this is tragic. >> they don't know what to do. where are they going to live? where is everybody going to end up? will they even be alive to rebuild their homes? this is a momentous, momentous change that we're all undergoing. and i'll tell you, for other victims of the woolsey fire, it really brings up and triggers so many of our own experiences that we lived through and endured. but my message to everybody is resilience. >> we're going to make it los angeles are extremely united there. >> we're we're a unique bunch of people out here. let me just tell you. >> and when i heard in your report earlier, people saying, what are we going to do? >> what are we going to do? >> that's such a natural reaction. >> but the thing is, is it's got to be baby steps, and we're going to rely on our supportive

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to do that for an animal today. friend, hearing about a family to welcome in your home. barbara ferris, you may not know i'm a go los angeles girl. that is my home as well. so you're preaching here to the congregation. i've got you, and my family is doing what they can as well. in southern california right now. it's the best we can do. we're in it all together. so thank you very much. appreciate your sage advice and your experience. and good luck to you and your loved ones. thank you so much. in just a moment, donald trump's most controversial cabinet picks changing their tune just in time for their confirmation hearings. for their confirmation hearings. souyou know what's brilliant? boring. think about it. boring makes vacations happen, early retirements possible, and startups start up. that's why pnc bank strives to be boring with your money. the pragmatic, calculated kind of boring. let's say you're deep in a show or a game or the game. on a train, at home, at work. okay, maybe not at work. point is at xfinity. we're constantly engineering new ways to get the entertainment you love to you faster and easier than ever. that's what i do. is that love island?

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now, christie greenberg, former deputy head of the criminal division at southern district of new york and a good friend to us. you know, just real quick, christie. did. did jack smith leave town empty handed? >> as of now? yes. i'm hopeful that will not be the final answer. but right now, i mean, this report is really his swan song, and it remains to be seen whether we're going to see it. the 11th circuit, that's the appellate court has denied the motion from trump's co-defendants in the classified documents case. they've denied their motion to block the release of the reports. but there's also an order from judge cannon, who's in the lower court saying that you have to you can't release these reports until three days after the 11th circuit has ruled. so that brings us to today. so the issue, though, is that there's been a flurry of activity this weekend. as late as this

morning, where judge cannon has actually been asking for more information from doj to make sure that, in fact, there's nothing in the january 6th volume of the report that would affect these co-defendants in the classified documents case. and so it seems like she may be looking to do something else. she's been requested that she extends her injunction, but she really has no jurisdiction here. yeah. not only does she have nothing to do with the january 6th case, these two individuals weren't defendants in that case, and that's really the only report that's at issue because the classified documents volume of the report. merrick garland has already made the decision that we, the public, are not going to see that that's only going to be shared in camera, meaning they're not getting a copy, they're just going to see a copy of it with members of congress. >> yep. point well taken there. let me ask you about trump, who now is a new place in history as the first former president to be sentenced in a criminal case and the first convicted felon who will be sworn in as president. i

know you were in the courtroom for much of his trial and also there at sentencing. do you agree with the decision to let him off with no penalty whatsoever, save that moniker of convicted felon? >> well, i really think it was unfortunate and awful that trump wasn't actually punished for his crimes. these are crimes that people go to jail for. just ask michael cohen and a sentencing without any prospect of punishment really is, in a lot of ways, a farce. at the sentencing, he violated the gag order. he attacked one of the prosecutors, which the gag order prevents you from doing. he attacked the da. you know, he really just didn't do anything that would make you think leniency is the right result. but i also think judge marchand's hands were tied here by the supreme court. he made a call and that basically, unless he said ahead of time there would be no punishment, supreme court was unlikely to let this proceed. and it turns out he was right, because in the supreme

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president harris just wrapped up a briefing about the firefighting efforts and how federal resources are supporting the local response. take a look at this destruction, though. along the coast, crews are racing against time, with those santa ana winds set to once again intensify through wednesday. the death toll is now at 16 and tragically, it is expected to rise. meanwhile, residents are coming together to help the community. they're donating clothes, food, water and so much more. 100,000 residents remain under evacuation orders, though that is an improvement, if you can believe it or not. given those catastrophic numbers. joining me now we have fema regional administrator bob fenton. bob, i'm so glad you're here. i understand you just wrapped up that meeting with the president. so what did you tell him? >> well, i talked about the

programs that we are providing in los angeles for those displaced from the fires and those impacted by the fires. we have a program with fema that people can go to disasterassistance.gov and register for, or phone our one 806 213362 fema number to start the application process to give you assistance for those that were displaced or provide you other assistance for expenditures that you needed to do for maybe for gas or for other consumables that you might need to purchase while you were displaced from the fires. >> okay, one more time. that one 800 number, if you'll repeat it. >> yeah, it's one (800) 621-3362. okay. but i would urge people to go online at disasterassistance.gov and start the online application process. we've had 26,000 people apply already, and we've already disbursed over $5 million. and so we talked to the president about the process to help

individuals both in the short term. but more importantly, are we starting to talk about the long term and other assistance that will need to be provided? in addition to the chief of the forest services there and talked about the firefighting activities going on and the wind events next week. so i think we all need to be to continue to listen to local officials be ready to evacuate when needed, and be prepared to make sure that we're taking prudent action. >> yeah. and i just want to tell our viewers and you as well, that, bob, we are seeing live pictures over just the devastated area. it is an extraordinary look aerially speaking at i mean, but that's the pacific palisades and it is you have to question what really is left, what remains. it seems like absolutely nothing. so when you look ahead at these winds, how much can that potentially hamper what fema is able to do on a practical level, between now and wednesday? bob? >> well, right now there's i

would say, two different things happening. one is focus on the immediate response and on preparing for the next set of fires. and that's happening between local, state and federal firefighters and actions of our emergency managers. on the other side, we are already starting to reach out and care for those that have been displaced or have been impacted by these fires, and that's why we want people to register into our program so we can jump start that assistance and start assisting them on the road to recovery. everyone, if they are insured, should phone their insurance company and start with insurance first. and those that are underinsured or uninsured, we have assistance we can help them with. >> okay, let me ask you about something because it's been getting a lot of buzz, people talking about california governor newsom and what he's doing now, calling for an investigation into why some fire hydrants ran dry, and also why a major reservoir that services the pacific palisades there was empty and offline when the fires began. based on what, you know,

bob, how much of a factor did these water supply issues hamper efforts to contain the fires? >> yeah, i think those questions need to, as the governor has asked for, be investigated. it will take many different groups from different organizations and agencies to come together and discuss that, and probably better question to the firefighters, both at the federal and state level. my focus is really to help those that have been impacted by those fires and to start to not only help them right now as they're displaced, but really start the process to help them recover. and doing things like not only helping individuals, but starting to come up with plans on how are we going to remove the debris, how do we take care of the hazardous materials there, all the things that we see after significant fires and such destruction as this. >> yeah. i got to tell you from the sky, we've been able to see

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after expressing desire to expand america with greenland and canada. i mean, joking or not, others are taking it seriously. when answering questions at a press conference on friday, greenland's prime minister said he is ready to talk with president elect trump, but also added that we do not want to be american. joining me now is tom nichols, staff writer extraordinaire and the author of the atlantic daily newsletter. so, tom, welcome. let's let's listen together to canadian prime minister justin trudeau speaking with my colleague jen psaki about his meeting with trump and his idea of making canada america's 51st state. >> 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 certain parts. he immediately decided that it was not not that funny anymore. and we moved on to a different conversation. >> i mean, seriously, that was funny, but it sounds like donald trump was not laughing at trudeau's suggestions. why would trump even bring this up in the first place with trudeau? >> well, there's two things going on. one is that trump thinks this is a mark of greatness, that, you know, you can your thomas jefferson, you do the louisiana purchase, you, you know, acquire the northwest territory. you make the united states bigger. and you put trump's name on, you know, greenland like it's a hotel. some of that is just his, i would say, almost childlike comprehension of how of how the world works, that you just buy stuff and make things bigger. why he would raise it with trudeau is something of a mystery, i suppose, because he can't possibly think that this was going. i shouldn't say that.

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important for america's. strategically, i think there actually is a real opportunity here for us to take leadership, to protect america's security, to ensure that those incredible natural resources are developed. >> and that's what. do you buy the strategic argument that vance is pitching there? >> oh, sure. look, during the cold war, we used to refer to the greenland, iceland uk gap that this was the north atlantic strategic area that had to be defended from incursions by the then soviet union and its ships and submarines. so, of course, the north atlantic is an area of great strategic value, and you can almost see the vice president elect here chuckling and saying, well, i know this is really crazy, but you know, we should think about this area of the world even if we're not going to buy or invade greenland. i mean, this is the classic trump problem that he says these kind of kooky things. and then all the people around him have to explain what he really meant. but no, vance

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