>> down the road, the family lost rhythms of the village, their shop and the only african store in the san gabriel valley. >> i saw the shop fully ablaze, and i screamed. i felt sad. i felt all the emotions. then i came to the conclusion that we can rebuild. and those are material things. what matters is that we're all alive. >> what are you bringing in now? they're using their home to coordinate donations for the community. >> bedding. >> clothes, shoes. >> random. >> we appreciate it. >> bring it on down. >> that's the way i was raised, being communal. >> so it's. it's almost divine that we're back here, back at square one and in a position to support anybody in need right now. >> even as you guys are hurting. >> yeah. >> yeah. of course. yeah. that's our spirit. yeah. >> because in my culture, if you have, i have if i have, you have. >> a week after they lost everything a community facing

the future together. jacob soboroff, nbc news, altadena, california. >> if you have i have. if i have, you have. the true spirit of community takes us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news. thanks for staying up late. i'll see you at the end of tomorrow. there are still some significant details to be worked out, but as of today, negotiators for hamas and israel have reached a cease fire agreement that commits to returning the remaining israeli hostages and ultimately ending the 15 month long war in gaza that has killed at least 46,000 people. people took to the streets in both israel and gaza to celebrate the deal after it was announced. the agreement will still need to be ratified by the israeli cabinet before it can be implemented, and the deal, as outlined so far, is

nearly identical to the one outlined by the biden administration last may. it is set to play out in three phases. the first phase will take place over the next six weeks, beginning sunday, with a full and complete cease fire between the two sides. that will be followed by hamas releasing dozens of israeli hostages, including women, the elderly and the wounded, while israel will release hundreds of palestinian prisoners. nbc news reports that two of the israeli hostages released in the first round will be americans siggy dixon and keith siegel. during this phase, israeli forces are expected to withdraw from populated areas of gaza. humanitarian aid is expected to surge into gaza, and palestinians should be allowed to return to their home neighborhoods. phase two of this deal will be dedicated to reaching a permanent end to the war, and during this phase, the two sides will negotiate an exchange for the remaining hostages who were not released in phase one, and all israeli

forces are expected to withdraw from gaza. now, in phase three of the agreement, nbc news reports that the remains of the hostages who died in hamas custody are expected to be returned to their families and a, quote, major reconstruction plan is expected to begin. so there is a lot to be determined here, but it is still potentially a major breakthrough in a bloody and protracted war. less than half an hour after negotiations made this deal, negotiators made this deal public. president elect trump claimed credit for the agreement, posting on his social media site. this epic cease fire agreement could have only happened as a result of our historic victory in november. we have achieved so much without even being in the white house. trump had been publicly threatening negotiators to come to a deal, saying in a press conference last week that there will be hell to pay if the hostages were not released before he took office tonight, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called president

trump, president elect trump to thank him before calling president biden, the man whose administration negotiated this deal and the person who is still the president of the united states of america today. president biden emphasized his administration's lead in the negotiations, but he also noted the cooperation of trump's team, perhaps in an effort to keep the incoming president from blowing up the deal altogether. >> i also know that this deal was developed and negotiated under my administration, but its terms will be implemented for the most part by the next administration. in these past few days, we've been speaking as one team. i told my team to coordinate closely with the incoming team to make sure we're all speaking with the same voice, because that's what american presidents do. >> at the end of that same appearance, president biden responded to exactly one question from a reporter, and this was it. thank you for this,

mr. president. you or trump? >> is that a joke? >> oh, joining me now are ben rhodes, former deputy national security advisor under president obama, and ayman mohyeldin, host of ayman here on msnbc. guys, thank you both for joining me here tonight. i'm so thrilled that i can get both of your thoughts, ben, just on the sort of stagecraft of this announcement, i am very curious to know how you're reading the back and forth here. i mean, president biden gave his farewell address this evening, and he made sure to talk about how the fact the fact was that this was a deal his administration negotiated, suggesting that trump kind of came in at the end. how relevant is the fact that trump is coming into office in five days to, you know, the agreement that we have on the table today? >> well, alex, it has to be relevant. i mean, it's glaringly obvious that the timeline is somewhat tied to the fact that

we're going through a presidential transition. the reason, you know, that is because this deal has been on the table since the spring. it's really not materially different than what was on the table in the spring. and i think what look, what we can take away, obviously is relief. and assuming this is implemented, joy for the hostages that will be released and reunited with their families and for the people of gaza who've just been living in hell on earth and might finally get some aid and some relief and ultimately some reconstruction. but i think in terms of the timing, what's happened here is you had a convergence of interests between biden and trump, and biden obviously wanted to get this done while he was in office. they've been, you know, trying to negotiate precisely these terms for the better part of this year. and donald trump wanted this off his plate. he didn't want to come into office with an ongoing conflict in gaza. and, you know, pretty clearly he was weighing in. and i've talked to people in governments, not just the u.s.

government, but people in the region who've said that that's the message they were getting privately as well as, you know, publicly from trump. and i think netanyahu, you know, he's sitting there and he has ensured his own political survival, frankly, by the perpetuation of this war. and he was going to have some trouble with the right wing of his coalition that does not want any peace. but i think he could point to trump and say, hey, look, we got trump coming in and i got to do this. and so i think it was a convergence of a lot of things, including the incoming trump administration. >> yeah, ayman, i'm very struck by some statements made this evening on fox news by trump's incoming national security adviser. this is on fox. i think we have the sound. if we can play it right now, we've made it very clear to the israelis, and i want the people of israel to hear me on this. >> if they need to go back in, we're with them. if hamas doesn't live up to the terms of this agreement, we are with

them. this hamas is not going to continue as a military entity, and it certainly is not going to govern gaza. >> bret, i want to be optimistic about this thing ending this horrible war. but you hear these kind of caveats that are emerging less than 24 hours. there's donald trump and his involvement in this, the fact that he's going to be the one to actually implement this. how are you thinking about this agreement? >> i'm thinking about it in a few different ways. first, i'm looking at it on the ground in the immediate reaction for the people of gaza. the people of gaza are celebrating today. no one can deny that. there's a lot of pain, there's a lot of grief. there's been a tremendous amount of loss. but i'm centering it around their reaction for what this means. and if the killing can stop for a day, for two, for 42 days and build on that, that it is a very positive day. that's the first and immediate concern that i was looking at as a journalist. but more importantly, beyond that is how long is this actually going to be sustainable? right. and there are some things that you're going to come up, you're going

to rub up against that are just going to be undeniable. the incoming national security adviser or sorry, the who. we just heard from there. >> mike. mike wallace. mike. incoming national security adviser. >> correct. i was thinking of steve witkoff who's in the region, but i'm thinking about mike wallace, who's who's saying that you are not going to be able to remove hamas from gaza. so he is saying hamas is not going to govern gaza, but you're not going to be able to make that determination unless you say, well, what are you going to do with hamas, whose ideology exists, who has been able to replenish itself, been able to constitute itself? we just heard from anthony blinken yesterday who told us that hamas has managed to recruit more militants since october 7th in this war than it has. so america is telling them before than before. so america is telling the world two things. it's saying under this administration, at least, the war must go on to destroy hamas. but at the same time, as long as the war goes on, hamas is still recruiting militants and nobody has been able to square. >> they don't understand the interlinkage between those two. >> correct. and yet, this is what anthony blinken was telling the secretary of state was

telling us yesterday in his farewell address. and here comes the incoming administration. who is going to deal with that reality? hamas can have all of its leaders killed. and yet here we are, just after killing haniyeh and yahya sinwar and all the others, has managed to create an immediate new generation that has just entered into a negotiation with israel, with a robust recruitment apparatus. >> i mean, so, ben, what is your level of optimism? i mean, we know what phase one is. and i think to eamonn's point, it should be celebrated that there could be a tentative peace, that lives could be saved in this peaceful period, that hostages could be returned. but in terms of your level of optimism about this, holding through stages two and three, which seem tricky even on paper, to say nothing of the realities that ayman just outlined. where are you on this? >> i mean, i, i wouldn't say i'm optimistic. i'm hopeful. let's put it that way. i mean, look, the relief for the people of gaza is extraordinary. and you see it on the streets and just getting aid in just having some peace for some period of time is

transformational from what they've been through. however, there are massive questions. alex and ayman teed up some of them. who is going to be responsible for the governance of gaza? who is going to be responsible for the security of gaza? hamas is not destroyed, as was the stated objective of the israeli military campaign. there's still hamas negotiated this. they agreed to it. right. and so one concern you might have looking at the situation for palestinians is hostages are returned, and then you have a right wing of netanyahu's coalition that does not want this deal. i mean, they're criticizing this deal. and you could see a resumption of military operations in gaza once the hostages are out, and then it continues. even if that doesn't happen, you still have a long reconstruction effort. and there's not an end to the israeli-palestinian conflict. you have gaza in rubble, and you've got the west bank where you've had a very volatile situation over the course of th, the, the war since october 7th.

so there are huge issues awaiting the trump administration. there's a possibility that if this holds long enough, that reconstruction can start, maybe the gulf countries come in. there have been talk of potentially, you know, arab forces that can help provide security, something that is in the way of a resumption of hostilities between hamas and israel. that's what you want to get to. you want to get to a place where this thing can't just explode again, that's possible. there's a pathway to that. but we should be clear that there are many things that could derail this. and then even if you get there, you still have all kinds of question marks about both the future of gaza and the west bank. >> yeah. ynet, which is an israeli media outlet, reported on monday that president trump, according to a source familiar with the details, has already promised prime minister netanyahu and minister ron dermer that if they agree to a cease fire and the withdrawal of idf, the israeli defense forces from the gaza strip, trump will support israel retroactively if it decides to return to fighting and violate the cease fire.

>> you know, we're we're rightfully focusing on what trump has brought to this equation in the peace deal or, sorry, the cease fire deal. i think what is also important to notice is what the prime minister of israel has done over the past several months in being able to game american politicians to get to this point. benjamin netanyahu is a shrewd and smart politician. that is undeniable. he could have delivered this victory to joe biden eight months ago, prior to a us election in which the us candidate for the democratic party, the vice president, could have been running on a cease fire deal. he did not do that. and he did not do that by design, not because he simply was sitting back there and saying that deal is not good. nothing has changed in the past eight months dramatically in terms of the deal. >> only american politics have changed. right, exactly. >> and so my point to that is, it is hard to imagine that the prime minister of israel has entered into the cease fire deal without knowing that on the back end of it, down the road, there is going to be some chips to be cashed in with the trump administration. now, could that

be the desire to annex the west bank? could that be the desire to repopulate northern gaza with israeli settlers? could that be a strike on iran that would require american military involvement and direct military cover for israel? if iran gets struck, and all of these factors are now on the table for the israeli prime minister to actually use against the administration of donald trump to say, hey, look, we gave you a win on day one. we released the hostages. we entered into this deal. you now are beholden to us. and what we want to do with some of these issues across the region. >> well, and it's unclear how much it's even an issue for trump to be beholden to those desires. right. it's not it's not clear that he wouldn't acquiesce to them willingly. >> i mean, we have people in the incoming trump administration who have made clear mike huckabee has said that he wants or supports the annexation, as he calls it, judea and samaria, which is the west bank. others in the administration have favored regime change in iran for years. for them, that is like the holy grail of regime change in the region. people have been salivating about that in the last couple of months

because iran is at its most weakened position. so you have a very combustible situation, a very shrewd israeli politician who knows how to manipulate the american political system to his advantage, as he has done time and time again. >> ben, i have to ask this because we're in a kind of elegiac mode tonight. given the president's farewell address, and i wonder he's going out with this deal. that's the sort of i think what he would say is a feather in his cap. the this is a mixed metaphor, but it is it's a complicated, complicated ending, or it's the most positive ending he could ask for in a very complicated situation. how do you what do you think of his legacy on on this war? >> look, i'm glad again that hostages are being released. i'm glad that the people of gaza have some peace. but think of what has happened. you know, this is not i mean, it's worth celebrating the deal, but it's not worth celebrating a policy.

i don't think if you ask the biden team in the early days of this, that they thought that it would take until january of 2025 for there to be a deal, this is not the timeline that they were pursuing. and frankly, i think the legacy is there was unconditional support in terms of military support. every bomb dropped was dropped by an american plane, 200 0 pound bombs dropped on refugee camps. were american bombs vetoes at the security council? joe biden's legacy is that he gave unconditional support for a war that destroyed gaza. and some people, you know, support that. but the reality is, i think it's look, maybe we're going to learn more, by the way, about the destruction. if journalists are allowed to get into gaza, which they've not been allowed in since october 7th, i think the death toll is going to go up. the destruction reports are going to go up. so i'm glad this happened. but, you know, the reality is the timing kind of tells the story here. i think eamon is exactly right. i think

netanyahu played this out until after the election. he played it out until he was in a stronger political position. he's in a stronger political situation, in part because of what's happened in lebanon, where they've made serious gains against hezbollah. and you have a new government. i don't think joe biden is controlling events. i just don't i you know, i don't think he was kind of in command of the diplomacy here. i think, you know, they negotiated these terms, but these terms, you know, along with qatar and others. but these are the obvious terms of a cease fire. sure, there are particularities about, you know, whether israel has a presence for a period of time and the philadelphia corridor, which is the border with egypt. but but those are technicalities. the basic perpetuation of the war was bibi netanyahu's decision, backed by joe biden. and i think that will be the legacy of this more than this deal, i just to remind everybody, eamon, over 47,000 people killed in gaza, 16 1600, more than 1600 in lebanon and of course, 1200 killed in israel. >> the lancet, a medical

journal, estimates the death toll in gaza is likely 40% higher than 47,000. >> and to add very quickly to ben's point about the legacy of this war, christopher wray, the outgoing fbi director in the us intelligence community, assesses that isis has been able to recruit based off of the gaza war. you know, thousands, if not more radicalized individuals across the region. and you're getting a trump administration that is contemplating right now with a new change in syria, withdrawing u.s. troops that have been involved in the fight against isis. i'm not saying it's good or bad. i'm just saying to you, you're seeing the legacy of this war. it is going to have ripple effects across the region for years, if not generations to come, not just outside of gaza, but even inside of gaza. you have a new generation of palestinians who are going to be scarred by this war. and we have heard time and time again of people inside gaza who have vowed revenge for what they have had to endure over the past 15 months. and that's a scary thought. >> yeah. ben rhodes, thank you for your time and wisdom this

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freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. we see the consequences all across america. and we've seen it before. more than a century ago. but the american people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts. >> tonight, in his farewell address to the nation, president biden warned about powerful forces that threaten the idea of america and democracy itself an emerging american oligarchy was just one of several concerns the president outlined days before he departs. political life. after five days in public service and hands the keys to the white house to donald trump. joining me now to discuss are claire mccaskill, former democratic senator from missouri and current msnbc political analyst, and jonathan martin, senior political columnist for politico. guys, thanks for being here. claire, i think, you know, there was some expectation that biden would tick through a list of his accomplishments, which are many, and he did a little bit of that. but i was struck by

how dark, how ominous this warning was to the american public on his way out the door. i did not think i would hear the phrase american oligarchy from joe biden's mouth. what did you think? >> yeah, i think he has really had to deal more so than any other president with the hangover of misinformation and a lack of factual basis for american policymaking. we have way too many people in america that are only trying to find affirmation and not information. and i just want everybody to remember when they look on that inaugural podium. on the day he was sworn in, a guy who supposedly is all about a populist movement and helping the little guy and who's been screwed over by the swamp and the deep state, he's going to have three guys sitting together, holding hands that are worth $1 trillion. alex, the

three of them are worth $1 trillion. i mean, that's half of the money that musk is trying to cut out of the budget. yeah, that's what they're worth. i mean, it is astounding the wealth that has been hyper centralized in our information sources. they own newspapers, they own social media. they control a lot of our lives. and once everybody gives up fact checking, if the only people left are fact checking, are editors in just a few news outlets, we're in more trouble than than i think people realize. i think that's what joe biden was trying to do tonight. i thought it was strong and bold. i was glad he didn't tick off all the lists. i was afraid, like you, that's what he would do. >> i can hear you saying, yeah, j mart and i want to get to you because i want to play a little bit more sound, getting right at what claire is talking about, the misinformation and the erosion of the fourth estate.

let's take a listen to what biden had to say. this is a piece of sound. wonbi control room. >> americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. the free press is crumbling. editors are disappearing. social media is giving up on fact checking. the truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. we must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families and our very democracy from the abuse of power. >> what did you think when you heard that, j. mart? >> well, let me say two things. >> number one, the politics of it. he's smart to change the topic from the fact that he's handing over the presidency to donald trump, in part because of his own choices. he ran again for reelection when he shouldn't have. and trump's revival is in part on his hands, and he's changing the topic. and that's

savvy politically on the merits. he's totally right. and he's taking a page from eisenhower. both of you guys know this. when eisenhower left the white house in 1960, he warned of the military industrial complex. biden is taking a page from history and is basically repurposing that warning about the tech industrial complex. and he's absolutely accurate on the merits of it. look no further than what happened last fall in north carolina. >> the belief that that hurricane was somehow bio engineered. look no further than what happened the last couple of weeks. >> alex, with regard to the fires in california, the misinformation about that. it is a really sobering moment when we in this country are so susceptible to believe this made up misinformation bs about these tragic events, and it's hard to figure out what is truth and what is false. and i think the president is right to raise it. he's right to address it. and

yes, it is smart politics of him personally to change the topic. >> claire, i and i'll give you a chance to respond to this as well too. i, i am less inclined to i mean, i, i do think, yes, it may be smart politically, but i would imagine that part of this, this wasn't about donald trump, not just because joe biden's ticket effectively lost to trump. but i think biden is thinking deeply about how trump got reelected, right. and these are systemic problems, deep failings within the rubric of democracy that he wants to call the american citizenry citizenry's attention to. because if we don't start paying attention to it, we lose our democracy as we know it. i was shocked by the fact that he called out the supreme court in this set of remarks as well. claire, i want to play that piece of sound for anybody who might have missed that. >> we need to enact an 18 year time limit, a term, limit time and term for the strongest ethics and the strongest ethics

reforms for our supreme court. we need to amend the constitution to make clear that no president, no president is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office. the president's power is not limited. it's not absolute. >> there was a time i'm old enough to remember when joe biden would not say a bad word about the supreme court. here he is calling for term limits, code of ethics, and excoriating one of their biggest rulings in the last year that presidential immunity ruling. >> yeah, and guess what? the american people want term limits on the supreme court. >> frankly, the american people want term limits on everybody in power. >> i'm not always sure that's a good idea. but once again, politically, an ethics reform at the supreme court. yeah. check. american people want that. term limits on the supreme court. yes. the american people want that. and here and this is what happens. and this is what's going to be really interesting. you're going to see a giant train wreck between these billionaire bros that are taking

over the west wing, that are taking over government as a shadow government without any real authority or power. they've not been elected to anything. they're going to be sitting up there on that podium representing to america. hey, you may think donald trump is taking the oath, but see us over here. we really control your information. we control the satellites. we control who's going to space and how. we control a lot of things in the defense department, and how that's going to train wreck with these populist things he campaigned on. i mean, they're going to come into office, and the first thing they're going to do is take care of these guys, tax cuts. so it's going to be really interesting to see how trump manages the message, the narrative around this, because he's lassoed these guys. but i'm not sure he's riding them. i think they're riding him j mart, you know, there's a lot of consternation inside democratic circles. >> where does the party go from here? what should their marching orders be? and i almost thought this was like an outline. as claire says, it's like, okay, you want to talk populism. what

does it mean to have elon musk, the world's richest man, literally negotiating foreign policy on calls with, like, foreign leaders on the dais at the inauguration, were functioning as a shadow president. you want to talk populism. you want to talk the voice of the people. what does it mean to have unelected judicial officials serving life lifetime terms, making massively significant decisions about american life, and remaining completely unaccountable? i actually thought, you know, as far as a blueprint for what issues democrats might want to focus on in the coming years, it wasn't a bad one. >> well, first of all, alex, i too was surprised that joe biden, of all people, would call for term limits on the supreme court because he was so reluctant in the 2020 campaign to even touch the supreme court and had to be pushed to even create a sort of faux commission to address court reform, which he obviously ignored their recommendations. >> so that that's a huge step. yeah. look, it's obvious that there's going to be a thousand op eds, a thousand essays, a thousand more panel discussions,

guys, in the next two and a half, three years about how democrats come back, the democratic reform, the democratic reform is simply this. you point the finger at the folks who are in charge for misgovernment, misrule, excesses and incompetence. and you win because of that. the reason claire mccaskill and besides her deft political skills, won the senate seat in 2006, is because you had a republican president who was deeply unpopular in oh six and oh eight and opened the door for democrats to come back. that is the same formula that i think is going to happen this time. yes. you have a populist agenda in tension with a oligarchic support. and folks who are in your donor class who are going to be pushing you toward an agenda that is not populist. if democrats cannot hit that big, fast softball down the middle of the plate, they ought to hang it up. >> yeah. >> i mean, at the risk of

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at anything. >> are you aware of a factual predicate to investigate jack smith? >> yes or no? >> senator, what i'm hearing on the news. are you aware of a do i know? you seem reluctant, i have not. >> you seem reluctant to answer a simple question. >> let me ask you a different, simple question. >> the president also wants to jail liz cheney sitting here today. >> are you aware of any factual basis to investigate liz cheney, yes or no? >> senator, that's a hypothetical, and i'm not going to answer that. >> it's not hypothetical. >> it actually it's not a hypothetical. joining me now is nbc news, national security editor and author of where tyranny begins the justice department, the fbi, and the war on democracy the great david rohde. david, we spent a little time in the book before this talking about pam bondi's actions in the past, but her sort of marching orders for the future, if you're listening to that, i think should maybe send a chill up the spine of anybody in the department of justice and people interested in the law. what did you make of those responses? their repeated questioning from adam schiff.

>> she's you know, we talked about it. she's talking to an audience of one. yeah. and i had that feeling also with the hegseth, you know, confirmation hearing yesterday there. she in particular was trying to be very careful and kept trying to avoid this. but she was clearly lying. she wasn't going to claw. she was not going to say joe biden won the 2020 election. she was not going to rule out prosecuting anyone. so you saw that over and over again where she's somehow trying to, you know, walk this walk that will keep the president supporting her, but not get her into a deeper trouble in terms of it's, you know, it was just it's an amazing testament to our politics today. >> yeah. and i guess the question is, what does it suggest about her fealty towards trump as attorney general? i want to play another piece of sound where that sense of loyalty is even more pronounced. an exchange between ted cruz and pam bondi today. let's take a listen. >> the last four years, we've seen donald trump indicted and prosecuted not once, not twice, not three times, but four

separate times. >> and two assassination attempts. >> senator, these prosecutions were brought because partizan prosecutors were terrified that the american people would do exactly what they did in november of 2024 and vote to reelect donald j. >> trump by 77.3% million americans, 77.3 million americans. >> i mean, did they rehearse it like it was just i've never seen anything like that where you have literally a kind of a call and response between a republican senator and a nominee, all in service of the president elect's ego, particularly for attorney general. >> and since watergate, the attorney general is supposed to be independent. you have to have a law enforcement official that's doing investigations based on facts, not on what the president who appointed them, you know, wants them to do. and the problem for her is that, you know, trump, whether he believes it or it's just politics, he wants liz cheney investigated.

he wants, you know, jack smith investigated. she's on a missio. impossible. yeah. jeff sessions had the same problem. fire mueller and he wouldn't do it. and he was forced out eventually. bill barr investigate the 2020 election. back up. my fraud claims. bill barr doesn't do it. and he's forced out. so people who worked in the first trump administration, the justice department have told me this is the conundrum. she she's supposed to have facts to actually convict people in court and they don't exist. this is what, you know, current people say, biden administration, people in the justice department. so we'll see how she tries to navigate this for the next several years. but it's going to be difficult. how does she please donald trump and have facts in a court of law? >> yeah, the pressure on her is going to be enormous. what strikes me also in this moment is the degree to which it is a fait accompli that she will be confirmed. right. democrats are doing their best to draw attention to her controversial positions from 2020 and her positions now, or at least her sort of worldview as it comes to

an enemies list and the punishment of political adversaries. but by virtue of the fact that she's not matt gaetz and that she's actually a lawyer, it seems like that's enough. the bar here is so extraordinarily low. >> and what was fascinating was that the name that kept coming up in the hearing today was kash patel. yeah. who does have an enemies list, who published a book in 2023 that listed 60 people that were part of what he said was the executive branch, deep state. and he talked over and over again in this book. i read his whole book about the criminals in the deep state, that there's the secret plot by bureaucrats. look, ronald reagan would complain that too many people in the government, too many, you know, the government's too big. this is completely different. this is these bureaucrats are plotting treason to undermine the president, and they need to be criminally investigated. so again, she's in this hot seat. what will she be able to deliver? you know what will be enough for president trump? >> well, and i would imagine, you know, you report so essentially on the department of justice, i cannot imagine what

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think it's another to basically say that masculinity is bad. and i just think we kind of swung culturally to that part of the kind of the spectrum where, you know, it's all like, okay, masculinity is toxic. we have to like, get rid of it completely. >> that was meta ceo mark zuckerberg trashing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, claiming that they've gone too far and neutered the corporate environment. this comes as zuckerberg just axed dei programs at his company meta. last week, the company got rid of its entire diversity team and ended all equity and inclusion programs. fellow tech titans jeff bezos and elon musk have also recently renounced diversity programs, as they curry favor with the incoming president, who, of course, railed against dei initiatives on the campaign trail. it may come as no surprise that all three tech moguls will sit on stage with trump at his inauguration next week. now, it should be said a number of companies have been rolling back diversity programs ahead of

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